I knocked on E.J’s door, and he answered after a few minutes.

“Vanessa.” He said.

“E.J can…”I couldn’t speak another word, tears filled my eyes at the thought of all that as happened. E.J sighed and then pulled me into a hug. I put my arms around him, he all the sudden lifted me off my feet, took me to his room and laid me down on the bed. He let me go and went to the other side.

E.J’s P.O.V

We laid there staring at each other, not moving nor talking. But every now and then she would cry, and mumble how she hated her life.

I have admired how strong she is in the past, but now she all weak and vulnerable. It makes my heart sink, seeing her like this.  I wanted to make her feel better, but with every tear she cries I get more and more confused on how to make her stop and be happy. So I just laid there with her, watching her cry and not saying a thing.

The room became dark with time, but never once even through the darkness, did we lose eye contact.

Before I knew it, the sun was coming up; I was able to see her face. You could tell she was crying all night with her red eyes, and wet face.  I sighed, and she wiped away her tears, for the first time. I watched as she cleared her throat and opened her mouth to speak.

“I had a brother,” she said. “And his name was Bait, and he was my dad’s favorite child, they did everything together. Of course every time Bait did something wrong he was told not to do it again, that’s it, no punishment just a simple, don’t do it again. Yet when I did something wrong I was told to go to my room and not come out till they said so. It seemed so unfair back then…

 “One day our parents told us to go to the backyard and play some soccer, we knew that when they said that, they were about to argue. So we went outside, and Bait threw the ball at my face, I got mad at him and told him I hate him and hope he died. He just laughed at me, I heard our parents yell louder and louder. So I kicked the ball towards the net and walked over to the kitchen window to hear what they were saying. I heard Bait run after the ball, and then call out my name…but I ignored him. I told him from behind to be quiet.” She cried, but then made herself stop, to finish the story.

“When I couldn’t understand what they were arguing about, I turned and saw that…Bait had gotten caught in the soccer net…his whole face was blue…I ran to him, to see his eye were large and he was…lifeless. I ran and got my parents. The ambulance got there and tried to bring him back, but they said it was too late…My parents divorced 3 months later. I went to live with my mom…but after a couple of months she started to drink. She would come home at all hours of the day and night, unable to walk straight, it was so bad that I would have to make my own dinner, and take care of her as she would throw up and pass out everywhere. I never once told her what she was doing was wrong, because I was thinking how what she was going through, was my fault. I mean Bait was calling my name, over and over…I told him to be quiet.”

“It wasn’t your fault.” I said, she nodded and continued with her story.

“I told my dad I wanted to live with him after a while, he agreed. So I went to live with him, after a month or so he asked me one night to play basketball with him. I said yes, and every day after that he and I would play basketball…He trained me.

“A little while after that I was put on my school’s basketball team. After a while I realized why my dad taught me to play basketball…I knew he dreamed that Bait would be some kind of basketball star, when Bait died…I think he lost that dream he held on to, but when he saw me, he thought that he can continue this dream through me…” She sighed.

“I am sorry-“She cut me off, by telling me about the dad, Stephanie and how Stephanie cheated on her dad. She even mentioned Adrian, she said he was her friend, but something about the way she said that made me think there was more too it. But I didn’t ask...

“My dad came into town a few days ago; he was trying to explain some things to me. I was mad at him for suggesting that I go live with my mom, so I ignored him…” She sobbed. “My mom told me he…he…he’s dying…I ignored him…” I get it now. She ignored Bait’s call for help when he was dying, and her dad comes into town and tries to tell her he is dying and she ignores him. Damn, no wonder she is sad, I moved closer to her. I touched her cheek, wiping the tears way from her face.

