LAKEHURST

LAKEHURST: SHATTERED

CHAPTER ELEVEN: "Fly (2)"

RACHEL LEE

Trevor is watching his cousin. "Rachel, please talk," he whispers. But, the girl is still silent; the bruises on her body have taken their form for the next few weeks. Eric and Carmen – Rachel's mother walk into the room – they motion for Trevor to leave for a while. Trevor agrees and goes out and is pulled into a hug by Lauren.

"How could this have happened to her?" Trevor asks. Lauren sighs, "You're father talked to Vanessa and Alli both, and they said that she'd gotten an invitation to a sorority orientation…" Lauren stated. Trevor was intrigued, "What sorority?" Trevor asked. "Beta Pi, I think," Lauren said as Trevor had an epiphany. "She wouldn't," Trevor whispered as his mother looked at him confusingly, "Mom, Connie's in that sorority…" Trevor stated. Lauren gasped. "She set her up," Trevor stated as he hit the wall – furious.

BACK TO LAKEHURST

LAKEHURST – Brittany walks into the school. She spots Quinn talking to Randy and she can't bear to see them communicating. Brittany walks towards her locker and realizes that Randy is jogging towards her.

"Brittany, let me explain…please?" Randy states. Brittany scoffs, "No. You don't get to explain anything to me. You had sex with the biggest slut Lakehurst has ever seen. Congrats Randy! You're the one guy that ever made me feel special and you used that against me." The statement was enough to make Randy feel stupid for the things he'd done.

"Britt. Please, don't leave me…I need you." With that, Brittany was going to kiss Randy – tell him that things were going to be okay, but she paused. "Funny, you didn't need me the night she was under you…nor when she was on top of you?" Brittany asks.

Brittany walks in the middle of the hallway and turns back around, "Oh, Randy…you might want to stop by the clinic later on this afternoon. I heard that if you sleep with a dog, you'll wake up with fleas." That caused Quinn to become furious as she was about to hit Brittany, but Randy stood in front of the girl. Both of them watching Brittany walk off.

CEDRIC CARTER

Cedric walks back into the ballet studio. He notices that a few of the students are looking at something in awe. Cedric walks over to the bundled group to discover Antonio holding a baby. Valerie looks up and smiles at Cedric, "Isn't he cute?" Valerie asks. Cedric nods, 'Whose is he?" Cedric asks as Valerie looks at him shockingly. "Antonios'," the statement caused Cedric to walk towards the exit. Valerie followed him.

"Cedric," Valerie starts as she goes outside to join him. Cedric is looking out into the day as he silently curses at himself. "He has a son." Valerie was confused at first, but then she realized that he was talking about Antonio. "Yeah, and he has a wife. So, I guess he isn't gay?" Valerie said as she placed a hand on his shoulder.

"He played me for a fool, we had sex." The statement caused Valerie to go into a state of shock. "What? You didn't, Cedric." Valerie whispered as Cedric started crying. "If this gets out, I've destroyed a family…I'm a home wrecker!" Cedric shouts out as he pulls out his phone to call his mother to come and pick him up.

Antonio walks out of the studio, "What's going on here?" he asks. Cedric looks at him and Valerie shoots him a glance. "Why didn't you tell me about your son, or your wife?" Cedric asks him. Antonio laughs, "What, and miss out on such a nice…dancer like you?" he asks, disgustingly. "You're sick!" Valerie shouts.

"Tell anyone Cedric and you're both off of the production of the play that's coming up!" Antonio shouts as he walks away from the scene.

RACHEL LEE

Trevor continues to watch the mute Rachel from outside of her hospital room. He hears the tapping of heels belonging to the only two people he knew that wore heels even to a hospital. Vanessa and Alli, "What happened?" Vanessa asked. "Connie set her up to get jumped!" Trevor told them. "How is she?" Alli asked. "Stable," Trevor answered her. Vanessa and Alli both let out a sigh of relief.

"But," Trevor began as he looked at both of the girls. "Vanessa, I need you to do something for me." Vanessa looked at him, the statement sounded all too familiar to her. "I can't hit girls…no matter how many of them there are...I'm a guy and I can't hurt a girl in that type of way…even if it is Connie, but you," he whispered. "Hey, I got you, don't worry." With that, Vanessa was off down the hall.

Alli looked at Trevor, "Alli, I need your help with something too!" he stated Alli nodded, "Anything," she whispered as Trevor leads her towards Rachel's room.

Moments later, Vanessa pulls up to the sorority house in her car. She gets out of the car and has a bat in her hands. She notices a jeep parked in the driveway of the sorority house and snickers. "Bitch!" she shouts as she slams the bat through the window of the jeep. The sorority girls immediately come outside. "What the hell?" one of them shouts. "What're your names?" Vanessa asks.

"I'm Talia…she's Bridget and that's Minnie, why?" Talia asks. Vanessa shrugs, "So, you're the bitches that jumped Rachel?" Vanessa asks them. They start laughing, "Damn that bitch squealed already?" Talia asks, the others still laughing. Vanessa sighs, "What's so funny?" she asks. "Oh, the fact that you think you can take all three of us on, you're so freaking delusional." Vanessa scoffed at the statement. "I'm alone…what makes you think that?" Vanessa asks.

