Chapter 14: Tall Tails, and the Truth
I drove down the road, the taste of Moku still on my tongue. Sick bastard. He had no right to do that! Sick minded freak, I hope he get's the crap kicked out of him.
"Seth, are you ok?" Enny asked, her beautiful voice distracting me. I looked at her shocked, then smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, just…sulking." I touched my fingertips to my lips again.
"For what?" She asked, bending over, looking at me. My heart started to race. I shrugged my shoulders and let my hand fall from my mouth and looked back out the window.
"Nothing serious, just…what your brother did." She looked at me for a couple more seconds, then snorted, looking back out the window. I was curious though. Why did he single me out? Weren't there millions of people he could make fall in love with him? "He kissed me." I whispered. She looked at me, her eyebrows furrowed.
"I should kill him the piece of slime." She snarled. I chuckled nervously, not sure what would happen if I allowed her to boil over too much.
"It's fine, I just…am a little confused is all." I slowed down and turned off into the Cullen's driveway. She pulled the keys out of the ignition half way up the driveway, stalling the car. "Hey!"
"No! It's not fine! Do you realize what he could do to you? Lord knows where's he's been!" She snarled and crossed her arms. My heart boiled at that. Why was she being so snippy about him?
"He's your brother, why are you talking about him like he's some…object?" I returned. She glared at me.
"He's not my brother! He's some…stupid animal that Eng agreed to watch over because mama didn't want to take care of him!" She was screaming now. My blood burned at my veins. She wasn't being fair! He was alive too and he had feelings.
"Your mother loves him!"
"She's the only one!" I snatched the keys from her fingers and climbed out. I went around and pulled her door open for her. She hissed and climbed out, her nose in the air. She was being a crotch! I slammed the door behind her and walked past her and opened up the front door, letting her go first.
"Hello baby." Ella greeted with a smile on her face. She must not have been able to hear our spat in the car. Good.
"Hello mama!" She smiled and skipped to Ella's side, throwing her arms around her. Ella giggled and hugged her daughter tightly.
"How was school sweetie?" She asked, pulling away from her daughter and leading her to the couch, her hands gripped tightly in her fingers.
"Oh it was pretty good, except for Moku ruining it for me." She pouted. Ella's face warped.
"Oh my, what did he do?" She asked concerned.
"Well first he strangled me in the car before school when Seth was dropping us off." She replied, pouting. Ella gasped and wrapped her arms around her daughter.
"Is this true Seth?" Ella asked, looking at me. I nodded. I felt so bad for the poor kid, he was being singled out and he wasn't even here to defend himself. But I wasn't that nice to him either.
"Well, she kept calling him a whore." I added, in his defense.
"I was kidding. But then he made the stereo explode in front of humans and Seth had to bite him to get him to let go of my throat. Then I was in forth period and I was told that he'd been acting bad for the teachers so I went out to talk to him and he was yelling at me and stuff and telling me he hated me and that everyone else hated me too so I left," I didn't remember her telling me that part. "Then in lunch he called me over to his table and said he was surprised I wasn't sitting with all of the guys in school and having sex with him so I got mad and broke his tray over his head and when I went back to my table he made my lunch blow up all over me and him and all of his friends sat there and laughed at me and I started crying," Tears trickled down her face. My heart heaved. Poor girl.
I sat next to her and gave her a hug, Ella looking worried, completely sympathetic. Everyone did, except Edward.
"Well I'm going to have a talk with that boy when he comes home!" Ella snarled. "He is so grounded, and if he can't behave himself outside of the house he's going to Forks school!"
"You can talk to me now." A whisper reached my ears. We all looked up. Moku was standing in the open back door, his legs covered in blood, his shirt wet, a shining piercing in his eyebrow, his mouth was bleeding.
"Oh my god! What the hell happened to you!" Ella screamed, running to her son. He recoiled as she came close to him. She stopped and pulled away.
"He's covered in human fluids!" Jake snarled, standing, looking frightened, but mainly disgusted.
"WHo did you kill?" Ella shot at him. He gasped and fell to his knees, vomit covered the floor. Shards of broken teeth glistened in the puddle. I saw where the blood was coming from.
"He was raped." Edward commented, his eyes closed tightly. I bet he could see everything. He could see everything that went on with him. Ella bent down to help him but he pushed himself away, sliding away through his blood, tucking himself in underneath a small cubby next to the coats and washing machine.
"Why is he moving from me!" Ella squealed in despair, sitting on her knees, her arms out like she was coaxing a cat to come out.
"Because he's been emotionally damaged." Edward replied, shooting Enny a dirty look.
"Will he come out?" She cried, looking back at her father with a heartbroken expression. Edward shrugged.
"I don't know. I guess if we get rid of the sharks then he might." He looked at Enny again. Pushing himself up he headed off to Ella's side and crouched. "Come here Moku, we'll take care of you, don't believe anything that was said, we all love you here." There was silence, then he climbed out, dragging himself by his palms. He looked like road kill. Like a dog that'd been hit by a car. Jake came over and crouched on the other side of Ella. Edward pulled Moku into his arms and turned him around so that he could look into his mouth. Moku struggled, fighting with him at first, but eventually opened his mouth. Blood gushed down his chin. Ella screamed and buried her face into Jakes chest. All of his teeth were gone. Shattered, and the gums were bleeding profusely. His tongue was split down the middle and shredded at the tip, looking like he'd got it stuck in an automatic pencil sharpener.
