So last night at like, 12 at night, I was watching the ABC family movie 'Cyberbully,' and I have never cried so much at just one segment during a movie then one on that movie. I'm surprised I didn't wale up my parents with my crying. I never thought an ABC family movie would make me shed a tear, let alone a million. Now, what I'm doing in this memory was planned since the beginning, but watching the movie really gave me more depth to go with it. Before it was going to be short, but now it's going to be a little longer then it was originally planned. I'm looking forward to writing this chapter. Especially when I get out of the memory. This will be fun ;)
And if you want to watch the movie, I found it on youtube. It's actually really good, in my opinion. Since I kind of went through what the girl went through a few years ago, it hit me hard. It's an hour and a half, but so worth it: watch?v=shnAPc3wYbA
Now, on with the chapter.
Anna handles phone in her hand, looking out her window. Aria was sleeping in her room, not knowing what her mother was thinking of doing. She stares back at the laptop on her bed and the phone in her hand. Thinking quickly, she drops the phone and runs over to the laptop, smiling.
Her mother told her never to get involved with chat rooms, but it was just too appealing. She opened up a private messaging and typed in Lily Beckor. It popped up and she typed something in.
AnnaW-Hey Lily!
It takes a while to reply, but Lily eventually does.
LilyBec-You finally got a laptop, huh?
Anna types back excited. Her mother had gotten her one.
AnnaW-Yeah! When my mom came back from her meeting, she got me one! I'm so excited to have this! They seem so cool! I never imagined something like this would happen in technology.
The two talked for a while, and then Lily brought up school, making Anna cringe.
LilyBec- You're heading back to school this year. You haven't been there for three years and rumors have spread. Daryl and I have tried to stomp them, but they just keep coming. You need to be prepared for these kinds of things. Especially in the chat room.
Anna sighs and looks over to the set backpack to go back to school. She had been nervous about it, but this was her senior year. She had to go back. She was going to go back in sophomore year, but she wanted to raise her baby correctly. Now, Aria was heading off to preschool and Anna was going to complete her senior year. She types back.
AnnaW-I know that. Daryl's told me everything. But I need to do this and face everyone. If I don't, I'll just be a coward. I don't want to be a coward. Tell them the truth. I need too.
The girl takes a while to type back.
LilyBec- I hope you know what the hell your doing, Annabelle.
Anna doesn't type back. She needed to be ready for what was about to happen. Jack was still in the school because he was left back. She had met him earlier this summer before her 18th birthday, but this was real. She needed to do this.
Four Months Later-December
Anna gingerly closed her locker and walked as fast as she could down the deserted hallway before anyone could see her. Everyone was in class right now, which meant no one there to torture her. No one there to ridicule her.
As soon as she walked into the school the first day, she was met with stares, gossip, and cruel, cruel words. Everyone thought she was a slut. A whore. Dirty. No one seemed to like her anymore. All her old friends besides Lily, Joey, and Daryl had abandoned her and fallen victim to the rumors, even joined in sometimes and poking fun at her.
Everyone laughed at her.
She wasn't the girl she used to be. She didn't look like other girls. She had turned kind of tomboyish in the past year. She didn't like to show off her body anymore. Only for her NYU audition did she actually wera clothes that fit her.
Right now, she was wearing a red plaid shirt and some baggy jeans that barely fit her around the waist. She wore some sneakers on her feet. Her hair was in a ponytail.
This was her senior year. This was supposed to be a high schoolers best year. They were above everyone, got all the privileges and were looked up to from the younger people. Instead, she was ridiculed for something that wasn't even her fault.
She hated everything. All she wanted to do was go crawl in a hole and stay there where no one would find her. Even her friends. Even Daryl.
She turns a corner, her bag in her hand, expecting not to find anyone there, but is shocked to find a group of girls all gathered around one person's locker.
Heather.
Heather was Jack's girlfriend. She was the freshman he took behind the barn back in the year before freshmen year. She hadn't gotten pregnant and she wanted to have sex with him, but Anna didn't and yet she did. Why did life fucken hate her?
