Monster Under My Bed
Cat and Beck are best friends. Inseparable. Secretly in love. As their family is on vacation for spring break, an evil man destroys their lives. Beck can't live with his failure to protect her and Cat just can't live with being tainted. Can Beck help his best girl find healing? Or will Cat end her own self?
Do NOT OWN Victorious.
Chapter One: Birthday Girl
She was fifteen. He was fifteen. His birthday was three months ago. Her birthday was April 3rd…that day. That nightmarish day that the both of them could never forget…
"Come on, Beck!" His fifteen year old best friend screamed as she was running down the clean, sandy beach. The sun had set, and it was dark, but it was fine for them to be out. It was safe. A private beach for the whole week their families went halves to rent out the large beach house. It was paradise.
There was Beck Oliver, Cat Valentine…his older brother, her older brother…his parents, her parents…
Beck's favorite time of year.
At least…for the past 14 years, it was his favorite vacation.
After this supposed to be glorious day…turned to how they would survive evil.
He smiled as he grabbed her waist and lifted her up, swinging her around with a safe grip. She screamed louder, but screams of joy. She kicked her feet in the air, but obviously nothing helped her. He tickled her and she pushed him away, running away from him again. She was ahead of him, but he could still see her. His hair whished in the wind, messy and wild as always and his button-up shirt was open with his bare chest open. His smile was so wide and big…it almost hurt, but it was a good kind of hurt. She turned and smiled back at him, giggling so wide, with her long red-velvet hair swinging around. She turned back and went around a corner, where they would be out of sight of the house.
Big mistake.
He came to a complete stop when she was frozen in front of him. "Cat?" He asked in a soft voice.
The birthday girl was shaking with fear as a gun was pointed towards her face. Tears shimmered on the edges of her eyes as her eyes were locked with the predator's.
The evil man made them go a few miles down the beach…even if they screamed, no one could hear them. As they entered one of the miniature caves along the ocean, the man made Beck get on his knees. He forced Cat to bound his wrists and ankles with duct tape. He was face down on the stone floor. The man left the cave with Cat…
After a minute, all Beck heard was Cat's screams of pain…
Tears left Beck's eyes…
"No…Cat…"
After a few minutes more, he heard small footsteps come up behind him. It was Cat…her small frame was shivering and holding herself. Her sweater was ripped and her inner thighs were bruising and bleeding. Her sandals were gone. Her hair was a mess. Her lip was bleeding with a deep bite mark on the bottom. She kneeled down and undid the tape. Instead of asking questions, Beck immediately just put one arm under her knees and her back, lifting her in his arms, and ran as fast as he could back to the house…
She didn't speak…
She hadn't said a word since…
…
Beck stood outside their bedroom. The door was shut. Hopefully not locked. He hadn't talked to Cat since the incident. Cat refused to leave the room. Nobody knew about it, but them though…she demanded nobody know. It's their dirty little secret…the secret that would eat them both alive eventually, and Beck knew it. This wasn't the end…it might have been the end of seeing that evil man again, but it wasn't the end of the emotional disturbance that has impacted their lives.
He knocked and didn't receive an answer, so he went in. It was dark, beside for the dim light coming through the blinds and curtains in the room. There were two beds, one dresser, one closet, a large mirror, and a bathroom. He saw a small body underneath one of the beds.
Odd…
She wasn't in her bed.
She was in his.
He shrugged it off and walked to the side she was facing and sat on the edge, putting down the hot mug on the nightstand. "Hey sweetie…how's my favorite girl?" She stared at the window across from her view, not making any movement or any advance to speak. Beck's lip trembled. It broke his heart to see her like this. "Cat?" She looked to him, with the saddest pair of eyes he had ever seen. He gave her a gentle smile though. "I love you. No matter what, I'll never think differently of you. You're my angel."
Cat reached from inside the blanket and shakily took his hand that was closest to her and pulled him down. He took the hint and got into bed with her, under the sheets. He handed her the hot mug, showing her it was her favorite drink: tea. She loved all kinds of tea. It was her sweet nature to love tea…one of the million reasons why he loved her.
"I told you last night that I had a birthday present for you…" He whispered. He released her hold on him and reached under his bed to take out a pink wrapped present with a purple bow on the top. "For you…"
Cat blinked and stared at it.
He sighed softly. "I'll open it for you." He opened the box and brought out red velvet colored box…same color as her hair. Beck opened it and showed it to her. It was a gold locket inside in the shape of a heart. It had a tiny keyhole in it. She gently took it from him and tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge. Beck smiled when she looked to him in surprise as he pulled off a necklace on his neck. "This one is mine…" It was the same shimmer of gold, but in the shape of a key. Cat gasped silently. He reached over and put the small key into the hole of the heart, opening it. Her smile got brighter as she looked inside at the single picture of her and Beck together when they were kids inside.
Beck's heart soared when she hugged him tightly.
One day, he hoped to get the guts to ask her to be his girlfriend…but for now, he's just going to be her best friend…and protector.
Thinking about the night before, his heart filled his rage suddenly, holding her tighter as she fell back asleep.
That man would one day be found by him.
And he would die by Beck's hands.
He destroyed Cat's innocence.
So Beck will destroyed that man's life.