"... inside she was screaming mad with all that happened, everything wanting nothing more than a dream, or rather, nightmare. Worst nightmare that she ever had ... "
After a long morning visiting their uncles grandparents, the Tennysons just wanted to relax and spend sometime together, only the three: Frank, Lily and their daughter, Gwen. The three sat on the sofa and asked Gwen to choose any kind of movie. Frank and Lily did not like much the choice ... Twilight. A romantic movie that both of them have never heard about. Gwen tried to watch the movie many times but never could be able to do so, every time she tried to, something happened, like an emergency, or an unexpected visit of the Lily's parents. But not this time! This time she would watch this movie!
As the movie went on, Gwen got more entertained on the film, her mother, who thought the movie was a total nonsense, did not let her eyes go off of the screen - the film proved quite the contrary to her, while Frank almost fell asleep. .. Movies like that were never what he liked. He sighed ... How he missed the presence of Ken ... A male mind...
When the movie ended, Frank gave thanks God and got his newspaper that was ready to be read on the canter-table in the room. Gwen's mother turned off the TV screen and started talking about the movie with her daughter. The two began to say about how Edward Cullen was the most beautiful among the other vampires, and about the failures of dating one.
Meanwhile, outside the house, Kevin parked his Camaro in front of the house without making too much noise. He thought of ringing the bell, but thought better not. The last time he went to get Gwen to go meet with Ben at Mr. Smoothy it was her father who attended, and let's say that he was not so hospitable in the way that Kevin thought he would be. Better look through the window before. Kevin approached the window that gave him the vision of the large living-room of the house and saw Gwen with her mother sitting beside her, while her father sat on her left reading a newspaper. He thought it would be better to go talk to Gwen another time; no way would he take an hour of interrogation and lessons of good-manners from Gwen's parents ... Again. Before going away, he heard a word that made him get curious to know what they were talking about.
"Well, dating a vampire is not a good choice..." Lily said laughing.
"Anh... I also think that" Gwen replied.
"But I think that Edward is mature enough, sensitive, and intelligent. The perfect guy!
"Yeah... Perfect" Gwen said with a sigh, she looked to the nothing as if dreaming about something; Kevin tried to read her thoughts looking into her eyes through the glass of the window.
Gwen's mother continued to speak:
"Imagine you marry a guy like that?"
"What?" Gwen said a little scared because of the "new" topic of conversation.
Kevin was now totally interested in what they were talking about.
"I mean... Not a vampire, of course... But a man that is like him. Intelligent, educated ..."
"Handsome."
"Yes, well. What I mean is that it is very important if you marry a guy who cares about your well-being. Like this Edward. He's as I said before, with a good structure, intelligent, rich..."
"Mom…!" Now Gwen was annoyed. Why does her mother always have to keep doing this? Many times she acted in a way so...Arrogant.
"Sorry my dear... But this is true! I and your father want the best for you, this is all. Isn't this Frank?"
"Yep, that's what your mother said" her father said, not paying attention in the conversation. Lily turned her attention to Gwen.
"I do not want you to marry a simple man. Especially with boys as ... What is the name of that boy?"
"Who…? Kevin?" Kevin almost jumped when he heard his name.
"Yes!"
"But wait! What is that supposed to mean?" Gwen was outraged by what she heard, as if she was being prohibited from breathing.
"He is not a good influence for you, honey!"
Gwen said nothing for a while. At first she wanted to answer all her arguments, but thought better not. She would not be responding to her mother all night, to lead to a fight, where surely she would be grounded. And the worst! She could not even see Kevin... And Ben too, but this was a case apart. Her mother continued:
"That boy is rude, violent, and has a record in the form of Plumbers, if I am right of the name..."
"Mom…! He is my friend!"
"I hope you do not pass it! I do not want you dating that boy! Once I was talking by phone to the mother of one of your colleagues of your school... And she told me that he hurted the feelings of her daughter."
"What! Who's mother?"
"Of a girl named... Mary."
"Ah..." Mary: the most annoying girl in the whole school, an idiot that doesn't leave Gwen alone since they were ten-years-old. Peroxide blonde, mixed with sun-tanned skin and a beautiful liposuction. Once Kevin was in her school giving Gwen a ride and Mary began to flirt with him. Unfortunately, Kevin fell in her trap and... He stayed with her for a while. Then he finishes with her. According to Kevin, Mary was "a pain in the ass", she said she was in a serious relationship with him for everyone. Since they hadn't really started dating, Mary must have said it to see the closeness that Kevin had to Gwen, and leave Gwen hurt enough to give up on Kevin, but it didn't work the way Mary wanted.
