Chapter 10.
The next day. "Boys I'm going to work now, give me a kiss." Jessica said walking into the kitchen over to the table where her sons planted a kiss on her cheek. "Bye mom." Rocky said as she walked out of the kitchen. They waited to hear the door shut before they began to talk again.
"So what are we gonna do about Maria?" Colt asked flipping through the diary still. "Will you put that away- infact give that back to me, I'll do it." Rocky said taking the book from his brothers hands. "So what's the big deal? She's a total weirdo we have a right." Colt replied picking the fat from a slab of bacon then watching as Tum puts the fat on his own plate. "Maybe, but she has rights too." Replied Rocky making a digusted face from what he'd just seen.
"Besides it's bad enough I have to figure out an explaination as to why I have her diary but I also have to find a way to question her without letting her know I read it." Rocky heard the door bell and pushed his seat back getting out of it. "Wait here okay?" He said going into the living room. The door bell rang again before he could get it open. "Hang on, I'm coming." He said and opened the door letting his jaw drop. "Maria......."
"Can we walk to school together?" She asked brightly with a huge smile. "Um...." Rocky managed to get out. 'Maybe if we walk to school together I could talk to her.' He thought and then put on a fake smile saying. "Sure. Just let me tell my brothers, okay?" She nodded placing her arms behind her back rocking on her heals. "Okay, you wait here." He said going into the kitchen trying not to panic as he grabbed his book bag and put his dishes away.
"You're acting weird who was at the door?" Colt asked. "Uuum, Emily. We're going to school together alone today, ha ha. Kind of an special couple kinda thing can you guys walk alone?" They both shrugged an answer, it wouldn't be the first time they had to walk without him. "Thanks I owe you one. Bye." He rushed out the front door and Tum tum looked across the table at Colt, who had the same expression on his face as he did.
"I didn't believe that one for second." Tum said getting up and going into the living room with Colt following. When they looked out the window they saw Rocky and Maria turning out of the drive way walking towards the direction that led to school. "It's that weird girl again." Tum tum said glancing at Colt. "Yeah but why is he walking with her- alone." He replied.
"Should we follow them?" The young boy asked and Colt shrugged not really sure what the best plan of action would be, I mean after reading that diary who knew what this weird girl was capable of, but then again she could just be a little odd and happen to like Rocky a little too much. "I don't know," he said speaking up. "but if someone tries to impale my brother...they're gonna have to go through me."
Tum tum nodded. "Me too." Turning away from the window Colt grabbed the sleeve of Tum's shirt and led him to the kitchen. "Come on, lets follow them."
Outside things were quiet as Rocky and Maria walked along together. "I've always dreamt of this moment you know." She said shyly. 'I know.' Rocky thought but answered as though he had no idea what she were talking about. "What?" She giggles lightly touching his arm and said. "Walking to school together, just the two of us."
"Oh." Rocky breathed out. "Maria, can we talk about something? Seriously too. No jokes, no games, nothing...just talk." He asked, and she looked at him as though he were crazy then she smiled wrapping her arm around his laying her head down on it as well. "Sure Rocky anything for you." She replied, but added. "Lets go someplace private to talk though, okay?"
He swallowed hard and glanced back towards the house wishing for the smallest glimpse of his brothers but they were no where in sight. He ran a mild hand through his hair and sighed turning on a smile. "Sure, where too?" He asked. "Lets go to this secret spot of been going to since I was younger, it's not too far from here." She replied guiding him across the street. "All right." He replied to her.
"Good, but one thing though you gotta cover your eyes. I can't have everybody knowing about my secret now can I?" He really didn't want to, but his eyes found themselves closing. 'Might as well play along so she won't suspect anything.' He thought and tried to relax himself. 'And just think after we talk this whole mess will be past us.' His eyes got tighter as though he himself didn't believe that lie. 'Oh, we'll be all right Rocky, because we'll be together forever and no one's gonna pull us apart...I'll make sure of that.' She thought to herself with a smile.
