"Okay guys. We have exactly one more minute till the football game. Any questions or concerns?" The coach asks the boys in the locker room.
Finn raises his hand. "Yes Finn?" "If we lose tonight, is Chris going to get kick off the team?" "Yes. Now I have to go outside and get ready.
The teams coach walks out of the locker room and Piers was thinking about Helena and Claire. Chris took a seat beside him. "Nervous?" He asks.
"Nah, not really. I was just thinking…" "Thinking about nothing." "Were you thinking about Claire again?" "What? No! I'm over her he lied.
"Well good. We should go…" "Yeah."
"So you're telling me that you and Piers kissed earlier today?" Sherry asks Helena as they both went to sit at the bleachers. Helena nods her head and told Sherry as she sit down, "But he didn't kiss me back." She looks down at her fingers. "Maybe he's not feeling the same way like I'm feeling him."
"Whoa!" Sherry said looking at the football field. "Wait till Claire finds out about this! She'd freak!"
"No. Claire won't find out because you're not going to tell her."
Sherry sighs. "Fine. Anyways, what did you and Claire talked about earlier?"
"We've both talked about Steve and all. She's coming actually."
"Here? To the football game? Please tell me she isn't coming with Steve."
"You already know it." Helena scoffs and then leans back in her seat. She watch how the other school football players came rushing onto the field. Raccoon City high school started to boo the team.
"I just don't get it." Helena says shaking her head thinking about Piers.
"What do you not get?" She looks at Sherry and tells her, "Look. I never told anyone this before but…I use to like Piers. I mean, I still do and all. When I found out that Piers was going to be her fake boyfriend in that fake relationship I was jealous."
"But didn't you say that you ship-"
"Claire and Piers together hard?" She finishes for Sherry. "Yeah…about that. I lied. I'm sorry too by the way."
"This is totally insane. If Piers starts to like you back then you're going to have to tell Claire sooner or later."
"I know. But he doesn't feel the same way as I feel about him. All he keeps thinking about is that damn Claire. How can she treat him like that? Piers is sweet and funny! He's like a perfect boyfriend."
Sherry rolls her eyes and opens up a chapter book that she has been reading lately.
"Hey girls." Jill said sitting next to Sherry. Sherry looks up from her book and looks at Jill. "Hey Jill. I thought you weren't into football?" "Oh well you know, I only came here to support Chris and his team. I mean, I am his girlfriend right? I should be able to support him."
"You know what? I think I'm going to go get a bottle of water and some popcorn. You guys want something?"
"No thanks" Helena told Sherry as she was looking at the field looking for Piers.
"Dude, get ready." Chris told Piers. "Roger." Piers told him.
As Chris was trying to focus on the game to start he sees Steve with Claire. Steve was pulling her. It seems like Claire didn't want to be there but he force her. Chris could tell by looking at Claire's eyes that she didn't want to be there.
"Go! Go!" The coach shouted at the teens on the field. Chris was running across the field with the football in his hand. Of course the other school team was chasing after him. But after a while they've stop because Chris ran out of the line and was close to the teens and adults who were sitting on the bleachers.
"What are you doing Chris?!" His coach shouted throwing his hat on the floor and then marching over to where Chris was.
Chris looks over at everyone in the crowd and he then notices Jill who waves at him. He smiles at her for a minute and then continues to search for someone. Finally, he sees Steve and Claire sitting next to each other. "Bingo…" "Captain! Come back on the field dammit!" Piers shouted.
Chris threw the football and everyone on the field including the people on the bleachers was shock. The teens on the bleachers got up from out of their seats and ran.
Steve didn't see the ball coming. Claire's eyes widen and she got up from her seat. "What the hell? Claire! Sit the fuck down!" The ball hits Steve right at his face and everyone says oh. He falls down the bleachers and Piers stops running towards Chris. "Holy shit." He muttered to himself.