"I'm telling you my daughter. He's is not a good choice ... He does not deserve you...
That made Gwen turns red."
Kevin could not believe in what he was hearing... He did not want to hear a conversation like that, where the girl's mother that he liked squeezes him like a bug, and her daughter did not even give support. He went to his car to leave. Without seeing what happened next:
"MOM, that's enough! This is a subject in which I decide! You do not know Kevin right to understand who he is for real!" Then she went upstairs stomping her feet with force and then closed and locked the door of her bedroom. In the living-room, left her mother and father confused.
"Damn!" Kevin slammed the driver's door with the hand that wasn't holding the steering wheel. Luckily the door did not break. What happened there? Why was he feeling this way? Sure he was a little bit rebellious, but ... He was trying to change. And he was changing because of her. At first he thought it was just a crush on her. But then he saw that it was more than that ... When he realized that he wanted to convince himself that this was not what he felt, and tried to convince up with that girl, Mary. But he failed... Whenever he was near that girl he saw someone else, he then dumped her. When it was time to answer to Gwen's question he invented the lamest excuse that he could have ever given...
"She was a pain in the ass."
Of course she was in the end, but it was not the real reason he finished with her.
Kevin examined what he had been thinking, and realized how much he was still insensitive and irresponsible.
Maybe ... Gwen's mother was right. Maybe it was better to finish with her, if one day they had really started something. It was the best thing to do... Kevin liked her a lot. The only was: he did not deserve Gwen.
Gwen lay on her bed with her belly facing the blankets; she hugged her pillow and looked to the nothing, thoughtfully. Was she too rude with her mother? But she was very insensitive of her part ... Talking about things she did not even know about Kevin! Of course she was talking this for her sake and that it was a little truth ... Since Gwen knew him, Kevin was always a womanizer. He took advantage of Gwen to give an excuse to go to her school to see the girls there. At least that was what it seemed. Every time he came to give a ride to her house, he came with a different type of male fragrance. As if trying to impress someone... And every time she asked him, he pretended not to hear and changed the subject of the conversation. And finally it happened to him being Mary's target. He gave up so fast to stay with her and made Gwen get a little scared, as if he was desperate for it to happen; every time he left Gwen at her home he was going to met that girl and the worst: was that when they were alone, Kevin could not stop talking about Mary... He seemed not to know how it hurts inside. Several times she went to her room saying she was going to do homework and locked herself in there just to cry and go back the other day saying that she was fine as if nothing had happened.
Now that the two finally managed to get "together", her mother came up with this idea of getting away from Kevin. No way!
Gwen got up, wiping the tears from her cheek. She went to her closet and searched in one of her drawers, one thing that proved how much he liked her. A small necklace made of gold with a pendant that opened revealing a picture of a couple, she and Kevin, when they were walking on the pier along with Julie and Ben. That was one of the best days of her life. She enjoyed it, especially at the time that Kevin pulled away in a manner protective of the boy's tent of kisses. How did he say?
"Hey! Want to win a free kiss?"
Kevin pulled her back and said:
"She already has enough."
'I think I should not be feeling this way...' Gwen thought. Tomorrow she would go out with Ben and Kevin to Mr. Smoothy. Gwen grabbed her pajamas, dressed it and lay in her bed, tired ...
'Tomorrow, everything will be different ...' she smiled. "Kevin"
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The next day, Gwen has woken up in a jump. She grabbed her clothes in the closet and went to the bathroom. After she left the she shower, and dressed in normal clothes: long-sleeved white shirt, with another long-sleeved on it, but it was pink; black skirt, wine-colored panty hose and black formal shoes. She put some makeup and held her hair in a tight ponytail.
When finished, tidied the bathroom, came out and went to her room to pick up the phone and her Plumber badge, put them in the pocket of her skirt. She was close to the door when she saw upon her bed the little gold pendant. She smiled. Gwen slept with that necklace all night, as if afraid that the pendant created legs and were gone, along with Kevin's feelings for her. Gwen took the necklace, put it in the neck, and concealed it beneath the collar of the shirt to save her time from the curiosity of the mother.
Gwen went downstairs, excited, trying to pretend that nothing happened last night between her and her mother. In this she was good: pretend that nothing happened. She trained a lot every time she saw Kevin with that stupid girl.