Just then two of the car doors from Vanessa's car slam and there's Sarah and Monique who've just made their way over to the group. The three girls stop laughing and are starting to get serious. "What's wrong?" Vanessa asked. The girls were silent.

"Okay, when it comes to fighting I have one rule. If it's one on one let it stay that way, jump in it…you get your ass kicked later on. Jumping isn't cool." Sarah states. Talia scoffs. Sarah smiles deviously, "The fight has to be fair, if it's one on one, like for example…" Sarah states as she turns around and knees Talia in the stomach and Talia goes down in pain. "Don't jump in," Sarah whispers.

"You can, but there's a guarantee that you'll get your college boney asses whooped as well!" Monique stated as the three girls walked back towards Vanessa's car.

BRITTANY MOSS

Brittany knocks on the door, she has to apologize to Quinn, and she doesn't want any bad blood with the girl. "Brittany?" Brittany hears her name and she looks to see Josh at the door. "What the hell, you're doing her too?" Brittany asks. Josh becomes confused. "What?" he asks. Brittany only becomes silent and Josh decides that it would be best for him to explain what's going on. "Just, come in… please?" he whispers. Brittany gives in and decides to walk inside of the house.

When she enters the house, Brittany is confused. "Wait, you're here because?" she asks. "I live here," Josh tells her. Brittany puts two and two together, "Quinn's your sister." Josh nods. "Yep, been that way ever since 1996," Josh states as Brittany laughs.

Brittany's laughter dies down as she hears footsteps hitting the steps. Both her and Josh look up to find Quinn nearing the bottom of the steps. Quinn looks at the couch and spots Brittany. "What the hell are you doing here?" she asks and Brittany stands up; Josh following suit, standing in between both of the girls.

"I came here to apologize." The statement caused Quinn to scoff, "I ought to kick your ass where you stand!" Quinn shouted. Brittany laughed slightly, "Really? How's your nose Quinn?" the question was enough to set off fireworks inside of Quinn as she eased closer to the girl. "I'll kill you, bitch!" Quinn shouts and Brittany closes the space in between them, Josh being in between them.

"Look, normally this'd be sexier, but there's one problem. Quinn's my sister," Josh whispered as Quinn looked at him and turned away from the fight. Brittany looked at the boy and slightly smiled, she knew that she and Quinn would never be friends again. She knew that she was done with Randy Tamburrino for the rest of her life.

"I hate to say this. But, you should go." With that, Brittany nodded in agreement as she walked towards the door; Josh close behind her. Brittany looked back at him as he opened the door for her; she looked at him once more before he gently closed the door behind her.

CEDRIC CARTER

Randy bursts through the doors of the ballet room. "Where is he?" he asks Valerie. Valerie motions towards the boys' locker room. Randy smiles at her and nods as he walks in.

Cedric is sitting on a bench, crying. "Ced, this better not be your sick twisted way of getting me to see you in your tights!" Randy states, as he has his eyes covered; jokingly. This makes Cedric laugh a little, but it quickly dies. Randy smiles as he removes his hand and sighs. Randy then goes over and sits next to his friend.

"Val filled me in on Antonio. She wanted to know if you wanted her to go pull a Nut Cracker." Randy asks and Cedric smiles. "Why do guys always do this to me? Why is it that I can't find someone who just appreciates me for me?" Cedric asks Randy. Randy sighs again. "Look, I know this is hard to believe, but, I appreciate you. I do, look I know it took some time for me get use to this gay thing, but I did. Besides, wasn't I good enough for you to crush on or what?" Randy asks, smiling. Cedric smiles back and laughs, "You were okay, but you're no longer my type." The statement confused Randy. "You have a type?" he asks. "Yep," Cedric begins, "Smart guys." He finishes as he gets and walks off, Randy starting to laugh.

RACHEL LEE

Rachel wakes up; she's still a little sore from her attack. She looks up and notices that someone is sitting down. When her vision makes everything clear she realizes that it's Connie.

"God, help!" Rachel shouts as she tries to push a button; however, Connie retrieves the remote from her and pushes her back onto the bed, Rachel hides the pain. Connie only laughs as she circles around the bed, "I cannot believe you squealed you little pig," she began as she looked at Rachel. "Was that black eye not enough?" Connie asked the girl as Rachel focused on her.

"You should put some ice on that," Connie whispered and Rachel laughed. "What's so funny?" Rachel looked at the girl, still smiling. "You should put some ice on that!" Rachel stated as Connie looked at her confusingly; when she turned around she met an elbow to the face, by Alli. Connie went down as security rushed into the room. Trevor entered the room and winked at Alli as if thanking her.

Trevor then made his way over to Rachel and she smiled at him. "I'm sorry," she whispered. "Don't be, you're always there for us…now we're going to be here for you." With that Rachel knew that she was loved. Trevor pulled her into a hug, one that neither of them would forget about.