Facing Wrath

Chapter Four

Dating Hayden was not a good idea.

I basically became his trophy, he would drag me around anywhere he could, buying me things, trying to get me to put out. I refused.

Within two weeks I had agreed to making out with him, but that was it. It wasn't good enough. Within two months he was allowed to see my chest. We didn't last any longer than that, because after that I caught him sleeping with Jennifer. I wasn't surprised, they had been sharing glances and smiling devilishly and I just knew.

I didn't want to believe it, but it happened. I had told my parents I was going to be out with Chloe (I was actually supposed to meet up with Hayden but I followed him home when I saw him and Jennifer together.) who agreed with me that Alex was 'totally mean for calling me names'. When I slowly crept into the room they had fallen asleep, and there was a camera by the bedside. I grabbed it; there were dirty pictures on it.

I took it out of the room and out of the house. I went home and printed some of the pictures. I would put them on the school bulletin board I decided, and I would bring the camera to Alex. Alex may have been an absolute dickwad, but no one deserved to be cheated on.

That night I used a spell to shut off the cameras and get passed the small bit of security and plastered the dirty pictures of Jennifer and Hayden all over the bulletin board. I went back home and crawled in bed, exhausted, trampled. I put the camera in my backpack, which lie beside my bed. I closed my eyes and sighed deeply before dropping off to sleep.

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I had a nightmare that night; I stood in front of the seven deadly sins and the cut off or out everything that was wrong with me, starting with my heart. I woke up in could sweat and panted like I hadn't been breathing at all. I got up and mom corned me when I went to go hog the bathroom. She pulled out one of the pictures I had printed out.

"Why are you printing out pictures of your best friends having sex?" She demanded.

I frowned. "Mother, back off," I insisted, something in her eyes sparkled.

She couldn't know about Hayden and I, or could she? "Oh, my dear," My mother murmured. "Perhaps you should be envy." She pushed the pictures into my hands. "You handled this like envy."

When she walked away I stared at the back of her head as if my eyes had turned to daggers. I was exhausted, but none the less I had to get ready and intercept Alex on the way to school. I put on a knee length black dress that had a bow around my waist, black tights, and large heeled black shoes.

I applied deep red lip stick and light eyeshadow. Then I took a red rose tiara that I had worn at prom last year and put it in my hair, scooping back the black wave. I stared in the mirror and pursed my lips. Slowly I moved from the mirror, moving down stairs to eat with my father. He was quiet for the most part. He glanced up at me and smiled as I poured my cereal.

"Carly, you look beautiful." A smile tugged at my lips. "Thank you, papa," I murmured and we ate in silence, but it was a comfortable silence. When the bus came I sat in my normal spot, but with my legs off the seat, and when Alexander walked past me I grabbed his arm.

"Sit with me." I urged. He sighed and sat beside me.

"What do you want, Carly?" He demanded and I took out the camera, turned it on and handed it to him. There was a look of disgust, then realization, then devastation on his face. I guess in two months of fucking with me he really fell for her, the poor bastard.

"B-but she was h-home all weekend." Alex whispered. "I saw it myself." I told him and he grabbed my chin angrily. I thought he was going to hit me until his face suddenly closed the distance between us.

God if my mouth ever tingled and burned, it was then. I could feel the anger behind his actions, he wanted to make Jennifer feel lower than low. He grabbed me tight and pulled my chest against his. I pressed my lip against his with almost bruising force. There was anger on my side too, I will admit. By now we had sunken down beneath where the bus driver could see; he was gently tugging at my hair, I was nibbling on his lip.

When we finally pulled away, I was the only one who opened my mouth. Harold had gotten on the bus. He looked pissed. I grinned to myself and then calmly looked at Alex.

"This will be physical only, do you understand?" He asked seriously. I laughed at his tone.

"Oh honey, if you ever want to kill Jennifer, you have to attack like we are madly in love." I said with a flirtatious smile, taking the camera and dropping it out the window.

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When Alex and I got to school he held back the line so I could get out, and everyone had a picture of Jennifer; there she was, outside and suddenly dashing inside to grab all the pictures. My eyes sparkled with satisfaction. Alexander's hand slipped down and grabbed mine as Jennifer came running up to tell him, but I already had. She saw us holding hands and stopped, just absolutely stopped in her tracks.

"Alexander," she was starting to cry, "you hate her!" She pointed at me with a well manicured nail. Her make up and smeared all over her face, her blue eyes were cloudy, her brown hair was a wreck.

"She's not the one who cheated." He told her, tugging on my hand. "Let's go, Carly." He tugged on my arm a little and I reached up to kiss his cheek before we walked away. I could hear Jennifer sobbing, and it felt so good to know that she was as miserable as she had made me when she betrayed me by dating Alex.

I didn't cry or anything, but the way she made me feel when she threw herself at Alexander after knowing exactly what happened was unbelievable. I felt like I didn't belong in my own group of friends. I looked up at him, seeing the scowl on his face I dropped his hands and stood in front of him.

"Alex," I began and he looked down at me. "smile, okay? It's not like I'm forcing you to do this." He forced a smile that almost seemed natural across his face, but once again I caught him staring at my horns. I suddenly felt self conscious and tried to cover them by patting them, though I made it look like I was just pushing my hair back.

He took my chin again, a little more gently, and kissed me. I closed my eyes and pressed into his lips. I knew this was fake, but I didn't mind, it just meant that I could be lust. I could have any guy I pleased.

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School was terrible, Jennifer made a big scene about how the pictures were obviously photoshopped, and that I had stolen Alexander from her. The guys comforted her, they all wanted in her pants probably, while the girls were silent.

Alex glared at her, the glare was so cold it would have made hell froze over twice. I was eating calmly as she pointed at me and wailed insults, the guys eventually dragged her away to calm her down.

Then in fifth period I was called down into the principals office, and two boys I never wanted to see again stood on either side of the desk beside Mr. Philip. Of course there was Hayden Jeffries, but on the other side was Scott Finch.  

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Authors note: The new cover was done by XxTalia_lovexX .