Love like Pandora's box

Chapter 7.

Other than curses and harsh shoving there was nothing more that was done to him for a few days, and he was thankful for that.

His body was healing; although it was not completely healed, he still felt better and was not in pain. Zhan didn't even look at him or bother him, nor did his minions.

In recess, he would talk with Candace; the two had become really good friends during these past few days.

"And you know what? She actually said that." Candace spoke as she kept her hand on Yibo's hand. The latter didn't mind as he said, "Are you really going to take part in that singing competition?"

"Of course I am. Would you like to hear my son?" She asked with eagerness, and of course, Yibo said yes, so Candace took out her earphones and plugged them into her phone before giving them to Yibo to put them on and once he did, Candace played the song.

"This is actually good," Yibo said with a huge smile on his face. The song was really very beautiful, and Candace's voice was really pretty.

"Oh, you should hear this song as well; it's my favorite." She said this as he played the song.

"It's nice."

"I know, right."

"So this is where you would disappear in the recess, huh?" Yibo and Candace both looked at the third person who had interrupted their sweet talk, and they saw Martha with the others.

Yibo also saw Zhan who was standing behind them staring at Yibo without blinking, the latter felt intimidated and looked away from him.

Martha then looked at Candace and said, "Oh so she your friend?" she said as she rudely started to touch Cadace's things and asked with a fake sweet smile, "So what's your name?"

Candace looked at Yibo and asked, "Are they your friends? Yibo."

However, before anyone could answer, Martha harshly grabbed Candace's face and made her look at him. Cadance whimpered as Martha said, "I asked you a question!"

"That's enough!" Yibo said as he shoved Martha back and stood before Candace, and this time he was serious; he looked like he was ready to fight. As he stared at everyone, Martha glared at him and said, "How dare you touch me, you freak?"

Instead of replying to her, Yibo said to Candace, "Get your stuff and leave."

Candace was so scared that she got her stuff and looked at Yibo. She wanted to ask him to come with her, but he gave her a slight nod, and she went away from there feeling a little guilty about not being able to do anything to help her friend.

After she was gone, Yibo sighed with relief, and that was when Dean said, "You never stood up for yourself, but you were ready to fight for her. What is she? Your girlfriend?"

This fucker! Yibo never stood up for himself because he couldn't, and Zhan made sure of it! If he did, he would be blamed instead.

Yibo looked at him and didn't answer; instead, he just looked at Martha and spoke, "What do you want?"

Martha smirked and said, "Well, you know my expensive ring has been missing."

Yibo frowned. "So?"

"So, I thought that I would ask you where it is."

"Why would you ask me that?" Yibo said, "How would I know where your ring is at?"

Martha smirked as she said, "I have heard Zhan yell countless times that you were a thief." Yibo's heart clenched when he heard that, and he looked at Zhan and said, "I wasn't the one who stole it." He said more to Zhan than to anyone else.

But Zhan just stared at him before he smirked and said, "Well, it wouldn't hurt to check, right?"

Yibo clenched his fists as he gritted his teeth. "I didn't steal it!"

"Then why are you not showing your bag?" Martha suddenly screamed to grab everyone's attention. Being the attention whore that she was, she wanted to get other's attention, and she got that, She yelled even more, "I am just asking you, why are you getting so defensive? If you didn't take it then it's fine; you can just show us your bag, and if there is nothing in there, then we are going to leave, simple."

Zhan spoke as well: "Why are you overreacting? Just show us your bag; if there is nothing there, then we'll leave."

Yibo felt really helpless and pathetic. He slowly gave his bag to them, and Martha smirked as he grabbed the bag and dumped all the things on the ground. Finally, a ring fell from the bag as well.

Yibo's eyes widened when he saw that: "I... I didn't, I really, I didn't steal it, I swear I didn't!" He said as he looked at Zhan as if his validation was all that he needed.

But all he got was a cold, hard stare from him.