A/N: You asked for it...Let's see what Polly is up to.
Polly didn't know what to do. She'd stopped on a dime and just stared before backing out of the bathroom. The look in Abbey's eyes in the mirror said it all and it was burnt into Polly's brain.
Polly ran, she didn't know what else to do and by the time she got back to the car the tears were streaming down her face. "What's wrong?" Isaac had asked her but Polly just shook her head. "Polly, what's wrong?"
"Umm.." she muttered. "No, it's okay." She pushed him away; she didn't want anyone to touch her.
They had come down the Navy Pier to hang out; it was cold out but sunny. Isaac, Chloe, Polly and Abbey. Isaac and Chloe had been dating for a couple of months and they would often just cruise and hang out together. Isaac's buddy Sam had joined them today, which had caused a little issue between Polly and Abbey. He was obviously interested in Polly, he'd made that quite obvious but she knew that Abbey had a crush on him so it was a little awkward to say the least. Abbey was definitely the more dominant of the two girls so Polly took a step back and said nothing.
Sam had been at the party last night and had spent a lot of time talking to Polly. He hadn't been subtle in his attempts to impress her and she'd had really enjoyed talking to him until Abbey started to interfere and then she started drinking and things ran off the rails. Polly didn't see Sam for the rest of the night because every time he came near her Abbey literally flung herself at him. It had been embarrassing to watch and people started teasing Sam about it so he left. He wondered if perhaps people were right? Polly Ruzek may not have been worth the effort if he had to deal with her psycho best friend too.
Sam couldn't help himself though and Isaac called him and begged him not to give up so he came along and turning up today hadn't helped, and it started to make him second guess what he was doing but he really wanted to see Polly again. And that's where things started to go pear shaped. Abbey was pissed that Sam was more into Polly than her and started flirting with a bunch of guys that they didn't know. If she thought it was going to make Sam jealous she was wrong and Polly could see him cringing at her behaviour and Polly spent more time trying to keep Abbey under control than she did talking to Sam, not that it mattered to Abbey, she was seriously out of control. When Polly tried to talk to her and get her to come back with them she basically told her to fuck off.
Looking at her watch Polly realised that she needed to get going soon. Isaac had promised her that she would be home by four and the last thing she wanted to do was get on her Dad's bad side again and neither did Isaac. Adam Ruzek was one person he had no interest in pissing off, even if he was only a friend of his daughter. The man could make his life hell. "Where's Abbey?" she stormed up to the group of guys that she had been talking to and they just shrugged. Polly crossed her arms and waited until one of them finally pointed in the direction of the restrooms. She had not paid any attention to how many guys were there at the time so didn't realise that one of them was also missing, all she cared about was Abbey and getting her back so they could leave.
That's when Polly's world crashed down. As she walked into the bathroom she saw her best friend bent over the bench with some guy she'd just met obviously screwing her from behind. While the sex was shocking enough, she had no idea Abbey was even having sex it was the dead look in her eyes that haunted her. What scared her also was that Abbey didn't look frightened or like it was against her will. While her eyes looked dead her face was twisted into a sad smile. "Get out." She told her and that's when Polly ran.
Sam reached out and grabbed her as she slid down the side of the car and he caught her before she hit the ground and they got her to sit in the car. "Jesus Polly. What's wrong?" Polly just stared up at him unsure of what to do or say. "I'm okay." she stuttered. "I just feel sick." He asked Chloe to grab her some water and didn't like how her hands were shaking as she tried to hold the bottle. They were still crowded around Polly when Abbey finally came racing over.
"Pol, Is she okay?"
"Okay?" Polly finally managed to speak as she struggled to get to her feet, pushing everyone's hands away angrily as they tried to help her up. "No I am not okay. That was not okay." She pointed back towards the bathroom and apart from Abbey no one knew what the hell she was talking about.
Abbey grabbed her by the arm and dragged her away from the rest of them. They tried to stop Abbey taking her away but Polly ignored them. "Polly, I'm sorry you saw that. Please don't say anything, to anyone. Promise me."
Polly reefed her arm away from her; she didn't want to be touched by her right now. "Why? Why did you do that? Was he raping you?"
"No, God Polly no. I wanted it. He's cute and hot." She shrugged like it was no big deal. This was a big deal for Polly, how could she not see that? And it should be a big deal for her too.
Polly pushed her away. "I don't understand any of this. That was horrible. That's not how it's supposed to happen."
"How is it supposed to happen?" Abbey snorted. "Not everyone gets the fucking fairy tale Polly. Your parents are not the norm, that fairy tale you've got at home is bullshit. It's bullshit. Shit happens and one day you'll be bent over a fucking bench too."
"Fuck you Abbey. You want to be like this, fine but don't drag me into your shit. If you want my help I will help you but if you are going to continue on with this crap I'm out. I am not getting reamed out by my Dad because of you." Polly was suddenly spitting fire. "You think I am going it sit around and wait for you to finish screwing around or hold your hair back while you spew your guts up every weekend you are wrong."
