Arlington's heir's

Chapter 9

Jack didn't say a word as I dragged him to my dorm room across the corridor. He winced occasionally when my hand would accidentally touch his bruise. My mind, however, was not calm, as I thought of what just happened and the implications of my challenge on Xavier and Ryan. Pushing my door open, I was greeted with silence. With Jack still leaning on me, I walked to the couch, allowing him to fall back.

" I would say thanks, but by the look on your face, I'm gonna keep quiet," Jack whispered. his hand resting on his abdomen. I remained silent as I walked into the kitchen to grab the first aid box.

"Jack. I'm so sorry. I...I." My head snapped to the source of the voice, recognising it instantly. Lotus stood agape, her hands shaking as she looked at Jack's state. Again I couldn't utter a single word, my mind consumed with anger and sadness. When I finally reached Jack, I got myself occupied by tending to his injuries.

" You know Ella, I didn't know you were such a badass. You should have seen there faces, I mean..."

" Why the fuck are you fine with this." Jacks eyes widened in surprise as I stood up in frustration. 

"look at the state of you. Why weren't you fighting back... why aren't you telling anyone about this... Why."  I hadn't realised how loud I was until Lotus grabbed my shoulder steadying me. 

" What you think I'm some fucking coward." Jack struggled with himself as he painfully pulled himself up, his body towering mine. 

"You think, I didn't try everything. Well Ella, I fucking did. Money can do more than you think. Of course, you wouldn't understand, what people like me go through. You can just call up your daddy and get whatever you want." Jack spat bitterly causing me take a few steps back. Realisation soon dawned on him as he regretted what he just said.

"You're right I don't know. I don't know how it feels to be shut out and belittled..."

"Ell.."

"It's fine Lotus, he's right... I'm gonna head out can you tend to him." I didn't wait for either of them to respond as I rushed out of the dorm, slamming the door.

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I didn't know where I was going as I left my dorm, but the urge to run away from everyone resulted in me leaving the school building. The security guard didn't even bother to stop me as I walked out of the building, leaving the school premise.  Suddenly, a rush of emotions that I tried so hard to hide and push back came rushing out. Eyes welled up with tears, I couldn't take it anymore as I found myself crying in pain.  The pain I tried so hard to forget and move on from, I hated myself and the feeling of clawing this overwhelming feeling of pain and loneliness from myself was getting intense by the minute. I felt my body suddenly give up as I collapsed onto the ground. My hands shaking, I reached out for my phone dialling Stephanie's number but no answer.

" God. Come on Ella calm the fuck down what's wrong with you." my hands roughly wiped away the tears from my face as I tried to take a deep breath to calm my emotions. However, breathing did nothing. 

"here take this." I suddenly jumped back in surprise, my body fully falling to the ground. My tearful eye's wide with shock as I stared at Sebastian King pushing a wine coloured handkerchief towards me. My gaze moved to his cold stormy eyes and then to the handkerchief.

" What now you're going mock me." I snarled bitterly as I attempted to push myself off the ground only to stumble back down. 

" Trust me, if I was going to mock you it wouldn't be this way. Take the fucking handkerchief, you look a mess."  Sebastian spoke calmly surprising me as he threw the handkerchief at me. Grabbing the small piece of delicate fabric, I began dapping my face- getting rid of any evidence that I was crying a few minutes ago. 

" Well you can go now, I figure you don't want the handkerchief back." Sebastian's gaze snapped to me as he kneeled down, in an attempt to get closer to me, his eyes scrunching a bit as he tried to read my expression, his head suddenly tilted.

"Do you usually push people away, when really you want them to stay?" My breath came to a halt. Sebastian now stood tall refusing to turn around and leave me alone. I felt helpless but, there was one thing I didn't see in those stormy blue eye's and that was the pity. 

" They're going to lock the school gates in three minutes, hurry up or you're going to be locked out." My attempt to push myself up failed once again causing Sebastian to sigh in frustration as his rough hands grabbed my arm, pulling me up. On reflex my hands grabbed his t-shirt in an attempt to balance myself but instead, I pulled him towards me. A look of surprise took over his features but we both surprisingly refused to move back to create space. Sebastian's cold gaze stared right through my eyes. Realisation soon hit me as I let go of his shirt stumbling back to create distance.  Sebastian however, seemed unfazed as he began walking away not once turning back, without paying much attention, I silently followed behind him trying to get rid of the warm and fuzzy feeling I felt being close to him. 

"Wait. That's not the way to the school." my steps coming to a sudden halt as realisation soon dawned on me.

" The gates are shut." Was Sebastian's short reply as he carried on walking with long strides. 

"Then where are we going. It's getting dark already..."

" I'm not asking you to follow me so if you wanna fuck off, be my guest. But there's one thing I'm going to guarantee you is the fact that you're not going to get past the gates."  I helplessly stared back at the path leading to the school and then to Sebastian- who stared at me in annoyance before suddenly turning back, walking to god know's where.