Vanessa’s P.O.V

He touched my face, wiping my tears away again. I stare into his eyes, and then my eyes travel; to his lips. And I have this feeling that I really, really want to kiss him. I lean in to kiss him on the lips, and he kiss me back. The kiss was wet and sloppy, but perfect at the same time, it turned me on even more. His kiss travels down to my neck, he slightly rubbed his teeth on my neck lightly, I moaned in pleasure. He then grabbed me by my waist and pulled me on top of him. He looked at me with a lustful smile. I felt his warm hands travel in and around my shirt.  I yanked off his shirt and threw it across the room. He smiled and took off my shirt and threw it across the room with his shirt. I gave him a smirk and went back to kissing him.

I stood up and he looked at me with sadness, I just smiled and slowly took off my pants, which made him smile at me. I threw my pants across the room with our other cloths.

I stood there and looked at him; I motioned for him to come here. He stood up and I kissed him and then I took off his pants, but not once did I stop kissing him. Once we were bare, he grabbed me by my waist tossed me on the bed. I knew what I was doing as I pulled him down to my lips …But I didn’t care at that moment in time what E.J and I were doing…I just wanted E.J to take my pain away…

A little while later

I rolled over in the bed and glanced at the alarm clock and saw it was 3:15; once again I missed school, oh well. I looked at E.J’s sleeping body, I smiled. I was about to kiss him on his cheek when my phone ring tone for a text message went off.

You’re not at school today… P.S it’s Elasha.

I know. I had some family issues.

Can you meet us at the school’s park ASAP?

I sighed thinking about it for a minute.

I am in the middle of something. Can I just meet up with you later?

I waited a minute and then she replied.

Please, it is an emergency…

I glanced over at E.J and then decided to go,

Okay.

…but wait did she say us? I shook my head, got ready, and headed to the park. When I got there the park was empty, so I sat on a swing. The movement of the swing calmed my nerves about all that has happened in the past 24 hours, with my dad and mom. I guess I am glad I am meeting Elasha, maybe I can tell her what’s going on, but all the sudden I felt someone grab the swing, making me stop. I heard a male laugh from behind me, I thought it might be Parker or Grubber because Elasha did say us…but when I turned around I was shocked.

“Victor!” I said and then got off the swinging. He smiled at me. I stepped back, but then bumped into someone; I spun around and saw one of Victor’s boys.

“I was worried that you would check the number of the cell phone and find that it was not Elasha’s phone, but I guess you are not that smart.” Says Victor as he comes closer to me, I tried to run, but Victor’s boy stopped me. “I am wondering, have ever heard rumors about me around school?” Victor asked, I was not trying to pay attention to him and what he was saying. All I was focused on was getting out of the grip of this guy, who seemed unfazed by all my kicks and jerking movements. “He won’t let you go no matter what you do.” I look at Victor and sighed, giving up on trying escaping, for now. Victor smiled when he noticed I was not fighting to get free anymore…but if he thinks I am not going to kick his butt when I get my first chance, he has another thing coming. I don’t give in that easy. “I tried to hide my past from you, so I can tell you personally.”

“Why would you want to tell me personally?” I asked.

“Because when I tell you, I want to feel the fear, I want you to scream for help, knowing you’re my next victim, and your little boy toy E.J will not be here to save you. You’re Mine.” I then went wide eyed, I remember someone saying that to me on my first day…it was…him.

“Tell me what you want to tell me, and let me go so I can kick your butt!” I said. Victor laughed…

“No one truly knows who I am; see I am a leader of a small gang here. And let’s just say we like to…” all the sudden Victor took a knife out of his pocket, and eyed it, then me. “Play.” I looked at him with anger; he was crazy to think I was going to let him do anything to me.  Victor walked closer to me and then put the knife to my neck. “E.J made a huge mistake when he messed with me…and you made such a stupid mistake for not kissing me.” He says. He backs up for a minute and then looked at the guy that was holding me. “Let her go, Franklin.” Victor said.

“But Boss-“

“I said let her go!” The guy released his grip from me. “Now, Franklin, you may leave.”