She drove herself to the kitchen. There she saw her mother preparing the table, while her father was sitting in a chair, reading his usual newspaper with a cup of hot coffee in one of his hand. In the small rounded table there were always a banquet that her mother prepared, she was one of the best cooks in the city, and this was proven when she did a cooking contest at the annual fair of the city, she won the first place, even her omelets had a different and special taste, today the "banquet" was: a plate full of pancakes, with plenty of sweet coverage on top of them, toasted bread with melted butter, a chocolate cake and coffee with hot milk.
Gwen looked at Lily who was putting a cup of tea for herself. The two stared to each other for a while without saying anything. After a time the mother gave her usual smile for her daughter, Gwen also smiled and ran to kiss the cheek of the mother. Then she sat up and attacked the maximum that she could, she drunk her coffee with milk once, ate two pancakes and a toast; when she finished she wiped her mouth with a napkin, stood up, kissed her mother and father and climbed the stairs to brush her teeth. A while later she came down the stairs, and when she opened the door her mother said:
"Where are you going, dear?"
"I'll be at Mr. Smoothy with Ben!"
"Right... Call me to say what time you are going to come back!"
"OK! I love you!"
Then she closed the door and walked to the favorite restaurant of her cousin. Mr. Smoothy was a bit far from where Gwen lived, generally Kevin escorted her to go there, but he always called for her before coming to pick her up. As he didn't call her this time, Gwen thought it would be better to do not wait him.
She looked to the sky. 'I should have brought an umbrella!' The weather was getting kind of cloudy; it could rain any time. Gwen thought it would be better to walk faster.
Arriving at the parking lot, she saw between the cars a green Camaro with horizontal black stripes. Kevin had already arrived. And Ben should have been there, he was always the first to arrive when their meetings had gingering juice mixed with chocolate and mint on the middle. Gwen always thought Ben was a complete retarded with these ridiculous vices by disgusting and tasteless juices.
She had never heard of chocolate juice, starting! At least until she met Mr. Smoothy.
Gwen began to feel little drops of water tingle against her face... She arrived just in time. The red-haired girl ran up inside the cafeteria, it was a little crowded. She began to walk among the tables and look around the place to see where her cousin and Kevin were. She spotted a brown-haired head facing backwards, and in front of the head in the other bank of the same table, she saw a boy with black hair and pale skin: Ben and Kevin. She walked up there. The first to notice her was Kevin. Earlier, Gwen looked into his eyes and automatically smiled. A smile that she thought it would be returned, but he thought wrong. Kevin just ignored Gwen's smile and turned his face as if he had not seen her. Gwen was frozen for a while. 'What the...?' Did she do something wrong? She looked at her face seeing at the reflection of the window. Nothing wrong ... She was not so wet, the little makeup she had put on her face was not blurred.
Gwen returned on walking pretending to have not seen what Kevin had done and she became convinced that it was just a mere imagination of her head. She stopped at the side of the table which did not give to the window, and leaned her hands on the table.
"Hi, Gwen…" Ben said, pulling the straw of an empty cup to put in another full cup of juice.
"Hi..." Gwen looked at the table where he was supporting his hands and saw a stack of plastic cups that had previously juices in various tastes. They could only be from Ben, because the smell reminded juice of sesame, mint, orange and strawberry, all mixed with a smell of greasy chips, topped with cheddar cheese "Seriously ..." She continued to speak for Ben as he finished his last strawberry juice "How many juice you took just now?"
"Anh... Let me see... This here is the second request I make..."
"That was a rhetorical question! It was not for you to answer... But" she said changing the subject "and your allowance? Didn't you say you were going to save it?" Ben did not say anything just looked at the rest of drinking juice "This is not a rhetorical question, Ben. This time is for you to answer..."
"Oh! Sorry!"
"Jeez..." Gwen sighed.
"I decided to make a super application today, because it is Kevin's birthday" Gwen got unbalanced... Kevin's Birthday! She forgot it! Ben continued without realizing what happened to Gwen "I was going to pay a lot of juices for him, but he did not want ... So I took everything to me."
"Ah... Ok." Gwen just said that.
Ben let out a big burp after finishing his last juice; he stood up, took the entire empty plastic cup to throw them away and said:
"I'll get more ... Wanna something, Gwen?"
"Ah... Me? I want a medium orange juice..." She replied.
