Author's Note: I'm glad some of you like my stories. ^^ Well uhhhhh... The last chapter! Whoa!!!! Brianna was hardly in it! Ack! ^_~ Well uh here's a few words i gotta tell! ^^
Kayla aka Lemonlicious: You're an awesome friend. No matter what I could never be mad at you. AND I LOVE YOUR STORY! IT ROX!
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Chapter Six: This is War
Cold. Icy cold. Something happened. Who? What? Brianna walked closer to the corpse with a cover on its face. Pain was tugging. Who was it? Why was it hurting her? She didn't know who it was. Right? She walked closer to the table and looked down upon the cover. She took it by the top and peeled away the cover slowly. She gasped.
Marla...
"MARLA!" Brianna shouted as she shot up in her bed in a cold dripping sweat. The nurse that was stationed in her room looked alarmed. "MARLA! NO! MARLA!" she screamed. The nurse grabbed Brianna and forced her to lay back down. "Stop it! Dammit! Marla's dead! NO! Lemme go! Hell no! I'm not taking that shit again!" Brianna struggled to get free as the nurse pulled out a needle to calm her down.
"Hold still." the nurse said simply.
"NO!" Brianna growled as the needle was shoved into her arm.
***
Kayla gritted her teeth as she watched the ambulance drive away with Marla's corpse. She had to have time to think before she would tell Brianna that Marla was dead. Who could she turn to? The pain of loosing Marla was tugging away at her heart. She wasn't thinking straight. "So this is what Brianna went through when she had to tell Mel's parents she was dead..." she whispered out loud.
***
Squid was laying on his couch not knowing what to do. "What about Brianna?" he said out loud.
"Who's Brianna?" asked his mother coming into the room.
"Uh.. No one..."
"Alan..." his mother said. Squid rolled his eyes and sighed annoyingly.
"She's a girl I know," he answered. His mother blinked and stared at Squid. He looked confused. "What?"
"Is she your girlfriend?" his mother asked curiously.
"Mom!" Squid whined.
***
Shaily couldn't take this pain at her heart any longer. She had to talk to someone. Brianna? No. She wouldn't be able to take loosing Marla. Kayla? No. She's too hard to be able to listen. Susan? No, she's too upset as it is. Michelle? No, she's still accepting Marla's fall. "Then who can I tell?" Shaily said to herself. It hit her.
Zig Zag.
"Oh great," she thought to herself. "I gotta say sorry to him... Hmph. This sucks." Shaily glanced at Kayla and got her attention.
"Yeah?" Kayla asked.
"I'm gonna go. I gotta think for a while," Shaily answered. Kayla nodded and let Shaily leave. Shaily began to walk torward her house thinking of everything that happened between Marla and the girls.
So many memories.
But those memories were shattered.
***
Brianna screamed, kicked, cursed as the nurse began to call backup into her room. Brianna was not being a very good patient. "I told ya I don't want that shit!" she yelled. The nurses all held her down. She kicked the needle out of the nurse's hands. "I TOLD YOU! I DON'T WANT THAT SHIT!" she screamed.
"Brianna you've gotta calm down!" scolded one of the four nurses in the room.
"YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!" yelled Brianna.
"C'mon now," another nurse said. "You're overreacting."
"GAH! If you would listen you bitches!" Brianna added to her last sentence.
***
Shaily arrived at her home fifteen minutes later. She walked onto her driveway and to her basketball hoop. She grabbed her basketball and threw it into the hoop. Memories flashed through her mind. Marla and Shaily played a lot of basketball together and talked about their futures so much here. Sometimes Shaily cheated by having Zig Zag lift her up so she could slam dunk the ball. Marla was the better player after all. She smiled gently and threw the ball into the hoop a few more times and then stopped. Shaily walked the ball to her garage and put it into the holder. She walked to her porch and saw someone sitting in her porch swing.
Zig Zag.
Shaily blinked and apporached the porch ignoring Zig Zag. She was about to walk through her front door when he said, "Shaily..."
She stopped. "What?" she snapped.
He stood up and walked behind her. He placed his arms around her waist and his face into her blonde hair. "I'm sorry," he whispered in her ear. She blinked again and felt herself blushing. "Are you still mad?" Zig asked. A smile crept along Shaily's face and she turned around and gazed into his eyes.