"Chris Redfield! You've just hit a teen! Why'd you thrown the football at the crowd?" His coach asks him piss off. "I'm sorry coach it's just. Steve did something to my sister and I want to get back at him."
"Well you can't get back at him on the field Redfield. I'm sorry but you're off the team."
Chris wasn't really mad or sad. He just shrugs it off and went pass his coach. "Whatever." He replied to him. Piers went up to Chris and told him, "Dude! You've hit Steve! Nice shot." He smiles at him and Chris smiles back at him.
"Thanks Piers. I'm off the team by the way. Take my place alright?" "But captain…I'm not ready for that…" "Yes you are Piers. I see the way how you demand things to the team mates. You'll do perfectly fine." "Are you sure Chris?" "I'm positive."
Jill and the girls run to Piers and Chris on the football team. "Oh my God, Chris!" Jill shouted hugging him tightly. He pats her on her back and pulls away a little. "Everything is alright Jill. Don't worry." "Oh no Chris. I know you're alright but. What about Claire? He was with her!"
"Oh right! Have you seen her?" "Well yeah! She ran away from Steve and he then started running after her."
"Ah fuck." Chris shouted looking around the field. People were watching them and he notices. "Guys, we have to keep this on the low alright? Come on! We need to find Claire."
"And beat his ass." Piers say. Everyone turns around and looks at Piers confused. "What? Why not? I mean, you guys did see what he did to Claire right?"
"He's right."
Before Piers follows his friends, he felt someone grab his hand. He thought it was Claire but then he sees Helena. "Oh Helena…it's you. I thought you were?" "Claire right?" "Uh yeah…how did you?" "Because you're in love with her. Look, I just wanted to apologize about earlier…in the car. It was wrong and stupid. So… let's go and find Claire."
Helena started to walk but then Piers grabs her arm and she looks behind her. "Quick question Helena. Why did you kiss me?" It took her two minutes to decide whether or not she should tell him her feelings towards him. "Because…I like you. And I thought it was about time you move on."
She starts to walk and Piers just stood there putting the pieces together. He then got a better understanding why Helena had kissed him earlier. He then finds himself crushing on Helena a little. After all, he has lots of classes with Helena more than Claire!
Claire was running home. All she kept thinking about was how she wanted to get home and tell her parents the truth. The truth how Steve hurted her real badly. How he was abusing her mentally and physically. She was tired of hurting her love ones and including herself. She reaches to her front door and looks around if she sees Steve in sight.
"Good…he's not here." She puts the key inside of the door and unlocks it. Before she can head inside, she felt someone pulling her back and then dragging her outside on her lawn. "Steve! Get off of me!" she shouted fighting back. He chuckles and then tries to put her inside of his car.
She kicks the door and continues to scream. "Mom! Dad! Help me!"
Claire's mother was in the basement listening to music on her headphones and her father was in the living room watching baseball. "Come on Yankees! Shit!" he gulps down a little bit of his beer and continues to focus on the T.V screen.
"Get the fuck off of me!" She shouted more. "Stop fighting me Claire! I'm only trying to help you!" "Help me?! You're trying to rape me!"
Claire falls on the ground suddenly and hears someone saying, "You don't hit girls! You got that Burnside!" She looks to see who it is and it was Jake Muller. Jake Muller? She thought to herself. What is he doing here?
Jake was on top of Steve pulling his shirt and lifting him up from off the ground. "Do it again and I swear…you will never see the sun again." Steve didn't say anything. He was hurt lying down on the grass holding his stomach.
Jake went over to Claire and helps her up. "You alright?" he asks. Claire breaths heavily and then coughs. "Yes. Thanks Jake. By the way, how did you know that I was here?" "Oh. I was walking down the neighborhood." He lied. "Oh, well thanks again." She head inside of her house and Jake turns to look at Steve who was spitting up blood.
He chuckles and then went over to Steve putting his left leg on Steve's back. He then kicks him hard into his stomach that made Steve spit up blood some more. "Punk ass." Jake went along his business to where he was going pretending he didn't do anything.
