A Rebel Love Story

What's up ma peeps? Happy New Year and I hope you have goals for 2014 like I do! I'm just gonna cut right to the chase.. I am really sorry for not updating in like nothing short of an eternity or forever. I've been busy with work and school and so writing wasn't exactly my first priority. But, ya know I got 99 problems, but writing a fanfiction chapter ain't one of em. So here it is my fanfiction readers. The brand spankin' new chapter hot off the presses. There's also a little revealing of a somethin' somethin' if you can remember it. Enjoy!

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Chapter 7

Recap: I couldn't deny that. I really do love Will. We've only known eachother for a few days, but I can't deny what I feel anymore. I just can't. I turn in his arms and stare at him in silent wonder because we both knew as much as we were standing there, it was true. The last thing I could remember feeling that night was the soft caress of the last kiss he gave me before we walked home.

That night, I creeked open the door and found no sign of Jessamine anywhere inside the apartment. I rushed inside and shut the door and ran to my room. I shut the door and pressed my back to the door, sliding down it till my butt hit the floor. None of this is making sense. How could I possibly have admitted to myself that I'm in love with Will?

I brought my finger up to my lips and gently drew it across my bottom lip. I could feel the imprint of Will's lips on mine. They still tingled from the kiss. I can't deal with this right now. I need to forget that I just did that and move on with my life.

Stripping out of my dress and shoes, I put my shoes in the closet and the other clothes in the hamper. I jumped in the shower and turned on the water to the point of where I could bear it heat. I just don't under stand this. How can I be in love with him? I stood in the shower and let the water beat on my back. I felt nothing, but at the same time, I craved something that I never felt before. I can't understand what it is, but I wanted it so much at that moment.

I stood in the shower and thought about what it could be, but eventually my thoughts ran cold and so did the water. Turning it off, I stepped out and wrapped a towel around my body. Grabbing a bottle of lotion out of the medicine cabinet, I rubbed the sweet scent of cherry blossoms in to my skin. This is why I should have never opened my self up to Will. I knew that if I did this I would eventually fall for him, if I already had not.

I went into my closet and pulled on a pair of white shorts and a soft navy, blue, long sleeve shirt. It was one of those shirts that didn't need to be broken in because it was already so comfortable.

I pulled my hair back into a braid and crawled underneath my covers and laid there for a period of time before a fell asleep, but with how light I was sleeping, anything could wake me up in the dead of night.

I stood in at the end of the street. The street that lead to the scene of the accident. The accident that lead me to staying in a juvinille detention center for four whole years of my life. I walked along the road, listening to the rain pour along the street as I continued walking. I noticed that I was only in a white dress and barefooted, but nothing mattered to me right now. I need to get to the end of the road right now.

I can see a faint orange-red tinted glow at the end of the road. At the sight of it, I began to walk faster and faster. Suddenly the screams started. They pierced the night and rang out from the distance. I immediately started running. I could feel the rocks poking my feet and they could possibly be bleeding, but none of that mattered right now.

The screams grew louder as I got closer to the end of the road. I stopped at the end of the road. The edges were crumbled as if the rest of the road had fallen off along with the rest of the world. I ran to the side and saw nothing but the blackness of the night. I went back to the edge and stood their horrified at what I saw seeing.

I saw what had happened 4 years ago. I looked down and saw the house. It was up in flames. I closed my eyes horrified and prayed that it was only a dream. Suddenly the smell of burning things was extremely close. My eyes flew open and I stood in front of the house and watched it burn. I could see flailing hands and arms reaching out from the barred window down my the cellar. The screams were piercing as that whole family died inside, burning to death. Dying by the accident that wasn't even suppost to happen.

I tried to reach for the arms and help them, but I couldn't move. My body felt frozen, paralyzed. I stood there with tears forming in my eyes. I blinked for a second and suddenly she was standing there.

Christine.

No..No I watched you die. Your not standing there and this is all just a dream. I watched you die.

"Tessa. I am standing here. You are seeing me." she said.

"No," Sobs began to rack my body as I spoke, "NO! You're dead I watched you die. Nate had handcuffed my to the tree and dragged you inside to keep us apart."

"You're right, Tessie. Nate hated the both of us. He hated his own little sister enough to take her best friend and kill her." she began to walk towards me and all i could do was stand there.

"What happened inside that house, Christine? Please tell me."

