Disclaimer~ I wish I owned the Stand By Me characters, but unfortunately I do not. Pity really, but I'm not getting paid for this, so don't sue me please!!! I have no money, I'm poor!!! Mwhahaha.okay im scaring myself, let me write this chapter before it's too late!!

Shout Outs-

Brittany~ thanx for the review!! Yeah I hate cliffhangers too, but they r just so much fun to write! Lol I'm glad you like my story!!! Its so nice to know ppl actually like my stories, it really makes me feel good ;-)

daring-fox~ yea when I re-read my fanfic, I realized my mistake w/ the Miss Guccisi, I screwed that one up.woopz.and also, Lauren Bromas is Ace Merril's little sister, but the reason they don't have the same name is because they are from 2 different fathers, they share the same mom. It'll be explained in later chapters.sorry for that little mistake....also..yeah I figured people who are raped don't shout it out to the world, but Kally's different, and she isnt perfect so somewhere inside her she wants people to maybe cut her a break bc she was raped....anywayz thanx 4 the review!!

A/n~~ ok now on to chapter 5, I'm writing this chapter its 2:21 pm and im freeeeeezing cuz my mom put the air on too low!! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ok here it goes:

Chapter 5 * When all is lost, when in the dark, there is a light*

Gordie's comforter broke Kally's fall, and she sat up, startled. Mila was standing before her, holding up a knife and a fist. Kally's heart was beating furiously, and she had no idea why Mila was doing this. Her instinct was to scream, but her Aunt wasn't home at the moment, and her Uncle was still out on a business trip. Kally looked into Mila's eyes, they possessed so much hate and cruelty, it actually frightened Kally.

"Mila," she started, trying to knock some sense into her. She backed up against Gordie's wall, trying to get out of reach. "Calm down! Now, tell me what you are doing! And where's Gordie? What the hell are you doing?"

Kally could feel a lump rise in her throat, and she was afraid she was going to vomit. All color drained from her face as Mila came ever closer, and closer. She looked a real mess. Her usual shiny, dark hair was tangled and matted, her blouse was askew, and her skirt had dirty stains on them. Her eyes had a manic glint in them, a glint Kally had never seen before.

"You bitch!" Mila screamed. "How dare you fucking touch my boyfriend! I LOVE Gordie, and you lay your filthy hands on him! Well we'll see what happens when I lay my fucking hands on your ugly face!" Mila rushed forward.

Kally, completely taken aback, dodged Mila's punch, and scrambled over Gordie's bed, just as Mila collided with the wall. She shrieked, and turned around to face Kally, blood pouring from her nose. Kally winced when she saw how a mess she was, and backed even further into the room. She tried to escape, head to the door, but Mila was too fast. She lunged on Kally and brought her down to the floor. Kally let out a blood curdling scream, and her head made contact with the wooden floor. She saw stars for a few moments, and closed her eyes. Blood was filling her mouth, and she put a hand to her lip. She was bleeding.

Mila climbed on top of Kally, her fist making contact with Kally's jaw. The pain was immense, Kally could have fainted. She was praying Mila wouldn't use the knife. Mila hit her a few more times, then started ripping pieces of Kally's hair. Kally screamed again, and attempted to shove Mila off. It was an advantage that Mila was bleeding, for it blurred her vision and Kally was able to throw Mila against Gordie's wall. She stood up and immediately felt like falling down. She held a finger above her eyebrow and felt blood. Swearing, she lunged at Mila. Mila fell flat on her face on the wooden floor, screaming and flailing her arms. Kally managed a few punches and blows to the head, and just as she snatched Mila's knife out of her hand and was going to throw it across the room, she felt a pair of strong arms grip her shoulders. The arms lifted her to her feet, and set her down on the bed. Kally looked up and found herself staring into Gordie's eyes.

His eyes were full of sorrow, anger and disappointment. He rushed to Mila and knelt beside her. She groaned and turned over, revealing several bruises and a black eye. Despite the circumstances, Kally felt oddly satisfied as Mila's eye swelled ever so bigger.

Gordie looked back over to Kally, and she was surprised that he had tears in his eyes. Surely, her own cousin would understand, stick up for her? Surely Gordie would realize that Mila had broken into his house and attempted murder? Surely Gordie would choose his cousin, family and blood over some spoiled bitch?

