Up Against The Wall
I've tried to make this as long as I could. I've been so distracted lately. I've recently started on a novel I'd like to publish later on, because I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to get anywhere else. I doubt you would be seeing me saving the world from global warming in C-D grades... haha. And just a little recommendation: Read Gulf by Robert Westall. A bit short, but fantastic :) OBSESSIVE REVIEWS PLEASE. Oh em gee, I got like 21 reviews in a night last time. I was over the moon and Dad was reading them over my shoulder and laughing, cause your all like oh my god, evil! :)
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Brooke wanted to scream. She wanted to shout out to the world Haley's secret. But she couldn't. At least, not the world anyway. Kaylob had gone looking for her. She had to warn Haley. She had to. Picking up her phone, she quickly pushed the buttons and called Haley's phone. After a few rings, she got voice mail. She kept getting voice mail after that. The message seemed to be haunting her. She was scared. Instead of Haley's chirpy message, she could soon get a broken Haley, screaming for help. She looked around the dark alley way, suddenly getting more scared. She decided to follow Kaylob's tracks, since she let him get away anyway.
She walked along the road he took, and then when she reached the pedestrian crossing she noticed the glimmering lights from the river walk. Would he take this way? No, he wouldn't, would he? But Haley might of. Maybe Kaylob knew that too. Maybe Kaylob knew where Haley would of gone. Maybe she's too late... But Brooke didn't want to think that – she couldn't think that.
"Brooke?" Her body turned at the sound of Lucas' voice. "Aren't you suppose to be with Kaylob?" Brooke flung herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck. They stayed their for a few minutes before Lucas began to feel the wetness on his shirt.
"Brooke? What's wrong?" He asked, his voice serious.
She pulled away from his grip and showed her broken face. "Kaylob. He is a bad guy Luke."
Lucas' face suddenly turned furious. "What did he do to you?"
"He didn't do anything to me." She answered softly. "It's – it's Haley."
Lucas' mind suddenly clicked. Why she couldn't tell him about Nathan. Why sometimes she gets scared of mindless things... Why sometimes he would find bruises under once-covered skin. He felt his skin tear from his palms as his nails dug deeper into his skin. How could he have been so foolish? How could he have been so blind?
"Luke.. Say something."
"I'm such an idiot." His voice was cracked, and Brooke hugged him tight. She needed to take the pain away from him – and even if she couldn't, she could always try.
Then they both heard a scream from further up the river walk, and they both knew it was Haley's. Without hesitation, they both pulled apart ran in that direction. Brooke felt the tears fall down her face and into the cold wind. She didn't care how she looked, she only cared how Haley felt. She had only known Haley for a few days, but she had always had a secret liking towards her. The way Lucas talked about her, it was like he was describing an angel. She loved how he loved her, and wasn't jealous one bit even if she hadn't talked to Haley before that. She knew their relationship was strictly friendship and she admired that. Almost every guy Brooke had met before Lucas she had had sex with, and she was tired of it.
Lucas picked up the pass and quickly went ahead of Brooke towards their friends now stopped scream. They knew they were closer, in fact they could see some bystanders crowding around a specific point and Nathan's head soon popped out from the crowd. Lucas stopped dead in his tracks when he saw him and realised his lip was bleeding; Kaylob attacked Nathan. Brooke stopped beside Lucas and raised an eyebrow. It wasn't everyday Nathan Scott was on the ground.
"Bitch..." Nathan muttered to himself, pressing the back of his hand against his cut lip. He looked up and saw Brooke and Lucas staring at him. He instantly felt embarrassed.
"Nathan?" Brooke questioned bewildered.
Nathan was about to answer before Lucas butted in. "Where's Haley?"
Nathan looked around. "Must be with Kaylob."
"Which direction did they go?" He asked angrily.
Nathan shrugged and pointed left of them. "That way, I think." Lucas didn't have time for thinking, he shot straight in that direction leaving a confused Nathan. "What the hell is going on Brooke?"
But before she could answer, there was Haley's voice again, and it wasn't far away either.
"Luke! Watch out!"
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As soon as Kaylob had pulled Haley out of the light, and into a nearby park, he pinned her against a tree and repeatedly hit her in the stomach. With each blow she slowly sunk down to the floor and once she was fully lying down, he started to kick her, increasing the pace and force of each blow. He stopped when there was a bone-crunching snap. Haley let out a soft scream and clutched her stomach. It was something she had never felt before: he was getting more aggressive now.
"I was wondering how long it was going to take me to take a bone." Kaylob muttered softly, kneeling down beside her. "I was starting to think I was getting weaker."
Haley shut her eyes shut, her tears sliding down her cheek. "Why are you doing this to me?" She's been meaning to ask that question for a long time, but she's always been scared. Scared of what he could do. She opened her eyes again and noticed he was now holding a shiny object.
