Lust and Wrath

Chapter 31

~i'm so sorryy :(

Scott's Point of View-

Once we arrived at the gym, it was crowded with many people. Nico tugged my shirt once he saw the scene, wanting us to exit the place as soon as we entered. Once we exited, we walked together around the corners until we left the school. Nobody was guarding the entrances or exits yet, and outside it was completely dark and empty, except for the sounds of crickets.

We walked down the steps together, and then sat down together at one of the benches, staring at the empty street.

"So, are you gonna tell me what really happened?" Nico asked again.

I hesitated, looking at him unsure. He didn't part that stern look of his, and I fucking hated it. "It's none of your concern, back off," I barked.

"But it is my concern!" He shouted.

My eyes widened as he raised his voice, "He's my friend too, Scott, and even if you two are in love with each other and you care about each other, I know that you had something to do with the situation, because the last time this happened was when he walked out on you. Don't you remember?" His eyes were furious, wanting me to answer.

I did remember, very clearly what happened.

I wanted to see what the commotion was all about, I had some bad ideas in my head, but I hoped they wouldn't be it. I don't know what's going on, but just thinking about Daniel and I, it just hurts to think about it. It's as if, there's something deeper to this whole matter that I don't know about, and I do at the same time, but I just can't put my finger on it.

I finally reached the end of the hallway, where a circle of students were looking down at a person in the center. I pushed my way through the crowd, and then I saw him. Daniel, laying down on the floor, unconscious. Oh God no. "Daniel!" I shouted throughout the building. Everyone looked up at me, shocked, but I didn't care.

'I didn't care.'

That's the problem with me: I never care. I didn't care about all the people watching me out-of-character that day, and I didn't care when I had sex with Brianna. I never give a crap about Daniel's feelings, and in the end, it always results in shit. Tears began to jerk down my face from Nico's question, and surprisingly his features soften.

"I'm sorry," he said, looking down grimly. He was indeed sorry, but I could tell he was still mad from earlier. I don't blame him, he doesn't know the half of this story, and he doesn't understand anything that went on. Nico is a great, and caring friend, and he really wants to help, but he can't do that if he doesn't know the whole story. I took a deep sigh, before placing my palms together. If I'm going to ever stay with Daniel, then I'm going to have to open up to a friend so I can get help in return.

"It all started on the first day of school," I began.

His eyes widened, and he looked up at me, waiting for me to continue.

"Yeah, it all started on the first day of school. I'm sure you know that before any of this happened, I was the school social-outcast, and nobody ever talked to me. Some people spread rumors about me raping a kid back then, and well, it was true. It started again when after-school I raped him just to clear myself of this random nostalgia, and my lustful desires. Surprisingly, he didn't tell on me; in fact, he only tried to get closer to me. He found his way into my life, we found out we had love for each other, and a long story short, we're up to this day," I said.

"Dude," he said slowly after a pause, still looking at me, "You're fucked up."

"Yeah yeah, I know, but that's all behind us now, okay?" I said.

"Well, that still doesn't explain Brianna," he said, still eyeing me skeptically.

"About Brianna, she's a dirty little slut who just wanted to go out with Daniel from the beginning. She went so far as to pin her friends on the poor kid and blame it on me, so he'd get mad at me and hate me. That's what happened in the hallway before when he passed out, you remember. So yeah, when I came here after our little 'situation' in the park, I saw her, and she was being a bitch, so I uh... I had sex with her."

His eyes widened, but his features slowly calmed. "Well, that explains a lot."

For a few minutes, there was a pause, and I assumed he was using this time to process the information I just told him. It was quite overwhelming, I will agree, but I hope he will take a reasonable side to this.

"I don't blame you, Brianna is a bitch sometimes, but I didn't think she'd ever do that. And yeah, having sex with her, what's wrong with you? I thought you were gay!" His voice grew in pitch.

"Well, I am gay! It's just, I don't know, I have this weird thing in me that makes me want to have sex with anybody who makes me mad, okay?" I tried to explain. It sounded much better in my mind than it did coming out.

"You'd better hope that Daniel wakes up from this, because you just put yourself in a deep hole of trouble right now, man. And it's not just with other people, but with you and him. You just fucking cheated on the guy, I mean seriously." He was flailing his arms at me, and that's when suddenly a familiar rental car pulled up on the street, and into the parking lot.

The woman inside stepped out in a matter of seconds, and looked around, before spotting me and running up to me. It was Daniel's mom, and she had tears running down her face. "Scott, do you know what happened to him?" She asked, assuming that I knew who she was talking about. "He fainted outside when he was talking to me, and he's in the nurse's office." I explained casually. Unfortunately, I had no idea how deep the situation ran, when she pursed her lips, and stared at me with shock for a few seconds.

"Oh my God, he was talking to you again?" She shouted. She cried even harder, and I didn't understand what the big deal was for him to be talking to me.

"What are you talking about?" I asked shyly.

"He had another relapse..."

She whispered to herself out of her mouth. She didn't think I heard her, but I did, and so my eyes widened as I jerked out of my chair. Her eyes stared wide at me, realizing that I just heard her.

Did she just say 'relapse'? Unless she was mentioning his earlier coma, she had to have meant something else. Something that happened before that I didn't know about.

"What do you mean, 'relapse'?" I asked sternly.

Nico stood up with me, wanting to hear her explanation as well. I knew whatever she was about to say wasn't going to be good, so I prepared for the worst.

"I... I guess I can't hide it anymore, you were, in fact, his first friend he made in Europe..." she dabbed her cheeks, trying to part away some of the tears.

My heart jerked back, as I grew a hint at what she was referring to. There was something deeper to this whole situation, something that happened to Daniel that I didn't know about. And for some reason, I felt like I did know about it, but it made no sense at all.

The clues were beginning to become more and more obvious though, and my fears were proven correct when my heart shattered at her response.

"My son went through a memory erasure operation, and now he's having a relapse."