(Heylo everyone! I haven't posted a chapter in a looooooooooooooooooonnnnnggg time! I guess I've just been so caught up with school and coursework and all that shizz that I haven't have time to keep writing! But I really do love writing this story and I'm really happy that about a hundred of you have read my chapters XD! OMG that is a huge amount! I'm really excited for y'all to read this because it took me a while to write for ya! And please watch out for some jokes ahead! I also hope that you actually laugh because I'd be a success if I could balance humour with distress and tragedy! Once again, hope you enjoy!)

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Chapter 4: Alphabet boy

Aimee had only been with Aaron for what seems like a long time, yet was only about a week or so. She found herself never at home, but always staying over at the house of an acquaintance that she only knew very vaguely yet considered a dear friend. Where did she meet these people? Well, many were already friends of Aaron, introduced to Aimee only recently, and others were friends of the friends that carried a suspicious aura as well as an odour, but this thought was always pushed aside as she could tell that they all got along… most of the time.

She often found that whenever she began to make friends, Aaron would always stop her from making any sort of contact with them again, so she continued with her solitary life as she always had done since the day she arrived in this world. Sometimes she would take into mind her relationship with Aaron, but somehow she felt guilty thinking this way and forgot it almost immediately.

"Hey,"
Aimee looked up from where she was standing and spun around to see who was calling her. She soon came face to face with a beautiful girl, no taller than she was, but had long black wavy hair and big, brown eyes.

"Hi there." smiled Aimee.

"Your spirits seem low. What's up?"

"It's nothing; I'm just – umm thinking I guess,"

"Anyway," she announced, "I'm Scarlet! I used to be called Lorna but I decided to change my name! What's yours?"

"Oh, I'm Aimee." She smiled. Not many people would want to make friends with Aimee if Aaron was not there, so she was happy that this girl was interested in talking to her.

"So, are you friends with Aaron?" she asked bluntly.

"Y-yeah, I am. You could say that I am his g-g-girlfriend," she mumbled looking down to hide her blushing face.

"Oh, you too?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well," she answered. "There's Veronica, Cassie, Leah, Michelle and this other rich girl with wavy brown hair and blue eyes. I forgot her name but anyway, I honestly don't like her at all."

"W-w-wha-whaa"

"And he even fooled me with his games but don't worry I didn't let him get away with it," she made a punching motion with her hands and clicked each of her fingers. "He's just like a door knob; everyone's had a turn…"

Aimee was confused at what she had heard, was she not his only girlfriend? And the description Scarlet had said about the girl with the wavy, brown hair sounded like the one from the fairground who was with Aaron.

At first she didn't want to confront Aaron about this, but after some time had passed she could feel the jealousy building pressure in her veins. She could feel her heart beating in her throat and her stomach felt as if it was in a huge knot.
Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and plucked up the courage to ask Aaron if what Scarlet said was true.

Aaron was talking to his friends smashing bottles on a wall when Aimee interrupted. "Sorry boys, but can I borrow Aaron for a minute?"

"Sure you can take him!" one of them replied. The others laughed at this hysterically.

"Oi, shut up!" Aaron shouted and threw a bottle onto the ground smashing it to what looked like at least a billion pieces.
The boys snickered at this but held in their laughter until the two were well away.

"What's up babe? But make this quick because I don't have all day!"

"Alright then, I'll just say it." She said quickly, trying to be considerate. "Are you dating other girls other than me?"

Aaron looked at Aimee with a stern, concentrated face.

"W-well I just heard something from a friend and I just wondered if it was true."

"And you believe her?" he replied locking eyes with Aimee.

"I don't know. Are you implying that I should?" She started to tremble and shake slightly at his response. She had seen Aaron as angry as this before, but never directly to her. She looked away trying to avoid his piercing eyes.

"Women like you are the worst! Always suspecting something of someone else, always thinking badly of another!" He yelled then turned Aimee's head so that she faced him. "So what if I was seeing other girls too? Would you break up with me? Do you seriously think for a second that I'd even let you do that?!"

He looked as if he were about to throw a punch at Aimee, but she closed her eyes and realised that she wasn't hit. She did hear a thud and a cry, but neither came from Aimee, but from in front of her.
She removed her shaking hands away from her tear stained face and saw Scarlet lying motionless on the cold ground beneath her feet.
"Scarlet?" she whimpered.

"SCARLET!" she cried falling to her knees examining Scarlet's face for wounds. Her face was pale, however her left cheek had swollen and blood dripped from her eye.

"I'm alright Aimee," she whispered silently, "but I don't think you will be, you need to go, run,"

"How could I?"

"Don't worry, I won't die from a wound like this, and I have my other friends here, but you don't!"

Aimee saw a small group of three boys and four girls running up to where Scarlet was lying.

"Thank you Scar!" said Aimee, who then got up, slapped Aaron hard across the face and walked away briskly. Then turned to a run: she heard the boys from the group fighting it out with Aaron whilst the others yelled "beef" and screamed.

She won't be back for a while and if she did, she'll make sure to keep a knife pocketed up her sleeve.

(Thanks for reading! If you have any questions feel free to leave it in the reviews because I'd love to answer them! If you caught all my jokes also leave that in the reviews and I'll catch you on my next chapter!)