Chapter 14

The Fallen (Franz Ferdinand)

Raven's POV

The rest of the night took an odd turn. When I was supposed to be acting like arm candy for my old nemesis and now boyfriend, I was actually being stripped, kissed and caressed by the dark knight of my dreams in the back seat of his Mercedes.

I never really pictured my first time like this…. Having sex in the back of a car like any teenager in a cheesy B horror movie. I always thought it was tacky and maybe even a little trashy, but that fact that it was with Alexander made it completely different. Unlike the movies it wasn't raging hormones taking over and two people fucking like animals, finally getting away from their parents. With Alexander it was bonding. It was two people who were just so full of love they couldn't stand but to express it right then and there. I could even feel his soul as he was inside me, finally become one with mine, just for the few minutes that we did. We didn't just have sex, we made love, and that is what makes it entirely different.

Afterwards we just kind of lay there, together. My head was resting on his bare chest and chin was leaned on the top of my head, I could feel his soft hands stroking my dark hair. We said nothing. We didn't have to. After what we just said it was almost like wordlessly we shared everything we had yet to tell each other, and so, we just reveled in the presence of each other, felt each other's warmth and made each other familiar with our scents.

"Raven," he whispered. I stayed silent, and let his voice go through me and wrapped myself in the velvet feel of his voice, taking in the fact that he just spoke my name. It took me a minute to realize I still had to reply.

"Yes," I said, still lying against him, pulling a black blanket which he kept in the back of his car, closer.

"I've been meaning to ask…where exactly does this leave us," he asked. I sat silently and considered it myself. "N-not that I don't like this," he said quickly. "I…I love you…I did before and I still do, I'm fairly certain that I always will, it's just I was wondering, and kind of hoping that you still did too."

I waited and then answered. "I do, and I am pretty sure I always will too."

"Then why…" he started, letting the rest of the question hang in the air. He didn't need to say the full thing, I knew what he meant, and yet, I wanted to pretend that I didn't.

"It's…really…really complicated…" I said. "Nothing that you did, of course not! You have always been so sweet and loyal, I doubt you can do anything that could upset me… it's…it's something that I did…I can't say, but…I did something really bad," I said. He was quite, but his fingers continued to play with my hair.

"What is it?" he asked. "You don't have to tell me all the details but just tell me some way I can help? Is Trevor doing something? Is he blackmailing you? Tell me some way I can help, tell me something I can do!"

"I…I…well…," I wanted to tell him… I wanted to really badly, but I didn't want to ruin this, I wanted this moment to last, I wanted more moments like this in the future, but…how could he love me if he found out that I was cheated on him…even if it wasn't intentional. I looked at him, searching for something to say, but was saved by the ringing of my phone. It blasted out my generic ringtone, which was set to Miss Murder by AFI, which meant that it was an unfamiliar number. I answered it to escape the interrogation.

"Hello," I asked.

"Where the hell are you?!" the voice demanded. "You are supposed to be here, that is part of the agreement! If you want me to keep silent about this whole thing then you have to do exactly what I say when I say it!"

It was clear who it was, even if I wasn't able to tell by the voice. Even Alexander had a look on his face that told me he knew who it was too.

"Is it your boyfriend," Alexander said. His voice was deep and sad, and just had this depression to it. I raised my finger to my lips, telling him to keep quiet. E sighed and got up, and began to get dressed. He had this look on his face that just showed how unhappy he was. I looked at him. I never really saw him make a face like this relating to me, and it made me feel terrible.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not just something pretty you can keep on your arm when you need me, and it's just a bunch of sports college guys anyway, why do I need to be there, why don't you just have one of those cheerleader girls go with you, the college will probably like that better than me," I said.

"But I'm not dating those cheerleader girls, I'm dating you! I can very easily let the word out about what happened, I'll send out a text chain right now and the whole town will be talking about it, is that what you want?!" He asked.

I was silent.

"Good, now get your ass back here," he said. I sighed. He hung up. I shut my phone and looked up at Alexander wordlessly. He appeared to be distracted by something outside, watching out the window, but there was something off in his eyes. I opened by mouth to ask what he was thinking, but his eyes flashed to me and he spoke instead.

"You have to go…" he said. I nodded. My stomach churched. I didn't want to, I really didn't want to go, but I didn't have a choice. "I know it's not really my place…"he started. "I mean, you have your reason for being with him and not me, but…you deserve better…way better. You deserve the world, not some guy who orders you around. I'm not even sure that I am at the level of what you deserve, but I know for sure, he isn't it." He didn't wait for me to respond; he got up and climbed his way to the front seat and started the car. I sat in silence, the words he said sliced at my heart and wordlessly I got dressed.

After a few minutes of silence we arrived at country club, and I climbed out the car. I didn't even care that I didn't look all Mary-Sue as I did before, but I knew that Trevor wasn't going to be happy. Alexander went to my side, helping me out of the car like he always did, Trevor chose then to step out of the shadows, and his face was pissed.