"No," she whispered back to him.
"Good," he said as he leaned into her and kissed her lightly on the lips.
***
"Alan! You had a girlfriend and never told me!" Squid mother yelped.
"Mom," he whined. His mother ignored his comment.
"How come you never told me!"
"Mom!"
"I feel so left out nowadays because of this!"
"Mom!"
"ALAN! WAS SHE IN YOUR ROOM THAT NIGHT!"
"MOM!!" he shouted getting her attention this time.
"Yes Alan," she asked. Squid sighed relieved his mother had stopped talking. He looked up at his mother.
"I'm sorry I never told you about Bri but I met her at camp and well you were, er, a drunk then... So I figured you wouldn't care back then. But then she got shot and what we though dead. So I never really brought her up again, until I found out she really wasn't dead. She found where I lived and yes she was the one in my room that night. She had just come to tell me she was alive. So please don't get really mad," Squid explained.
"Oh," his mother said.
"And she got hurt very badly and I've gotta see her at the hospital."
"Oh."
"So I'm gonna go now... Alright?" ASquid said as he got up from the couch and walked over to the door. "Bye Mom. I'll be back before lunch."
"Right."
Squid left.
***
"DAMMIT! LEMME GO!" screamed Brianna.
"Fine," the nurses said.
"Good! Now get out!" shouted Brianna pointing the way out for the nurses. They rolled their eyes and walked out of her room. Brianna sighed and laid back down. She turned on her TV set and watched a few television shows for about an hour. Until...
"Hey there Bri," whispered a voice.
"Squid?" she asked.
He came into the room and hugged her. "How are you feeling now?" he asked her after letting her go. She cocked an eyebrow and stared at him.
"Are you serious?! I'm able to stay awake now," she giggled. Squid grinned and kissed her lightly on the lips. "So whatcha come here for? And what happened to you!? You're hurt!"
"I've gotta tell you something..." Squid's cheerful face faded quickly. Brianna stared.
"What?"
"Mad Dog knows you're alive. He jumped me and asked where you were. I didn't tell him... I couldn't..." Squid murmured. Brianna rubbed her temple. THe look on her face shocked Squid slightly. She looked as if she expected this. "What's with that look Bri?"
"I knew he would find out eventually. He's smarter than he lets on. Him thinking that I was dead gave me some time to mend some ties. I knew he'd come eventually," she whispered.
"WHAT!?" shouted Squid. "You KNEW!"
"Well Mad Dog's a lot smarter than you think," Brianna asnwered. Squid gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath. Brianna shut her eyes and bit her lip. Her eyes flashed open and glanced at Squid. "I'm sorry but I couldn't just tell you!"
"Whatever," Squid grumbled. Brianna stared.
"Here I am laying in a hospital bed with switchblade slashes that I had done myself and you're going to start this NOW?!"
"Dammit," he cursed.
"Why are being so hostile!?"
"I'M NOT BEING HOSTILE!"
***
"Kayla," Michelle said.
"Yeah," Kayla replied.
"Are we gonna stay here all day?"
"OH!" Kayla gasped. "Girls c'mon let's go to Shaily's. I think she took this the hardest." The other girls nodded and followed Kayla toward Shaily's house. It took them about fifteen minutes to get there.
***
Zig Zag and Shaily were talking away on the porch swing. Zig swore up and down he never meant anything by what he had said before. Shaily smiled and had no clue her friends were watching when she leaned into him and kissed him again.
"Oh God," muttered Michelle loudly.
"Get a room," gagged Kayla. Susan had no comment but gripped her throat making gagging noises. Shaily broke her kiss with Zig Zag and glared at her friends.
"OH MY GOD! WHAT ARE YOU DOIN'!?" screamed Shaily. The other girls began to giggle uncontrolablely.
***
Squid was still cursing and marching around Brianna's room like a lunatic. Brianna stared at him and rolled her eyes. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" Brianna demanded.
"Nothing," he hissed. She heard jealousy burning in his voice.
"You're jealous?!"
"NO!"
"YES YOU ARE!"
"I'M NOT JEALOUS!" Squid shouted.
