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Arielle's POV

It was finally 8th period, which meant that I finally got to go to Jennifer's apartment, and I was honestly shitting myself. What if she notices the hickey and asks who gave it to me? Should I tell her the truth or lie? I mean telling her "Hey, Mrs.Dixson and I almost had sex and the hickey was a result of that." right when I enter her apartment would be dumb.

"Hey Ari do you wanna come over to my house?" Jaylin asked interrupting me from my thoughts.
"Nah, I can't today I have to...go shopping with my sister." I lied. For some reason I didn't want to tell Jaylin that I was blowing her off just to go and see her cousin.
"Oh, really? All right then."
"Yea, I'll just FaceTime you later." I said to her.
"Alright, bye Arielle." She said and the walked away.

Great, now I feel bad for blowing off my best friend. I thought to myself.
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"So how was school?" Jennifer asked.
"It was fine." I answered. I was currently in Jennifer's apartment trying to look not to suspicious with a turtle neck on to cover up the hickey.
"Really?" She asked suspiciously.
"Positive..." I answered her.

She moved closer to me on the couch, making no space between us.
"Why are you wearing that turtle neck?" She asked.
"Because I was...cold?" I answered.
"You were cold?" She asked and I nodded my head yes.
"Arielle what are you hiding underneath that turtleneck?
"Nothing...why would I be hiding anything?" I asked growing nervous.

"So if you're not hiding anything, you won't mind taking of the turtleneck then."
"What?" I asked like I didn't understand what she said.
"Take. Off. The turtleneck." She said.
"Oh yea...okay." I said.

I started to slowly lift off the turtleneck, but stopped when it was about to uncover my neck.
"What's stopping you, Arielle?" Jennifer asked.
"Nothing my arms just got...tired." I made up.
"Really? Well you should hurry up." She rushed.
"Alright." I whined.

Might as well get this over with. I thought to myself as I lifted the turtle neck off of me completely.

I prepared myself for Jennifer asking me "Where did I get that hickey?" and "Who gave it to you?" But those questions didn't come, it was just complete silence.

She just sat there staring, looking between me and the hickey.
"Explain." She finally said.
"What?" I asked confused.
"I said explain." Jennifer said.
"Well-" I started but then she cut me off saying "And don't give me that dropped my flat iron excuse because your hair isn't straightened today."

"Well Ms.Rose-" I started but then she cut me off again and said "Annabelle did this?! I swear the next time I see her-"

"No she didn't! Can you just let me finish my story and I'll answer your questions later." I said to her.
She nodded her head so I continued.

"Ms.Rose sent me to the vice principal's office and one thing led to another and...this happened, but I swear it wasn't my fault." I said.
"Did you touch her?" Jennifer asked her voice breaking.
"No, not at all. At first we were just talking and then she just started kissing me and... I'm sorry Jennifer."

She stayed silent for awhile and then said "It's okay." I looked at her shocked and asked "What?"
"It's fine Arielle, at least...you didn't touch her."
"Thank you Jennifer."
"I guess this is what he meant when he said favorite student." She mumbled to herself.
"Who said what about a favorite student?" I asked her.

Jennifer stayed silent for a while, like she was contemplating telling me.
"Jennifer..." I said trying to encourage her to tell me.
"Did you and Mrs.Dixson have sex in the past? Jennifer blurted out.

Sex? With Mrs.Dixson?"

"What? No, where did you hear that?"
"Well, I didn't hear it anywhere but it was kinda...implied."
"Who told you this?" I asked her.
"Well, when I took Mason to the office he said something about you being her favorite student."  Jennifer explained
"Okay, so where did you get Arielle and Mrs.Dixson had sex out of favorite student?"  I asked.
"It was the way he said favorite student."
"How did he say it?" I asked her.
"Like if someone was to say you were my favorite student." She said.

I stayed silent for a while and then said "I don't know why he would say that, I've never done anything with her."
"Until today." She added.
"Yea right... the only thing I can think of is that I visited her office everyday sophomore year." I told her.
"Why?" She asked.
"Because of the whole thingy that happened, and Mrs.Dixson has a degree in psychology so they thought that seeing her everyday would help me somehow."

"Just talking?" Jennifer asked.
"Just talking." I answered.
"So what did Mason mean by 'favorite student'?" She asked.
"I don't know you would have to ask him." I said to her. She nodded and then changed the topic.
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It was around 9 p.m. and I was leaving Jennifer's apartment.
"Bye Jen." I said to her.
"Do you really have to go" she whined.
"Yes Jennifer I do. Bye." I said.
"Bye love." She said and gave me a quick peck on the cheek.
I walked away and out of the apartment.

I walked only a few steps into a shortcut alleyway Jennifer's apartment when I felt someone tap my shoulder.
"Yes?" I asked as I turned around.
I then felt 2 hands push me up against the wall causing me to hit my head. I slid down on the wall with my legs spread out. "Fuck." I said to myself as I felt my head start to throb. I put my hand on the part of my head that got hit and felt wetness. I took my hand off of the spot and looked and it and saw it was covered it blood.

