Chapter Thirty Six. 

            Being by the fire with my girl was better than any night could ever get. With her arms wrapped around me, her head right on my chest, nothing felt better and she felt the exact same way. I could tell.

            “This vacation is amazing.” Casey said with a small grin, the one that made my heart stop beating just by looking at it. “Thank you for everything.”

            “Well you made it amazing.” I admitted truthfully. “You really did Casey and I mean that. I don’t think you know how much you mean to me but you’re pretty much everything.”

            “Scott…”

            “No. I mean that. I don’t tell you a lot but you’re an extremely special girl to me Case. I can’t picture myself with anyone else.”

            A different look in her eye emerged and no, I wasn’t planning on popping the question now, but I was trying to drop little hints to see what she’d do. Thankfully she didn’t seem frightened. Instead, she gently placed a kiss to my lips and turned her attention back on the fire until Mark came running up to us, a look of disbelief spread across his face.

            “Yo!” He laughed almost, his hands going onto his knees from being out of breath. “I just saw Reina making out with another dude.”

            “You what?” I asked, Casey sharing the same expression. “What the hell? Are you sure it wasn’t Justin?”

            “No dude I’m positive. This guy had black hair and like I didn’t want to interrupt them or anything but they walked off before I could say something. Justin’s probably pissed man. So much for his vacation.”

            “Oh god…” I said suddenly, standing up from the log. “Where the hell is Justin? Have you seem him Mark?”

            “No. He probably caught his bitch cheating.”

            “Hey.” Casey spat. “Don’t talk about her like that. I know Reina and I know how in love she is with him. This just doesn’t seem like something she’d do…”

            Pulling out my phone, I immediately dialed Justin’s number but of course it went straight to voicemail. I know exactly what he’s up to and I swear to god if I don’t stop it I will never forgive myself. He needs to cut this shit out.

            “I’m gonna check the suite.” I said quickly, shoving my phone into my pocket. “I’ll be back, okay?”

            “Wait. I’ll go with you.” Casey replied and stood up.

            “No. You uh, you can’t. I’ll explain later but I just need to go by myself. Mark look for Colby and see if he’s seen him too, alright?”

            “Um, sure? I don’t know why it’s so damn important but okay.”

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             When the hotel room opened I walked directly into the room they shared and heard the running water of the bathroom, the handle locked when I tried to open it. That’s when I knew I was way too late.

            “Justin!” I shouted, knocking loudly on the door. “Open the fucking door man. Now.”

            There was no response and for a second I started to think the worst and I tried to think of how the hell I could break this door down to somehow get in there. This hasn’t happened for about a month now but I know how much Reina means to him. I know how much this just killed him and I’m praying to God he didn’t take it as far as I’m thinking he did.

            “OPEN THE FUCKING DOOR!” I screamed. “I SWEAR TO GOD I’LL BREAK THIS SHIT DOWN IF-“

            The door opened and Justin was on the floor, blood covering the black and white tiles. It was covering the sink, it was covering his clothes, it was covering everywhere you could possibly imagine and I started to get nauseous, my hand covering my mouth from how fucking sad this was.

            “Holy shit.” I muttered, sinking down on the floor next to him. “Justin. C’mon man. You were doing so good.”

            “S-SHE FUCKING CHEATED SCOTT! DON’T SIT HERE AND FUCKING GIVE ME A PITY PARTY. DON’T SIT THERE AND SAY YOU’RE DISSAPOINTED. WE ALL KNEW THIS WAS COMING. WE ALL KNEW SHE WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE FOR ME. WE ALL FUCKING KNEW SO LET’S JUST CUT THE SHIT.”

            “Justin.” I said lowly, trying to look at his wrists. “That’s not true.”

