Vincent's POV
I'm tired of hearing about that humiliation. It's resumption but I'm pained of resuming this morning because of my meeting with Dad. As the heir who's going to take over after College, I have to get familiar with the business. Yeah, you might be wondering why I'm a Law student when I won't put it to practice. Well, the answer is it's my dream to be one despite the fact that I won't put it to practice. I love the zeal those Lawyers have when defending their clients and their professionalism piques my interest so I struck a deal with my Dad to allow me chase my dream before I face his choice for me squarely. He agreed and here I am cherishing my limited time studying my passion. That aside, I'm bored with all this meeting stuff. The meeting ended after three hours of excruciatingly boring talk and agreements, most of which I don't understand but will soon because I'm taking classes in preparation for my taking over after college. I went to my apartment outside the school to take a break. I was enjoying my quiet time when Jerry's call came in, "Bro, are you not resuming today. I heard that girl has resumed", he blasted through the phone. "Calm down, I know that today is resumption, I'll come to campus in the evening so we can go clubbing but now ,I have to strategize ways I can make her life miserable. So leave me in my quiet time. Tell the others not to disturb me". "Sure thing. I trust you and your ways. See you in the evening". "Yeah". We ended the call on that note.
We are the Quad. Yeah, just as the name implies we're a group of four. Mischievous and notorious playboys as we can be but note we're not dullards. We're the best in our individual departments. Blake, Lionel, Jerry and me. Blake is in the Engineering department and he's the casual guy of the group. Lionel is in the Theater Arts department and he's the silent killer. He switches based on his mood. He's the ticking bomb of the group. Jerry is in the Business Administration department. He's the girlie of the group. He brings everyone together. He doesn't behave like that to outsiders, in fact he's as frigid as ice to outsiders. Not that we're apart but I'm sure you get what I'm saying. I'm the avatar. Master of all elements. I have all attributes but the girlie part, I'm not sure. That aside, Amelia's next. That girl challenged me. No one has ever done that. I'm going to clip her wings and I'm doing that in a very brutal way. My decisions are going to be spur of the moment.
Soon it was six o'clock. I got up, showered and got in the car. I don't like having a driver driving me to campus. I like doing it myself cus it's way cooler driving on campus with the key in my hand. I got to the campus ten minutes before dinner time at the Cafeteria. I knew she would be in the Cafeteria to eat free food so I went there immediately. I got down from the car. I was stopped on the way by the guys. We did our bros sign and they of course queried me about where I was going. As expected it's Jerry who started the interrogation. "Bro, where you going? You just got on campus and didn't come to the base first. That's low bro". "I wanted to give that bitch a surprise and to mark the start of her misery on campus. Yunno, it's kind of symbolic to start the semester with trouble. I'll catch you guys later". I marched straight to the Cafeteria.
"Bingo", I said as I saw the person I'm looking for with a red head, guessing that's her roommate. They were about to sit at the only table available when I shoved her with the food without warning. It was so satisfying when I saw the look on her face. She looked bewildered and shocked. I noticed the red head trying to help her up but I wanted her to remain in that humiliation so that she would know how it feels like for me, so I spoke up, "If you help her, you're next. No one disrespects me and gets away with it and bear it in mind that this is the beginning". I walked out on this note to meet my friends. I got to the base which in reality is our apartment on the campus. Yeah, we have our apartment on the campus. It's secluded from the hostels. I entered the base and Jerry crash hugged me, ruffling my hair saying, "Bro, I love you. I kinda pity that girl cus I know that's the beginning of her woes. You're too much but I love it". "Ewww, girl get off me". I fist bumped the rest of the guys. "Which club are we going to tonight to celebrate the resumption of a new session?", I asked. Blake, the social ant said, "there's this new club in town, hmmm, lemme think, Joules I guess, I heard it's cool. "It's settled guys. We have to get ready", Jerry commanded.
