I am so sorry for taking so long to update, it's just my life has been so crazy lately. Inside and outside of school, so how did everybody's exams go? Just had my last one this afternoon! Now I am not really feeling this story at the moment which is another reason for the overdue update- hopefully it will change after I get into the swing of writing again!
Well with all of that said have fun reading…
The hot summer sun poured down on the table of frantic teens; however these ones weren't fussing over finals or dates to dances but of their friend in need. However the closer they got to capturing her in their warm hug she was dragged away and poison dripped into her ear. Grant sat with his head bowed and his large paw-like hand resting on his head and his other hand in a tight fist. Nick was nowhere to be seen and Macey was sitting with a straight emotionless face. Her eyes however were as icy as their colour with the ice crystals practically forming as she stared into the distance.
Bex was sitting with her caramel skin being danced on by the sun, her long lashes cascading morning shadows down her cheeks. But her usual cocky smile was gone and her fiery comments and hot glares were now forgotten. She just sat next to Liz rubbing her shoulder as she let small pools smalls of tears grow in the pixie blonde's eyes. Jonas was also missing from the usual group and the obvious was Cammie. Since her absence was the reason for this- so her usual spot of their morning hang out table remained empty.
As they sat in silence replaying the events from last night, the word 'rape' rang through all of their heads. The sound of heels got closer to them and they looked up to see Tina standing there with her arms across her chest and her hip cocked.
"What the bloody hell does this skank want?" Bex snapped her accent thicker than usual. Her brown eyes scanning the short booty shorts and crop top.
"Good morning to you too Baxter, now where is the actual skank of the school?" Tina asked looking back and forth at the group waiting for someone to answer. But no one did.
Then a car door slammed in the distance and they all tilted their heads up to see Cammie stepped out of the car with a pair of skinny jeans of and a hoodie with her face makeup free and her hair tied in a knot bun. "Ah, there she is." Tina snarled and then Liz stood up with her fists slamming against the table- now that surprised everyone.
"Tina Walters, now I have tolerated many things over the long and painful years with you but if you think you are going to get away with calling Cammie a skank you have another think coming. The only skank in this town is you. If I asked anyone, and I mean anyone, who they would class as a skank they would say you." Liz looked over Tina and saw her shocked expression. "Come on Tina you were caught dry humping the foreign exchange student last month just for help on your algebra homework. To be honest I bet you had to do the begging, who in their right mind would get off with you, willingly." Okay now everybody's jaws had dropped six feet under, and by the sniggering crowd it seemed like Tina wished she was too.
Everyone looked up at Liz with wide eyes as her face turned anger red and her eyes burned holes at Tina. The group then just smirked at the girl and then flung their bags on their backs and stormed off leaving a fuming and embarrassed Tina Walters behind.
Inside the school Cammie was walking down the halls with her head bowed as a few people who was at the diner last night stood and stared making her feel uncomfortable in her own skin. She walked straight to her locker ignoring the whispers and the concerned looks then just as she was about to walk away she felt someone grab her arm and drag her away. Instantly she thought it was Josh and then she looked up expecting to see the face that haunted her nightmares. However instead she was met by green orbs and a tired tanned face.
She squirmed to try and escape his iron grip as he dragged her down the halls making people stare, "Zach let go." She whisper shouted at him trying to pry his fingers from her arm. But he just ignored her then opened a classroom door that doesn't get used that much anymore. He then let go of her and then grabbed the key from the top of the door frame and locked it then scrapped a chair up and placed in under the knob for full measure.
Cammie was standing next to a desk with a scared look in her eyes making her look so innocent, like a nestling doll. She watched Zach nervously as she watched him pace back and forth with a hand rubbing his smooth chin. Cammie looked out of the window hoping that no one would see them and then back at Zach to see he had stopped pacing and was now resting on the teacher's desk at the front of the room.
"Zach what are you doing? You can just kidnap me just because you want me to talk to you." Cammie said not daring to look into her eyes so she wouldn't crumble.
"Why are you doing this? Also what you shouted last night, now everybody knows what happened to you Cammie. You need to leave Josh." Zach said pushing himself from the desk and going to stand directly in front of Cammie so she was now in touching distance.
