Ch. 2 "The Day that Destroy Me"

Gracie P.O.V.

“Last day of Senior year”

“All right, take your math book out. So, turn to page 1, class.” We heard Mr. Stewart tell us. For the last time, I felt tears welling up in my eyes, knowing this was my last math class.

So, I got out my math book. I placed it on the desk. I still can’t believe I wrote on my desk.

How can you be so stupid, Gracie? I dropped my head, and it hit my book.

Ouch! I thought. That is when I started rubbing my head where I hit it.

Ouch!

I felt my hair on the back of my arms standing straight up. I felt someone’s eyes on me.

I had a feeling someone was watching me. When I turned around, my eyes widened when I saw who was staring at me when I turned around in my seat.

What I saw was Hayes Ford staring at me. What gave me the chills was the weird expression on his face.

“Oh, okay, class, I am signing off one more time as your teacher. I wanted to tell you all that I am incredibly proud of you. I know you all are going to have wandering lives and careers, and as you know it, a wife or husband and kids,” I watch you guys grow up.” Now I see it.”

You guys are grown up and ready to take on the world.”

I love you guys!” Mr. Stewart said, choking up, and I saw tears clouding his eyes. I didn’t want to cry either, but I am going to miss this school and the teachers after he did his heart-warming, tear-jerking speech.

We all clapped our hands, and I looked over across the room, and I saw Hayes.

I felt my cheeks red because he was staring at me, and I didn’t want to look away, but I did. Then the bell rang, and he got up and left. So, I hurried up, packed my stuff, got up, and walked out the door, following him.

After Class.

Yes, I know he always treated me like I was his pleasure, but you don’t know him. I know he cares for me, and I'm sure he has feelings for me. Why would he take the time to say hi and touch me when we are speaking? I thought with a blush and smile on my red, fleshy face.

I was walking down the hallway when suddenly I saw him.

This is it, Gracie; you can do this?

I was giving myself a pep talk in my head.

I took a deep breath, let it out, and walked toward him, where he was all alone. Thank God he is alone, and maybe he won’t treat me like crap in front of the school and his friends.

This is it; don’t mess it up and hold back!

I was almost there when I saw him cleaning out his locker with all kinds of paper, and I blushed when I saw condoms falling on the ground.

I was behind him when I could smell his aftershave and cologne.

I didn’t want to, but I took a deep sniff behind his neck.

I knew I had made a mistake because he flipped around so fast, and I was slammed into his locker with his body holding me down.

“It’s You!”

“Why are you here?

“Didn’t you take the warning today in class to stay the fuck away from me!” he said, gritting his teeth in my face, and I heard a growl and snarl come out of his mouth.

What? That is not right. He growled like an animal.

“Hello..o Haye..s, I said, smiling nervously up at him with my cheeks red.

He didn’t smile but snarled down at my petite body.

“I asked you a fucking question, pest?” He said with his eyebrow raised.

Ahh, see, he has a nickname for me. How sweet of him. I let out a giant smile and tried to touch his face, but my hand had a mind of its own.

Don’t fucking try it! Pest, I heard him, and I felt my wrist inside his bruising hand because right now. That’s when I yelped when I felt the pain.

I knew I should never have done that. I felt his anger when he shoved my hand away from his face.

I heard him chuckle, and I saw a sinister smile on his handsome face. That was when he dropped my wrist in his hands and shoved me back with brutal force.

I saw regret in his eyes, but that was over because he went back to his cruel, smug smile.

But he didn’t know his strength when he shoved my hand away with a mighty push. I was almost knocked over.

But he stopped me from falling, and he had me in a tight grip around my wrist.

“Gracie! You need to stop following me and staring at me,” He was telling me with seriousness, and I could tell he was furious and with a darkness in his voice. It’s like a warning in the hint when he was speaking to me.

“I am not going to tell you again; stop it, or you won’t like the outcome, little pest,” he told me.

I should have taken that as a warning, but I didn’t listen. So, his words were loud and clear.

“I will destroy you if you don’t stop what you’re doing, but no! I took it as a sign that he had feelings for me, which was a form of attention. But I should have listened to all the warnings he was giving me.

Ahh, he says the darndest things. I thought, still with a smile on my face.

“Stop smiling! I am trying to warn you, girl!” I am dangerous, and you need to stop giving me hints that you want to fuck me!”

“Because I will be glad to take it.”

“This is your last warning! Gracie, if you’re going to fluff your ass around in tight clothes and show your breasts, that’s asking to be sucked and licked, and your short skirts showing the whole school you got a tight body that was born to fuck!” He stared down at me with a snarl and eyebrow down with a frown on his face.

Oh, God, I was shocked to hear him tell me this. I felt a mix of cold and hot, as well as nervous, embarrassed, and ashamed. I knew the blush was brighter now on my face.

