All Chapters of From Campus Pauper to Billionaire Campus King: Chapter 181
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Chapter 182
Luke launched himself at Isaiah and gave him a punch to his lips, drawing cold blood on his fist. Isaiah did not even try to resist this; he took the punch straight away without trying to fight back. He just fell straight to the bed. He felt saltiness in his mouth. It was blood. He touched his lips with his hands to confirm. There was red on his hands when he retracted them away from his lips. "How could you, Isaiah?" Luke later roared. Jackson, who was just a few minutes back the more aggressive one, was now holding Luke back. "Aren't we all friends? Why did you not want to tell us?""He doesn't deserve being punched," Jackson said, nose pinched, a look of condescension on his face. Do real friends punch each other in the face? Isaiah nearly thought out loud. But he expected that they would tell him yes, if necessary, so he drove the thought away to a place he couldn't reach."Was punching me necessary, Luke?" He managed to ask, taking his eyes away from the blood on his hands to
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Luke fumbled around for insulting words to say back at Isaiah, but he found nothing. He was not the best at using words. He was more used to body harm than the use of his mouth. One could see this from how slow he was to speak but how fast he was to take actions and deploy himself for his friends."Luke, you don't have to follow him around like we are his lapdogs," Jackson said, turning away from his friend. "We have better things to do that do not concern him. If he wants to do anything he pleases, he should. I am tired of being in someone else's shadow, someone that doesn't even appreciate us as equal human beings enough to tell us important things."Jackson had his feelings about the issue fester for so long that it was starting to reach its boiling point for him. The last time, he thought that Isaiah would change his ways after what happened. But now seeing that Isaiah was still as hopeless as before, he had become entirely pessimistic of change ever happening. Isaiah gave no ans
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The taxi driver was confused about what just happened. His mouth hung low for a few seconds. Isaiah nearly burst out laughing at the expression on the man's face. But he held himself as much as he could. The silence that lasted between them was filled with the howling of wind being torn into by a speeding car."Carry on sir" he said to the man, and then withdrawing back to the seat pretending to focus at somewhere else. "Don't mind me, sir. Focus on your job."The taxi driver shrugged and looked ahead. "You haven't told me where it is you want to alight" he said, looking at Isaiah from the side. There was suspicion in the man's eyes. Isaiah could recognize it, even if he could not recognize any other thing."I'll get back to you," Isaiah replied to the man, one hand of his on the phone pressed towards his ear." For now, just take me around the city. Until I tell you otherwise.""Hmm?" The man's eyes were questioning. "Is that so? I hope I get paid worth my time, kid. Because as you k
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The Lobbes was a downthrowden and old neighborhood in the city. It hosted a lot of old houses, most of which hung around like pale old skeletons shooting out of the ground to the sky. And the sky was gray and dark, even though it was generally still morning. It was almost as though some creature had sucked away the sunlight from that part of the city, leaving it with a sky that left much to be desired."Are you sure this is the place you want to stop?" the taxi man asked, his voice was wary. Isaiah was sure it was the voice of someone who knew something most people did not know. He wondered what it was about the place that the man had become so wary about."Yes..." Isaiah replied, making his voice bold and trying to sound more certain than he was. In truth he knew nothing of what he was doing. "Do you know anything about the place?" He asked, still wanting the man to speak.The man made a nervous laughter. The type that sort to put at ease whoever it was directed to. Isaiah could r
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"Hello, who's there?" Isaiah called out to the lady-like figure in front of him, standing far off from him within the fog. There was no answer, but the person was coming closer to him. He was apprehensive but not scared enough to move away in caution.At first he walked forward, but seeing that the person was approaching him and not stopping, he began taking leaps back. There was sudden fear in him for the first time since the museum incident. But this fear was different. It did not result from the sense of danger. Rather, it resulted from the sense of the unknown. It was eerie and made his skin crawl. And at that moment he was beginning to regret trusting Elena and regretting why he was standing in the middle of nowhere, a town that seemed to be haunted by shadows."Who is that?" He called out again. This time his voice was lower, almost a whisper, lower than the first time he called, because the fear he had had grown louder than the voice in his throat.This time the figure disappe
