"No....no no no!" I gasped as I grabbed onto Derek's arm to keep from falling over.
"Kelsey calm down. Its okay."
"No its not okay Derek! Look at her! Why would she do this to me."
"Wait, do you like Justin?" he quietly asked, almost as if he was afraid to hear the answer.
"No. Its just that I know she is using him, and I care about him soo..."
"Trust me, Justin is using her too. Now come on." He grabbed my arm and began pulling me towards my car. All I could do was keep staring at Kelsey and Justin. It hurt me to see them together like that and I didn't really know why. I didn't think that I had that many feelings for Justin but apparently I did. It was almost as if some rage had built up in me, and I just snapped.
I jerked my arm away from Derek and gave him a piercing look. "Let me go!"
"Woah there" he defensively threw up his hands. "I was just bringing you to your car."
"Yea well I can walk over myself."
"Kelsey what's wrong. Did I do something wrong?" he asked as his pitifully looked into my eyes.
I immediately felt remorse, and I grabbed his hand. "I'm so sorry. Its just that I.....I..."
"You what?"
I looked up into his eyes and moved a little closer to him. Placing my hand on his chest, I looked up at his lips. "I just think that.." I then slowly began to lean his, trying to kiss him.
He almost went along with it, until he pulled back and chuckled. "Oh I know what you are doing."
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
All of a sudden, the smile disappeared from his face, and it was overcome with anger. "Don't play stupid!" he snapped, which caused me to jump. "Look just because they are using each other over there and you are jealous does not give you the right to use me like that. Now get into the fucking car and lets go."
Disappointed with myself, I hung my head down and headed towards the driver's side door of my car. Derek abruptly grabbed my arm, and turned me around. "No give me the keys. I'm driving."
Not wanting to make him anymore angrier, I pulled the keys out of my book bag and laid them into his hands. He brushed passed me and got into my car and I walked around to the passenger side and gently slipped in. I wasn't quite afraid of him, but I had just never seen this, almost threatening, side of him.
He cranked the car and whipped it out of my parking spot. He stayed quiet, and so did I until I just couldn't take it anymore. "I'm sorry Derek. I just don't know what came over me."
He grabbed his jaw with one hand, as he held onto the steering wheel with the other. He let out a deep sigh and looked over at me. "What were you going to tell me?" he was obviously changing the subject.
"What?"
"On the way out to the car you were about to tell me something before," he stopped and cleared his throat.
Deciding to help him out, I quickly spoke up so he would have to say it. "Oh..yea its not that important right now."
"It seemed really important to you."
Knowing that I would have to tell him sooner or later, I just decided that now should be the time. "Well the other night, Brian came to my house and." He abruptly shot his head towards you which caused you to stop talking.
"No keep going. What did he want?" he asked with a more sympathetic voice.
"He told me that you guys needed to get him his money. Like SOON." I made sure to emphasize the word soon.
"Did he say how soon?"
I swallowed hesitatenly, not sure of what his reaction would be. "Five days. Well he told me yesterday so I guess 4 now."
"Did he threaten you Kelsey?"
"What?" I was shocked that he wasn't freaking out that he only had 4 days to get all that money.
"Did he threaten you? Did he hurt you?"
"He just said that he was using me to motivate you and Justin. He said that if he started messing with me, you guys would get the money faster." I decided to leave out the part where he tried to kiss me.
"Was there anyone else there with him?"
"Yea...I think his name was Paul."
"Fuck" he mumbled under his breath as he looked out of the window. He grasped the steering wheel even tighter and sped the car up.
After realizing that he wasn't going to his house, and he wasn't going to my house, I decided to ask him where in fact he was going. "Where are we going Derek?"
Hesitant to tell me, he just gave me a reassuring look and then back at the road. "I'm going to make things right."
"No Derek stop! That's just going to make things worse."
"Have you seen the shit we are in?!" he snapped. Once again, I jumped but decided to try and cover it up by turning my body and looking out of the window. "I'm sorry. It's just that you don't belong in this shit and I'm going to try my best to get you out of it."
Before I knew it, we pulled back up at that familiar little run down factory shack. He turned the car off and then turned to face me. "Now you HAVE to stay in the car this time. Can you promise me that?"
I nodded my head and he gave me a slight smile before opening the door and getting out. He walked up to the little side door and knocked. A couple of seconds later someone opened the door and he stepped inside as I waited patiently on his return....
