'No… No…No! this can't be… this can't be…'
She froze in place at the sight of her and Marcus making out in the video. The color drained from Sophia's face. She couldn't watch it further.
Seeing a few scenes made her stomach turn. She dropped the phone on the ground as it slipped her hand. She felt like every ounce of her energy was drained.
"Oh my Gosh! My phone!" Nyka complained when she saw her phone fall on the ground.
She glared at Sophia as she picked up the phone. "Are you trying to destroy my phone? Don't worry, Jade and Emma also have a copy of your video."
Sophia couldn't believe this. "Y-You… you are all wicked. How can you do this to me? W-What I have done to you? Why are you doing this to me? You planned everything… you…" Sophia's voice was trembling.
Her mind was in turmoil right now. She felt like she was about to lose everything because of one mistake.
"Don't get us wrong, Sophia. We don't hate you. It's just that we need your brain. You are very smart. You have to help us pass our Mathematics Subject as well as the other subjects which are difficult for us," Emma spoke to her, not feeling guilty at all.
"Don't worry, Sophia. No one will see this video aside from us if you will follow us and be obedient to us always. After graduation, we will delete this." Jade said, blackmailing Sophia.
Sophia felt very helpless right now. She knew she couldn't escape this anymore. Now, Jade was holding her neck because of this video.
'Can I endure this? Can I obey them and follow them after what they have done to me? Can't I just disappear? I-I can't do it… Can I just die? I think this is too much for me to handle…' Sophia didn't know what to do anymore. She's having suicidal thoughts.
She didn't expect that something like this would happen to her just because she trusted the wrong person. She felt betrayed... hurt… and mad right now.
Her legs became weak as if she was about to collapse at any moment. She didn't want to cry in front of them. She wanted to scream, curse them and vent out her anger but she couldn't.
When she felt like she was falling into a deep abyss of helplessness and hopelessness, someone grabbed her shoulders to support her.
"Sunbae, are you okay?"
'That voice… is it Lillie?' For some unknown reason, Zhen-Zhen's soft voice filled with concern for her was able to calm her down. It gave her a sense of comfort.
The tears that she was trying to contain a while ago just poured down like raindrops. Sophia cried after hearing Zhen-Zhen's voice.
Then she felt warm hands engulfing her body. Zhen-Zhen hugged her, stroking her hair and rubbing her back to comfort her. Sophia just let it all out as she cried in her arms.
"Sunbae… don't worry. I will not let them… No one will see that video." Zhen-Zhen whispered to Sophia.
Sophia didn't hear it clearly because she was crying hard. She couldn't help it. She wanted to pour her heart out in Zhen-Zhen's presence.
Meanwhile, Jade, Nyka, and Emma just watched Zhen-Zhen as she comforted Sophia. They didn't expect her sudden arrival.
They hated the way Zhen-Zhen was looking at them right now. Her eyes were sharp and fierce filled with hatred as she glanced at Jade and her friends.
Zhen-Zhen heard everything. She heard how they insulted Sophia, how they hurt her feelings, and how they threatened her using that video.
Zhen-Zhen could see that these three ladies didn't care about Sophia's feelings. All they cared about was the benefits they could get out of this incident.
Jade, Marcus, and their friends ganged up together against Sophia. That thought was making Zhen-Zhen freaking mad right now.
She wanted to burn them all. They hurt someone who was very important to her. They made her friend cry. They threatened Sophia so that she would obey everything they wanted.
She couldn't let that happen. No one was allowed to bully her friend. They would have to go against her first.
"Wow, someone found an ally here," Emma commented, eyeing Zhen-Zhen from top to bottom.
"Oh, I remember this girl. She's the substitute usherette, Sophia's friend. Wow, the lucky usherette. She got lucky because Jade turned down and refused to be the usherette that night," Nyka blurted out, recalling what happened during the Acquaintance Party.
When Jade heard that, she remembered the humiliation she got that night. Her face darkened.
"Hmm, Sophia and this girl, they are matched together. What do you think girls?" Jade said, looking down and belittling Zhen-Zhen because of her appearance.
"Yeah, the likes of them really belong together. Hahaha," Nyka agreed, provoking Zhen-Zhen more.
"Let's go girls. Let's not waste our time here," Jade asked her friends to leave.
Nyka and Emma nodded in agreement. But before they left, Nyka spoke again to remind Sophia.
"Sophia, you heard us. If you want to bury and keep this… you need to follow and obey us. You will work for us like a slave. Hahaha."
Zhen-Zhen could no longer stand it. She heard enough today. She won't let them get away with this. In an instant, she removed the seal of her power.
Before the girls could realize what happened, they just suddenly felt something hot.
"Ouch!" Nyka grunted as she threw her phone when it suddenly got burned. Her phone was set on fire.
Emma and Jade were also surprised when they saw Nyka's phone. 'Did her phone suddenly explode or something?'
They were still absorbing what happened when they smelled something was burning.
"Emma! Jade! Throw your bag! They are on fire!" Nyka shouted at them as she saw their bag burning.
The three ladies panicked when they saw their things suddenly get burned. Zhen-Zhen used her power to burn all their phones inside their bags and the phone that Nyka was holding in her hand.
She heard that Nyka, Jade, and Emma had a copy of Sophia's video. She didn't know what's inside the video but Zhen-Zhen knew that they were using that video to blackmail Sophia.
She decided to destroy their phones. She also unleashed her power. She had the urge to burn them but she couldn't do that. She knew it was wrong to hurt someone so she tried to control herself.
While the three ladies were panicking, Zhen-Zhen pulled Sophia away from them. She wanted to talk to Sophia and hear her story.
She glanced at the three ladies one last time and thought to herself, 'I'm not yet done with the three of you. I will make sure to give you a good lesson...'
Zhen-Zhen was not planning to hurt them physically but she would make sure that these three people who tried to hurt her friend would get the punishment they deserved. Not now... but sooner or later, she would do it for Sophia's sake.
On the other hand, since Sophia's mind was very occupied at that time, she failed to notice that Nyka's phone suddenly got burned, same with Jade's and Emma's phone.
The two of them just proceeded to their favorite spot in the mini-forest. In the mini-forest, Sophia told Zhen-Zhen everything.
Meanwhile, Jade and Emma checked their bags when the flame disappeared. They found out that their phones were the cause of that fire.
They were puzzled why their phones suddenly got destroyed.
"Argh! What's happening here?" Nyka was still in disbelief.
"Don't worry. We can buy another phone but… How about the video? Did you save it on your laptop?" Emma asked them.
Both girls shook their heads. "No worries. We can ask John. He has the original copy." Jade reassured them.
"But our notes and assignment in our next subject… that's our problem. My notebook got burned as well."
Then suddenly someone arrived in their spot. "Girls, what happened here?"
Jade, Nyka, and Emma were dumbstruck at first when they saw the newcomer. They were mesmerized by his emerald eyes. They exchanged glances with one another before they answered him.
"Sir, our phones were set on fire and suddenly got burned." It was Jade who answered him.
The man just frowned upon hearing that. He bent down to pick up Nyka's phone that was burned. He was observing the item carefully.
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