A growl ripped through her throat as she sprinted across the park towards the source of all the racket.
Those demented, devious, ill-mannered, vulgar, insensitive, vile little louts. She'd made the mistake of sticking up for them before, but it wouldn't happen again. Not after it had cost her so dearly last time.
Gabriella cringed and shook away the painful memories.
They were such puppies. She regretted not letting he father nip them into shape. She regretted covering for them after Ambrose saw them in town after curfew. She wished she hadn't trusted them, believed their every word, helped them kill...
"Hey," she yelled. A thump sounded behind her and Gabriella turned to see a pair of legs sticking out of a bush. She sighed. "Oh Embry." he was always falling out of his seat, or in this case, trees. The others howled with laughter.
"Good one G," Daryn said as he brushed a tear away from his eye.
"What do you think you're doing? You can't terrorize townspeople. Someone will call the cops!" She growled menacingly.
"Aww come on Gabs. We were just having fun," Embry whined as he fought to get out of the bush. Gabriella smiled at him and helped pull him out. He was the youngest of her age-mates and only a few weeks older than her. He was the sweetest of the five and had always been her favorite.
"Yeah G. Chill out." Cameron said pushing Embry back into the bushes. Gabriella moved away to help him but Cameron blocked her way. "You used to think it was funny."
"How can you think scaring defenseless old ladies is funny?' she snapped. She pushed Cameron out of the way and saw Embry sitting on the grass licking his wounds.
"Relax princess pouch," a voice behind her said smoothly. "Don't be so stiff. It's all in the name of fun. Speaking of which..."
"Not a chance Marcus."
"Aww G. That hurts. Is it because I'm not a meat-boy?"
"What are talking about Marcus?" she asked worriedly.
"Well, we came to see you today and we saw you with Mr. Meat-boy. You looked pretty comfy, right Andre." The stone man grunted in agreement. He'd never really been much of a talker. "Didn't daddy dearest teach you not to play with your food?" he said cheekily.
This sent the guys howling with laughter.
"Shut-up Marcus!"
"Oh G. Please don't be mad. I got you something." he snapped his fingers and Andre handed him a box. His face turned serious as he opened the box and said, "I wanted to give you my heart." With that he tossed the box's contents at Gabriella.
She caught the organ and stared at it in horror. Suddenly a wave of relief washed over her and the anger kicked in. "Marcus you creep, this is a pig's heart." She hurled the bloody organ back at him.
He was laughing too hard to catch it and it hit him square in the face. The force knocked him backwards and he fell over a park bench. The other four fell to the ground laughing as Marcus tried to get up and tripped over the bike rack taking several bikes down with him as he fell.
Gabriella walked away with a smug look on her face.
"Don't give that meat-boy what we can't have," Marcus shouted after her. "We get what we want, by whatever means necessary." Another crash followed along with a string of curses and the boys' raucous laughter.
Gabriella's feeling of triumph was replaced with one of dread.
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