Disclaimer: I don't own anything that has to do with the clique books that's all Lisi Harrison.
Friday Night
Alicia's House
"Kay. So what happened after you left running away. From that stalker?" asked Alicia.
"Well… Derrick came into the girl's bathroom." I explained. "And he kissed me then ran!"
They all squealed with delight.
"You know how Olivia is jealous, right?" Alicia asked. We all nodded.
"She may not look like much but, she can get dirt on you tell everyone. Well...If you don't have dirt on her." A smile spread across her lips.
"I wouldn't worry about her. We wouldn't want her other 5 nose jobs to get out. Now would we?" Kristen asked.
"Delivery!" Shouted some voices behind the door. Derrick, Polvert, Cam, Kemp, and Josh barged in.
"Ever heard of knocking?" Alicia asked playfully. Josh jumped on Alicia and started tickling her.
"Get off of me!" she managed to say. All the guys followed Josh's lead and started to have a tickle fest.
Finally it stopped. We all grabbed our sides because we were laughing so hard.
"Seriously. Do you guys have pizza?" asked Dylan. We all started laughing all over again.
"Yea we do. It's outside, I'll go get it." Plovert smiled at her and stood up. He ran outside and grabbed it. Dylan basically attacked him when he came in with the pizza. Quickly, we all grabbed a piece before Dylan ate it all.
"So anybody up for a game of Truth or Dare?" Claire asked hopefully.
"Me!" We all shouted in unison.
"Me First! I'm a master at this game." Alicia spun the bottle. It landed on Josh.
"Truth or Dare Joshie?" Alicia asked playfully.
"Truth." He said trying to act tough after being called "Joshie".
"Your no fun! Okay, so, who do you think is the hottest girl in the grade?" Alicia asked.
"Um…... you?" he said unsure. Alicia nodded approvingly telling him he said the right answer.
Josh spun the bottle. It landed on Massie.
"Truth or Dare?" Josh asked.
"Uh….. truth." Massie said uncertain.
"Ok what's the real reason you moved? We've heard the rumors and crap. What's the real reason?" Josh asked questionably.
"My dad's job told him to move?" Massie offered.
"Oh yea! How did the meeting between your dad and my dad go?" asked Alicia.
"Uh.. what do you mean? My dad doesn't do business with… lawyers." Massie stated, making lawyers sound like she said dog poo.
"You mean you really haven't figured it out yet? Have you?" she asked kind of shocked.
"Figured out what?" Massie asked half curious, half scared in a way.
"The History of BOCD." Alicia said as if she expected something to click when she said that. Nothing.
"BOCD is a school where the worst criminals in the world send their kids." Alicia said letting it soak in "In the real world you need to learn how to defend yourself. Especially from your parent's enemies. So like a fifty years ago they decided that the nut doesn't always fall far from the tree."
"So, they decided to teach classes where we. We meaning us, only the popular students have criminal parents. Classes where we learn to defend ourselves." Dylan continued "Also we learn how to use a gun. Even though we don't like to kill it's just a precaution. Oh and you learn other languages just in case you get stuck in a situation. You'll start all of this, this week."
"All of our parents are at least in the top 20's." Polvert added. "But we don't get caught the FBI has out-dated pictures. So we're safe. All they know is that our parents are majorly rich."
"Anyways….. now she knows. Congrats! Now the real story?" Josh asked impatiently.
"Ok. My ex-boyfriend did like all my dad's dirty work. But he started getting way too close for comfort. And we moved before he could do anything else really serious." Massie informed them.
"What does 'to close for comfort' imply?" he questioned using air quotes.
"Well… He tried to rape me one night. But it's a good thing one of my friends - who happened to be the biggest guy on the football team stopped him. Anyways after that he snapped." Massie confessed.
"Whoa. Interesting, but I could've taken him down easily." Josh told her, trying to act tough again.
Alicia rubbed his arm indulgently. "I'm sure you could've sweetie."
Massie spun the bottle. It landed on Polvert.
"Truth or Dare?" Massie asked.
"Dare." He said with upmost certainty.
"I dare you to take the girl you think is the hottest and go in that closet." Massie pointed to the coat closet.
Polvert grabbed Dylan's hand and they went into the closet. 7 minutes later they came out their hair was messed up and clothes out of place. We laughed at their flustered appearances.
Polvert spun the bottle. It landed on Kristen.
"Dare." Kristen said before he could even ask.
"Ok I dare you to… go outside and swim in the pool for at least 15 minutes." He said.
"That's not much of a dare… but ok." Kristen said. You could tell that she didn't want to go out in the November weather and swim.
She ran outside reluctantly and we heard a splash. Polvert looked down at his watch and started counting.
"Kristen!" he yelled when the time was up. She ran through the door like a mad man was chasing her.
"I'm so Freezing!" she said when a dribble ran down her face. She blew trying to get it to stop. We all laughed for some reason there was just this peaceful atmosphere.
