“Thanks for yesterday senior” a girl thanked a girl who seemed to be in another class as they moved through the corridor. The girl being appreciated kept a very buoyant smile as though she had not a care in the world.

Her blonde her flowed down to her shoulder as she moved, she was the perfect girl with a face so smooth, the guys would always find themselves drawn to her as the ladies found themselves constantly using her as a yard stick.

She was Sarah Merez, the one and only child of the Merez empire, the biggest family after the Spanish royal family and she was just a sweet heart, always there for anyone and everyone right from a very young age as she was quite popular among the students and the leading candidate to very well become the next student council president.

“Senior, can you help me out today after school” a student dressed in the junior attire came as he pleaded for help from her,

“Uhm, I got martial arts class after school today but I will make sure to come right after school before I help you out” she said with a smile. Most guys can only ever dream of coming close to her to ask her out as the closest they can get to a date is by asking a favor knowing she won’t refuse.

“Hey Sarah, there you are” a broad-shouldered male student in the senior class as he wore the uniforms indicating his status, he walked up to her with his three goons by his side as he wrapped his hands around her tender waist which she shrugged off “come on Marquis, you do know that you and I can never be a thing right?” as she rolled her eyes.

“And how do you know that princess, when you haven’t given me a chance yet,” he said to which Sarah just sighed and tried to move away but was dragged back as he pulled her arm pulling her to the lockers and hit her back to the lockers, onlookers watching from afar as the goons of Marquis didn’t even let anyone come close by;

“Ouch that hurt you idiot” she said as she freed her arm from his grip.

“You know, no other person would get away with calling me an idiot other than you” he said with a wicked smile “look I have this soft spot for you, we can make it work”

“You still don’t understand right, you can’t brute force your way into everything especially not the heart of a lady, have a little change of heart then I can consider you” she said looking him straight in the eye;

“So why don’t you be the catalyst to facilitate that change” he said as he looked at her closing the distance between their faces going in for a kiss, she looked at him with disdain as she placed her hand on the approaching face to stop it from going further:

“Oh come on, did you really think that would work, listen I have a class to attend so if you would excuse me I need to get there” she said as she tried to leave once more but after taking two steps again she felt the grip as she couldn’t move:

“Let go off me dude” she said as she struggled “ok how about the prom tonight, go out with me” he said as she struggled the more;

PAH

His hand was sent flying as it released the arm,

“You heard her, right?” a female voice was heard as she held Sarah’s hand tenderly

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“And that’s not how to ask a lady out to prom and even though you wanted to, not on the day of Prom” she said as she whipped her black hair back. Holding his hand in pain, he looked back only to find his goons holding different parts of their body in pain.

He looked at the aggressor with anger seething from his teeth “Larissa, this isn’t over” he said as he scampered away with his goons;

“Yeah, and it never will be. And she has a date already you loser” she shouted back. Larissa was the national martial art champion in the joint category of both male and female as she was at the very top and the one and only friend of Sarah.

She has long been protecting her from guys like Marquis and other bullies as everyone knew better than to cross her. She had oncesingle-handedly beaten a gang of twenty organized by Marquis as she got out unscathed.

to further protect her friend, she decided to invite her to the martial arts club to have some self-defense skills but yet there had been no improvement. “Come on girl, you need to show that bastard some that you are no pushover” she said as she wrapped her hands around her shoulder;

“I know but I don’t want to hurt him anymore than I have done so far” Sarah said with an apologetic face “Oh come on, how would you say that, sometimes you need to take care of yourself before you think of helping others” Larissa said as they walked to their class for the day’s lecture.

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“Miss, we are here” the driver called out as he opened the door of the expensive car used to pick her up from school.

“Thank you, Alfred, here you go” she said as she tipped him. As she was popular in school she was at home among the cooks and the servants as they all loved her attitude of never looking down on them. Moving into the mansion and greeting some of the servants along the way, on reaching a massive door, her buoyant smile fell as she had a very sad and depressing expression as she looked at the door. Taking a deep breath and out the smile returned once more as she opened the door:

“Daddy, I’m back” she said to her father who was working on his table as he didn’t even look at her for some time before responding coldly:

“Yeah welcome”, Sarah sweating nervously tried to talk again “dad look today I cleared all my tests and came on top again”

“That’s good” he replied coldly once more not even looking at her,

“Daddy, today is prom I would be going, could you drop me off” this got the attention of her father as he dropped the pen and took of his glasses, she smiled seeing that she finally got his attention;

“Ay dios mío, Sarah, can’t you see I am busy, take anything you want, take my black card, take anything just go, you are a nuisance,” he said with a bit of anger as with every word, it broke the girl as she had drops of tears come out, “I’m sorry for the disturbance,” she said as she bowed then left, on closing the door she used the handkerchief she held as she covered her face as tears poured down

“Oh, Marie if only you gave me a male child instead” she overheard her father’s groan from the door making her tear up even more. The maidservants who saw this could only shake their heads as they had seen this happen over and over again.