"Ooooooook…!" He ran from there straight to the trash throw the plastic cups, and then he went to the cashier to buy more juices.
Gwen stood for a while, watching Kevin. Expecting something from him... A smile... Anything! Anything to prove her that what he did at the time she entered in the cafeteria was just her imagination! But he did nothing. Neither moved... He did not look into her eyes, and did not spoke to her. Gwen sat where Ben was to stay in front of Kevin. He did not look into her eyes.
'Come on!' She thought, 'Say something!'
"Hi..." She said. 'Great!'
Kevin turned his face to her only to return the "Hi" and then turned his face back to the window.
"Well..." Has he got angry at her because she forgot his birthday? She had to invent an excuse "I bought your gift... But I got busy and... I forgot to bring it..."
"Okay... No need" He replied in an indifferent way. Gwen's eyes widened. Was he the same Kevin she knew? He always accepted the gifts they gave him, always. And he gets sad when he doesn't receive, as a child.
Gwen cleared her throat as if trying to throw out her nervousness.
"I..." She tried to speak, but Kevin interrupted.
"Listen, Gwen" he turned to face her. Gwen wanted to feel relieved to see Kevin's face, but felt even more nervous... His face was serious. He went on "I want to tell you something ... I was thinking for quite a while. "
"W... What?"
Kevin paused for a moment, it was being difficult.
"I think the best... The best would be if we both break up..."
Gwen gasped. In her thoughts she was screaming in terror.
"Break up...?" Break up something they never started well...
"Yeah..."
"Why…?" She said. Her eyes were terrified.
"Actually... I do not even know if we two started... Something..."
"Why do you want to break up?" Now she was a little calm, trying not to lose her head.
Kevin looked around.
"I think it won't work..."
Gwen's voice went dead again.
"I think... I think you and... I... We should just be ... Friends and that's all."
"Kevin ... Are you kidding me?" She looked at him trying to smile, hoping he began to laugh at his own joke, he did not.
"I'm not" this time he looked at her. His eyes were determined.
"Is that me?" She asked, feeling like crying. She tried to ignore the look of Kevin for her.
"What?"
"Tell me why..."
Kevin sighed ... This was being much more difficult than he thought.
"I..." 'Lie!' A voice came into his head 'Lie!' "I do not feel what I felt for you before."
That hurts... A lot.
"Right..." She rose from the table "I think ..." Gwen's voice was failing, but she got interrupted by Ben getting excited with two trays of cups of juice. Gwen felt relieved; she sat back in the corner of the table and watched the drops of water falling outside of the cafeteria. She sighed trying to calm her thoughts in her mind.
"Here it is: Orange juice for you, Gwen!" Ben stretched out his hand to give it its juice.
"Oh! Thank you!" She says with a fake smile.
Gwen took the juice and started to give small sips to not choke on her own hid hiccups.
Kevin just noticed on the corner of his eyes what Gwen did. He hurt her very much. But he was worse and even more for being the cause of what she was suffering.
Ben started talking to Kevin about the new video-game Sumo Slammers II, and as it was more difficult to handle the player with the joystick. Kevin did not pay any attention as he spoke, he was just thinking of Gwen and what he did to her trying to remember why he said that.
Ben began to speak more than a normal human being could. Kevin heard only bits:
"Julie ... Smoothy ... Mixed ... Jelly ... Sumo ... Slammers"
Gwen was trying to hold her tears. Did Kevin break up with her just because everything he felt for her was a lie? She did not believe what he said... He wanted to end it because he did not like her anymore... It could be true, but not the real cause he did not want dating her anymore. That's because... Gwen held her sobs some more... 'Stop...' she said to the voice in her head that seemed to be there just to hurt her even more, while Ben was talking louder, now about the test of Physics:
"The teacher decided to revise everything we learned in eighth grade, ya know?"
He thinks you are inferior to him...
'Stop ...'
"I knew nothing of the tests..."
He did not tell the truth: he did not want you to be hurt even more!
'So why am I here shattered by what he said...?'
"Thermal expansion was the worst!..."
Do you want that he comes back to that girl in your school? Must have been because of her, he finished with you...
'Please... Stop it!'
Gwen lowered her head and put her hands on the side of her neck...
"I just knew that the expansion of the iron..."
That girl is better than you... Gotta admit...
Gwen clenched her fists as if it were a way to escape the pain I felt.
'Not true...'
She squeezed a little more her hands until she felt a small pendant around her neck... The medallion that Kevin gave her...
