Even though I was terrified of the spot behind the school, I couldn't make my muscles move to get away from the same spot I had been found in.
Ethan had stopped kicking the man a little while ago, and now just sat off to the side of him, glaring at the body.
There was a deadly quiet silence that was broken only by my occasional broken sob.
I had calmed down a little, and kept my head rested on my knees, trying to forget the sensation of those hands on my body, just roaming freely…
There was a groan from the body on the ground.
I leapt up from where I was sitting and scrambled behind the transformer, feeling my heart beat faster, pumping cold blood.
Ethan looked over at me and mouthed "Stay hidden". I nodded and backed out of sight, trying to keep my breathing from coming in loud gasps.
"My head…" came a rough and shaky voice.
"You alright, pal?" came Ethan.
Pal? What the hell was he thinking?
I peaked around the side, where Ethan was mouthing franticly "Just go with it". I went back behind, sitting in my accustomed fetal position, and listened, trying to convince myself that I was safe for the moment.
"Man, some asshole came and… Holy shit! Why are tryin' tuh help me when just a minute before you wanted me dead?"
"Instinct. That was before I saw who that bitch was. Turns out that was my ex. If I had known I would've let you be."
Ethan calling me a bitch felt like a blow to the face, and it hurt, even though I knew that he was lying.
"Well where'd she go? I need to finish 'er off."
"I took over after I realized who she was, and she managed to escape when I had my back turned."
I shuddered to think what he meant by 'took over'
"Lemme guess, virgin?"
"Yeah, she wouldn't let me touch her when we were goin' out."
"I see why you dumped her; damn whore who don't want tuh have a good fuckin'."
I squirmed uncomfortably at the thought of what would have happened if Ethan hadn't come.
"You're telling me… So how'd you get her?"
"Well," the man seemed completely comfortable now, and was evidently warming up to the fake Ethan "I waited outside the doors for a while, waiting for some girl to come out, and then that chick in the tutu comes out all hot an' bothered, and I drug 'er over here; and lemme tell you, she put up a good fight 'fore I got 'er in the stomach tuh stop movin', and started out by feelin' around, you know?
"An', man, you shoulda seen the look in 'er eyes when I went under 'er skirt…"
There was a sickening thud from where the voices had been.
Ethan walked out from behind the transformer with his fists clenched so tight his knuckles were white.
"Katey, I'm sorry you had to hear that…" He said softly.
I closed my eyes and looked down at the ground, yet again trying to force away the feeling of those rough hands wandering south of my naval.
I looked back up with tears in my eyes, and screamed, flinging myself back.
The man was right behind Ethan, looking murderous.
Before Ethan could turn, the man slammed him against the transformer, knocking him out.
"We have some unfinished business, ho."
I crawled backwards until I felt brick behind me.
Damn transformer place… only about seven by seven feet…
He lunged at me, grabbing my arm.
"Let me go! Let me GO!" I yelled, trying to pull my arm away.
"You're not getting away from me this time!" He grunted.
He roughly pulled off my costume, flinging it away from me; exposing me to the night air again, and began undoing his jeans.
While he was working on his pants, and jerked myself away from him, falling flat on my stomach on the dewy grass.
I jumped up and started to run, but the man caught me around my waist, pulling me to the ground.
He straddled my arms to my sides, keeping me down while he fumbled with his zipper, trying to hold me down with one hand and undo himself with the other.
I twisted my head to where Ethan was lying immobile on the ground, and got the unmistakable feeling of déjà vu.
I had been in this situation before; in Paris, when Fredrick was attacking me for the second time…
I set my jaw and grunted as I kicked my knee up to the seam of the man's pants.
The kick had the desired effect, and he fell back, clutching himself in pain.
I sat up over him and punched him in the jaw hard, and he moaned in pain again, trying to get back up.
I leapt to my feet and kicked him as hard as I could win the ribs, arms and middle of his legs as many times I could.
"It's not your night." I said, standing over him menacingly.
He reached out a hand and made a grab for my legs, but I was too quick for him; I dodged his arm and stomped on it.
"Say goodnight, bastard." I said before I gave his head a hard kick, knocking him out.
I stepped back, observed his already bruised and slightly bloody body, and gave him another kick just to make sure before I hurried over to Ethan.
"Ethan, Ethan, wake up! Wake up!" I said, shaking his shoulders.
His eyes slowly opened, "Katey?" he asked dimly, and them his eyes widened.
"Katey!" He glanced down from my face, and immediately jerked his eyes back up.
I gasped. I didn't have me costume on!
I flung my arms over myself and sprinted to where it was lying abandoned in the grass, pulling it on as fast as I could.
I flushed red when I came back to Ethan, still covering myself with my arms.
I looked down to the ground, unwilling to meet Ethan's eyes.
Oh God, Ethan saw me practically naked twice tonight.
"Uh," Ethan's voice was husky, and he cleared his throat before continuing "So, are you alright?"
All of a sudden there was the sound of doors banging open, and I heard Clair's voice.
