Toxic Hearts

CHAPTER ONE

Chapter one

I'm Janis Martin. I'm attending St. Terrence high school. Have never experience love until I met Jeremy. Jeremy was my classmate but he fell in love with me and we dated. Jeremy was really handsome and he was every girls dream. Girls always crave to have his touch and date him. I really don't know how he managed to choose me among all girls. I wasn't really beautiful though. Michelle was my best friend but she had a friend she used to walk with, Grace. Grace wasn't my choice though, but I had to make friends with her to keep my friendship with Michelle since she was her friend too. Michelle wasn't her only friend, she moved with all those pompous girls in school; Laura, Natasha and Jennifer. Grace didn't like me because she really doesn't know what handsome Jeremy sees in me. She always feels she's more cute than me and she deserves Jeremy.

She hosted a night party at her which she invited us. I was a bit relieved because I thought that would draw me and Grace to each other. I love making friends though, but my mom dislikes it. The party was a house party, so we arrived there exactly 9pm on Friday. I was a bit jealous when I saw different people dancing with their lovers and dates. I was seriously thinking about My Jeremy. Though I didn't inform him I was going to attend Grace's party, he would have followed. I danced with Michelle on the stage, so Natasha came to invite us to the balcony where we could see different guys awaiting their dates. I thought within myself that I was going to find a good guy to be her date for just that night. To our greatest surprise, we saw a lot of guys there. I noticed Michelle didn't like such gatherings, she whispered to my ears,

Janis, I don't think these guys are good for us, I don't like this place, let's leave.

I started persuading her that it's going to be fun, besides,

It's just for this night, I pleaded. All my persuasion didn't enter her ears so she left me there; I decided to follow some four groups of guys who had been waving to get my attention since. I followed them inside a room. Well, I didn't know the kind of spirit that was leading me then, my mind kept saying, Janis, it's just for fun. As I followed them inside, they poured me a drink from the same bottle they were drinking from. I noticed the drink was alcoholic. I just wanted to feel better like others, so I collected the glass of cup and drank. They introduced themselves to me, the tall dark boy who seems to be their leader cut in first,

my name is Kenneth, meet Ernest, George, and Bobby.

My name is Janis, I replied.

Before I concluded my words, they all burst into wild laughter. I was somehow scared but I took a relief.

Did I just crack a joke? I asked surprisingly.

They took me to the bathroom and whispered into my ears. Grace actually planned with them to rape me but since they saw I was a nice girl, they quit. So they freed me. When I went home, I was soaked in my thought thinking what Grace would achieve in Planning with some boys to rape me. I knew it was all because of Jeremy.

When I got to school on Monday, I was damned surprised when I saw my nude pictures pasted round the school and slag written on it. I was on fire, great fire bestowed me. It was as if the devil was right at my front planning to sink me to the ground. I was shaking. I was scared to enter my classroom. I tried to pull and get rid of some of the ones pasted on my locker, the principal approached me. I was really scared.

Now all your hidden secrets have been opened, you're such a rag, a slut, a whore, how could you sleep with four men at a time? She lamented.