Emily's face looked much worse than it actually was. As soon as Jessica and Ashley tried to help her up, she immediately tried to defence herself, not knowing who touched her. When she recognised her friends, Emily relaxed instantly.
"What happened Legacy?" Ashley asked the young girl gently.
"I tripped and fell on my face" Legacy said without looking at the two older girls.
Jessica and Ashley weren't crazy. Her injuries weren't caused by falling and the two older girls just looked at each other. Both of them knew that Emily hadn't told the truth. Clearly, the younger girl didn't want to talk about it and they decided to let it go.
Instead they took her to Jessica's house so she could clean herself up. After Emily had washed the blood off her face, Ashley took care of the cuts.
"Thank you" Emily said to them.
"You're welcome" they said in unison.
Before Emily left, she made them promise that they wouldn't say anything about it to Beca and the rest.
The next day, Emily did her best to avoid the Double Royalty and the Terror Twins. Somehow she managed to do that until she met Beca in one of the bathrooms.
"Legacy, what the hell happened to your face?" a shocked Beca asked her.
"I tripped over my feet and fell" Emily said.
Since she was known for her clumsiness, Beca believed it.
"Just be careful where you put your feet next time" Beca said before she left.
The next day, Benji walked around the school like a zombie. Guilt was eating him alive.
He knew exactly what happened to Emily. Someone had lured him to go to the abandoned field behind the school yesterday. When he saw Emily and then Pieter and Komissar approaching her, he knew something wasn't right. He was about to yell something at her to warn her when he saw Bumper and Donald coming.
Scared of what was going to happen, he hid himself. He grabbed his phone and started to record them. When he saw them beating up Emily, he just stood there. Not able to move out of fear, he stayed where he was. When Emily collapsed, Bumper and Donald picked her up and carried her away.
Not knowing what to do he saved what he recorded as evidence. Too shocked about what he just witnessed, he sat there. This wasn't fair. As far as he knew Emily was a sweet girl. She was always nice to everyone and helped when she could. She didn't deserve this. He knew that he had to do something. He just didn't know what exactly.
The only two people in school that weren't afraid of the twins were Aubrey and Stacie. Since Benji himself was scared of them he was afraid to go to them. The only two others he knew of that cared for Emily were Beca and Chloe.
He knew he had to go to them. They were the only option in his mind to protect Emily in the future. Since they were older than him, they didn't share any classes. But he knew were to find them.
Beca and Chloe had a secret spot in the school library were they sometimes met to kiss. Benji went to the library in hope to find them there.
Luck must be on his side because Chloe happen to be there studying. Nervously, Benji walked up to the redhead.
"Uhm, Chloe, can I talk to you for a second?" he asked.
"Sure. What's up Benji?" the redhead said with a smile.
"It's about Emily. Something happened to her yesterday. I happen to witness it but was afraid to do something" he said suddenly embarrassed.
"What happened Benji?" the redhead asked now concerned.
Wordlessly he gave her his phone. She pressed the play button and watched the whole film without saying anything. Only the look in het eyes had changed.
"Can you send it to me?" she asked after she saw it.
"I don't have your number but you can sent it to yourself" he answered quietly.
"Thank you Benji for coming to me. I'm not angry with you. I understand why you didn't do anything. It was good of you to record it and come to me though" the redhead said reassuringly.
Benji felt instantly better after he went to Chloe. He hoped it didn't bring Emily more problems.
When Benji left, the redhead immediately sent a message to Aubrey and Stacie to come to the library. She also asked Stacie to bring Beca with her. At times like this she hated the fact that her girlfriend refused to get a smartphone.
Both Stacie and Aubrey replied that they would be there in ten minutes.
When her friends were finally there she showed them the film that Benji had made yesterday.
Angry about what she just saw, Beca stormed out of the library.
"I'm going to kill them!" was the last thing she yelled after Chloe asked her where she was going.