The girl was just as mean as Jack, maybe worse. They would corner her in the hallway or even outside of school. They would hurt, trip her. Anything really. She had bruises on her body from when they had pushed her in front of a moving car. She hadn't been run over, but she had been hit, and she had bruises on her whole entire right side of her body. She had been hurt so much.
Her friends were usually around her, Daryl the most. He usually scared away most of the kids because he really did threaten them. And Anna loved that he did. But when she was alone, they would get her in the most tiniest of places. School, home, even gas stations.
Chatrooms.
Heather notices her, as do the other girls. They all share a crimson smile and walk over to her, backing Anna up near the wall.
"Well, if it isn't whore Williams. Ditching class?" Heather taunts.
"You're doing it too," Anna says, somewhat weakly back.
"I bet she's heading out to slut it up form some money. That's the only way she could afford to pay for her little baby," one of the other girls says. Heather smiles.
"Oh right, the devil child. How is she? Just as screwed up as you, I hope? Just as stupid? How dare you even say that Jack raped you. He would never touch anyone as ugly as you, you bitch."
"Wonder if she's already gotten pregnant again," another girl says.
"Is there another monster inside that ugly little body of yours?" That made Anna cringe slightly. She wasn't bone thin, like these girls. But she still had a skinny structure, that was an hourglass shape. But she guessed it's never enough for these people. They thought she was the ugliest girl alive, even though all of them really looked like skeletons.
"Hey, get the hell away from her," someone says from down the hall. All the girls, including Anna, look down and see Daryl coming down the hall. Anna breathes a sigh of relief. Heather smiles at him, trying to charm her way out of trouble.
"Hey, Dixon. I have a question for you. Why do you chose to stick with this crap when you could have some real ass somewhere else?" Daryl glares at her and pushes through the mob of girls to get to Anna. When he does, Anna smiles at him and he takes her out of the group from the middle. "Well, answer."
Daryl turns back to them. "Because all of ya are nothing but a bunch of bitches who'll do anything for a dick in ya. Sorry, but I don't like girls like tha'. Plus, ya have a bony ass. No guy likes that."
"Then why do you hang around her?" Heather asks, ignoring the last statement. "She got screwed and had a kid. She's nothing but a whore."
"Because I know the whole story. So fuck off." Daryl puts an arm around her shoulder and leads Anna away from the group of girls, who were glaring at the two. When they're out of sight and earshot, Daryl turns to her. "Are ya ok?" Anna nods, a little fazed.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She looks down. "Can we please get out of here?" He nods and grabs her hand, and both of them walk out the nearest door and out of the school. It was officially ditch day.
"I want to kill all of them," Anna says later on when they're eating at the park. "I want to kill every single last one of them. Everyone. I hate everyone. Except you, Lily and Joey."
"Not everyone is terrible. They just follow the rumors. Ya have to kill Jack and the group of girls. Especially Heather. God I hate that bitch," he says, taking a sip of his beer he bought. She chuckles and takes the bottle from his hands. "Ya sure ya can handle that?" he asks, amused.
"Do you know me?" she asks, before taking a sip and giving it back to him. "And what is with Heather anyway? Why is she like being a bitch to you but also like, hitting on you at the same time?" He rolls his eyes.
"Jack and Heather are perfect for each other. Both are people who go slutting around. She's been lookin' at me since freshmen year and would always say things to make me abandon ya or somethin' like that because she wanted to get in my pants. Fat fucken chance." She smiles.
"Have you ever kissed someone let alone be with someone?" He shakes his head.
"I've kissed people, but never really been with someone. No girls ever seem ok. All of them are sluts. The only girl I ever met that was remotely classy was ya."
"I'm not that classy."
"Yer a lot more classy then a lot of the other girls in that stupid school." They're silent for a second, watching the small kids play on the playground. "Do ya still do that stupid chat room?" She groans.
"Daryl-"
"You're still doing it," he sighs.
"It's not like it's that bad-"
"Anna, it's terrible. Do ya see the things they say about ya? It's just addin' fuel to the fire!" She looks down and waves her hands.
