Virgin by Alice X (best romance novels of all time .txt) 📖

I was still sat in my chair when everyone else had left the classroom, I kept my head down pretending I was reading the sheets Darren had handed out but really the image of Darren pulling me so close to him was flashing through my head again and again. Stay in the classroom. But what did he mean by that?

 “Ericka? Are you okay?” Asked Mt Render as he walked closer to my desk I nodded my head and smiled. “Yes, sir I was just going through the worksheet you gave us,” I told him picking the sheet up to show him. “Oh I see do you understand what I mean by question three?” he asked walking closer to the seat next to my desk.

 I instantly looked down trying to figure out what he meant but he was already sitting next to me expecting me to say something and I didn’t even read the first few points to understand the next ones. “Ericka?” I heard his voice, soft and calm. “Yes sir?” I asked looking up from the sheet of paper. “If you have any problems, let it be school or home you know you can come to me.” His eyes were locked with mine I felt nervous so I just looked away. “Yes sir.” I whispered.

 “Now let me explain the sheet then you can understand the exam questions for the upcoming exam,” he said taking the sheet from my desk and picking it up to his face. “Look part one you have to describe, that’s important if you don’t describe the-“ Mr Render was cut short when all of a sudden there was a scream outside. His eyes shot up and he scoffed putting the sheet on my desk before leaving to see what the scream was.

 For some odd reason I felt that same feeling I had when I jumped up from the middle of the road, then a flash of Darren’s face came back into view. I had to blink a few times before his face blurred away. “What was that?” I asked myself before getting up from my chair and walking to the corridor. I was met by a massive crow of people all staring at the same thing, my eyes met Mr Render with a blonde haired girl wearing a pink top way to high you could practically see her belly and boobs. She was crying and Mr Render was trying to comfort her. I couldn’t recognise her; she looked like she was in the year below us.

 “What happened?” I asked a short girl stood next to me. She didn’t take her eyes of the situation to look at me and said “Some boys tried to take Zoe to the corner for fun.” I shot her a look with confusion then she continued “One of the boys I think it was the new boy in your year he tried pulling her top off.” I suddenly, froze on the spot. Darren tried to pull Zoe’s top off. Maybe he was like the rest of them, stuck up and perverted. Then again a flash of his face came into my head where he whispered to me not to go out of the classroom. Then it occurred to me, was he trying to protect me. But then why do that to some random girl in the lower year. 

“Hey, do you know why they did that to her?” I asked the short girl next to me. She simple shrugged her shoulders before disappearing with the crowd. I took a step back and watched the students disappear. Then other teachers came taking Zoe away, Mr Render returned and apologized to me and told me if I didn’t understand anything I could email him. I reassured him and told him I understood the work and took my belongings and left for my next lesson, praying Darren wasn’t in the same class as me.

 I opened the door and walked into my English class to find that Darren was nowhere to be seen. I smiled inwardly. I felt a strange feeling towards him, I didn’t know if I was mad at him or thankful for him for protecting me. Or was it all just a set up then he could do something worse later to me. I couldn’t understand what was going on; my head was telling me something else while my heart told me something completely different. Then I made a promise to myself, I would avoid Darren for as long as I needed then I could think through what I really thought about him, I wouldn’t let him get in the way of my studies. And I would let him get me into more shit than I already was in.

But then he did protect me? Did he?

“Finally.” I whispered to myself as I walked down the corridor. School was finally over; I had managed to avoid Darren all day. I had seen him a couple of time in the day where he was lurking behind a locker with a couple of boys whispering and once in the canteen but besides those and the time in the morning in first period I hadn’t seen him for the rest of the day where he was close to me which was a relive for me.

I opened the door and stepped out walking to the main lawn. Children were still talking about the morning incident, but most didn’t know who had done the little deed. I kept telling myself that for that fact it couldn’t have been Darren, maybe that girl just mistaken him for it. I kept my head down and my hoodie up when all of a sudden I felt a push on my back and fell splat on my face. I sat on my bum rubbing my wrists where it took most of the force when I tried to break my fall.

“What the hell?” I whispered looking up. Everyone around me was giggling and laughing then I looked at the person who had just pushed me and saw Rita and Sophie. Suddenly, a smile crawled onto my lips. Getting back to my feet I cleared my clothes of any dust and looked at them but from the side of my eyes I could see Mr Render from his classroom shaking his head and he was about to come outside when I shook my head at him.

“Look who we have here, Slut one and slut to.” I replied to both of them their giggles immediately stopped. “Shut up virgin!” shouted Rita trying to sound louder and more dominate. “But what did I say?” I asked making a confused puppy face and putting my hands out in surrender. “Hey Rita did you hear?” asked Sophie eyeing me. “Oh, here what Sophie?” Rita asked in her high voice acting all innocent. “Brock is having a party and were you invited?” She piped out. “Dah, anyone that has a life is invited to that party.” Rita answered then they both roared with laughter. I rolled my eyes and walked away.

As I walked I shot back over my shoulder “then it must be really fun for you guys because I bet you’re going to get paid a lot for having sex with every boy there.” With that they both shut up and looked at themselves before getting awkward glances from other people. They replied back to my insult but I was laughing so hard to myself I didn’t even understand what they said.

As I walked home I played everything that had happened in school over and over again in my head when suddenly, my phone began to beep. I pulled it out of my skinny black jeans and checked why it was beeping. There was a text for mum saying she wanted me to get some bread and milky before I went home because we had ran out. Letting out a sigh and began to change course and walked towards the corner shop instead. I stood at the edge of the road, looking both ways, before crossing remembering what had happened before. When I made to the corner shop I picked up two bread packets and a milk bottle placing it on the counter ready to pay for it when I looked at the shopkeeper who was to distracted looking outside the window to see me handing him the cash.

“Hey dude?” I said before banging the cash on the desk and picking my things up and walking out. Walking to the front of the shop I saw a couple of boys on motorbikes with drinks in hand, and then I understood why the shopkeeper was so distracted. As I walked past the boy one of the tried to pinch my bum but I sped walked and made sure I only looked over my shoulder when I was way on the other side of the road.

I kept my head down and kept walking, I was about to walk past a bush when out of nowhere someone’s hand was put over my mouth and I was dragged behind the bush. I dropped the bread and milky and tried to kick and punch when I opened my eyes I saw Darren. “Shush man!” He whispered as he peered over the bush.

“What the fuck was that all about?” I spat out trying to pull away from him and closer to the tree behind me. He turned back to face me and looked around then smacked his forehead “Sorry, the names Darren.” He replied before lying on the ground beside me like it was obvious. “Are you mentally disturbed Darren?” I asked pressing harder against the tree. He got back and made a face at me. “What? Mentally disturbed? Why would you say that?” he asked scratching his leg. “Firstly you just grabbed me from the street and then just acted like it was something normal.” I retorted “and secondly you tried to rip a girl’s top off in school, I think…well I heard.” I tried to correct myself but pushed myself further away from him.

Darren looked at me with a completely blank look on his face, suddenly a smile started to stretch from both ends of his lips. “Wait a second, your Ericka, right?” He asked still oblivious to what I had just said. “Eh? Yeah I’m Ericka, wait you know my name? Oh forget that, but what the hell are you doing?” I tried one more time. He only laughed and lay back on his back. “Okay, then if that’s that then I’m going.” I said before trying to snatch for the bread and milky and jump to my feet. “Wait, you’re going?” He asked still lying on the floor. “Well