"I need you, Katie.But right now, we can’t go public. ” my boyfriend of three months, Draven, whispered, kissing my neck, his teeth nipping at my skin, almost biting me.
"Okay, I can wait, but…," I looked at Draven, "I’m just... worried that we come from different worlds.”
After all, Draven is the Son of a tech billionaire, the one who sits at the top of Augustus Lupine Academy—Lupine, as the students call it.
He’s every girl's dream lover at Lupine.
Taking a breath, I mustered up the courage to say what's been weighing on me.
“I’m worried that you’re hiding something from me."
Three months ago, I had just finished up at work. I was exhausted and wasn’t paying attention. Crossing the street, I didn’t see the car coming, until it was too late.
Everything became a blur after. I braced myself, but nothing happened. Just a heavy weight on top of me and soft grass underneath me.
Opening my eyes I met with the molten honey-colored ones above.
I never saw how he reached me in time. But since then, I found myself drawn to him. Bumping into each other after that, had to be a sign.
Until one day, I decided to tell him how I felt. When Draven accepted my feelings and asked me out, I was beyond happy.
The next three months passed in a blur of tender kisses, gentle caresses, hot s*x, and overwhelming love.
"We live in the same world, Katie, and we’re both human,” Draven said, amused.
What do you think I’m hiding, that I’m a monster? Or a vampire who’ll secretly eat you?" Dranven asked, jokingly acting like he was a vampire about to bite me.
I grabbed a pillow, I chased after Draven, but he escaped.
While we laughed I momentarily let go of my worries for the future.
Maybe I’ve just been watching too many idol dramas lately. After all, we’re both college students, and college was the one place where class differences shouldn’t matter. At least, before we graduated, I could have him. ...Right?
The sharp sting across my cheek, brought me back to my present situation.
The pain radiating across my cheek, tears stinging my eyes. I could feel the blood rushing to the surface.
“How dare such a lowly human pester Draven, don’t you have any shame?”
Rebecca, our university's head cheerleader and resident evil witch, shoved me down, making me kneel before everyone in A Class.
“A poor scholarship student isn't even close to being suitable for Draven, so stop daydreaming, it’s pathetic.”
Rebecca said, flicking her champagne blonde hair over her shoulder.
This wasn’t the first time I’d been so harshly ridiculed. After all, I was attending one of the finest schools in the country on a poverty scholarship.
Pandora Academy was a well-known, elite university which was home to an incredible Business Administration program that happened to be split into two separate classes. The major catered greatly to the elite students and was made unattainable to many others.
I was the only student to receive a scholarship which made me an easy target.
A few days ago I suddenly couldn’t reach Draven. My calls didn’t go through, my texts blocked.
To say I was worried was an understatement but the nagging feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach kept growing.
Which leads to my current situation. I came to A Class to make sure he was okay and get some answers.
But now I sit on my knees in the middle of A Class with a swollen cheek and tears threatening to spill.
Being ridiculed by Rebecca for stepping foot inside their classroom where ordinary students never dared to go before, was nothing I couldn’t handle.
“ I’m looking for Draven,” I said, gritting through the pain.
“What could someone of your status possibly want with someone of Draven’s caliber?” Rebeeca demands, grabbing my face with her manicured nails digging into my skin.
“ I’m his girlfriend, our business has nothing to do with you,” I grit out as her grip tightens.
Revealing my relationship with Draven set off Rebecca, worse than the fact that I dared to enter A Class territory.
Rebecca reeled back like I had personally hit her before grabbing me by my hair, dragging me in front of Draven.
“Draven,” I called out softly.
Draven sat in his seat looking unaffected, his perfect hair styled, his tailored uniform pristine, the deep bluish purple of the Lupine crest stood in its pride on his jacket.
Draven was completely fine.
The worry gave way to the dread building in my stomach.
Glancing over at me, his eyes which had once looked at me with warmth were indifferent. Turning to Rebecca, “Who is she?” Draven’s cold, detached voice cut through me.
“This trash said she was your girlfriend,” Rebecca asked, voice full of disgust and disbelief, “is she?”
Draven sighs tiredly, “ I would never debase myself by having anything to do with someone like her.”
Draven’s gaze lands on me.
“She’s been trying to get close to me, it’s become quite a problem honestly,” Draven said annoyed.
Since coming to A Class, this was the first time Draven said anything to me.
“ If you continue to bother me, I’ll call the police.”
His words left no room for discussion.
The classroom erupts in laughter. My heart lay shattered in my chest but no one gave a damn.
I was so caught up in my heartbreak, I didn’t notice the moment Rebecca held something over my head.
Cold coffee rained down on me as the elites of A Class howled in laughter like a bunch of wild hyenas.
“This is for pestering someone so far above you. Make sure you remember your place from now on,” Rebecca snarks, shaking the last few drops of coffee on my head.
“Get out and never come back.”
Scrambling to my feet, I hurried out of the room.
Holding back my tears I rushed back to my dorm. Dripping in coffee, my uniform stained and my white shirt clinging to my skin.
I pull my black uniform jacket close across my chest, hurrying through campus. My embarrassment grew with all the whispers and looks as I passed by.
Taking the stairs two at a time, I reach my dorm entrance just as Cathy, my best friend passes by.
Cathy was the only one from A Class, apart from Draven that treated me well. She helped me handle the students who would laugh, and ridicule me for being a poor scholarship student.
The moment that Cathy’s emerald eyes land on me and the sorry state of my uniform she pulls me into my room.
“Oh Katie Kat, what happened,” Cathy asked, brushing my matted hair away from my face.
Between her kind words and the safety of the dorm room, I couldn’t hold back my tears anymore.
Burying my head in my hands my tears fell.
“Katie, seriously, what happened?” Cathy asked again, worried.
“ It’s- It’s freaking Draven and A Class,” I told her sobbing.
“What happened with Draven,” Cathy asks confusedly. “You guys were in your perfect love bubble last I knew, I mean you are Draven’s destined one. I’ve always said that.
I scoff so upset by how Draven acted just now, that Cathy’s words brought a new bout of tears to her eyes.
“Destined one, yeah right,” I said, shaking my head telling Cathy everything.
“ I can’t believe him,” Cathy said once I finished,” I told Draven this whole time that you are his, his destined one and he goes and pulls this crap.”
I smile softly at Cathy as she fumes over what Draven did. I always found it super sweet that she thought that we were soulmates, if such a thing even existed.
I chuckle, shaking my head, “Who was I kidding, I’m not someone worthy enough to be the lover of a billionaire's son.”
“Hey don’t say that, you're ten thousand times better than Draven in my heart, Katie Kat,” Cathy said hands on her hips, dead serious.
“You should just dump his elitist ass and find a handsome new guy to roll around in the sheets with for the night,” Cathy said, pulling me into a tight hug.