The Underestimated Secret Heir

"Cassandra, what's happening here? Don't tell me my eyes aren't deceiving me. Oh, it is; it's deceiving me because this can't happen to me. No, you can't do this!" Rex yelled at Cassandra, who was still lying on the bed with no remorse.

Rex and Cassandra had been secretly dating. Many times, Rex approached Cassandra and brought up the topic that he wanted an open relationship, but Cassandra would threaten that they'd split if he ever brought up the topic, so he decided to remain silent over the matter like a slave.

On a fateful afternoon, a day before the coming celebration of Valentine's Day which everyone among the students has been longing for. Rex and his friend Andrea were discussing at his dormitory as Andrea was also busy scrolling down on his phone and browsing the internet.

"Bro, guess what!" Andrea exclaimed out of excitement after coming across a post and seeing the picture of Kanye West and Cassandra.

"Yes, you know I'm not good at guessing, so go straight to the point and stop beating about the bush," Rex reluctantly replied.

"Kanye West has proposed to Cassandra!"

"Which Cassandra are you talking about? You mean Cassandra Knight?" Rex asked in disbelief.

"Exactly, bro, the girl is just f*ckin' lucky to have such a person propose to her; I'm happy for her," Andrea replied with a smile on his face.

"Come on, man, you always make expensive jokes! Go take a pill if you're daydreaming," Rex replied in disbelief.

"I bet you, it's not a joke or daydream either; you can check the post by yourself," Andrea said, trying to hand Rex the phone, but he barked at him: "Go away with your fake news, please."

Andrea stared at him in disbelief. How could Rex find it difficult to believe what he told him? He stood up to leave, but Rex grabbed him back.

"Where did you say you got this false news from?" he asked Andrea with a confused look.

Andrea thought for a while, thinking about what could be the cause of Rex's action. He wondered why Rex would doubt him and refuse to see the evidence he was showing him.

"Man, if you can't believe it, then forget about it. Let's talk about something reasonable; besides, I don't know why you acted like you're not happy with the girl, or do you keep a grudge against her, or have you in any way had any problem or misunderstanding with her? Tell me so I can reconcile both of you," Andrea suggested.

"How many times do you want me to say go away before you hear me out? Or you didn't hear me when I said that you should buzz off? Get the hell out of my sight. I do not want to see you" he yelled at him.

"I do not wish to say anything to you or speak with you. Please leave. And I'm not holding any grudges against anyone, I hope you respect my request and stay away from me." He explained in a harsh tone.

"Alright, man, we are not quarrelling, let me leave your presence. Just a few minutes ago, we discussed the last event that was hosted by the campus, how the big boys stormed the event, and how the audience got carried away and lost concentration on the ongoing program and focused on the big champs and their exotic cars.

"Just a few minutes ago and you had already developed mood swings; I wonder what would happen if you were a girl," Andrea said and left the room, leaving Rex isolated.

As soon as Andrea left the room, Rex rushed to his phone, which its screen had been broken to the point of being unrepairable. He unlocked it and wanted to check what Andrea said to confirm it himself. He searched for Macro on his app list but could not find it, and just then he realized he had deleted it months ago as it consumed more data than other social media he was using. He could not afford to exhaust 2GB of mobile data only on watching reels and short videos on Macro, while 500MB would go a long way for him on other social media platforms. He hissed as he realized he could not see the post by himself if he did not install the Macro app.

He opened his app store to install it, and after typing the name 'Macro', it appeared. He pressed the install option, however, it stopped after rolling for a few seconds; it had only loaded two percent of the app data.

"Gosh! What's wrong with this phone of mine, It seems the network issue has started again,' He hissed and exited the app, he reopened it, and had the same experience, being confused, he decided to check his data balance, however, he realized it had been exhausted. He became angry and instantly dialled his usual code for borrowing, but the response he got annoyed him: "Dear customer, you have exceeded your standard limit of borrowing; kindly clear up your existing balance of $200 to continue. Thank you."

"Oh, sh*t! Why now? Why now I wanted to confirm if what Andrea was saying was true," he said and angrily flung his phone back onto his bed.

He dressed to go out as his curiosity to find out upsurges, maybe this could decrease it. He was dressing to go to the campus handball field.

