THE RUNNING - juiceofthemoon 🌘

Chapter One

*reminder: I don't images, or brands I mention in this chapter! Don't sue me lmao. This chapter does have mature content.

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~6 years ago.~

   "Arwen!!" Lauren yelled. "Get outside now!!". I didn't hear Lauren. I was up in my room, with my wireless earbuds turned up all the way. I was very very hard at work on a painting, and I never really do artistic activity even thought I am somewhat talented for my age. Maybe.
   I stared at the paint pallet, noticing the dark, milky, blue wasn't the exact baby blue I wanted, which aggravated me to my extent. I grabbed the white bottle of acrylic paint and squirted a large glob into the blue mixture. Surprisingly it went into the perfect, creamy, mixture that I wanted! This brought a smile to my face, and that was great considering not many things did these days.

   I picked up and average sized brush and felt the soft bristles with my fingers. I absolutely love the way brushes felt, and sometimes I almost didn't want to dip them in the paint, because I'm afraid they would be ruined. They never were though, thankfully. Just as I dipped the brush in the blue concoction and put a thin background coat on the canvas I heard another scream from the stairs that made me jump 10 feet in the air.

   "ARWEN!!" Lauren yelled again at the top of my stairs, glaring at her. I let out a groan and pulled out my earbuds. "What Lauren." I huffed. "Get outside." Lauren said pointing to the window. "Drake and Tom are outside. They're waiting for us." She said, with a sly grin at then end of her sentence. "Lauren nooooo" I sighed, running my hands through my thick chocolate waves. "I don't like Drake like that and I've told you that so many times, he's not my type." Lauren stomped over and grabbed my arm feebly pulling at it. "Well I like Tom. So you have to come with us so it isn't awkward." When I gave her the evil side eye Lauren let down her guard... maybe. "Pleeeeeease." She begged, pouting out her lip. "Just this one time."

   I sighed and got up, plugging my earbuds in. "Yay!!" Lauren squealed in an annoying high pitched tone. "Common they want ussss." She said grabbing my hand and dragging her down the stairs. "Put on your slides. "Hurry the hell up!!" Lauren whined.

   Lauren and I walked out the old door, of Aspen's small house. Out on the curb where Drake and Tom were waiting for them. "Hey baeee." Lauren giggled with a flip of her tight toffee colored corkscrew hair. Tom walked over and gave her hug, proceeding to place both his hands on her butt and feeling around. I was disgusted. There was something about a boy feeling my boobs and butt that just made me feel disgusted. Drake walked over, in more of a strut with his hands in the pockets of fresh pressed Gucci™ pants. He had on a sleeveless Louis Vuitton top, which I thought was really weird because it's fall time in Wisconsin. "Hey girl." He said swinging his arm around my waist. I squirmed at his touch, as he squeezed the side of my left ass cheek. I subtly moved his hand up, just to make sure he knew where his hands could be but not doing so rudely. He gave me a weird look, but didn't go down again.

   "Let's go!" Lauren squealed. I hated when Lauren got all riled up like this, because then the situation always ended badly. Drake took my hand and squeezed it. Whenever I tried to let go his grip would tighten, and I couldn't get loose, so eventually I just stopped resisting, seeing as my efforts to break free of grasp were futile.

  I would've actually enjoyed this day if it wasn't for the circumstances. The smell of crackly leaves, brisk and warm wind, birds flying South for the winter...

  I looked around and all the trees shedding their red, orange and yellow leaves. I so badly wanted to fly up and just catch them all. I reached up to catch one and..

  "Arwen?? Arwen!!" Lauren yelled, breaking me out of my trance. "Are you even listening?" She whined. "Huh oh, yeah." I shrugged. "Anyway..." she starts again. "We definitely need to go to the new teenage club. They have drinks." She said smirking. "Where is it???" Both guys asked immediately. Nononono. I thought. I remember the last time we did something like this. I don't want to have to explain to Lauren's mom again why I had to driver her home, and I don't want her to have to see her little girl and some skanky Senior have intercourse in the back of my Chevrolet again.

   "Uhm I don't think I want to tonight." I said hoping she would let me go home just this once. "Nuh uh babe." She said crossing her arms. "Why did you think I carrying this bag? It has our dresses in it!!" She squealed, in the annoying pitch again. I looked down at the bag I didn't even know she was carrying. Inside was what I think was two dresses, one red and one black. "We're going to Tom's house to change." She said picking up speed. "It's just another block away."

   Drake smiled his infamous heart-breaker smile at me, and grasped my hand tighter and we all jogged to Tom's house.

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   "Urgh...this...damn dress...." I said groaned trying my best to reach for the zipper. I was in the bathroom trying to pull up the zipper to this tight dress, which was so tight it made my smaller boobs seems busty and large. They're averaged sized I guess but not like, big. Drake must've been listening outside the door because he knocked asking if he could come in. Before I could answer, he barged in and looked me up and down. I crossed my arms over my chest.

   "Damn... aren't you sexy?" He grinned. After a long pause of silence he walked closer. "Let me help you with that." He said walking around to my back and placing his hands on my smooth back. I expected him to reach for the zipper, but instead he reached through the sides of the dress, around my waist, moving his hands up the sides and into the front my bra....

   "Stop." Is all I said. He stopped but left his hands there. "Stop. Now." I said again. He slowly moved his hands out and proceeded to zip the back of my dress, then walk out, saying nothing. 

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   After we had left the house at around dusk, Lauren took us to the teenage club, called "Insomnia." Very inviting name I know.  She screamed and hopped out of the car, stuffing the keys in her purse after locking it up. Drake offered his hand to help me out of the car, which I refused and just wobbled up to the entry in my long, uncomfy stilettos. Lauren checked us in as 18 years old, and we walked in. As soon as we walked in, it was loud and there was lights flashing everywhere. Good thing I brought my ibuprofen. Lauren and Tom immediately started dancing on the floor and melded into the crowd of teens until I couldn't see them anymore. Suddenly, Drake appeared out of nowhere and grabbed my hand. "Let loose a little Arwen!" He laughed. I sighed. Maybe he was right, maybe I did need to let a little loose. I completely danced my heart out, to the loud music and the smoke and the smell of alcohol all around me.

   Eventually, after maybe an hour I took a break and sat in a chair in the corner drinking my water. I wanted to be out of the bright lights for a little. Thank goodness I hadn't had much alcohol. Maybe. I don't know. Drake came over to me and smiled. "Come with me." He said in my ear over the music. I got up and ran outside with him. He unlocked the car and sat inside with me me. After a long silence of just sitting I spoke up. "What're we doin-" I said but before I could finish, I was silenced but his lips crashing against mine. I squirmed and wiggled trying to move out of the way but he grabbed my waist, and was so strong I couldn't move. His lips moved down to my neck, while he shoved his hands up the sides of my dress. "Stop." I told him firmly, but this time, he wouldn't. He moved more, moving to my zipper and unzipping my dress and pulling the straps down. He then moved his hand down to my underwear and pulled them down-

   "Enough!! I screamed and I kicked him in the throat. He flew backwards and I rolled out of the car, throwing my stilettos in the street that I had taken off while dancing, and ran for my life. I ran until I got to a bus stop hoping one would come soon before they came looking for me. Luckily in five minutes, which felt like an eternity it came. I threw my quarters in the change bucket and ran to the backseat, and the bus took off, just in time as Drake turned the corner and watched the bus drive away. 

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