The Undisputed Hudson Stewart

03 : The College Bully > Ethan

Hudson was holed up in his house, he couldn’t get to work on time because he was treating himself, he didn’t want to show up with a face covered up with bruises and a broken nose.

Hudson had to get himself treated in the hospital and his bruises was covered up so it doesn't get infected. Hudson hated he had to go through all these. He was advised to take a break for the day but He was already on his bike, driving back to his workplace.

He parked his bike in front of the building that had the brand name of the pizza he usually deliver, boldly written in front of it.

He pushed the door open and walked into the kitchen, he greeted everybody and they replied him. He was heading to another door that led to their dressing room to put on his work clothes but was stopped mid-way by one of the workers in the kitchen, who was also a fellow delivery guy like him.

“Hey Hudson” he called.

“Huh” Hudson, he turned his head back with a blank expression on his face.

“Um…” it was like he lost his voice immediately, Hudson looked around and he noticed that there is a tense atmosphere in the kitchen, every one of them was looking at him with a downcast, sad expression plastered on their face and everyone had stopped what they were doing totally and focused their whole attention on him.

“What is the problem?” Hudson asked with a puzzled expression on his face, looking at the expression on each of them face and wondering what the problem might be, wondering what he had done wrong that had brought the tensed mood in the kitchen.

“Did I do anything wrong—“ he was cut short by the sudden entrance of the manager.

Everyone turned sharply to the door.

“Hudson Jackson!” the manager called, dragging Hudson whole attention to him immediately.

“Yes sir!” Hudson replied with his head bowed slightly.

“You are fired!” he said immediately and turned around walking away from the kitchen.

“Huh?” Hudson eyes opened wide in surprise at what he just heard.

He ran after the manager immediately, “Sir, is this a joke sir?” he asked with a slight chuckle after catching up to him, scratching the back of his neck, walking side by side with him.

“Pack up your things and leave this place at once, don’t let me come back to see you here” the manager said coldly.

“Sir, if it is about why I didn’t come here on time as expected from me, I couldn’t get to you so I called Tom to help me relay the message to you and he gave me a reply that he d—“

“Yes, he did, I got the message but I have told you that you are fired and you are fired, I am not changing my mind” he cut Hudson short, the pitch of his voice slowly rising.

“What did I do wrong sir?” he asked with a pained expression on his face, he had been racking up his brain to see if he had committed any wrongdoing or anything at all that will make him to be fired.

“Don’t let me call the cops on you!” the manager said, pointing his index finger to warn him and he walked into his office, slamming the door shut behind him.

After a while of standing there, rooted to the ground and unable to move a limb, he finally garnered the strength he could and slowly turned back, walking away to pack up the little things he have in the locker room.

His head was bent down as he packed them and was leaving, he couldn’t bring his head up to look at his ex-colleagues, he couldn’t bear to let them see the pained look on his face, he dropped the key for the bike on the table, afterall, it is company’s property.

He was about to walk out of the door when he felt a hand grab him and pull him out quickly, he raised his head to look at the person and saw that it was Tom.

“I felt like you need to know why you are sacked, it isn’t good to keep it from you” he stated.

“Why? What is the reason? Did I do anything wrong? Is it because of why I didn’t come to work on time, I got into an accident! That why I was delayed and you know about it. What did I do wrong?” Hudson asked, bombarding Tom with questions.

“Shush, keep your voice low” Tom said with his index finger over his lips.

“Well, it was all because of one rich dude, probably around the same age as us, he came here and threatened the boss to sack you or he will bring this place down, he have dark brown hair or so, I can’t really remember properly, anyways be strong man” Tom said while flashing a smile and tapping Hudson’s shoulder.

Hudson nodded his head and mouthed the word “thanks”

He turned and walked back into the kitchen while Hudson shook his head and walked outside, clenching his teeth tightly with an angered expression on his face.

Ethan was from a very rich family, although no one have any idea of what his father is doing at all but no one seems to care, after all they are all benefitting from him and that thing gets in his head all the time and he acts as he wish without thinking about people's feeling.

Hudson could feel anger slowly flowing in his veins, Ethan had been a thorn in his flesh since his college days but now he seem to have had enough of it already, bullying him during his college days, making sure to harass and humiliate him at any slight opportunity that they are seeing and even after they had left college, Ethan still continues to terrorize his life up to this stage.

Furiously, Hudson stretched his hands to stop a cab with only one destination in mind, which is where Ethan is living and he is going there to give him a piece of his mind, Hudson knows that there can’t be anyone that wants to spoil his life other than that bastard,

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Hudson dipped his hands into his pocket to pay the cab driver off and he took a long deep breath walking towards Ethan’s house, he pressed the doorbell by the side of the house.

His brows were furrowed, the anger that he was feeling at the moment gave him the courage to come here and he could feel that he can finally stand up to Ethan and speak up his mind.

The words that he was going to say have already been formed in his head and the expression that is going to be plastered on his face, he had planned how he is going to do everything in his head, he is going to appear fearless, no longer that coward that he once knew, no longer that Hudson that was once bullied, he felt he could stand toe-to-toe against Ethan in a fight now.

He pressed the doorbell again and the door was pulled open and he saw the exact person he wants to talk to standing right there.

“Why do you talk to get me fired, for what?” Hudson asked angrily with a frown on his face.

The dark expression on his face, made him to reconsider his thought of fighting him, right now, the only thing he have the courage to do is talk, the courage to do anything more than that has suddenly zapped out of him.

He was beginning to tremble underneath but he tried to mask it with a strong expression on his face.

“Huh, see this bastard, who do you think that you are talking to?!” he barked at Hudson.

“Who is the other person standing here apart from you?” he asked, “Like why will you get me fired from my workplace?”

“You still haven’t got it, have you? I promised to make your life a living hell, stop asking me questions you dimwit” he said angrily.

“What a douchebag? Making someone else life a living hell for what purpose?” Hudson asked and that was all he needed to flip the wrong switch of Ethan suddenly.

He was slowly beginning to regret his decision of coming here in the first place.

“What do you just call me?” Ethan asked, taking a step forward, while Hudson took two steps backward.

Suddenly he was back to the Hudson he was before, the one that cower at the sight of Ethan’s anger. He just got pumped up for absolutely no reason.

“I said what the f*ck did you just call me?!” Ethan yelled and took a leap forward swinging his right arm and throwing a punch to Hudson’s face.

It was too late for Hudson to dodge it and he felt a stinging pain as he crashed on the floor hard with his butt.