Behind Everything...

Chapter 28

"She's my cousin", he said quietly and I gave him my most shocking look. 

"How come such a beauty can be your sister", Jasper said coping my expression. 

Tristan looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "What? You actually look like a white cockroach. Didn't Christina ever mention this to you?", he said innocently and I bit my lip to hold my laugh.

Unfortunately, he noticed me but surprisingly he didn't say anything to me. 

"What happened to her?", he asked me in his most concerned voice. "We were in the Gym when suddenly she appears from nowhere and when I asked her to stop following me everywhere, she became quiet", I told him.

"And...?", surprisingly for the first time his voice didn't really annoy me. He was genuinely worried about her.

"S- She was saying something about her mother", I said while looking at him intently. 

"About her mother? What did she say?", Jasper asked. "Um. She didn't say much but she was saying that someone hurt her mother and...", my heart was feeling heavy when I saw Tristan getting so anxious for her. His affection for her forces me to think about James.

James never showed such affection towards me and I've nearly never experienced the siblings bond in my life.

Tristan lightly caresses her cheek and held her hand firmly with his other hand. 

Jasper must have understood my inner feelings so he said jokingly, "Chill. You just need to faint down and I'll treat you the same". I punched him lightly and laughed at his stupid joke. By the time my eyes caught the blue ones again and for the first time, I felt good.

"Thank you", he said softly.

I don't know why but I felt good and I just smiled at him a bit. Surprisingly he smiled backed too and we looked at each other intently.

Suddenly we heard someone's footstep. 

"Oh, my baby! Are you okay? Someone told me that you're here.", my old enemy finally came to ruin my day. She wrapped her filthy hands around Tristan and kissed him passionately and I rolled my eyes. "How can she be so disgusting", Jasper mumble. 

"Oops! I didn't see you guys around", she said with her most fake laugh. "Oh, is that so? Then why don't you wear glasses if you have such weak eyesight", I smirked at her. "Well, you'll never understand the power of true love because you never had a boyfriend", she smirked back trying to piss me off. "Well, I don't need such a love that makes me go blind". I felt sorry for Tristan for dragging him in this matter but Christina left me with no choice.

I could see Tristan's expression went from grateful to hateful. "Nevermind, you'll never have one", she said with the same smirk. Even though I could punch her face right there but I hate it when she's correct. That's true, I can never fall in love or get into any relationship not just because I'm ugly but I don't believe in such stuff. 

People fall for pretty looking people and I'll never get such a chance. 

"By the way. Grandpa's looking for you", she said while waving at me. I also didn't miss the wink that she passed me and it was clear that she must have complained to him about yesterday's fight with Peter.

"We'll see you later, you little witch", Jasper barked at her and escort me. 

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As we walked through the halls, Jasper said, "I hate her. How can she tell such things to Mr Oscar?". When I didn't responded anything, he stopped me. "Hey. Are you okay?", he asked me and I nodded. "Hey. I-I can come with you", he said genuinely.

Mr Oscar is the third person on his list to whom Jasper scares the most and second on his hate list. I smiled at him and assured him that I'm fine. Jasper is really a sweetheart. I was well aware of the fact that he'll be worried about me so I asked him to meet me in the Gym room.

Soon I knocked at Mr Oscar and slowly twisted the knob. When I entered his cabin, there was no one. I waited for him but there was no sign of him so I decided to leave. Before I could leave, some newspaper fell due to the wind blow. 

I was about to put it back on Mr Oscar's table when I noticed some missing person article. 

                                           Are people going in a Blackhole?

The heading reads. I continue to read the news further. It says seven people went missing in the last week. No sign of trace of them. The police are still investigating but no one can tell where these people could have possibly gone.

This is ridiculous. I thought. People are going missing and some locals say that they heard some weird noise from the near forest but when they went for help, there found no one. Some locals say that maybe they just vanish into thin air or some monster must have eaten up. Some people were saying about some legend that came true.

What rubbish is this? How can a person vanish in a broad daylight? What legend they're talking about?

I was about to read more when suddenly a familiar voice interrupted me. "Didn't anyone tell you to knock before you enter someone's room?". "I did sir but no one answer to me so I entered", I said with confidence. I know how much he hates my guts but I simply can't help myself. "You're supposed to apologize", he stated. "For what?", I asked him. "For everything you've done yesterday.", he waited. "And today", he smirked.

Clearly, he has zero clues about yesterday yet he wants me to apologize. "But why should I?", I was irritated by the fact that he was making me apologize without even asking me about what exactly happen that time. "You hit the canteen boy", he said. "Come on, you don't even know what happened", I stated and clearly he has something else going on his head. I can feel it. He simply looked at me with zero expression and I knew it that I'm over.

Without losing my temper I asked, "Okay but whom to I apologize?", I asked him. "Well, as you know for your misbehaviour, he didn't come today", he started writing something on his computer. "Well, wait-wait. Was it my fault?", I was devasted by his remarks. Suddenly he stopped writing and finally looked straight into my eyes and said, "Miss Brown. The whole school knows you. Not because of your academic skills but your misbehaviour".

My mouth hung at his thoughtless remark. He finally took the printed paper out of the printer and handed over to me. "Miss Brown, you have to apologize to Peter", he gave a fake sorrow face. "I will not", I simply said. "Well, I was aware of your answer so I've decided something".

Okay, I was not getting any good feeling about this and I know that whatever he has decided for me would be ridiculous. My heart pumped with its full acceleration and my hands soon started sweating.

"Read", simply he said.

It took a while for me to understand what he's trying to say and I realized that he was mentioning the printed paper which he has handed to me.

After reading it I almost yelled. "WHAT?!".

Author's Note:

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SARA