“But-“

“I said leave!” Franklin nodded and walked away.

“That was very stupid of you.” I said to Victor, he smiled then grabbed my arm.

“That’s what you think, now.” Victor grabbed my hand and led me to school; he opened the doors and dragged me down hallways.

“You know they have things called video cameras. Plus I am sure that they have alarms and they have been alerted that someone is trespassing. Only a matter of time before the police gets here. Not only that but school has been out for, what two hours? There are still people here.” I stated.

“No one is here, the school is empty.”

“How did you manage that?” I asked.

“I have my ways; after all I am not dumb like the idiot you’re dating.”

“Ha-ha, yeah right. E.J is smarter than you will ever be and might I say he is cuter.” Victor spun around and looked at me.

“I have killed, raped, and beaten multiple people…I have a knife and we are currently in an empty school, all alone, so I think now is not the moment to be running your trashy mouth.” He gripped me tighter and pushed me down halls. Hearing what he has done made me….scared, and I am not one to be scared.

“I-is that what you are doing to d-do to me?” I asked trying to stay calm. All he did was chuckle.

“What would a victim be if they didn’t suffer in some way?” With that he tossed me into the teacher’s room. I ran to the back, creating distance between us, he just laughed at me and stood at the front of the room.

“Why are you doing this to me?” I asked.

“I want to get revenge for what E.J did recently, and I want to get back at what Parker, E.J and you did to me. But my problem is I can’t hurt Parker and E.J.”

“What did E.J do to you?”

“Well you see, I was in love-“I cut him off.

“Omigosh you have a heart?” I said, Victor glared at me.

“I was in love with her, but one day when I came home she was having a little too much fun with E.J.” A knot formed in my throat, I didn’t like the thought of E.J with someone else. “If I could, I would have killed the bastard right then and there, but I can’t lay a finger on him.”

“You beat him up a couple of days ago, when you tried to forcefully get me to kiss you.”

“Yeah, I let my anger slip, won’t happen again.”

“Why can’t you hurt E.J?” I asked.

“Ha-ha, wow they really haven’t told you everything. I am Parker and E.J’s half brother.  We have the same mom, and when she died, she made me promise her that I would not hurt them. I am not one to break promises.” He said, I could tell he was hurt when it came to his mom. His expression went from hurt to anger. He started to walk towards me. I backed up, and then my back hit a desk. I put my hands behind my back and felt around the desk, not breaking eye contact with Victor as he got closer and closer to me. Finally my fingers found what I was looking for. He approached me, when he and I were inched from each other he held the knife to my throat. “So delicate, with one swift movement I can cut you. You will bleed out, and die. But see I think death should be taken in; it should be slow and painful.”

“Go to hell.” I blurted out.

“In due time…in due time.” He said as he softly trailed the knife down my neck, to my chest. “This is going to be fun.” He said with greedy eyes. I smiled at him.

“I don’t think in about 10 seconds you will be saying that,” he gave me confused look. I then threw my hand from behind my back and stabbed his collarbone. He stumbled back and saw that I had take some scissors and stabbed him. I took this chance and ran out of the classroom. I reached the end of the hallway when I saw one of Victor’s boys coming my way. I dashed down some stairs and ran as fast as I could out of the school. I was at my car when I heard someone yell.

“Get her!” I knew it was Victor, and I could tell there where people running after me. But I was able to get in my car and lock it. A whole bunch of angry guys were surrounding my car. I went start the car, but then all the guys took out knives and slashed my tires. I knew I could go nowhere with flat tires, crap! I sighed, I was trapped. Realization hit me, my phone. I pulled it out of my pocket, and pressed one, knowing my mom was speed dial number one. As it rang I was startled by a loud sound beside me. I saw Victor with a large iron wrench, and he was trying to smash my window.

“Hello?” I heard a male’s voice say. Wait, that’s not my mom’s voice.

“E.J?” I said in a shocked tone of voice.

