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(Angel's outfit above)

My day has already gone wrong because I overslept again. These last weeks I have been bearly sleeping and I always forget to set up my alarm. Luckily my grandmother wakes me up thirty minutes before school.
'You are still sleeping ?' she marches into my room with a shocked face.
'And I was wondering why you weren't coming downstairs, go get changed and I will make you some coffee.'

My tired body gets out of bed as soon as the door closes behind her. I make my way towards the bathroom and do my usual skin care routine. After brushing my teeth, I quikly straighten my hair as fast as I can. It loosely hangs over my shoulders.

Then I choose my outfit, I check myself one last time in the mirro before almost running downstairs. I grab my coffee and kiss my grandma goodbye. She waves at me from the front window as I get into my dads car. Then I roar to school.

~

The day flies by. The last schoolbell of the day is heard through all the classroom. I pack my school books and pencil case, then I get up from my desk and leave the classroom while following the others. The hallway is filled with all the pupils who are trying to leave as fast as they can, most of them are planning on going to a party tonight that someone is holding. But I am done with parties for the next five years. My first party was enough for me personally. I grab all the books I need from my locker for the weekend and then I find Amara to tell her I won't go shopping today. While my eyes search for Amara or Neomi, they fall onto someone completely else. Someone who I haven't made eyecontact with in two whole weeks. He is leaning against the lockers on the other side of where I am standing. Our eyes pierce in eachother and a very familiar feeling that I haven't felt in a while, returns. I can tell he is stalking me cause that is not even near where his locker is located. I sigh as I look away from him. I shouldn't look at him that way.

The way I used to look.

I quikly find Amara and Neomi who are both talking to some girls at the parking lot. I approach them. They seem in deep in conversation as they don't even notice me walking up to them. I smile at their intense gossiping about a certain someone. Someone that I would give anything for to feel his lips on mine again.
Someone who I still have intense feelings for even though he used me. That someone that I would never get over. I hear a few phares of their conversation before they notice me and shut up immediately.

'I heard River turned her dad in and that's why she is getting revenge on him', the brown haired girl says.
'That is bullshit', Neomi lies to protect me. I appreciate how she really is a great friend even though she made a lot of mistakes in the past.

They all face me now. With most fo these girls I have some classes with. They seem really nice and maybe I could be friends with them also if only I wasn't this socially awkward. Neomi and Amara smile as they see me.
'I just came to say that I won't go out with you guys today.'
'Oh why ?' Amara asks with a pout.
'My dad's lawsuit is today.'
'Really?' one of the other girls ask and I look at her with a serious expression. 'Yes.'
'Good luck', the other one says. Okay, they really don't seem that bad. My mouth forms a smile and I quikly thank her for wishing me luck. But luck won't help here. It is all about the judge and I am pretty sure my dad's men are currently trying everything they can to win this case even if their ways of winning are against the law. That's how the world works after all.

After I tell them goodbye, I quikly walk up to my car as I cannot be late for something this important. As I am
walking, I hear footsteps behind me. This time I do care to turn around. My eyes land on River again. He is literally following me. I stop my tracks and my body turns around completely. Some people that are walking by look at the two of us weirdly as they notice the death glares we are currently exchanging.
With the anger already building up inside of me, my body starts walking in his direction. I stop right in front of him. There is a decent distance between us. I can't be closer to him for my own good will.

'What do you want ?'
He looks at me again. His eyes wonder from my body to my face again. His eyes focus on my exposed neck and then they wonder down again. I snap my finger at him to show him he shouldn't look at my body like that. He absolutely lost all rights to that. But when our eyes meet, I almost gasp. It is that smug smirk and stare that make him a hundred times more attractive than he already is and it is terrifying what one stare can do to my heart and stomach. I quikly snap myself back into the real world.

'You're going to the lawsuit aren't you', he finally speaks. I look at him with furrow eyebrows. Why does he even care where I am going. This all wouldn't have happend if he just left my family alone. I ask myself why he is even bothering to look at me again, let go follow me and talk to me. It is weird and something about this is not right. After what River did, I don't trust him one bit anymore so you can't really judge me that I find this shit hella weird.

'Why do you care ?' I snap back at him.

'Because I am going as well.'
'Funny', I answer him with absolutely no humour heard in my voice.

There is no absolute way he is going to that lawsuit. But when my eyes focus on him, he looks at me dead seriously. In fact, he looks more serious then ever. But whatever he is trying to fuck up again, I am going to stop him. He won't destroy the only hope I have left.
'I ain't kidding.'
'And what are you going to do there.'
'I am going to make sure, your dad will never leave that jail.'

Now the anger just got the best of me. I look at River's evil smirk. He is happy with what he has done. He doesn't regret it one bit and it makes me even more mad. After our little encounter in the bathroom I had the feeling he maybe regretted using me like that, but I guess that was also alie or my imagination. I know I shouldn't react to his hurtful words. Before I can do anything, I stop myself and without doing anything, I speak again.

'That still doesn't explain why you are following me.'
'I came to warn you.'
'Warn me ?'
'Yes, I warn you that if you do anything to hurt my family, I will fucking kill you and jail bars will be the only things your dad will see for the rest of his life.'

I laugh.

'You can't touch me. And you surely can't do anything to my dad. Look at your family River, they're all addicts and freaks. It takes me absolutely nothing to destroy you.'

It is the last thing I say. I don't matter waiting for a response from him. And without another word nor glance, I walk to my car. Once I am in my car, I roar out of the parking lot but I won't go to the lawsuit. I am going to listen to my dad and I won't do anything stupid anymore.

This is not a game anymore.