Filed to story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
Anika sneered, “You would have your men punish me?” She helped him finish the sentence, staring him straight in the eyes. Anika was bold and fearless, she was not afraid of what he would do to her because he was nothing but a paper tiger – at least for now.
Akim’s mouth opened and closed, unable to speak for a while. Thankfully his face was saved when the teacher came over to their desk and asked, “Is anything the problem here?”
At that question, he and Anika looked at each other and answered simultaneously, “No!”
“Very well then,” the teacher observed them once more before returning to the front of the class and resumed her teaching.
“You could leave after school?” Anika suggested to him as soon as they were left alone once again.
“Are you crazy?” Akim whispered-yelled, “You claim you are so smart yet you don’t understand that the outside without the protection of my parents is dangerous!”
Anika drew closer to him, “You forget that you didn’t need your parent’s protection the day you sneaked into the town square and nothing happened,”
“We were just lucky that night,” Akim countered.
“Then you forget that the most dangerous place is also the safest place because that’s the last place your enemy would expect you to be,” she made her point.
“That would be playing with fire. Moreover, even if I changed my mind, how would I escape my men, they’re always beside me, I can’t shake them off?”
“You don’t need to worry about that when you have a great genius by your side,” She grinned at him.
He narrowed his gaze at her, “You have a plan or what?”
She shrugged, “That would depend on your acting skills,”
Akim was stunned, looking at her as he considered her offer. But then, the more he thought about it, the crazier it seemed.
“No, I can’t do this,” He shook his head, “This is pure rebellion against my parent’s rules and they would be disappointed in me,”
“For sure, they would be disappointed in you but by then, you’ve made your statement. Sometimes some situations need to be changed by a leap of faith,”
“Moreover…” Anika’s voice was husky as she drew nearer, such that she could stare at his lips, “Rules are meant to be broken,”
Akim noticed her move and gulped. If they weren’t in class right now, he would have thought Anika was trying to kiss him like she did the other day. However, that was a dangerous thought because his heart began to pound loud in his chest. He must be crazy.
So he drew closer as well, trying to prove to Anika that he wasn’t as innocent as she thought him to be. He had seen stuff too – although he hadn’t done them – he had been taught to be the man in any situation and that meant to be in charge.
“How do you know so much?” He asked, regarding her carefully to notice any change in her reaction,”Sometimes, I wonder if you’re an enemy or an ally and if I should trust you?”
However, Anika didn’t even react, she simply kept her gaze on him.
“Then the question should be…” She reached out to cup his face, caressing his smooth skin, “Do you trust me, your highness, Akim?”
The third point of view:
The bell rang and that marked the end of classes as students strolled out one after the other from their classroom. Both bodyguards stationed right outside the classroom kept their eyes out for his highness, the prince Akim, wondering what was delaying him. He was usually the first to alight once lessons were over.
Thinking something must have happened to him, they were just about to investigate the reason for the delay when he came out of the classroom with a girl by his side.
The both of them were stupefied as this was the first time his highness was being this close to a woman. They would be sure to bring this good news to his parents.
They cleared their throat to announce their presence to his highness who ignored them and kept on with his conversation. They didn’t react to his silence and instead, maintained a few meters from his highness, giving him a bit of privacy like usual.
“So what’s the plan?” Akim asked, his voice lowered. He didn’t look back so the guards didn’t suspect he was up to no good.
“You have to escape here as soon as I start,” She said and that made him the more confused.
“I don’t know anyplace here aside from the route to school and school,” He pointed out his ignorance.
Akim sighed, at this rate, his men would catch him and their plans would all be for nothing.
“You would wait for me at the nearest phone booth, it’s around the area. I’ll find you there. Before then, you’d have to avoid all cameras and….” she smiled.
Akim shivered, he didn’t like that smile on her face.
“I don’t care to know how you do it but steal some cloth on your way out,”
“What?!” He almost shouted, yet was quick to compose himself, “That is impossible,”
“Your biggest problem would be escaping the school and changing your appearance would help a lot. I would take care of the two from behind and you find a way to escape here. Deal?”
“Deal,” He added under his breath, “I’m just worried over the fact that I don’t know what you have in mind,”
Anika smiled and punched him on the shoulder, Akim groaned. For a girl, she was quite strong. Unknown to them, their innocent gesture seemed like a public display of affection to his matured bodyguards. They had a lot of tales to narrate to their pals today – if only they knew they would have more than enough stories in the next minute.
“Are you ready?” Anika asked him.
Akim began to panic, “I don’t think I’m -“
“Urgh!” Anika’s expression distorted as she suddenly moaned, her hands going to wrap around her stomach as if in pain.
Upon the warning that Anika had given him beforehand, Akim still panicked when she cried out in pain. Perhaps, she had known that he was not a good actor and kept him in the dark for this very reason – his best reaction.
“Anika, what’s wrong?” Akim went over to her trying to keep her from falling.
“I don’t know,” She said, tears trailing down her cheeks while her features distorted in pain.
“Your highness!” Both men came to his side, as confused as the prince was.
Akim wanted to believe that this was the long-awaited plan by Anika but then it was too real. What if Anika was hurting and something happened to her because he thought it was a prank?