"Then what's wrong?" she asked him hoping he would calm down.
"I just don't want him near you..."
"Alan," she said grinning a little. He finally glanced at her. She stared into his dark chocolate brown eyes with her emerald green ones. "He could never take what we have away... I promise you..."
"Breaking News!" said the announcer on Brianna's TV. Squid and Brianna glanced up at the screen and watched it intently. "We have just gotten word that there was a murder eariler today downtown."
"What?" chorused Squid and Brianna.
"Today seventeen year old Marla Evans was murdered today by a switchblade fight that had happened earlier. THere is not much news on the murder or the fight that had happened. More details at eleven." continued the announcer. Brianna went white with horror remembering the events of her nightmare.
"Marla! Dammit! NO! MARLA!"
"Oh my God," Squid shouted. "She saved me though?! How'd she get-?"
"Mad Dog!!!" screamed Brianna. Squid stared.
"But-!"
"Did she go back to the fight?"
"How did you know about the fight?"
"That doesn't matter!" Brianna exclaimed. "I have a way of figuring it out. Just answer my question. Did she go back to the fight?" Squid pondered the question for a few minutes and then remembered.
"Yes," Squid answered getting a sick feeling in his stomach. Brianna sat up in her bed and grabbed her bathrobe. She put it on and got out of her bed and grabbed her outfit that she had worn when she cut herself. She marched into the bathroom and shut the door. Squid got a confused look on his face. He went to the bathroom door. "Bri, what are you doin'?"
The door opened. Brianna was in her ripped bell bottom jeans and her red tank top. The IV and blood bag were sitting in the sink and no longer hooked up to her. She walked out of the bathroom. Squid stared in awe at her. Brianna grabbed her shoes and put them on quickly. After she had done that she looked up at Squid and got the most cockiest grin he'd ever seen. "Hey Alan," she said. "We've gotta make a quick stop ok?" He nodded.
Brianna walked over ot the door and quickly shut it. "Alan could you break open that window? Please?" she asked. He nodded and knocked out her window. It feel out and landed onto the ground. Brianna ran over to the window and looked down. "Fourth floor... Hmm.. That'd be a few good feet huh?" she said talking to herself out loud. She grabbed her bed spread and tied it together and tied one end down to her bed. "Squid you go on down ok? I'll meet you outside. Thank God my room doesn't face the road or the parking lot!" she said laughing. He rolled his eyes and walked out of her room shutting the door behind him.
Brianna threw the other end of her so called "rope" out the window and grabbed a hold of it. She slowly climbed out her window and shimmied down the side of the hospital building. She came to the end and jumped off the robe and fell about two feet. Squid met her there and she led him down the streets. It was almost dusk.
"Where are we goin'?" Squid asked. She grinned again and winked at him.
"You'll see..." she replied simply. He rolled his eyes and continued to follow Brianna. She led him into some dark alleys and then to a run down building. She knocked on it and someone opened the door. It was a dirty blonde female. "Laura I've gotta get a new switchblade. Mine got taken away..." Brianna said.
"Right ok... But who's he?" Laura asked in a cold voice.
"He's with me. Trust me."
"Fine," Laura said. She let Squid and Brianna. Laura shut the door and got ahead of the two. "Welllll I'll get you another switchblade ok? I'll be right back," Laura said as she walked out of the room and into another. She came back five minutes later with a box. "Pick one."
Brianna studied each of the four blades inside the box carefully. "Hmm," she hummed.
"Do you like any?"
"This one," Brianna said picking up the third blade that had the easy button to get out the blade. Laura grinned.
"Charm you've got REAL taste I'll give you that," Laura scoffed. Brianna rolled her eyes.
"How much?" Brianna asked.
"You did enough when you helped with the job so it's on me."
"Seriously?!" Brianna asked shocked. Laura nodded and motioned her to get out.
"Now get," Laura grinned. "Before I change my mind." Brianna and Squid walked out of the run down building. Brianna stuffed the switchblade into her side pocket. Squid stared.
"What are you going to use that for?" he asked her.
"Mad Dog killed Marla right?" she asked in a logical tone.
"Yeah."
"Well when you kill a Strip... There's only one solution," Brianna added pulling the blade out again.
"Which is?"
