Why us? - Montgomery De La Cruz

The club house

Clay had messaged ella and asked if she could meet him and Justin at monets, at first she had said that she wasn't going to go but when clay had said it was important and would help put cold evidence on bryce about him being a rapist, she couldn't help but agree. Bryce was a pig, a rapist, and someone who deserved to be behind bars and Ella was prepared to do anything and everything that she could to put him there, after all that was why her and zach had given the polaroids to clay, and ella was sure that that had something to do with what clay wanted to talk to her about but she had promised zach she wouldn't tell anyone that it was them

The bell on the door to monets rung as the small girl pushed it open and walked inside, her skateboard tucked under her arm and her boyfriends' jacket wrapped around her body, growing her, she spotted the two boys sitting at a table, both of them already looking at her. She quickly walked over to them and sat down

"alright, whats up?" Ella asks them and the boys both share a look and then look back at her

"what do you know about the club house?" Clay asks 

"its a small shack behind the baseball field" ella says, keeping it brief, when in reality she knew quite a lot about the club house, she decided to go more into detail "the boys go back there, drink, smoke weed, fuck around with girls, and you are only allowed in if they let you in, i don't go in there, it stinks"

"look, we need to get in there. We've got a plan" Clay says and Ella cant help but notice the cuts and bruises that covered his face and she became concerned but figured clay would have had enough of people bringing it up 

"you've got a plan? , seriously, whats the plan then huh? if you get caught those bruises will look like fucking fairy kisses, and besides like i said, you cant get in unless they let you in" Ella says to him, worried for his safety

Justin suddenly turns to his side and pulls large bolt cutters out of his bag and then places it on the table in front of them with a proud look on his face  "boom"

The look on his face makes ella roll her eyes "seriously? Thats the plan?  Jesus christ J, out those things away" she scolds

"what? why?" Clay asks in confusion and Ella scoffs at the confused looks on both of the boys faces

"are you that fucking stupid? you cant just break the lock and go inside, they are gonna know that you went in there Clay, look what I'm saying is that you have got to get in there without tipping them off" Ella tells the boy

"and we do that how?" Clay asks in confusion

"my boyfriend and most of my best friends are on the baseball team, I'm sure ill be able to get in there pretty easily" Ella said and Justin already looked sick to his stomach as she said that

"no way, there is no way that I'm letting you go in there" Justin says to her quickly "I've seen the pictures, its dangerous"

"you don't control me justin" Ella says and stands up out of her seat "ill text you, let me handle this, ill get the code and then you two can go in there, there should be a box, there is heaps of polaroids in there" she says and then leaves monets

Ella pulled her phone out and called Scott, realising that she probably wouldn't even have to go in, the phone didn't even ring twice before he answered it

"hey Ellie, whats up?" he asked

"Oh hey scotty, i was just wondering if you could give me the code to the clubhouse" she asked and unconsciously began to bite her nails in worry, was this a bad idea

"uhh yeah sure, its 6902" he says "hey umm, i was just wondering if you were okay, and also just remember that my mum said you were welcome to stay with us whenever you like"

"thanks scotty and yeah i should be fine, you don't have to worry about me, i can look after myself" she says softly

"i know you can, but I'm always gonna be here for you alright, no matter what" he tells her

"thanks scotty" she replies, a smile on her lips

"hey y-you should come over for dinner tonight or or something" scott stutters out and Ella furrowed her eyebrows

"mon-" ella starts but is cut off by Scott

"Monty can come too" he says and she smiles

"okay scotty, ill talk to Monty and good luck at the game ill be there to cheer you guys on, see you soon" 

"bye ellie"

"bye scott"

'the code is 6902. Go during the game, its the best time for you to not get caught' she messages clay and then shoves the phone back into her pocket and then rode back to school, arriving in time to make it into the change rooms and get changed into her cheerleading uniform, luckily the other girls were still in there, it would be bad if the captain missed the game, especially one as important as this.

"alright girls, lets go out there and show liberty high and all of the others what we've got" Ella tells them all with a grin and they run out onto the field in front of everyone and the crowd begins to cheer, the game was about to start and the baseball boys from each school all ran out and the crowd got even louder

Liberty was winning by far, and by now, every single person in  the vicinity had seen the word 'rapists' that had been burned into the baseball field in large letters and ELla was sure that everyone knew why it was there and what had been going on at liberty high she thought that it would have scared people away but as she looked out at the crowd, she knew that that was not the case, if anything, it had drawn even more people.

Ella had noticed the glares that had been going between bryce and zach and they had even had multiple arguments during the game, which was odd since they were on the same team and they were winning 

Bryce had gotten the third strike out for the opposite team but somehow to eceryones confusion this angered the tall Dempsey boy as he ripped his helmet off his head and demanded time

Ella could hear their conversation from where she was standing on the side and she could clearly see the anger written on Bryce and zachs face as Zch stormed up to Bryce, ella instantly felt worried that a fight would break out but she knew that both of the boys in front of her were only violent when they needed to be or when they were extremely pissed off, and it was even more rare for them to do something when there were so many people around, including byrces parents and Zachs little sister

"what are you doing right now?" Zach asked Bryce angrily 

"that's 5ks  in a row with the fast ball, why are you trying to fuck that up?" Bryce asks with a scowl on his face

"why didn't you shake me off?" Zach asks and ELla couldn't t help but roll her eye, the two boys were finding everything they could to pin against each other and they were going to involve a whole lot of people, they were doing this at the wrong time "why don't you just catch what i throw and be happy about it? Its when you start thinking that shit gets fucked up"

"you gave a whole fucking speech about teamwork, but that was just bullshit too wasn't it?" Zach asks 

"what the fuck is your problem right now?" Bryce asks and gets up in Zachs face and zach pushes him back 

"you're my fucking problem. we both know that hannah didn't lie on those fucking tapes" Zach says and the coach quickly steps in between them

"zach come on man, we leave this stuff off the field okay?" the coach said and this only seemed to make zach even more angry 

"sorry coach, i cant anymore" zach says and then storms off in the direction of the clubhouse, which made ella worry because she knew that Clay and Justin were probably in there 

"Dempsey, dempsey come on" the coach called him back but zach just kept walking and didn't even look back. Monty looked over towards Ella giving her a look to ask her if she knew what his problem was but she shrugged her shoulders, lying to her boyfriend, something she hated to do.