Blood in the Darkness

Chapter 5

Three months later.
Everyone was sitting around the pool at Ava's house. Jasper and Iris were awkwardly sitting in pool chairs, sharing a flask. Jasper finished the flask and looked at Iris, "I'll be back babe." "Okay, hurry back." She smiled at him and leaned back, sliding her sunglasses on. What Iris didn't know was that Jasper went in to follow Marcus. Jasper walked up to Marcus, "So, Iris, huh?" Marcus turned around "The fuck are you talking about?" Jasper laughed and rubbed his face. "Oh come on, you prick, you know what I'm talking about. Don't play stupid." Marcus stepped up to him, slightly looking up, given that Jasper was about 5 inches taller. "What are you talking about man? She came on to me. And if it wasn't for my bitchy sister, we would have gone all the way too. Maybe you should control your whore of a girlfriend." This was enough to set Jasper off. "Call her that again, and I will beat the shit out of you." Marcus smirked a little, not believing him, "Whore." Something in Jasper snapped and he swung as hard as he could, his fist connecting with Marcus's jaw. The impact of the punch knocked Marcus on the ground, and Jasper sat on top of him, punching him repeatedly. Jasper was starting to get tired and lost the upperhand. Marcus was on top of him, and starting to win when he was shoved off of Jasper. Iris quickly followed through and was beating Marcus. Marcus got a few good hits in on Iris, but all of the anger she had stored away was coming out at this moment. She felt the skin on her knuckles splitting, but that didn't stop her. "Touch my boyfriend again and I'll kill you. Also, if you call me a whore again, I'll kill you." She could tell he was barely conscious, but she didn't stop. Iris had angry tears running down her face as she pounded her fists against his face repeatedly. Jasper saw that Iris wasn't stopping anytime soon and quickly wrapped his arms around her to get her off. "Baby, Baby, It's okay." Jasper tried talking her down but she wasn't stopping. "Iris. You are going to kill him." He took a deep breath and lifted her up and carried her out. They were both bloody but he carried her straight to her car. The others stared with concern, but he ignored it. "Iris, I know it's hard but you gotta calm down for me baby." He wiped the blood that was dripping from his nose. "You should have let me kill him." Jasper put his hand on her cheek, "He is just an asshole and he isn't worth it." Iris calmed under his touch and looked at him
with a bloody smile. "I love you Iris." Following that sentence, she instantly kissed him. He pulled away, "Watching you beat the shit out of him was hot as fuck by the way."

Kye and Mallory were in the pool when they saw Jasper carrying Iris out. Kye looked to Mallory, "What the fuck was that and why were they bloody. And where did Marcus go? He was supposed to bring back beers." Kye looked around, "I'll go check on Iris, I swear to god if Jasper hit her, I'll kill him." Kye got out of the pool and walked out to them.

Ava was sitting on a pool chair when she watched Jasper and Iris storm out. She rolled her eyes at the two and went back to tanning. Ava waited a while and realized that her brother was missing, 'Iris probably tried to have a threesome with Jasper and Marcus,' she thought to herself. Ava got up and walked in the house, "Marcus, I swear to god, you better not have slept with her again!" She looked around and couldn't find him. "Marcus!" She was slightly worried. Ava went upstairs to his room and heard the water running from his bathroom. "Marcus? Are you in there?"  She pushed the door open and saw the sink covered with blood. "Marcus what the fuck!" He turned to look at her and his face was bruised and swollen. "Get out." He whispered lowly. "Marcus what happened?" Ava walked closer. "Your two bitchass friends, that's what happened."

"Mother fucker." Ava was raged at the acts of her supposed friends and knew she had to set the record straight. She ran out to Iris and flipped her around by pulling on her shoulder. "What the actual fuck is wrong with you? Are you fucking mental!" Iris looked at Ava with a bloody smile. "Do you really want to do this? I literally almost beat your brother to death." "Do we want to talk about how we even got in this situation in the first place?....pretty sure it was you who came onto him." Iris laughed and got closer to her face, "He easily could have rejected me." "Well, you didn't have to come onto him in the first place. Whore." Iris smirked slightly and looked to the side before looking back at Ava, "I wanted a quick fuck, plain and simple." "That's what Jasper is for! What the hell is wrong with you?" "Jasper wasn't there when I wanted to fuck, it was a convenience." "You should've saved it for the one who actually likes you." "Clearly he liked me when he had his tongue down my throat!" "He's always willing to get into someone's pants you idiot!" "Why else do you think I tried?" "I can't do this with you today, come back when you grow the fuck up." Iris jumped at her but was held back by Jasper, "Let her go babe, It won't do any good."  Jasper carried Iris to the car and drove them home.

After the commotion died down, Marcus snuck out to the car, he grabbed his phone to text Reia he needed a distraction. 'Meet up later? I miss you, and I want to talk to you.'  Yeah, I'll see you later.' Reia barely had time to respond.

Keira was not in the greatest of mindsets, she was menatlly going insane. "He's dead because of them." Although she may be right, that doesn't excuse what she was about to do next. She knew that her daughter, Reia, was seeing Marcus tonight. Marcus wasn't there at the scene of the crash, but his sister was, and that was close enough for her. Keira carefully planned out her next move, grabbing a knife from the kitchen. She quietly opened the door where Reia and Marcus were. Marcus's back was towards her, so she took her chance. The knife pierced Marucus's back, and he let out a grunt of pain. Keira drove the knife into his back repeatedly. Marcus rolled off of Reia's bed. Reia stopped and gasped as she saw Marcus's lifeless body hit the floor. "What the actual fuck." Reia was shocked but not entirely she understood why her mom wasn't herself and understood that grief can change people. "Mom..." she crawled out of bed sobbing. Crawling over to Marcus's body that was drenched in blood. She laid with him and sobbed.