She was leading them far into the woods to an old abandoned shack that she used to run away too when ever her aunt Marissa was cruel to her- or when she was too upset from the other kids at school were bothering her a lot that day. "Not much further okay?" She said to reassure him. He didn't answer instead he was mentally preparing himself for what he was going to say once they got there.
They passed through thick trees and huge bushes as though they were going through a jungle, everything was so cluttered in together a person could get lost in there easily, and finally they approached a small brown shack that looked as though it had been abandoned for years. "Here we are!" She announced once they got the door open. Rocky opened his eyes and walked inside looking around with his eyes. "What are we doing here? I thought you said that we weren't going fa- Ah!!!" He held the back of his neck falling to the ground and she backed away from him laughing as she dropped a needle to the ground and smooshed it into the soft soil.
"Don't worry little Rocky, the drug wasn't all that strong." She said walking in and picking him up a little off the floor and tossing him onto a bed. "You will be mine." She said without oving her lips and then she looked out the window. "You brothers will be coming pretty soon, but that doesn't scare me, because by the time they get here...it'll be to late."
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"This sucks...This really sucks!" Colt practically shouted. "We were right behind them where did they go?" Tum tum didn't have the slightest idea he was just following Colt. "What's that?" He asked pointing up ahead and Colt strained his vision to where Tum was pointing. "Looks like the key ring off Rock's book bag, he must have dropped it for us to follow."
They ran ahead and picked it up. "It's Rock's all right, there's the his official green ink dot." Colt stuffed the key ring into his pocket and they looked around for anything else their brother may have dropped but there wasn't much in this area. "Well," Colt sighed feeling his pocket. "at least we know we're on the right path." He looked over his shoulder for Tum then walked a little further up. "Come on."
* * *
"Has any one seen Samuel Douglas today?" Mrs. Hillpepper asked. The class shook their heads to her question and went back to work but a boy known as the class clown decided to share some knowledge with the class.
"I heard he got arrested last night." They all turned their attention to him with interest. "He broke into his girlfriends house and tried to choke her. He's gone mad." The boy finished and everyone laighed at the example he was displaying trying to potray an insane Rocky.
Eleanor was sitting abck watching the whole thing biting the bottom of her lip- which is a bad habbit of hers. 'I wonder if Emily is all right?' She thought and looked at the clock with a smile. 'Almost time to go to lunch. I'll talk to her then.' She looked back to the front of the room when she heard the teacher speaking.
"Alright class, knock it off. Daniel you leave Samuel's personal life to yourself, he would never do such a thing." Just then the bell rang and everyone ran out in a hurry. "Oh dear." The teacher said looking down at the homework assignment she forgot to give them. "I'll take two Mrs. Hillpepper." Eleanor said walking up to the front of the room adjusting the straps on her backpack. "Two?" The woman replied. "Yeah, one for Sam, he might be sick I think." She said as a possible excuse to why such a good kid would cut class.
"I think that's a wonderful idea Eleanor, here you go." The teacher handed her the papers and she slid her book bag around to her front to slide them in. "Thanks ma'am, bye." She walked out of the class room skimming the halls with her eyes for Emily. "Emily?" She called to her when she saw a blonde head that could only be hers- she was wearing the teddy bear hair clips the bought together from the Fashion Bug.
"Oh hi, have you seen Rocky today?" Emily asked her right off. "No, he wasn't in home room this morning and I thought he might just be late but he wasn't in english class either." The other girl replied falling into step with her friend.
"I'm worried, it's not like him to miss a day and none of the teachers know why? Their mom always calls in and tells the faculty that they're sick." Emily frowned hearing that. "And you wanna know another weird thing?" The girl went on. "I brought some blank papers to the special ed. room and Maria wasn't there I thought she might be in the bathroom but then the teacher said something about Maria loving art and that she'd be missing it."
Emily bit her tongue to stop from screaming ans slapped a hand over her best friends mouth. "I don't wanna hear anymore of it. I can't I mean, if Rocky is off with this Maria girl then that's fine with me I don't love him anymore." Emily said putting her head down.