"Kally," he said. His voice was full of hurt and was very hoarse. "What did you do to her?"

Kally couldn't believe her ears. Gordie just didn't get it. She hadn't done anything to Mila....well she had, but if Mila hadn't tried to kill her she wouldn't be in this predicament. It was only self defense.

"Look what you did to her Kally!" Gordie said, now tears running down his brown face. "Look at her! You already punched her in school, and now this! Why, Kally? You have hurt everyone I love...you hurt Chris, you were so mean to him all this time, and look what you've done to Mila! I LOVE her, and you mutilated her!" Gordie roared in frustration.

"Gordie," Kally started. "I....you don't understand-"

She trailed off. Gordie stood up and crossed his bedroom to her. "I hate you. And you know what? I'm fucking glad you were raped! You deserved it. You're a whore, and you just shut everyone out who tries to help you. You're a fucking idiot."

The words stung Kally like a thousand knives stabbing her. She felt like screaming, like crying out to the world, like running and never, ever stopping....She wanted to die, to leave this horrible place forever. Everyone hated her, they just didn't understand her. Mila had won; she stole Chris away from her, she stole Gordie, what next? Kally couldn't take it anymore. This was it. Her own cousin, her flesh and blood, turned against her. She could've killed Mila, right then and there. She was lying on the floor, groaning in pain.

But Kally was hurting much more.

Then pain she felt was so extreme, so painful, she didn't need to cry. She couldn't cry. It was a hollow sensation; deep within her heart. She felt like someone had taken a wooden stake and drove it straight through her heart, piercing her through and through.

She couldn't even look at Gordie anymore. He could see the pain and hurt he had just caused her, and the second it had escaped his mouth, he regretted it. He had gone too far.

Kally turned and walked out of the room; and out of Gordie's life.

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She wasn't staying in that house. Not know while Mila was nursed back to health by Gordie. She couldn't take it...she needed to go somewhere, talk to someone. Her immediate thought was Lauren. Though she had only met her that day, she listened to what Kally said. She needed a friend....she felt so alone in this cold, cruel world.

Walking down the street towards Lauren's house, the crisp wind stung her face. She was furious, but most of all, she was hurt. Extremely hurt, and let down.

She turned the corner on 5th street and walked a little ways down. Kally had walked Lauren home earlier, so she knew where she lived. CastleRock wasn't that big, so it wasn't hard to find the house.

Lauren lived in a small house, white with blue shutters. It had the look of once being a new house, but the paint was peeling and the wooden shutters were broken. It looked run-down, and the swing on the porch hung lopsided. She walked up to the house and took a deep breath before knocking several times on the wooden door, with a brass 6 on it.

A young man answered the door, in his late teens. He had blonde hair, and was chewing on a tooth pick. He had a beer bottle in his hand, and his eyes were out of focus. Kally glanced uneasily at him, unsure of what to say. She expected this to be Ace Merril, Lauren's older brother.

"Um..." Kally stuttered. "Is Lauren home?" She looked sheepish, and backed up a few paces.

"Yeah," the man said. "Who're you?"

"I'm Kally," she said timidly. "I'm Lauren's friend from school. I just moved here, so I don't expect you know me?"

The man shook his head, never taking his bloodshot eyes off of her. Kally felt sorry for him; he looked like a lost soul.

"Yeah, lemme get her," he said. "Come on in."

Kally stepped uneasily in after the boy, unsure if she could trust him. He wasn't exactly rude to her, but drunks weren't Kally's typical sign of trust.

"Lauren!" he yelled, sitting down on his couch, where another boy around his age was. "Get your ass down here!"

"Coming!" came Lauren's muffled voice from the other room. She came running in, holding a baby girl (infant) in her arms. She smiled when she saw Kally. "Hey! Come on, I'm feeding Raven."

Kally nodded, and followed her into the other room. The other boy who Ace was sitting with followed her with his eyes the whole time. It made Kally uncomfortable.

"Hope my brother and his friend Eyeball didn't scare you," said Lauren as she sat down at the kitchen table, Raven on her lap. She began feeding Raven with a bottle. "That was my brother Ace. He's a good guy, really, just a little mixed up. He has a different father then me, you know. I live here with Joe and him. Joe's his dad. My mother died a while ago, and I got nowhere else to go, so I'm stuck here with Ace." After she finished explaining, she smiled at Kally.

