Tinder Date {18+}

From a far

Lauren walked down the stairs nervously holding her wrist. Michael, who was sitting on the couch smiling at her appearance waited patiently for her. To him this trip has been nothing but wonderful. To her this trip was getting worse by the second. Miss Cane stood by the fire place announcing the basketball game that was coming up.

Even though she was extremely upset with Lauren's disappearance she set her feelings aside and gave Lauren and her cheerleaders a giant shoutout announcing there expected half time show.

Everyone in the room clapped and Lauren gave them a small smile then looked back down at her feet. Miss Cane then gave Justin a shout out since he was the star player at the school. Justin waved at the girls then placed his hand around Lauren. She continued to look down not being able to bare the shocked looks from her classmates...or Mister Jackson.

Michael looked through the crowd and it seemed as if everything was moving in slow motion. He was overwhelmed by his feelings of anger, jealousy, perhaps sadness.

They made love last night and now she's with the person she hated the most. He knew something was wrong. The look on her face, she looked hurt. The way she grabbed her arm and continued to stare at the floor. Lauren was never the type to stay quiet.

Michael wanted to walked over to him and save the girl he's come to love but it would be to obvious. He had no choice but to wait it out no matter how angry he got.

Justin smiled and leaned into Lauren's ear. He had an aggressively tight grab around the the back of her neck. He whispered something that suddenly made Lauren look up. He looked at her face and she flashed a small smile. She looked around aimlessly trying to avoid eye contact. She knew that people would know. Eye contact tells all.

It told Michael everything he needed to know. She glanced at him and he could see the pain and confusion behind her eyes. Justin caught on and grabbed her face roughly to kiss her. She didn't kiss back her lips were lazy as he pressed his lips against hers with full force.

Michael rolled up his sleeves, ready to lunge at Justin but Miss cane stopped him. She glanced at him to calm him down then looked over Justin.

She shouted over the talking group of kids telling Justin to let go of her and how inappropriate it was for PDA. Justin broke the kiss and gave a smirk to Michael. Almost teasing him about the situation. He saw Michael's face turn bright red with his fist balled up.

Michael wanted to fight him just like how they did at Lauren's pool party.

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On the bus ride back to school, Lauren was forced to sit with Justin in the back of the bus. Michael would occasionally look back but couldn't see anything.

Meanwhile Lauren was crying. Justin was rubbing her thighs and trying to force himself inside of her again with his fingers. He pulled himself out of his pants and began to stroke himself and he grabbed roughly onto her breast. She tried so hard to stay quiet but she let out a giant scream.

The whole bus went quiet and Justin quickly pushed himself back inside of his pants. "What the fuck is wrong with you" he whisper yelled. Michael quickly rushed to the back and saw Lauren's swollen face with tears running down her cheeks.

"Lauren are you ok" he asked sympathetically. Lauren never looked up at him she just nodded her head. "Lauren come sit in the front with me" he said reaching down to touch her shoulder. Lauren flinched and Michael quickly pulled his hand away. This was the moment he was sure something was wrong with his Lauren.

Justin grabbed her wrist tightly and replied "she wants to sit here".

"Let go of her arm" he said through gritted teeth. His hand balled into a fist behind his back. Justin did as he said and Michael unbuttoned her seatbelt. When they got back to his seat in the front. Lauren hugged Michael and cried on him.

"Lauren what's going on?" He asked

"I didn't want you to get in trouble, he remembers you from the pool party and threatened to tell if I didn't listen to him" Lauren's raspy voice and constantly sniffles got in the way of her speaking clearly but Michael heard everything he needed to.

Michael wrapped his arm around Lauren and used his other hand to hold hers. She eventually fell asleep on his shoulder until he had to wake her up because they arrived back at the school.

"I'll cover for you just go back to my place. Here are my keys. Take a shower and put on one of my shirts. I'll order you some food. When you get there. I'll be home soon for you" he said discreetly in her ear. Lauren looked up and nodded her head while she took the keys out of his hand.

She had to sneak away before Justin saw her. She got into her car and drove to Michael's apartment. Once she stepped in she locked the door and finally felt safe. She walked up the stairs and into his bedroom to put her things down. She took off her clothes and headed for the bathroom.

She looked in the mirror with sadness and disgust as she brushed her fingers over her skin. Her body felt sore especially the area between her legs. She took a long hot shower then threw on one of Michael's button down dress shirts. Lauren ran back down the stairs to check her phone to see if Michael had called or texted her. Her phone screen had nothing but social media notifications and a few old missed calls from Kandy. She was thinking about calling Kandy and she even hovered her finger over the missed called notification but decided that she didn't want to speak to anyone.

She laid on the couch and finally drifted off to sleep.

"Lauren? Lauren?" Michael lowly called out in a soft voice. He rubbed her shoulder and she slowly opened her eyes. Lauren jumped out of her sleep screaming In terror thinking it was Justin about to hurt her. "Lauren it's ok it's me!" Michael said pulling his hand back. Lauren was curled up in a ball on the couch. Her knees were tucked into her chest with her arms tightly wrapped around them.

Michael sat a big brown bag on the table and sat down next to her. He held his arms out and Lauren teared up and crawled over to him to hug him tightly.

Michael gave the best hugs. He placed one hand behind her head the other gently on her back. He squeezed her tightly and she yelped in pain. He quickly let go and that's when he saw it.

"Is that a bruise?" He asked looking at her wrist. Lauren looked down at her exposed forearm and quickly pulled the shirt sleeve down. Michael then looked at her ankles to find a similar bruise.

Michael's face turned bright red with anger and his eyes went stone cold. "Stand up Lauren" he demanded and she did what he asked. Slowly she got off the couch and stood before him.

He grabbed the collar of the shirt and ripped it open. The buttons flew everywhere dropping on to the floor. Michael gasped at all the bruises on her body. She had bad bruises on her hips and inner thighs, there were big dark red hickeys on her chest.

He spun her around and yanked the shirt off her back. There was a giant bruise on her back. It looked as if Justin had possibly punched her. There were hand marks on her ass and bruises on the back of thigh. Michael moved her hair out the way to reveal another bruise on the back of her neck.

"What the fuck" he yelled out. Lauren slowly turned back around and Michael could do nothing but stare at her body. Lauren started to tear up again and Michael quickly grabbed the blanket off the couch and wrapped her up.

"What did he do to you Lauren" Michael asked

"He-he grabbed me roughly and pinned me down. He kept his hand over my mouth and he hit my back repeatedly because he wasn't satisfied with what he wanted me to do" she cried out.

Michael walked away in anger to pace back and forth by the fire place. He grabbed a vase off the shelf above the fire place and launched it full speed at the wall. Lauren flinch and balled up again.

"I'm not letting him get away with this, I'm going to catch him myself and get him expelled."