Trio

•••••Aaria's POV•••••

I moved my head back and saw Ethan sitting behind me, but he was scrolling something on his cellphone.

 I looked towards Xavier and saw him working on his problem that Mr Larson just gave us. 

I moved my gaze towards Daxton and saw him staring back at me with his dark onyx brown eyes.

 I got uncomfortable under his gaze and moved back and started to focus on my textbook. 

I started to shake my leg and started waiting for this class to end so I can get out of here as soon as possible. 

After 40 minutes, the bell rang signalling the end of the class. I hurriedly shove my textbook and other things in my bag and rushed out of the classroom faster than I thought I could. 

I settled in a corner and started looking for Benny. 

The hallway was flooded with the students and I started to feel suffocated and started to take a deep breath to keep myself calm. 

I felt a soft hand on my shoulder.

I turned around and was relieved to see Benny. 

Aaria: Finally you're here( Sighs in relief)

 Benny: Why what happened? Did you get into any trouble? (worriedly asking) 

Aaria: Almost, ( looking towards her class) they are in my class. 

Benny: Who? The trio? (confused) 

Aaria: Yeah, and Daxton was staring at me since the moment he came( worriedly)

 Benny: Oh no, that's not good. Just stay away from them and if you see them just run in the opposite direction,  because the last thing you'd want is to get involved with them.

Aaria: Yeah, bu..but what will they do to me if I accidentally do something??? (worriedly) 

Benny: They'll lock you up in basement or somewhere else for days and no one will know about it, or they can ship you off to another country or continent. ( Looking towards Aaria)

 Aaria: Wha......what? That's not true..... Is that true? (due  fear her face turned pale)

 (Benny controls her laugh while seeing Aaria's expression and her seeing her face turning pale) 

Benny: Relax Aaria, they won't go to that extend relax. I was just kidding (burst out laughing) 

Aaria: Huh? You scared me just now. ( Relaxing) (Benny Chuckles) 

Benny: Let's go I'll show you your locker then we'll go to our next class(dragging Aaria away) 

Aaria: Okay(Follows behind) We headed towards our next class which is science after Benny showed me my locker which was only 2 lockers away from her. 

I'm only praying that they're not in my class again. 

Thank god that Benny is with me in this class. Because again I won't be able to focus if Daxton keeps staring at me like a prey. I don't want to be near any one of them.

 I just want this year to end so I can move out of my Uncle's house and join my dream college and start my new life. I'm tired of being a burden to them. They don't think of me as a burden but still, deep down I know that I'm the real reason for breaking their happy family. (sighs) 

We reached our next class and settled in our seats. I was sitting with Benny on her left side and the bench next to me was empty.

 Then suddenly I saw Xavier entering through the back door.

 (Ohh noo I wanted to avoid them at any cost. Looks like luck is not in my favour. )

 I put my hood back on and started to take out my textbooks. After a few minutes I heard a chair beside me moving, I looked up and saw Xavier sitting and smiling at me. 

I nodded back and focused on my textbook. After a few minutes, our professor walked in.

 Professor: Good Morning. We have a new child here. Please stand up and introduce yourself ( looking at students). 

I nervously stood up and introduced myself. 

Aaria: Hello, I'm Aaria. I'm new here, I shifted here from West Virginia due to some personal reasons (nervously looking at the professor) 

Professor: Welcome, I'm Jack Winter your Science teacher and you can call me Jack or Mr Winter. If you have any doubts, then just raise your hands(Smiles) 

Aaria: Su... sure (nervously smiles ) During the class Xavier never tried to initiate talking and I'm grateful for that because I don't know how to talk to him after that awkward encounter in the morning. 

Suddenly he got someone's call and went out after taking permission from Mr Winter and never came after that.

 Lunch went silent and the last few classes went by in a blur. I didn't see any of them for the rest of the day. 

I'm relieved that they're not in any of my classes except Maths and Science. There are only a few minutes left and then I'm allowed to go home, but with everyone acting rudely with the teacher when they decide to give us detention together. 

We've been sitting here for the last 40 minutes and I'm sure that Robert will be very angry. It'll take 40 minutes to reach and if I run then I can make it in 25 minutes.

 As soon as she decided to let us go. I sprinted towards the main gate and ran as fast as I could.

              ••••• Xavier's POV ••••• 

I woke up feeling refreshed. I decided to call guys and asked them if they're awake or not because I don't want to be late on the 1st day of senior year. I called Daxton first. 