"You're brother was involved with some occult rituals. He was selected to run the ritual that night. You remember following him don't you? When we had arrived he had handcuffed you to that tree and took me. He said 'You're blood is pure. so tonight it shall be spilt and drank as an offering to the Gods' and then he took me into the house. In the basement. Men and Women alike were down there with their sacrifice. Some with their own children. They started the ceremony by raising their knives in the hair and one by one they slit the throats of their sacrifice. But Nate didn't slit mine because according to him the leader's sacrifice is different. He stripped me down to nothing and tied me to a wooden post. He poured what he said was a cleanser all over my body, but everyone knew it was gasoline. He took a knife and cut my wrist and poured my blood into a bowl and used it to draw the symbols for the elements around me. Leading a line of gasoline from where I stood he struck a match and let it hit the floor. Instantly, I felt my body being swallowed up by the flames. The pain was excruciating and dreadfully painful. All I could do was scream as my body was burned by the flames. I cried and silently said my goodbyes to everyone I loved including you, Tessie. While I was still alive I saw Nate running from the room and I heard the door slam. Several members rushed up and tried to unlock the door, but all they got as a response was "This world is filthy! You all disgust me! I SHALL MAKE THIS WORLD PURE AGAIN! THIS FIRE IS HOLY! I shall bring about a new dawn of purity!" and just like that, he locked everyone in and let them suffer and die as he escaped.

"And since nobody else was found at the crime scene, I was blamed for it and charged with it." DAMN YOU NATE!

"He had pinned it all on you, after he had brought the authorities. He said that you were at fault for this and had you sent-"

"To the Juvinille Detention Center. Yeah, I remember that much."

"My time is up. Just one last hug Tessie." I hugged her faster than she could say the words. Suddenly she dissolved into ash and I was moving farther and farther away from her reach. The force I felt on my body that was pulling me away was nothing compared to watching Christine dissolve away into nothing. Her arm was outstretched like she was reaching for me, but I couldn't grasp her to save my ass. I was being pulled away from the person who I considered to be my family.

Finally, I stopped moving. I could feel my feet and legs again. I started running as if my life depended on it. I could still see Christine's out stretched hand and I out stretched mine as if to try and hold on to her, but there was something wrong. I turned around and I saw the world falling away into nothing but black. All the trees and bushes and color was fading away. Shattering like broken glass. I turned and kept on running,

I was so close to being able to touch her and then the world just fell beneath my feet and I was sucked into a never ending darkness.

I woke up to sweat caking my forehead. The sun was shining through my window and I looked around the room. My heart was thudding in my chest so loudly that I could hear it in the room along with my shallow and raggid breathing. My body felt cold, but when I ran my hands over my arms were wet with cold sweat.

I finally started to calm down, but I still couldn't believe that's what I dreamed. Was everything that Christine told me in the dream true? Was it really because Nate wanted to purify the world? He wanted a pure world so much that he would kill his little sisters best friend? If it is true, I'll never forgive him for this. NEVER!

I got up and showered for a long time. I needed to let this sink in. Was she really telling me what happened four years ago?

Today was Friday so I would be working with Jessamine again at the bar tonight and tomorrow. I picked a soft beige blouse and a green cardigan to go with a pair of black skinny jeans and my combat boots. I took the braid out and let my hair fall in the waves from the braid. I had aboslutely no desire to deal with any jewlery or make-up right now. I'll do it before we go to work anyway. I went out to the kitchen and found Jessamine eating a bowl of cereal and drinking coffee. She looked well dressed like usual.

Through a mouth full of cereal she asked me "Are you still coming to work with me tonight?"

"Yeah, I just might need to go get some clothes to continue working in. I don't wanna have to keep borrowing your stuff when you need it." I said as I grabbed a mug from the cupboard and filled it to the brim with coffee. I began to drink the hot liqiud. I ignored the fact that it was scalding my tongue and throat because it didn't really matter to me right now.

"I can come with you if you want. I can take you to the stores where I get all of my stuff." She said while taking a sip from her coffee.

"Thanks Jessie." she just smiled at me and went back to her breakfast.

I grabbed a cutie orange from the fridge and pealed it with ease. I sat next to her and ate it slice by slice.

Jessamine got up and rinsed out her bowl before getting more coffee. Even though I never looked up at her I could feel her staring at me.

"Tessa, what's wrong? And please don't deny it. I know you better than you think I do." She put her cup down on the counter and stared at me and waited for an answer. I knew this look. The raised eyebrows and the qwirked smirk on her lips; she wasn't going to stop giving me that look until I told her something.

"I dreamed about "it" last night. I saw Christine in my dream and she told me everything that happened that night. She told me that it was Nate who caused the house fire and that he set up everything so that I would be blamed for it in the end. I want to find him and get revenge on him for taking the only friend I had in the world away from me."

"Are you so sure that you want to take revenge because I think that might be a little difficult to do given the situation." Wait...