"Hey Ella." I heard a voice that I knew all to well say to me.
"What do you want Mason?" I asked him.
"You." He said taking my left leg and sitting on it. Pain starting to spread through my leg.
"Mason get off of my leg." I said clenching my teeth to try and control not screaming in pain.
"Not just yet." He said taking something out of his pocket.

He waved the thing in my face and said "You remember this? Does this bring back memories?"
It was the knife he used the day we went to that party.

He flicked it open showing me the blade. He quickly brought his hand with the knife in it down and stabbed my knee. He kept the knife there and said "So little Ella has been fucking her teacher." He moved the knife in my knee downwards, making me release a loud scream.
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Jennifer's POV:
It's been a few minutes since I saw Arielle off at the door when I heard a girl's scream.

Is that Arielle? I thought to myself.
My fear got to the best of me and I quickly left my apartment and headed in the direction of the scream. I walked a few steps and saw an alleyway so I went in there and the sight I saw could've almost made my heart stop.

"Arielle?" I asked.

And there she was. I saw Arielle laying on a wall. Blood was on one of her hands and her left leg had a huge gash with blood seeping out of it. I rushed over to her side and saw that see was unconscious. I took out my phone and dialed 911. They said that they would be there in at about 10 minutes. I hung up and starting to shake Arielle.

"Arielle wake up." I said and shook her lightly. "Arielle." I said and shook her again. This time she opened her eyes a little.
"Who did this to you Arielle?" I asked softly.
"Ma-Mason... I wanna go back to sleep now." She said.
"No, Arielle stay up!" I said.
"But I'm tired." She said and then closed her eyes.

About 5 minutes later I heard sirens and the Ambulance was here. They took Arielle on a stretcher and said that I could ride with her, so I did.
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When we got to the hospital the medics immediately took her to the Emergency Room. I waited for about 30 minutes and I heard voices by the front desk. When I looked I saw Arielle's family there. Her mom, I think her name was Lissandra, was crying, with Arielle's father, her husband, consoling her. Adrianna and Amanda were also there. Adrianna and Amanda slightly waved at me and sat with their mom and dad.

About an hour later a nursed came out of the room Arielle's surgery was in.
"Excuse me, how is Arielle?" Arielle's mom asked.
"May I ask what is your relationship with the patient?" The nurse asked.
"I'm her mother." Lissandra said.
"Well some sort of impact to her head caused trauma to her brain making the it swollen. So we have to remove a part of her skull, because the brain is putting force on her skull since it is swollen, to let the brain expand as much as it needs to." The nurse said.
"Alright? So?" Lissandra asked.
"Can we shave off the part of her hair that we need to do the surgery?" The nurse asked.

Lissandra stayed silent and then answered "No."
"But Mrs.Agostinelli it would be best to shave off her head so that we can do the surgery to the best of our ability." The nurse said shocked.
"As I said before do not shave her head." Arielle's mom said.
"Okay Mrs.Agostinelli, Ms.Kate is the best neurosurgeon here, your daughter is in great hands." The nurse said.
"Thank you." Arielle's mom said and let the nurse go.
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Three hours later the nurse came out and allowed Arielle's family to see her. I waited for 30 minutes and all of her family except for Adrianna left the room, then a few minutes later she came out the room and sat down next to me.

"Is she okay?" I asked Adrianna immediately.
"Wow, hello to you too." Adrianna said sarcastically.
"Is she okay?" I repeated since she didn't answer my question the first time.
"Yea..she's gonna be okay, my sister's a fighter."
"Can I see her?" I asked Adrianna.
"Sure." She said getting up and walking over to Arielle's room, and I quickly followed after her. Adrianna opened the door and said "I'll leave you two alone."

I walked into the room and she closed to door behind me. I looked over at Arielle and tears started to form in my eyes. She had bandages wrapped around her head and stitches on her jaw. Her leg was in a cast and was being held up.

"Hey Arielle." I said walking over to her.
"Hi Ms.Murphy." Arielle said.

Why the hell is she calling me Ms.Murphy? I thought to myself.

"Arielle?" I asked stepping closer to her bed.
"You can stop right there." Arielle said to me.
I stopped in my tracks and looked over at Arielle and saw that she wasn't looking at me.

"Arielle what's wrong?" I asked.
"I think we should stop seeing each other." She answered, still not looking at me.
"What? Arielle where is this coming from?"
Arielle turned to look at me and tears were falling from her eyes. "Do you see how I look right now?" She asked.
"If this is about you thinking that I won't want you now that's not true I-"
"It's not that." Arielle said cutting me off.

We both stayed silent for a while, not one of us daring to speak.
"He threatened to kill you." Arielle said quietly.
"What? Who?" I asked confused.
"Mason, he said if I continued to see you, he would do things to you...much worse than what he's done to me." She said.
"Arielle I don't care I won't let him hurt me or you." I said desperately to her.
"No!" She yelled out. "If anything happened to you, because of me, I don't know if I would be able to live with myself." She said.

"Arielle..." I said extending my hand out to reach her.
"Just go...please." Arielle said and then turned in the opposite direction.

I followed her wishes and left that room. As soon as I was outside and sat down on one of the chairs I started to cry. While I was crying I felt arms wrap around me and hold me, but I didn't care to see who it was, I just continued to cry.

I cried and cried and cried, until I physically couldn't anymore.