The Strange Girl Episode 7 – 8

👩THE STRANGE GIRL👩

📝By Obianke Prosper

📚Chapter Seven📚

🌀🌀LINCOLN POV
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Before i could scre-m,Tripp and one other guy named Tom grab my arm forcefully and made me kneel.

The remaining boys watched the scene with pleasure but when I couldn’t take it anymore I tried to scre-m but Tripp slapped me furiously on my cheek and some drops of blood ran out of my mouth.

“Do you think you can escape from us? Do you??”.Timothy snarled at me and landed a punch on my stomach which made me cough out blood.

I felt really weak as I tried to maintain balance and thankfully,I did.I stared at them and suddenly felt a burning s-nsation in my stomach.

Damn! I was afraid,I knew how dangerous they were,i knew what they could do.

My only wish at this moment was for somebody to appear and stop them.I was feeling so scared.

And I almost hate myself right now for not listening to Belle.She was right about her dream but I didn’t believe her – I couldn’t believe her.

I can’t stop blaming myself!

“I hate you so much,Lincoln.We all hate you!! You took Josie from me,you knew how much I loved her but still you went ahead to tell her lies about me.You…”.I cut him off when I couldn’t stand listening to him.

I couldn’t believe this was the reason he and his friends were treating me this way.They treat me like if I was some sort of shit!!

Josie – was actually his girlfriend when he was a teen,he was just fifteen years old at that time and I was just fourteen. That was exactly the year I was when mum left me to my own fate.

Josie and Timothy were pretty much in love but i guess Josie didn’t really like Timothy. She love me instead and i didn’t even know.

She bring me gifts,lots of gift and when I asks her the reason for giving me the gifts,she would just smile and say that she love giving me gifts.

At a time,her love for me suddenly became known to both I and Timothy.But Timothy became so jealous and angry,he became hating me.

I was still young, I didn’t much about relationsh¡p but I knew that once a relationsh¡p is broken,it might be impossible to be fixed back.

So,I stopped Josie from bringing me gifts but that made her angry,she actually thought Timothy was the one who told me to tell her to stop giving me gift and then,she did what I feared the worst.She did what I was trying to avoid..

She broke up with Timothy!!

Oh,Timothy was so heartbroken and he blamed me for everything.He thought I told Josie some lies about him which made Josie to dump him.

And even till date,he hates me for it though I thought he had forgotten about it but he didn’t forget.

He still remembers everything….

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“Timothy,is that the reason you are treating me this way,just because of a girl?”.I try not to cry as i spoke but still,i felt my eyes moisten with tears.

“Shut up,okay? Josie isn’t just a girl,she is my first and only love but you made her leave me.You caused everything!!”.He spat out and landed another punch not on my stomach this time but on my cheek.

I yelped in pain and fell on the ground gro-ning as I touched my bloody cheek.

Shit! I really wanted to fight back but I knew I couldn’t win.

“We were friends,Timothy”.I said as I struggled to stand.

But,of course we were friends.

We were friends until Josie caused everything. Ugh! I so much hate that girl.

She ruined my friendsh¡p with Timothy and just left like if it didn’t matter to her.Well,it didn’t really matter to her.

“Shut up,you fool!”.Tripp quickly said and began kicking me hærd on my stomach and I couldn’t stop myself from coughing out blood.

I felt so weak as I fell again on the ground,but during that process I stared at Timothy and saw a colorful flash in his eyes which instantly disappeared the moment I saw it.

It looked so real and i felt like I didn’t imagine it.

“Go to hell,bastard”.Tripp finally said as he stopped the kicking.

Blood was running out from different areas of my body and I was gro-ning in pain but when i thought all was finally over,Tom grew a huge ball on my stomach and I scre-med in agony before I began drifting to unconsciousness slowly.

“Why did you hit him? Why?”. I heard timothy yelled as my eyes slowly began shutting.

“It was part of the plan,please don’t speak like you weren’t told”.I heard Tripp yelled back too.

“Come on! Let’s get going,he will be dead soon anyway”.Someone else said.

I tried to keep my eyes opened but I couldn’t and it finally shut but even in the darkness,i hear a voice I didn’t imagine to hear.

I heard it from someone I didn’t expect to hear it from.

Belle???

Chapter Eight📚

🌀🌀LINCOLN POV
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A light sound woke me up from my deep sleep.I roam my eyes around the place I was and discovered I was in my room,I was laying on my bed but how??

How did I get on my bed? And why am I at home,shouldn’t I be at the restaurant??

I stared at the half opened window and sighed,realized it was evening.The sun was going down!!

I tried to remember how I ended up in bed but I couldn’t remember a thing,my memories were so blur.All I remembered was when I met the T boys on my way back from work and they fought with me.

Then,one of them hit me with a ball and I was on the floor almost unconscious but then what happened.

I couldn’t remember!

“Oh! Thank goodness, you are awake”.I heard a voice and i turned to the direction just to see Belle holding a cup filled with greenish liquid on her hands.

She looked sad and happy,though I could see the masked anger in her eyes.Why is she angry,huh?

“How….did i get here,Belle??”.I sounded a bit weak as I spoke,i wasn’t yet strong.

“Uh..well,I actually brought you here”.She gave a small smile and handed me the cup with that greenish liquid.

“What is this,Belle?? It look so irritating”.My face squeezed in disgust as I stared at the ugly drink.

“It’s called Ponzirarre and it helps one to get stronger”.She said with an eyeroll but still,I couldn’t drink it.

“You should drink it quickly,if it loses it taste and smell,it as well loses it power”.She said and I frowned.

I can’t possibly drink this…it looked disgusting.Where did she even get this from??

“Where you get this,Belle? I haven’t seen something like this”.I asked,resisting the urge to throw it away.

“Look! I got this with so much difficulty and if you don’t wanna drink it,it’s your lost not mine.Afterall,you are the one who needs to get strong not me.Besides,you are at fault here,you are the one who should be blamed for almost being killed”.She yelled and took in a deep breath,trying to control her anger.

“I warned you but you didn’t listen,instead you proved stubborn and tried to act like you knew what you were saying and now,take a good look at your self.Gosh!! You make me sick”.She added angrily and walked out of my room while I watch her in shock.

Geez! I have never seen Belle look this angry before and she have never yelled this much too.

I guess I really did make her angry and i must apologize to her

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Since,the cloth I wore was stained with blood I decided to have a bath – a quick bath.

I managed to get up from the bed and put down my clothes before walking to the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my body.

I turned on the shower and took off the towel before taking my bath but while bathing,I noticed that all my wounds were gone.

I was surprised,i mean shouldn’t the wounds be there.How did they disappear?

I finished bathing quickly as expected,I wore some new set of clothes before walking to the guest room to apologize to Belle.

I knocked on the door but she didn’t speak,I knocked again then I heard her voice.

“Don’t knock,it’s your house anyway”.She said a bit angrily and I entered.

I saw her sitting on the bed picking on her nails and I smiled.She still look beautiful when angry,that’s nice.

“Belle,am sorry”.I said and tried to touch her but she shifted away from me immediately.

“I didn’t mean to hurt you,okay? I just couldn’t believe you,am sorry”.I said and held her arm but she shivered at my touch.

That’s weird.

“Am sorry too,I just felt angry because you made me feel worried when I saw you dieing so slowly on the road.I felt weak and I hate feeling weak. You know,you have been here for 10 hours unconscious”.She said and I gasped.

Did I sleep that long?

But thank God,I didn’t stay that way for days.At least,I will be able to explain to boss why I took a day off.

“But…”.She continued,staring at me with a smirk on her l-ips.

“You will have to make it up to me”.