Innocent love of a bad boy

IT'S NOT EASY TO GET RID OF ME

Tyler’s P.O.V.

I was hell angry with myself. I played that stupid prank and put Gwen in danger again. Why it always happened to us? Whenever we crossed our path, it was Gwen who was in danger every time. Neil was with me and he was not saying anything to me. I knew that he was hell mad and still managed to compose himself.

I punched the wall again and again and soon, my knuckles started bleeding. Suddenly I stopped when heard someone shouting my name. I looked back and instantly the guilt fill me again. Gwen was storming towards me like a madwoman while balling her fist tightly. Tony was walking behind on her tail. I stood straight in an apologetic stance. She was fuming in anger and she had every right to be mad at me right now.

She came near to me and punched me so hard in the stomach that I fell down instantly while holding my stomach tightly. I yelped in pain. What did she do to have this hard fist? O, God…. I was not able to breathe for a second. Before I could catch my breath, she pounced on me and now was sitting over me. She started punching me as I was her punching bag. I yelped in pain and looked at Neil for help. Both Neil and Tony were looking at us in amusement standing away by a little distance. aaahhhh .... friends....

So, they were not going to save my life. Yeah…. She was punching so hard in my stomach and on the chest that every blow threw all the air out of my lungs.

“Gwen…. Stop…it’s hurting”, I pleaded while trying to stop him. She didn’t listen to me and punched harder than before. I was trying to defend myself by covering myself by hands. Still, she found the open spaces and punched me.

“You useless trash… you thought that you would be saved”, she started yelling at me while cursing me hard. I knew that I deserved this but… still…. It was hurting like hell….

“I am sorry…. I am sorry…. Please… aaahhh… stop….. aaahhhh… Gwen”, I was pleading for mercy. She didn’t stop. When it became unbearable, I grabbed her hands by the wrists and pulled her hand a little away from our body. It was the biggest mistake of the day. To my shock, she knocked all the air out of my lung by hitting my chest with her head.

At that very instant, both friends of mine came into the action and pulled her up from her shoulders from me. “Leave me”, she was yelling, and then she kicked me again by a leg. She was really feisty. It took a complete whole minute to catch my breath. She was kicking in the air now in their hold.

“Gwen…. Calm down… you are going to kill him”, Tony yelled at her and then held her in his embrace again tightly. Why he was embracing her again and again? I felt a pang of jealousy in my chest. Neil came towards me and gave me his hand. I took his hand and managed to stand up on my feet. My whole upper body was aching so much due to her punches. I winced in pain and Neil smirked. “Thanks…. For your timely help”, I taunted him and he smirked again. “Pleasure is always mine”, he said to me in a sarcastic way.

Gwen was calmed a little down. She was taking long breathes while holding Tony by his shirt. He looked at me and sighed. I got this. It was the cue for me to apologize to her. I was still holding my stomach as it was still paining like hell. Her last kick was straight to the side of my stomach.

“Gwen”, I called her from a distance. I was still scared of her punches. She looked at me and my heart shattered into pieces right away. She had tears in her eyes that were flowing down from her eyes like a waterfall. She instantly pulled away from Tony’s embrace and ran towards me.

I instantly opened my hands and she hugged me tightly. She was trying to muffle her cries into my chest. I was as helpless as I didn’t know what to say. Neil and Tony were standing together and I could see the same helplessness in their eyes.

“I told you before that we should not cross our path. See… where did it lead this time”, she whispered to me and her broken words shattered me again.

“I am sorry, angel…. I am really sorry”, my voice was completely laced with regret. She held me by my torso and tightened her grip a little on me. “Whenever we came closer, something bad happened. Try to understand this and stay away from me, Tyler”, she said to me again and I didn’t know what to answer her. Did I really wish to stay away from her? I didn’t know either.

After a while, she pulled away from me and then took out something from her pocket. It was her hanky. She torn her hanky into half and then grabbed my hand and lifted up to her level. I was looking at her but she held her face down. I wiped some hairs from her face and tucked them behind the ear with my other hand.

She wrapped one part of her hanky around my knuckles and I was moved by her care for me. There was complete silence in the corridor. All of us were standing in silence. Her faint sobs were the only voice that could be heard. She carefully covered my injured knuckles one by one and then pulled a little away from me.

Now she was looking at me straight into my eyes. She still had tears in her eyes. “Tyler… it will be better for me that we stay like strangers as we did in the past for the last 5 years. It’s out last year and it’s…. it’s not like that … we will be in touch after school. So… you go your way and I go my way”, she said to me in a determined tone and I just nodded not to know what to say.

She then started walking away. I wanted to stop her but didn’t want to stop her at the same time. I saw her retreating figure. Neil and Tony came beside me and then Neil broke the silence.

“Are you willing to let her go this time?” he asked me in a calm tone.

“I don’t know bro… She is something that I can’t let slip away so easily”, I didn’t know where it came from. Tony gasped and I looked at him. He was looking at me shocked. His mouth was opened now.

“Tyler…. It will be better to think about your move first and then approach her in the future if you are thinking to still approach her”, Neil suggested to me and I hummed. Yeah… I need to think hard before making any move. I looked at my knuckles that were now covered with her hanky. I smiled a little.

Ms Gwen Rosemary….. it was not easy to get rid of me.