"I don't know what to do, I'm addicted to seeing what they're saying. I have to see. I don't even talk during it. I just look and see what they're saying so I can see exactly what they think and…" A few tears slip down her face but she wipes them quickly. "It's bad. But I'm living with it."
"Ya weren't able to live with it today because ya ditched school."
"Sometimes it's too much, but I can handle it most of the times. I'll be fine, D." That was one of the biggest lies she had ever told.
Anna got home late that day. Her parents were gone. She drops her bag and runs upstairs to her room. After Daryl had dropped her off a few blocks over, Heather was there again. And this time there was no Daryl to help her. He had already left.
Now she had a fresh new bruise on the side of her face.
She slams her bedroom door and leans against it, sliding down to the ground, tears rapidly escaping her eyes. Why did this happen to her? Why do people believe this shit? Why do people hate her?
Sobs racked her body, but she eventually slowed down enough to grab the tissue box above her and wipe her eyes, blowing her nose as well. She grabs her pillow and puts it between her legs, hugging it to her body, something she had been doing ever since she started school again.
Her eyes travel to the laptop sitting on her desk, which was only a few feet away from her. She gets up and sits in her chair, cautiously opening up the laptop.
The first thing she saw was the chatroom website. She was logged on, just not in a chat room. She places her hand on the mouse and looks for the chatroom where her school talked all the time. It was her only source of info.
She clicks on the link and it send her right to the room, and people were talking. She reads closely. They were talking about her.
LinGrik-Anyone in 4th period Ms. Eckers English today? Did you SEE Annabelle Williams?
MattRi-God she looked terrible.
LinGrik-I wonder if she's sick
DaphNic-She probably got an STD from someone she fucked.
LinGrik-lol probably true.
MattRi- Is she really that horny?
DaphNic-She's so starved for attention that she just does it so people will like her, when in reality, we all hate her.
JoshEg- Rumor has it that she's been screwing the whole football team.
MattRi- I wouldn't touch that girl in a million years! She's a liar and a whore. She said Jack raped her but who has proof? No one. She probably just wanted a kid so she could get special treatment from colleges and shit.
JoshEg- So agree.
LinGrik- such a slut.
HeyitHeather- Oh we're talking about our favorite person are we?
LinGrik-Heather!
MattRi- of course we are.
HeyitHeather-She ditched school today to go hang out with that redneck piece of crap. Twenty bucks said she gave him a quickie outside school halls.
LinGrik-I'll take you up on that!
JoshEg- Probably true. They're always together. Maybe the kid is his.
HeyitHeather- Even though he's trash, I think he can do better than her though. She's nothing. She should just kill herself. No one's going to care. I don't even think her parents love her because she got pregnant at 15.
LittleTina-Yeah, she should just do the deed.
LinGrik-Hell yeah!
MattRi-Overdose on pills.
LinGrik- or slit her wrist!
JoshEg-Maybe hang herself.
HeyitHeather-Drink bleach and then overdose on pills. It would be a very quicker death. Get rid of her ugly face once and for all.
Anna is crying and steps away from the laptop. No one cared. No one ever said anything to defend her. Everyone hated her. Tears raced down her cheeks, soaking her shirt.
She looks to the bathroom and breathes in and out.
No one would care.
She gets up from her chair and walks into her daughters room. She couldn't do this anymore. She had to make a decision and this was it. She leans down and kissed her daughter forehead, lingering a little before leaving and taking her phone in her hands.
She dials Daryl's number and waits as the phone rings. She hears him pick up and is silent when he speaks into the phone.
"Anna?" he asks. "Hello? Ya there?" She takes a deep breath.
"I'm done," she mutters into the phone.
"What do ya mean Anna?" she hears him ask.
"Goodbye, Daryl," she says, hanging up.
Daryl stares at the phone in his hand for a second before realizing what she was doing. He drops is and grabs his keys. "No…no, no, no, I will not let her do this to herself," he says as he gets into his truck and drives full speed towards Anna's house.