"Are you sure Claire ran over here?" They all were walking through the park. "Yes. Sherry, Helena, and I ran over here." Jill told Chris. "She's must've took this as a short cut to get home. Hey, let me call her."
Everyone stops walking puts their attention on Chris who is calling Claire's phone number.
"Claire! How was the football game?" Her mother shouted from downstairs. "It was fine!" she shouted back slamming her room door. She went to over to her bed and decided to lie down to go to sleep. Her phone starts to go off which really annoyed her.
She picks the phone up and sees Chris number. The hell he wants? She thought. Claire answers the phone and says into it, "What?" "Where are you?" "I'm at home retard!" "Hey! Don't call me that! Sorry, I was just curious about where you were because you sort of took off after I hit Steve with that damn football."
"Yeah…about Steve." Claire sits up in her bed and looks over at her dresser staring at a photo of her and Steve. "I'm going to tell mom and dad that Piers wasn't the one who hit me. That it was Steve. I'm going to come clean about everything."
"That's good Claire. I'm glad that you open up your eyes and see the truth and also what's important."
"Me too. By the way, thank you Chris. Thank you for not giving up on me for all the things that I have done."
"Quick question Claire…" "What?" "Are you in love with Steve?" "No. Not anymore." Claire hangs up the phone and gets out of bed. She went over to her dresser and picks up the photo of her and Steve. They both were smiling in the picture. Well she was and he was just kissing her on her cheek. She remembers the photo being taken like it was yesterday.
"Oh Steve…what have gotten into you?" She whispered. Claire takes the photo out of its frame and opens up one of her dresser doors. She took out a pair of scissors and begins to cut the photo.
Helena was walking beside Piers looking up at the sky. Her phone starts to ring and it causes the whole friend group to stop walking again. "Who is it?" Sherry asks. Helena looks at her phone and groans. "Oh shit it's my dad." She picks up the phone and says, "Yes dad?" "Are you on your way home right now?" "Yes. Sherry and I are heading home now. Well, she's walking me home so I'll be there in a few." "Alright."
He hangs up and Helena groans. "What's the matter Helena?" Piers ask her with concern in his eyes. She looks at him and tells him, "It was my dad. He wants me home. I have to go." "I'll go with you." Piers say.
Everyone looks at him suspiciously. Including his best friend Chris. Piers began feeling awkward so he told them all, "Just in case if Steve tries to hurt her?" "He does have a point. Alright, Piers text me when you get home alright?" "Roger."
Chris, Jill, and Sherry leave Helena and Piers alone. "So uh…which way?"
"Mom? Dad?" Claire said going down the stairs. "Yes dear?" "There's something I need to tell you about." "Oh yes! Come sit down." Her mother sits beside her and questions, "About what?"
Claire was a bit embarrass to tell her parents about what was going on but she needs to tell them or else things will be uglier after all Jake beat the crap out of Steve and he might go after Claire and kill her. "It's about my bruises that I came home with last night…"
Her father and mother looks at each other and back at Claire. "Okay. What really happened Claire?" "Steve was the one who was abusing me. Piers didn't do it. All he ever did was try to protect me but I was being stubborn and a bitch and ignored his help. I regret it so much."
Claire began to cries. "Claire. Why did you lie? Steve wouldn't have hurt you in front of us." "Yes he would have. You guys don't know Steve as much as I do. You don't know what he carries around. He would have killed you guys and then kill me after. Just please don't tell the cops."
This made Claire's father angry. He got up from the couch and said, "Claire! We have to! This is for your safety! Not only is it just for your safety it's for your peers! Look, I'm going to have to call the cops because I'm not going to lose my daughter. And especially, I won't allow a boy to hit on her!"
"Honey. Calm down." "Don't tell me to calm down! This shit is crazy! We're dealing with something dangerous. Claire sweet heart, is there any other bruises we're not aware of?"
