Bad Boy

Let's End This

We untied Brandon and brought him back to Stinger's. We sat him down and got him a bunch of blankets. He was shivering so much, I felt so bad. "Did you see who it was?" Rowan asks him. He just shakes his head and continues to look down. "Can you guys give us a moment?" I say. They all nod and walk away, leaving just me and Brandon. "Are you okay?" I say trying to look at his face. "I'm fine" he says, still not looking up. "I'm so sorry this happened to you" I say, starting to feel upset. "Why are you sorry" he mumbles. "This is all my fault. If I would have just stayed away from you and just did the stupid project alone, none of this would've happened to you" I say feeling the tears building. This time he finally looks up at me. "Hera, none of this is your fault" he says. "It is though. After today, just please stay away from me. I can't bare to see anything like this happen ever again" I say putting my head in my hands. "You know I can't do that" he says softly. "Please Brandon, for your own sake" I say letting a single tear fall. I felt him grab my side and pull me into his blanket. I leaned on him and just closed my eyes. "We're going to end this" he says. We just sit there for a while talking with everyone about what we should do. We called it a night because none of us have gotten much sleep lately. We agreed to meet up in the morning and talk more about what to do next. I ended up having Brandon stay at my house tonight, I didn't wanna let him out of my sight at the moment. "I'm gonna run home so I can grab some stuff" he says standing up from my bed. "I'm coming with you" I say also standing up. "Hera, it's best if I go alone" he says. "I'm not letting you out of my sight" I say crossing my arms. "Trust me, it's not a good idea" he says putting a hand on my shoulder. "Why?" I say confused. "Please just trust me on this" he says. I finally give in but I'm still nervous about him going alone. He left and began his way home. I couldn't stop worrying about him. I decided to sit down and try to keep my mind busy. I was watching a show on my TV when my phone vibrated. I picked it up and saw it's from the account. I quickly open it to reveal Brandon walking home, oblivious that anyone is following him. I read the text below it, it said 'You little boyfriend is all alone now'. I shot up out of my bed and ran out the door. I ran all the way to Brandon's house, not stopping once. I arrive at his house and go to the back by his bedroom window. I heard a crash and peaked my head around to see inside. I see Brandon picking up a lamp and his bedroom door swing open. I jump a little until I see it's probably his dad. I watch for a moment and see them talking. I was about to walk away when I saw Brandon go to push his dad but fails. His dad grabs him by the shirt and punches him, throwing him to the ground. I cover my mouth in shock. I watched as his dad walked out of his room and Brandon left on the floor. When I hear the door shut I knock on the window quietly. He jumps up but relaxes a little when he saw it was me. He comes over to the window and opens it. "Hera what are you doing here?" he whispers. "Are you okay?" I ignore his question. "I'm fine" he says. I look at his cheek that's already forming a bruise. "I'm so sorry Brandon" I say touching his cheek. "You shouldn't have come here" he says. I looked into his eyes, I saw that he wasn't okay. I know what it's like to want help but too afraid for ashamed to ask. He finishes grabbing his things and follows me out the window. The whole way back to my house was silent. We barely made it back to my house when I got a call from Rowan. 

Me: Hello?

Rowan: We need to go to Nikki's party now

Me: Why?

Rowan: We think that the person with the account is there and planning something terrible