"No, this can't be true. I trust Cassandra, and I know she won't do that. Maybe Andrea mistook her for someone else because Kanye is good at changing and dumping girls; he may have thought Cassandra could fall for that sh*t," he hissed.

"After how many years we have been together, starting from our childhood, Andrea now thinks Kanye's wealth could move my girl," he monologued as he was heading to the handball field.

After walking halfway to the handball court, he realized going to the field would worsen his depressed mode, as the majority of the handball players were among those who despised him and would not allow him to participate in playing or allow him to watch without throwing abusive remarks at him.

He remembered the last time he went there, one of them even tried to bully him, but he escaped, not minding that he could kick the guy's ass out. He fled because he knew others would not stare at him while he beat their colleague.

To avoid being made to feel uncomfortable by those boys, he returned home.

"No, alright, I'll find out by myself, I will find out when I visit Cassandra this Valentine's Day, yes, I'll find out, and I'll make Andrea suffer for this he put me into if it eventually becomes a lie. Few more days to Valentine's Day; we shall see," he smirked.

It was the 14th of February; the long-awaited day was finally here. The campus big boys in their different exotic cars have been grooving in and out of the campus with their babes. Various incidents are happening. Some guys propose to their girlfriends, while others break up after something goes wrong. Including those bossy rich guys that Rex runs errands for.

He was not left out of the celebration either. He already bought some gifts for his beloved girlfriend to surprise her. He hurried inside his room to get outfitted with some cheap but nice-looking clothes he had bought a few days ago because of Valentine's Day.

He quickly put on the tight-fitting T-shirt he had longed to wear since he bought it but was patiently waiting for the day to arrive. The shirt fit him perfectly; it brought out those perfect muscular shapes of his body, he went and watched himself in the wall mirror to see how he was looking, and he realized he still had a perfect body.

"I can't wait to surprise Cassandra!" He chuckled; unbeknownst to him, something terrible was waiting for him to come and witness.

"What a perfect surprise!" he chuckled as he dashed out for his surprise journey.

He boarded a cab for the first time during his stay at the university. Cassandra's lodge isn't even far from his; it takes about five minutes to reach it or eight minutes. But he did that to prevent his new clothes from being stained by some dust evolving from the roads, so he decided to remain classic.

"Cassandra," he uttered silently, smiling; he imagined a perfect scene of two lovely couples smiling, and the female was so overjoyed that she kept praising her boyfriend for the gift he had bought her. Rex perfected the scene as to what would happen when he gave Cassandra the gifts.

Had it been that he had a superpower, he would disappear into thin air and appear at Cassandra's lodge, based on how he was relentlessly thinking about Cassandra in the cab.

He dropped at the spot he demanded to be dropped; dropping in front of Cassandra's lodge would attract the eyes of many of her dorm mates, which may likely attract Cassandra too, spoiling the surprise visit.

He walks majestically, heading to Cassandra's apartment, and he notices all eyes are on him. Something that even made him stop before his destination, yet he has experienced it - he has encountered the basking of those pretentious students in Cassandra's dormitory. He heard those girls staring at him and gossiping.

"Is this not Rex, who always treks to school? Did he just board a cab to Vingood Lodge?" "Wonders won't cease to happen," one of Cassandra's dorm mates mocks Rex.

"What is he even searching for inside this lodge?" the second girl wondered.

"Maybe he took the wrong direction to his destination," the third girl added.

"Or probably, he is lost," the last girl intruded, and they burst out laughing.

"Girl, you cracked my ribs," the first girl that started the shade added.

He passed them; the tenses he heard from them diminished his joyous thoughts of how Cassandra would react on seeing those gifts. He intended to go back, but he remembered that he had spent money on transportation while coming and also what he spent in buying those precious gifts for his Cassandra.

"Going back would be a waste of the precious time and money I spent on coming here," He picked up gutsiness and went on.

As he took a few steps to reach Cassandra's door, he heard moans of pleasure inside the room. He tried to ignore it and grab the doorknob, but then he admitted he was not hearing negatively.

"No, this can't be Cassandra moaning." He murmured and later concluded the moans were coming from the nearby apartment, he summoned courage, opened the door, and was about to exclaim "Surprise!"

However, the scene he saw in the room made him unable to complete the remaining phrase, he swallowed the remaining "surprise!" he wanted to exclaim and ended up exclaiming "Cassandra!" out of astonishment.