"I just said it Zach, people were going to find out sooner or later. I had already told too many people- a secret like that is impossible to stay hidden for too long. And Josh, like I said last night" She then moved her eyes from his and looked down at her feet, "I love him." Those words broke her heart- she couldn't lie to Zach but she had managed to convince herself that was the only way. Because Josh does something to her something neither she nor anybody else can understand; but he makes her do the strangest things. Like she then becomes a puppet and he pulls the strings.
It was inevitable.
Zach however was slowly beginning to see it and he was determined to make sure he would crush the invisible hold he had on her. So she could for once in her life live her life the way she wanted. So he lighting placed his hand on her waist, careful not to startle her, and she looked down at his hand and then looked up at him through her lashes to see the compassion in his eyes. She looked at him and tried to find the breath to speak to him but his touch had left her breathless.
"Zach please don't." She whispered her voice sounding like it was painful for her to not react to his touch.
"Just tell me you want to stop and I will." Zach whispered as he slowly moved so both of his hands were on her waist and then he stood up bringing his face closer to hers. Moving both of his hands to her neck, his warm breath dancing across her soft face as she closed her eyes and breathing in his scent. She tried to say no but her body wouldn't allow it then just as he was about to put his lips on hers she placed her hand on his firm chest to signal him to stop. Her eyes were still closed so she rolled them open to be met by hurt green ones.
"I'm begging you Zach if you are honest about caring for me you will trust me, please just leave me alone." Cammie asked her heart aching as she locked her eyes with Zach to try and show him she was telling the truth to try and make him sway his decision. But he didn't react, so she tried again putting all of the pain into her voice, "Please." Her eyes had become glassed over and her voice was cracking.
Zach just sighed then nodded and stepped away from Cammie making her feel as though all of the life was taken with her as she watched him move the chair away and unlock the door. He stood by it and looked at Cammie to see if she was coming she walked over to it, "Guess this is goodbye Cammie." Then before the door was open she smiled up at him and lightly dusted her lips on his cheek.
"Goodbye Zach." Then she placed her hand on his and turned the knob and walked out of the room as Zach closed the door and leaned against it with an exhausted sigh escaping his mouth.
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Cammie walked into biology, the lesson she met Zach, and everyone in the room stared at her as she walked to her usual seat where she had to sit next to Zach. He was sitting slumped far into his chair with his arms across his chest his face like stone but his eyes filled with sadness as he watched her walk by. She slipped into her seat and tried to ignore the rumours blazing around him. Then as they were waiting for the teacher to come into the room she saw a crumpled up piece of paper land on her desk.
Zach looked over at it and looked at it like it was garbage being chucked across the room, "Well open it." Zach whispered to her as her dainty fingers peeled it open to be met a neat girly font.
She looked at it and read it about ten times over feeling sick the more and more she did, Is it true you got raped? Tina x
She could believe she would have the nerve to ask her in a note and she looked over her shoulder to see she actually looked genuinely bothered as she looked at the damaged blonde. Cammie just mouthed over to Tina, "I'll talk to you after class." Then when Tina gave her a caring smile and with a confused feeling going off inside of her she looked at the front of the room as the teacher walked in.
After he began a lecture to the class he asked a few questions to make sure they were actually listening, his eyes scanned the crowd of teens for the most dazed looking one out there and it landed on Cammie. She sat staring out of the window watching the world wiz by, "Ah Cammie, can you tell me how to divide cells?"
Her face jolted to the front and she rubbed her palms against her legs nervously as she tried to look somewhere for encouragement then she felt a familiar hand in her own giving her a tight squeeze. She slightly tilted her head up at Zach to see him smirking at her as she smiled up at him then she looked up at the teacher again. "Sorry Sir I'm not sure." She said and he just huffed and moved along to the next dazed student hoping for an answer.
Throughout the whole lesson Zach's hand stayed in hers lightly rubbing his thumb against her smooth pale skin smiling as Cammie she seemed to be relaxed by his touch. Then the bell rang and the class erupted with chair scrapping and chatting as they left the room ignoring the protests from the teacher to be quieter.
Cammie then waited outside the room as she heard the annoying giggle of Tina float through the air, then she saw her and she bid goodbye to her friends as she walked over to Cammie. "So you got my note?" Tina stated suddenly feeling awkward in the halls.
"Yeah, but I want you to know that I was and because you have a thing for twisting stuff and we don't exactly have the best history I want you to hear it from me and not from the end of someone else rumour." Cammie explained as she met Tina's eyes.
