A look of disgust appeared on Cassie's face as she looked at Derek.
"Keep dreaming, you will never have me. I prefer to get eaten by a beast, than to date you," she said as she spat to the side.
Derek's face twisted in anger as he heard what Cassie said.
"You bitch, you should be happy that I want a pig like you," Derek said.
"Yeah, you should be happy," Derek's goons chimed in as they laughed.
"What did you say?" Cassie asked.
"Don't call her a bitch," Casper and the rest chimed in.
"Ooh, look the losers have the guts to talk back at me," Derek Dickson said.
"What did you call me?" Cassie asked again with a tightened fist.
"I said you're a bit...." Before he could complete it, a fist came hurtling in his direction.
It landed square on his face, as he stumbled backwards falling on his backside.
The crowd gasped in shock, as they saw what just transpired.
Derek got up from the floor as he touched his face. His nose was broken and bleeding.
"Never, ever call me a bitch," Cassie said as she retracted her hands.
"You, you, bitch you broke my nose," Derek shouted in anger.
"What're you guys doing?" Derek asked as he turned to his goons.
They were still frozen in shock, as they still couldn't process what just happened.
"Get them, you idiots," he shouted while holding his nose.
They snapped out of their shock, as they charged at Cassie and the rest.
"Yo, they are charging towards us," Henry said.
"Is someone going to stop them?" Casper asked.
He looked around for help, but no one moved at all, they only took out their phones to video them.
"Fight! fight! fight!" the crowd shouted in excitement.
"Curse it, they're going to beat us to death," Casper said as he got ready to fight.
A fist came hurtling towards Casper. He tried dodging, but he was not fast enough.
The fist crashed on his face, and he was thrown back like a rag doll.
Before he could get up , he felt a kick on his stomach which made him hurl over as he clutched his stomach.
He gasped violently for air as he made a desperate attempt to get some space.
All around, his friends were also getting beat up.
Cassie dodged a punch from one of Derek's goons , and returned the punch back.
Before she could do more another goon punched her on the guts, making her to kneel over in pain.
"Hold that bitch down," she heard Derek's voice.
Cassie was immediately restrained by Derek's goons.
"You, you bitch, who the hell do you think you are? " He asked while walking over slowly.
"I will make sure you regret the day you were born," he said with a tone that sent chills across Cassie's back.
Getting to her, he studied her for a while.
"You think you are so special?, you're nothing but a whore," he said .
Cassie struggled , as she tried to free her self from Derek's goons graps.
"You think you're some hot shit right?" He asked with a malicious tone.
"Well you're not," he said with a twisted grin as he eyed Cassie's body with a lewd look.
When he was close enough, Cassie spat on his face.
"Go , fuck your self," she said.
Derek's face twisted as he cleaned the spit off his face.
A loud resounding slap was heard as Derek slapped Cassie.
"How dare you?, how dare you spit on me?" He asked while continuing slapping Cassie.
"Cassie!," her friends screamed, as they got up from the floor and tried to make way to her, only to be kicked and stamped on the floor.
"Casper, Joe, Henry," she screamed.
"Oh, looks like your friends are trying to save you," he said while laughing like a maniac.
"Boys, bring them over," he said.
Casper and the rest were dragged towards Derek.
"Hold her," Derek said as he made way towards Casper and the rest.
"You know, I have always hated you Casper, I repulse your very existence," Derek said.
"Derek, please leave them alone, they got nothing to do with this," Cassie shouted in desperation.
Derek turned to her with a smile, before punching Casper.
He continued punching Casper as Cassie begged for him to spare her friends.
"Remember Cassie, you caused this, this is all your fault," he said as he bashed Casper's face with punches.
"If you had only accepted me this wouldn't have happened," he shouted.
"Please leave him alone," Cassie screamed.
"Help, someone help me," Casper mumbled weakly.
His face was swollen up and blood was coming out of his mouth.
"He's going to kill me," Casper said as he saw no one getting help.
"Derek you bastard you're going to kill him," Henry said.
"Please stop," Joe said with tear.
Casper's head was ringing as Derek continued to punch him, his vision was turning blurry as he couldn't tell if it was because of the blood entering his eyes .
He could hear his friends shouting and pleading for help, pleading for Derek to let him go. He could also hear Derek laughing like a psychopath.
"Am I going to die here?, if I died who would take care of mom?, of little anny, mom will really devastated if I died," Casper said as memories of his mom and anny shot through his mind.
When he was about to lose consciousness, he heard a voice.
"What is all this commotion about?, what is going on here?" He heard before completely passing out.
....
Casper opened his eyes to see a white ceiling and a brightly lit room, he saw figures in white walking around.
"Am I dead?, is this the afterlife?, is this heaven?" He asked himself as he tried getting up only to be assaulted with pain.
"If this is heaven, then why am I feeling pain all over my body?" He asked.
"Where are my" he asked as he looked around.
He immediately was assaulted by the smell of medicines,Antiseptic and cleaning products.
"Am I in the hospital?, what happened?" He asked himself.
Immediately memories started flooding back in like a broken dam, he remembered Derek beating the shit out of him, he remembered Cassie and his other friends begging Derek to stop and most of all , he remembered Derek's deranged laugh as he beat him to a pulp.
"Ugh!" He groaned as he clutched his head in pain.
"You're finally awake," a pretty blonde nurse said.
On her clothes the name tag said "Titi".
"Hi, I'm nurse Titi," she said with a warm smile as she made her way towards Casper with a notepad in her hands.
She did some tests on him to make sure he was ok , while occasionally writing on her notepad.
"What's your name?" Nurse Titi asked.
"Casper Emmanuel Atah," he responded.
"How are you feeling?" Nurse Titi asked as she monitored his vitals.
"I feel bad." Casper said ma'am.
"On a scale of 1 to 10 how, bad would you describe the pain?"
"I would say it's a 6 or 7 ," Casper responded with a groan.
"Where does it hurt the most?" she asked
"Mostly my head," Casper said.
She nodded while writing on her notepad .
She continued asking Casper questions.
"Alright we are done for now, get some sleep," Nurse Titi said as she stood up to leave.
"Nurse Titi," Casper called out.
"Yes?" She turned back to him.
"Where're my friends?, Are they ok?," he asked.
She let out a sweet smile while answering his questions.
"They're all fine, I will go call them in , and also your mom and sister are here," she said before walking out.
Casper nodded he was happy that his friends were okay, but he was still pained because he knew his mom would be very worried for him.