Love With Conditions by Mark Twain 1
Chapter 1
As soon as I started secondary school, the school bully targeted
Every time he tormented me, he would feel vengeful satisfaction at the fear in my eyes.
We had never even crossed paths, but he targeted me for no
reason.
Once, I saw a photo in his wallet-it was him and my mom.
That was when I realized he was the son of my mom and her ex- husband.
But because he was rebellious and had let her down, she stopped looking after him.
Now that he regrets it, he’s taking it out on me.
With no other choice, I showed Mom my injuries and pleaded: “Mom, can you pick me up from school tomorrow?
I’m scared!”
“Sarah Jenkins, can you wait for me?”
“I have something to do. I’m leaving now.”
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After the bell rang, I turned down my classmate’s offer to walk home together and rushed out of the classroom.
Because if I was even a second too slow, the school bully would catch me.
But I failed to escape. Several senior students were already waiting for me in the hallway.
The leader was Marcus Sterling, the school bully.
I didn’t know why he hated me so much.
He had targeted me from the moment I started secondary school.
Every time he looked at me, his gaze was as vicious and
venomous as a viper, as if he wanted to skin me alive… When he tormented me, he would feel vengeful satisfaction at the fear in
my eyes.
With a violent shove, they threw me hard onto the ground.
“Didn’t I tell you to come find us yesterday?”
A guy grabbed my hair: “Do you not understand plain English?”
Seeing my silence, he pinched my ear hard and slapped my face.
These guys were Marcus’s lackeys.
They were the enforcers of his cruelty.
I trembled: “I want to go home for my mom’s birthday. Can you please let me go?”
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I didn’t expect that instead of awakening Marcus’s conscience, my words would make him look even more furious and savage: “Say that again…”
Before I could figure out why he was angry, he yanked me up and dragged me all the way to the gym equipment room.
They locked the door tight, pinned me against the wall, and then backed away to a certain distance.
“Bang!”
A basketball smashed into me with heavy force.
“Thud!”
This time it was a soccer ball.
They were all jocks, and their aim was perfect.
They kicked and threw, ball after ball whistling through the air toward my face.
I didn’t dare move; I could only curl up and shiver as I took the beating.
“Say that again!”
“Say it again!”
“Bitch, say it again!”
Marcus roared as he kicked a ball at me with full force.
With every impact, I felt a sharp burst of pain shoot through my
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so everyone respected him.
He didn’t care at all if I told the teacher.
It made me wonder-who exactly was Marcus so afraid of finding out?
Today, I got my answer.
Seeing that my injuries were no longer visible, Marcus finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Then he grabbed me by the shoulders and hissed, “Don’t tell your mom, you hear me?
You know what I’m capable of!
If you dare tell her, I’ll ruin you, no matter what it takes. Do you understand?
!”
I nodded blankly. Seeing I was cooperating, the savage look on Marcus’s face softened slightly.
He stood up, but his wallet slipped out of his pocket and hit the ground.
I stared at the open wallet in front of me. On the right was a stack of hundred-dollar bills, but on the left was an old photograph.
I looked closer and froze.
Why did the woman in the photo with Marcus look so much like
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so everyone respected him.
He didn’t care at all if I told the teacher.
It made me wonder-who exactly was Marcus so afraid of finding out?
Today, I got my answer.
Seeing that my injuries were no longer visible, Marcus finally let out a long sigh of relief.
Then he grabbed me by the shoulders and hissed, “Don’t tell your mom, you hear me?
You know what I’m capable of!
If you dare tell her, I’ll ruin you, no matter what it takes. Do you understand?
!”
I nodded blankly. Seeing I was cooperating, the savage look on Marcus’s face softened slightly.
He stood up, but his wallet slipped out of his pocket and hit the ground.
I stared at the open wallet in front of me. On the right was a stack of hundred-dollar bills, but on the left was an old
photograph.
I looked closer and froze.
Why did the woman in the photo with Marcus look so much like
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