Chapter 5

5. She Failed!!! Serena's POV That very sharp, familiar cracking sound of my ringing tone, which is the voice of a cock crowing in the morning, forces me to jerk off the bed with sleepy eyes, my surroundings still blurry, and I frown slightly when a sharp pain hits me in the skull, forcing me to wince. I place my palm against my forehead and sigh, trying to ease the sharp pain a little bit before turning around on the bed and sitting up. I cover my face with my palms for a little while, trying to regain my senses. "Oh my god, what the hell happened?" I mutter calmly to myself, the pain still hitting hard against my head. Is this some sort of migraine or what? I think to myself, but that ringing tone is still persistent, somewhere close by behind me, and this forces me to open my eyes for a little while. My surroundings are a little bit unfamiliar, and this makes me blink my eyelids rapidly. Where the hell am I? I think to myself, but I turn my head towards where my phone is and I pick it up immediately to see a phone call from my mom. My eyes go wide immediately. Oh shit! I look around the room where I am staying as all the images in my head come to me in small fragments and fractions. Everything is so blurry that I can't recollect completely what happened. It is then that I look at myself and I notice that I am naked beneath a blanket. Oh lord! I pick up the call immediately, and the voice that greets me is the screaming voice of my mother blaring into my ears. "Where the freaking hell in the name of the goddess are you, Serena?!!" Her voice comes out so loud, it makes me tremble. "Where did you sleep last night?!!!" I feel my heart beat palpitating hard in my chest. Oh no! I cannot pick up that call. I end the call immediately and toss my phone quickly with trembling limbs as I scan my surroundings. I then frown deeply as the images begin to creep back into my memory. I got here with Cassidy as planned to find a way to ease the pain, the struggles, and the heavy burden in my chest. And then she gave me liquor, but I ended up taking much more than I wanted to take because of how intoxicating it was. And then I was dancing and there was a man. Little fragments and blurry images of this red room come to my mind, and my eyes go wide. Oh lord! Did I sleep with a man? I think to myself, blinking rapidly. Oh no, no, no, no! This can't be possible. Don't tell me I have lost my virginity to someone else. I glance at myself and my eyes flutter. Oh yep! I did it! Terror, as never before, shakes through my body. I am so screwed. My father will never take this. My mom can't even bear the thought of me not being at home for the entire night. Talk less of my father. Oh goddess, what have I done? I think to myself as my phone begins to ring again and this forces me to shiver with fear. I look at my phone and cut the call once again without even bothering to pick it up. I am so screwed. What do I want to tell her? I finally get up from the bed and look all over to see my clothes scattered on the ground at the foot of the bed. What the hell happened? How did everything get to this? And where the hell is Cassidy? Why the hell didn't she even bother to look for me? I am thinking about this as I briskly begin to put my clothes on without even thinking about anything else. I need to get out of here as fast as I can. I glance at the clock situated at the section of the wall in the room and I discover that the time is a few minutes after 8 a.m. This increases my worry. Goddess!!!! The school has already started. I'm supposed to be in class by now. I am so screwed by the time I get home. I need to start thinking of an excuse I can formulate right now to escape my mom's wrath. If she gets to me and figures out what I had done, I am so screwed beyond measure. I don't even know what to think or say. I don't even know what to do. What the hell? I briskly storm out of the room as fast as I can, glancing at the long hall where some cleaners are ensuring the surroundings are kept safe. A man in his, probably in his late 40s, looks up at me and then frowns. He then chuckles and shakes his head. "Well, well, well, looks like you must have stayed for the night. How was the night experience?" He requests and the sentence he just said makes me feel a little bit embarrassed. I should not be found in a place like this. If any of my father's delegates, who are known to be popular clubbers, are here and they see me in this situation, what are they going to think about me? They are going to tell my father and then I'm going to be in the worst situation a child can ever be in. Oh, Lord! Within a few minutes, I stormed out of the club. I board a taxi and then tell him my address. The moment the vehicle finally comes to a stop in front of the large estate where my home is, my heart begins to thump erratically in my chest. I pay the cab driver off and then step down for the vehicle. I then glance at the large gate that surrounds the compound to my apartment and then I shut my eyelids thinking of an excuse. What am I going to say? What am I going to tell her? I am praying earnestly to the Goddess that my father is not at home to witness this. I am hoping he is not aware of the demise or what I have done. He is not even going to bear that I didn't sleep at home throughout the night. Honestly, what am I going to do? I am so scared to step into my apartment. A few minutes later, I find my way inside, praying earnestly to the goddess that I don't land into the worst encounter I can ever think of. I step into the large palace-like sitting room, where my mom is currently seated on a sofa with her legs crossed. The expression on her face tells me that I do not need to be about the bush. I just have to come clean. I'm going to state my excuse or else my stay in this apartment will not be peaceful. "Serena Blackthorn, come right now and stand in front of your mother and give me a valuable reason why I shouldn't ground you for the next year for this rebellious act you've just committed." Her voice booms and reverberates clearly and sharply in the frightening, commanding tone over the large sitting room, and it makes me gulp. I do a quick scan of the entire large sitting room and then strain my senses all over the house to feel that powerful, terrifying presence of the man known to be my father. I feel none of it and this makes me heave a sigh of relief. He is not around at the moment. I guess I might be free for a little while. I only need to take a deep breath and escape the first obstacle standing right in front of me, which is my mom. What do I tell her? I smile nervously and wave my hands at her, "Hello, Mom." She raises her head to look at me with a raised eyebrow and the expression I see makes me look down at the ground immediately while rubbing my palm against my left elbow. "Where were you last night?" She asked sharply, and I flinched a little bit while gnawing down hard against my bottom lip. I began to scan the entire sitting room, thinking of a very quick way I could explain this to her. I look up at her and begin to smile nervously. "Okay, Mom, so the thing is..." "I don't want excuses. I just want you to go straight to the point because if you don't, your father is going to hear about this." My eyes go wide and I immediately kneel in front of her, nervously taking hold of her hands. "No, please, Mom, don't do this. I beg you, please don't tell him. I will tell you everything." "Alright, I am listening." Well... I do not have any intention of telling her anything anyway. Are you kidding me? I am going to be dead if I tell her the truth!! I just have to find a way to cover things up. But how do I do that? Oh, goddess. Cassidy is so going to be screwed for allowing me to fall into this. She was supposed to be my guardian. And she failed!!!