Jay's POV
Chapter — The Girl They Never Knew
Jay's POV
I still couldn't believe Keifer had betrayed me.
Every "I love you."
Every smile.
Every kiss.
Every moment that made me believe he genuinely cared.
Was it all part of some plan?
A joke?
A game?
I felt sick just thinking about it.
The worst part wasn't the humiliation.
It was the fact that I had trusted him.
I, Jasper Jean Mariano-Fernandez, who trusted almost nobody, had trusted him.
What a joke.
What a fool.
I should've seen it coming.
I should've realized that things were too good to be true.
The moment Keifer dragged me into Section A and said those filthy words, something inside me snapped.
I didn't stay long enough to hear anything else.
I stormed out of the classroom.
Out of the building.
Out of everyone's sight.
My chest felt tight as I marched toward the parking lot.
I just needed to leave.
To get away from all of them.
From Keifer.
From Section E.
From the pitying looks I knew would follow.
But as soon as I reached the parking area, I stopped.
Right.
I didn't have a car here.
I had purposely avoided bringing one to school because I didn't want attention.
The irony almost made me laugh.
Without hesitation, I took out my phone and called Eli.
My assistant answered before the second ring.
"Miss Jay."
"Bring the Maybach."
There was a brief pause.
"To the school?"
"Now."
"Understood."
The call ended immediately.
I shoved my phone back into my pocket and leaned against a nearby pillar.
My eyes drifted toward the school building.
Funny.
I had actually planned to tell Keifer the truth today.
Not everything.
But enough.
Enough for him to know who I really was.
Enough for him to understand that the girl he'd been seeing wasn't just some ordinary student.
I was the owner of J & Elvara Global.
The company that half the business world kept trying to investigate.
The company nobody knew belonged to a seventeen-year-old girl.
I wasn't planning to reveal everything until I turned eighteen.
But Keifer?
He was supposed to know first.
Or at least...
He was supposed to be one of the first.
A bitter smile appeared on my face.
Good thing I didn't.
Because now?
Now their faces would be worth watching when the truth finally came out.
The horn of a car suddenly echoed through the parking lot.
My thoughts immediately disappeared.
I didn't even have to turn around.
I knew that horn.
A second later, I saw the familiar black Mercedes-Maybach S680 waiting near the gate.
The security guard was currently stopping it.
Interrogating my bodyguard.
Question after question.
Suspicion written all over his face.
I sighed.
The man was just doing his job.
Five minutes later, the gates finally opened.
The luxury sedan slowly entered the school grounds.
Unfortunately...
That was exactly when the dismissal bell rang.
And suddenly everything became a problem.
Students flooded out of the buildings.
Thousands of voices filled the air.
Then one by one...
They stopped.
The parking lot became eerily quiet.
Everyone was staring.
Some students had their phones out already.
Others simply stood there with their mouths hanging open.
Whispers spread like wildfire.
"Is that Keifer Watson's car?"
A girl asked.
Her friend immediately shook her head.
"No way."
"Then whose is it?"
"I don't know..."
"Maybe Yuri's?"
The whispers grew louder.
Students gathered around the vehicle while maintaining a respectful distance.
The car itself looked expensive.
Dangerously expensive.
The kind of expensive that screamed money without needing to.
Soon even Section E arrived.
Blaster.
Rory.
Edrix.
David.
Felix.
Josh.
Drew.
Calix.
Ci-N.
And of course...
Keifer.
The moment they saw the car, they froze.
Just like everyone else.
Aries appeared a few moments later and frowned.
"Whose car is this?"
Nobody answered.
Aries turned toward Yuri and Keifer.
"Move it already. I need to take my own car out."
Yuri blinked.
"That's not mine."
Keifer nodded.
"Not mine either."
Aries looked confused.
"What?"
"That thing costs more than my car."
For the first time, genuine surprise appeared on his face.
Students began whispering even louder.
Nobody noticed me standing near the pillar.
Nobody paid attention to the girl they'd all been ignoring for the last several minutes.
Nobody thought the answer was right in front of them.
I calmly reached into my pocket.
Pulled out the key.
And pressed the unlock button.
Beep.
The headlights flashed instantly.
The car unlocked.
Silence.
Complete silence.
Hundreds of students turned toward me at once.
For a second, nobody moved.
Nobody spoke.
Nobody even breathed.
Then realization hit.
Aries looked between me and the car.
Then back to me.
Then back to the car again.
His expression was priceless.
"Wait."
I raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah?"
"That's yours?"
I nodded.
The parking lot exploded.
"What?!"
"No way!"
"You're kidding!"
"That's impossible!"
Aries looked genuinely horrified.
"How do YOU own that?"
I shrugged.
"It's mine."
"But—"
His brain visibly stopped working.
"You don't have that kind of money."
I almost laughed.
If only he knew.
If only any of them knew.
The truth was far more ridiculous than anything they could imagine.
I walked toward the car.
The crowd immediately moved aside.
Creating a path.
The luxury interior became visible the moment the chauffeur opened the door.
Another wave of gasps followed.
The leather.
The polished wood.
The ambient lighting.
Everything about the vehicle screamed wealth.
Real wealth.
The kind that couldn't be faked.
The kind that didn't need to prove itself.
I could practically feel the stares burning into my back.
Awe.
Shock.
Confusion.
Disbelief.
And from a few people...
Guilt.
Especially Section E.
I finally looked toward them.
Every single one of them was staring.
Felix looked stunned.
David looked awake for once in his life.
Blaster's jaw had practically touched the floor.
Rory and Edrix looked like their brains had stopped functioning.
Even Drew forgot to complain about money.
Ci-N looked seconds away from crying.
Meanwhile Keifer...
Keifer was simply staring at me.
His eyes searching my face.
As if trying to figure out who I really was.
As if wondering how much he never knew.
Beside him, Yuri looked equally shocked.
Neither of them said a word.
Neither of them moved.
For the first time since I'd met them...
They looked completely lost.
Then I heard my name.
"Jay!"
Ci-N.
"Jay, wait!"
Then another voice.
"Jay!"
And another.
"Jay!"
Section E.
Desperate.
Confused.
Wanting answers.
Wanting explanations.
Wanting me to stay.
I ignored all of them.
Every single one.
Without saying a word, I entered the car.
The door closed behind me.
Cutting off their voices instantly.
The chauffeur looked at me through the mirror.
"Home, Miss Jay?"
I stared out the window.
At the people I'd trusted.
At the people who never really knew me.
At the boy who had broken my heart.
Then I looked away.
"Home."
The engine purred softly.
And moments later, the Mercedes-Maybach S680 pulled away from the school.
Leaving behind nothing but stunned silence.
And a truth they were nowhere near ready to understand.
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The cruelest part of betrayal wasn't losing someone you loved... it was realizing they never truly knew who you were in the first place.