Like A Butterfly

Chapter Twenty Six- Boundary

-Your POV-
When I entered the classroom the next day, instantly I could feel a difference in the room.
Everyone was staring at me and their glares felt like they were burning through my skin.

No one spoke when I walked to my desk- they just observed everything I was doing as if I might do something alarming and threatening at any rate.

I tried to ignore it all.
"Wow the slut is here," Amanda said breaking the silence.
My eyes opened wide as I heard the word 'slut'.
It was the same word used to describe me many times after the incident.

As if Amanda speaking and slut shaming me was a sign for everyone to start talking, the class was filled with whispers and gossiping.
I caught the words- 'Jungkook', 'slut' and 'flirt'.

My head shot up and I stared at Amanda.
She mouthed, "fucking slut."
I stood up and everyone stopped.
"Amanda.. Can I speak to you?" I managed, tears flooding my eyes.
Amanda laughed, "Go ahead."
"No.. outside," I mumbled.

"Why don't you speak in front of us?" Maria spoke out loud.
"Yeah Y/N.. Go ahead and tell us.." Amanda smirked.
"Amanda-"
"We already know about your fucking study room affair you bitch!" someone said all of a sudden.
"Yeah, fuck you! You attention seeking mother fucker what is your problem!?"

I was trapped.
Trapped in between my whole class, talking me down and all I could do was squeeze my eyes shut and keep my head down.

Amanda walked up to me.
"My friend Mina heard you CALLING Jungkook on the bus! Apparently you even talked shit about her! I told you to back off.." she said.
My head was still kept down as I listened to her words that stung onto me.

Everyone was laughing at me.
This was giving me a headache.
I felt like I was in the middle of a war and everyone was shooting me down with their poisonous bullets.
The world was spinning in circles and everyone's voices were muffled and forged into just a noise.

But it stopped.
It stopped when a familiar voice stopped everyone.
When a voice that I knew to be Jungkook's shouted for everyone to stop.

I looked up with tears in my eyes.
But I wasn't crying because of the pain everyone was giving me anymore.
Now I was crying because of Jungkook.
Because of the pity I felt for him to have met me.
Because of all the negative things that happened in his life because I appeared.

But mostly because he was going to find out.
I was planning on leaving him but now I was scared that he was going to leave me after he found out.
The tears were because I didn't want him to leave me but I knew I had to.

Because Jungkook had a choice to leave but I- I had no choice.

Jungkook stared at me intently.
He looked worried.
But I knew I couldn't ask for his help or his pity.
So I just walked out.
I ran and ran until I reached the fence.

I wanted to run far away and never come back but I knew I was stuck in this fenced off school.
Even if I ran, there was a boundary.