All Alone

The Fight

CARTER's POV
We've been pulled off the road talking for a while, just talking. Then Shawn said something that made my blood run cold. "I'm sorry, I should have told you. Back at the school, after you were gone, some stuff happened. I don't really know how to say this but, Alyssa, she was... Tortured." I saw red. "What are you talking about?" He didn't look me in the eyes. "Josh and I. It was just us for the longest of time, then we came across your group. I wanted to join them but Josh, had other plans. He wanted your girlfriend, bad, but you were always in his way, so when you were gone he took his chance. Alyssa was first. He tried to hit on her, many times, but she would refuse him because she said she was still yours. He got mad and hurt her, in many ways. When night fell, I would visit her. She would tell me how she missed you and would wish you would come save her. I-" I cut him off. "You were there the entire time and let him hurt her? The hell is wrong with you?" He put his head down, ashamed. "I was the one who saved her, where were you?" His words stung. "Oh I'm sorry. I was busy being dead while you were letting my girlfriend get ra-" I swallowed hard and put my head on the steering wheel. "I'm sorry. I just thought you should know." I wasn't mad at him. "I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the world. She never told me." I was getting ready to say something but was cut off by a car that went zooming past us. "Follow it?" He said, "hurry!"