black•mail- the action, treated as a criminal offense
Two days until our crew's big trip to New York. I'm so nervous I have no idea how to react to this. "You excited about the trip, Branch?" Poppy looked up at me with her gorgeous blue eyes. I nodded as we continued to walk to chemistry. "Branch. I'm sorry about the whole Creek thing," She said as we took our seats. "It's cool Poppy. But, why him. Out of all the guys in the school, why him?" This, I really wanted to know. "I was turnt on. Puppy love that's all." She looked away quickly and curled her lip, she wasn't telling the truth. Out of nowhere, Cheryl comes through the door standing on the teacher's desk. "Come to my party, bitches. You won't regret!" This girl needs to get her shit together. "Why don't we go?" Poppy asked. "Parties aren't my thing." If you couldn't tell already, I'm VERY standoffish. "Well Branch, it's time to step out of your comfort zone." I sighed heavily. "Poppy..." She gave me her world famous puppy dog eyes. "Pleaseeee Branch. For me?" I groaned loudly and agreed with whatever shit she was dragging me into.
After school we went home and Poppy practically destroyed me closet. "Jesus Poppy, what the hell are you doing?" She popped up from the huge pile of clothes on the floor and pulled out a shirt then threw it at me. "Wear that." I was a bit puzzled, but did it anyway. A few minutes later I came out of the bathroom with the shirt she gave me. "It looks good on you, Branch. But..." She began to unbutton my shirt which made me have a burning sensation in the pit of my stomach. "You were too buttoned up. You look hot though." I felt like Cupid shot my with a freaking rifle. Poppy pulled out her phone from her pocket and dialed a number. "Hey, Suki. Girl are you there?!" Suki burst through the door with a shitload full of clothes. I quickly walked to GD's dorm not wanting to get in the way of their 'lady business.'

*poppy*
"So, you and Branch huh?" Suki had this little devious smirk on her face. "We're just friends, Dj!" I nudged her arm, laughing. "I only like him as a friend." Lie. "We're only friends, nothing more." Also a lie. "Wow. You're one bad liar. I saw you two kiss before, it was spicy!" She laughed. "It was a dare!" She could tell I was lying about everything that had come out of my mouth. I guess she decided to ignore it. "Oh M f-ing G! Wear these jeans and this shirt. They're so you!" I took the outfit and put it on. Wow, She was right, they are so me. Looks like I'm ready.

~time skip to the party, oOf~

Me, Suki, and Branch entered the frat house. Drinking, sex, and the smell of cocaine filled the air. "I gonna go vape. If I look too high take me home, okay?" Suki asked. I nodded my head as she walked over to a large group of people vaping. I never had drugs before, I mean, even if I did my parents wouldn't care, but I still choose to be drug free. "Poppy, Branch! Come play with us!" Roxanne shouted from across the rather large building. She was totally high and I need to make sure she doesn't get wasted tonight. "We're playing Seven minutes in Heaven." Just my luck. I saw some blonde girl whisper into Cheryl's ear. Cheryl smirked. "Poppy and Creek, in the closet." Well shit. Creek tried to hold my hand but I slapped it away. "Don't you fucking touch me you bastard." The group of kids laughed but I just rolled my eyes. I heard the door lock behind us. I sat on the ground and fiddled with my hair. Creek came closer to me. "If you try to make a move on me, Creek, I'll end you." He threw his hands up and scooter back. There was nothing but silence for like 30 seconds. "Can we at least be friends?" He asked. I ignored. "Poppy!" When will this nightmare end? "Maybe we could, if you weren't such a snake." He came weirdly closer to me. "Give me one more chance." I took a deep breath and looked him straight in the eye. "No." He was pissed. He stormed out of the closet even though our time wasn't up. That felt good! Standing up to a bigger person was not the type of thing I usually do. "Damn Poppy what did you do? He couldn't handle your freakiness?" Cheryl basically slut shamed me. "No Cheryl, he couldn't handle your bullshity preschool games." The crowd laughed once more. She gave me the stink eye and flipped her hair, oh well. After a few more rounds everyone danced. Suki and I chatted on the free seats, Branch also. Something hit me at that moment. "Where's Roxie?" Branch pointed from behind me. Creek was taking her up to a bedroom, and she was totally drunk. I couldn't let this happen. I tried to run between the crowd, and it was about 2 minutes until I got up there. It was three rooms but I didn't know which one they were in. I opened the first door, it was two naked guys on top of each other. "Sorry!" I slammed the door closed and went straight to the third room. When I opened the door Creek was trying to undress Roxanne. "Get away from her!" I shoved him away. I helped her from the bed and tried to guide her out the room. "I hope you know that I'm telling the whole school that you're a rapist." Creek grabbed my arm. "If you tell anyone about this, I'll tell the whole school it was you who drank those bottles of whiskey." I gasped slightly. He threw Roxie on the bed and continued to undress her. I tried grabbing her put he shoved me into the door, making me hit my head. All I could see was total blur. I saw him put Roxie's clothes back on. "You're next sweetheart."

No one got raped, so please don't go attacking me, okay?