[a/n: this isn't so much a romance as it is just two people with a connection, who like to make others suffer. See Clockwork Orange, or Sid & Nancy, or Bonnie & Clyde, Tiffany & Chucky, for an example of what I'm going for. So, there won't be much romance in here, if any. It's mostly just sort of an inner glimpse of how two extremely fucked up individuals can coexist without killing one another. Sorry if anyone was expecting mush and fluff. Hope this doesn't put anyone off reading it, but as I said before, keeping both my oc and Ambrose as IC as I possibly can here, and sticking to the "kayfabe" aspect.
Love to thank all my reviewers so far, and everyone who's been adding and reviewing anon. You guys are awesome, and I'm glad you like this story.]
" You guys, stop! This is wrong." Eve started to say, but before she could say anything, Brinna had climbed onto the railing, was staring down, tears streaming down her cheeks as she looked at the group who stood by laughing, calling her all sorts of ugly names.
" Umm, no. You were the one who said she needed to be taught a lesson about flirting with your guy, Eve." a girl named Ellana pointed out as she taunted Brinna, "Awww... Are you sad? Are you hurt that Scott knows he could do so much better than you you ugly worthless sack of shit?"
Eve bit her lip, shoved to the front of the crowd and looked up. "Brinna. Get down now."
Brinna shook her head. All she could hear was their shouting, their teasing her, the way Scott and three of his friends tried to force her into going too far, then laughing when she cried, begged them to stop before throwing her out of the car they'd been sitting in, parked, like she was a piece of trash.
And she'd seen everyone standing there. Everyone had seen and heard what was going on.
Eve's stomach churned. Even she knew tonight went too damn far. She'd begged Scott and his friends to only scare her a little, to not do what they did, go overboard.
"Where's your little lesbian bodyguard?" Jane, another cheerleader snarled as Brinna screamed, and lifted her arms to cover her ears, to stop the sounds of their taunts, their teasing, and worst of all, her own best friend's telling her that there was a catch..
That Brinna wasn't worthy enough to catch a guy's attention.
Brinna lost her balance, and over the railing she went, sickening thud to the tracks indicating where she'd landed.
Eve's mouth froze in a scream as she started to yell at her friends, frantically. She ran down the hill, and knelt down next to the girl.
" J-just hang on.. I-I'm gonna call for.."s
Before she could finish her sentence, Brinna's eyes were closed, and the police, the medics showed up. After taking everyone's statements, Eve went home, and she couldn't shake the night from her mind.
And after Syd's confrontation in the hall, she asked her parents to switch her to another school. She just couldn't be friends with her former friends anymore. Not having witnessed what she'd witnessed.
Eve sat up in the bed in her hotel room, gasping for air. She'd been dreaming about that night again, and she kept trying to go back in her mind, try to undo each and everything done to cause what inevitably happened. But she knew that what was done, was done, and there was no way to fix it.
And now an older, and slightly more dangerous Syd wanted her dead. If she tried to tell her, Syd wouldn't grasp that she had tried to stop them, all of them.
And she'd probably kill her on the spot. She wasn't an idiot. If not for Ambrose intervening earlier, Syd was fully intent on stabbing her, right in front of everyone.
She'd seen the look in her eyes.
Rubbing her arms, she groaned then tried to scoot back down into bed, get some sleep. But the past was haunting her, even worse now with Syd on the same roster as she was.