"They were okay," she said, sitting down beside Lauren. "They didn't bother me. Awww, is this your little sister?" Kally stuck her finger out to Raven, and tickled the little baby. They infant cooed and giggled. She had raven-black hair, and Kally guessed that was where she got her name.

Lauren looked down at the floor. She suddenly became uncomfortable and reddened a bit.

"No," she said flatly. She looked up in Kally's eyes, and Kally saw they were full of hurt and sadness. "Raven..well," she gave a nervous little cough. "She's my daughter."

Kally was shocked.

"Oh," she said. "I had no idea. She's a beautiful baby."

Lauren smiled at Kally. "I guess that's another reason why people don't like me, because I had a baby last year. They all think I'm a slut. It was all my fault I got pregnant so young."

Kally didn't want to make Lauren feel uncomfortable. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to," she said kindly.

Lauren smiled even more at Kally.

"No," she said. "I need to get it out of my system. I haven't told anybody what happened that night. You don't mind, do you?"

"Hell no," she said. "Shoot."

Lauren took a deep breath, and switched Raven into her other arm.

"Well I had her when I was fourteen, and I just turned fifteen a week ago. She's only seven months. You see, I went to this party with Ace, right. I had no fucking idea what I was doing. I got drunk, typical and I met this real nice guy. He was so sweet to me, really. He said he thought I was beautiful."

Lauren's eyes filled with tears, and her voice was shaky. She cleared her throat and continued.

"I should have never listened. He was seventeen, I was only fourteen. Well one thing led to another, and before I knew it I blacked out. Later, I found out that my drink was spiked. I found out I was pregnant two weeks later."

Kally felt awful for her. "I'm so sorry Lauren. I never knew."

"It's all right," Lauren said, smiling and kissing Raven. "She's my angel, you know. I love her more than anything. I took a year off of school, but now I'm back, and during the day Joe watches her. He's so good with her, he really is. So, what's up? How come ya dropped by?"

Now it was Kally's turn to take a deep breath. Her eyes filled with tears as she remembered the vicious fight. She told Lauren all about her fight with Mila, and what Gordie said.

"She's such a bitch!" Lauren yelled, patting Raven on the back. "I hate her so much. Always have. And Gordie, well he's a fucking idiot to think that. Listen, Kally. You got me, okay? Fuck everyone else. And Chris, he's just too damn blind to see what's in front of his face. He's just a guy..their all jackasses."

Kally grinned. "I hear ya."

Lauren smiled at her.

It felt so good to finally have a friend. Kally spent another hour or two there, and they just talked and talked forever. Finally at half past ten, Kally decided to head home.

Walking home, she felt a thousand times better. Talking everything out with Lauren, it definitely made things not look so bad. She was still hurt, very hurt. But she figured it was normal, and pretty soon she'd get over it. Kally wasn't even looking where she was going, and she ran full force into none other than Chris Chambers.

She was thrown back onto the pavement, and swore as she hit her elbow. Standing up, she looked up into the face of Chris.

"Sorry," he muttered, not looking up. When he did, he blushed. "Oh, hey Kally."

She stared at him. Why the hell was he blushing? "Hey."

"What the hell happened to you?" he asked. "Your cut above your eyebrow, and your lip is all puffy."

Kally's eyes welled up in tears. "Oh, never mind. Got into a little fight, that's all."

She made a move to leave, but Chris held her back. She winced as he put a hand to her arm, where she was hit by Mila. He looked concerned, and lifted up her sleeve. When he saw the black and blue bruise, he grimaced.

"Little fight, I'm sure," he said. "What the hell happened?"

Kally snapped her arm away and glared at him.

"Why the hell does it matter to you all of a sudden?" She snapped. Secretly, his touch sent shivers up her spine. God, she loved this boy. Would he EVER know?

"I'm sorry," he said. "I just was concerned."

"Since when do you 'concern' over me?" Kally said, cockily.

He shook his head, but she swore she saw him grin. He gave her a smile, before he walked off toward his house.

Kally was utterly confused. What the hell was that? Oh well...a cool wind blew, and Kally walked home.

************ So how'd ya'll like it??? WELL LEMME KNOW!!! I know CHRIS didn't have THAT MUCH ACTION..BUT HELL! ITS A START...ALRIGHT, TATA FOR NOW!!

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