Chapter nine

"The tears that stained the pavement."

"I think I'm in love with Saky" Chris whispered to Gordie as they sat at his house later that night. Gordie spat the contents of his soda onto his lap, "What!"

"I know man, but I can't think of any other way to say it!" Chris cried.

"Why, ok, yeh I kinda had a inkling that you and her had something going, but jesus man what are we going to do?" Gordie replied, a little bit uncomfortable with the conversation at hand.

"I don't know."

Sahara lolled about in the bed, stuck between Vern and Teddy. Teddy's foot lodged just under her nose.

"Geroooffff Teddy!" she squealed, pinching his meaty calf. Teddy was up in seconds "JEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSUSSSS!" he hollered, "You little….. you're lucky you're a girl!" he threatened, lying back in the bed and pulling the covers over his bare back. "Vern you fat head give me some more blankets."

"See ya boys I'm going for a walk" Sahara called, slipping on some clothes and walking down the stairs.

"Yeh good reddens!" Teddy called back.

Sahara dug her hands deep with in her coat, as the fresh wind bit at her delicate face. To get away from the cold she let her mind flow to a thought that both intrigued and frightened her; Chris.

She pictured his blue eyes looking lovingly down at her, as he held onto her as they both ran from Eyeball. Felt his heart beat against hers, tasted his skin fresh in her mouth. These feelings were driving her mad, how she could dare love Chris, how was it possible.

"Sacky!" a voice cut through the air, like knife through butter and it was terrifyingly familiar. Jerked out of her day dream, she looked up to see a sight that was a scene only from her nightmares.

"Oh God, Eyeball you…. You stay away from me!" she screamed, feeling her legs pump adrenalin as they thundered down the pavement.

"Saks, Sacky wait, SAHARA! Eyeball yelled, his long muscular legs giving him an advantage in speed.

Sahara ran, ran so fast that she could barely tell where she was going. The fear pumped in her ears like blood to the heart. She was going to lose the battle, she felt it already. As she rounded the corner and jumped the knee high wooden fence into a field beyond she felt his arms close in around her hips, felt his weight pull her down, and heard her body hit the ground.

"Oh God" she winced, spitting out the water logged soil, "No please" she tried to turn herself onto her stomach and crawl away. But Eyeball recovered faster and in a second had her pinned to the ground, his body on hers, the weight anchoring her into the grass.

"Sahara listen to me, I won't hurt you!" He screamed at her, desperately holding her wrists as she writhed under his fearsome grip.

"You pile of shit get your fucking hands of me!" she spat back. "Just because I'm in love with your brother, you're pathetic you know. Can't get anyone your own age so you try for me!"

In the few minutes that these words had an impact on Eyeball, Sahara managed to kick her legs up and propel Eyeball off her.

Hauling herself up, she ran past him so fast that she sent clumps of loose dirt up behind her.

"Oh jesus!" she panted, pumping her arms and willing her legs to run at a faster pace.

"Sahara!" she heard her name, her heart sank and her legs faltered with fear. With this mistake she gave Eyeball the opportunity to catch up to her.

"Help!" Shahara shrieked, in one last ditch attempt to save herself, "HELP, SOME ONE PLEASE!"

A hand wrapped itself around her mouth to suppress her cries, as she was thrust onto the side of a car.

"Sahara, stop it, it's me, Eyeball, I love you" he urged, pinning her arms back.

"Don't you say that, don't you dare say that!" she cried, struggling with all her being.

"How can you not love me, how can you love him and not me"

"You can even ask that, look at you you're nothing but no good white trash. Chris is caring, ambitious, loving"

"All I am is you, you're my everything" he whispered, leaning in to kiss her.

"Fuck off! Where did you get that line, of a cereal carton?"

"Sahara!" he yelled, clearly hurt by her venomous words.

So afraid of were this conversation would lead to Sahara knew she would have to act now. Struggling for the strength she rammed her leg so hard into Eyeballs crotch she almost felt the pain herself. Free from her prison, she flew like a caged bird freed, down the street, to the Chamber's.

Chris jammed on his aging sneakers, sitting on the porch of Gordie's house he yelled good bye and headed home.

Sahara flung herself down on the porch, refusing to cry, refusing to let him win. Fisting the door she called out Chris's name, when no answer came she screamed louder, louder and louder until even her ears couldn't take the sound.

Chris rounded the corner, only to be welcomed by wails coming from beside his house. Drawing closer his heart raced as the figure, silhouetted by the dying sun was revealed as Sahara.

"Oh no!" he cried, racing over to her.

Once more hands closed in around Sahara, but this time she would not go down with out a fight. Kicking, biting and tearing at anything that she came into contact with, she felt a heart beating relentless beside her.

"SACKY, SAKS IT'S ME CHRIS!" Chris cried, holding her tighter.

Sahara turned to face her captor, her eyes filling with tears, "Oh chris, look what he's done to me" she wept, bringing her arms around his neck.

"Oh my baby, oh god, did he touch you? Chris whispered, stroking her back.

"He tried to, he tried to make me love him, but when I said I loved you he got angry, so angry!" she whimpered.

In surprise Chris pulled her away, looking shocked into her eyes. She stared back realizing her words, realizing the effect that they had.

"I..I.!" she stammered, tearing away from his grip and running away.

"Sahara, Sacks wait, wait for me!" he cried, but all that was left of her was the tears that stained the pavement.

Sweetntinyangel: thanks heaps for your review, yeh I love the DVD, I've got the special edition so it's got the stand by me video clip with River and Wil (Gordie). I'm more of a Chris person myself, just because I like bad boys with a soft center! LoL.

GetARoom: Thanks for staying loyal to this story, your reviews really help me write. I hope your sisters' wedding was awesome!

Dark Celeste: Just like Get A Room I want to thank you for being so loyal to this story and always coming back to it, and reading and reviewing it. GRRR I hate exams too, they make me want to CRY lol, please update your story I can't wait to read more!

HellGirlAngel: thanks for reviewing my fic, I really like your one I hope you'll keep at it. I'll update very soon!

Kinky Finklestein: your review was very kind, and yes Teddy will be making a bit more of an appearance in Chapters to come. So keep reading and reviewing!

Roxie: hey wow what a coincidence my best bud is called roxie but she spells it with a Y instead of IE. Sorry I took so long to update, hope you haven't died! Lol thanks heaps for your review!

VedGirl201: Yes Sahara is very pretty, and she's tall about 5'8 and well built (but not chubby, just healthy looking). Any way thanks for your TWO reviews they show you really like the story, I will definitely update soon!