He managed to remain strong after seeing his girlfriend, Cassandra, being smashed by the campus big boy, and the awful smells of sex and sweat from the room made him shed tears, unaware.

Kanye West covered his naked body out of shame; his facial expression harmonized with embarrassment. They wouldn't have noticed his presence as they were riding the wave of pressure.

"Babe, who is this pauper, judging from his dress and how he looks?" Kanye asked.

"Did you know him?" "What have you had to do with such a person? I don't recall having business with this type of person," he queries Cassandra, who was underneath him, without any remorseful expression.

He turned to face Rex, wanting to know where he got the impetus to interfere with his privacy. He raised his brow in awe, and immediately after he discovered who Rex was, he got weak over the actions he wanted to take.

"Oh, the errand guy, who always runs errands for us. I guess he brought something you sent him to buy for you, but why didn't you knock? You just darted in here without even an atom of penitence." he added.

"Babe, tender him mercy; perhaps he did that out of frustration with the things life was throwing at him." She paused and glared at Kanye West's expression to know if she was playing her lies well or if she should spice it up more.

"Two weeks ago, I heard his parents died after suffering from chronic illness because he wasn't able to raise funds for them to get proper treatment," Cassandra uttered, sighing.

"Young man, why did you lack manners? After scrambling in here, you didn't even feel contrite," Kanye said expecting Rex to apologize immediately, however, he got the opposite

"Is anything wrong with you?" He yelled out of annoyance. He was trying to tolerate his bad attitude and this idiot didn't even feel sorry.

He stared at Rex expecting a word from him, however, Rex who stood still like someone who had been electrocuted while standing, didn't utter a word. He was still profoundly shocked by what he had caught a glimpse of.

"Are you now dumb and deaf? Or do you want to rot in jail?'' Kanye West rolled.

"Cassandra, so this is what you chose to do, after how many years of..." Rex managed to say.

"Jeez! What's happening here? Who do you say you are?" Kanye West said as he stood up to beat out the damn frustration tormenting Rex. Rex's last remark sounded like a sword that just gored his chest.

"You haven't seen anything yet," Cassandra silently told Rex through the movement of her lips whilst still lying on the bed.

"Please, Kanye, leave him, pleeeasse!" Cassandra pleaded to her newly-hoarded boyfriend as he rushed to devour Rex.

Rex was pained seeing his fellow man attempting to beat him after snatching away his girlfriend.

"Who do you say you really are, and what is your mission here?" Kanye asked, still burning in rage. But Rex didn't utter a word as he was trying to digest the shock Cassandra caused him.

"Cassandra, you want to break up with me?" he said.

His words sounded like an explosive bomb to Kenya West's ears, and he immediately freed himself from Cassandra's hand and scurried at Rex, who immediately took to his feet, but Kanye ran faster before he could open the door and catch him.

Kanye, being a gym enthusiast, strongly believed he could beat Rex to a stupor, not minding the muscular biceps that evolved in Rex's muscular region. Rex was also trained in martial arts when he was with his family before their demise.

Kanye grabbed Rex and punched him hard, he punched him very hard, and the punch left a blotch on his face. This made Rex change his mind, he got angry and gave Kanye a sound beating. He beat and rolled Kanye on the floor before Cassandra rushed to her phone and dialled the police. Rex left Kanye on the floor and took to his feet with the items he bought. He can't forget the gifts since Cassandra does not belong to him anymore.

"Idiot! What an insult!" Kanye cursed as he pursued him out of Cassandra's apartment. He chased him until Rex ran to the exit gate.

"Ahem-Ahem!, Ahem-Ahem-Ahem!" Rex coughed profusely as he was running out of Vingood Lodge. The whole residents, including those girls who threw shade at him when he was coming, videotaped him when he was running out of Cassandra's apartment. They watched him as he was running helplessly to flee from Kanye West's hand, unbeknownst to them that Kanye had received a mind-blowing beating from Rex inside.

They enjoyed the show Rex was displaying as they made fun of him and videoed him running with his Valentine's gift, as well as the celebrity student, Kanye West, as they were running.

"I said that this wretched guy was up to something; he never ceases to amaze people. Who the hell told him that Kanye West was someone to toil with and go scot-free?

"Tina, let's talk reasonably about something profitable. It's when he'll find himself in prison that he'll get rid of the evil spirit that led him into troubling Kanye West," one of Cassandra's dorm mates told her colleagues.