“Hey, where are you?” He asked. “I woke and-“

“I have no time to explain, I need you to call the police,” All the sudden Victor had broke my window, “I am at the school, Victor has me!” Victor reached and grabbed me by my hair. “Help!” I yelled, and the accidently dropped the phone. Shit!

Victor pulled me out of the window, by my hair and shirt. While he was doing this, the guys around me were laughing.

“You bastard! E.J is going to personally kill you!”

“I like to see him try, because I might not be able to hurt him, but I never said my boys couldn’t.” Victor said as he released my hair and shirt. I kicked him in the crotch and he let me go. I laughed at him.

“Who is laughing at who now?” I said, but as soon as I said that I was the one in pain; I had not known what happened, but the back of my head was hurting and a second later everything went black.

I moaned as I rolled over, my head was in so much pain. I was afraid to open my eyes, thinking I might still be near Victor. So I keep my eye closed and tried to listen to my surroundings. Nothing, all I could hear was silence. I slowly opened my eyes, and realized after a minute or two were I was.

“How are you feeling?” I turned to the side of the bed and saw E.J.

“My head is killing me…What happened?” I asked, E.J stood up and walked to the door.

“You hungry? I can make you some soup.”

“I’m not hungry; I want to know what happened.” I state, he sighed and opened the door.

“I am going to go make you some soup.” With the he left his bedroom. I laid there in his bed, knowing that when he gets back I am going to demand answers!

I am hoping you liked it! I know at first you might have been thinking, did Victor actually go that far just because she wouldn’t kiss him? But if you believe that’s the only reason why he went this far, then you don’t know me at all…I am serious though, tell me what you think!

Sneak Peek at next Week’s Chapter:

 “So are you going to tell me what happened, after I blacked out?” I asked E.J before I took a bite of my soup. E.J sighed and looked at me.

“What do you want to know?” He asked, I was becoming worried about what had happened.

“What happened after I blacked out?!” I repeated.

“I came to the school and kicked his butt.” I looked at E.J.

“Are you also in…in a gang?” E.J started to laugh at me.

“N-no! Ha-ha.” He said.

“Umm okay…I can’t believe he went that far.”

“That’s Victor for you, but no worries…he...he’s in jail.”

“Jail!”

“Yeah, and along with his gang friends, he will be in there for a long time, they said they have been trying to get a hold of him for a while.”

“Don’t they know that he goes to school?” I said.

“Somehow he was able to escape being caught…I think it’s time to get you home.” E.J said. I looked at him, he seems upset about something. I stood up and went to him. He just stood there, making no eye contact.

“E.J what’s wrong?” I asked. He still was not looking at me. “E.J?” I said again. I went to kiss him on his lips, but he pulled away. “E.J what the hell?”

“I think it’s time you go home, I can drive you.” Was all he said, it was pissing me off that he was not making eye contact.

“You know what, no need for the ride I can get a cab.” I said as I walked out of his room and outside.

As I got out of the cab, I saw in the drive way a car…Adrian’s car! I raced inside, only to find that my mom and Adrian where both sitting in the living room, talking and laughing.

“What’s going?” I asked. They turned and looked at me.

“You’re here, finally, I was getting worried….Where have you been?” My mom asked me, I glared at her. She acted like nothing between us happened. I could tell she knew I was mad. “Van, why don’t you sit down, I think there is something you need to know.” I just stood there.

“Van, Babe, sit down, trust me what she has to say will make your day.” Adrian said with a smile. I slowly sat down, afraid of what my mom was going to tell me.

“Okay, Vanessa, I am not sure how to tell you this…but your dad and I, before you were born signed a contract, or a agreement with Adrian’s parents that…that…”

“Mom, just tell me.” I said, my mom looked at me, and then smiled.

DUN DUN DUN!!! I hope you like it! Please tell me what you think!

And what exactly do you think her mom is going to say?