She flipped out the blade and it glimmered in the light as her eyes roved over it and then to the sky. "This is war."
Kayla aka Lemonlicious: You're an awesome friend. No matter what I could never be mad at you. AND I LOVE YOUR STORY! IT ROX!
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Chapter Six: This is War
Cold. Icy cold. Something happened. Who? What? Brianna walked closer to the corpse with a cover on its face. Pain was tugging. Who was it? Why was it hurting her? She didn't know who it was. Right? She walked closer to the table and looked down upon the cover. She took it by the top and peeled away the cover slowly. She gasped.
Marla...
"MARLA!" Brianna shouted as she shot up in her bed in a cold dripping sweat. The nurse that was stationed in her room looked alarmed. "MARLA! NO! MARLA!" she screamed. The nurse grabbed Brianna and forced her to lay back down. "Stop it! Dammit! Marla's dead! NO! Lemme go! Hell no! I'm not taking that shit again!" Brianna struggled to get free as the nurse pulled out a needle to calm her down.
"Hold still." the nurse said simply.
"NO!" Brianna growled as the needle was shoved into her arm.
***
Kayla gritted her teeth as she watched the ambulance drive away with Marla's corpse. She had to have time to think before she would tell Brianna that Marla was dead. Who could she turn to? The pain of loosing Marla was tugging away at her heart. She wasn't thinking straight. "So this is what Brianna went through when she had to tell Mel's parents she was dead..." she whispered out loud.
***
Squid was laying on his couch not knowing what to do. "What about Brianna?" he said out loud.
"Who's Brianna?" asked his mother coming into the room.
"Uh.. No one..."
"Alan..." his mother said. Squid rolled his eyes and sighed annoyingly.
"She's a girl I know," he answered. His mother blinked and stared at Squid. He looked confused. "What?"
"Is she your girlfriend?" his mother asked curiously.
"Mom!" Squid whined.
***
Shaily couldn't take this pain at her heart any longer. She had to talk to someone. Brianna? No. She wouldn't be able to take loosing Marla. Kayla? No. She's too hard to be able to listen. Susan? No, she's too upset as it is. Michelle? No, she's still accepting Marla's fall. "Then who can I tell?" Shaily said to herself. It hit her.
Zig Zag.
"Oh great," she thought to herself. "I gotta say sorry to him... Hmph. This sucks." Shaily glanced at Kayla and got her attention.
"Yeah?" Kayla asked.
"I'm gonna go. I gotta think for a while," Shaily answered. Kayla nodded and let Shaily leave. Shaily began to walk torward her house thinking of everything that happened between Marla and the girls.
So many memories.
But those memories were shattered.
***
Brianna screamed, kicked, cursed as the nurse began to call backup into her room. Brianna was not being a very good patient. "I told ya I don't want that shit!" she yelled. The nurses all held her down. She kicked the needle out of the nurse's hands. "I TOLD YOU! I DON'T WANT THAT SHIT!" she screamed.
"Brianna you've gotta calm down!" scolded one of the four nurses in the room.
"YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!" yelled Brianna.
"C'mon now," another nurse said. "You're overreacting."
"GAH! If you would listen you bitches!" Brianna added to her last sentence.
***
Shaily arrived at her home fifteen minutes later. She walked onto her driveway and to her basketball hoop. She grabbed her basketball and threw it into the hoop. Memories flashed through her mind. Marla and Shaily played a lot of basketball together and talked about their futures so much here. Sometimes Shaily cheated by having Zig Zag lift her up so she could slam dunk the ball. Marla was the better player after all. She smiled gently and threw the ball into the hoop a few more times and then stopped. Shaily walked the ball to her garage and put it into the holder. She walked to her porch and saw someone sitting in her porch swing.
Zig Zag.
Shaily blinked and apporached the porch ignoring Zig Zag. She was about to walk through her front door when he said, "Shaily..."
She stopped. "What?" she snapped.
He stood up and walked behind her. He placed his arms around her waist and his face into her blonde hair. "I'm sorry," he whispered in her ear. She blinked again and felt herself blushing. "Are you still mad?" Zig asked. A smile crept along Shaily's face and she turned around and gazed into his eyes.
"No," she whispered back to him.
