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Chemistry was always amusing for me. Not the theory of course but the experiments were so fascinating. Top on that Leo, Gwen and Nate were with me in this class, so it was more interesting that I was paired with Nate where Gwen and Leo were paired together.

Fate was by their side that they paired together.

I turned around to say something to Gwen but instantly stopped as she was constantly gazing at Leo with her eyes glistening with love as he was clamping the burette on stand unaware of her stare.

Her head was tilted sideways in a cute way and hands were grasping the counter behind her and her back resting against it.

I smiled and faked a cough, which made her come out of her trance and winked cheekily. She noticed that i was probably observing her so she quickly composed her body.

I knew Gwen.

I chuckled at her behavior and turned back to the board after asking Leo about something related to work.

Ethan was here too, paired with Ester somehow. The sight didn't make me feel envious anymore. They both looked opposite poles since forever.

Just one similarity was that they both were Elites. Ester was from the family which counted in Top 5 of 'Most Richest Families in New York', same goes for Ethan.

But these two would never get along, not because of Ester but I knew Ethan very well. Did I? That thought itself scratched a jagged scar on my heart that even we knew each other to the core, still he didn't believe me.

Ester checked her nails for the hundredth time and had this exciting look on her face, like she was about to kiss her prince charming, where Ethan looked uninterested?

I knew he never liked Chemistry but before he went along with it because of me. I didn't want to think about him anymore but damn if i had a control over my broken heart.

We all then wore our lab coats and safety glasses as per instructions and started to perform experiment.

I was happy to be paired with Nate. Not only he was very calm but one of top students in chemistry.

He was smart.

I remember last year when Ethan was paired with me and got so pissed when we couldn't get the end point of experiment and later we found out that he forgot to put the indicator.

That was one cute scene from memory bank I have.

I just didn't know if he had applied for the Ice Hockey Tournament for this year or not. Somehow it was very hard to read him now.

We continued to perform for a while when a squealed heard from front side.

"It turned pink!" Obviously it was Ester. Her obsession with pink is crazy.

I didn't hate her but I didn't like her either. We never got along since we had known each other. I didn't even wanna remember what she almost did last year.

"Omg it turned pink!" Leo mimicked her in a dramatic way.

The way he said in a fake girly voice with hands in air waving.

The whole class exploded with laughter including me and Nate. I turned my face to look at Ethan to see a small smile spread on his face, with pressed lips as if he was controlling his laughter behind Ester.

Since he had came back, this is the first time I had seen him smiling, and it made me happy. Credit goes to Leo.

His eyes met mine for a second and his chuckled died just then. Now we couldn't even smile at each other.

It pained me more that we are not together than his threats.

Ester turned towards me with a glare before she turned back to front with a huff. Everyone laughed but she just had to glare at me.

I squinted my eyes down at her hands as she put something in her pocket secretly. I couldn't get to see what it was.

Not my business..

Ethan and I Looked away awkwardly. I didn't give a damn as i shook my head and then everyone continued to do their work.

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I washed and returned the glasswares to it's places and put my journal in my bag before slung it on my shoulder.

The students had started to leave the class. Gwen and Leo already went to their next classes cause they were getting late. So it was me and Nate now cause there was a minor error in our calculation.

But because of his smart brain, it was all done now.

Ethan was the first to leave. I didn't know why he had became so cold towards everyone. It was just as he had distant himself from others too.

It was my fault too that they all were like this...

The fact that Gwen, Leo and Nate believed me, trusted me had held us together. But Ethan was actually with m and beth just before she collapsed made him believe what he witnessed.

Suddenly a sharp pain hit through my body, mainly stomach. I held the counter and bend a little clutching my stomach.

What the hell!!

According to the doctor, it was a little side effect of antidepressants, but now it was getting worse..

Fortunately Nate didn't see as his back was to me. I quickly composed myself as he turned towards me putting his bag over his shoulder.

"What's next for you, I'm going to the library, you wanna come?" He asked me but with this so much pain I didn't think I could stand anymore.