            “THEN WHAT IS? YOU KNOW MAN? I’M SO FUCKIN HAPPY FOR YOU AND CASEY. WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT MARRIAGE AND SHIT LIKE THAT. YOU WANNA KNOW WHY I SAID I DIDN’T THINK ABOUT PROPOSING TO REINA? IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T FEEL LIKE SHE LOVED ME ENOUGH YET AND LOOK! LOOK AT HOW WEIRD THIS IS. SHE WAS SO UNINTERESTED IN ME THAT SHE WANTED TO SHOVE HER TONGUE DOWN SOME GOD DAMN WORTHLESS ASSHOLE SON OF A –“

            “Justin fuck, you’re bleeding so bad man.”

            It was literally pouring onto the bathroom floor and I tried to reach into my phone to call an ambulance but he grabbed the phone before I could and started to laugh. It wasn’t a good one though.

            “Don’t call them.” He chuckled. “Just let me go man. Just let me fuckin’ disappear so I don’t bother anyone anymore. Just let me bleed out on a bathroom floor in Las Vegas like some of the big timers do it, yeah? Let me be like them.”

            “Alright you know what? Cut this shit, Justin. You are one of the best guys I’ve ever met in my entire life and do you remember when I met you in the bathroom that year in high school? Do you remember when I caught you doing this? I told you that day that you’re worth so much more and dude, you are. I don’t care if that sounds sappy or not but if Reina can’t see what a cool funny ass guy you are then there are plenty of girls out there that can fill her role. You just need to find that one.”

            “But they aren’t her.” He whispered. For the first time I was seeing Justin cry. “I’ve never loved someone until I met her…”

            “And maybe Reina is still the one bro. But right now, I need you to let me help you. The wounds don’t look that deep but you need to let me at least bandage you and get you some water cause you look pale as shit. Come on.”

            Dragging him up from the floor, he could hardly walk but he allowed me to wrap some ace bandages around it and put pressure against the cuts until they started to not have such a heavy flow. It was silent between the two of us for the most part and when he got off of his high of cutting, when he came back to reality a little, he just looked dazed and in a state of complete and utter depression. He looked like he was before he met Reina.

            “Drink this.” I muttered, passing him a glass of water. “All of it.”

            He downed it without another word and then I passed him a sweatshirt to cover up the bandages. Colby and Mark didn’t know a thing about this but it was too late because just as Justin slid it over his body, Colby came running around the corner, stopping dead in his tracks when he saw all of the blood in the bathroom.

            “Jesus!” He winced. “What the fuck happened?”

            “Nothing Colby. What is it? Did Mark tell you to come up here?”

            “What? Uh, no. I haven’t seen him since the party started but Justin Reina was with this dude and-“

            “I know.” He muttered, the words coming out chilled and icy. “I saw her kiss him.”

            “No the dude fuckin’ slipped a pill in her drink. I was right there and she asked me where you were at but I didn’t know at the time so she said she’d try to find you and the dude followed her and he put the pill in her drink. I saw him do it.”

            Another side to Justin that I’ve never seen before started to emerge and his face was becoming redder, his fists were clenching, his mind going into some sort of altered state. I’ve never seen anything like it but I just know that this couldn’t be good.

            “AND YOU DIDN’T FUCKING STOP HIM!?” He seethed, pinning him up against the wall. “YOU LET HIM GO AFTER HER?”

            “I TRIED TO FIND YOU!” He yelled back. “YOU TOLD ME NOT TO GO FUCKING NEAR HER MAN!”

            Justin was so close to punching him and I could tell so I took Colby away from his grasp and stood in front of him to get in-between them.

            “Just go find her Justin.” I said. “Don’t waste time.”

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             I couldn’t find her anywhere. I was running around in circles as I tried to seek out her face but I always ended up at the same place I started. No part of me wants to think about what that guy is doing to her right now but all I want to do is just find her and hold her and keep her safe. I relapsed tonight thinking she cheated but she was on drugs and it wasn’t her fault. Some guy gave her a drug to make her vulnerable.

