"So you guys? What should I do, I know who is blackmailing me, I know why. But what do I do?" Raven asked Chelsea and Eddie while they stood drinking hot chocolate in the kitchen.
"How about, shit, that won't work." Eddie said.
"Well hm, Raven heres the deal. Mandy has this secret over you. Ain't nothing gonna stop her, cause she hates you, cause she thinks you broke Andre and her up."
"BUT I DIDN'T!"
"Yeah, we know. But she ain't gonna believe that."
"Yeah, so I have to follow her orders for the rest of my damn life? Bullshit .."
"No, we have to figure something out."
"Duh."
---------------------------- Couples Hours later, Chelsea and Eddie had gone home to refresh and then they said they'd be back.
"Honey, this came in the mail for you."
"Oh, what is it?" Raven said with a sound of worry, fear, and saddness in her voice.
"I don't know, it's from your nannan. Are you okay honey? You sound really sad, scared, worried, and maybe depressed."
"Shit, how'd she nail all that with one sentence, damn." Raven thought to herself as she sat in her bed, looking at the box from Viv.
"Yeah mom, Im okay. Just tired, and homework. Kind of exausted."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, thanks mom."
Raven then sat up and gave her mom a big and long hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"I love you Raven, you know Im here for you."
"Yeah mom, I love you too."
"Okay, well we're all gonna go to the store, you wanna come?"
"No thanks, thanks though."
"Okay, you need anything?"
"No, thanks mom."
"Yeah, call me if you need anything, okay?"
"Kay."
Tanya still knew something was up, tired from homework and being exausted. Raven? Never Raven, it wasn't something that would ever come with Raven's territory.
-------------------- Back up in Raven's Room.
Raven decided to ignore the package, She didn't feel like unraveling 50 things of tape on the box. So she scooted it to the side, and began to clean up her room. Something to just get her moving a little.
Raven found a box under her bed.
"Oh my gosh, Raven said under her breath. It was the box Andre and her made for the two, to remind them of each other."
The box was about 5 inches tall and 6 inches wide. The inside of the box was covered with a bunch of pictures that Andre and her had taken one day, when they were bored at Raven's house.
Raven looked at some of the pictures. There was a picture of Andre and her kissing in her room, while Chelsea, Eddie, Jeff, and Chantel were there. Chelsea took the piture at such a great angle.
Raven thought back to all the memories with Andre. She began to cry, she couldn't believe her and Andre weren't together anymore. She got on her knee's, and leaned her upper half on her bed. There she prayed, hoping, asking god, to help her.
"Dear God, Please help me, I need your help, I know I have messed up in the past, I know, that I do do stuff that I shouldn't do sometimes. But please, God, he means so much to me, I don't know what to do without him. It's hurting me so much, and I know its hurting him more. Please God, help me make this right with him. Help me end this nightmare. I love you, Amen."
She fell back on to her floor on her back, she grabbed the picture of her and Andre standing together at her locker, looking at each other. She looked at it, and cried, as a tear drop fell on top the picture. She whispered, "I love you Andre Jackson, we'll be back together. I promise baby boy."
KNOCK KNCK KNOCK
Raven then remembered her mom earlier saying that she was leaving.
"Damn it!" Raven muttered as she pulled herself up and wiped her tears away, before heading downstairs to answer the door.
Raven reached the top step, she saw someone knocking at the door, who was it?
"Coming! One Sec!"
Raven opened the door, but there was no longer someone standing there.
There was an envelope sitting on the ground on top of a box of tissues. "Raven Baxter" was printed on there.
"What the fuck? Not again .." Raven began to cry.
She picked up the envelope, and the box of tissues, looked around outside to see if anyone was stalking or watching her. All she saw was the little kids across the street playing tag and jump rope.
Raven walked back in, she was afraid to open the envelope, she decided not to open it till Chelsea and Eddie got there.
"Where the hell are they anyways? Its been 3 hours."
Raven then picked up the phone and called them.
"Hey where are you guys?"
"Like a house away."
"Oh, I was wondering if you guys had went to go do something or something."
"Oh, no of course not Ray. We went to the store to go pick up some stuff, its gonna be three stooges tonight."
Raven smiled to herself. "Okay, Ill see you guys in a bit."
"Okay."
5 minutes later, Raven heard the door open.
"We're here! "
"Okay, one second you guys, Im changing, into something for comfortable. Those jeans and shirt weren't working for me right now."
Raven came downstairs in some juicy sweatpants and sweatshirt, black, with a white shirt.
"Okay"
"Okay, so anything new ?" Eddie asked?
"No. I was upstairs looking at a box of mine and Andre's stuff."
Just then Raven looked at the coffee table and saw the envelope still sitting there where she left it, sealed shut.
"But that came." Raven said while pointed at the envelope.
"Its another letter from Mandy."
"Yeah, Chelsea, or Eddie, do me a favor, open it for me. I didn't wanna open it alone, nor do I right now."
"You sure?"
"Yeah."
"Okay."
Chelsea took the job, and grabbed the note and opened it. She read the note first in her head then looked at Raven straight in the eye.
Raven knew something, something bad was in that note, and nothing food was ever gonna come from it.
"What does it say?" Eddie spoke up.
"It says that she wants you to call up Andre, tell him to meet you at school tomorrow, at 7:30am by your locker.Tell him loud and clear, that you'll never want to get back with him, so don't bother, and that you hate him."
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! NO IT CAN'T SAY THAT CHELSEA! I CAN'T HURT ANDRE LIKE THAT!"
".. Im sorry Ray."
"What the fuck?" Eddie managed to get out.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS! NO, NO, I CAN'T I WON'T! SHE CAN'T DO THIS! SHE CAN'T BE MAKING ME DO THIS! SHE JUST CAN'T! WHOS THAT EVIL! NOO, NOT ME, NOT ANDRE, NOT ANDRE!"
Raven began to cry hard, wiping her tears as her makeup began to smear. "This can't be happening. This just can't be happening. Not me, not this, not him."
".. Im so sorry Raven."
Eddie and Chelsea scooted to both sides of Raven, giving her a hug, Eddie gave her a hug and held her and Chelsea just took Raven's hand in hers. They felt so bad that Raven had to go through this.