Hidden Secrets - A Beau Brooks Fanfic

Chapter Four

Several weeks had past since I had last seen Beau. He had made no attempt in trying to find me and I hadn't bothered trying to find him. I had had to many other things going on anyway, and as I was trying to stay away from Ian as much as possible, I had spent most of those days sat in the park with my book.

There was also the problem with school, which due to having a letter home saying about my poor attendance, it was either turn up or get kicked out. I did originally choose to go for the first option but regretted it instantly as I approached the prison like railings of Penola College.

The cheerful shouts of the kids around me pang my head as I rush through the center of it all, my hair covering my face in order to keep my identity hidden.

"Oi, look boys! Its dipshit Dahlia!"

I cringe as my old high school nickname gets bellowed across the playground at me, followed by a few murmurs and some sniggers. I try to ignore Leo who had spitefully called it, pulling the collar of my jacket further up my neck, but he doesn't take the hint that I didn't want to 'play'

"Didn't your father tell you anything about manners Dahlia?" He smirks, picking up the ball he was previously kicking and walks over to where I was now stood.

"Oh wait yeh, that's right. He left you because along like every other person on this Earth, he thought you were some useless whore"

A little jeer comes from in the crowd that had now gathered, egging him on.

"Yeh, I said it. Whore. Having sex with your stepdad? It fucking sick!" he turns to the crowd, raising his hands in the air before facing back towards me.

"And to think Ben, that you were trying to fuck her yourself!'

My eyes twitch at the sounds of his name. Silence falls among us all until a very awkward looking Ben gets pushed to the front of the crowd. My first and only love. He shuffles his feet around on the ground avoiding eye contact with me. He looked a lot different from what I remembered. His once flat hair had now been cut and waxed into a perfect quiff and his left ear was been pierced all the way down.

"So, Ben, you wanted to say something to her didn't you?"

There's a glint of evil in Leo's eyes, and I knew what ever was going to come out Bens mouth was going to humiliate me.

"Well?" he kicks the back of Ben's leg making him grunt.

"No? Your not going to tell her? Okay then, I will. He used you, it was our little game" he laughs. Ben tries to hide his face in his sleeve.

"We wanted to see how FAR we could get you to go. But as soon as we found about your stepdad, he dumped your ass!"

"Shut up! Just stop it okay!" I scream at him, giving him a shove. It cant be true! Me and Ben, we had something special! He told me so! Leo pushes me back and I fall to the floor.

"Don't believe me, Dipey, huh? Even ask him yourself" he shouts, giving Ben a shove to.

I look up at Ben, his eyes still not meeting mine. He stays quite.

"See" Leo smiles " you believe me now?"

I quickly pull myself up the floor and storm over to him till I am inches from his face, my eyes burning into his. The smile stays on his face, then suddenly he crashes his lips to mine, his hands grabbing my back. I try to wriggle from his grip but he doesn't let go. I hear some shouts from behind me, but I was to confused to make sense of what they were saying. Leo's lips stay clued to mine, his tongue moving around my mouth. I start to panic as one of his hands move its way round to my chest. All my alert signals are going and I violently lift my knee up as high as I could manage, kicking him right on the crotch. He screams out in pain pushing me back to the ground and grabs his groin.

I scrabble back on to my feet and run towards the main building leaving Leo and his friends behind.

Inside was empty except for the odd person who, just like me, had no friends to be with. I decided I would stay in the toilets until the bell rang for first period. After putting all my book in my locker I walk over to the ladies bathroom with my phone hidden in my pocket. I pushed open each cubicle door to find the cleanest looking one and it ended up being the at the very end. I walk in, locking the door behind me and sit down on the shut toilet seat.

I admired the scene before me, the mixture of messages engraved into the wall. Things like "call me for sex" and "I love you" were scrawled more than once in a messy blue ink pen. Whoever wrote it was clearly desperate.

"Apparently Dahlia's back in school now"

I hold my breath as the door shuts and a clatter of heels move across the floor. I hear one girl walk into the stall next to me whilst the others stand outside.

"Omfg, really? I heard she committed a few weeks ago and her funeral was this Saturday"

"Not what I heard. Someone told me she has turned into a right slut and now she's back because she needed an education" the other says. The girl next to me flushes the toilet and walks back out to join them.

"Well I feel quite sorry for her, dont you" she asks as the sound of the tap fills the room. I cuddle myself up on the seat, sliding my phone back into my pocket.

"What? Amy, are you joking? Why? She's been having sex with her STEPDAD!"

So it was Amy and her crew....

"But she must have it hard, like she has no friends and her mums a bastard" Amy whispers. A tear trickles down my cheek and drops onto the floor.

" Mm............do you think her stepdads good at doing IT, I mean, it has happened more than once now!"

The three of them laugh and I hear one of them hit the other with her handbag. I get up from the toilet seat and unlock the door

"Dont be stupid Rose! Of course- Omg, Dahlia, I'm so sorry, we didnt-"

I shake my head in response and Amy opens her mouth to apologise, but I didnt hang around.