"Look Cammie I may be a fan of gossip but I'm not as shallow to twist something as serious as rape, also I know what is going on with you and Josh." Cammie gave him a weird look as to why she knew. "I may have possibly given him the idea, but I wasn't serious. Do you think I wanted my heart broken?" Tina said wiping away and possible stray tears.
Cammie then did the most unexpected thing in the world as wrapped her arms tightly around Tina giving her a hug and Tina returned the gesture, "Please don't tell anyone about the Josh thing. I am going to sort it." Cammie whispered as people began to stare at the enemies hugging.
"I promise I won't." Tina said and then they peeled themselves from each other gave exchanged an awkward smile and then parted their separate ways towards lunch.
Cammie walked down and then she felt a beefy arm around her neck pulling her close, "Hey Josh, how was your morning?" Cammie asked trying to sound as caring and bothered as possible.
"Fine, so what are you doing tonight?" Josh asked planting a sloppy kiss on her cheek.
She shrugged and then tried to avoid gagging, "Not sure." She said as he guided her towards his 'hangout' where all of his friends were and leaned against the bonnet of his car and pushed her in front of him like she was a statue. He placed his hands on her waist and pulled her between his legs smiling at her.
"Wrong, you are coming to mine. I have a very special night planned." Josh explained smirking at her seductively making her skin crawl as he placed a kiss on her collar bone and kept tracing them up her neck and jaw line. As she tilted her head she saw Zach standing there with her friends looking at them from the usual spot in the canteen through the glass.
Then just when his lips were about to meet hers she pulled away and smiled at him with 'love' and then told him she was looking forward to it, "I'll see you later Josh I need to go and do some last minute revision in the… library." Cammie said trying to string her escape lie together. When in reality she was trying to not have a breakdown at the thoughts of what was going to happen tonight.
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The night had eventually caught up with Cammie so as she checked her phone for the hundredth time that minute waiting for the numbers to change to 18:00 she couldn't help but let her mind wander to two green eyes. As Josh may be a jerk but he was rarely late, so when he said six o'clock he meant six o'clock no exceptions. She was sitting on the bottom of the stairs tapping her foot against the floor impatiently the doorbell rang signally it was time to leave. She stood up and looked at her reflection.
She had taken her hair from its bun and let the curls loose and then she had changed into a different top and a pair of more stylish skinny jeans and then a pair of converse. It was nothing fancy but she thought she should still play the part of the naive teen and just think it was a usual date with her usual boyfriend. So she gave her hair a quick finger comb and checked her minimal makeup and headed to the door.
She opened it up expecting Josh but instead was met by a pair of eyes identical to hers, the same person from the diner, he smiled a smile of recognition to her and she looked at him with shock. "Oh hey, can I help you?" Cammie asked as she heard the engine of Josh's car fill the street.
The man's handsome features fell slightly but he masked them making them almost unrecognisable, "Yes I was wondering if Rachel Morgan was in, I am an old friend." He stated and then Cammie looked at him with sad eyes and tried to search her brain for a believable excuse that will keep him from returning.
"Oh I am sorry but she is on a little well deserved vacation for a couple of weeks, can I take your name and tell her when she rings tomorrow?" She asked with a sweet smile of her face to cover the memories of hatred and disgust towards her mother.
"Okay, that is a shame but I suppose this will do. Just tell her…" The man was cut off by the slamming of Josh's car door and his bellowing lungs. Cammie looked over at him and her heart sank and the man just glared at him as he also recognised him from the diner.
"Cammie come on I have a busy night for us planned!" Josh said with a hint of frisk in his voice as he looked at his girlfriend.
"I really have to go; it was nice meeting you I will tell my mom you stopped by." Cammie said feeling scared about how the night was going to play out but she knew to never leave Josh waiting. So she ignored the fact she didn't know the man's name as she locked the door and then ran down the walkway towards Josh's car.
The man in the formal suit watched as the car drove off and then ran his hands through his dark hair and walked towards his jet black BMW and drove off with frustration burning inside of him.
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Inside the car Josh smiled sweetly at Cammie as she blew away some of her hairs from her face as she smiled back at him, "Who was that?" Josh asked without even as much of a 'hey'.
"Not sure someone who wanted to speak to my mom, it doesn't matter. So where are we going?" She asked looking out in the sunset as the summer sun set for sleep behind the hills.