"Hey, love sick puppies, where'd you sneak off to?"
I looked up at Ethan with a panicked expression. "Don't tell, please!" I whispered. I glanced back to make sure that the body couldn't be seen, and then back at Ethan who said "Okay, I won't." softly.
"Aha!" Clair said, coming around the corner "Trying to hide from us?"
Behind her our whole group of friends was behind them, laughing triumphantly.
"See, I told you they snuck off to make out!" Brian said.
I blushed and looked down.
"See, look at her, she's blushing!" Amanda called, giggling.
"Alright missy, you've got some explaining to do!" Jenny said, grabbing my arm and leading me inside to the girl's bathroom, the rest of the girls following.
"Alright, what happened miss 'My-hair's-a-mess-and-my-costume-is-askew'?" Kelee asked, picking at my costume.
"Um, I fell?" I said, franticly trying to come up with a cover story.
"Yeah, which is exactly why you started blushing like mad when we came out." Christi said sarcastically.
"Can I help it if I'm a klutz?" I said, shrugging.
"Woman, you preformed 'Il Muto' flawlessly, don't tell me that you're a klutz." Clair said, putting her hands on her hips.
"Tell us what happened! All we know is that you left to 'cool off' and then you were gone for a while, so Ethan left, and then you two were gone for what seemed like forever, so we go outside and see you two, you red as a tomato and his looking anywhere but at you."
That's because he knows what I look like without my costume on, I thought, remembering how he looked when he first came and found me, and the second time when I was right up in his face. Oh man, it was so embarrassing.
"So… what happened?" Abby asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Uh… when…" I was cut off by knocking on the bathroom door.
"Girls, get out of there! We found a body!" Kurt's voice came through the wood.
I paled. Oh God, they found him…
"A body?" Screeched Amanda, Jenny and Kelee at the same time.
"Get out here!" He yelled, and we opened the door, pouring out of the bathroom.
He was already going back outside and we sprinted after him, all except me trying to get him to tell us what he meant.
He skidded to a stop on the side of the transformer, and when we caught up, the girls gasped in surprise.
And hey, if I hadn't been the one that beat him I would be gasping at the sight of a battered and bloody body lying on the ground.
I looked down at my slippers and had to bite my lip from yelling.
I had blood on them. And not just any blood, either; it was the blood of the man lying in front of us. I tried to wipe them off on the ground, but the blood had already dried.
"Oh my God…" whispered Abby, her hands covering her mouth.
I knew that to keep up my act I should have at least attempted to look shocked or surprised, but I just couldn't.
That idiot was going to rape me; and I couldn't even pretend to feel bad for the bastard.
"Katey, did…" Clair began, but stopped as she saw the expression on my face. I hadn't even noticed that I had been glaring at the body on the ground, and I realized too late that I should have kept my face still, if not shocked or surprised. "What's with that expression?" She asked, a hint of suspicion showing on her face.
"What? What expression?" I said, trying to sound innocent.
"That one, the one where you looked like… hang on… How did you two" she pointed to Ethan and I "not see him?"
"We didn't come back here." Ethan said quickly.
"But you still should have seen him from in front of the transformer; we did." Aaron said, sounding suspicious.
I felt like I was being cornered, but I stood my ground.
"Well, we weren't exactly keeping watch for any mangled bodies." I said defensively.
"Then what were you two doing over here?" Zach asked.
There was a pause before Ethan said roughly "Is it any of your business as to what we were doing?"
Great, now he's making it sound like we were making out or something.
"Ethan, this guy is practically beaten to death, and you two were the only ones out here." Brad said accusingly.
There was another pause before…
"Katey… is that… blood on your shoes?" Amanda sounded astonished.
I paled.
Shit…shit….shit…
"Katey, what happened." Brian asked, making it sound like a demand.
All of a sudden the man stirred and the attention shifted from me to him.
"Where is that whore!" He roared, and I backed away, terrified.
He hobbled to his feet, and, seeing the boys try and help him up, he swatted them away.
I was backing slowly away, hoping he wouldn't see me, but once again I couldn't be so lucky.
He caught sight of me and shoved the girls out of his way, and lunged for me, yelling all the while "You little bitch! You better stop before I get hold of you!"
I started running out to the parking lot, but tripped over the curb, falling on my side with a cry of pain.
With the force of the impact my neck jerked, making my head slam against the asphalt.
The guys had already begun running after the man, and with a well aimed lunge, Kurt tackled him to the ground.
I shook my head to try and get my vision strait, and then jumped up, feeling the ground below me seem to tilt this way and that.
"Katey! Oh my god!" Clair cried, running over to me and hugging me. "Please tell me what happened!" The guys were over with the man, but the rest of the girls had dashed over to me.
Too dizzy to really even care, I retold what happened, ignoring the frequent gasps and stifled screams when I told them something particularly bad.
"Don't tell anyone, don't tell…" I said, feeling my knees give out from under me as I fell back.
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Wow, that certainly was intense…
Pretty please review, ok?