Anna goes into the bathroom and takes out the pills her mother always had.
Daryl races through the traffic lights, not caring if he would get a ticket or be chased.
Anna grabs the lid, but finds it hard to open, and tries again and again, but it won't open. She cries out in frustration.
Cutting his time in half, he pulls up to the house and gets out, running through the door and up the stairs.
Anna hears sounds and stays quiet. She had to do this. She tries the cap again but it just won't budge.
Daryl goes into her room and looks at the laptop. He frowns at what he sees, narrowing his eyes. There was no way in hell these bitches would get away with this. He hears a cry from the bathroom and he runs towards it, opening the door as soon as his hand touches the doorknob.
Anna is there and she's trying to open the pills, tears streaming down her face.
"I can't open the top," she cries, trying harder. Daryl comes over to her and takes the pills from her hand. "Give it back to me!" she screams, reaching for them, but he throws them to the other side of the bathroom and keeps her in his grip, his arms around her.
"No, I'm not lettin' ya do this to yourself," he says, still holding her back. She cries again, turning around to meet his eyes.
"Let me go!" she screams, punching his chest. He just holds her closer.
"You're not doing this, Anna," he says sternly. "I ain't lettin' ya go." She finally gives in and slumps against his chest, crying into his shirt.
"I want it to end," she cries. "I want it all to end."
"Me too," he says, cradling her in his arms. "And it will."
Present
Daryl sat in his cell, thinking about what Anna had said to him before she left with Maggie. They had kept it a secret for a month. But everyday just got worse for him and her with Carol as a threat. And now he really didn't want her around at all if she was threatening Anna.
His family.
Anna, Aria and Scarlett.
Even the rest of the group was now threatened by Carol and her crazy obsession with him. He had to do something. And Rick was walking right past his cell now.
"Rick, we need to talk. Now." Rick stops in his tracks and glances into the cell where Daryl sat. Daryl stands up and walks over him. "It's about Anna."
"Are you two finally together?" he asks. Daryl raises an eyebrow at him. Rick chuckles. "It was obvious form the moment you brought her back that you loved her." Daryl's silent for a second, but nods.
"Yeah, we're together, but that's not what this is about. Anna and I, we've been together for a month and a half, but Carol's been threatening Anna to kill her." Rick raises his eyebrows.
"To kill Anna? Why? Has she done anything?" Daryl shakes his head.
"Carol has some weird demented thought that I'm in love with her because I searched so hard for Sophia. I only thought of her as a friend, but now I just want her gone. She can't be here and threaten Anna. She has to leave."
"Whoa, has she actually done something to Anna?"
"She almost killed her a month ago. She cut her arms, trying to slit her wrist or stab her. I can't have her here." Rick nods.
"I'll talk with the-"
"No, she needs to leave now, Grimes."
"Daryl-"
"I love her, Rick," he says, coming closer to the man. "I love her more than anything else in this world. I've loved her since before all this. I love her, the kids, and having that crazy bitch around is not helping. She threatened to kill the kids too if she didn't get what she wanted."
"Daryl, you need to-"
"Scarlett's my kid," Daryl says, interrupting him. Rick's eyes widen, his hands on his hips, staring at Daryl.
"She is?" he asks, more amazed then surprised.
"Yeah. I was with Anna before this, and we did it, and we had Scarlett. She's my daughter. And now I'm with her and Anna again. I care for Aria like she's my own. I can't have Carol here anymore. Not when she's threatening my family." Ricks silent.
"We need to talk to the group. Anna should be back-"
"RICK!" someone yells. Both of the men turn to see Maggie and Anna coming down the cell block towards them. Maggie has a determined look on her face. She walks right up to him. "Carol has to go, now."
"You know, too?" Rick asks. Maggie nods.
"She just told me. This woman can't be here anymore. She has to go." Said woman walks through the cell. Carol see's the four of them gathered together. She raises an eyebrow at Anna, glaring slightly.
"You spreading rumors about me, Annabelle?" she says. Anna glares at her.
