What's this? In long await from my absence we have what? TWO CHAPTERS? UPLOADED IN ONE DAY? OMG –dies-
"Kitty?" I called out.
"Who are you?" she said and turned around. "Ahh, it's you."
"I got your letter." I said and held up my hand, which was clasping the letter tightly. She smiled.
"Good. We're just waiting on one more people. Then we can begin." She said and ushered me inside quickly.
Remind me why I had agreed to this again? I really didn't want to be here, to be honest. It was excruciating being outside the warm covers of my bed. It wasn't like I particularly wanted to, but when my nosy parents decided that it would be a good idea to go through my mail and see what the mysterious letter was about. I mean, why would their daughter who had been on top of the world only a couple of days ago turn back into the bitter, miserable person she was before?
One reason; Chad. He had ruined everything. Destroyed everything, all bit by bit. So easily.
Of course, he was not AT ALL happy about his car getting blown to smithereens. And he was even less happy about Danny "causing" it. No one understood Danny had a perfect alibi; he even had parents to back up that he was with me, and yet he was still able to be a witness/suspect to an arson attack?
It didn't make sense.
Hence, the second reason I am here right now. From the second I found out that Kitty was involved, Danny went into the ghost zone to try and sniff out whom else was involved. Amorpho had confessed, and along with it accidently revealed the inner secret.
It seemed like every heartbroken girl in the whole ghost zone and beyond was somehow involved.
*LINE BREAK*
"Dashie, what are you doing?" I cried out to him as he walked away. He stopped and turned around.
"Paulina, this isn't going to work. I need to focus more on my studies, or there is no way I'll ever get that football scholarship and if I don't get that, I can say goodbye to my football career." He walked up to me and placed his arm reassuringly on my arm. "I'm sorry." He said and walked away.
I'll get him for this. And every girl that's ever had her heart broken.
"Perfect." I heard from behind me, and I whipped my beautiful hair around as I spun to see the unwanted stranger.
"Look, my boyfriend's just broken up with me, so can you like, fuck off?" I spat at her.
She didn't look human though. Her skin was green, and she wore clothes that that goth Samantha Manson wore. But still, she was pretty. And she wasn't going anywhere.
"why would I do that?" she said and stepped closer to me. I stepped back out of habit. She was dangerous, I could just tell.
"B-b-because." I stammered. "I've taken tai kwan do since I was three" I said and moved into the first defensive pose I could think of.
She laughed.
Come on! She LAUGHED. Was she kidding herself? I bet she thought I was just a pretty face. Well, she was going to get a nasty shock, wasn't she?
"Please." She said and took another step closer. "I don't want to hurt you. Besides, none of that would work on me sweetie. I'm a ghost." She said and smiled sweetly.
I gasped. A ghost? Well, it did make sense. She was green, after all. I may not be the smartest girl around, but I could tell a non human if I saw one.
"But I'm not going to hurt you. In fact, I want to HELP you." I didn't know whether to trust her or not. I went against my instincts to believe a fellow woman, and stayed in my pose.
"You're a liar! Inviso-bill will help me!" I cried, hoping desperately that he was on his nightly patrol. She chuckled.
"No, he won't. Sorry dear, he's in the inner mixings of the ghost zone, looking for the causer of the car blowing up earlier."
I stuttered. I had heard about that. It was Chad that Samantha chick's ex; his car was blown to bits right in front of his eyes. I felt sorry for him, because I knew how much he had saved up and worked for that car, but I couldn't help but feel like he deserved it for the way he treated Sam. Dot get me wrong, she's a stubborn, goth loser, but still. Nobody likes seeing ANYONE treated like that.
Especially now that it's happened to me. At least Dash was nice about it. And I understood perfectly why he did it. It's not like he had a choice. That football scholarship was his dream, and if we stayed together, he would never have enough time for me. I'd rather be alone then ignored and be lonely. Because when you're lonely, you get needy. And when you get needy, you become desperate.
I was never going to be one of those girls. Mind you, I could get any guy I wanted – simply by my looks alone. But I think lately I've changed a bit. Mum's always complaining that the clothes I wear are too short or too skanky, but I never listened to her. As long as it got me guys, right?
I don't know anymore. It seemed right, but even now, after the only guy I REALLY liked leaves me, I wonder if it was ever worth it. If those short skirts, slutty comments, fights with mum, guys crawling all over me was a mistake. I've wasted so much of my life. And mum, being a single mother, would be devastated when she finds out about this. I've made all of her mistakes. But now, I will rectify them.
I turned to the girl.
"What do I have to do?"
*LINE BREAK*
"Tuck, have you heard anything from Sam?" I said as we flew desperately through the ghost zone, looking for Johnny.
"Nope. "He said lightly. "Dude, chill. It's a good thing if she doesn't call. That means that there aren't any ghost attacks?"
"I know" I said and sighed. "I'm worried about her. She's so fragile right now. Maybe we shouldn't have left her."
"Calm down mate." Tuck said to me reassuringly. "She'll be fine. Trust me."
*LINE BREAK*
"WHAT THE HELL YOU WHORE? DONT YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT!" he said and whacked my mother down.
I hated it when my dad drinked. HATED it. With all of my heart. He wasn't like this. He never was. Unless he had been, or was currently drinking.
