meant to be yours // heathers au // EDITING

six

Veronica's POV

I woke up in a place I didn't recognize, an empty room besides the mattress I was on. It was wet and the room was cold.

I looked down at the stained mattress to see that my feet were bound. I could feel that my arms were as well, but I couldn't move my head to look.

I shrieked for help and that's when I could hear JD's footsteps coming down a flight of stairs, the door unlocked and swung open.

"No one can fucking hear you." JD informed me, lunging towards me and ripping off a piece of my skirt. He rolled the fabric up and shoved it into my mouth, tying it in the back of my head. "Just to be safe though." He added.

I continued to let out muffled curse words at him and once more, he pressed that rag into my face. I breathed it in through my nose and fell asleep again.

...

I woke up in a car, my wrists in front of me knitted up with a rope. My ankles were bound together with another one. I started to scream for help, desperate that someone would save me from this monster.

"Shit." JD mumbled, pulling over his car. He reached over and put his one hand on my mouth. Within moments, the hand on my face was replaced with that rag again. "Sleep baby," JD whispered to me as my eyes drifted shut again.

...

"Help me!" I tried to shout but my mouth had duct tape on it. I recognized the room I was in, it was JD's room. I tried to fight whatever was holding me down, but that was no use. I started to hit my head on JD's wall, trying to get someone to hear me.

Unsurprisingly, it was JD who came up to see what the noise was. He had a washcloth in his hand. "Hush, beautiful." He told me while he poured something onto the rag he held.

He walked up to me slowly and ripped the duct tape off my mouth. I opened my mouth to scream but JD was already pressing that cloth into my face, covering my mouth and nose.

The smell was horrendously sweet and I couldn't hold my breath for long. I started to breathe in whatever he had on the fabric.

...

I was in front of Westerburg High, sitting in JD's car once more. He was holding his hands over my mouth, his arms wrapped so tightly around me that I could not move. It took me a moment to hear him counting.

Five.....

Four....

Three...

Two..

One.

Just as he hit one, the building erupted into flames in a big flash of white. I tried to scream but it was muffled by JD's hands that hadn't left my mouth. It wasn't the one with his missing middle finger, I could tell because I felt the blood seeping from that wound on my shirt.

I could hear the people I've known my whole life burning and screaming. When I looked up at JD, he was smiling.

"See what I've done for you?" He asked me quietly. I tried to fight out of his arms but he pulled me in even tighter. After a minute, once the flames started to die down and we could hear sirens in the distance, he let me go.

"Somebody help me!" I shouted, scrambling for the passenger side door. JD yanked me back by my hair and collided his knee with the back of my head.

"Goodnight, Veronica." He said to me, still in that sickly sweet tone.