"Oh fucking grow up Polly. I know you think your Dad is some big fucking hero but he's a guy. He's got a dick too and all they want to do is to fuck someone. I am sure he bent some chick over when he was young. The way you have him up on this pedestal is embarrassing, he's just as bad as the rest of them. You think Sam is interested in anything but fucking you." Polly had never heard Abbey talk like this and it scared her. She could feel herself welling up with tears. "He wants to pop your cherry so bad it's pathetic to watch. Little miss innocent Polly Ruzek, won't do anything to upset Daddy." She mocked her.
"Like you let that guy pop yours, in a fucking filthy bathroom?"
"He didn't pop my cherry. Far from it. You should try it, might make you a little less stuck up. You think he's going to hang around and wait for you to open your legs you are wrong. If you're not fucking him within a week he'll be sniffing around someone else." She turned away from her dearest friend, having been a complete bitch to her and headed back to the group of guys she had been with. The guy she had sex with in the bathroom put his arm around her shoulder and Abbey barely gave Polly a backward glance as she walked away with them.
Isaac, Chloe and Sam had been watching them, they were just far enough away that they couldn't hear the conversation but it looked ugly. When Abbey left Polly they took off towards her. She was starting to sway a little and Isaac and Sam both caught her and led her to the closest bench. "What's up with Abbey? Are you Okay?" Their questions rushed up at her and Polly couldn't answer. She jumped a little when Sam sat beside her and asked her if he could get her anything. All she could hear was Abbey's harsh words smashing around in her head. 'He wants to pop your cherry.'
"No, please leave me alone. We need to find Abbey, I can't leave her here." She leapt up suddenly terrified of the thought of him touching her.
"Polly, you're going to be late." She had told both Isaac and Chloe that she had been in trouble with her parents for coming home late last night and that she didn't want that to happen again but now that Abbey was in trouble, again Polly couldn't just walk away. She would just have to deal with her parents later and it wasn't going to be pretty but it wouldn't be as bad as walking away from her best friend not knowing that she was okay. She wasn't about to do that, even though the girl had just trashed her.
They searched Navy Pier for an hour before they found Abbey sitting alone on a bench in tears. The guys had basically dumped her when she wouldn't go home with them. It was a completely different Abbey who came with them now. She buried her head in Polly's lap and cried all the way home.
Apparently they wanted Abbey to come with them and the guy she screwed was keen to watch her with one of his buddy's. At that moment Abbey's bravado crumbled and that's when they found her.
Surprisingly Polly did not have a stream of messages on her phone from either of her parents. A little after she was due home she got one message from her mother that just said 'four o'clock' but that was enough to send shivers up her spine. She was so screwed.
Polly was late, she was in trouble but more than that she was horrified and confused and didn't know what to do. She knew there were shit people in the world, hell she'd grown up being well aware of it through what her parents dealt with and her parents had shielded her from the worst of it. That didn't mean you had to accept it though, for all the shit people there were far more good people too and she had been lucky in the fact that there were good people in her life. The best people and that started with her parents.
The way Abbey had talked about her Dad had upset her. Her Dad was a super hero as far as she was concerned. Sure, sometimes she didn't like him and thought he was being harsh or over the top but she never felt unloved by him and he adored her Mom. Her parents would argue occasionally and her Mom would complain that he could be a pain in the ass but every night he called her if he was a work, every morning he told her he loved her and he had taught both her and Angus how women deserved to be treated. What Polly saw today was not how she imagined things to be. If this was a fairy tale life she lived she was happy with that.
Polly had be wise enough to turn her phone to silent when she did get home and throughout dinner but as soon as she got to her room she checked her messages. There was a missed call from Sam, asking her if she was alright, one from Chloe and also one from Isaac. She heard nothing from Abbey. Rather than call any of them back, because she didn't feel like she could talk to them right now she messaged them, including Abbey
Her hands shook a little as she typed out a message to Sam. She was confused, she liked him and knew that he liked her but Abbey's rant about all he wanted to do was have sex with her had been a little confronting. Polly had not been close enough to any boy to even contemplate having sex, she was a little scared when it came to that but Sam felt different. She liked how he was starting to make her feel. Her message thanked him for checking in and told him that she was still waiting for the shit to hit the fan.
As well as being beside herself with worry about Abbey, Polly was freaking out about being late home. After a little while she had started talking to Sam again as they searched for Abbey, Isaac and Chloe had gone one way and Sam stuck with Polly. He tried to talk to her about what happened and eventually she opened up and spewed the whole thing out all over him. He'd been a little taken aback and had no idea what to say. He reached out and grabbed her hand and promised that they would find Abbey and make sure she was safe before they left. The rest he just left alone.
He'd messaged her back almost instantly. 'I hope it's not too bad. Maybe when the dust settles we can catch up?'
Polly had sat with her phone in her hands for the longest moment. Everything was crashing around in her head and she felt sick. Was Abbey right about him? Is that all boys wanted? What did she want? Did she like him like that? Of, course she did but then so did Abbey, although what she wanted right now was debatable and Sam made it quite obvious that he wasn't interested in Abbey, especially after today. 'Sure, sounds good. I'll let you know how long I am chained in the basement for.'
Now she sat in front of them and her Dad was fuming and she had no idea how she could even explain this without it sounding completely horrific.
She couldn't because that is exactly what it was. A horror story.
"I am going to give you one chance to explain." Her Dad finally spoke.
And she buried her head in her hands and sobbed her heart out.
