Sunrise

Chapter 10

Camilla swallowed the lump in her throat.

A wolfish grin formed on Bobby's face as he realised the lovely coincidence that walked out. His three cronies, Jake, Mark, and Mike, stood behind him, smiling like hyenas. They were his teammates on the football team, each one tall and wide. Together, they formed a formidable quartet that destroyed their school's opponent teams, allowing it to reign as champion over all the schools in the county.

"Well," he purred. "Look who we have here? It's none other than Four-eyes in the flesh!"

Camilla nervously looked around her, but all that surrounded her were walls painted bright red. Behind her were the restroom doors, and in front of her was the only exit that led back to the lobby, blocked by Bobby and his crew. They had her trapped inside like a mouse in a cage, and they were the cats that were ready to pounce at her at any moment.

She was in trouble. Big trouble.

"Four-eyes," Bobby called her playfully as he walked closer, his red-rimmed eyes staring at her with a devious glare. "What're you doing here?"

"None of your business, Bobby," Camilla said as she backed away, trying to maintain a distance between them.

Bobby threw his head back and chuckled softly.

"I know you're here with Montana, Four-eyes," she said. "I saw her car outside. Where is she?"

Camilla hadn't seen Bobby's car when she arrived at the either. She assumed that he only came here because he saw Montana's car. Now that he saw her, he wouldn't relent until she told him where she was. Something she wasn't going to do. She knew how much Montana hated him and his constant pursuit of her despite shutting him down many times. Everyone knew that he pursued her not out of love for her but out of the desire to own her. He saw Montana as a trophy and not as a human being. To him, she was a wild tigress that needed to be tamed, and he wanted the glory of taming all by himself.

She wasn't going to sell her out.

"If Montana's here, then she's probably watching some film," she said. "I have no idea which screen she is at. I just got here."

Bobby and his boys shook their heads and snickered.

"You seriously expect me to believe that, Four-eyes?" he said.

Camilla froze as she found herself with her back against the door while the distance between her and Bobby had shrunk so much that he was merely a step away from her. A strange stench diffused off of him and his friends, a sour and nauseating scent that made her nose wrinkle in disgust.

They had been drinking.

Bobby looked behind him and nodded at Jake, who nodded back before Bobby shoved Camilla through the door and into the restroom. Mark and Mike followed him inside while Jake stayed behind to look out for incoming people. Mike stayed by the door, locking it from the inside using the keys that hung beside it. Camilla looked around the white room and noticed the urinals mounted on the ceramic walls, and her blood went ice cold.

I'm in the men's room! she thought. And nobody else's here!

"Alright, Four-eyes," Bobby said as he held her arm with his iron grip. "Where's Montana?"

Camilla shook her head and spat at Bobby's face.

"Go to Hell!"

Enraged by her degrading action, Bobby gave Camilla a stinging slap with the back of his hand. Her glasses fell on the floor, and Mark immediately crushed them under his thick shoe. Camilla sniffled as tears began to flow down her reddened face. But she had no time to cry as Bobby yanked her across the bathroom and into an empty stall. He pulled up the toilet seat and dunked her head into the bowl. Camilla gurgled as she fought the disgusting water from entering her nose and mouth, her breath diminishing.