There is abuse in this chapter, but only this extreme in this one. Hopefully it won't be too bad. It isn't, really, but you might wanna skip some of it. Just a warning. It's an important chapter though.
Stephanie Levesque, the heartbreaker of Kisaragi Academy is a girl of fourteen years yet dates eight boys in a week. She is a gorgeous girl and barely wears any makeup and has the most amazing figure plus she's rich so you might think she has the perfect life, but in all actuality she doesn't.
While her mansion is huge and looks ridiculously beautiful plus her room looks the best out of all fifty rooms there are in the mansion, she isn't happy. That's because her parents always make her attend the company meetings once she gets out of school. And as if that isn't bad enough, a bunch of girls have to make her late every day.
"Hey, Stephanie-chan~," a girl calls mockingly.
Stephanie tries to walk away, but someone grabs her shoulders fiercely, making her stay in place. She takes a deep breath before saying, "Yes, Ruriko?" she almost spits out, but doesn't in fear of what worse things the girls might do to her.
"Where are you going? You seem to be in a hurry," Ruriko says, walking over.
"Yes, I am," Stephanie says, wishing they would just go away.
"Well, sadly," Ruriko says, stomping very hard on Stephanie's exposed shoes. She grins evilly as she sees Stephanie bite her lip, preventing herself from crying out. "We have something we need to say to you."
"And what is it?" Stephanie says.
Ruriko puts on a glare. "Stay away from Youichi-sama."
"He's my best friend," Stephanie says, turning around. Whatever she does, she cannot stop herself from lashing out at these girls. "You can't just get in between our friendship."
"Friendship?" Ruriko laughs. "You are so funny, Stephanie-chan. In this school, no boy and girl can be just friends. And I think you're a perfect example. How many boys have you slept with this week?"
"I don't sleep with them," Stephanie replies with a glare. "I just have dates with them. What is your damn problem, stupid fucking bitch?"
Ruriko's eyes narrow. "Alright, girls."
With those words, her girls start beating Stephanie up. She doubles over in pain only to be kicked in the stomach. She falls backwards and winces. The girls then begin to kick and stomp on her. Finally she can no longer stand it and begins to cry out in pain. She will not ask for help. That will make the beating far worse and is a blow to her pride she has managed to work up.
"Let's give her some special treatment," Ruriko says, and she grins evilly as she passes a razor to one of her girls. "Make some slashes on her perfect body."
"No-" She is interrupted by a painful smack to the face.
"Shut up," the girl hisses. "You are so annoying."
And the torture truly begins.
"Now leave, bitch!" Ruriko says, pushing Stephanie and almost making her fall down. "Leave and never come to Kisaragi Academy ever again so that we don't have to recoil in disgust whenever we see you!"
I will not cry. I do not cry. I am strong and they are weak.
She comforts herself with these words, transforming it into a mantra.
I will not cry. I do not cry. I am strong and they are weak.
She thinks once more, and she falls unconscious into somebody's comforting arms.
Stephanie lurches up in bed with a gasp. Her eyes move left and right wildly before focusing on the boy in front of her. She recognizes his face and lies down, comforted. "Hey, Youichi."
Youichi sighs. "What happened to you?"
"Nothing," she says, looking up at the top of her princess-style bed. "It's just…"
"What, you accidentally ran into a fan with spinning blades?" Youichi snorts. "Even if that's what did happen to you, that's not nothing. Stephanie, this is the eighth time I've seen you unconscious. The only difference is that you fainted right in front of me. It's getting more serious. Why can't you just tell me? I was your childhood friend, and now I'm your best friend. If you can't tell me, who can you tell it to?"
"Nobody and I'm fine with that," Stephanie replies. "I'm an independent person, Youichi, I don't tell anyone about my problems and that includes you."
"Come on," Youichi says softly. "Please, Steph."
A few minutes pass and Youichi is about to get up to leave Stephanie alone when she finally speaks up, "It's because of the girls, okay?"