Still wearing that? It is better to return to him so he can take off the photo in there and then gives the medallion to another girl, which surely will make him happy ... One thing you could not do ...
'Enough... Please...'
"That was a lot harder than I thought, but luckily I've seen that Julie wanted me to pass the answer... I am very lucky to have her!"
You have to admit ... He never liked you the same way that you thought you liked him! Never!
"SHUT UP!"
Gwen got up. She took the tray full of juice that Ben brought and thrust it, hitting her cousin, who got all wet. She peered out between him and the table to leave. After that she ran off without paying attention for the looks of other peoples. She left the cafeteria facing the street and the rain. Ben was confused... He searched for a napkin to clean himself... Kevin was just watching... Looking to the door where Gwen had left feeling like a total and complete idiot for having caused it.
"What was that?" Ben said cleaning himself with the napkin.
"I do not know..." Kevin lied.
Gwen ran through the rain being finally able to cry. That seemed like a novel... She acted in a way so ridiculous, and cashed in someone who did not know for sure what was happening. But she would ask apologize for him later. Now, what occupied her mind was not her cousin, but Kevin. Everything that happened inside that cafeteria was stored in her mind, everything. And that was what she wanted to forget. But she could not.
Her clothes were now all wet. Her hair was stuck in her face and her makeup was all blurry because of her tears.
After running a little longer, she came home, panting from running. She searched for the key and opened the front door. Her mother and father were in the room watching TV.
"Gwen?" Her mother turned her face to see her daughter and was choked by the state of the daughter
"Oh… Gosh…!" She got up among with her husband "What happened?"
"Nothing ... I just got wet with rain..."
"Look at yourself! I'm sure you'll catch a very strong cold and... Were you crying?"
"What? Me? No! The rain blurred my makeup... That's all. I'll ... I will take a shower and then I'll get some sleep in my bedroom" Gwen went without hearing another word from the mother.
Gwen took a hot bath and wore a simple clothe, as she decided to stay home the rest of the day. Then she went down to get some candy and went upstairs.
She sat up on her bed and was thinking ... All she felt for Kevin was still inside. She touched the locket that was still in his neck... But he no longer felt it for her.
A bit of anger came on her whole body like a poison injected into the veins. She clenched fist that was holding the medallion. Get rid of it! The voice came into her head. Her eyes closed and tears ran down her cheeks. She started to pull the collar with all her strength. Her neck began to turn red by the pressure that the gold chain was causing on her. Gwen pulled it over until the collar has detached from her neck and break into a lot of pieces. After Gwen opened the pendant that was in her hand and took the photo of her and Kevin, she took the photo off of the pendant and threw the paper against the wall with all her strength, along with the rest of the collar. The papers fluttered and not touched the wall, while the collar hit the wall paper and fell to the floor in the corner of the room near the window. All that anger she felt was deducted at that little necklace he gave to her.
Gwen tried to calm down again. She took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
She lay on her bed and stared at the ceiling of the room. A rest would be better... And so it did. She closed her eyes and slept.
The red-haired girl began walking at the halls of the school like a zombie. Since that day, she never managed to sleep well or eat very well. Even she could not believe where the depression led her to... How did she get this way? Even she couldn't remember it right. So many things happened after that... Her mother began to realize she was becoming stranger: the way she acted, even the Gwen's way of talking... It seemed that she got weaker every day that passed. And this is strange, since Gwen always carried a plate to her room and returned it to her mother, empty. But what the mother did not see was that most of the time, her daughter was junking the food outside. Gwen could not even eat well, every time she saw a plate of food she felt nauseous. What else did not her mother see? Often Gwen got up at night to take some doses of antidepressants and tranquilizers, of course she knew it could cause some side effects, and then she took a few. But it just did not help. Yet she tried to pretend she was well, passing over some makeup to hide the dark circles of fatigue on her face, her grades were getting low and she did not see Kevin as much. But when she had to see him, she did not even try to look into his eyes. Kevin did not try to change it because he thought it was be better that way, it wasn't better to him but to her and he tried to convince himself that it was the right thing to do. While Gwen thought that everything he had told her was true ... Everything.