"I have something else to do," I somehow declined with straight face to which he nodded his head and left the lab first. I didn't want anyone to get worried. I had caused enough troubles for everyone.

The pain hit again and I crouched down clutching my stomach. It was so bad that my eyes teared up.

God...STOP!

I took a deep breathe and somehow unzipped my bag then took out my bottle of Pain killers. Since I started to had unusual headaches I had kept this with me all the time.

I tossed two in my mouth with water and sat there for some minutes for it to work against the counter, knees curled to my chest and my head resting on them.

I just really want things to be a little easy for me. Nothing else please. I silently prayed..

This had happened almost second time now and I felt scared to death. After some pain lessened I stood up slowly, corrected my plain blue shirt and exited the laboratory.

I checked my watch as I made my way to the washroom. I needed to freshen up a bit. I opened the door, luckily it was empty and stood in front of washbasin and placed my bag beside on the marble counter.

Splashing some water on my face thrice I moved my head up as I stared at my face, panting a bit, water dripping from my chin. Dark circles were getting horrible day by day.

What was I doing to myself?

I closed the tap when the door opened and not expected Ester entered with her two companions. One of them locked the door behind. I squinted at three of them suspiciously.

Whatever she had planned wasn't good...

"Looks like someone was enjoying back in chemistry lab," She stepped towards me. I ignored her and went around her towards the gate with my bag but her minions blocked my way and I was dragged back by my hair, face to face with Ester.

"Where do you think you're going?" She had an irritated look. I didn't know what I had done to her to get pissed this much. She had always hated me for some personal reason. "Let's play a game, shall we?"

Hell no!

I knew what she meant by her words.

She jerked me back and nodded to her minions. I didn't get a chance to process her intentions, when the two girls grabbed me by my forearms tightly. My bag was snatched and thrower away on the floor.

She tied her dirty blonde hair in a high ponytail with the black band she was wearing on her wrist.

"Ester you don't play with chemicals!. I haven't done anything to you..Why are you doing this!" I shouted with my eyes filled with shedding tears.

I remembered when she tried to cut my hair back in junior high but that time she couldn't succeed because of Ethan. He came at the right time somehow.

That was what shocked me the most to see him seating at their table that day in cafeteria.

"Cause I love games. It's been a long time, isn't it Aria?" Her voice turned out to be in a fake exciting way. She grabbed my hand in a flash and smirked.

No!!

I started to somehow get out of their grasp, shouted for help but it was cut off when a hand clamped over my mouth forcefully, that it could break my jaw.

I continued to struggle against them but when a drop of Acid met my fragile skin. I screamed but couldn't because of her hand over my mouth.

My body was wriggling against their hold.

The fumes eliminated in air and I continued to struggle but failed. It was hell burning like burning coal in a throat.

The pain shot up my arm like fire. It exploded in my head with a blinding whiteness resulting in dizziness. It made me reel. The pain was like needles that had been dipped in alcohol before jammed through my skin, with the feel of ice and electricity wired straight into my spine.

The small drop penetrated through my skin to maybe bones. I kept trying to scream but her hand didn't budge.

I kicked her hand and the glass bottle shattered in pieces on the ground.

"You bitch!" Ester hand met my left cheek. She then jerked her hand up and down as it hurt her more than me.

After some minutes, i gave up and that was when the grip on my hands was gone and my body dropped on my knees.

I blinked and opened my eyes to the front of my forearm. It was bleeding, Two coin sized area of my skin was ruptured as the sight itself made me more nauseous.

"It was really fun," She whispered as she crouched down to my level.

My right hand shuddered and held my left one from elbow as the tears kept on streaming pretty hard. I looked up and gaze her hard under the curtain of my hairs. My blood was boiling on how dare she could.

Why am I so weak in front of her. WHY!!!

But the one thing causing my head hurt was the thought.

Did Ethan tell her to do it? Was it him behind all of this?

"I wonder why you're alive and happy after what you did Aria, but one thing for sure is that Ethan will not be coming back to you," Her hissed voice pierced through me as she stood up, dust her skirt in a mannered way before left with her companions.

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