Doll House [On Hold]

Chapter 9: Why Me?

What a strange night. Am I ever going to get enough sleep?

"Ugh," I groan, "Why do I feel hurt?" I open my eyes and notice I'm on the floor.

"I see someone's had quite the rest?" Mom enters my room holding her cup of coffee.

"Why am I on the floor?"

"Only you know the answer to that," Mom says, leaving the room.

"B-but I was downstairs. In the secret room. Then someone tried to faint me with some kind of chemical."

Mom stops midway through my door then turns to me. "Sure they did, kiddo. Now stop wiping the floor and get ready for school."

I stand up and start to get ready when a ripped piece of clothing caught my eye. I walk towards my desk to pick it up. It was shaped similar to a square. The patch had purple glitter and sequins on it. I look carefully at the detail and found one red triangular stain at one of the corners of this patch. I-is that blood? It sure seemed like it. I put it on my study desk and get back to getting ready. I grab my bag when I notice my bat was missing. Heading downstairs, I find my bat beside the white door, along with the hammer. "Was my dream real?" I thought to myself. Everything sure felt real. As I walk down my hall, I find the same picture frame from my dream. Only this time the picture had been smashed by a hammer over the face of someone special. This only made me angry. I don't understand why this is happening to begin with. I grumpily have breakfast and head to school.

"Hey Lace-" Henry says happily but I ignore him. "Looks like someone woke up on the floor,"

Astonished, I stop and asked, "How'd you know?"

"I didn't I was just guessing. What's wrong?"

"Mom..."

"Oh," He said as if understanding the problem.

"I opened the door last night."

"You did? What was in there? What did you see?"

"Too much to just explain. You'll find out tomorrow anyway."

"Fine," Henry says, disappointed. "At least tell me what happened last night that made you upset? I'd think finding the answer to a mystery would be interesting."

We continue to walk and I explained what happened. But as we were walking, we ran into Ethan, and his friends.

"Yo Lacey," One of Ethan's friends call, "You're dating Ethan or Henry?"

"Oh please," Another one says, "She's probably dating both." They all laugh,

"Shut up a**holes," Ethan stops them, "Sorry about that Lace," He walks and puts his arm around me and I begin to blush.

"I-it's fine, I'm just dating you," I stutter,

"Dating?" Henry questions,

"Oh my god, I completely forgot to tell you. I said yes!"

"Mhm, yeah uh sure ok then," Henry says miserably, then begins to walk away. Ethan stops him.

"You got a problem with that?" Ethan puts his arm to stop Henry from walking by. "Or are you just jealous that I got your girl before you could make her yours?"

"Ethan, what the hell?" I say,

"Just a sec, Lace. I think someone needs to know their boundaries." He punches Henry,

"ETHAN!" I yell,

"Come on, Lacey, let's go," Ethan begun pushing me away from Henry,

"Go on, Lace. Your boyfriend is just jealous of how much time we spend together,"

I could see that triggered Ethan real bad. He lets go of me and goes back to Henry,

"Was one punch not enough?" He asked,

"No," Henry punches Ethan back, "I just thought we should be even,"

Everyone around begins to crowd around and began yelling, "Fight, fight, fight!" and that's exactly what they did.

"Seriously you guys?" I complain,

They both ignore me and continued punching and kicking one another. I honestly hate this. Are they fighting over me? What do I expect from teenagers? I rolled my eyes and walked over to stop them.

"Guys, stop it already!"

I break them apart and Ethan grabs me to put me by his side. "Stay out of this, Lacey."

"What she should be staying away from is you, you monster," Henry yells,

"Why I outta," Ethan yells back then runs to punch Henry. I jump in front of Henry at the moment Ethan began his hit, and he ended up hitting me. I fell to the ground and it became silent all around.

"Lacey!" Henry yelled and dove for me.

"I-" Ethan didn't even try to apologize, "I told you to stay out of it!" He storms off. The principal stops him.

"Not so fast," The principal said, "I saw everything,"

"Mrs. Anderson, it's not what it looks like!" Ethan claims.

"Oh, I'm sure it isn't," She replies sarcastically,

"Ugh, why me?" I thought as I closed my eyes and face towards the sky.