Need You More Than Ever
Hi guys, thanks for all of the reviews and sorry that it's taken me so long to update this story, but anyway, here's chapter 7, so enjoy and please tell me what you think.
Chapter 7The following Monday at school, the gang were all stood around Taylor's locker, deciding what to do about the Gabriella problem, when the janitor's cupboard swung open and a very satisfied looking captain of the football team stepped out, giving the gang a wink, before he started to walk down the corridor, grinning.
"Urrgh," Taylor moaned, "I wonder which slutty little cheerleader is pleasuring them today." The gang snorted with laughter as they agreed and turned towards the cupboard door, to see which cheerleader would be emerging in the next few minutes.
However, when the door did swing open again, the gang saw a sight that shocked them all to their inner core.
Gabriella was the one to step out of the cupboard, not any one of the cheerleaders. Only, it wasn't their Gabriella, the one that they all knew and love, no this was someone else, someone who had replaced their Gabby.
As Gabriella walked out, smirking, the gang all stared at her; she was wearing a very low cut purple strapless top that ended just above her belly button, showing of her silver belly button ring with diamond studs. On her lower half, she was wearing a black skirt so short that the gang weren't sure if it was supposed to be a skirt or a belt, then she wore purple heels on her feet, which made her legs look even longer than ever. Her make up was way over the top, with heavy purple eye shadow covering her eyes and black glitter eyeliner traced around them. The gang could also tell that she was wearing layers of foundation, as though she was trying to hide something from people, although those that knew her best could see through it anyway. Her hair was pulled up into a messy side ponytail, and trailing along her neck, the gang could see a series of hickies.
As she turned and saw the gang, Gabriella's smile faltered, before she smirked at them and wandered off down the corridor, swaying her hips from side to side as she did so, earning the attention from most of the male population in the corridor, who were wolf whistling or reaching out to grab her at certain points, to which she just laughed, far from the Gabriella that the gang had ever known.
True to what she had said to Taylor during their face off, Gabriella Montez had changed more than any of them could imagine and it terrified all of them to think of what could have possibly happened to their little sister to make her change so much in such a short space of time.
During the course of the day, each of the gang took it in turns to watch over Gabriella, depending who was in her class, and decided that they would meet later that night at Kelsi's house again, to discuss what they had seen and what they were going to do.
Over the day, the gang were shocked to see Gabriella sneaking out of places with at least six other guys, skipping her lessons or coming in late for them, not doing her homework, laughing at teachers and crumpling up detention slips when they handed them to her. But the thing that scared them all the most was the way that Gabriella started shouting and arguing with some of her teachers, even though she had been changing, she had never been this bad.
Gabriella on the other hand was feeling awful. She hated the fact that she had yelled at the gang, but knew that she had to keep them safe, so whenever she felt their eyes on her, she would simply up her antics, either grabbing the nearest guy and pushing him up against the locker, making out with him or taking the piss out of a teacher, straight to their faces. Over the course of the day, Gabriella must have visited the principles office at least two dozen times, for acts that normally, she would have been horrified by, but at this point, she couldn't really have cared about.
The night before, she had gotten no sleep as her mother returned late, still with the big muscle filled guy, which surprised Gabriella, normally they didn't last longer than a day, and had come bursting into Gabriella's room, announcing that she and 'Rick' were going away for the rest of the week, Gabriella had cursed herself for forgetting to lock her door that night, but she had literally fallen into bed after completing her chores.
Her mother had announced that they were going upstate for the week and that Gabriella was not to touch any of the food in the house, she knew exactly what there was, and that if she dared touch any of the food, her life would not be worth living any more. Gabriella had to fight the urge there to ask her mom if she really thought that her life was worth living by this stage.
But Gabriella's going away present? The worst beating that she had had yet., this time as well as using their feet and their fists, her mother and Rick had also used his studded belt to hit her a few times, leaving dangerous marks all over her back and then pouring vodka into the wounds, causing Gabriella to writhe in pain as she screamed loudly.
Then the worst imaginable happened. Rick had raped her, while her mother just stood by and laughed, giving him pointers as Gabriella sobbed uncontrollably, trying to get away.
The couple had then laughed and walked out of the door, leaving Gabriella sobbing and feeling violated, lying in her bed, curled up in a ball.
Once it reached half five, Gabriella had a plan, she didn't need anyone and she wasn't going to get close to anyone, ever again. Ever.
She quickly got changed into her new look, using clothes that she had long since forgotten about and that some people who really didn't know her had bought her.
She had then spent the best part of an hour and a half using make up to cover up all of her visible cuts and bruises, deciding that this was going to be the day when Gabriella Montez proved that she could cope on her own, and to do that, she was going to go through with actions that she knew would terrify her friends, hopefully to the point that they would no longer want to speak with her.
Gabriella winced as she remembered the goings on of the previous night and earlier in the day, tears springing to her eyes as she grabbed her books from her locker, and frowned, feeling a pair of eyes on her.
She turned to see his bright cobalt eyes watching her every move from the corner, hurt flashing through them as she sighed and grabbed the nearest guy, making sure that he wasn't on the basketball team as she knew that none of them would do anything, to them she was their little sister that they would protect from everything. Except this, she thought, but that was only because she wouldn't allow them to protect her from this, she couldn't let them.
At the end of the day, the gang frowned as they watched Gabriella sprint away from the school as fast as possible in the direction of her house, before they all started to walk at a much slower pace.
Running into her house, Gabriella breathed a sigh of relief as she realised that her mother and Rick wouldn't be there.
She dumped her school bag in her room and ignored the growling of her stomach, she couldn't even remember the last time that she had eaten, and headed into her bathroom after locking her door and drawing the curtains across her balcony doors, her eyes catching on the gang all sat around in Kelsi's room, her heart yearning to be with them.
Once she was in the bathroom, Gabriella quickly changed into a pair of Troy's old basketball shorts and a tank top, wiping all of the make up off and wincing as she saw just how bad all of the fresh cuts and bruises were, and just how bad the bags under her eyes looked.
When she had finished with that, Gabriella started to search through her draws, looking for one specific item.
As soon as she found her razor, she rose up triumphantly and took one last look at herself in the mirror. Watching as she placed the cool blade of the razor and drew it across her burning flesh. Watching as the blood started to spurt from her wrist and she moved to continue on the second wrist. Watching as her troubles all floated away, running out of her, along with her blood.
On the verge of passing out, Gabriella plunged her wrists into the cold water in the sink, watching curiously as it turned bright red instantly.
Once she felt the flow of blood start to slow down, Gabriella lifted her arms out of the sink and grinned. Skye, her new friend was right, slitting your wrists, something that she had always thought dangerous and stupid before, could be a release and felt really good.
Shrugging, Gabriella looked around the bathroom and winced at the amount of clean up that she was going to have to do. There was blood everywhere you looked.
Ok so this was a very dark chapter, so please review it and tell me what you thought of it.
