"The games of kings: Rise of the underdog"

Chapter three

" Selena." I called out with a shaky voice while I was drenched in her smoothie.

The students let out another roar of laughter as I looked around.

" Why are you doing this?" I said, taking a few steps towards her.

"Because all I could see was thrash standing in my way. I would stop right there." Selena said with a smirk.

" Can't you read between the lines or do I need to spell it out for you?" She said again with some of her friends right behind her.

" Well, you should give the guy some credit. He lasted more than two semesters now." Olivia said with a smug grin on her face.

" I won the bet. You said one semester and I said two." Danielle said laughing.

For a moment, I was lost.

What does she mean by what she said?

Did they actually wager on me?

" What are they talking about?" I asked, my gaze landing on Selena who was having fun with her friends.

" I thought he was smart. Is he as well dumb?" Olivia asked staring back at Selena before her gaze finally landed on me.

" Do you think Selena will ever love someone like you? Oh my god! You should wake up from your dreams dude." Danielle said with laughter.

I clenched my hands in anger.

" Oh my poor sweet little thing." Selena said with laughter. " Do you honestly think I would waste my time over somebody like you?"

The students all laughed as they made fun of me. " You said I was special." the words came out of my lips before I could say another word.

" Special? No you are not darling. You are.." Selena paused like she was finding the right words, terms to use to qualify me. " You are just like a stray puppy that needs attention."

She said finally and everyone laughed again.

" So after everything I have done for you," I said with a shallow breath.

" Everything? Can you hear that?" Selena turned to her friends.

" He just said after everything." Olivia said and laughed.

" If I recalled young man, you did nothing aside whine about the little money you have which was not enough. I only stick with you because of the wager that I made with my friends. Do you honestly think I would date someone like you? Look around you, do you honestly think you belong here?"

The hallway was silent and everyone looked at me with a disdainful look. It was happening again.

I felt the ground would just split open and swallow me whole. As if it would.

But then I heard a gentle click of footsteps approaching us from behind. The whispering, the smell. I knew it was no other than Derek.

His presence commanded so much respect in the school that I wished I could have what he had.

" Are we still on this topic?" Derek said with a wide grin.

" I believe she is mine, Derek. Selena loves me and she doesn't know it yet." I said firmly making Derek and his minions laugh at me.

" Really? Why don't you ask her nicely this time. Maybe you need to bend the keel while you are at it." Derek smirked

I looked around and my gaze fell on Selena once more. " Go ahead, show them how much you cared and loved her. Will you."

I swallowed the lump in my throat. I knew if Selena refused to come back to me then it was going to be another humiliation for me and god knows how long this was going to take.

" Fine. If bending the knee will make you believe me then I will." I said gently as my face darted back and forth.

" I can't believe he is going to bend the knee just to have her attention."

" He is a fool and he needs to stop embarrassing himself."

" Do you think Selena would date a loser like him? Gosh, have you taken your time to even look at his clothes?"

" He is a smelly one. Each time I walk past him, there is this foul odour. I don't like him."

I could hear all of their disdainful words but I don't care. My eyes were fixed on the price.

Selena.

The loud thud of my knees cracking against the cold marbled floor was the only visible sound that echoed through the hallway.

" No way!"

" He did it!"

" Selena is the second girl that is going to make a guy kneel for her."

A lot of the students bright out their phones and began to capture my face, capture the moment. But I wasn't bothered, I lifted my gaze to looked at Selena who had a weird look on her face.

For a moment, I think I saw that look that she would walk towards me and lift me off my knees. I looked at her and saw her, Olivia and Danielle said some words to each other.

I looked at Derek and I also saw the look on his face faltered. For a moment, I believed Selena was being sincere.

" I want you back, Selena. And I want to believe that you love me too." I said slowly.

My face drenched with with the smoothie she had earlier poured on me.

Selena smiled and began to walk towards me. The student all looked at us, the drama that was unfolding right in front of everyone.

My heart beat fast at the mere thought of Selena being back in my hands. The memories of us being together flooded my brain. I remembered the way she looked at me, cup my face in her hands.

She had never kissed me or get intimate with me. Selena has always told me to wait and I believe it is going to be worth it. I had longer for her affection that she had always deprived me off.

Selena got to my front and bent a little. " Will you accept me?" I said up close into her face with my heart beating fast against my rib cage.

Then her lips parted with the words.