I woke up late, around one in the afternoon. I was all alone in the room, with no signs of Hiro dropping by last night. I couldn’t remember how he left, hell, I didn’t even know that I had fallen asleep. I was crying so much, my eyes were swollen and it hurt.

I was feeling better than yesterday, not just physically but mentally as well. A great load of anxiety vanished after I showed my vulnerable side to Hiro.

Now that I remembered what I did last night, I’m feeling incredibly embarrassed at how I might have looked in front of him.

I cried like a baby, it’s so embarrassing! It’s the first time I cried like that and to think that it was Hiro, damn it!

I slapped my cheeks to calm myself. There’s no time to think about trivial things like that. I have to get out of the hospital now. I’m very sure this place was a private one and that meant it’s hella expensive being admitted here.

Good thing I wasn’t attached to any dextrose. They said I just needed to recuperate from all the beating Jon gave me.

I got out of the bed and went to the bathroom. My reflection in the mirror scared the crap out of me. My eyes were swelling from the black eyes and the crying I did last night. My fat cheeks were pale and my lips were bruised and chapped.

I stared a myself for some more. Now I looked like a panda than a pig because of the black eyes.

My stomach growled.

I’m starving.

After I finished peeing and washing my hands, I got out of the bathroom. I turned around to get back to bed and my heart almost jumped out of my chest when I saw Hiro, phone in his hand, his legs wide open as he lazily sat on the couch.

“You’re gonna give me a heart attack!”

He kept appearing like a damn mushroom and it’s seriously giving me panic attacks!

Hiro stayed quiet, ignoring me as I went back to bed to lie down. I was hungry and I wanted to eat fried chicken. Wings would be good.

I gnawed at the pillow. I was picturing a bucket of chicken in my head and my stomach growled again.

“Hey, I wanna go back home,” I said.

Hiro was still busy with his phone but answered me nonetheless, “you’re not allowed to go back home yet.”

I pouted.

“Why?”

Hiro tore his gaze away from the phone, looking at me sternly.

“Because I said so.”

I grunted.

“I don’t have the money to pay the hospital bill! And their food sucks…I wanna go home.”

“Even though no one’s waiting for you there?”

I froze.

Standing up, Hiro tossed his phone on the couch and walked towards me. He gave me a menacing stare.

“You’re not going back there again,” he said, his voice low and dangerous.

I gulped.

“W-what…? Why not?”

“I’ve already arranged everything.”

“Arranged what?”

“You’ll be going to North Vale.”

My jaw dropped and my eyes widened in shock.

“What?!” screeched.

How in the hell did I end up going to North Vale?! First and foremost, I am not a delinquent like this asshole looking at me. Second, I’m never going to a school where there are rumors that killings are legalized there! Third, to be bullied in North Vale was a sure way for me to die! I’m very sure their way of bullying fat people like me was far more extreme than what I’m dealing with my school.

“No!” I barked. “What gave you the right to send me to North Vale?!”

Hiro smirked.

“I have the power to make you come to North Vale.”

“No, you don’t! Even if you have money, you don’t have the right! Who are you to me anyway and why are you doing this?!”

If ever I go to North Vale, I would be under Hiro’s mercy and who knows what this asshole would do to me? Even if he did save me, there’s a chance that he’s just doing this to make fun of me.

Forgetting how he comforted me last night, the fear of being bullied clouded my mind.

“I can support myself, I’ll change schools,” I said even though I promised to graduate to a private school, I had no choice but to break it.

Hiro remained quiet. I glanced back at him and shuddered, seeing how he was glaring at me. There was a sadistic smile on his face and I slowly backed away from him.

“Who am I to you?” he asked.

Gripping my chin, he forced me to look straight into his eyes and for the nth time, I felt the fear of being close to death.

Hiro’s…Hiro’s scary…

“I’m the one who saved you, Paige. If it wasn’t for me, you would have been dead by now,” he said, leaning towards me.

Our faces were inches away from each other but I couldn’t break free from his stare. His eyes were eating me alive, I’m being pulled deeper and deeper in hell as I continued to look at it.

“I - I didn’t…didn’t ask for your help…!”

“You called me, Paige. You called me for help and I came to you. My services doesn’t come free,” he eerily said, his smirk getting bigger, “I know very well you don’t have the means to pay me, am I right?”

I swallowed the stuck saliva in my throat, sweating hard from how Hiro’s talking to me.

“If you decide to stay here, away from me, I’ll make sure to make your life a living hell but once you go with me to North Vale, you’ll be able to pay me for what I did for you,” he said, closing the gap between us, “you better choose wisely, Paige. You’ve made me wait for 12 fucking years, I’m not waiting anymore.”

“W-what…what are you talking about?” I asked, finding the courage to talk back to him.

My heart was beating so fast, I’m probably gonna have a heart attack and this time, it’s for real.

“You made a deal with me the moment you called that number, Paige. I’ll never let you go again.”

“Wha -- ?”

I didn’t get to finish whatever I was going to say when he pushed me back down on the bed, kissing me on the lips. I felt the world stop the moment I felt his lips against mine.

I wanted to push him back, to scream at him for suddenly kissing me but I got weak.

Hiro squeezed my cheeks to make me open my mouth and when I did, his tongue entered, twirling it with mine and sucking it hard. I could feel something tightening down south and it hurt.

He pulled back away from me only to kiss me back again. He was hungrily kissing me while his hand held the back of my head to pull me closer.

“H-hiro,” I managed to say his name through the kiss.

My lips were swelling and it was stinging. Hiro was biting my bottom lip, pulling it with his teeth and sucking it hard.

“No,” he mumbled on my lips, “not enough, I want more…”

He pinned my arms up. His was strong and I couldn’t break free. Finally leaving my lips, I panted as Hiro went down to attack my neck. He was sucking my skin, biting it and kissing like he was going to eat me.

“Not enough,” he mumbled again, his hands tightening around my wrists.

I was drunk from the kiss he gave me. It was my first time and I never knew kissing would feel this great. In no time, I was putty underneath him.

More.

I never felt this hunger before.

He’s…making me feel weird.

Hiro was about to rip the hospital gown I was wearing when the door suddenly swung open. He abruptly stopped, snapping his head where the door was to look at the person who just came in.

I couldn’t clearly see who it was. My eyes were in hazed and like what I’ve said, it was as if I’m drunk. My body was hot, extremely hot, burning from the desire Hiro gave me.

Everywhere his lips touched were tingling. My lips, the skin on my neck, everything.

I curled into a ball, shivering for more. I bit my thumb to stop myself from moaning.

“Damn, what did you do to him?” I heard Clark’s voice but I was still in a trance that I didn’t bother looking at him.

“I’m just claiming what’s mine.”

Hiro looked down at me and smirked.

“Right, Paige?”

I didn’t even have the will to say no to him anymore.

With just one kiss, he made me yearn for more.

Damn it.

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