RAVEN

Zeus Guy, the MAXculine.

I resumed back to my position and we continued fighting but this time, I made the first move. We fought for almost twenty minutes and yet no one had really gotten the other's butt on the ground. He was incredibly fast despite his large muscular body.

I noticed others had already stopped fighting and were watching us, including the teacher and passers-by. It seemed Zeus guy too noticed it which made him loose concentration a bit and I quickly took the opportunity to give him a hard blow on his jugular and used my elbow to give him a jab on the vulnerable side of his neck.

He fell on his knees while holding his neck tightly and yelped in pain. I didn't take pity on him since he also didn't pity me, so I gave him a kick on his lower abdomen. He sprawled on the floor and I sat on his stomach and delivered punches to his face.

"You ignored me this morning even when I wanted to make friends with you!". |Punch|

"You left me on the training field without saying a word to me!". |Punch|

"You volunteered to spar with me just to humiliate me in front of everyone". |Punch|

I stopped for a moment when I noticed he wasn't even defending himself again. Pathetic

"I" Punch "Hate" Punch "You", I increased the length of my hand from his face and brought it down with so much force that it would break his bones but unfortunately for me, it didn't even reach his face.

I looked up at the person who held my arm and found out it was Lady Samantha.

"Please let him be", she pleaded while still holding my arm.

I looked up at her and then back at Zeus guy. I loved the art work I did to his face and I smiled satisfactorily.

His nose was undeniably broken, his lips swollen almost to a pulp and his eyes were dark purple.

I stood up and smiled proudly as some students clapped their hands in the air while others looked like they were scared of me and the teacher stood there, dumbfounded.

Lady Samantha dragged me away from the scene to her office and slammed the door angrily.

"What happened to you? You were fighting like a beast!", she questioned immediately.

I explained to her how I tried making friends with him and how he snubbed and ignored me only to spar with me just to humiliate me.

"That still doesn't explain why you did that to his face! That's so cruel of you", she shouted, putting her hands on her waist and glaring at me. "It wouldn't have been that worse if you weren't without your powers but they gave you much more force".

"I'm sorry", I apologized sincerely.

"I'm not the one you should tell that to, tell it to Max", she said, sitting down.

"So his name is Max?".

"Yes, Maxwell Lovestone".

"Hmm, no wonder he is MAXculine", I said, smiling to myself.

"You like him", Lady Samantha asked, looking at me slyly.

"No I don't!", I shouted unnecessarily, turning away from her.

"Aaaawn, that's so cute. Gist me about him", she whined like a baby.

"Lols, you're acting like my sister", I said, laughing at her sudden interest in my love life.

Immediately I said that statement, her countenance changed. I saw something like love, then sadness flash through her eyes for a second and her face became cold.

"What's wrong?", I asked, wondering if I'd said something wrong.

"He wasn't like this until the sudden death of his father, mother and also that of his younger sister three months ago. He thinks it was his fault his whole family is dead and feels it would be better if he stays alone and keeps to himself", Lady Samantha narrated.

I was actually lost for a minute about what she was talking about and I realized it was about Max. I didn't know why she preferred changing the subject or what I said to change her mood but I decided not to push it.

"He was sent here to prepare for his role as the King and he was sent here with his best friend", she continued.

"What happened? Why was his parents and sibling killed?".

"That's his story to tell", she replied sharply but I decided to overlook it. She would come around later.

I sat down on the chair, dumbfounded and stricken with guilt. I sprang up from my sit and bolted out of the door, she didn't stop me. I ran to the training ground but Zeus guy wasn't there again. Maybe he had been taken to the hospital.

I felt so stupid and guilt ridden. I shouldn't have jumped into conclusions without knowing him well. The pride I felt when I won the fight now turned to disgust. I was disgusted and disappointed with myself.

I walked through the students who were probably going to their classes and I didn't care if I bumped into any of them.

I found my way to the hospital and asked few nurses about the guy that was brought in there not quite long ago. I finally got the room he was admitted in after series of mistakes and paused at the door.

I didn't know the reaction I would get from him, whether good bad. I shook thoughts of me heading back to the hostel away and used all my will to knock on the door.

"Come in", I heard a voice say.

I turned the door knob and entered the room. I found Zeus guy, now Maxwell, lying down on the bed with a bandage wrapped around his head and plasters on his nose and some parts on his face.

The young boy that came to call him from the field was seated on a white chair beside the bed. "Let me excuse you two", he said as he stood up hurriedly and left the room.

I walked towards him and stood beside the bed, leaving a reasonable distance between us. He looked away from me and sighed painfully.

"I'm sorry about all I did to you. I thought you purposely ignored me and wanted to humiliate me by asking me to spar with you. I didn't know it wasn't your nature to ignore but it was due to certain circumstance. So I'm really really sorry", I said as tears welled up my eyes.

"Who told you", he asked, his face still cold.

"That doesn't matter. All I need from you is forgiveness. I know it will be very hard for you to forgive me after all I did but please....", I pleaded, a stray tear falling from my eyes.

He didn't say anything for a very long while and I stood there awkwardly while he looked at me with a blank expression.

After like ten minutes of me standing there, waiting for him to talk, I decided to leave.

As I got to the door, I looked back to check if he was going to say something but I found him pressing his phone like I was never there. I walked out of the room sad, pained and guilt ridden.

His lack of forgiveness gave me a continuous pang in my chest and tears started falling as I walked out of the hospital, holding my chest.

I didn't even notice the young guy who was probably Max's best friend look at me as I walked out of the hospital.

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Author's Note.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. You all must be feeling guilty for Raven, aaaaawn 🥺. Just, keep looking forward to the next chapter to see how it later plays out.

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