Ava lowered her head, her mind was screaming at her to hit Eric and make sure that he bleeds. She was so enraged that she was grinding her teeth and she was also crying while sniffling. She continued to sob quietly with her head down.
Eric lifted her head by her chin and she refused to look at him so she closed her eyes.
"Look at me." It sounded like a command, and it was one but this one wasn't the kind of command he would give her when he was bullying her. One that came with narcissism and his power parade. This one had a softness to it, some begging in it.
"Please, look at me…" He was definitely begging and the reason that Ava opened her eyes wasn't because she was agreeing to his request but rather that she was surprised.
He looked at her with a soft gleam in his eyes. Looking her over and the sides of his mouth slightly turned upwards to show some positive feelings.
"Who did this to YOU!?" His voice was unwavering, it was deep and it invoked some fear in Ava. Not the kind she always feels around him but the kind that he could kill someone if he wanted.
"Ava!" His stern voice called her back from starting a trail of thoughts.
Ava opened her mouth to talk but then her mind told her that there was no way that she could gain anything positive from telling him that Mia was the one who did this to her. He might even end up doing more to her than what Mia did because he would be trying to protect Mia. Ava took a step back from Eric and immediately did a 180 and ran in the opposite direction.
He didn't try to run after her and he knew it would be hard to get anything out of her after this entire thing. He watched as she tried her best to avoid running into people. Fritz looked up from his phone and found Eric looking at him with a wide suggestive smile.
"No!" Fritz immediately exclaimed in the negative.
"You. Don't. Have. A. Choice." He said it in a playful tone and in a playful manner.
"I want the person responsible found and brought to me." He stopped being playful and toughened up his voice. Fritz rolled his eyes and then left to look for the culprits.
He came back after two hours eating ice cream. He handed Eric his own small ice cream tub that he had brought from the very expensive canteen.
"You took your time." He snatched the ice cream tub from him.
"Do you really like this trash or are you bitter because you eat this kind of nonsense?" Fritz was asking about his favorite flavor of ice cream which was Choco-mint.
"I never ask about your weird pregnancy habit of dipping fries in milkshake." He shot back.
"That is very popular and delicious way to eat fries." Fritz sounded proud making Eric gag.
They ate their ice creams in comfortable silence for a moment while looking aimlessly at the sky.
"It was Mia." He threw that information in the air. Eric didn't move an inch, instead he continued eating his ice cream.
After eating his ice cream he stood from the short wall out of the library which was built for the wheelchair way so that it was easy for handicapped people to move freely. Even though Fritz was the first one to start eating ice cream he was still not done with his own small tub so he just followed Eric while eating his ice cream almost done with it though.
"Where is she!?" Eric finally said something after finding out his target.
"The old lab." Fritz sounded so uninterested. Eric increased his walking pace and Fritz didn't even try to keep up with him but he made sure he wasn't that far from him.
Eric pushed the door of the old lab open but then it came back and almost closed itself on him. He blocked the blow and then pushed the door again but this time with more force that it ended up hitting the back wall giving him a chance to enter before closing with a lot of squeaks.
"WHAT the actual fuck is wrong with YOU!!!!??" He wasn't hiding the fact that he was furious, and he wasn't trying to hush himself and not be too harsh.
"Eric what is wrong with you?" Mia was embarrassed from the get-go, and she tried to get near him and touch him. Eric pushed her hands away from with a heavy force that she was forced to take a step back.
"Wha-what's wrong?" Her voice was threatening to break under his dark stare.
"Who gave you the right to touch Ava?!" He was trying to not get too violent as he understood that Mia was a woman.
"This is about her?" Mia felt herself get annoyed.
"I asked you, Who the FUCK gave you the right to TOUCH HER!!??" His anger was rising looking at her because the mere thought that she made Ava cry made him want to rip her to shreds.
Mia played with her tongue in her mouth trying to choose her words and to end this ridiculousness immediately.
"I know you're not fucking screaming at me because I had fun." She sounded like she didn't believe what Eric was doing.
"I mean at the track you didn't want me to slap her and now you're here because I made her run?" She turned back to give a look to Eric's entourage, and she looked back at Eric all confident like she had something of value.
