Dying in silence

Fontana’s POV

He slowly raised his head up to look at me.

“What’s all this… who took it, when?”he asked.

His eyes were clouded with nothing but concern.

Oh, God.

The video shows the part where I am in the toilet and when I tasted my urine. When I was still under their bullies and when I pooed in my pant when they bully me on a day and I didn’t actually think there will be a camera.

Mama Mercy!.

“Fontana, c’mon. Tell me who did this”Darrel demanded angrily.

I shook my head and placed my hand on my mouth and tears poured out of my eyes.

Darrel sighed and brought his hand to his head then brought it back then.

“Let’s go to my car”he said after glancing around and seeing the students gaze on us.

I nodded and we both walked to where he parked his car in the lots.

He opened the door for me and I hopped in then he closed it and went around the car to occupy the driver’s seat.

“Now, tell me. Who did it?, who uploaded the video”he asked sternly.

“Mia”I answered.

“God, I should have known”he grunted.

“I’m so going to kill her..”he cursed angrily.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“You have to stop crying. Let’s head to class for now”he said as he turned to me but I shook my head.

“No, I wanna go home”I sobbed.

“Home?”he scoffed.

“I… I can’t face all this… looks, they are.. they are.. criticizing…”I sobbed and wiped my tears away.

“I guess you haven’t read the comments. Nobody is criticizing you but the person who posted it”he sighed.

Really?.

“You’re sure?”

“Of course. After seeing the video, the comments is the next thing I went to check”he replied.

That’s a relief.

“I think you have to get Mia arrested. She doesn’t have the right to invade your privacy and invasion of an individual privacy is a crime”he expounded.

I nodded and bit my lower lip.

He handed my phone to me and I collected it from him and kept it in my bag.

He stepped out of the car and I also got out from the other side.

“Geez, why didn’t you wait for me to open the door for you”he whined.

“Seriously?, how can you joke in this moment”I scoffed.

“Okay, fine. But you should have waited for me”he smiled.

I rolled my eyes at him and started walking away with him following behind me.

The people we passed by stared at me for long but with just one glare from Darrel, they were off.

Hmm..

Mia really went beyond the line.

We got to the class and Darrel escorted me to my seat.

“Fontana, are you okay?”Fred asked and I nodded and gave him a small smile.

“Are you sure, your face tells otherwise..”he added.

“Let me worry with that dude. Now, if you’re don’t mind, I would live to take my seat back. I don’t know but I suddenly like the view better from here”Darrel said.

Fred adjusted his glasses and furrowed his brows.

“I don’t get, you abandoned this seat in the first place so why did you want to come back”

“I don’t know”Darrel shrugged.

“But, now I’m here as a prodigal son, so will you let me take back my position?”

“Oh my, Fontana”I heard Savannah’s voice from behind and I turned around.

“Hey..”

“That was really harsh of Mia”she said and I nodded.

“I’m sure you’ll will be so hurt, right?”she stupidly asked.

I smiled awkwardly at her and turned away from her.

I met Darrel already on the seat beside me and Fred has gone back to his previous seat.

“C’mon seat down. I will be your nerve cooler today, happy, aren’t you?”he smiled.

I couldn’t help but smile at him.

Then, I sat down and the bell rang.

*

“You think we should go now?”Darrel asked as we both walked along the lobby in the closing time.

“Yeah. Trust me, I won’t have the opportunity to come out again without the guards so we should go to wherever place you have in mind now”I replied.

“O.. Kay, so, how are we gonna do it. Do we go in my car or yours?”he asked.

“Why not go in my dad’s car?”I teased.

“Gosh, I was just asking”

“Yeah, a dumb question”I chuckled and he reached out his hand and pinched me on the side.

“Geez..”I winced out.

“Hmph, sorry…”he drawled out.

We got out of the building and moved to the lots.

“Miss Fontana”my driver called.

“Oh, I see you’re here”I nodded.