"What situation, Jessamine?"

"Nate died last month in a car accident. His breaks stopped working and he collided with a tree and his body was thrown out of the ar through the winshield. He lived for a little bit, but the wife decided to pull the plug on his life line." she explained as she stirred in creamer into her fresh coffee. "He married his wife about a year ago and they had a daughter before they were married, so she's about 5 years old now." Well, now I know why kept on stealing money from me and the rest of our family and friends. He was raising a child behind our backs.

"Where's the wife living right now?" I asked, curious now.

"She's actually here in the city, but I won't tell you where." WHAT!

"Why won't you tell me?"

"Tessa. I told you I know you damn well. If I tell you where that woman and her child are living you'll go there and take your anger out on that woman and child when they ahven't done anything wrong.

"What are their names at least?" She can tell me this much.

"The wife's name is Marissa and the child's name is Krystal. Their last names are the same as yours."

"Now one last question Jessamine. How do you know all of this?" She stared at me wide eyed with the cup half way up to her lips.

Sighing in defeat "After you were put in Juvie, I hired a private investigator to watch him and his activities for the last 5 years. I knew that something wasn't right when he started acting strange and then a year later you were put in Juvie? That didn't add up. After Nate died I kept the file and stopped the investigation."

"Where's the file, Jessamine?"

"I burned it before I came to get you from the Detention Center."

"You just said you kept it?"

"I did, but I knew that eventually you would have this sort of dream and you would want to seek out answers, so before I came and got you I burned it. So that you would never find out what things your brother and his wife did. Don't you get it? Everything I did, I did to make sure that you never ended up back in Juvie or Jail for the fact that you're almost an adult now."

"I appreciate that, Jessamine. You're right. I would have channelled my anger out on that woman and her child. I would have done the unspeakable and gone to jail for the rest of my life and never see the light of day again. But Nate took my best friend and killed her and he walks free? It's so unfair."

"Life is unfair."

Why did you have to go and sound liky my mother? TT~TT '

"I know." We shared a long and suffering look. She and I knew that it was for the best that only she knows that information and I don't.

"Enough of the heavy, Tessa. Let's go and get you some approriate clothes for tonight."

The day was long. I spent most of it in stores that specialized in corsets and leather pants and sky high heels. I also had to buy some new bras and thongs because the ones I had at home wouldn't be able to be worn with the new clothes I just bought.

I heard Jessamine's phone start ringing and I heard what I really hated most.

"Hello Charlotte."..."Why isn't she able to come tonight?"..."Tessa's not going to like that.."
..."Yes...Yes.. I know that, Charlotte."..."Fine I'll tell her."..."Bye."

I stepped out in a new dark blue bra and matching thong and Jessamine looked pleased.

"What did Charlotte want?"

/ "The girl that was suppost to replace you who was replacing Christine can't come tonight. She recieved too many complaints from her boss/ manager and is being held captive. Charlotte also told me that if you weren't there again tonight, half of the usual clients would stop coming for their weekendly visits. So I need you to do this one more time. Please?"

"Wait... You're asking me to go back to that bar and do what I did last weekend again?" I said with raised eyebrows.

"Yeah. Basically."

"No...Hell NO!"

"Come on Tessa. You made a HUGE ass amount of cash. Literally. Half the cash was by your ass the whole time. And I still haven't had the time to teach you how to make drinks yet. So please one more time? For me?" She gave me her famous puppy dog look and that was it. My wall fell and I was completely vunerable.

"Alright. Just one last time." She squealed happily like a child on Christmas Day. She looked at the clock on her phone and grabbed my hand and bolted out of the store faster than day light. I grabbed my clothes and ran out of the store right behind her and back into the car. Thankfully there was nobody out on the streets right now. Otherwise, they would have seen me half naked. I quickly slid my clothes back on over the lacy bra and panties before Jessamine took off faster than light.

"We have only a half hour to get home and cleaned up before we have to be there."

Once at the apartment, we showered and Jessamine, threw me the blue velvet corset and a pair of skin tight leather pants and my new blue stelttos. I only applied a little bit of clear lip gloss and grabbed my phone from its charger. I raced out and found Jessamine fixing the bobby pins in her hair. My hair was just up in a pony tail with a few strands down to frame my face and give it some shape.

"Good you're ready let's go we have to be there in like 10 minutes." We bolted down to the garage and burned rubber to get to the bar. When we arrived I saw Charlotte standing there tapping her foot impatiently. Parking, Jessamine rushed over and told her that I would stand in for the girl tonight. Her face lit up and she saw me walking towards her. She smiled and nodded for us to go in and get behind the bar.

