What Now?

Chapter Five

Threw out the day my mind was focused on that note. First of all who the heck is it from? How did they see what I was wearing, get to my locker punch in my code, put the note in my history book, and leave before I got to my locker? When I got to school in went straight to my locker so I would have seen whoever it was before they were gone. This is way too confusing. Then again this could all be some type of trick or prank to get me worked up for nothing. Should I even trust the note? Oh crap! I totally forgot about Elaine. She seemed upset earlier and she ditched lunch. So I still don't know what her deal is. I could just call her later. I don't like not knowing things. My thoughts were interrupted by someone bumping into me. Of course me and my clumsy self had to go fall on the ground. I get up and look at who i knocked down.

"Ouch! Oh shoot are you okay?" I held out my hand for the girl I knocked down. I should really watch where I'm going. She looks up at me and I noticed that her eyes looked resembled the ones of a crier. She also had a bruise on her face. Did I do that? "Oh my gosh I didn't think I hurt you that bad." She just takes my had and I help her up.

"What? No, no you didn't hurt me. I'm fine." She says in a really low voice. I can barely hear her.

"Um.... you don't look fine. What happened to your face?" I really need to mind my own business. Who knows maybe it's personal.

"I got in the way she said. I'm a fool she said." I could see that she was trying to hold back tears. Great now I'm involved. Now along with that dumb probably fake note and Elaine I'm going to worry about this girl. Way to go Dianna you've just got to get involved now. Why can't you just leave it al- stop okay focus.

"Who are you talking about?" What I said must have made her upset because now the tears started rolling down her cheek. Her face started to turn red. When I say red I mean like actual tomato red.

"I don't want to cause trouble."

"Trust me whoever did this to you deserves trouble." She just looks up at the ceiling then back down at her shoes. I feel bad for this girl and I don't feel bad for very many people. She seems like a nice girl so why would someone do this to her?"Hey you know what forget about it. I'm Dianna what's you're name?" I try to lighten the mood, but my attempt seems to have no affect.

"My name is Ilicia."

"Hmm... Ilicia yeah no I'll never remember that. How about I call you Izzie and if I'm feeling really lazy Iz for short?" She giggles and nods yes. Yes a laugh, well a giggle whatever it still counts.

"I like that. No one has ever given me a nickname before." Her face starts going back to the correct shade, her eyes don't have tears in them anymore. I think I may have made some progress.

"Well today's your lucky day because I'm not like everyone else and you just got a new friend in Dianna Parker." I say as I link our arms together.

After exchanging numbers with Izzie and a few minutes of small talk I make my way to the parking lot where Nick was probably waiting on me. I stand corrected he looks very entertained with Bethany basically attacking his face with her lips. I clear my throat and Nick flinches causing Bethany to fall backwards. If this was anyone else I would be laughing so hard, but I despise Bethany so I'm just hoping she hits her skull next time.

"Damn Danni, what took you so long?" He says with a nervous smile.

"Just get rid of the tramp so we can go." I say with a blank expression.

"Danni she's my girlfriend."

"Same thing."

"Damn nice one." He laughs and gives me a high five and I start to crack a smile. Bethany is just sitting on the ground with a shocked expression.

"What the crap? Nick are you going to let her talk to me like that?" She yells at him in disbelief.

"Um... yeah pretty much." He says getting in the car.

"What do you mean yeah?"

"Sorry cookie, she knows where I live." He drives off leaving her standing there. Ha she really thought.

I stare out the window watching the scenery go by. Have you ever been in a deep thought and not really thinking about anything? Well it's like I'm in a daze. Everything is so peaceful and time seems to stop.

"Danni." Of course, can I not have a moment of peace?

"What?"

"Did you call Haden?"

"I should probably do that." I say with a nervous chuckle. I pull my phone out and wait for the tone. Beep.... beep.... beep..... beep..... beep... voice mail. Great just great he didn't answer. Nick pulls up to my house and something seems off.

"I think I'll go in and say hey to Haden." He says getting out of the car.

"Yeah I think that may be best." We walk up to the door and it's already unlocked. That's never a good sign. We walk in the house and it's a mess. Oh great what did Haden do this time?

"Haden! I'm home! Where are you?" I look around the kitchen and he isn't there. He's always in the kitchen when I get home even if it's super late. I swear if I see him with another girl in his room I'm going to scream. Out of nowhere I here a thud behind me. I turn around and walk out of the kitchen into the den where I see Nick basically unconscious on the floor. I run to his collapsed body and try to wake him up.

"Nick! Nick! Wake up! Can you hear me?" What am I doing of course he can't hear me he's unconscious. I take his wrist to look for a pulse and breathe a sigh of relief once I feel one. I want to do is run, but no one hurts my friends and gets away with it. Unfortunately I can't just leave Nick here and I still don't know who caused this or where Haden is. I hear a loud yell and automatically notice that it came from Haden. Now a smart person would have left the house and called 911. I would do that but I have no idea what Haden has stashed and he can't get caught with it. So instead I run up the stairs towards Haden's room. Which was a bad idea. I end up getting slammed against the wall head first. I close my eyes and try to keep the throbbing pain from my head to go away. I slowly open my eyes and see Haden's arm against my throat. What on earth is he on?

"Haden let me go." I say barely being able to get the words out.

"Where is she?" He is very angry and I'm still stunned.

"Who?"

"Kelly!" I haven't heard that name in a while. Go figure my brother decides to bring up something that I barried deep into the past.Well woop-di-flippin-do.

"You're hurting me." That's all I had to say to see immediate regret in his eyes, but that quickly goes away when he hears something from downstairs. He removes his arm from my throat and throws me onto the floor. "Haden wait!" It's no use he already left. Ouch! My head is pounding. Gosh why did I have to have the crazy brother? Oh crap, Nick! I instantly try to get up, another one of my bad ideas. The room keeps spinning and I can't tell which way the door is. Come on focus. Haden is out of control and needs his shoot. All you have to do is get downstairs and give it to him. After I give my self a mental pep-talk the room stops spinning. I try standing up and not long after I hear a loud bang come from downstairs. I rush out the room and run downstairs no matter how much my body is telling me to stop. The scene before me is horrifying. Nick holding a gun and Haden on the floor.

"Nick! What the hell did you do?!"

AN:
I've had a really bad writers block so sorry if this chapter is a little choppy. At the top is a picture of the twins. Shout out to angie1106 for getting over 100 reads on her latest book and Elese2516 for getting over 200 reads on her latest book. You should read their stories while you wait for me to update.
Update: I don't know I still have writers block.