“Look, I need to branch somewhere with this guy and we are going in his car so you can just trail behind us when we…”

“What?, you want to take him along on our date?”Darrel whispered beside me.

“We don’t have any option here”I rolled my eyes.

The man stared at the both of us before reluctantly nodding..

“Okay, let’s head to your car”I said.

“Hmm, sure”Darrel nodded and we moved towards his car and when we got there, I opened the door before he could make any attempt to and got in.

He sighed and came to take the driver’s seat.

He sat down and started the engine then drove out.

*

Darrel went to park his car in the garage and killed the engine and we got down.

The cool breeze fanned my hair and I glanced around at the Beach.

There were few people around making it more comfortable.

“So, I don’t know how to put this but let’s just say it’s a VIP beach”Darrel said beside me.

“I like it that way. There won’t be too much people around”I nodded.

He took my hand and walked us to a tent.

A table with covered plates on it was placed at the center and two chairs circled it.

Hmm.

“What do you think”Darrel asked behind me.

“Impressive”I smiled and glanced at him.

“So should we eat first or we should go to the sea area and play”Darrel asked behind me.

“Let’s eat first”I said and went to sit down.

I uncovered a plate and saw that it was boiled fish.

I uncovered the next one and..

“Wow, shrimps. I love it”I smiled and took a bite from it.

Hmm.

So delicious.

Darrel came to sat opposite me and grab the wine bottle.

He popped it up and decanted some in the glass and handed it to me.

I collected it from him and took a single swallow.

Hmm.

It’s tasty.

I took another shrimp and shoved it in my mouth.

Yummy..

“Do you want some fish?”Darrel asked.

“Uh, no. I don’t like that”I said truthfully and he nodded.

“By the way, don’t you think your driver is peering at us too much?”he asked.

“Huh?”I asked.

I traced where his gaze was and saw my driver standing a few miles from us and watching us closely.

“Something is not right”I muttered.

“Why did you say that”Darrel asked and turned to look at me.

“It looks like he’s keeping watch on us, he looks restless and suspicious”I added and turned to Darrel.

“This is the first time he will behave like this, he’s a simple man and he do care about people’s privacy but today…”I tilted my head and turned to look at him.

“He doesn’t…”I haven’t finished my words when I sighted dad from afar with the guards.

What?

My eyes widened and i sprang up to my feet immediately.

What’s dad doing here?..

Wait, could the driver had told him about us?.

“What’s wrong?”Darrel asked.

“Dad found us out”I said.

“What?”

“Look there, he’s coming towards us, gosh what do we do”I said fearfully and pointed out to him.

Darrel gazed at where I pointed to and gasped.

“What the….”

Within a twinkle of an eye, dad was already in front of us.

“Fontana”he called.

Fuck.!

“Dad, what are you doing here”I asked.

“I heard you were with him”he scoffed as he moved his gaze to Darrel.

“I thought you guys would have broken it by now”he added.

“The grudge between the both families shouldn’t affect us”I replied.

“Really?”dad snorted.

“Anyway, you will follow me now to the car. We’ve somethings to discuss”

“B.. but..”I tried to protest.

“I hate but”dad frowned.

He started walking away and I riveted my eyes in Darrel.

“Go”he mumbled.

I sighed and nodded then stalked behind dad.

I glared at my driver and he bent his head.

Gosh.

When we got to his car, two guards opened the doors at the both side and we got in.

Then, the guards occupied the other cars and we drove out of the beach.

*

Dad drop me off at home with his car and his driver drove back out.

Tears welled my eyes and I sniffed in.

What he discussed with me in his car wasn’t good at all..

It wasn’t good…

I turned around slowly and moved towards the mansion.

I saw mom standing at the entrance door, looking at me pathetically.

I sniffed in and covered my nose with my hand.

When I got to where she was, she touched my hand.

“I’m sorry about what happens, Fontana, I’m sorry. It will be alright very soon”she said and pulled me in an embrace.

“Nothing is going to be alright mom!, we are moving to Florida tommorow!.”