            Pushing out the thoughts in my mind, I headed towards the bonfire pit area to check for her but of course she wasn’t there either. You know, a part of me felt stupid for cutting without talking to her about it first but what was I supposed to think? Was I supposed to think that her kissing someone else was because she was drugged? I never saw the front of her. I never knew she was under the influence. I just assumed she cheated but god, I felt horrible about it now.

            Just when I was about to head in the other direction, I spotted her hair down farther by the hotel area on the sidewalk as she was trying to walk but she was stumbling and eventually she fell, scraping her knee and cussing once the skin split open and she started to bleed. We seemed to have a lot in common tonight but unfortunately for me, mine wasn’t an accident.

            “Reina!” I shouted, racing over to her as quickly as possible. “Are you okay? Oh my god come here.”

            Pulling her into my arms, I looked around to see if I could see the asshole that had spiked her drink but she was alone, her dress securely fastened but her hair a wreck. It didn’t seem like she got raped or anything but she was still out of it, the tears wet on her cheeks still from the tears she had been previously crying.

            “E-Everything’s spinning…” She slurred, swaying a little bit when we tried to walk some more. “I-I can’t see right…”

            Scooping her into my arms, I ignored the stinging of my cuts through the bandages and held her against my chest.       

            “Reina, talk to me.” I soothed. “Stay with me.”

            “You were uh… long…gone… for so long…” She tried to say.

            “I know and I’m so sorry. I was trying to find you but I couldn’t.”

            If only I had stayed longer maybe I could have stopped it but then again, when I found her she had already been drugged. I don’t think there was a way I could have stopped this.

            “Scott.” I said when I closed the door behind me. “What do I do? Do I call an ambulance?”

            Sitting with her on the sofa, I held her in my lap and brushed my thumb over her forehead to soothe out the wrinkles. She looked so sick and so tired. It killed me to have to see her like this.

            “Nah. She’s just out of it. If she starts to throw up or if she starts foaming at the mouth or some shit then call. She just needs to sleep it off.”

            “Well then we’re going straight to bed.” I said immediately, rising up from the couch. “Night guys.”

            “Uh, night Justin.”

            Scott was acting weird, like I knew he would. Obviously he doesn’t want to let on what happened to me to the rest of the guys but our fucking bathroom can explain everything. That place was a blood bath.

            “And what do you have p-planned for me…” She slurred, catching me off guard once we were alone in our room.

            “Planned? What are you talking about Reina?”

            “What way are you fucking me this time? Is that what this is for? Hm? So you can fuck me just like my dad did?”

            My heart stopped as soon as she said that and all I could do was place her gently onto the bed in silence and think of what to even say. Before I could though she started to speak again.

            “I-In my room at night he’d come in and he’d always say Reina, you know you’re my special little girl right? We don’t tell mommy about this right? Yeah, then he’d fuck my brains out and I’d c-cry and try to get away but he was just too damn strong for me.”

            She was laughing about this as if it wasn’t even that big of a deal and I’m finding out more about her past than I ever have just because she’s under the influence. It’s heartbreaking to know what she’s gone through.

            “I’m not here to have sex with you Reina. I’m going to take care of you, alright? Take your dress off. I’m just going to change you into some new clothes.”

            Actually hearing what I said, she shimmied out of her dress and I replaced it with a pair of my sweatpants and one of my sweatshirts, placing her underneath the covers before I headed into the bathroom to get her a glass of water. It was disgusting in here and to see the remains of what I did to myself sickened me. In that moment, I wasn’t even thinking about anything. All I could think about was that feeling of release.

            “Drink this.” I whispered gently. As soon as I walked over to where she was though she was already asleep, her body curled up into a tight little ball as some snores sounded into my ears. She looked so beautiful and so innocent. She deserved someone much better than me, who cuts himself at the slightest worry of her not loving him and she had no idea.

            Letting out a frustrated sigh, I placed the cup of water on her nightstand and went into the bathroom to try and erase every drop of blood from my relapse.

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