Gwen put herself in front of her locker and opened it without putting the password since the cabinet was broken. Of course only she knew it. And so it was better because of the state that she was, she wasn't able to not even remember the password if she had one. She took her notebook and went to the biology room. On the way to the room she found what she did not want to find: Tyler, the most popular boy of the whole school bullying another boy along with his gang of thugs. Gwen looked at the boy closely, it was Peter. An outsider boy, not intentionally, but because many people thought he was weird, it somehow was true, but it is not an issue to be annoying, and the worst was that he could barely defend himself, he could just ignore Tyler but he answered them with curses and swears, which only further Tyler the desire to provoke him more. Gwen tried to talk to Peter once and said he should defend himself by telling the school principal, but he did not want to... He said that he would get better on his own. After that, she never managed to speak with him again. Gwen watched them for a while. Tyler said to Peter, with a bonus of his friends laughing:
"And oh man how your 'studies' are? You did it after getting help from your mommy?"
"Shutup…!" Tyler said opening his locker.
"Wow!" Tyler's friends said as in a chorus.
"What is it? Is this a threat?"
"Leave me alone!"
"Hey! We are your friend, guy! No need to get nervous"
"Go to the hell!"
"What did you say?"
"Go to the hell!" Peter tried to push Tyler with his thin arms, but did not work.
"Hey!" Tyler said almost screaming. He pulled Peter by the collar of his T-Shirt and stood him with his full arms "Nobody touches me! You hear?" Tyler threw him down through the floor. Gwen's eyes widened. It was the first time he got out that way. Tyler's friends said nothing, only helped him, seeming to have fun with it. Tyler crouched to face Peter hurted on the floor. "Now ...You will be sorry for doing that...
Tyler stood up and kicked Peter on his belly. The boy tried to shrink his body to protect himself. Tyler's friends came close to Peter. Gwen thought they were going to stop Tyler and take him to the principal. What she thought was totally wrong; they helped Tyler to kick the boy. They kicked while he did nothing except try to escape from the kicks. A crowd was forming around the fight, the students watched them all without moving a finger to help Peter, a few felt sorry and hoped that a more courageous could call someone, others were smiling. Gwen could not support what she was seeing; she went in the middle of the fight without even thinking what she was doing, and when she realized, it was already too late to turn back.
"Get away..." Tyler said.
"No." she replied.
"Want to take some too?"
Gwen did not answer, just stared. What was she doing? Protecting the odd one of class? Her reputation was gone... But she did not care.
"Stop it" she said.
"Why should I?"
"Because it will not lead you to anything, you know that!"
"Of course it will! It gonna make him learn not to mess with me. Now get out of the way!"
"No. Let him alone..."
Tyler stared at her for a few seconds. He smiled:
"Always the tough one, aren't you Gwendolyn? Okay ... Let's go" Tyler told his friends.
The four were gone.
The crowd watched Gwen trying to raise Peter from the floor and take him to the infirmary.
"It's ok now..." She said with a soft voice.
"Thanks" he replied.
"No need to thank."
In the ward Peter took a general exam. He did not break any of his bones, but he was full of bruises around the abdomen. The nurse called his parents to take him home and rest until he feels better after that Gwen went to the principal and tell him what had just happened. After leaving the hall, the director called Tyler and his friends to the room. That would not be good ... Gwen went to the Math classroom, she has lost all the Biology class. In the classroom everyone watched her with in a scary way. Maybe… because she was the only one who tried to help a "friend"? She sat on her chair closer to the blackboard and tried to pay attention on the class. When the class ended Gwen got up as fast as he could to get away, she felt very weak and needed a rest. She went to the exit door of the school holding her purse on one shoulder; she began to feel the splash of rain water falling on her face. Before she could leave the street from the school, three people came in front of her. Gwen looked at them: Mary, Jane and Lizzy.
"Gwen..." Mary said staring her with disgust.
"What now?" She asked suspiciously.
"You know very well what." Mary replied.
Gwen said nothing.
"Tyler has been suspended and he will have to pay detention for two weeks..." Mary's eyes were expressing pure anger. After being dumped from Kevin, Mary tried to do her best to come back to Tyler, who was her ex-boyfriend; unfortunately he wanted to be the difficult one and so far not returned to her. Mary continued "Thanks to you."
Gwen got nervous and replied:
"He should have been expelled from school! He was not just because he is the best football player in team of the school ..."
"What have you just said?"
"You heard me."
