PURE HEROINE II 13 REASONS WHY

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"The memory and the feelings that these friends gave her isn't replaceable."

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"Man, it's been months since I've been here", Monty beheld the house where I had lived for eighteen years, "We've thrown some great parties." Grandpa, Will, my friends and I sat down in the garden eating the cake and talking about our time together.

"Yeah like those where you followed Nicole Simmons the whole night until you ran into the pool because you wouldn't watch your way", Bryce said making us laugh. "Or when you smoked so much weed that you wore my underwear and really thought it was yours", I laughed not thinking of anything bad that has happened.

"Or how Jeff and Scott annoyed you so much when we played suck and blow that you left in just the right moment that the card fell and the boys had to kiss", Sheri remembered. "My favorite memory is when we-" "Nobody wants to hear that, Scotty", Chloe nodded in the direction of my family members. "Really, no one", Will emphasized.

"Well, I guess that right now is my favorite moment", I smiled at each of them, "What could be better than to spend the day with every person who's special to me and has always been there for me? I love you, guys." "We love you, too, Ellie", Will kissed my forehead, "My favorite memory must be whenever I came home to see you."

"Elizabeth", grandpa stopped me before Scott and I walked out the door to leave for school, "Can we talk for a second?" "Of course, grandpa. Is everything alright?", I wondered.

"William is worried about us. You know because he says I'm old", he chuckled acting cool, "And because you don't seem to be so happy around Harvey. Maybe you moved in with him too fast. Will forces me to live with him so he can keep an eye on me and you could come back, too if you want to."

"I'd love to live with you two. Hey, we could throw a multi-generational party", I joked, "Don't worry about me, okay? I'm fine with what happened. But I'm happy that we're going to live together. Thanks, grandpa, you're the best." "Have a good day at school, kids", he smiled. 

Today was going to be Bryce's testimony. We were all back at court. Scott, Monty, Sheri and I were sitting right behind Nora, Barry and Chloe. Jeff sat next to Clay and Tony. Zach didn't bother to show up. Some other boys from the team were next to and behind us, too. When Chloe left the room, I could feel Bryce becoming nervous. I know this was hard time but he needed us to support him.

"Man, stupid questions", the boys laughed when Bryce came out to meet us. "Have you seen Chloe?", Bryce asked me worried. "She's not here anymore, I'm sorry. I'm going to talk to her", I tried to calm him down.

"Ellie, we need to talk", Clay and Tony followed Scott and I when we walked to my car to go back to school. "Oh my god, what do you want now? I believe Bryce", I rolled my eyes turning around. "Yeah? Because you lied, too, yesterday. You lied about your friendship with her. You were close friends and now you behave like that? How can you be so ignorant?", Clay shook his head.

I laughed, "I lied? I told my fucking story. You could be happy about what I said because after my own dad teared me apart to win your fucking case my testimony doesn't count. That's what you wanted, isn't it?" "We've got pictures of Bryce raping Chloe", Clay blurted out, Tony looked at him surprised, "You need to talk to him and you need to make sure to stay away from him."

"Yeah, sure. Where's that picture then, huh? Why don't you say that to Chloe? Why do you keep on annoying me?" "Because we're trying to help you unlike your toy who sticks to a rapist", Tony hissed into Scott's direction. Scott chuckled, pushed Tony back, "What are you trying to say, Padilla? That I'm helping Bryce? Or that I can't take care of my girlfriend?"

"Okay, boys. Back into your cages", I laughed leaning back at my car, "If you'd really have a picture of Chloe why don't you show me so I talk to her or more importantly, why don't you tell her yourself?" Didn't they have better things to do than to come up to me? They knew my point of view.

"At least I tried to save her from a rapist. I bet you do the same as Justin, letting fuck Bryce your own girlfriend. You're just like them, Reed", Tony ignored me making Scott angry. Before Scott could punch him in the face, I took his arm and placed it around my waist. "They're not worth it. Let's go, babe."

"Where have you been? We came here twenty minutes earlier", Monty asked when we finally arrived at school, "Man, Scotty, your vein's throbbing." "Tony and Clay stopped us, they were talking bullshit", I explained kissing Scott's throbbing vein because he looked pretty cute when he defended us.

"Scotty", Monty laughed, "You let Tony and Clay talk to you like that? You're a pussy." "Shut up, Montgomery." "Now's really not the right time, Mountain. And I can definitely say he's not a pussy", I winked at him with a grin on my lips.

"You fucking liar", Justin suddenly walked up to Bryce, who stood next to us, all of us turned around, "You've went out with Hannah. You would have told me." "Why? Were we best friends and I would have told you everything?", Bryce smiled. I mean, Justin was our best friend with Monty and Sheri but we didn't talk about everything.

"I should kill you", Justin hissed but seemed to be serious. "Hey, chill", Monty stepped between the two of them but Justin hit his arm away. "Are you hiding behind your friends, Bryce? Behind Ellie who's innocent and too naiv to push you away?" Bryce looked at me and laid his hand on Monty's breast to make him step back, "Not a bit. Do it."

Justin pushed Bryce against the lockers punched him two times until Monty pulled him back. The other boys were joining the fight, everyone around me pushed or punched someone else. It was the sports team against the rest. I stood in between, trying to figure out what to do. Justin was my friend. I couldn't punch him, could I? But he was about to beat Bryce up so I stepped in between the two of them.

"Ellie, go away. You shouldn't get hurt", Justin shouted at me. But when he lunged to hit Bryce again, I pushed my fist into his stomach two times. "Fuck, Ellie." "Justin, we're friends. We shouldn't do that", I begged him. He wouldn't hurt me, he'd never do that. But I couldn't watch him hurt my friends. "He raped her, Ellie! He raped Jess, Hannah, Chloe. All of your friends!"

"Oh, shut up, Justin. Shut up with your lies", Bryce shouted. So when Justin lunged again, I was ready to step in again. But Jeff and Sheri pulled me away. "Sheri, they-" "We can't go in between. Do you really want to choose between Justin and the others?" "Haven't we done that already?" "Look at them, they're like animals. We're not going to help anyone", she made me stay away.

We watched Tony and Monty, Clay jumping on Bryce, Scott pulling him away. Zach punched Bryce, Alex hit Monty with his crutch. "Juvie did you well", I chuckled. "Ellie, come on, let's go", Monty ran past us. As soon as Mr. Porter and coach were fighting, too, we knew that it was best run away. So I followed Monty.