Me: Oh my gosh, okay send me the address

Rowan: Okay hurry

We hang up and I turn to Brandon. "He's at Nikki's party" I say. We run inside my house dropping off his things and run off to Nikki's house. A few minutes later we find her house and walk up to the door. There were drunk teens everywhere. How were we gonna find this person. Rowan, Hailey and Elisia ran up to us at the front door. "What's going on?" I say. "I got a message and it was a picture of a gun on Nikki's bed" Rowan says out of breath. "Oh god" I say running my hands through my hair. "What do we do?" Hailey says. "We need to find him and end this" I say. We all walk into the party and walk around, looking at everyone's faces. We were walking in the kitchen when Hawk stops us. "Hey guys!" he says. We all say hi in return. "I didn't think you guys were coming" he says, leaning on the counter. Just as we were continuing the conversation we heard a loud bang. I flinched as red liquid flew at my face. I opened my eyes and saw Hawk on the ground. I froze in place, realizing what has happened. More gunshots rang out and I was pulled out of my trans when someone pulled me behind the counter and sat me down. "Hera! Are you okay?" I hear someone saying. I look over and see Brandon. I don't say anything. Everything sounded muffled. A few seconds later I finally fell out of my dream like trans. I peak around the counter and see someone in a plain white mask, shooting anyone in his path. He was making his way towards us. I look across from us and see the girls hiding behind the couch. I lock eye contact with them, I can see the horror in their eyes. We needed to end this now, I was tired of being afraid I was tired of being manipulated by this guy. I looked again and he was right there. Right next to me but didn't see me yet. I turn and look at Brandon and he looks at me. I give him a quick smile, I wanted that to be the last thing he saw of me if this went wrong. He noticed what I was doing and shook his head at me frantically. I look back at the guy and take a deep breath. I quickly stand up and jump on him. He starts throwing his hands around trying to get me off. He started shooting around the room. I ripped his mask off as he threw me to the floor. I looked up at the now maskless person. It was one of the kids from our English class. "Eric?" I say. He just laughs in return. "We've been going to school together for years and you don't even know my name" he says. Out of the corner of my eye I can see the girls holding each other, holding in there cries. "I'm Dunbar don't you remember?!" he yells at me. I let a tear fall but stay silent. "I asked you to homecoming 2 years ago and you humiliated me!" he continues. "Rowan always blew me off, Hailey made fun of me for wanted to be a Romeo and Elisia burned the only thing I had left of my grandfather!" he screams. "I'm so sorry" I say, trying my best to hold back the sobs. "Ash and Brandon" he says stepping closer to me as I back up. He kneels down to me and says "They killed my best friend". At this point I couldn't hold it back anymore. I was filled with guilt and anger. "All of you deserve to die!" he yells in my face while standing up. "I'm sorry Dunbar. Okay?" I start while slowly standing up. "I'm sorry that life isn't going like a fairytale. And what happened to your friend sucks but all of this?" I say stepping towards him. I can see the pain in his eyes, but he stayed silent. "I'm sorry that I didn't say yes to homecoming but maybe I had a reason. Maybe because My brother overdosed on pain meds because he couldn't handle this world anymore and just maybe I didn't have the energy to go to homecoming. We all make mistakes Dunbar but we don't kill people because of them!" I yell. He starts crying but still standing his ground. "We all have our own issues. And yeah high school is the worst but jesus christ, you have the rest of your life to be better" I say. "Now please, just end this" I finish stepping closer to him. "I will end this" he says. He points his gun at my head and I close my eyes. I just stand there thinking of everything in my life. Everyone I loved. Ready to be met with death. I hear quick footsteps then a gunshot, followed by crashing. I felt a firey pain in my shoulder and I fell to the ground. "Hera!" I hear my friends scream in terror. I opened my eyes to see them rushing towards me. I continue to hear crashing so I look and see Brandon wrestling with Dunbar on the ground. "Brandon!" I scream, tears streaming down my face. I jump up, ignoring the terrible pain. I run towards them and help Brandon. Brandon holds him down and I rip the gun out of his hand and point it at him. He stops fighting and looks at me. "You hated bullies. But your the worst of all" I say. "Get on the ground!" I hear cops rushing in, screaming at us. I put the gun down and lay down as everyone else follows. At this point I felt the pain now and it was the worst. I felt the blood pouring out of it as I starred at the ceiling. Everything became blurry as I hear the police yelling for a medic. I see Brandon and the girls heads above me. I can see their lips moving and tears streaming, but can't hear a thing. Next, was just darkness.