The Joy of Revenge

CHAPTER 5 The Dark Trio
Joy
The first week of school went by quickly. I had made zero friends, but that was because I kept mostly to myself. If I wasn’t in class, I was in the library, trying to stay invisible.
So far, I liked being in college. Here, most of the students were mature and were busy trying to finish their education. With tuition so expensive, students couldn’t waste their time on
petty things although there were some who were born into rich families who felt entitled enough to squander a good education.
But, unlike my first week of college, the second week, people started taking notice of me, but
not in a good way. The whispers, the looks and the snickering as I walked by… increased. Well, I didn’t mind. That I could tolerate. The students on campus could continue whispering and laughing behind my back, just as long as it stayed that way.
Unfortunately, if I had thought during my first week that bullying was a thing of the past, I
was wrong.
I was wall
walking to my last class of the day, happy another week was over. I was looking
forward to the weekend since my dad had promised me we could go out and watch a movie.
As I walked through the hall, the students I passed by were snickering, but not entirely directly at me. I quickly looked behind me and saw a tall boy with blonde hair and light blue eyes making fun of the way I walked. I sighed.
You can take the boy out of high school, but you can’t take high school out of the boy.
I shrugged my shoulders and proceeded towards my classroom. At least the boys here were so repulsed by me, they wouldn’t dare try and rape me. I’ve already experienced that and I do
not want that to ever happen again.
I finally saw my classroom up ahead and walked as fast as my busted leg could take me. Loitering beside the entrance were two tall muscular boys casually talking to some girls.
I recognized them to be the two boys of the trio I had a crush on…Cristos and Xavier.
After Cristos bought me lunch, I decided to ask a classmate of ours who they were. My classmate laughed at me when I asked, thinking I was out of my mind to even think they would give me time of day. I tried to explain it wasn’t like that, but she wasn’t convinced.
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“I guess the line of girls to the Dark Trio has another one,” she said. “Well, the one with the blue dreamy eyes is Cristos Primo. The one with honey-colored eyes and who just exudes confidence is Sebastian Domenico while the quiet one with brown eyes is Xavier Beaufort. They all came from the same high school and are bestfriends. Like brothers even.”
Cristos and Xavier were both casually dressed in regular T-shirts, jeans and sneaker and both were undeniably handsome. No, beautiful. I sighed. They were the type of boys who could date anyone they wanted.
Xavier glanced at me as I approached with a small smile on his face which instantly disappeared. He nudged Cristos in the ribs and pointed at me. Cristos immediately looked up at me, then glanced at the as shole behind me and I saw the anger in his pretty blue eyes.
“Hey Mark, didn’t your mom ever teach you to never make fun of people with disabilities?” Cristos asked angrily.
“I don’t think so. Cristos. His mom was too busy f ucking the pool boy to ever give a da mn about him,” Xavier said. The girls surrounding them laughed. I grimaced. I didn’t need anyone to play the hero.
“Guys, stop it. Let’s just go to class,” I said in an attempt to pacify the situation, but Mark pushed me aside to confront Cristos and Xavier.
I almost fell, but a pair of strong hands broke my fall. I looked up and saw a pair of beautiful honey-colored eyes staring at me. The other boy who completed the trio… Sebastian. Domenico.
He was tall and muscular like his friends with the same dark hair. Unlike the other two
though, he had dimples on each side of his smooth clean-sh aven face.
He smiled at me, his dimples appearing on each side of his cheeks. Are you okay?” He asked. I nodded my head weakly, not knowing what else to say.
“You stay here, okay? Don’t move. I’ll take care of this,” he said and walked towards Mark who was arguing with the other two. He placed a hand on Mark’s shoulder and
around.
spun him
“You haven’t changed, Mark. You’re still a clown, he said. “Do I need to remind you what
ns when you act inappropriately?”
stian, I was just goofing around that’s all, Mark answered, defending himself.
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“You pushed her, you p rick. I want you to apologize to her,” Sebastian said. Mark, stunned, raised his eyebrows in protest.
“Dude, why should I? She was in the way,” Mark reasoned. “Don’t tell me she’s your chick?! Man, you guys have some weird tastes.”
“So what if she is? Apologize, Mark… or I’ll have Xavier here take a baseball bat and shove it so far up your a ss, you’ll be wearing a diaper for a week,” Sebastian said. “So what’s it going.
to be?”
“I’m sorry,” Mark said insincerely.
“I’m sorry, Joy,” Sebastian said. My eyes widened. He knew my name!
“What?” Mark asked, confused. Sebastian lowered his head and cupped the back of Mark’s hands so he could look at him dead in the eye.
neck with one of h
“Her name is Joy. Say ‘I’m sorry, Joy’ and add some feelings to it, so it sounds sincere.”
“I’m sorry, Joy. It will never happen again,” Mark said. This time he sounded afraid.
“T-that’s okay. Just as long as it doesn’t happen again,” I said, shyly.
“Now, go. Run to mommy. That’s a good boy,” Sebatian said, patting Mark on the head. Mark quickly picked up his bag-and ran to class.
Sebastian took my hand and assisted me inside our classroom. “Come on, Joy. I want to know your story,” he said. “By the way, I’m Sebastian Domenico and these two knuckleheads are.
Cristos Primo and Xavier Beaufort.”
I stared at him with my mouth wide open as he led me into our classroom with Cristos and Xavier following behind us. I couldn’t believe the three of them came to my defense!
Sebastian led me to a spot where all four of us could sit together. Sebastian was on my left. while Xavier was on my right. Xavier helped me with my backpack and waited for me to sit
down.