Rex arrived at his mini-lodge, looking devastated. He recalls memorably the incident that happened at Vingood Lodge after what he went through under Cassandra. He wept and regretted his life, wishing death could take him.

"All because I'm broke, just because I did not come from a rich family. Why, why me? Fate, where are you? Fate, why is my life different from others? Fate, why did you choose to be partial? Why did you rig my destiny like this? Even political leaders can't be this heartless. Why did you allow death to take the only people supporting me even when the whole school despised me? Oh fate, you are so heartless and cruel.

He was still rolling and whimpering on the corridor floor when Andrea rushed in, he was breathing laboriously as if something or someone was after him.

"Rex, thank goodness I met you, the media is on conflagration...

Rex interrupted Andrea before he could finish speaking.

"Yes, Andrea, it has happened, the media is ablaze-ooh, the media inside me is burning. You said it, but I thought you were joking then," he said, still wailing on the ground.

"What did I say,? Have you heard the news?" Andrea asked in a bewildered state.

"Which news anymore if not that my girlfriend has rejected me-my girlfriend of eight years, my childhood and teenage girlfriend?" he groaned.

"Oh wow, you never stop amazing me. Which girlfriend is this? Do you even have a girlfriend at all? He paused and squatted down to where Rex was wailing and cursing.

He raised his eyelids a bit and made Rex know he didn't come for silly jokes.

"Look, Rex, if I wanted to watch or listen to jokes, I would have visited Kelvin Hart's concert. Look at me, man; tell me what's your problem," Andrea questioned out of curiosity.

"Andrea, I must admit I'm the biggest fool in this twenty-first century," he replied, trying to console himself but ended up slumping back on the floor after a flashback of Cassandra's moans ran to his memory.

"Hey!, my fellow man smashed my girlfriend in my presence, and she was moaning his name loud."

"Hey, you better man up. Why are you acting as if we are shooting movies? Which girlfriend are you talking about? Oh, I think I'm getting it now. You're missing your childhood girlfriend after she got married, right?" he enunciated.

"No, no, bro, that's not it. Firstly, I apologize for keeping this a secret from you all this time. I was like an enslaved person all the while. I and Cassandra were dating until...

"Oh damn it, you mean Cassandra Morgan?" he interrupted Rex after he heard Cassandra.

"No bro, Cassandra Knight, the girl that visited me on that day I returned from the sick bay."

"Wait, wait, wait. "What!, oh sh*t, you mean Cassandra Knight? The one whose news buzzed the internet today," Andrea said, while Rex jumped up from the floor, which he had refused to stand up from, and stood up.

"Which of Cassandra?" Rex asked with an astonished look on his face.

"The one you just mentioned earlier, of course, or do you have any skeletons in your cupboard?"

"No bro...Ye-yes bro, that was what I wanted to explain to you." He gazed down at the floor while narrating his story to him: "Cassandra was my childhood female friend, and we had our basic education in the same school and also at the same college. Luckily, we got admitted to the same university, but things started turning out for us. Cassandra started despising me, to the extent that she said our relationship should be a secret one. I did not know her reason behind that then until today." He paused to observe Andrea's countenance to know if he was getting along with what he was telling him.

"Yes, bro, until today, what then happened?" Andrea curiously asked.

"Until today... until today! He wept.

"What then happened today? Stop beating around the bush and be austere," Andrea uttered.

Rex continued while sobbing: "I decided that I would surprise Casandra on her last birthday, but unfortunately, I went cashless a week before the birthday." He hissed and winked his head in agony, then continued: "After I wasn't able to show up on her birthday, I decided to surprise her today being Valentine's Day...

"Oh f*ck, let it not be what I'm thinking," Andrea uttered in amazement.

"So I saved enough of what I could and bought some things I thought she would like for the surprise... He paused, shaking his head in agony, and uttered: "Andrea, my heart hurts, what do I do? I don't even think I would ever get rid of this in my memory."

"You will... you will, man, but what exactly happened?"

Andrea was already getting tired of Rex's disingenuousness, he had been patiently waiting for Rex to break the news to him that he had given up on pressuring him.

Rex sighed and continued: "So I stormed down to Cassandra's lodge and bagged in her room, just to see Cassandra underneath, being smashed by Kanye West."