The Punk's Bride

Davina Donovan, a nineteen-year-old, followed her friends through the crowd to reach the bus, that was supposed to take her to her desired destination. The evening was cold and breezy, the white feather-like clouds had enclasped the sky for the rest of the day.

While the girls were making their way like toddlers in a line, one of them decided to blabber, "Who is wearing such a fancy perfume?" Vivian kept following her friends with a frown on her forehead. She was too tired to take a bus after hours of traveling in a plane to reach their vacation spot.

Vivian wasn’t invariably the way she was now, there were times when she wouldn’t complain about everything that her senses picked.

"Why are you sniffing strangers Vivian?" Davina rolled her eyes and got inside the bus with Hayley and Clara, with Vivian following them lazily.

"How long will it take us to reach there?" Vivian continued to complain. She wasn't always this annoying, it's just that the recent events had changed her attitude a bit.

"You'll know," Davina responded, hugging her bags and looking out the window.

"He is here!" Hayley whispered from the side seat as the two girls sat together on one side while the other two sat on the other side. Davina looked in the direction of the door to see Hayley's billionaire boyfriend walk in with his two friends.

"Sean!" Hayley's lips smiled, after seeing her handsome boyfriend in blue jeans and a white shirt.

Sean secretly passed her a smile and took a seat behind her with his friend Seth, while their third friend sat behind Davina and Vivian.

Seth, Seann, and Damien had been friends since they were kids. They all came from the same rich backgrounds, but Damien was the most popular and rich among them. At a very young age, he had achieved a lot of respect and status in the business industry, what he didn't get was any manners.

"Oh!" Hayley quickly hid her face to not be noticed by Damien, who despised her for being a countryside girl.

He thought the girls from the countryside or the people with not enough money didn't deserve to be in the same setting as him.

When Sean asked Hayley out, the biggest hurdle in their relationship became Damien. He wasn't very fond of their relationship, he also didn't like Sean to spend time with Hayley, which is why, when they decided to go on a vacation, Sean secretly invited Hayley with her friends so that he could spend time with her when Damien wouldn't be around.

"Argh!" A loud grunt silenced the whole bus, Davina and Vivian shared a glance and then slowly turned around to the person causing a lot of trouble in the seat behind them.

"This is such an uncomfortable way to travel," Damien complaint, making Seth and Sean apologetically look around at the people traveling with them.

Damien had no idea Hayley and her friends were there, he could only recognize Hayley, but thankfully he didn't pay attention to his surroundings.

Davina pulled her phone out of her bag and messaged Hayley since they had quite a space between them to be able to communicate.

Davina: Who is this douchebag behind us?

Davina had sort of figured out that he must be with Seth and Sean, who she had seen and heard of before, but not spend time with him.

Sean and Hayley had not introduced each other to their friends.

Hayley: Sean's friend.

Hayley: Can you please not make my presence known? He doesn't like me.

Davina's eyebrows made a furrow, she did a double-take behind her secretly and rolled her eyes at the guy, who was still trying to adjust in his seat. So he was the guy who hated Hayley to his core?

Davina: So this giant dude hates you?

Davina spared another glance at him and pulled her nose up at how he was reacting to the bus.

Damien was completely unaware of the surroundings; he didn't care who was looking at him or who was talking about him. He was just annoyed that his friends chose such a low standard bus for their ride.

Hayley: This giant dude is very insolent.

Davina sighed and leaned back on the seat. Till then, she thought her friend used to exaggerate Sean's friend’s ignorant attitude, but spending two minutes in front of him had made her realize her friend was right about him.

After a few minutes, just when Davina and her friends thought Damien had calmed down, he started moving in his chair again.

“I am getting frustrated with him,” Davina mumbled an undertone to Vivian, who rolled her eyes and then scoffed.

“It’s not like you two are any different,” Vivian seemed to be upset about something, but she was holding back as long as she could.

“Hey, stop the bus!” Davina voiced out of the blue, ignoring everyone who turned to watch her face.

“I have to pee,” she had encountered a restroom near a small café, this would be the best time that she eases up before she runs out of the option.

“What the actual f***,” Obviously, Damien was the one who was more offended, this girl was the real reason he would be spending more time in this bus now.

Where Davina jumped off the bus to make a run to the public restroom, others too got out quickly to get some snacks.

Damien had different plans though, just a little delay seemed like a punishment to Damien.

He got out of the bus and when nobody was watching, he went ahead to lock the restroom from the outside so that Davina gets to understand how it feels like when you are forced to be somewhere you don’t want to be.

Happy with himself, Damien wandered, passing quizzical eyes to the passersby because of the cheap clothing they were wearing.

He ended up on the bus and now everybody had started to wonder where Davina went.

“This kind of behavior is so unacceptable,” Damien’s comment made everyone agree with him except for Davina’s friends.

“Hello?” Davina knocked again, terrified why this door locked on her face, “Hey!” she shouted again but this time, the owner of the shop rushed over for her rescues. He opened the door for Davina, who looked mortified with sweats and messy hair.

“Somebody had locked you,” the owner shook his head in disbelief, these kids be playing a lot these days, he thought.

With her mouth dry and her heartbeat accelerated, Davina entered the bus to the angry mob.

“What kind of attitude is this?” one lady spoke, who had been triggered by Damien’s comment.

“I am so sorry, somebo---,” As Davina decided to explain what had happened, the driver started driving and Davina face planted in the middle of the bus with people laughing at her.

“Perfect!” Damien grinned, recording her fall in his phone.

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Note:

Below are the cast to help you visualize the characters better..

Lily Collins As Davina Donovan.

Zac Efron As Travon

Nick Bateman As Damien

Kaitlyn Dever As Clara Carter

India Eisley As Hayley Whytt

Laura Marano As Vivian Walters

Jonathan Keltz As Sean Stevens