Masquerade (A Bradley Simpson Fanfiction)

Chapter 5

You know that feeling you get? That ice cold pain and numbness. You don't feel happy, sad, angry, nothing!
It's as if your world is crashing down but you also feel as if you can curl up and die. Staring at the scene made me feel like this.
It made me feel numb at the time, I certainly didn't expect what I saw.
Now I feel like I want to kill them. Do to them what they did to her. I need revenge. I can't smile now, that girl has gone.
That girl that could fight through all without a doubt, she's gone.
That girl who didn't care what people though of her but was still nice to everyone all the same, she's gone.
That girl that didn't judge people no matter what they do, she's also gone.
They destroyed her.
Watching her lifeless body being thrown around like a rag doll, I felt as though I felt what she was feeling.
I could feel her pain.
The sorrow.
The willingness for it to end.
I wanted to dive in and save her but I stopped myself.
There was a better way of dealing with this.
We all needed revenge.
The boys clawed at the girls face and mockingly laughed at her as her helpless body trembled in pain and horror.
It was obvious that this wasn't the first time they did it. I watched her and examined her features. She was very beautiful, I saw beyond the scares and I needed to help her.
They pushed her against the wall and punched her continuously. I looked at the girls and they too had tears in their eyes.
I couldn't watch anymore.
I could making someone feel pain cause them so much pleasure? Their devilish smirks on their faces made the people I thought they were, unrecognisable.
I pulled the girls away from the scene, not too far though that we couldn't see at the corner of our eyes, what was happening.
"So," I whispered,
"Here's the plan, once the guys have gone we help the girl and talk to her and stuff. I generally want to be friends with this girl. So we're all going to mine tonight right? How about we bring her?  That'll freak the guys out. And they aren't going to be mean to her while we are there right? And until they confess and stop bullying her, we aren't going to stop!" I suggested, the girls all agreed with the plan.
"But don't we have lessons in about ten minutes though?" Florence said, trying to calm herself down.
"We'll be quick don't worry!" I said. And we crouched waiting for them to stop.
It was terribly hard to watch but after 2 minutes they were finally done.
"Bye bitch, see you Monday!" Tristan spat, giving her one last shove so she collapsed to the ground.
As hard as it was to watch Tristan act this way, we needed to help the girl so we had to spend a night at my house with them to help her.
When the boys were out of sight, we ran to help her.
We sat her up and brushed her hair out of her face.
She looked up at us questionably.
"Who are you? Why are you helping me? Nobody ever comes by this bit of the school!" She said sobbing with happiness.
We gave her giant bear hugs and explained how we were ex-friends of the boys and the plan.
Her face then fell.
"I don't know... I don't know if I can bear seeing them out of school. It's bad enough in school!" She said we rubbed her back as Abby handed her, her water bottle.
"Don't worry, they won't do anything while we are there. They think we're on their side. We're on yours all the way love! You can trust us! You have true friends here!" Chloe hugged her and looked up at all of us as we smiled at her.
"We're gonna get you through this!" I reassured her.
At that moment the bell rang for the end of lunch. We made our way to lessons and hoped that we can really stop this all happening.
Turns out her name is Lisa. This has been happening to her since she first joined the school. She and James used to date. She started getting more and more popular by then.
More than James actually. They went to a party together one night.
They all got drunk and Lisa ended up with another guy. He brought her upstairs and raped her.
James walked in looking for her and thought that she was into it when she wasn't.
He told the guys that she cheated on him, so since then she started to be bullied by them. Everyone forgot about her since then. She was quiet in class and she wasn't around as much.
It's really sad.

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After school
"Hey Nutella!" Brad smiled as he leaned up against my locker. It's funny seeing him be such a beast one minute, and the next he's the Brad I know and love. But I couldn't love him anymore after what I saw, I couldn't love any of them like I used to.
"Nutella?!" I giggled trying to be nice to him as if nothing happened. I still did like him this way. This side of him, the one that didn't abuse a totally innocent girl.
"Yeah! Your nice and cool. Your very nutty but everyone loves you for it." He said, smiling from ear to ear. How can he smile after what he did to that girl!
"I like it!" I giggled ruffling his hair like a dog. He was a dog! A dirty unforgivable dog! I hated having to pretend to like him. Maybe he'll change, just maybe.

"We still on for tonight?" He said raising his eyebrows.
"Yeah we are! I invited a girl we met earlier today if that's okay. She's really nice and funny. You'll love her!"  I said clapping my hands and pretending to be excited.
"I'm sure I will, if she's anything like you and the rest of the girls I'm sure I'll be fine." He said
We soon met up with the rest of the guys and the girls.
"You didn't give anything away did you?" I whispered to the girls as the guys chatted away.
"No of course not! But it's really hard when they be so nice to us!" Florence said. We all agreed.

"Okay so can we go now or..?" Connor said impatiently.
"No we are waiting for another girl we met today. She's amazing I can't wait for you guys to meet!" I hopped with a fake smile. The guys smiled back at me.

At that moment Lisa walked out and have us all huge hugs. The guys faces then fell as they stared at her in complete and utter shock. Their faces were as pale as if they saw a ghost.

"Guys this is Lisa!" I "introduced" her.
They obviously couldn't speak from shock.
We faked being confused and shrugged our shoulders.
This is exactly the reaction we wanted from them.
They don't know what's coming to them!