"Are you serious? Why not?" Eleanor asked after pulling Emily's hand away. "Last night he broke into my house and tried to strangle me when he should have been trying to save me." That didn't seem to make any sense to Eleanor and she thought it over to herself. "Maybe he wasn't himself that night, you never know?" She said trying to change Emily's mind but she walked into the cafeteria spinning around to face her friend.
"No mistake on his part it was on mine for trusting him, and if he wants to be Maria's lapdog then I say go for it but don't come clawing back to me when she hurts you."
With that she stormed into the cafeteria and lined up for lunch. 'I just don't believe he'd leave Emily that way....but where could he be?' The girl thought then walked into the lunch room.
* * *
"Open your eyes Rocky......" Maria was saying to him. His eye lids opened themselves slightly but closed again as though he didn't want to see what he was about to wake up to. "Come on, I didn't give you that much of the drug..." She said tapping the side of his face with light slaps.
Rocky groaned and shifted himself on the bed, when his mind started to register what was going on his eyes snapped open and he pushed himself up on the bed scooting away from her. "Wha- What did you do to me?" He asked feeling a wave of nausea wash over him as he sank back on the bed to where he was lying in the first place. "Oowww." He wined in little painful cries. "What did you do to me?" He asked and she held his face between her hands and laughed.
"You have a stronger mind then I thought," she said ignoring his question. "most poeple get a dose like that and their brain can barely remember their own name." She tilted her head back and began to laugh. "Ma- Maria you can't......." he swallowed the feel of throw up in the back of his throat. "you can't keep me here." He continued trying to sit up again but the drug was keeping him down.
She straddled herself around his hips and grinned down at him wickedly. 'Please don't....' he could only manage to think, because his voice had escaped him at the moment. She leaned down and kissed him on the lips and he dizzly turned his face away from hers, blinking hard trying to keep the drug out of his system. "Nooo." He was saying and she shushed him kissing him again. "Don't fight the drug, just relax and let it sink in." Maria said.
She pressed her mouth against his again and he tried everything in his power to fight back but it was useless. 'Do what you like, Maria. But I'll never love you.' He thought before he blacked out again.
The next day. "Boys I'm going to work now, give me a kiss." Jessica said walking into the kitchen over to the table where her sons planted a kiss on her cheek. "Bye mom." Rocky said as she walked out of the kitchen. They waited to hear the door shut before they began to talk again.
"So what are we gonna do about Maria?" Colt asked flipping through the diary still. "Will you put that away- infact give that back to me, I'll do it." Rocky said taking the book from his brothers hands. "So what's the big deal? She's a total weirdo we have a right." Colt replied picking the fat from a slab of bacon then watching as Tum puts the fat on his own plate. "Maybe, but she has rights too." Replied Rocky making a digusted face from what he'd just seen.
"Besides it's bad enough I have to figure out an explaination as to why I have her diary but I also have to find a way to question her without letting her know I read it." Rocky heard the door bell and pushed his seat back getting out of it. "Wait here okay?" He said going into the living room. The door bell rang again before he could get it open. "Hang on, I'm coming." He said and opened the door letting his jaw drop. "Maria......."
"Can we walk to school together?" She asked brightly with a huge smile. "Um...." Rocky managed to get out. 'Maybe if we walk to school together I could talk to her.' He thought and then put on a fake smile saying. "Sure. Just let me tell my brothers, okay?" She nodded placing her arms behind her back rocking on her heals. "Okay, you wait here." He said going into the kitchen trying not to panic as he grabbed his book bag and put his dishes away.
"You're acting weird who was at the door?" Colt asked. "Uuum, Emily. We're going to school together alone today, ha ha. Kind of an special couple kinda thing can you guys walk alone?" They both shrugged an answer, it wouldn't be the first time they had to walk without him. "Thanks I owe you one. Bye." He rushed out the front door and Tum tum looked across the table at Colt, who had the same expression on his face as he did.
"I didn't believe that one for second." Tum said getting up and going into the living room with Colt following. When they looked out the window they saw Rocky and Maria turning out of the drive way walking towards the direction that led to school. "It's that weird girl again." Tum tum said glancing at Colt. "Yeah but why is he walking with her- alone." He replied.
