I can't have him

Chapter 3

Cleo wanted so badly to kiss him, but she couldn't bring herself to do it. She slightly backed away and started to make a random conversation. With this, the mood lightened and she began to relax and allow herself to be content. Meanwhile downstairs Lucy and Flynn had been dancing non-stop. "I'm gonna go get a couple of drinks. I'll be right back." Flynn walked off to the kitchen.

Lucy continued to dance in the living room when two seniors approached her. "Hey, pretty thing." One of the brutes started.

"Man, I so wanna tap that!" The other one said while high fiving the other.

"And who might you two be?" Lucy said with disgust.

"Butch and Brady. We're football players." Butch said as he flexed a muscle.

"I couldn't give two shits. Bye!" Lucy continued to dance.

"Well aren't you rude, maybe we should teach you a lesson!" Butch grabbed her arm as Brady covered her mouth and they dragged her to the stairs.

Lucy kicker and tried to scream but the two brutes muffled them with their large hands. They passed by the first door at the top of the stairs when Lucy bit Brady's finger. Quickly she tried to scream but she barely got anything out. With that, they dragged her down the hall and into a bedroom.

Inside that first door at the top of the stairs, Cleo and Derek heard the small and muffled scream and opened the door. "OMG that was Lucy!!" Cleo cries.

"Shit some asshole is gonna hurt your friend. Quick let's find her." Derek said.

Cleo nodded and they started flinging doors open until the got to the end. Derek barged in and beat on Butch.

"Shit Derek! What the fuck!" Brady yelled. He went to punch Derek but he dodged and smacked him on the side of his head.

"Get out asshole!" Derek yelled. He turned to Lucy and asked if she was ok.

"I'm fucking fine... and just so you know I don't like you any better! Stay away from me and my best friend!" She screamed.

Lucy hadn't seen Cleo standing in the doorway but when she went to leave Lucy stopped and stared at Cleo. Cleo stood there with tears in her eyes. She couldn't believe her best friend was almost raped and yet all she did was yell about how Cleo's crush should stay away. Lucy ruined anything Cleo had tried to build after she almost lost her friend. Cleo ran downstairs and out the door.

"Shit," Lucy ran after her, "Cleo WAIT! I'm sorry!" but it was too late. Cleo ran back home.

The next morning Lucy looked all over for Cleo. She left her homeroom to go see Cleo in hers. Cleo wasn't there. Lucy stood up in the middle of science and walked down the hall to Cleo's English class. Cleo was nowhere to be found. Lucy had gotten 3 detentions and almost a referral because she couldn't find her friend. During lunch, she plopped down at their table alone. Lucy was ready to sob, but she couldn't do that in the middle of the lunchroom. Lucy quickly gets up and starts o head to the bathroom in hopes of privacy, but as she turns to run she doesn't see the person walking at that exact moment. Lucy smashes into Flynn with a loud thud and falls to the floor. At that point, Lucy couldn't hold back her tears and she let them flow. Flynn panicked and picked Lucy up. He carried her out to the hall and tried to calm her down.

"Hey what's wrong Lucy?" He asked in a soothing tone.

"I ruined everything!" She sobbed, "I yelled at my best friends crush, I almost got raped, I could've gotten hurt, but all I care about is her. Should I care about myself though? Isn't that selfish? I don't know!" Lucy rambled on and sobbed.

"Wait!? You were almost raped?! By who?" Flynn was starting to get angry.

"B-Butch and B-Brady," Lucy whimpered, "They grabbed me when you went to get drinks."

"Shit, I shouldn't have left you alone. I'm sorry and don't worry I'm gonna make those brutes pay!" Flynn comforted her.

Later in the bathroom, Lucy got an anonymous text from someone. 'Meet me outside near the dumpster and large tree. Come alone.' Although it seemed suspicious, she hoped it was Cleo, so they could talk things out. When she got outside she went to the tree and leaned against it waiting. Two minutes turned to ten minutes and then twenty minutes. At that point, Lucy began to smell something weird. She brushed it off as being the trash nearby and assumed her friend was late. Eventually, the thirty-minute mark hit, and Lucy had enough. Suddenly as she took a breath, a nauseating smell filled her nose. She gagged and slightly stumbled. Curious, Lucy walked over to the dumpster. As she turned to the side of the dumpster she saw something that absolutely horrified her. Terrified she let out a scream and ran into the school.

Meanwhile, Cleo had actually been in school all day. She came early and switched a few classes to avoid Lucy and Derek all day. She got all the passes and headed to the library for lunch. The library was across the hall from lunch, but not too close to disturb her. Although, when Lucy came out crying in the hall, Cleo had heard and stood by the door only, 10 feet away. She heard everything her friend said and realized she was being selfish. Cleo got out her phone and started to type a message. She rewrote it 12 times before finally sending it. She put her phone away in her pocket and resumed her day, looking forward to talking to her friend at days end. Halfway through her Latin class, she heard a scream through the halls. Panicked all the students rushed out. It was Lucy. She ran frantically screaming down the hall and into the office.

"Mr. Cordell! There's s-something outside." Lucy began to sob to the principle. Suddenly teachers were running outside to the dumpster. One teacher fainted, while others sobbed. Cleo could see only through a window, but as the pulled out what it was, Cleo felt like she was going to puke. Nothing like this has ever happened to Misty Falls High School and everyone was shocked.

To be continued...