Best Friends

27

Roseanne

"Lisa?"

Lisa answered almost immediately. "Roseanne?" She cried desperately.

"Shh.. baby listen to me. GD came to the school and he forced me into his car, I'm at his place, do you know where that is?" I whispered squeezing my eyes shut.

"He fucking what?" Lisa screamed making me wince as my ears started to ring a little.

"Baby shh, I don't know how long I've got on the phone! I'm in the bathroom, do you know where he lives or not because I don't know where I am." I whispered fiercely.

"Yeah, yeah I know where he lives. I'll be there as soon as I can, but I think he lives like half an hour away. Can you stay in the bathroom?" She asked sounding harassed and stressed.

I knew I wouldn't be able to stay in the bathroom for long, GD would get suspicious soon and I'd have to come out, but I didn't want Lisa to be worrying more than she needed to, so I decided to play along and try to keep her calm. "I should be ok to stay in here, I've locked the door but please hurry. Call the police, they'll get here quicker."

"I'm going to kill him this time." Lisa growled. I could just imagine the murderous look on her face right now, I knew she meant it and the thought made me feel sick. I couldn't have Lisa get into trouble and go to jail for me.

"Lisa call the police baby. Go call them right now, ok? Then they'll be able to hold him until the trial, don't come here on your own, promise me." I begged swiping at the tear that fell down my face.

"The police are useless Roseanne, they've done nothing to stop this at all!" She cried angrily.

Oh shit she's going to come here on her own, she has no intentions of calling the police because she wants to beat GD senseless. "Lisa Manoban, don't you dare do this! You call the police right now or I swear to you I'm going to be so pissed off. Don't risk this please, I can't have you in trouble, so call them and let them handle it." I begged fiercely.

"Roseanne..."

"No Lisa, you do this for me, I'm going to hang up the phone now and you can call them. Don't you dare come here on your own!" I whispered trying to sound stern.

"Don't hang up!" Lisa shouted desperately. "Roseanne just keep the line open so I can hear you're ok. I'm still at the school so I'll call the police from here, just don't hang up on me ok?" She asked.

I gulped, "Ok baby."

I slumped down to the floor closing my eyes listening as she was talking to someone off of the phone, she sounded so desperate. I could hear the Principles voice too so I knew she was doing as I asked, she wasn't coming here on her own and I silently thanked God for that.

After a couple of minutes Lisa came back on the phone talking soothingly about what we were going to do at the weekend, I knew she was trying to keep my mind of off everything and keep me calm and I appreciated the small gesture. Suddenly I realized that I could hear the sound of a car engine in the background and the Principles voice was gone. Was Lisa coming here?

My heart literally stopped, I didn't want her anywhere near GD. Not that I didn't think she could handle herself because I knew that she could, but I just hated the thought of her being even a little hurt or then getting into trouble for fighting or something. Lisa continued to talk to me calmly about how her football practice went, how they were going to kick the other teams ass in the final game, how coach had asked her to talk to Yedam. I knew she was just doing it to distract me from the situation.

"Lisa, are you coming here on your own?" I whispered, praying she would say no. She didn't say anything and I took her silence as a yes. She didn't like to lie to me so usually she just avoided the question she didn't want to answer or changed the subject. I felt my heart sink, "Please don't. Please let the police handle it Lisa, please baby." I begged grabbing a wad of tissue to wipe my constant stream of tears.