The Campus Encounter

ch - 10 The Punch

I look at him. With nothing but hate in my eyes and a bright smile as if to hide all the pain he had caused me 3 years ago.

" Hey " I said as cold but welcoming as possible.

"Bryn , I'm so glad to see you here, I have tried everything to reach you these past years. Your friends , family. I knew you would come to Rosewood so I got in too. " He said as if he really meant it.

Of course I knew about all the 'reaching' he was doing these past years. He blackmailed my friends to talk to me. He begged my parents multiple times. But I just didn't have the energy to get a closure and be all the more heartbroken again. Over him.

" I know " I said.

" You knew ? " It came as a shock to him. Because I had never responded to any of that. It was unnecessary.

" You knew and never reached back??" He asked.

" I didn't have to , you cheated . We were over . " I said cold.

"But I still loved you , I didn't sleep with anyone else after that day to prove to you that I still care. I swear I do. Really. You left and I felt devastated. I couldn't get out of bed crying over what I had done." He said.

Anyone who didn't know him enough would think ' oh , he seems so sincere Brynleigh give him a second chance' but I knew better. I knew all this was just for show. He was Gaslighting me and trying his level best to manipulate me. He thought I was still the same girl he had once played with.

His sincerity towards anything was fake. He was born to be an actor. He got into Rosewood just because he had the money and Rosewood will get him the respect he desperately needed. Not for me. He has slept with at least a dozen women in the past week itself. I just knew. And he never once cried for me.

3 years ago I would have forgiven him. Today I won't.

" I don't want to hear this BS. Please leave . " I turn around towards my class.

A sudden pull at my wrist .
In a flash I was tugged to the wall. With force so strong. A touch I didn't want my body to get tainted with. Asher had never physically hurt me. But he was doing just that right now. Hold my wrists so tightly. Just how fucked up in the head can a person even be ?

" What are you doing Asher , leave me " I say trying to resist his grip.

" What I should have done 3 years ago " he said with a grin on his , now not-so-handsome face.

" LEAVE ME RIGHT NOW " I say with all my strength trying to gather a crowd so that someone could help me. Because I was really scared right now. Too scared to push him back by myself and run away, even though that was exactly what I was trying to do.

" You know u never looked this pretty before , you really did grow up into a woman " his disgusting voice spoke once more

" Who wouldn't want to kiss you right now " he continued with a big smerk on his face that I wanted to break . And to my horror he started moving his face towards me trying to kiss me.

" HELP " I screamed .

A PUNCH WAS WHAT ASHER NEEDED ON HIS FACE RIGHT NOW.
I PRAYED FOR IT TO JUST HAPPEN SOMEHOW OTHERWISE HE WOULD ACTUALLY REALLY KISS ME !