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"Luke!" Isaiah called out to his friend in a hostage voice ringing with so much fear that even Elena flinched, ashamed by just how much fear was emanating from him as the fog cleared. The only reply he got was from Luke's eyes, as he had his mouth duct taped. His eyes were wide and full of questions and judgments, like pools of silent desires.The man behind Luke, standing bulky and muscular with curly hair on and around his head, was none other than the taxi driver that had driven him to the spot. The one that had given him a ride for free. Funny how the free purges. The man behind him was Severus. He was angry, breathing hard. Now he no longer had the look of a lowly taxi driver. He was regal and dripped with vigor."I see... that's your friend," Elena commented in keen observation. She got no reply from Isaiah, whose eyes were glued to the dangerous-looking people outside who had his friend hostage. "Please don't do anything to him," Isaiah cried out. His voice was shaky. "I beg
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Luke stared at his friend from the distance he stood and drew his attention away to the curvy woman beside him that seemed to be in no lack of confidence and beauty. There was something beyond odd about her, something that intrigued him. But there was no point in staring at beauty, even if it was just in front of him. "What is she saying?" He asked, trying his best not to mind that behind him was a hulking man who had his hands in a bind, captured. And that he could soon die. Severus tightened his hold on Luke, which earned him a yelp from the young man."You better listen well," Severus snarled. "This would be your last time.Luke tried to ignore the man. He did not want to think of the vast chances that he could very well die here, and the man was right. He tried to fill his head with the best music he could muster from his mind. Isaiah looked at Elena and then back at Luke standing helplessly. "I don't know," he said. "I promise if this is over, I'll tell you everything I know."
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The men stepped back from Kate whilst Isaiah had collapsed on his knees, hopeless, as his friend laid on the floor bleeding."Oh, poor boy," Kate whispered to herself, staring at Isaiah. She tore her eyes away and focused on her master, Elena, who nodded her head in approval. Something passed between them that no one else noticed. She had just been given the go-ahead to kill anyone who came too close."Come on, what are you wimps afraid of?" Severus barked, now holding a kale in his hand. "Now that the only civilian around is dead, we can now blast this place up no matter what they do. We have the upper hand. Look at our numbers."Kate was ready to attack anyone that would dare come close. She thought of Severus as a madman. One that had his foot in his mouth. One minute he was saying he was ready to sacrifice whomever, whether civilians or so. Another minute he was talking about how there were no other civilians around so they could rip the place to pieces. It was beyond obvious t
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Severus found himself on the floor. Above him was a cracked wall where his body had smashed into it from Isaiah's punch. His entire body hurt; his heart quaked painfully. Blood dripped down his nose, over, and from his mouth, which had curved itself into a painful smile.His body shook with pain as he pressed his palms to the ground to lift himself up. He couldn't. His weight crashed him down, and his back felt empty of something vital. It was as if his body had all of a sudden become butter or something else more intangible.He wriggled his head to his sides, a look of shock at first, and then laughter. The kind that accompanied madness. "My spine...it is broken," he observed. "That was a tremendous punch."The sound of approaching footsteps startled him, and he, thinking it had to be one of Isaiah's men, tried his best to wriggle away like a worm, using his entire body, including his chin, to move on the floor. But no matter his efforts, it was too late. He was already caught."I'l
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"You will die," Kate hissed at Luke, who was now trying to wriggle out of her arms. She wasn't trying to hold him back. "It doesn't concern you," Luke snapped, dropping out of her arms to the concrete floor. She let him fall down with no hint of her even attempting to help him before. He coughed. His throat burned harshly "Your throat just got healed; you shouldn't talk so much," Elena advised. "If you keep trying to speak, you will only get yourself more hurt.""Don't tell me"—Luke coughed—"what"—he coughed again, holding his throat as if he could stop the stinging by doing just that—"what to do."Elena laughed, her nose pinched as she broke into the conversation between the both of them, finding the whole ordeal amusing. "The person you want to save wants to die," she said, eyes narrowed at the thin boy, her hand covering her mouth in the way women of status usually did.He eyed her poisonously. "What are you looking at?" He snapped. His face was dirty. There was blood on his shir