Meat

Chapter 15

Trigger warning- sexual assault

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Weeks had gone by, and I was almost finished with Nicole. By this time, the police opened up a case, but never found any evidence of where she could have gone.

Although I really wanted to finish this whole Jeffery Dahmer phase, I couldn't. The thought of not having any more meat scared me, made me anxious. The cravings were getting worse and worse, there had been at least two times where everyone was home and I managed to sneak in a bite or two. It was getting addictive, and I was getting worried. I lost a taste for regular meat, I hated the taste of chicken and cow and pig. At home, I identified as a vegetarian. But at school, which started last week, I took my meat with me. No one asked what it was and I told Quinn a vegan friend in my 3rd period gives me "vegan meat", which is just vegetables made to taste like meat. I told her that I couldn't eat meat after eating human meat. She trusted me, even if she did seem a little weird about the situation.

The bullying stopped since Nicole went "missing". It was Sissy's last year and It was hard for her without her best friend. She didn't care about Quinn and I anymore. She still had her boyfriend and her little clique, but if she didn't bother us, no one did. I still have Nicoles phone. Sissy calls her every night and just vents about her problems on Nicole's voicemail. Its pretty interesting to hear. As for Quinn and I, we run the school. Quinn is in student council and runs a book club, and I'm running theatre and music. I'm a lot calmer since I started eating human meat. I don't know why, it calms me down a lot. It makes me happy.

Although only having an arm left of nicole to eat..I did have a trophy. Something inside told me I wanted a trophy- to remember all of this. I had a fake skull collection in my room, on a shelf. Some looked realistic and some were neon colors to correspond with a blacklight I had. In the middle of them all, laid Nicoles skull. I painted her a bright green and no one questioned it- let alone noticed.

As I laid in my bed, I stared at Nicole's bright green skull. I wasn't exactly proud of what I did, but I wasn't regretting it. I didn't feel guilty, I just felt neutral. Like it was nothing bad but nothing good either.

I dozed off to the memories of what happened that night.

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It's 4 fucking a.m. and I'm craving meat like a mother fucker. Mom is awake- but my stomach hurts from the rumbling of the cravings. I've lost a lot of weight from eating it since it's all I want, and I've grown a distaste for literally everything else, but human meat isn't easy to get.

I tip toe as quietly as I can passed her room, and make my way downstairs. I open the ice chest with my heart racing to find the one more tin foil wrapped piece of Nicole. I try to resist as much as I can but I couldn't help it. I eat the rest of her as quickly as I can.

"Fuck" I think to myself. "What the hell am I going to do now?"

My stomach was satisfied for now, but I knew that wouldn't last long. I creep back upstairs to my room and fall asleep with the worry of how I'm going to get my fix.

I wake up groggy and moody. My little late night snack made me fucking exhausted and I did not feel like going to school. I get up, get dressed, do some last minute homework and wait for Quinn so we can ride the bus.

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Sixth. Fucking. Period.

My teacher, Mr. Alberto, is the WORST teacher I've ever had. He doesn't know what he's doing half the time and he's such a creep with all these high school girls. I have an hour left in class and I'm here listening to him rant about something no one cares about. I have this class with Quinn, whom he is very interested in. He loves Quinn, talks to her as often as possible. Even brings her her favorite candy, M&Ms, everyday. Of course qt first she never ate them, but soon he would ask her to eat them in class right in fromt of him, for extra credit. Its disgusting.

He asked her to stay after school to talk about extra credit. I didn't trust him at all. He had a look in his eye whenever he saw Quinn that made my stomach turn. He told me to leave the class because what he was talking about with Quinn was "personal. Bullshit. I sit outside the classroom and read Spider-Man for the 80th time.

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About 15 minutes passed and I heard Quinn screaming. I jumped up and tried to open the door. It was locked. I ran over to the janitors closet where they had extra keys to every classroom on that floor. I search desperately for key A109 as I hear Quinn screaming and crying. I finally found it and barged in. Quinn was on the desk, kicking and fighting Mr. Alberto as his hand is sliding up her skirt rubbing her thigh and he's kissing her shoulder going up to her neck. Her jacket on the floor behind the desk where his computer and paperwork lay. She's trying to push him away but he has her hands held behind her back. I quickly grab a chair and hit him on the back with it, causing him to fall over onto the ground cursing about his knee while Quinn and I run for it.

We head across campus to tell the principle what happened. He tells us to go home while he brings Mr. Alberto in for questioning with a police.

We get home and tell Jim and mom what had happened. Jim is furious and makes Quinn stay home for a week.

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Quinn stayed in my room that night, she said she was worried about other girls, if they went through similar, or even worse. I tried to comfort her the best I could but she was freaking out.

As she drifted off to sleep, I think about the meat. I'm so hungry, and of course I'm craving human meat. I'm so stupid, I ate all of Nicole and now I either have to starve or kill someone else. Make someone else my victim.

And right then, in that moment, I knew exactly who my next victim would be.