"Should we follow them?" The young boy asked and Colt shrugged not really sure what the best plan of action would be, I mean after reading that diary who knew what this weird girl was capable of, but then again she could just be a little odd and happen to like Rocky a little too much. "I don't know," he said speaking up. "but if someone tries to impale my brother...they're gonna have to go through me."
Tum tum nodded. "Me too." Turning away from the window Colt grabbed the sleeve of Tum's shirt and led him to the kitchen. "Come on, lets follow them."
Outside things were quiet as Rocky and Maria walked along together. "I've always dreamt of this moment you know." She said shyly. 'I know.' Rocky thought but answered as though he had no idea what she were talking about. "What?" She giggles lightly touching his arm and said. "Walking to school together, just the two of us."
"Oh." Rocky breathed out. "Maria, can we talk about something? Seriously too. No jokes, no games, nothing...just talk." He asked, and she looked at him as though he were crazy then she smiled wrapping her arm around his laying her head down on it as well. "Sure Rocky anything for you." She replied, but added. "Lets go someplace private to talk though, okay?"
He swallowed hard and glanced back towards the house wishing for the smallest glimpse of his brothers but they were no where in sight. He ran a mild hand through his hair and sighed turning on a smile. "Sure, where too?" He asked. "Lets go to this secret spot of been going to since I was younger, it's not too far from here." She replied guiding him across the street. "All right." He replied to her.
"Good, but one thing though you gotta cover your eyes. I can't have everybody knowing about my secret now can I?" He really didn't want to, but his eyes found themselves closing. 'Might as well play along so she won't suspect anything.' He thought and tried to relax himself. 'And just think after we talk this whole mess will be past us.' His eyes got tighter as though he himself didn't believe that lie. 'Oh, we'll be all right Rocky, because we'll be together forever and no one's gonna pull us apart...I'll make sure of that.' She thought to herself with a smile.
She was leading them far into the woods to an old abandoned shack that she used to run away too when ever her aunt Marissa was cruel to her- or when she was too upset from the other kids at school were bothering her a lot that day. "Not much further okay?" She said to reassure him. He didn't answer instead he was mentally preparing himself for what he was going to say once they got there.
They passed through thick trees and huge bushes as though they were going through a jungle, everything was so cluttered in together a person could get lost in there easily, and finally they approached a small brown shack that looked as though it had been abandoned for years. "Here we are!" She announced once they got the door open. Rocky opened his eyes and walked inside looking around with his eyes. "What are we doing here? I thought you said that we weren't going fa- Ah!!!" He held the back of his neck falling to the ground and she backed away from him laughing as she dropped a needle to the ground and smooshed it into the soft soil.
"Don't worry little Rocky, the drug wasn't all that strong." She said walking in and picking him up a little off the floor and tossing him onto a bed. "You will be mine." She said without oving her lips and then she looked out the window. "You brothers will be coming pretty soon, but that doesn't scare me, because by the time they get here...it'll be to late."
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"This sucks...This really sucks!" Colt practically shouted. "We were right behind them where did they go?" Tum tum didn't have the slightest idea he was just following Colt. "What's that?" He asked pointing up ahead and Colt strained his vision to where Tum was pointing. "Looks like the key ring off Rock's book bag, he must have dropped it for us to follow."
They ran ahead and picked it up. "It's Rock's all right, there's the his official green ink dot." Colt stuffed the key ring into his pocket and they looked around for anything else their brother may have dropped but there wasn't much in this area. "Well," Colt sighed feeling his pocket. "at least we know we're on the right path." He looked over his shoulder for Tum then walked a little further up. "Come on."
* * *
"Has any one seen Samuel Douglas today?" Mrs. Hillpepper asked. The class shook their heads to her question and went back to work but a boy known as the class clown decided to share some knowledge with the class.
"I heard he got arrested last night." They all turned their attention to him with interest. "He broke into his girlfriends house and tried to choke her. He's gone mad." The boy finished and everyone laighed at the example he was displaying trying to potray an insane Rocky.
