Fated meeting

Unlikely encounter: Pain

(Written by Shay)

TW: Contains assault and attempted rape.

After school I headed straight home and got changed, not knowing when exactly my shift started at the cafe but decided to leave as soon as I was ready.

I keep my head down as I walk making sure not to make eye contact with anyone; in case someone from my school notices me. I walk while I mumble quietly to myself about school and the text messages I got from a likely prankster. There was no way it was actually Miyuki Kazuya texting me throughout the day every so often, he was too important to have time to text someone as lowly as me.

I bump into someone while I was deep in thought and I bow slightly as I mumble, "sorry," the person catches my arm as I go to walk away and I see none other than one of my main bullies. Ishaki Drake. One of the biology majors, the top of his class and far too intuitive for his own good. "What have I caught here? The abomination," he says through his teeth as I look at him with fear in my eyes.

"Let me go," I say as he smirks and clenches his hand tighter around my arm. "Oh? Why would I do that?" He says with a sneer as I see no one tries to help or even pay attention to what he's doing to me. "Let go of me Ishaki..." I say as I bow my head slightly in pain from the tight grip he has on my arm.

"Like I said. Why would I do that?" He says as he pulls me towards the alley right where we were standing. I stumble multiple times as he glares distastefully at me as he pulls me to him. "You are so pathetic Sawamura. You realise anyone at our damn school could scar you for life?" He whispers in my ear with spite clear in his voice.

"Let me go!" I shout as I pull my arm roughly as he continues holding my arm. Am I too weak? How? This shouldn't be possible. Fear reflects onto my face as no one comes and he just smirks and grabs my other arm and pushes me roughly into the wall to the side. I gasp sharply through the pain as I close my eyes. Please... why is this happening?

I hear a clinking of metal and my eyes snap open as Ishaki's face comes close to mine as he chuckles darkly. "What are you doing..?" I ask but knowing what was about to happen. He planned to scar me as he said moments before. Tears prickle at my eyes as I remember other attempts at the same thing.

Why was I born this way!? I want it gone! The metal clinking stops as I feel him grab my belt and try and undo it but I headbutt his face with as much force as I can muster and he stumbles back with a bleeding nose as he swears continuously at me as I run out the alley and the rest of the way to the cafe

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I enter the back entering of the cafe panting as the chef looks at me concerned. "You okay Sawamura?" He asks as my eyes widen and I back away slightly with my arms raised to defend myself. When I notice it was just the chef I lower my arms and sigh in relief. "Sorry... and I'm fine. Just decided to run today," I say with a smile and he just nods at me as I go to the lockers in the room behind the kitchen and got changed quickly.

When I leave the locker room the chef gestured me over slightly, "you're on the floor today. We are very busy so we need more waiters," he says as I gulp and nod before standing off to the side of the kitchen and wait for orders to have to be put out. "Eijun. Tray for table five," A voice says from the front and I walk out the kitchen and grab the tray in the side of the counter next to the coffee machine and take it to table five before putting the black coffee down for the customer.

I go to leave but the person touches my bare forearm and I snap my eyes to them. "What are you doing sir?" I say as my eyes widen slightly at who I saw sitting at that seat. "What happened to your arm Sawamura?" The bespectacled guy from yesterday asks as I pull my arm away and look at him with an impassive expression.