"Good," he said as he leaned into her and kissed her lightly on the lips.
***
"Alan! You had a girlfriend and never told me!" Squid mother yelped.
"Mom," he whined. His mother ignored his comment.
"How come you never told me!"
"Mom!"
"I feel so left out nowadays because of this!"
"Mom!"
"ALAN! WAS SHE IN YOUR ROOM THAT NIGHT!"
"MOM!!" he shouted getting her attention this time.
"Yes Alan," she asked. Squid sighed relieved his mother had stopped talking. He looked up at his mother.
"I'm sorry I never told you about Bri but I met her at camp and well you were, er, a drunk then... So I figured you wouldn't care back then. But then she got shot and what we though dead. So I never really brought her up again, until I found out she really wasn't dead. She found where I lived and yes she was the one in my room that night. She had just come to tell me she was alive. So please don't get really mad," Squid explained.
"Oh," his mother said.
"And she got hurt very badly and I've gotta see her at the hospital."
"Oh."
"So I'm gonna go now... Alright?" ASquid said as he got up from the couch and walked over to the door. "Bye Mom. I'll be back before lunch."
"Right."
Squid left.
***
"DAMMIT! LEMME GO!" screamed Brianna.
"Fine," the nurses said.
"Good! Now get out!" shouted Brianna pointing the way out for the nurses. They rolled their eyes and walked out of her room. Brianna sighed and laid back down. She turned on her TV set and watched a few television shows for about an hour. Until...
"Hey there Bri," whispered a voice.
"Squid?" she asked.
He came into the room and hugged her. "How are you feeling now?" he asked her after letting her go. She cocked an eyebrow and stared at him.
"Are you serious?! I'm able to stay awake now," she giggled. Squid grinned and kissed her lightly on the lips. "So whatcha come here for? And what happened to you!? You're hurt!"
"I've gotta tell you something..." Squid's cheerful face faded quickly. Brianna stared.
"What?"
"Mad Dog knows you're alive. He jumped me and asked where you were. I didn't tell him... I couldn't..." Squid murmured. Brianna rubbed her temple. THe look on her face shocked Squid slightly. She looked as if she expected this. "What's with that look Bri?"
"I knew he would find out eventually. He's smarter than he lets on. Him thinking that I was dead gave me some time to mend some ties. I knew he'd come eventually," she whispered.
"WHAT!?" shouted Squid. "You KNEW!"
"Well Mad Dog's a lot smarter than you think," Brianna asnwered. Squid gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath. Brianna shut her eyes and bit her lip. Her eyes flashed open and glanced at Squid. "I'm sorry but I couldn't just tell you!"
"Whatever," Squid grumbled. Brianna stared.
"Here I am laying in a hospital bed with switchblade slashes that I had done myself and you're going to start this NOW?!"
"Dammit," he cursed.
"Why are being so hostile!?"
"I'M NOT BEING HOSTILE!"
***
"Kayla," Michelle said.
"Yeah," Kayla replied.
"Are we gonna stay here all day?"
"OH!" Kayla gasped. "Girls c'mon let's go to Shaily's. I think she took this the hardest." The other girls nodded and followed Kayla toward Shaily's house. It took them about fifteen minutes to get there.
***
Zig Zag and Shaily were talking away on the porch swing. Zig swore up and down he never meant anything by what he had said before. Shaily smiled and had no clue her friends were watching when she leaned into him and kissed him again.
"Oh God," muttered Michelle loudly.
"Get a room," gagged Kayla. Susan had no comment but gripped her throat making gagging noises. Shaily broke her kiss with Zig Zag and glared at her friends.
"OH MY GOD! WHAT ARE YOU DOIN'!?" screamed Shaily. The other girls began to giggle uncontrolablely.
***
Squid was still cursing and marching around Brianna's room like a lunatic. Brianna stared at him and rolled her eyes. "What the hell is wrong with you?!" Brianna demanded.
"Nothing," he hissed. She heard jealousy burning in his voice.
"You're jealous?!"
"NO!"
"YES YOU ARE!"
"I'M NOT JEALOUS!" Squid shouted.
"Then what's wrong?" she asked him hoping he would calm down.
"I just don't want him near you..."