"Monster Boy, what are you doing here," he said as he pulled me close to him. I blinked but looked back at Alexander. His face was calm.

"Just keeping Raven a little company," he said, meeting Trevor's eyes evenly. Trevor glared at him and pulled me close, forcing me into a kiss. I blinked and then pushed him away.

"Stop," I shouted. Alexander's face was emotionless, but I could see the anger burning in his eyes.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have somewhere to be," he said as he moved to his car again.

Trevor laughed and pulled me close.

Alexander got in his car and then drove away. Trevor watched with a satisfied look on his face. I pushed him and glared at him.

"What the hell," I demanded. He smiled.

"What," he said.

"What the hell was that? You can't just flaunt me like I am one of your soccer trophies!" I shouted. "You may have taken me from him, but you can't just use me as a tool to upset him!"

"I'm just making sure that he understands that you are mine now," he said.

"He does," I told him. "So you don't need to do that."

"How about you," he asked. "He is not your boyfriend anymore, yet you are still hanging around him, alone, when you should be with me. Why is that?" he asked turning to me and glaring.

"Because he is still my friend," I said. "You never said that I couldn't remain friends with."

"Yeah, well now I am, stay away from him, don't go near him, or else your little secret is going to be sent out to the entire town!" Trevor said.

"You can't just tell me who I can or cannot hang out with! You aren't my dad and even if you were I still wouldn't listen to you. You don't own me!" I yelled at him. He laughed; it was a cruel laugh, one a psycho may do as they drown a puppy in a bath tub or something like that.

"Don't you see? I do own you, you'll do anything I say or else I'll tell you because if you don't I'll tell the entire town about how you slept with a guy while you were dating another," he said with a cruel smile. I glared at him.

"And how long do you plan on keep this up for; till we're married, till we have our third child, until one of us is dead?!" I demanded. He smiled and whispered in my ear evilly.

"I'll keep this up until I don't want you anymore," He said and then walked away looking satisfied. Right before he walked into the country club I shouted back at him.

"You call him Monster Boy, but the truth is you are the only monster here! You're evil Trevor Michelle, and I hope one day you get everything that is coming to you!" With that I started walking home. Dullsville isn't really that big, so it wasn't that long of a walk, maybe 15 minutes. I walked in and said nothing to my parents; I walked right past Billy boy and went to my room.

That night I did what I normally do when I have a really irritating night. I slept.

Alexander's POV

I went into work, even though it was my day off. I don't know why but I had this need to know, nothing could stop me, I needed to find out. I had a mission. I had to find out what happened with Raven and what Trevor did to her. I had to know, and I had a feeling that it happened that night when we got separated at The Crypt.

I felt wrong doing it but…just the way Trevor had her…he seemed too smug, like he was rubbing her in my face, like she was some kind of trophy or award. She was much more than that, she was a goddess. It was wrong for me to speak for Raven but there was no way she would leave me for him. He treats her so cruelly…or is that the way she really wanted to be treated? No, no, she wasn't happy I could see it, I had to do something. I wanted her to be happy!

I snuck up into the surveillance room, stealing Romeo's key when he was too busy flirting to notice, and then went and looked through the camera film for the night Raven and I came here together.

After a bit of rewinding and searching I found it. I started watching from the moment the club was open. My heart wrenching as I went through our date before. We were so perfect together. She was so perfect for me, why did she have to go? I watched careful, my eyes following Raven, I such off my mind, shut of the part that longed for, shut off the part that kept thinking about how pretty she was and just watched. I watched as she danced with me, and kissed me and leaned into me, and then I was surprised. She went to the bathroom for a few minutes, just a few minutes off of camera and then all of a sudden she was acting different, she was stumbling around, doing things the normal Raven wouldn't do, and then to make it worse, she was all over Trevor. I don't know how I didn't see it at the time but she was kissing him and leaning against him, and then she even went home with him. I almost didn't believe it, until I rewound it back. It was quick, quick enough that you would see it on first glance, but as my senses took over, I had the focus of a hunter and I saw it. A man with long black hair, a long trench coat, dark ripped clothes and heavy work boots. He was the type of guy that anyone would have been suspicious of at any other club, but here at the Crypt, he fit in nicely. He discretely removed a red pill from his pocket and slipped it into her drink, for a human eye it would be hard to see but in my state I could see it very clearly.

That explained everything! That explains the way she was acting and why she would go home with Trevor without even saying anything to me. Maybe it was because of this that she left me, because she was scared of what I would think; or maybe because Trevor made her because of what she did. I had to do something! I had to save her, but most importantly I had to stop this guy from doing the same thing he tried to do with Raven!

"What exactly are you doing in here?! You can't come up here, man!" A voice behind me boomed.

And so we continue, we are close to the end~!