"You're not staying here for much longer, so just shut up so we can figure out what to do with you." Carol's eyes widen and she looks at Daryl and Rick.
"You can't let her do this, Rick. Daryl? What about all we've been through?" She says walking up to him, but he pushed her away.
"You're threatening Anna and the kids, and I don't want ya here. I've never wanted ya that way, and I don't know what made ya think I did, but I don't. I love Anna. I always have. And ya need to leave, crazy bitch." Anna smiles at the end. She didn't think he would call her that.
Carol glares at Anna and walks over to her. "This is your fault!" she screams. Anna backs up, but Maggie goes in front of her to protect her.
"This has gone on too far enough, Carol," Maggie says. Carol continues to glare at Anna, but she puts Maggie's arm down and mentally tells her that it's time for her to speak. She walks up to Carol and looks her straight in the eyes, glaring right back.
"I never wanted to be the person to be hated on. I was bullied for a long time in Senior year. Even went as far to try to kill myself. But you know who saved me from that? Daryl. He has been with me through everything, and nothing you say, nothing you do, can tear us apart. Nothing. So you should just give up and let it be. And I'm sorry, but you're threatening my family. I can't have you around."
"You're nothing to this group," she randomly says, but Anna turns away and rolls her eyes. "You may go on raids and to the woods, but all you do is whore yourself out to Daryl. At least I actually-" She gets cut off, by Anna's fist.
She hated that word.
Whore.
"That's it," she growls, slapping Carol across the face, causing her to stumble back. She tries to get to her again, but all three of the others keep her back to prevent her from killing her. "Let me go! So I can cut her like she did to me!" she yells.
"Anna, I agree, but ya have to calm down. Killin' her ain't the way to go right now." She still struggles against his grip . "I ain't lettin' ya go, ya know that, right?" he whispers in her ear. She finally calms down enough, but is still glaring at Carol, who was now passed out from the slap she had delivered. Anna looks at Rick.
"What are we doing with her?" she asks. Rick looks at the passed out woman and looks back at Anna.
"She's passed out right now, so we're locking her away in one of the cells until we figure out what to do. We're talking to the council as soon as possible so we can get her out. I'm spry we didn't notice this earlier. And another thing, Scarlett's Daryl's daughter? Why didn't you tell us?" he asks. Anna chuckles, looking down.
"I don't know...because of her. But that didn't stop her from trying to kill me. Now that she's almost gone…"
"She will be gone," both Maggie and Daryl assures. Rick nods.
"Something will be done. I'm gonna go talk to Hershel to call a meeting." He walks away and Maggie looks to Anna.
"You ok?" she asks. Anna nods.
"Yeah." Maggie chuckles.
"That was quite the punch. I'm surprised the slap knocked her out and not the punch. It looked like it hurt." Anna smiles.
"I've always know how to pack a punch. She was asking for it anyway."
"And completely deserves it." She places a hand on Anna's shoulder. "Something will be done about her. Don't you worry. The kids will be fine and will you two. I gotta go find Glenn, but make sure you like that bitch somewhere where she can't get out." Then she walks away and Anna turns to Daryl.
"Daryl-" He cuts her off by placing his lips on her, effectively shutting her up. She sighs and replies, wrapping her arms around his neck. When he pulls back, their foreheads are touching and he looks her in the eyes.
"She ain't staying here any longer. Not if I can help it. Ya already got Rick and Maggie on your side. Won't be harder the get the rest of the group." She nods, leaning up and kissing him again. When she pulls back she runs her finger through his hair.
"I love you," she murmurs, kissing his cheek. He smiles and turns his head, connecting her lips with his.
"Love ya too," he says when he pulls back. "Now, let's lock her up."
AND SHE'S OUT OF HERE! This chapter took me longer to write because my laptop started to act crazy, so I had to move this over to my main computer. But now it's done! Next chapter will probably be more kids based, because I kind of left a cliff hanger with Aria and Scarlett in the last chapter, but it will also have Anna and the whole group. Hope you enjoyed! Review! (please excuse any spelling errors. Sometimes my keyboard hates me.)