A/N: Here at school typing up this next chapter. I'm really hyper today for some reason, and I have been adding a lot of exclamation points to everything. Hope you guys love this next chapter! CUZ I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!

Chapter Eleven: Feeling the Effects

Adriona laid in her bed a week later. She hadn't gotten up since Shannon had broken up with her. She didn't want to. She didn't have any energy to go to school. She felt like she was spiraling out of control. Nesha didn't talk to her; she didn't know what to tell her. She knew that she had done something horrible and she couldn't help her friend. Adriona sighed and looked out her window. That had been the last place she had seen Shannon. Tears came to her eyes and she buried her face in her pillow again.

"Come on Shannon, she is a mess." Nesha said looking at Shannon from across the lunch table. Shannon had told them what Adriona had done and hadn't spoke since. He seemed just as torn up about this as his ex.

"No." He murmured pushing the food on his plate around. She sighed and looked to her boyfriend.

"Come on man, we know that she hurt you, but I've even seen her. Dude, she hasn't even changed." Jeff said pushing Shannon's plate to the side.

"He said he doesn't want to talk to her." Matt said. Everyone looked to him as Matt looked back with anger in his eyes.

"What Amy did, and what Adriona did are two different things. Adriona has a problem, she only did it once. Amy on the other hand didn't have a problem, she did it many times." Jeff said through clenched teeth. He hated when his brother got into everything, thinking that he knew all.

"Regardless if it was only once Jeff, she did it! She knew it was wrong!" Matt was starting to stand from the table. Jeff stood to match his height, even though Jeff was a couple inches shorter than his older brother.

"She had a problem Matt!" He said again. Maybe Matt didn't understand, but Jeff did.

"Let me guess, you can feel for her. You know what it's like to have a problem. If she knows that she has a problem, why doesn't she get help for it?!" Matt yelled. They were starting to bring attention to them selves.

"Getting help for something she had isn't exactly easy Matt!" Jeff rebutted.

"Is it hard, or does she just not want to?" Matt was leaning forward into Jeff's face.

"It's hard! You know how long it took her to tell us!" Jeff was leaning forward as well. Nesha was trying to pull him down back onto the seat below him.

"Maybe she should grow a back bone because only a fucking smut has none!" Jeff gripped up Matt by the shirt and shook him with each word he said.

"Say it again! I fucking dare you!" Matt pushed Jeff back and used the chair he had been sitting on to jump over the table to tackle Jeff.

"She's a fucking whore!" Matt yelled in his face. Leya looked to Nesha and Nesha to Leya. They didn't know what to do. There were people gathering to see the fight. Both girls stood and pulled their boy friend off of the other brother.

"Stop!" Shannon yelled and everyone looked at him. Shannon looked to Matt and then to Jeff. He didn't want his friends fighting over his problems. That was the last thing he needed. Right now he knew what he had to do. He knew that he needed to go talk to Adriona. She couldn't throw her life away just because he had broken up with her.

He took his tray in his hands and walked to the trash can. Throwing away the left over lunch he walked out the doors of the cafeteria. He made it all the way to the girl's dormitory when he stopped. There outside with all her bags was Adriona. She stood there, eyes dry, but her face was puffy and red. Shannon walked up to her and she looked to him.

"Adriona, what is all this?" He asked waving his arm to the bags.

"I'm leaving Shannon." She said softly trying to hide the waver in her voice.

"Why?" He asked confused. She couldn't be leaving RAW high forever.

"Shannon, I've hurt you more than I could ever know. I've done it to all of the guys I have been with. You were my first serious boyfriend, not just a boy toy. You're right, I am a whore. When you came along though, I didn't want that lifestyle anymore. I wanted to change because you showed me that I could have a good relationship with someone who understood how I felt. When we were apart it was Okay for a week. After that though, I had to get that fix every day. Not even once, but twice, three times, four times. It was horrible. I had to give myself that fix. I felt like shit for doing it, because I knew that I could have had you if it wasn't for that stupid suspension." She paused to take a deep breath and sighed. She had never confessed like this to anyone. It wasn't easy.

"Well, then I went to a Christmas party. I had been doing well in school. I had been keeping my grades up, no matter how hard it had been. I deserved a night out to forget. Only, I didn't forget. My long time friend Travis was there." Adriona could see Shannon tense at the name. "Travis had been my first everything. Anything and everything I did to you, for you, and with you, I had done with him first. He had been the one that I had cheated on all of my boy toys with. He had asked if I had missed you. I explained that I felt like you were my everything. I had told him that I didn't just love the sex and this time apart had told me that." She closed her eyes to a swarm of tears. She hated this. She hated having to explain how and why she had cheated on him. She felt like that whore, like that slut, and with every word she knew more and more that what she had did was wrong.

"I had told him that I was going through withdrawal and I needed sex badly. He in turn offered to help. I had done it many times before. He had been there to help me out when my boy friend was gone for a week or two. I told him no at first. He told me that you would understand. He told me that you wouldn't want me to make myself suffer and I believed him. I knew it was wrong after I had done it though and I told myself that the day I got back that I would see for myself that you were better than Travis, and I did. You were better than Travis in every way. I guess I just thought about how much better you were so much that when I hit that climax that I had thought of Travis' name, not yours." She was crying fully now, she knew that her confession wasn't going to do any good, but she needed to tell Shannon, before she left.

"I still love you Shannon, and being here isn't helping. I don't want to hurt anyone else like how I hurt you. I know I don't have another chance with you and when I do get another boyfriend, I don't want to hurt them. I need help Shannon. I really do. You were right. To think that me doing that would be okay was wrong of me. I can't do that anymore. I'm going home now and I am going to get that help. I need to fix this Shannon. I just wanted you to know that I do still love you, and I probably always will. But, I don't deserve you. You deserve someone so much better than me."

She took a ring off of her finger. It was the promise ring that Shannon had given her on their fourth date. It had been clear then that Shannon had cared for her deeply and Adriona had been thankful for that. "Here." She said handing the ring back to him. He held out his hand numbly and she dropped the ring into his hand. There wasn't any contact between their hands, there was no spark. Adriona saw the car driving up the road to the top of the hill where the dorms were. She sighed and picked up her bags. She put her bags in the trunk when the driver popped it and she looked to Shannon.

"I hadn't meant to see you before I left. I left you a note on my bed. I left everyone a note. Please tell everyone that I love them, but I need this. I need to get help; mom has already set up an appointment with a therapist first thing tomorrow morning." She got into the car and looked out her window. "I love you Shannon." She said before she rolled up her window. Shannon stood there with his hand out holding the ring that had meant that he one day had wanted to marry her.

"I love you too Adriona." Shannon whispered as the car drove away down the path. He wanted to run after that car, he wanted to scream at her. He wanted to tell her that she was being stupid, but he knew that she needed help. Now she was going to get it. He closed his hand over the ring in his hand and sighed. A single lonesome tear was all that he let escape to show how he really felt. Taking off his necklace he laced the ring onto the chain and clasped it around his neck again. Then he took the long trek back to school. He had to tell everyone.

A/N: Alright well we are still heading toward the climax of the story. Hope you guys like it so far. Please tell me what you think of it! I love to hear from you guys! REVIEW PLEASUMS!!!!!

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