♡ Chapter 46 ♡

Zach is watching Madison's pictures in instagram now. He had blocked her for so long and finally he unblocked.

He liked all of her photos.

Suddenly Stella's message came.

"Hey, you there?" she asked. "Are you alright?" she added. "Don't wanna talk about it?"

Zach is just looking at the messages and isn't replying.

After a moment Stella said, "Umm.. okay.. I understand, goodnight, sleep tight!"

Zach was really confused. He needed to talk to her but he doesn't feel like it. He stared at the screen of the phone like a dead man for almost 5 minutes.

He's thinking something, something really deep. He turned off the lights and went to sleep instead of over thinking.

The next morning, Stella called Zach on his phone but he didn't picked up. He is busy packing a bag. Moving some clothes from his drawer to that bag, taking a large water bottle filled with water, making some sandwiches... looks like he's going somewhere, for a trip perhaps?

"Why ain't he picking up the call? Hope he's alright..." Stella pats her hand with the phone. She's ready to go to the college and here comes Beth. "Let's go." saying that she went inside the car.

Stella is still trying to reach Zach but he ain't picking the call neither offline nor online.

"Sis!? I'm gonna be late, come on already!" she yelled.

"Yeah coming." saying so Stella came with a sad face and started driving.

"Is everything alright? You look... so... worried." Beth said. "For whom?" she asked.

"I'm not worried. I mean yeah I'm worried but for the exams not for someone.. " Stella knew that her face always spelled the truth so she handled the lies with something that matches her face.

"Oooh I see...Aren't you studying? Chill, I know you!" Beth said. Stella gave a questioning look like what do you know?

"You can pass the exams without even studying. So chill and read along with relaxation." Beth patted Stella's shoulder then got out of the car.

"Bye, see ya."

"See ya." Stella's face became even paler. "What is wrong with me!?" She sighed while driving "Why can't I just say the truths!?"

After parking the car beside Niall's, she put a smile on her face and started walking into the college halls.

"Have you heard from Zach?" Madison asked. "I've been calling him but he ain't answering." she explained.

"No." was Stella's short reply.

"Why do you always have to show so much attitude huh?" Madison said.

Stella just left her behind and went inside the classroom without saying & realizing that she became angry so she could have punched Madison and break her nose anytime.

"Peace, darling, peace." Stella's taking deep breaths to calm down.

The three periods before the tiffin time went so slow that she felt sick. So she vomited.

Now she's just sitting at the cafeteria, making the chair turn opposite the table and spreading two of her legs, without anyone and ain't even eating. She lost all her appetite after vomiting in the toilet.

Suddenly Madison pushed Stella from behind so hard that she fell from the chair. She turned with an angry face. Still managed to calm down.

"Why'd you do that?" she asked.

"What?" Madison asked with a smirk.

"You don't know?" Stella's patting her hands so that the dust drops on the ground.

"Should I know?" she asked back.

"Oh no no..." Stella's crossing the distance between them, "Let me show you and then you'll know." saying that Stella punched Madison from the right and her face went to the left.

Then Stella pushed her so hard that she fell on the ground over her back.

I bet that hurts, a lot.

Anywhoo! Now Stella has a smirk on her face. "You shouldn't push someone too far, especially not ME!" She came closer to Madison who's still lying on the ground, thinking what just happened?

"Understood!?" Stella yelled like a trainer.

"Yes!" Madison answered the same way. Almost the whole campus students are looking at their circus.

"Well... well." Someone spoke from behind. "You are a such a good fighter."

Stella turned around to see who's this now. His voice sounds familiar.

"I knew you were different." Brandon said.

Stella couldn't believe her eyes.

Even though she became a little nervous she asked "What exactly are you doing at our college, Mr Elgort?"

Suddenly his smirked face turned like a blood sucker, as if he'll rip Stella's face right now. "Didn't I mentioned before that I don't go by that name hot Hermosa?"

There you go he pissed her off too.

"Are you joining our college to learn some manners? Well it's quite famous for that, it could help you." Stella said and turned her back on him.

He grabbed her by her neck and pulled her close to him, "Do you know this guy Hermosa? I need to find him. He's one of my men." he asked.

"I don't know any of your men!" she pushed herself away from him.

"I like wild cats..." He have his smirk back. "Wait ain't it your boyfriend Stella?" Madison spoke from behind. Stella looked at her with a shocked and angry face then turned back to Brandon.

She took the photo from him and saw it. "Zach?"

"Yes, yes... Zach Elgort." Brandon spoke with another face expression. Kind of shockness and sadness mixed in his eyes and voice.

"He's your boyfriend?" Brandon asked.

"Yeah." Stella said and looked into his eyes. "He... " she couldn't finish the sentence 'he is' as she could see sadness in his eyes clearly. Suddenly she felt like her heart became heavy and it hurt.

Brandon is looking at her with cold gaze. His hands inside the pockets of his black jeans.

None else in the college could figure that Brandon was actually trying to hide his feelings behind his cold gaze.

His heart started beating faster. As if it's gonna jump out of his chest and go close to Stella for comfort.

They put their right hands on the left side of their chests.

Looks like they are cosplaying some characters and all the audience (the students) are looking at them with full attention.

"What are you?"

They asked the same question to each other raising their eyebrows at the same time.