Amelia's POV
I gasped in shock, looked up and it turned out to be Vincent. I was shocked at his brutality. I met with his eyes and he was looking at me coldly. Tessa was trying to pull me up when he spoke in a frigid voice that froze the entire Cafeteria, "If you help her, you're next. No one disrespects me and gets away with it and bear it in mind that this is the beginning". Then he walked out of the Cafeteria. The whole Cafeteria burst into laughter at my misery. Tessa couldn't help me as she's been ordered not to. I managed to get up, ran to the dorm because it was close to the cafeteria. I got in the room, went to the shower and had a long one because I was trying to wash the shame away. He thought he broke me but he doesn't know that I have witnessed more shame than that. I was embarrassed that I would be the talk of the whole school. I mean this isn't even fair. His driver was the one that wronged me, now I'm the one to be blamed. "Calm down Amy", I told myself, taking deep breaths. I calmed down, sat on my bed, was thinking of ways to survive in this situation when hunger pangs hit me and I remembered that it was the food I'm supposed to have for dinner that the jerk poured away. I tried to sleep to suppress the hunger but it wasn't working.
I guess it worked eventually, because the next thing I knew was the sunlight peeking through the curtains in the room. "Wow, I guess it's morning already". I checked the time on the clock in the room and it was 7am on the dot. "Shit, I have an hour to prepare, lemme hurry". I glanced at the upper side of the bed and saw Tessa still asleep. I didn't know when she got in the room as I slept early. I had prepared my toiletries so I climbed up to her side, shook her awake but she didn't answer. I guess she's a heavy sleeper. "Tessa, wake up, it's ten minutes past seven already. We have to get to the Cafeteria on time before the food is finished". "No, I don't want to wake up now", she grumbled. It took me an extra five minutes to persuade her to wake up. "I'm going to have my bath, so be ready to go in after I'm done before it gets crowded", I told her before leaving for the bathroom. Since time wasn't really on my side, I rushed the bathing process and in ten minutes I'm done. I got into the room and found Tessa was still in bed, frustrated by her lack of care for time, I told her, "Tessa, get up. It's thirty minutes to 8 o'clock". She got down from the bed sluggishly, she mumbled a good morning and she went to the bathroom. I was dressed and was cleaning my slippers when Tessa came back to the room. She got ready fifteen minutes later and we were good to go. We left the dorm ready to forge ahead on this beautiful day regardless of dramas and troubles.
We strolled around the campus since it was not yet eight. It was a few minutes before eight. We were wise to stroll near the Caf. We were strolling by quietly when we heard a voice behind us, "Oh, it's that poor rat that was humiliated by Vincent. You really have courage. If I were you, I wouldn't leave the dorm for the whole semester. That shows how shameless you are. Fuck off this campus bitch". I turned back to see the speaker. It was a surprisingly beautiful girl. She had this perfectly banging body, straight and wavy hair and the gorgeous eyes ever. I'm slightly checking her out, but don't misunderstand, I'm not a lesbian. I'm perfectly straight. Then I thought, for her to be this clean she must be an elite. So I just bowed my head down, even though I'm unwilling but I just had to do it to keep my head and not find more trouble. I think her seeing that she couldn't provoke me to banter words with her made her just hiss and she left us. "Ok, I think that's how to survive here. If we challenge them, they would want to satisfy their ego". "Yea, Amy. We have to keep feeding their ego even if we're not satisfied with the way we're treated, if we wanna survive on this campus". We changed our route to the Cafeteria, waited in line and got our food like yesterday. I seriously hope that jerk won't come to the Cafeteria today and pour away my food because I'm seriously hungry. I would have bought food yesterday night but I'm saving all the cash I could. Lectures start next Monday.
Luckily, no drama happened but the murmurs and mockery was more than when I had just resumed. I guess this is the way things are going to be from now. As expected, no one wants to talk to be for the fear of being seen. I'm not surprised at this because it has always been this way even in Tequila. "Amy, I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't want to be on Vincent's bad side by disobeying his orders. I'm sure you understand what I mean", Tessa told me with a tone seeming to be sincerity but I don't really buy it. I've learnt not to trust anyone. I mean those that you put your faith in can suddenly switch to another entity that you don't even recognize. I didn't take the matter of yesterday to heart, but I don't buy her sincerity so I just said, "It's fine. I understand". We were done eating and I must say, the food in the city sure tastes nicer than the one at Tequila. I mean, it's of better quality. If the one on campus is like this, I wonder how the rich's meals would taste like. I'm sure it'd taste like Heaven. We got back to the dorm, and I was bored because I didn't have anything to do. Tessa was occupied with her phone so she didn't feel bored. "I can't continue like this. I have to find something to do, to kill time and to make cash for me so that I can sustain myself. Even though meals and stationary are provided, I will need some personal things for myself and my savings are running out".