"Yeah…" She lifts up her shirt a little and on her rib cage there's a cut and it looks like it has been beating on.
"Ah, fuck this." Her father said.
"Thanks for walking me home Piers. That's very sweet of you."
"Anything for a beautiful girl like you."
Helena blushes at his compliment. "Are you flirting with me steak boy?" "No." She laughs and says goodnight to him. "Hey um, Piers?" "Yes?" "Come up to my bedroom." "Why?" "Just come."
She enters inside of her house and Piers went to go climb the tree. "I hate my life." He said starting to climb.
"There you are. You are five minutes late! What took you so long?" "Well I uh was stop by my other friends to discuss about something irrelevant but I'm sorry. It won't happen again." "It better not."
Helena begins to head upstairs but her father said her name. She stops and turns around. "Yes?" "I know I have been harsh on you lately. It's just because I'm worried about you and I just want you to do the right thing. Oh and about the boys, I better never catch a boy in your bedroom you hear that?"
She laughs and says, "Oh dad. I'm a potato alright? Boys never hit on me because they think I'm ugly."
"Oh stop it. You're beautiful Helena. Now get to bed." "Alright. Thanks by the way." She goes inside of her bedroom and locks the door. "Piers? Piers? Where are you?"
Helena went over to her bed and then something pushes her on her bed. She begins to feel someone pressing her lips softly. She knew it was Piers because she was looking at him. Helena kisses him back while stroking his hair.
Breaking up the kiss to breathe, she said to him, "Ew, you're so sweaty. It's only been one minute of the game and you were sweating?" "I wasn't sweating then…I'm sweating now because I'm kissing someone that is beautiful." Helena smiles and starts to kiss him more. "Why are you so sweet?"
They both remain kissing for the next two or three minutes. They both took off their shoes and Piers took off his shirt and then started to kiss Helena roughly. His phone started to go off. That startled the both of them.
"Hey, are you going to go get that before my dad comes up here and sees me making out with you?"
He chuckles and says, "Yeah sure."
Piers sits up straight on Helena's bed and answers the phone call, "Piers! Where are you?! Your father and I haven't seen you in two days!" He realizes that it was his parents so he hangs up the phone.
"Who was that?"
"My parents. They want me back home. Tssk, like they care about me…"
"Don't say that." Helena told him putting her arms around him. "Obviously if they are calling you it's because they do care about you. If they didn't then they wouldn't be calling you."
She kisses him on his neck and he receives a text message from Claire. He opens the text message:
Claire: Hey, we need to talk.
His heart drops and he gets up out of Helena's bed. "Where are you going?" "I have to text Chris. That's all." He lied.
He felt bad lying to Helena and he also felt bad for kissing Helena instead of Claire! He texts her back,
Piers: About what?
Claire: Everything. Including our fake relationship
Piers: Didn't we break up day before yesterday?
Claire: Yes but I just need to talk to you. I know that you're mad at me and everything but please
Piers: Okay fine. Right now or?
Claire: Now. N-O-W.
He chuckles.
Piers: Fine. I'll be over there in a sec.
He begins to put his clothes on and Helena eyes him. "Are you leaving now?"
"Yeah sorry. Chris just told me that coach want both of us back over at school to chat about what happen on the field."
"Oh…well…"
"Sorry Helena." He buttons up his shirt and she frowns. "Are you lying to me?" She questions. "What? No!" He lied again. God I hate lying. He said to himself. "It's about Claire is it?" "No. Why would you think that?" "Let me read your text message." "No." "Then Claire texted you instead of Chris! Piers you don't have to lie to me. I take rejection pretty well."
"Helena. I'm not lying to you. Trust me on this okay?" He kisses her on her forehead and then jumps out of her window. "I see that you like jumping out of my window."
"Yeah. I feel like Spider Man." Piers walk away from her house and Helena closes her window curtains. "Where's my phone? I need to text Claire!"