"Ring Ring"

 Daxton: Hello(Sleepy voice) 

Xavier: Get up, you're still asleep. It's the 1st day of our senior year. Get up and if you're late then I'm not going to save your ass from getting beaten up by Ethan (sighs)

 Daxton: Umm... Yeah. I'll be on time(moving) 

Xavier: Sure and get up now. (Cuts the call) 

"Ring Ring"

 Ethan: Hello(breathing heavily). 

Xavier: Working out?

Ethan: Yeah(Breathing heavily)

Xavier: Knew it, so when are you coming? 

Ethan: I'm coming in 20 minutes, get ready (Breathing heavily)

 Xavier: Sure, I'll be ready but I'm not sure about Dax. (Chuckles)

 Ethan: (sighs) I knew it, just get ready because we're going to wake him up(smirks on the other side of the phone)

 Xavier: It's gonna be fun waking him up. See you in 20 (laughs) 

Ethan: Yep, Bye. (Cuts the call) 

Xavier starts to get ready and hears horn and leaves with an extra apple. 

Xavier: You're 2 minutes early 

(Chuckles and tossed another apple to Ethan who is stranding leaning against his black Maserati GranTurismo while scrolling in his phone) 

Ethan: Yeah, let's go now, time to wake beast up( catching apple and biting it)

 (They make way towards Daxton's house)

After a 10 minute drive, we pulled on at Daxton's driving area.

 Ethan rang the bell and Mrs Andrews opened the door and greeted us with her contagious smiling face. 

She's a very sweet lady in her mid 50's. 

Basically, she's our nanny. We love her so much, especially her food. She doesn't have any children of her own and she has always treated us as her own.

 Mr Andrews: You guys are here, let me set breakfast for you (smiling excited and kindly) 

Ethan: Sorry babe (trio call Mrs Andrew babe ), not today. We're already getting late because of our pig. We'll visit next time for sure. (Winking).

 Mrs Andrews: Sure honey(laughing and patting on Ethan and Xavier's shoulders) 

(Xavier kisses her cheeks)

 Xavier: Is he awake or we have to wake him up? ( playfully) 

Mrs Andrews: I tried but he's not waking up(smiles and shrugged her shoulders)

 Ethan: Punishment cravers do not understand talks. (smirks and looked towards Mrs Andrewsand Xavier mischievously).

 Xavier: Whoah, don't you dare? I'm not doing it again. (i said and started to walk backwards)

 (Ethan smiles mischievously and walks towards Xavier) 

Ethan: Yes, You are buddy(rolls his hands-on Xavier's neck ) 

Xavier: Ethan no, it's a very bad idea. Please don't do this(trying to free himself from his grip)

 (Mrs Andrews laughs seeing them both and shakes her head)

 Ethan: Let's go, soldier, time to serve(Smirking).

 Xavier: Don't expect me to do anything. (while struggling to leave Ethan's grip) 

Ethan: Really, do you want me to remind you the time when I saw you dancing butt naked in front of a mirror or you want me to viral your pic from Ana's tea party when she forced you to dress up like a doll(laughing and showing him pictures in his phone)

 Xavier: You won't do that? Will you? (Panicked and try to snatch Ethan's cellphone) 

Ethan: Try me(Laughs and runs) 

(After running around hall Xavier gives up) 

Xavier: Fine, let's go but you have to delete that photo.

 Ethan: I'll think(wink). Let's go. (walks upstairs) 

(Xavier sighs and runs his hands in his hairs) 

Ethan slowly enters into Daxton's room and went towards his bathroom and on the other hand, Xavier stands like a lost puppy and watches every move of Ethan.

 Ethan comes back with a container filled with cold water and signals Xavier for the next move. 

Xavier laughs and shakes his head and signals the Daxton is going to be pissed after this but seeing Ethan glaring, he shuts his mouth. 

Then he suddenly shouts loudly, which wakes up Daxton. As soon as Daxton sits after hearing his voice and registers what's going on, Ethan splashes water on his face.

 Xavier and Ethan start to laugh while holding their stomach after seeing Daxton, who is looking like a drenched cat.

 Daxton fumes and starts to glare at Ethan and Xavier who were laughing on the floor while Holding their stomach and storms off to the bathroom without saying anything to them.

 Xavier: Daxton why are you going bathroom? We already bathed you(laughing loudly) 

(Daxton peeks out of the bathroom door and shows them the middle finger) 

Seeing that they both burst out loud again. After laughing and composing themselves, they went downstairs and waited for Daxton and saw him coming downstairs still pissed. 

