Eighteen years spent in the orphanage home is really heartbreaking. Nobody wants to adopt me... probably because I am ugly and chubby.
I am always alone, lost in my own world of tears and a broken heart, wondering why my parents abandoned me, and now this orphanage home will soon abandon me too. It seems I am cursed for doom.
"Mary," one of the sisters in charge there called me one day. Maybe she had called to dismiss me... well, I have been preparing for this day anyways.
I walked into her office and sat down... with my head lowered, waiting for the bombshell.
"You have been a good girl and a very good fortune to us since the day we found you," Sister Erica said.She is in charge here.
"Thank you Sister" I said with a little smile on my face, waiting patiently for her to spill the reason she called me rather than beating around the bush... keeping me in high tension.
"Since you haven't been adopted till this very moment..."
"I will be sent away, right?" I immediately interrupted her, with tears already finding their ways to my eyes.
I saw her shake her head with a smile on her face.
"It will be so ridiculous for us to do so, Mary. Well, we have planned to send you to Morin High School in order for you to finish your last grade there."
Hearing this, my already exhausted face beamed with excitement and smiles.
"What!" I rushed and hugged her.
"Thank you, Sister Erica," I said, hugging her tightly while she rubbed my back.
"Remember why we sent you there. Go and make us proud, Mary. Don't be deceived by the things of the flesh." Those were the words of advice they gave me the first day I set off for my new school.
"I will make you proud," that was my response to them.
I was so excited about my new school. At the orphanage we are taught there, but since this is my last grade... They decided to send me to a proper school.
My happiness turned into sadness the immediate moment I set foot in Morin High School. The students hated me. They threw tantrums at me, telling me to leave their school because I am not fit to be there.
I wanted to give up and drop out, but on a second thought I remembered the people who sent me there. Their hopes are high for me.
But among the students in my class, there was one who caught my attention... you may call it likeness or love at first sight... I don't mind.
What was funny is that he is a very bad boy whom everybody fears and avoids. He kisses and romances his girlfriend Nova in class all the time.
Such scenes boil my blood so much. You may call it jealousy, I don't care. But who am I to interfere?
I am in no way to be compared with Nova, his girlfriend. She is beautiful and curvy... while I am chubby and ugly.
But I usually have this fantasy... maybe that I will be that naive ugly girl in stories whom the bad and handsome male lead will take interest in.
"That's so stupid... such a stupid fantasy," my mind will always tell me.
But eventually everything changed just because of this day.
While walking down the hallway going to the cafeteria to have my lunch, as usual students looked at me in a mocking way. Well, I don't care anymore... I am used to it.
"Hey Mary the Virgin!" I heard Nova call me, making the students gather and laugh.
"She will soon conceive by the Holy Spirit," one of the students said, making the rest laugh out loud.
I continued walking, ignoring them. They were actually right about me being a virgin.
"I'm calling you, bitch!" Nova pushed me from the back, making me stagger a little, but I didn't fall.
It was as if I was expecting the push.
"What do you want this time, Nova?" I slowly asked. I said this time because she is always bullying me.
Nova chuckled slightly.
"She asked a question. Please reply to her guys," she said to the students.
"We want you to leave our school!!" they all responded in unison.
I felt so hurt. It was heartbreaking. Am I a nuisance here?
"You heard that, right? Leave our school. An ugly pig like you doesn't belong here," she said and poked my head.
I ignored her and turned around to walk away, but I paused when my eyes locked with Cassius's eyes, who stood among the students with his hands inside his pocket, watching the scene expressionlessly.
I looked away from him, looking elsewhere, but my eyes widened when I saw a girl raise an egg to throw at me.
I immediately closed my eyes, waiting for the egg to hit me... but it didn't happen. Rather, a huge body suddenly wrapped itself around me, and the egg hit the person's body instead.
Everybody gasped.
The person disengaged his body from mine. I looked up to the person's face, only to be faced with my distant crush.
"Cassius," I muttered his name, not believing my eyes. Was I dreaming or what?
But the answer was no when I heard his voice.
"Are you okay?" he asked so gently, making me give out a slight nod, my eyes still not leaving his perfect face.
"What the fuck is wrong with you, Cass?" I heard Nova's angry voice. I turned my head to look at her, making her give me a hard glare.
"Pull away from my guy, Bitch!" Her cold voice rang in my ears. She rushed to pull me away from Cassius, but what happened next was like I was daydreaming.
"Don't touch her." Cassius pulled me to himself and wrapped his hand around my waist.
"Cassius!" Nova's eyes widened at the scene before her. He turned to look at the students, making everyone lower their heads.
"Who threw the egg?" came his cold voice. Everyone started murmuring, trying very hard not to look him in the face.
"I said, who threw the damn egg? Or else everyone here will pay the penalty," he said so gently... Well, anyone knew better than to annoy him because he meant the words he said.
Cassius is a bad boy after all, and no one dares to challenge him.
Without wasting much time or provoking him further... The girl who threw the egg was pushed out immediately.
"Come closer," Cassius said to the girl who seemed as if she was trembling.
Everybody watched quietly, waiting for what would become of the girl or what Cassius would do to her.
I too was waiting patiently to know. I was already feeling pity for her.
"Bend down and lick it," he said.
Everybody gasped.
"What?" the girl blinked.
"I don't want to repeat myself again," Cassius said, making the girl go on her knees, faced with the broken raw egg on the floor.
"It's raw," the girl muttered as if she wanted to vomit.
"Cassius!" Nova moved closer to him... her hard glares at me.
"This is bad and..."
"Any more words from you Nova,you will join her," Cassius interrupted her immediately.