I ran to my mum's side and checked if she was ok. A little bit of shock, but apart from that, she was fine.
"run." She said to me and gripped my hand. "Run, while you still can, my Star."
I couldn't. Not without her.
"Not without you." I whispered, squeezing back.
Dad had been drinking more and more each day that passed. It was getting ridiculous, but he wouldn't stop. And he got more abusive as the days wore on.
"WHERE ARE YOU? AND WHERE'S OUR STUPID WHORE OF A DAUGHTER? IS SHE OUT FUCKIN THAT GUY NEXT DOOR AGAIN?"
Mum got to her knees quickly and cradled me against her.
"He won't get you. He'll have to step over my dead body to even get near you. I promise."
We heard rattling of the door handle, as if it was about to be ripped off.
Mum took my hand quickly, and threw me into the nearest cupboard, locking me in there in the process. She pleaded with me silently through the folds. I have never seen her look so scared in her entire life. Or sad.
"Don't come out until me say its ok, alright?" she whispered as the handle rattled again.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE?" I heard yell from outside the door. I cuddled myself on the ground and cried.
"I...I don't know." my mum stuttered.
"Fine, if I can't hurt her... I'LL HURT YOU!" he screamed.
I heard a loud bang, and then I knew it was all over.
*LINE BREAK*
"Paulina?" Sam cried out in surprise, as the girl called "Kitty" let me into the room full of girls. They all looked torn apart in some way.
"Sam? What are you doing here?" I said, startled.
"She invited me here." She said and pointed to Kitty.
"So did she with me."
"But what about Dash?"
"Dash cares more about his football career than me." I blurted out unexpectantly. It was always brewing there in the back of my head, but now that I said it, it made Dash sound Ike a horrible person, and I was betraying him. But it doesn't matter anymore, right? I don't mean anything to him anymore.
She sighed.
"Woo heartbrokenness." She said and waved her hands unenthusiastically.
"Can I have your attention girls?" kitty said from up on stage.
"As we all know, we've all experienced a type of... heartbreak... in this lifetimes. Therefore, me and a couple of other girls..." she gestured to some of the girls that I didn't know. Heck, I didn't know anyone bar Sam and the Kitty girl. I sat closer to Sam, as if on instinct.
"We decided that its time that the guys stop controlling our lives, and we start controlling theirs. We will become the dominant sex!" she yelled out, and everyone started cheering for her.
This was going to be amazing. I could just feel it.
*LINE BREAK*
"Sam, can I talk to you?" kitty said as I turned to walk away. It had been a very good meeting, one I actually wasn't upset that I had got off y ass and gone and witnessed. You don't see something like that every day.
"Yeah, sure. What's up?"
"Look at all the people around us Sam. There's enough to fill a hall to over capacity. However. It's still not enough."
"Kitty, you take to long to explain." Ember said, pushing kitty out of the way. "I don't even know why we are even asking for your permission, but I have to respect kitty's wishes. On my guitar, there's a mind controlling device. One switch and all the people in the world are under my control. However," she said and chuckled at my horrified face, "is that I can only tap into one frequency. And that's the heartbroken girls. Which doesn't really help me for world domination. So I kinda gave up on it. When kitty here was broken like the rest of them, I knew that I had to do whatever it took to get her happy again. And if this is one of them, then this is what we are going to do.
"Trust me Sam, these girls WANT to be a part of this, but we don't have nearly enough time before people realise and become on to us. So, we..."
"You want to know if I'll let you use the mind control thing." I questioned, and they all nodded.
I deliberated. What would Danny say? Did it even matter what he thought? Not really.
"Fine by me. As long as they rent actually "controlled" and that they are still all of free will."
"Trust me, they are. They're just a little more... motivated." She said and started playing with the dials on the guitar.
*LINE BREAK*
"I can't believe he did this." I said and looked at the grave. Mum had died to save me, all because of a stupid idiot. Why didn't we leave when we had the chance? Oh, right. Mum LOVED him. And he treated her like she was nothing but fucking shit on the side of the road.
A tear rode down my cheek, and I looked up with a determined look in my face.
"I love you mum. I always will. And he will get what he deserves." I said defiantly.
A large pressure hit me, and I went flying against the gravestone. I rubbed my head and stood up. "What the heck was that?" I said and looked around. "Pauliee?" I said as I saw my best friend.
"Join us, Star." Paulina said. "Join the heartbroken ones. We know what happened. We will help you get revenge on your father."
I nodded.
*LINE BREAK*
"A warning to the people, the good and the evil. This is war. To the soldier, the citizen. This is war."
"It's the moment of truth!"
"A moment to lie!"
"A moment to live!"
"A moment for you to die!"
"A moment to fight!" I called out, getting caught in the middle of the chant. It was amazing. It felt so god fighting for what I believed in.
"Fight, fight fight!" I heard chanting around me.
Kitty was floating above us all, with a proud look on her face.
"Guess what guys on earth and the ghost zone! You're time is up! This is the end of your reign of terror! We will be victorious! We will fight to the death! We will fight to the edges of not only earth, but the ghost zone!"
She floated down to the front of the pack, and I saw her and Sam hug, then took the microphone from her...
"TIME TO GO TO WAR!"