Eleanor was sitting abck watching the whole thing biting the bottom of her lip- which is a bad habbit of hers. 'I wonder if Emily is all right?' She thought and looked at the clock with a smile. 'Almost time to go to lunch. I'll talk to her then.' She looked back to the front of the room when she heard the teacher speaking.
"Alright class, knock it off. Daniel you leave Samuel's personal life to yourself, he would never do such a thing." Just then the bell rang and everyone ran out in a hurry. "Oh dear." The teacher said looking down at the homework assignment she forgot to give them. "I'll take two Mrs. Hillpepper." Eleanor said walking up to the front of the room adjusting the straps on her backpack. "Two?" The woman replied. "Yeah, one for Sam, he might be sick I think." She said as a possible excuse to why such a good kid would cut class.
"I think that's a wonderful idea Eleanor, here you go." The teacher handed her the papers and she slid her book bag around to her front to slide them in. "Thanks ma'am, bye." She walked out of the class room skimming the halls with her eyes for Emily. "Emily?" She called to her when she saw a blonde head that could only be hers- she was wearing the teddy bear hair clips the bought together from the Fashion Bug.
"Oh hi, have you seen Rocky today?" Emily asked her right off. "No, he wasn't in home room this morning and I thought he might just be late but he wasn't in english class either." The other girl replied falling into step with her friend.
"I'm worried, it's not like him to miss a day and none of the teachers know why? Their mom always calls in and tells the faculty that they're sick." Emily frowned hearing that. "And you wanna know another weird thing?" The girl went on. "I brought some blank papers to the special ed. room and Maria wasn't there I thought she might be in the bathroom but then the teacher said something about Maria loving art and that she'd be missing it."
Emily bit her tongue to stop from screaming ans slapped a hand over her best friends mouth. "I don't wanna hear anymore of it. I can't I mean, if Rocky is off with this Maria girl then that's fine with me I don't love him anymore." Emily said putting her head down.
"Are you serious? Why not?" Eleanor asked after pulling Emily's hand away. "Last night he broke into my house and tried to strangle me when he should have been trying to save me." That didn't seem to make any sense to Eleanor and she thought it over to herself. "Maybe he wasn't himself that night, you never know?" She said trying to change Emily's mind but she walked into the cafeteria spinning around to face her friend.
"No mistake on his part it was on mine for trusting him, and if he wants to be Maria's lapdog then I say go for it but don't come clawing back to me when she hurts you."
With that she stormed into the cafeteria and lined up for lunch. 'I just don't believe he'd leave Emily that way....but where could he be?' The girl thought then walked into the lunch room.
* * *
"Open your eyes Rocky......" Maria was saying to him. His eye lids opened themselves slightly but closed again as though he didn't want to see what he was about to wake up to. "Come on, I didn't give you that much of the drug..." She said tapping the side of his face with light slaps.
Rocky groaned and shifted himself on the bed, when his mind started to register what was going on his eyes snapped open and he pushed himself up on the bed scooting away from her. "Wha- What did you do to me?" He asked feeling a wave of nausea wash over him as he sank back on the bed to where he was lying in the first place. "Oowww." He wined in little painful cries. "What did you do to me?" He asked and she held his face between her hands and laughed.
"You have a stronger mind then I thought," she said ignoring his question. "most poeple get a dose like that and their brain can barely remember their own name." She tilted her head back and began to laugh. "Ma- Maria you can't......." he swallowed the feel of throw up in the back of his throat. "you can't keep me here." He continued trying to sit up again but the drug was keeping him down.
She straddled herself around his hips and grinned down at him wickedly. 'Please don't....' he could only manage to think, because his voice had escaped him at the moment. She leaned down and kissed him on the lips and he dizzly turned his face away from hers, blinking hard trying to keep the drug out of his system. "Nooo." He was saying and she shushed him kissing him again. "Don't fight the drug, just relax and let it sink in." Maria said.
She pressed her mouth against his again and he tried everything in his power to fight back but it was useless. 'Do what you like, Maria. But I'll never love you.' He thought before he blacked out again.