The Ugly One novel Chapter 1

"Get the fuck off of me," Jake barked.

"Oh ss...sorry Jake," I stammered and got up.

"What are you trying to do? Crush me to death?" he stayed and straightened his shirt.

"I'm trying not to be late to class, so bye!" I waved and tried to leave but he grabbed my arm.

"Not so fast. Aren't you Liliana Brown's sister?" he asked.

"Yeah, so?" I asked. Yes, Jake, we met like ten thousand times before. But go ahead and act like you had no idea who I was.

"So...I need you to do me a favor," he said and smirked.

"Can this wait? I'm already late," I said desperately.

"Fine, you can go. Meet me out back after school, by the fence?" he said.

"Sure, bye bye now!" I ran off and sighed in relief to finally get out of his grasp. He scares me.

After school, I debated whether I should go see him or not. What could he possibly want from me?

I decided to go. I stood by the fence and waited.

"Hey," I turned around as I heard his voice.

"Well, I'm here, now what?" I let a nervous laugh.

"You know I've been in love with Liliana for two years right?" he asked.

"More or less," I said.

"Well I've been trying to get her to go out with me but she just acts like I don't exist," his eyes turned dark.

Welcome to my world buddy, I thought.

"Well she is not into the bad boy type," I said.

"That's too bad because she is going to be mine," he insisted.

"Whatever you say," I scoffed. "What do you want me to do about it?" I asked.

"Help me convince her. Maybe you can tell me more about her so I know how to impress her?" he suggested.

"Not a chance buddy. Forget it," I said and tried to leave but he grabbed me and pushed me against the fence.

"I don't think so. You are going to help me whether you want to or not," he demanded.

"Jesus! What is wrong with you? She is not interested, you are not her type, don't you get that?" I yelled.

"Listen...whatever your name is! If you don't help me I'll make sure to make your life miserable in this school. So go homes and think very carefully before rejecting me, got it?" he said.

His dark eyes bored into my eyes. I felt a chill. This guy wasn't joking around and is possibly dangerous. Maybe I can convince Liliana to go on one date at least.

"Okay fine, just let me go. I'll see what I can do. And my name is Jane, you prick!" I frowned.

He let go of me and exhaled.

"Jake is a senior, you are a junior. He is not in your classes. What is going on Jane?" she inquired.

"Okay fine, I'll tell you. He threatened me okay! He said I have to convince you or else..."

"Or else what?" she asked.

"I don't know! And I don't want to find out. So please, just go out with the guy," I pleaded.

"What? No way!" she said.

"Come on Lily, please do this for me! What if he actually hurt me?" I said.

"Forget it, I'm not giving in. He is totally not my type and I'm not going out with some loser just because you are scared of him. Now get out of my room," she said and pushed me out of the room.

Ugh...why does she have to be such a bitch to me? My life was hard enough as it is but now I have to deal with Jake because of her.

I can never count on her, not even once. But I knew Jake wasn't going to let me off the hook that easily.

I remembered in seventh grade, Jake asked Matt Miller to do his homework. Normally Matt did what he was told since Jake beat him up if he didn't. But the day before, poor Matt came down with flu and didn't show up at school with Jake's homework.

Do you think Jake accepted that excuse? Hell no. He waited until the right opportunity for revenge.

There was an annual science project and Matt was looking forward to it. His project was well thought and detailed. On the day before the project was due, Jake sneaked into the classroom and stole it, then burned it on the baseball field. All of Matt's hard work was gone in seconds. Then the next day, he left a note on Matt's locker to let him know whose handiwork it was.

The whole school knew about it but Jake got away with a measly 2 days of detention. It was as if the principal had no desire to defend the bullied. God, I really hated him since then.

That was just one of many horrible things he did to people. Now I have to help him? I'd rather drown him in a tub of holy water.