"Courtney?" My father turned to face me as I marched straight past him and into the kitchen to unload the shopping. I wasn't in the mood to talk to him, I wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone. After my little 'encounter' with Trent I was in a foul mood. Then Shayne had scared the shit out of me. I know he was only acting the big brother role, but I thought he would hurt me. He grabbed my hands and pulled me o him. I was frightened, thats one of the many things Trent used to do to me. He used to pull me close to him and then spit harsh words into my face, right before the pain he would inflict upon my fragile body.
"Hey, Courtney." Robin greeted me as she came bouncing into the kitchen. I forced a smile but went back to putting the various food items in their correct places around the kitchen. "Can I help?"
"No." I didn't mean for my words to come out as nasty as they did. "Robin, I'm busy right now." I didn't have to look to know I had made her cry. She was five, she didn't understand everything that was going on.
"Robin." I sighed, turning round and stooping to her level to hug her. I tried to put my arms around her but she ran off, bawling her eyes out. I fell back onto my butt and leaned against the counter. My whole life was getting to me, it was killing me from the inside out. I didn't want to cope with the stress anymore. I pulled open a draw above my head and moved my hand around inside before I found what I was looking for. I pulled out a long butchers knife and held in front of my face. I moved the blade so I could see my eye reflecting in the metal. My onyx eyes didn't look the same to me, they were dead. There was nothing left on the inside. All the love, all the happiness, everything, it was gone. Trent had emotionally killed me.
"COURTNEY!" The knife was snatched from my grip and placed back on the counter. Duncan slid down on the floor beside me and pulled me into a tight embrace. I started to cry and he shushed me softly. He slowly rocked me back and fore and more tears fell from my eyes. I couldn't hold it back anymore. I just wanted to re-start everything. Re-start my whole life. Erase everything he did to me. But I couldn't. It will always be there, always be on my mind. You never get a re-do in real life.
"Tell me what's got into you?" Duncan asked. I sniffled while I thought for an answer. "Well?" He urged.
"I-I...I don't know." I sobbed into Duncan's warm chest. He held me closer and I began to cry again. "I want it all to end, I want it all to go away..." I felt Duncan nuzzling his face into my messy excuse for hair. A splash of water fell from my forehead to my chin, he was crying too.
"Killing yourself isn't going to solve anything. You have got so much to live for, you've got your whole life ahead of you. I don't know how I would live without you. I love you." Duncan's voice was horse from the crying and muffled from my hair, but I still heard him tell me the three most important words ever. The three words I needed to hear.
"I love you too." I sobbed. Duncan lifted my chin up and gave me the most passionate kiss he had ever given me.
After tidying myself up I went for a walk to clear my head. Duncan tagged along to stop me from giving myself more pain.
"Starting right now everything that's gone down between me and Trent never happened. Got it?" I asked my boyfriend.
"Um..are you sure?" He asked.
"Yes I'm sure, I don't want to think about it anymore." I stopped to face Duncan, his eyes shone brightly in the mid-day sun. I smiled up at him and he gave me a peck on the lips.
"If that's what you want." He smirked back. "I want to take you somewhere." Duncan grabbed my hand and started puling me towards the forest.
"Where are you taking me?" I asked, panicking that he might do something...something I really don't want to happen.
Duncan stopped and spun round t face me.
"It's okay." He brushed a piece of my hair behind my ear. "I'm not going to hurt you, nor will I do anything your uncomfortable with. There's just something I want to show you."
"O-okay." I managed to say. We started running off into the forest and soon e stumbled upon an abandoned pathway. The greenary was so overgrown that it had covered up the path from the view of passers by.
The two of us walked along the path in silence. There was nothing to say. I was just enjoying the scenery.
The path came to a bend and as we moved with the stone the lake came into view. It was sparkling beautifully. The still water was breath taking. The cabin's were far in the distance and the tree's were gently swaying in the breeze. It the perfect scene.
"Wow."
"Thought you'd lke it." Duncan had his stupid smirk plastered on his face, but for once I didn't care. For the first time during the holiday I was happy, genuinely happy.
"Come on." Duncan tugged at my hand and we continued down the path. We rounded another corner and came into a clearing. There was an old, white marquee and a wooden bench. The bench was occupied by another couple and when we saw who it was we stopped waking. They must have seen us too because they turned to face us.
"Oh." I said. "Sorry to interrupt." I spun on my heel and pulled Duncan's arm, but e didn't budge He had his eye's fixed on the girl. She had pasty, white skin and short black hair with teal highlights. She was wearing black shorts and a black tank top with a skull across the front. She was also staring at Duncan with equal curiosity in her eyes.
"Duncan?" She spoke after what felt like an eternity of silence.
"Gwen?" He replied. The girl got up and hugged Duncan. "I don't believe this." He chuckled. "What are you doing here?"
"My mom brought me and Liam here for a small vacation we arrived this morning." The girl, presumably Gwen, answered.
"Same." Duncan smiled at the girl. I cleared my throat. "Oh...um...Gwen this is my girlfriend, Courtney. Princess, this is my next-door-neighbor and best friend, Gwen."
"Nice to meet you." I said, extending a hand. She gladly took it and shook firmly.
"And you. This is Trent." She told us, turning back to face Trent who was patiently sitting on the bench.
"We've me." Duncan stated through gritted teeth. I could tell he wanted to have it all out with the him right there, right then, but I wasn't going to let that happen.
"Well, um... it was nice meeting you, hope to see you around." I once again spun on my heel and this time Duncan came when I pulled his arm. He gave a wave to Gwen with his free hand before starting to drag me down the path.
"We have to do something." Duncan said as soon as we got back to the main part of the lake. "She doesn't know what he's capable of."
"Why didn't you say something back then?" I asked.
"I didn't want to make a scene."
"Since when do you care about making a scene?" I half-shouted at him, starting to walk back to my cabin. Duncan jogged up next to me.
"Your right, I should have said something to her. You've got to help me warn her about him, I don't want her to go through the same torture you did." Duncan continued. "Gwen's like my sister, I don't want to see her get hurt anymore than I'd want to see you go through all of it again." Duncan stopped to give me a kiss.
"Fine, I'll help you."
A/N: DON'T YELL AT ME! I know I said that this chapter will be someone's (attempted) death, but I had a GREAT idea given to me by .discography and that then led to me getting a good idea about who's gonna be (attempted to be)MURDERED!
I never though Shayne would be a fan favorite. LOL. I'm like IN LOVE with him myself, SO BACK OF! Tee Hee kidding, Shayne's just a lovable guy. Oh! And what Shayne shall do in a few chapters time will have EVERYONE! loving him even more. Well I'll love him more ANYWAY!
.discography, thanks for the idea and the amazingly long yet extremely useful rant. And welcome to this wonderful jungle called Baker's Dozen. WAIT! And for being my 30th (and 31st) reviewer, making this my most reviewed story!
Oh yeah, I'll be changing the summary, but it's still me with the same story, in case your wondering. I'm only changing it because I have gone completely off the plot I wanted, trust me, this plot MUCH better though.
Sending out my love to all of my wonderful Readers and Reviewers.
~ChloeRhiannonX