Crash ~Justin Bieber~

Chapter 67 ~ The Warning Is In The Fire

(Randy's POV)

I believe in ghosts. I believe that they walk around us. I think they can hear us and I think that if we really listened we could hear them too.

Psychologists say that children can see ghosts better then anyone else. They say that children stop seeing ghosts when society scorns them for seeing and hearing something that the majority don't believe is there.

That's how society thinks isn't it? If we can't all see something; it mustn't exist.

And if we see something that most people don't like, we are taught to stop looking at it.

We are told to turn a blind eye.

We shut that problem off. We pretend it's not there.

Sometimes I wonder if this method is flawed.

I mean we can all stop looking but those ghosts are still out there.

And our blindness only gives them power.

What ghost will tread carefully, when even those who can see it, choose not to look?

~*~

"I must have heard wrong,"

"Yes," Monet agreed, "You must have,"

"Because he would never have said that,"

"Never"

"And even if he did - he didn't mean it. He loves Rachel,"

"He adores her,"

"She's made him angry before - and he never hurt her,"

"He barely punished her,"

"So it's all a complete misunderstanding,"

"It has to be,"

I had never been more grateful that Monet wasn't Quinn. She didn't over analyze anything that I told her. She accepted it, she excused it, and she put her trust in the group that we both existed in.

"Sometimes Justin says things," Monet explained, "That he doesn't exactly mean - but he has to say them,"

"I know,"

"He has to keep people in check. Especially Rachel,"

"Yeah - I get that"

"But aside from his empty threats - he treats her well"

"Yeah - very well"

"I mean - she offered him sex. And he said no,"

"She did what!!!"

I nearly fell through the deck. Sex? Rachel had offered Justin sex?

"She's fifteen!!"

"Calm down - Justin didn't even consider it"

"But she offered? Monet, she's fifteen years old!"

"And how old were you?"

"I - I was - that doesn't matter! I'm a guy!"

"And she's a girl with a very attractive boyfriend"

"Watch it,"

"Does it bother you?" she asked, "Me calling another guy attractive?"

"No - but - where the hell was Ben when this all happened! Where was the torch! Where was the spotlight on Rachel!"

"Nothing happened,"

"But something could've!"

"Justin laughed at the idea. He said no even when she insisted"

"She insisted!"