Broken (18+)

chapter 3 - Brunch

"Veronica stop! You're going to kill her! Veronica! For fucks sake Veronica, get off of her!" I vaguely hear Brittany yelling at me to get off of this backstabbing bitch. I'm blinded by rage. Punching her pretty perfect little face over and over. She's stopped fighting back. Either because she realizes she deserves it or because she passed out. I don't care which it is. All of a sudden, I'm being pulled off by who I can assume are the security of the school. Once I've calmed down and stopped thrashing, I see the state Sofia is in. Her face is bloody and there is blood slowly pooling around her head. I gasp as I see what I'd done to her. My heart rate skyrockets and the adrenaline slowly fades.

The ambulance arrive on the scene and rush her away towards the hospital. As I'm staring at the ambulance disappearing into the distance, I hear the crowd whispering and taking photos and videos of what just happened. Brittany grabs my shoulders, bringing me back to reality. "Veronica, what did you do? Why the fuck did you beat her up like that?" She asks me as she looks into my eyes with her blue orbs. I look at her and start trying to hold back tears, "she was threatening to spread rumors about you Brit. I told her to stop and she said she wouldn't stop until you're dead. I had to Brittany. I had to keep her from hurting you. I was going to go to the police about it but when I overheard her telling her friends a rumor about you and I lost my shit. I'm sorry Brit, I really am. My moms going to murder me if I get expelled." I tell her as I start crying. She pulls me in for a hug and tells me, "I'm grateful you had my back Vicky, but you really did a number on her. We better hope she makes it out of the hospital alive. Comeon, let's get out of here." We walk off and head home. She lives in the house next door. My mom thankfully doesn't say anything the whole evening so I assume the school hadn't phoned her. I barely slept that night, hoping and praying that Sofia makes it out alive. Even though she deserves punishment for what she wanted to do to Brittany, she doesn't deserve to die. That wasn't my intention. I just wanted to teach her a lesson about what would happen if she spreads life-ruining rumors about Brittany and what happened to her family.

I go to school the next day, all eyes are on me. I try my best to hide my bruised knuckles. As I walk down the corridors, girls whisper and stand asif they're ready to defend themselves. They're scared of me. I'm sitting in first period and an announcement comes over the speakers, "attention please. We have just been notified that Miss Sofia has been declared dead this morning in the hospital. She suffered from blunt force trauma to the back of her head...." I zone out and don't listen to the rest of the announcement as I realise what they've just said.

I killed Sofia.

I wake up with a sudden jolt, my body is drenched in sweat and my hands are shaking. My heart is beating rapidly. I sit up and look at the clock on my nightstand, 3 am. Great, another fucking flashback dream. Coming to the conclusion that I'm not going to be falling back asleep, I get up and walk down to the kitchen as quiet as possible for a glass of water. I open my old Instagram and go back to the old memories from back at KAG. I stare at photos of me, Brittany and Sofia. We were all best friends. I still don't even know what me and Brittany did to Sofia for her to want ultimate revenge on us. I read my unopened messages,