"How the hell did that happen?" Jake whimpered.
"Easily put? His face was bashed off of an un even cement floor and probably against something that caught the tip. Ella wrapped her arms around her son and held him close to her, not daring to take him from the more comfortable support of his grandfather. "Carlisle, we'll need some serious help here." Edward whispered. Carlisle was already behind him with the first aid kit.
"Excuse me. Esme, can you get a cushion and a towel for him? I would lay him down but he might choke. Lord knows how many shards of bone are left inside this kids tongue." He requested dismally. Moku licked at his torn lips, pushing blood from his splintered tongue. It was disgusting. But was there something that I didn't know about?
"Can you tell me how this happened honey?" Ella asked, probably determined to get his side of the story as well. He nodded and swallowed, tears trickling down his cheeks. He probably swallowed some of his own teeth.
"I…I ran into Enli in the hall…before lunch." He whispered. "I…I had been causing some trouble, apparently, and everyone had been making it hard for me to get used to school."
"That's when you told her everyone hated her?" Ella whispered, pushing his hair out of his face. He looked at her shocked then down at the floor and nodded.
"Yeah, I…I wasn't happy." He looked depressed, yet, betrayed. "I…I went down to lunch with a kid named Adam, and sat with him and his friends Casey. They thought Enli was pretty so I called her over to introduce her. She asked if they were my butt buddies and I told her I was surprised she wasn't sleeping with every boy in school, so she smashed a tray over my head. I…I made her lunch explode on her, and she stood up and started yelling at me, but I pretended I didn't know what she was talking about." Carlisle stopped him and took a pair of tweezers, pulling a chunk of tooth out of his tongue that was no doubt part of the source of the rip-age. He winced, then continued to talk again once the Carlisle was out of his mouth. "Casey told me to meet him after school in the boys locker room. So I stayed after to tell Seth I wasn't going home right after but-"
"He kissed Seth! Right on the lips in front of everyone! He was going to force Seth to love him so they could have sex!" Enny hollered. Everyone turned and looked at me. Oh god, here we go, I was now the center of attention. "He didn't deserve it! He didn't deserve what Moku did to him!" Enny snarled. Ella looked at Moku.
"Is that true?" He nodded.
"I…" I was expecting him to mention me saying I hated him. I was expecting him to mention all of the horrible things I said to him. "I said I could make him lust after me like a bitch in heat. I had no reason to say that. I had no motive. Seth was just chatting with me fine and dandy. I didn't know what came over me, I guess I deserved to get raped, seeing how I tried to rape him." He whispered. No, that wasn't how it happened at all. You asked if I hated you. I could feel the sorrow, but, I don't know, I freaked out when you kissed me. I…I didn't want to be like that. He was lying to them, to make me seem like the innocent one.
"Did he say anything to you?" Edward pressed. Edward knew. Edward knew what I said to him. "Did he say anything…mean?" Moku shook his head, his eyes on mine.
"No, he just left me. There was nothing mean about it." He looked down. He looked like he was going to cry.
"Moku, are you alright?" Ella whispered. He grabbed the sleeve of her shirt.
"Punish me, don't make me go unpunished." He quivered. She shook her head.
"Moku. Why would I-"
"You'd punish me if I hadn't been raped damn it! Don't take me off just because of that! You still have to punish me for saying everyone hated Enli! You still have to punish me for calling a teacher a dumbass, and blowing up lockers, and pushing kids down stairs and putting my fists through windows and shoving razor blades through my skin in the locker rooms!" He was screaming now. "You have to punish me for destroying cars after lunch and for beating up random kids in the hallway and biting myself!" Everyone was looking at him like he was psychotic. "And telling the teacher you were a prostitute and I was a mistake and that you were planning on selling me for crack money and that Carlisle's a pedophile!" Everyone looked at him shocked. Had he really said all of that?
"You will be punished!" Ella snarled.
"Good! Cause I told everyone you were vampires but they wouldn't believe me! And I told everyone that you were half of a vampire and a werewolf and dad was really a werewolf!" She slapped him. He was crying hysterically. He buried his face in his knees and cried.
"What in the name of God would ever posses you to say stuff like that about us? Hadn't Eng taught you enough!" She snarled.
"Oh screw Eng!" Moku snapped, his eyes wet with tears.
"You jeopardized this whole families secret!" Carlisle was yelling at him now. "Telling far fetched lies about us, and the truth! What if someone believes you and comes to kill us?" Moku didn't say anything. He stood up.
"Then I'll leave." He whispered.
"Good!" Rosalie snarled from the living room. I saw a quivering smile on his face. He turned around and headed out the back door, towards the woods. What the hell was he thinking? Telling people? I don't know, but I was going to find out tonight.