"Tessa. You'll bartend till about 11, because the first appointment is at midnight. I want to give you some time to review the list and get ready. I really appreciate this, Tessa. Whatever money you make tonight, you keep."

"How many are there tonight?"

"Not as many as last time. About 10 appointments, so far. The last call for you was made about 10 minutes ago and it will end in about 5. But that's as many as I know about right now. I'm only allowing regulars to see you right now. But eventually, people will start coming in wanting you when they're not regulars. All the ones on the list right now pay VERY well, Tessa. So do well tonight."

"I will." I went inside and joined my beloved cousin, who gave me an approving lookas I slid off my leather jacket and revealed the corset. I got a ton of wolf calls and dirty propositions called at me.

"Sorry Boys. I'm not on the menu tonight. But I will serve you drinks tonight."

"At least tell us the color of your panties." I heard called from the crowd of guys.

"I looked up from the glass I was wiping out and smirked. "They're dark blue boys. Now thats all you're getting."

Disappointed groans came from the crowd, but then the calls for beers came.

I served them beers and recieved several tips. Most of them were fairly large bills. I could get used to this as long as this is the last thing they do.

11:00 rolled around faster than I expected. When we arrived it was only 8:00. I looked over at the dressing room door and saw Charlotte motioning for me to get ready. I told Jessamine that I was leaving and went to the dressing room.

"Alrighty, Strip and let me see what I have to work with." The same woman who dressed me last time was here again. I took off the corset and my pants, leaving on my bra and panties and shoes.

She looked up at me and looked approvingly. "What you're wearing now isn't half bad. Here put this on." She threw my a silver silk robe and I slid it on.

Nodding her head she called out for Charlotte to give me the list.

"She's ready, Charlotte."

"Really? Already?" She questioned.

"What she was wearing underneath was acceptable."

"Alright. Thanks for your services as always." with a smile she walked out and left the building. "And you. Here's your client list for tonight. There's only 12 for the night, so this shoudl be fairly easy compared to last time. You remember the symbols and rooms right?"

"Yes. I do Charlotte."

"Well, get on it. You have about 10 minutes before your first client arrives."

"Didn't you say the appointments started at midnight? It's only 11:20." I inquired.

"I might have slipped my mind. You only have 10 minutes, so get ready."

I began rushing around and remembering the rooms. With 5 minutes left, I reviewed the list and began thinking out my routines.

I settled myself in the first room and waited for the first client. When he walked in I remembered him from last week. He had a lap dance and that's what he wanted tonight.

"Nice to see you again." I greeted him with.

"Nice to see you to baby." BABY?! Really. He reached around and gave my butt a firm squeeze.

"Dear sir. Please keep your hands off my ass and just enjoy the show."

"Ahhhh...Still playing by the rules I see. Well lets see what you have in for me tonight."

I started the music and just dipped my hips and circled them like last time. By the end of the song, I had about 500 dollars in by lingerie set.

He kissed me on the cheek and thanked me for the dance. The rest of the clients continued to give me tips that were so much larger than the last time I saw them or for it being their first time seeing me.

Finally it was about 2 in the morning and I had only two clients left. I walked into the room after sending the client in there first so that I could use the fricken bathroom.

I walked in and was immediately gagged and handcuffed. I turned around and recognized the assailant. He was from last week. I refused to have sex with him, so now he was going to rape me for it?

"This is for denying me, bitch." He threw me on the bed and ripped off my robe, revealing my bra and panties. His hands roamed my body. Only Will's hands had ever touched my skin and now I was going to be raped.

"Trust me babe. I'll make you feel so good that you'll be begging for round 2." I felt tears start streaming down my face as he continued to touch me. I screamed through the gag and only muffled noises came out. I was so scared, I was sobbing. I felt helpless for the first time in my life. I heard the unbuckling on his pants and felt him begin to remove my underwear. I started begging for a miracle to happen and then I thought "No ones going to hear me. There's no hope anymore" Suddenly, the door was busted open and there stood Will. I saw fury in his eyes through my tears.

Will pulled his off me and threw him against the wall, hard enough to knock him unconcious.

Will picked me up and carried me out of the room and back to the dressing room.

"Will-"

"Shhhh...Don't talk. Charlotte is calling the police. Just rest." And that's exactly what I did. I fell back into the bottomless darkness, wrapped in Will's arms.

A/N: Well, that was a terrifying moment for Tessa. Almost being raped, but thankfully, Will was there to save her. I hope you all enjoyed this new chapter and I hope you'll all stay for the next one. Love you all with lots and lots of love and I shall see you later. BYE!

~snowflakedreams96~