Josh started up the engine and then placed his hand on her thigh and smiled at her, "You'll just have to wait and see won't you?" Josh then smirked and turned his eyes to the road but still kept his hand on Cammie's thigh slowly letting it creep further and further north. Which in return made her squirm higher and higher into the passenger seat, but Josh just thought it was a game and then gave up putting both hands on the wheel.
They turned into an old car park with not even one car in it and an old light up sign to the petrol station next to it, closed down, hung and swung in the summer's breeze. "Why are we stopping here, not very romantic." Cammie said looking out at the now dark and eerie night.
Josh just ignored her and then took his keys from the ignition and turned to face her with a dark glow in his eyes as he scanned her feeble body. A smirk grew on his as he leaned over the car and to her side when he tried to kiss her. But fear flowed through her and the night in the alley was all Cammie could see. So she grabbed the handle and fell out of the car in a heap where she then scurried to her feet. Josh looked angry as he emerged from the car and grabbed her waist yanking her to the bonnet of his car where he 'gently' placed her body and began kissing her neck.
Not wanting to be victimised the second time on her life she decided this was when she was going to fight her fears, look them straight in the eye and tell them enough is enough.
Cammie then let Josh kiss her neck for the last time and listened to him moan and then she blasted her knee into his crouch making his yell in pain. He jumped from her body in shock and then Cammie slid from the bonnet and stood from him with confidence oozing from her pores. This was the end.
But Josh wasn't one to just give in so he approached her again and got hold of her face with tenderness to try and sweet talk her as he whispered soppy things to her, this time however Cammie knew better. "Get off me Josh." She screamed pushing him to ground where he looked at her with shock. "This is it Josh, you've lost. I am not playing your stupid game anymore. I am done, I don't care what you do just leave me and my friends alone or you'll regret it. You won't be able to hurt them because they'll fight back, we'll fight back. And if you even think about going near Zach ever again I will make sure you will live to regret the day you were born." Cammie sneered and then Josh just glared at her and with all the anger boiling over inside on him punched her right in the face.
Cammie fell onto her back and she looked up at Josh with tears clouding her vision as she brought her shaking finger to her lip to be met by a warm liquid. This was the first time Josh had hurt her without an ounce of alcohol inside of him, so he did nothing but give her a pathetic apology and run into his car and drive off.
Cammie just lay there in a fall deep in the shadows trying to forget she even existed and she refused to cry. Then she heard a car enter the parking lot and when she looked headlights shone onto her and then she looked closer at the figure approaching her to see Zach stepping out of a car. Cammie came to her feet and stepped into the light of the streetlights.
None of them said a word as they looked at each other, "I'm sorry." Cammie said as she tried to stop the tears from falling.
"Why are you sorry? You did nothing wrong." Zach said as he gingerly stepped closer to the fragile girl.
Ignoring what he just said she just kept speaking her mind, she was comfortable enough with Zach to do that. And that scared her sometimes. "What am I going to do?" She didn't wait for an answer as Zach knew she didn't want one, "Now I'm on my own. Josh has been in my life for two years and he has gone, my mom and dad have gone and now all I have left is… me." Cammie said as she allowed one tear to fall.
"Cammie, you're going to be fine. You know why? Because you have an army of friends and you have me." Cammie smiled at him as she stepped an inch closer so they were about a metre or two apart. "I am never going to leave you Cammie; no matter how many times you push me away I am going to keep coming back. I am going to be in your life for a long time and the sooner you get used to it the better." Zach said and then Cammie couldn't help herself.
Someone had promised to never leave her, someone had finally accepted her for who she was and not for whom she was or can be. So she ran towards him and crashed her lips into his. They didn't move at first they were just too shocked to, then eventually Zach moved his hands to her neck and Cammie placed hers on his waist as they moved into motion.
Now it had become a passionate kiss as they moved with love as Zach combed her hair with his fingers and Cammie tried to get closer and closer to Zach than she already was. They both pulled away and smiled at each other.
A tear filled Cammie's eyes and Zach wiped it away with his thumb, "Hey what's wrong?" His voice was soft as he looked at the girl in his arms.
"I'm scared Zach." Zach looked at her with a confused expression asking her to continue. "Because I think I am falling in love with you."
I know this wasn't the best but I changed my ideas half way through writing. I hope the Zammie makes up for my absence at least a bit! Anyway please review and tell me what you want to happen next. I don't think I will be able to get much out of this, but maybe your reviews will change that. Thanks and once again please review!