Rebirth: Mated to the Prince of Darkness

She held on to the only thing that mattered to her for her dear life, the only thing she cared about. Like a protective mother, keeping her child from harm, away from predators and lurking eyes.

"JUMP."

The voice sounded more fierce, full of anger and hate. She was startled, as she held on to her precious books and hugged them tightly.

"Are you deaf? Jump!"

"But...if I jump, I will die. I don't want to die."

There were still lots of things that she wanted to do, as she thought about the volumes of her favourite novel she was holding tight right now. Who will her favourite character end up with? Who is going to be his mate? She would have taken her life a long time ago, but the only thing keeping her alive was this book that was clutched tightly to her chest.

"The world wouldn't make any difference if you do, you ugly piece of shit. Fucking jump. Who gives a damn if someone like you dies?"

She finally raised her head, and was able to look them eye to eye, but her eyes dropped when she saw him there. The love of her life, the only person she ever thought she could trust, and the same reason she was here in the first place, on the cold and damp rooftop of their school.

"You stinking bitch. I saw you now. I saw you look at my boyfriend." She gnashed her teeth and lunged forward towards her and violently pulled her hair. "You whore. You can't have my boyfriend. You will never have him."

They all grinned, they all laughed and mocked Leila. They all found this scene funny and entertaining, and so did he. Leila was in pains, she was heartbroken. How dare he do this to her? How could he lie that he was in love with her? How naïve and pathetic was she for believing his words? She knew better that the both of them were dating, so why did she trust him?

Leila screamed from the pain she felt as Tasha pulled hard on her hair, dragging her to the edge of the stairs with the malicious plan of pushing her off the edge. Their faces went stiff as they realized Tasha was definitely going to push her off the edge. They realized Tasha was being serious about this.

His face went blank too as he watched his girlfriend drag Leila to the edge. His smile froze, and his body went numb. He didn't mean for this to happen, he didn't think this through.

"Tasha, what do you think you are doing? If you continue to do that she will fall and die." One of her minions said.

"That's the plan. Let her die." Tasha heaved heavily as Leila struggled to get out of her grip. "What are you guys doing there? Help me."

"You have gone insane, we can't help you kill someone. Stop this madness Tasha."

"Madness? You guys are now in on this, the moment we started bullying her for our satisfaction, you have been in on this. I see. You want to make me the bad guy when you guys have done even far worse than I did. Lucy, can you remind me who added snake venom to her drink? Oh.YOU! Or have you forgotten? You didn't know she could have died from that? And you, Tracey, do you remember that time you leaked a fake sex video of her? And it was even recently you did that. Who brought up the idea? Who edited the video and made it look like she was the one? YOUUUUU!"

They all went silent as Tasha recounted all the horrible things they did to her and poor Leila couldn't help but shed tears. Why was this happening to her? Why didn't she end her life that other day? Why was she even born? All these things she thought to herself as she stood there lifeless, with little will left in her to fight to save her life.

"Ewwwww. You got hot and sticky tears on my hand." Tasha finally let go of the struggling Leila and she fell butt hard on the floor.

Suddenly, a loud smack echoed on the roof, the sound of Tasha smacking Leila's face hard.

"Tch. I even had to touch her disgusting face."

"Babe? I think we have tortured her enough. Let her go." Everett; Tasha's boyfriend pleaded.

Tasha stepped away from her as she walked to get the knife and cutlass they planned on "playing with Leila" soon. She picked up the cutlass and like the wind, she cut off her own hand, the one she used in smacking Leila. Everyone went silent as they couldn't believe what they had just witnessed. Her blood gushed and stained the floor and she couldn't give a damn about what she had just done to herself.

She walked to her shaken friends and grinned at them. They were all stunned, speechless even as to what they had just witnessed.

"Tasha..." Everett screamed, "...oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. What the fuck have you done?"

"Stop the bleeding." She commanded, completely ignoring Everett. With shaky hands, one of them tied a clothe around her hand until the bleeding stopped.

"You bitch. Can you see what you've done? You made me cut my own self. That's how much I despise you. I don't want to have you infect me with your ugliness." She spat at her as she stared at her with spite.

Leila was still on the floor, and Tasha's minions feared for their lives as well. No one was safe anymore, Tasha has gone mad.

"Big sis..." Leila called out for Tasha in a low voice but one that was still audible enough to be heard. She raised her eyes to look at her, tears dripping down her face, and catarrh running down her nose. Her face was a mess.

"Big sis? I thought I told you not to call me that?" Tasha lunged forward with a knife in her hand, ready to stab her darling little sister.