After that, the trio went towards their own cars and made their way towards the school.

               •••••In the school•••••

As always the hallway went silent after seeing us coming. Everyone in this school is afraid of us. 

By us, I mean Ethan and Daxton because they're dangerous whenever they're pissed and everyone knows that it's not safe to mess with Ethan and Daxton whether they are pissed or not.

 And today Daxton was pissed because of his morning bath. (Chuckles) 

We are making our way towards the locker. And Daxton was behind. 

Suddenly I heard everyone gasping and whispering "She's in great trouble, he already looks pissed". I decided to ignore them as always.

 Then I heard Daxton's pissed voice.

 Daxton: Look where you're going bitch. 

( I turned around because Daxton rarely curse any girl)

 I was shocked when I turned around because it was her. Someone whom I least expected to be here. 

She looked scared under Daxton's gaze. She was sitting on the ground. She was saying something to him, maybe apologizing. And a girl was helping her.

 She moved her gaze when she heard Ethan saying " Daxton enough let's go". 

Her eyes widened after seeing me and she hurriedly moved her gaze back and went away with that girl. 

I'm sure that Ethan is pissed too. But why is he pissed now?

 None of us spoke anything and went towards our next class, which was Maths. We were late but no one could question us because we're top students. 

We entered and started walking towards our seats, then I noticed the supermarket girl again in your class. 

She was trying to cover her face with her hood. I smiled apologetically and she nodded.

 I noticed that Daxton and Ethan both were continuously staring at her. 

Okay, Daxton was pissed but why was Ethan staring at her. Ethan never stares at anyone but why now? (confused)

 When she turned, he started to scroll his cellphone, acting like it wasn't him who was staring at her a few moments ago.

 I started to ignore them and focus on my studies. After the bell rang she ran fast as her life depended on it. We were all watching her running away.

We looked towards each other and laughed. The next class was science. Ethan and Daxton went to their English class.

I went and was surprised to see the supermarket girl in my class again.

 I went near her and pulled out the chair and sat beside her.

 I didn't initiate the talk because she looked uncomfortable. 

She was asked to introduce herself and I became more curious about her after hearing that she recently shifted here from West Virginia. 

Suddenly I got a call from Ana's school and was told that she had hurt herself badly. I hurriedly went out after taking permission from Mr Winter.

 On my way to the parking lot, I informed Ethan about it and he said that he'll be there with Daxton in some time and told me to go ahead. 

(They both love Ana like me because they don't have a sister, so they treat my sister like theirs and my niece like their's ) 

            ••••• Aaria's POV ••••• 

Finally, I made it in 23 minutes, after calming my breathing I slowly entered my house and saw a very angry Robert sitting in front of me. 

Oh no, he looks pissed. 

Robert: Where were you from the last 1 hour? (angrily) 

Aaria: Detent........ detention. I was held back in detention bec.... (She was cut off by Robert slapping her face and dragging her away with her hairs)

 Aaria: I'm sorry. Sorry( crying). I won't be late... late (crying, hiccuping)

 Robert: You're just sucking my parent's hard money you bitch. Do you really want me to believe in your lies? (angrily while dragging her ) 

(Robert dragged her toward his room and pushed her on the edge of his table, which causes her to shriek in pain and her head starts to bleed) 

Aaria: Sorr..... Sorry(sobbing loudly) I promise.. promise I won't be late from now on. Now on. (Begging and crying) 

Robert: Do you really want me to believe it huh? (seeing Aaria with rage in his eyes) I really need to teach you a lesson because you seem to forget your lesson. It's been a while since I last taught you. (Angrily) 

(He started to kick her and Aaria starts to grunt and groan in pain and tries to find an escape route. Robert suddenly stops ) 

Robert: Don't you dare show your face to me or mom and dad? And if you come late one more time then I won't be forgiving you this soon. Now go and make dinner and don't come downstairs (angrily says and walks out) 

Aaria slowly tries to stand up and grunts in pain as her whole body starts to ache. She slowly stands up while crying and makes her way towards the kitchen and makes dinner and returns back to her room while crying in pain. 

She strips out of her clothes and walks into showers and slides down and starts to cry and shouts. 

( I deserve it, I break-a happy family because of my stubbornness, I killed my family, I shouldn't have made it, I should have died with them, this beating reminds that I'm a killer and I don't deserve to live.) 

After 1 hour, Aaria exits and after putting on some medicine and eating painkillers she lies on her bed and falls asleep while crying.