Gwen peered between Mary and Lizzy to cross the street. She started walking and realized that the three followed. Damn! The street was practically deserted... Gwen forced her legs that were weak to go faster. She did not want to fight, not in that state. She began to sound cool to see that the steps of the three girls were also closer. The rain got worse, it seemed like everything was against Gwen, even the weather. Gwen started to run. Also the three girls did. A noise of thunder sounded in the sky. Gwen was confused and afraid of what might happen. She looked around looking for a shortcut to go to her house as quickly as possible, but the more she tried to think, the more she got lost. She tried to run faster. 'Damn!' Everything was really against her.
'Crap…!' No Exit. She turned her face to face all the three girls. She was terrified. And she was too weak to fight back. She tried to use her mana to create a distraction and escape. The only problem was that she was trying, but could not. It was as if her energy was fading due to her weakness, and the one that remained was just supporting her body.
Mary looked at her.
"Anywhere to run…?" she approached Gwen, smiling.
Gwen began to get very tired.
Mary pushed her to the ground. Gwen's back scraped the dirt floor. She tried to stand up, but before she could do it, Mary's friend kicked her in the belly.
Gwen felt an unbearable pain, but did not cry. Just squeezed her eyes and put her hands in the region that received the kick. Man! That hurts a lot... Even from idiots like them or because she was weaker than even a normal person…
"Won't you scream?" The blonde girl asked Gwen, laughing. She turned to face the two friends and continued to speak this time for them "Kick her where she is wearing clothes, to hide the scratches."
Gwen tried to get up. Wow! To a fool, Mary she was quite clever... Mary should have known that Gwen kept many secrets from her parents. She already knew the kind of Gwen. And she was not the type who liked to tell things that would make her parents worried about her.
"Where are you going?" Mary pushed her back down.
A few minutes later, Mary and the other two ran away from there, all with a smile. Thinking that what they did was nothing, leaving a girl almost unconscious on the floor.
Gwen opened her eyes. She felt pain in the legs, stomach and arms, a big arable and throbbing pain. She struggled to stand up. She looked at the corners and was recovering the memory of her way home. She was close. If she was struggling a little bit more she could get home and rest. Gwen walked staggering and leaning on the wall. Luckily that nobody was seeing it. Her face was the only part of her body that was unscathed, and now she was all wet because of rain. The icy water began seeping into her body from under her clothes, and this relieved some of the pain she felt.
Arriving in front of the door of her house, Gwen tried to rebuild her best to pretend she was okay. She took the keys from her pocket and opened the door. Inside the house her mother was making dinner. That smell made her get a little nauseous.
"Hello, Gwendolyn ..." Her mother said moving her head to see her daughter from the kitchen door, her eyes widened "My God! You got wet again!"
"I know mom... I'll take a shower now... Okay?" Gwen tried to speak as firmly as she could.
"You won't… You are going to soon take a shower before you catch a cold!" This time she was nervous "Your father will get home late today. Just to warn you."
"OK" Gwen walked up the stairs leaning on the railing. She went to her room, she took some clothes, all were large and long just to cover the bruises.
Gwen went to the bathroom and filled the tub with hot water. Undressed herself carefully while waiting for the tub to fill, she shut her eyes because of the pain she felt. She looked looked in the bathroom mirror. Her body was covered with bruises and scratches. Some caused by the fingernails of Mary. Gwen coughed, she put her hands in front of the mouth and felt something in her right hand. She looked better and was surprised. Blood. It was just a little bit of blood, but it left her kind of scared. She washed her hands. Gwen came into the tub and tried to calm down. That failed, inside she was screaming mad with all that happened, wanting everything to be nothing more than a dream, or rather, a nightmare. The worst nightmare that she have ever had. She sank her head in hot water and stayed down there for a few seconds. "WAKE UP."
Her head came back to the water surface. Gwen looked around. His eyes were red. 'This is not a nightmare ... This is ... Real ...' Her tears flowed down her face already wet. Her pain worsened. 'Kevin...'. After a while in the bathtub, Gwen came out, dried up and got a first aid kit up on the shelf. She tried to pass something to help relieve the pain in her legs and belly. She saw that a small wound was open. She took a plaster and wrapped in a thin layer around her leg. Then she spent some ointment on the arms and belly. She got up feeling a little better she got dressed, tidied the bathroom and went down the hall a bit tired. When she reached the kitchen she could fell the smell of chicken, rice and potatoes. That queasiness Gwen a little, but she had to force herself to eat. She sat at the dining table and theres he saw that her father waiting her mother to bring the food. Her mother came and placed the dishes on the table along with the cutlery. Gwen picked up her fork and knife and tried to eat what was on the plate.