Chapter Nine: Everybody Hurts

TW: ⚠️
- mentions of bullying
- mentions of rape
- mentions of abuse
- mentions of racism

*March 2024*

Zelda is released from the hospital she survives after she got shot. However, as soon as she got back in the dorm with her parents at nighttime to make sure she was safe on campus. She's taking out the phone and texting the group:

Zelda: *text* I'm back, bitches.

Zelda is putting her phone away to prepare for sleeping until the next day. When her parents taking care of Zelda already and giving her goodbye since they've staying in the hospital for a couple of days with her.

One night, A man named, Juniper. He was doing drugs with the other people until a white car pulled over nicely and slowly when he was going to come over to the car.

Juniper: What do you need? I ain't running enough for sale yet.

Unknown: *takes out the gun and shoots his head*

Juniper: *dead*

Unknown: *drives away faster*

The next day, Zelda wakes up in the morning time when she looks at Chloe making breakfast for Zelda Chloe turns around and hears something and it is Zelda who wakes up.

Chloe: Hi. *smiles softly*

Zelda: Hi. Are you cooking for me?

Chloe: Sure I am. You don't have to get up and cook it. As long as you outta the hospital, it should be better when you walk again.

Zelda: *hearing*

Chloe: *finished cooking and gives the food to her* Here you go.

Zelda: Thanks. *quietly and grabs the food with the tray*

Chloe: *sits on the bed and holds her hand* How are you feeling?

Zelda: I'm just getting better as always.

Chloe: Zelda, let me tell you something.

Zelda: What is it?

Chloe: I feel like it's almost Spring Break and I was wondering if we could go to the water or head to a different big city.

Zelda: I gotta see, Chloe. *starts eating breakfast*

Chloe: *watching her*

Later, Jason, Tabby, and Blue are hanging out in the cafeteria while chilling, eating, and doing homework together which is why they are on the same page. While the three of them are talking about very important updates to give some good news for the group.

Tabby is looking at Jason's hoodie when she teaches him about the many colors of hoodie he's been wearing every day and it seems like two siblings love to wear the colorful one. He's been wearing navy blue.

Blue: Do you have any kind of urban hoodie either I could wear yours. *looks at Jason*

Tabby: No, no, no. I'm going to get my own.

Blue: Good for you. Speaking of the devil, you should get paid for the tuition when it comes first.

Tabby: Duh, I was. Jason is paid by his dad.

Blue: OK. That is nothing to concern about him. I'm talking about getting paid.

Jason: Both of you just...shut the fuck up. Please? Both of you getting paid and making decisions for each other for granted. Especially, Blue, you're over here talking a bunch of assholes like you still with this group. Remember, no fighting?

Tabby: Jason, we are not fighting at all.

Blue: We're good, bruh.

Tabby: Yeah bruh.

Jason: Y'all better not.

Cameron: *runs to the cafeteria and came over to them* Guys, you gotta see this shit. This is strange. *running to the lounge*

Jason, Tabby, and Blue: *follows Cameron and sees the breaking news*

News reporter: *on the TV* "We have breaking news in Atlanta, one of the losses from Georgia State University student named, Roger Wilton was found dead in the hotel room on his birthday. The result was he had a drug overdose before his friends found him in the room and rushed him to the hospital after calling 9-1-1".

Tabby recognize him and that she got raped by Roger at a party last fall was his boyfriend who dating him since last September. She feels relieved that Roger has died when she feels surprised she reacted to the news. When somebody is reacting to the news in the same way, they've been breaking down, tearing, and crying at the same time.

Once Tabby walks away in the lounge Jason notices that she is taken off before he follows her.

Tabby: Jason, I don't wanna hear about him.

Jason: No, it's not. Let's get out here for a while. Come to the aquarium.

Tabby: *hearing*

*Georgia Aquarium*

Jason and Tabby are watching the sea when the fishes and sharks go around the water when they are feeling calm and quiet while Tabby is doing a little much better and Jason is looking at her.

Jason: You know what, I want all of you guys in the meeting in my room tonight.