Alicia froze in mid laugh. Her spine stiffened and she told us to be quiet. She was listening to something that I didn't hear or couldn't hear. I looked around the circle everyone was frozen and they looked so stiff. Alicia walked to the front door.
"Did you seriously think we were amateurs? You are so easy to hear. I can't believe someone in your profession would be that stupid." Alicia spoke to the person standing in the door. Who was it? Oh you guessed it. Treavor. I hid behind Dylan showing the obvious that she was scared.
Josh, Cam, and Derrick kind of surrounded me. I could hear Alicia talking to Treavor. Something about how even a deaf person could've heard him sneaking around. He answered with something about letting him in. Massie hoped that Alicia said no. And she did but, he pushed past her into the living room where we were.
"Massie, sweetie, I just want to talk about what happened." Treavor said in a soft soothing voice it didn't fool me for even a second. "You know you still love me and I still love you."
I snorted "You wish. I love calories more than I love you. Also you had your chance to 'talk' and you ended up in jail. Which is where you should be."
Treavor rolled his eyes and tried to push past the guys but they didn't budge at all. He backed up and flipped over them. I had forgotten how flexible he was. In a last ditch effort, I tried to crawl behind the guys. They just stared at Treavor, he grabbed her wrist so hard that she yelped. Josh, Chris, and Derrick were about to probably kill him but Massie nodded telling them she'd be ok.
He dragged me down the hallway. He let my wrist go and started pacing like he was thinking. Almost like he was a human being but, I knew better he was just waiting till the right moment and then he'd hit me or something. He looked at me trying to pull off pain filled eyes, it didn't fool me for a second, and I rolled her eyes.
He grabbed my wrist harder than he did before, he probably stopped the blood from flowing, but that didn't matter I just wanted to get out of his death hold. I yelped in pain trying to act like a hurt puppy but he was never one for the poor and innocent.
"You know I love derrick." I managed and surprisingly I meant it because he was the first one to reach out to me – without cutting off the circulation in my arm – and understand – for the most part – what she was going through in a way.
"Shut it!" he shouted stabbing a knife right next to her head. A knife? I mean really what did he expect me to be alone in my friend's house and he could threaten me into doing whatever he had planned in his psycho mind. This is the 21st Century we use guns not flimsy knives – not that I wanted to be killed – it's just he could use some creativity.
"Make me!" I yelled back, surprised. Apparently he was too because never had I spoken back to him. In his mind I was the weak one, and he was the strong one that would take care of her. See what little imagination he possess.
He slapped me across the face it made the loudest sound in the world. It was like someone scrapping a knife through a glass window. She moaned and fell to the ground on her knees. Everyone took this as a chance to come in and interrupt. From what Massie was able to see Josh, Cam, and Derrick made sure to get a good shot at his jaw. He escaped, but we all knew that wasn't the last time she would see him.
"Wow. He's a charmer." Cam added sarcastically "You really know how to pick them don't you Massie."
I rolled my eyes and smiled. A pain ripped through my cheek and my smile turned into a frown instantly. With a moan of pain, I grabbed my cheek gently trying to get rid of the pain, but only making it worse. He had never hit me that hard before, so I had no idea what to do to heal it. Sure he'd left a million bruises on my arms and when my friends asked where I got them from I had to lie to their faces.
Derrick and Cam helped me up supporting my weight. I desperately wanted to curl up into a ball and cry my eyes out. They set me on the couch where I laid while they tried to beg me to move my hand so they could see the wound. Slowly I moved my hand because the pain was becoming unbearable and I desperately wanted to escape the torturing sting. They all gasped.
"I'm going to kill him." Someone vowed. Derrick? I couldn't tell because everything was blurring together. They were talking and the talking went to a dull buzz - I had blacked out. Then eventually the noise faded away until all there was, was pitch blackness.
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When I came to, the first thing I heard was buzzing, and then the voices became clearer. It was Alicia, Josh, Dylan, Cam, and Derrick talking about something I couldn't hear unless I really focused in on the conversation.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill him right now. Look what he did to her. Don't you care that she got hurt?" Derrick asked them.
"Of course we do but we can't take any attention to us. The FBI watches everything and I doubt they won't be watching what happens to the rich and famous." Alicia explained "Believe me it hurts me that she's in so much pain."
"I just won't get caught. I'll get rid of all the evidence and we'll be fine. And she'll be safe from him." Derrick vouched and I could hear the smile in his voice, practically imagining hurting Treavor.
"No. Derrick it isn't very wise we can't take any chances at all. I know, you know what your doing but…just don't ok?" Josh asked trying to convince him. "For her?"
"Okay, but if he hurts her again I won't let you talk me out of this. And he will be gone before the sun sets." Derrick stated no emotion in his tone.
This seemed like the perfect time to "wake up" so I opened my eyes. Everything was blurry and unfocused. I started to get up but the blood rushed to my head and stopped me mid-motion. My groan echoed as the pain from a strong, very strong, pulse came from her wrist.
Just rewrote this one too. Tell me what you think :)
Layta -Relient-Only