I didn’t say anything or do anything. He saw what was on my face and my body reaction.

“Then stop showing off your slutty body and stop following me around and staring at me with your fucking bedroom eyes!”

“Got it!”

He told me with a severe look in his eyes.

That is when my smile fell.

I wasn’t ready for that. I just wanted him to be mine and only mine until I was prepared to make love to him.

“I never had my first kiss yet?” I must have told him, because he gave me a strange look, and I couldn’t know if it was a look of release or anger.

“Oh, well, you’ll be waiting for your first kiss for a long time because no one is allowed to kiss you!” He tells me in a growl with an evil smirk on his handsome face.

Oh, God, is he handsome. I was staring at him, and he was getting annoyed, and I think he growled because I could feel it on my chest.

After all, we are still locked together on top of his locker with my back against it and him with his body.

I didn’t pay attention to any other boy in this school; it was always him. So, it’s always been him I liked.

There it is again, that growl!

Why is he growling like that? I am confused by all the growling and snarling, and his eyes changing colors!

Wait! What? His eyes are black. How is that possible, given that he has light blue eyes? I thought when I saw his eyes were black.

Is it possible for someone’s eyes to turn black like that?

But I wasn’t going to worry about it, and I only had one thing on my mind I came over to do. And by God, I am doing it! So, I shook my head and looked down when I heard him say I better not let nobody kiss me!

“You better not let anybody either or else!” Hayes says.

That was when I felt him pull up close to his face, and my lips touched his for the force he had on me.

I tried to step back, knowing my cheeks were burning up from what had happened. I think that was a kiss I had wanted.

I felt the sparkles, and I knew he felt them too.

“Answer me! Tell me nobody is allowed to kiss you,” I heard him tell me.

He wants me to answer him.

Maybe telling him, I want him to be my first kiss is better.

“Hayes, I umm... I licked my lips when I felt him move closer, and his lips were on top of mine.

Yes, Pest,” I heard him say, staring into my eyes with his dangerous black ones.

“I wanted to tell you what I wanted to say to you.... why can’t I tell him I like him. This morning, I was fine, excited, and ready to ask him to be my boyfriend; now, I can’t. Now I froze up.

Now I am standing here with the hottest guy in school, our lips touching, and I can feel the chemistry all around us. I’m too speechless to ask him a question that would make him my boyfriend.

“Hayes be mine!” I want you to be my boyfriend?” I told him.

There, I said it.

That felt good to get off my chest.

I am relaxed now and waiting for my dream to come true.

I was so excited that I felt like I was going to fly away into heaven, but that’s not what happened.

I wasn’t flying on cloud nine or in heaven. Nothing happened as I dreamed. I sighed, and I could feel the tears filling my eyes.

I knew what I had dreamed about this day for a long time.

I played out in my mind that he would smile down at me, wrap his arms around me, and pull me in for that romantic first kiss, and we would walk by the beach, hold hands, sit in the sand, smile, talk, and kiss some more.

I heard him laughing.

He was laughing at me.

“You must be joking, right?” I mean, I would never be yours.” You are just an ugly Pest and a human that’s weak! I will never want a helpless human girl that doesn’t have what I want and need!” He told me something mean and awful. I still try to show him it’s not hurting me, but it was hard to hide the pain in my face when he destroyed me.

“So, if I have to tell you one more time, pest!”

“To. Leave. Me. The. Fuck. Alone!”

“I will make you regret ever meeting me!”

“That’s a fucking promise!” He said, staring down at me, and he didn’t do anything for a few seconds when I gasped when he hit the locker with his hand, and his other hand slammed my hips into him, and my lips were kissing him.

I tried to move or speak, but could not do anything except stand there like a ragdoll, letting him kiss me. So, when I felt him bite my lip, I opened up and felt his tongue go inside my mouth.

Before I was enjoying our kiss, he pulled away, opened my eyes, and saw a smug smile on his handsome face.

“Oh, man!” You suck at this!”

You can’t even kiss, right?”

I heard him chuckle.

That is when I felt my heartbreak and sadness rise inside my chest.

I didn’t know and felt he shoved off and started walking down the hallway, still laughing, and I am still standing there trying to breathe and wake up from this fantastic and awful dream I am having because there is no way this just happened.

“Oh, Pest? He speaks. I looked up and saw him halfway down the hallway, his eyes serious, but they changed back to their standard blue.

“If I find out you let any guy kiss or touch you? He tells me in a harsh voice, and I look into his dangerous, handsome face.

“I will destroy him, and I will punish you!” Don’t tempt me!

“You will not like the outcome that will come your way!”

“You’re mine!”

“To taunt!”

“Mine to use!”

“Mine to destroy!” He told me.

All I could do was nod, and I saw his tall figure walk away until he disappeared around the corner, and I knew the warning was loud and clear.

That was the first time I was frightened of Hayes Ford.