Tabby: Is there something important to tell us?

Jason: Come over. I've just answered a different question.

Tabby: *hearing and keeps looking at the fish*

Later that night, the rest of The Enforcers Club came into Jason's room to sit on the floor with the circle in the living room after they got there on time at 8 p.m. Jason asked them to get some coffee and they said yes or no. He pours a couple of the cups and gives them to the coffee and has his own too and joins them.

Jason: As an adult, all of you guys just saw it on the news earlier today. When you remember the guy who raped Tabby from the party. She just feels proud and stands up for herself. I kinda give her credit for my opinion when we were doing our homework together right after class every day.

Tabby: *looks at him*

Kacy: *holds Tabby's hand*

Blue: Which is why this is for my sister who protecting. The way I punched him multiple times. He deserves anything for bad influence.

Jason: True. Now, anything else you would like to address for bad experiences from the past?

Renee: I have a little difficult experience. *raises her hand*

Jason: *hearing*

Renee: I'm here to make it very clear I don't want you guys to get pissed or upset.

All: *hearing*

Renee: I was usually taking care of myself but unfortunately, I've been hanging around with my friends since freshman year until a girl group came up to us three times we were trying to defend ourselves and they were trying to blame me for this bullshit. And all of that, we are no longer being friends because of these motherfuckers. I will have to take a punch for the next day, and that's that. I just sent it to the principal office and it was suspended. My parents made me promise that no more fighting, the girls sought revenge all over me and I was attacked in the bathroom. I survived. They got themselves expelled for brutally attacking me.

Simon: I've never told y'all about this situation. When I was a teen, my mother passed away from breast cancer. Cameron, me, and our dad have been through a lot because he's been drinking and doing drugs. That I don't know if I'm gonna stop him when my mom is gonna make this shit worse.

Sam: When I was graduating from middle school right before high school, as soon as my mom called from Sargeant, it said, my father just died in a helicopter. He's a real soldier man. I was feeling shy from the beginning of high school and I tried to let myself go when I was traumatized because of my father's death.

Luke: My best friend passed away from heart complications when I was 16. We've been friends since kindergarten.

Oscar: Like, to be honest, we don't have any problems in the experience.

Chloe: Yeah, both of us are cool.

Tabby: Are you sure you guys ain't gonna tell us the story?

Chloe: Listen, nothing happened. Ain't never been.

Zelda: I have so many feelings from the past. I got kicked out because I've been hanging out with guys in trap house. They wonder if it is supposed to give us a drug while we're stuck in this house. I was the only one who was trapped in there and the boy started hitting me. Later, I just woke up and escaped out of the house while everyone was sleeping and tried to contact my family since I got back home. I owe my parents apologize for all that.

Kacy: I have been abused by my parents around the time since I was 12 to 17. Long story to tell when I became a bad influence but I had to defend myself, my father came up to my room and beat me with the belt after I got the certificate which I earned. My dad ain't saying shit only cares about my mom. She didn't go crazy on me that much. I just sent my dad to rehab without telling my mom so I won't say anything. He's better a little bit.

Blue: I'm used to protecting my sister without affecting my personal life. She's been going through tough from the past. And so do I.

Tabby: *looks at Jason* Jason, got any past?

Jason: In last two years ago, my friends and I were getting ice cream parlor until an employee came up to us and talked about black people's issues. Believe me, I have a couple of white friends, Hispanic, and Black. I don't feel like pushing myself away if I get kicked out for being racist. We all decided to go to the diner once I stopped at home, the cops just pulled over and said, "We need to see your ID". My mother came outside on the porch with the baseball bat when she tried to hit the cop I was going to stop her but the cop just shot her in cold blood.

Zelda: I saw it on the news.

Cameron: Me too, man.

Tabby: *rubbing his back* I'm sorry about your mom. I just saw it also. I'm glad, they are guilty and giving out justice.

All: I saw it.

Jason: *looking at them*

Tabby: *hugs Jason* We're here for you.

Blue: *hugs Jason*

The rest of the gang gives Jason a group hug while they're standing with him.

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