"Girls?" Youichi says, looking into Stephanie's eyes. "Who are they?"
"They're sometimes different," Stephanie says quietly. "Today was Ruriko and her group."
Youichi is suddenly filled with anger. "They'll pay," he says while gritting his teeth. "They-"
"No, Youichi!" Stephanie cries out. "No, I can handle it myself. Please!"
Youichi stops in front of the doors. He says quietly, "I'm sorry, Steph. I can't let them continue doing this to you. You don't deserve it. Besides, what do you have to say for yourself if you died because of them? I won't forgive you."
"If that's the case, then just stay here with me for a while first," Stephanie insists. "They can wait. I need to sleep now, and you look very tired too."
Youichi hesitates. He looks at the ground for a while before he finally relents. He sits down on a long couch at the foot of Stephanie's bed. "I'll just lie down for a while. Don't go anywhere, okay?"
"It's not like I can get very far," Stephanie says, smiling a little. "Get some sleep, okay? I'm sorry for making you stay here. You could've gotten some sleep in another room."
"Actually this couch is pretty comfortable already," Youichi says chuckling. "It's a bit more comfortable than my bed back at home."
"I can buy another for you then," Stephanie jokes.
"Actually I would prefer a bed like yours."
Silence reigns. Stephanie glances at Youichi every once in a while and finally he goes to sleep, thanks to his heavy eyes and the cool breeze of the air-conditioner. She sighs in relief and gets up slowly.
Today is Youichi's sixteenth birthday. I'm a bad friend if I don't get something for him. I can't believe I haven't bought a present for him already. He always gives me mine at midnight when it's time for my birthday. He's so sweet to me and I should do the same for him, at least.
She suddenly realizes that her clothes have been changed. She blushes slightly but immediately brushes it off by thinking that one of her maids must have changed her clothes for her. Even if the person who changed her clothes is a female, she still feels uncomfortable that someone did it.
She walks down to the ground floor, politely greeting the maids and butlers on the way. She goes out the door and outside the mansion gates, finally outside of her home. She begins walking, and a few minutes later she finds a shopping mall.
Suddenly, she is grabbed by someone and dragged to an alley. She struggles but fails. The person then finally lets go and she sees with a start that Ruriko is right in her face.
"Hello, bitch," Ruriko spits. "How dare you get held by him after our little talk?"
"I didn't ask for it," Stephanie says but gets slapped. She stays silent but her hate grows stronger for the dense senior in front of her.
"I don't care," Ruriko says, glaring. "I don't care if you asked for it or not. All that matters is the fact that he touched you like that. What is it that you have captivates him and I don't?"
She circles around Stephanie like a vulture. "Your plastic boobs? Your shapeless body and legs? Your clown face?" She slaps Stephanie. "What is it?!"
"How should I know?" Stephanie glares.
"And that is why I think you shouldn't fucking live," Ruriko scowls. "Get her."
They swoop down on her like a flock of angry birds, and she feels herself being slapped and scratched at with occasional punches. When they are done, she is left feeling like she hurts everywhere.
"And now for the big finisher," Ruriko says. Stephanie catches the glinting of a knife. "In her stomach, please."
A searing pain erupts in her stomach, and she screams but no one hears her for a cloth is around her mouth. Black spots appear in her vision as she watches the girls laugh at her misery and pain.
When I thought of the ways I would die, I didn't think it would be getting stabbed by a bunch of bitches while trying to get a present for a best friend I know since I was a child. But now I can see it happening and it's happening fast. I can't stop it but I'm not afraid. I know I'm bleeding to death but I cannot bring myself to care. This is the fate caused by these girls but I can't care less. What I do care about is how Youichi will react, but sadly I can't stop it.
This is my fate and I accept it.
And she bleeds to death in the dark alley, remembered only as a very rich and beautiful person by many people.
So how was it? Too weird?