"'Cause your a hoe." He shrugged, trailing the knife over her shoulder, tearing the fabric on her shirt and leaving a clean, red cut. "You are, you know that? You cheated on me Haley."
She let out a broken sob. "I- I'm sorry!"
Kaylob stood angrily from the ground. "Sorry's not good enough!"
She was sure he was going to kill her then and there, but instead she saw a shadow jump onto him and punch him furiously. Clutching her stomach still, she sat up and leaned against the tree to get a better look. Squinting her eyes, she noticed Lucas' blond hair stand out. She also noticed Kaylob's knife.
"Lucas! Look out!"
But it was all too late.
The fight came to a abrupt stop. Haley let out a choked sob as she watched the knife being pulled out of Lucas flicker in the moonlight. He dropped to the ground like a brick, but she could still hear his attempts to get as much air in. She then heard choking, and was sure it was his attempt to get the blood out of his throat.
"Look what your doing to your friends, Hales..." Kaylob started, standing above her, his knife at his hip – at her head. "Look what your doing to yourself."
"Lucas!?" Brooke's hasty voice came from behind him, he turned to face her but she was now at the ground, holding her palms against his taunt stomach. "Luke... Oh my God, Luke..."
His voice was barely a whisper, but echoed through the two girls heads. Possibly his last ever word. "Brooke..."
Haley rolled herself out of the way as Kaylob's body was backed against the tree when Nathan used all his strength to push Kaylob against the tree and repeatedly hit him in the upper body area. One of his hands moved to Kaylob's wrist which held the knife, holding it back from attack. Haley began to take big, panted breaths.
"Haley!" Nathan shouted mid-fight. "Help Brooke!" Turning her head away from the assault, she noticed that Brooke had her head in Lucas' chest, sobbing loudly into it. She painfully crawled her way over to them.
"Brooke..." She said softly, shaking her friend. "We need to call someone."
Her crying stopped immediately and then sat back up, her hands still situated on his chest. Her face bloody from his blood. Haley cringed. "Right. Your right." She agreed, reaching into her back pocket and grabbing her phone. Her hands were shaking violently and it took a while to dial those three little numbers.
"My name is Brooke Davis and I am at south end of Water Street... Please hurry my boyfriend he... he's been stabbed..." Brooke's eyes made her way over to Haley, who was staring at Lucas blankly, her arms clutched around her stomach. "Haley... your bleeding."
"What?" She looked over to her shoulder where Kaylob's knife has ripped through the fabric and left a clean cut along it. "It's fine... Luke ne-needs an ambulance..." She said, her breathing becoming more ragged than before.
"Haley?" Brooke said in a questioning tone, her free hand on Haley's unhurt shoulder. Although before she could answer, she fell to the ground beside Lucas like a light. "Holy crap. Make that two ambulances... Haley's just passed out... She's – she's been attacked."
"Your never going to have Haley!" Kaylob spat in Nathan's face. Nathan had his arms at his throat, holding him back firmly. The knife was dropped to the floor but that didn't stop the threat. "Not if I can help it."
Nathan angrily elbowed him. "I might not have Haley, but neither are you." Nathan had to admit it. He'd fallen for her. It all started out as a plan to defeat his loser brother, but it had turned into much, much more. Out of the blue, Kaylob headbutted Nathan, causing him to step back a few feet. He became more alarmed when sirens could be heard, and took off without another word.
Although dazed from the attack, Nathan's ears pin pointed Brooke's pleas. "Haley... Haley please wake up..." There was a loud sob. "Luke... Luke!" Her voice became more desperate.
Situating himself beside Haley, he took her motionless hand in his, squeezing it tight and bringing it to his face. The sound of tires came to a screeching stop and pairs of footsteps could be heard more clearly. The paramedics rushed to their sides and push the two witnesses out of the way, putting Lucas and Haley on stretchers and quickly pushing them to what could be a more darker, harder life or death itself.
Nathan spoke first, breaking the thick silence. "It's my fault. I shouldn't of kissed her."
"I should of stopped Kaylob..." Brooke paused. "Wait, you kissed her?"
"It was that stupid goodnight kiss..." He spoke quietly, his eyes still fixated on the ambulances, now heading away. "I shouldn't of mentioned it. It's my fault."
"No it's not. It's mine." She answered back, slowly moving away. "C'mon, we better follow them."
His eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean you should of stopped him? You knew about this?" His words made her stop in her tracks, and slowly turning around to face him, he noticed the small nod she gave him. "Brooke..."
"I- I've only known about it.. for a few days.." She spoke quietly, but the words were clear. She hadn't meant to get this far. Without thinking, Nathan immediately took his brother's girlfriend in his arms to give her the hope and comfort she needed. He was sure he was going to break down, but he couldn't. He looked onward behind her shoulder, in search for anything. Anything to make him feel. But he knew that he wouldn't be able to find that in the river walk, he could only find that in one of the ambulances that just took off.