"Alan," she said grinning a little. He finally glanced at her. She stared into his dark chocolate brown eyes with her emerald green ones. "He could never take what we have away... I promise you..."
"Breaking News!" said the announcer on Brianna's TV. Squid and Brianna glanced up at the screen and watched it intently. "We have just gotten word that there was a murder eariler today downtown."
"What?" chorused Squid and Brianna.
"Today seventeen year old Marla Evans was murdered today by a switchblade fight that had happened earlier. THere is not much news on the murder or the fight that had happened. More details at eleven." continued the announcer. Brianna went white with horror remembering the events of her nightmare.
"Marla! Dammit! NO! MARLA!"
"Oh my God," Squid shouted. "She saved me though?! How'd she get-?"
"Mad Dog!!!" screamed Brianna. Squid stared.
"But-!"
"Did she go back to the fight?"
"How did you know about the fight?"
"That doesn't matter!" Brianna exclaimed. "I have a way of figuring it out. Just answer my question. Did she go back to the fight?" Squid pondered the question for a few minutes and then remembered.
"Yes," Squid answered getting a sick feeling in his stomach. Brianna sat up in her bed and grabbed her bathrobe. She put it on and got out of her bed and grabbed her outfit that she had worn when she cut herself. She marched into the bathroom and shut the door. Squid got a confused look on his face. He went to the bathroom door. "Bri, what are you doin'?"
The door opened. Brianna was in her ripped bell bottom jeans and her red tank top. The IV and blood bag were sitting in the sink and no longer hooked up to her. She walked out of the bathroom. Squid stared in awe at her. Brianna grabbed her shoes and put them on quickly. After she had done that she looked up at Squid and got the most cockiest grin he'd ever seen. "Hey Alan," she said. "We've gotta make a quick stop ok?" He nodded.
Brianna walked over ot the door and quickly shut it. "Alan could you break open that window? Please?" she asked. He nodded and knocked out her window. It feel out and landed onto the ground. Brianna ran over to the window and looked down. "Fourth floor... Hmm.. That'd be a few good feet huh?" she said talking to herself out loud. She grabbed her bed spread and tied it together and tied one end down to her bed. "Squid you go on down ok? I'll meet you outside. Thank God my room doesn't face the road or the parking lot!" she said laughing. He rolled his eyes and walked out of her room shutting the door behind him.
Brianna threw the other end of her so called "rope" out the window and grabbed a hold of it. She slowly climbed out her window and shimmied down the side of the hospital building. She came to the end and jumped off the robe and fell about two feet. Squid met her there and she led him down the streets. It was almost dusk.
"Where are we goin'?" Squid asked. She grinned again and winked at him.
"You'll see..." she replied simply. He rolled his eyes and continued to follow Brianna. She led him into some dark alleys and then to a run down building. She knocked on it and someone opened the door. It was a dirty blonde female. "Laura I've gotta get a new switchblade. Mine got taken away..." Brianna said.
"Right ok... But who's he?" Laura asked in a cold voice.
"He's with me. Trust me."
"Fine," Laura said. She let Squid and Brianna. Laura shut the door and got ahead of the two. "Welllll I'll get you another switchblade ok? I'll be right back," Laura said as she walked out of the room and into another. She came back five minutes later with a box. "Pick one."
Brianna studied each of the four blades inside the box carefully. "Hmm," she hummed.
"Do you like any?"
"This one," Brianna said picking up the third blade that had the easy button to get out the blade. Laura grinned.
"Charm you've got REAL taste I'll give you that," Laura scoffed. Brianna rolled her eyes.
"How much?" Brianna asked.
"You did enough when you helped with the job so it's on me."
"Seriously?!" Brianna asked shocked. Laura nodded and motioned her to get out.
"Now get," Laura grinned. "Before I change my mind." Brianna and Squid walked out of the run down building. Brianna stuffed the switchblade into her side pocket. Squid stared.
"What are you going to use that for?" he asked her.
"Mad Dog killed Marla right?" she asked in a logical tone.
"Yeah."
"Well when you kill a Strip... There's only one solution," Brianna added pulling the blade out again.
"Which is?"
She flipped out the blade and it glimmered in the light as her eyes roved over it and then to the sky. "This is war."