"Are you in love with that elephant or something?" She was trying to make him sweat, "I think its time you told us where you stand?" She added pointing at herself and her friends.
Eric looked up and made a short prayer to whatever god that he doesn't argue with people with no braincells, he wanted to pass his warning and be done with this. This kind of occurrence was the reason that he regrated ever sharing a bed with this girl.
"I don't care what you guys think of me…." He sternly shook his head with a serious face, "you stay away from Ava or you will wish that you have never met me." He wasn't yelling or screaming but his tone was screaming murder that it made Mia swallow a huge lump that formed on her throat.
"AM I CLEAR!??" He addressed the others as if he was a drill sergeant , they didn't say anything but looking at the fear inn their eyes he could tell that he had made himself clear.
He turned to leave, "As long as I'm in this school that buffalo is fair game." Those were Mia's final words to Eric while balancing herself on her hip with her hands crossed and face full of attitude.
Eric didn't waste any time, he turned around and went straight for her neck. He choked her while threatening her to leave Ava alone.
"I told you that if you touch her, I will kill you!!" He yelled trying not squeeze her neck too tight.
"Eric stop!!" Ken tried to intervene trying to pull him away from Mia but it was like if they pulled him away he would hold on tight to her neck.
"Have I made myself clear ENOUGH???!!" Eric screamed asking Mia refusing to let her go. He looked crazy with his eyes slightly widened.
"Y-yo-you…hur-hurt-hurting…me…" Mia spoke at times when Eric wasn't pulling her around because he was also being pulled off of her.
"Eric!" Fritz finally called his name after watching from the sidelines and finishing his ice cream. "Let go." That was a command and all eyes were on him that they didn't see that Eric immediately let go of Mia.
There was something on Fritz's phone, he was watching some video.
"Mr Blackstone…" Eric heard his father's name but it didn't immediately register that Fritz was watching something related to his father.
"Use your words?" Fritz commanded again, "Who the hell are you?!" Mia's attitude and arrogance came through her words.
"Don't talk to him that way!" Eric snapped and pushed Mia back and she fell on her butt.
"Stay away from Ava and don't talk to people that have nothing to do with you." He said his final words talking down to her with a threatening tone while pointing at her and left with Fritz.
"She's a girl." Fritz said to Eric as they were a little far from the old lab on the corridor that was leading to the stairs.
"I tried my best to think about that fact all the time, but I failed." He answered him.
"I don't understand why you're so enrage when you also pulled the same thing?" He was asking why he was suddenly acting like a hero.
"When I do it it's because Ava wants to do it so I just help her do things that make her happy." Fritz laughed immediately when Eric answered him.
"You're delusional." He was finally able to answer after laughing.
"It's true!" He insisted and Fritz gave him a questioning look. "I heard Ava talking with her best friend about how she would like to get back into anything that will keep her body in shape.." He looked proud answering that question because he thought he was the hero in Ava's story.
"How is that any of your business?" Fritz became speechless each time he found out reasons of why Eric acted the way he acted with Ava.
"She's my girl!" he exclaimed excitedly. "I have to make sure that she is smiling and happy." He smiled brightly.
"Stay away from the poor girl." Fritz was genuinely begging and he was genuinely concerned
"You're jealous?" He smoldered like Flynn Rider from tangled with the partially closed eyes and the almost wiggling brows with the straight but naughty smile. He stuck out the tip of his tongue for just a hello. Fritz kissed him through the air.
"What was it that you were watching that had my father in it?" He sounded defeated already. Fritz raised the screen of his phone and the live footage played.
"Mr Blackstone please look this way!!" The paparazzi was busy flashing their camera lights straight at him while they were taking the live footage.
"Mr Blackstone do you have any other person beside Ms Blanchet!!?" Another one from somewhere in the chaos asked him.
"Greyson!" Someone suddenly yelled and just after making sure that Ms Blanchet was in the passenger seat of his gold Bugatti Veyron, he went to the driver's side and after he was in he gave the paparazzi a middle finger and drove off.
"Fuck Dad!" Eric commented already running towards the exit of the school.