When Marissa started kissing her phone rather than Scott, Madison gave a cry of rage.
"No!" she shrieked, leaping to her feet. Ignoring Erica and her half eaten sandwich, she raced out into the hallway. Erica followed to find Madison hammering on the door to Scott and Madison's room and screaming to be let in.
Brooke stepped out of her own room at the ruckus, her phone in her ear, just as a bewildered Scott opened the door.
Madison grabbed his lapels and forced him back into the room. Scott staggered back with her, shocked to see Madison; and so angry.
"You were supposed to cheat!" she screamed at him, shoving him back onto the bed. He was so unsteady he couldn't stop himself and fell back onto the mattress.
Next Madison grabbed Marissa by the hair and hauled her up onto her feet from where she was still sat on the carpet. She was still involved in her phone call to Bianca when Madison charged in and didn't know how to react.
"You're supposed to cheat!" she screamed again shoving Marissa down next to Scott making her drop the phone. Madison climbed onto the bed between them, still holding Marissa by her hair. Then she grasped Scott's hair trying to bring their heads together.
"Kiss her!" Madison cried desperately. "Kiss her!"
Both Marissa and Scott looked completely confused by the situation. It had all happened so quickly they struggled to fight back.
"Let them go!" exclaimed Erica hurrying into the room after Madison. Brooke followed too, but she was talking urgently on the phone to whoever was at the other end of the line.
Erica moved to grab Madison and tried to pull her away as Scott and Marissa were now struggling from her desperate grasp.
"Let them go!" she exclaimed again.
Madison screamed with rage as she lost her grip of Scott's hair as Erica succeeded to pull her back. She still had a grip on Marissa though and dragged her back with her.
"It's not fair!" Madison screamed, pushing Erica away. Tears were- pouring down her cheeks; her world in tatters.
"It's okay," said Brooke calmly, holding up her hands and putting down her phone. "Madison, it's going to be okay. Just take a breath."
Erica wasn't sure what had been said on the phone, but the her old nemisis seemed to have a good grip on the situation.
Madison collapsed onto her knees, sobbing uncontrollable.
"They have to cheat!" she wailed.
Marissa was forced down as well her head almost in the carpet as she still struggled to release her hair from Madison's vice-like grip.
Scott sat up unsteadily, looking at Madison in horror.
"Just let her go." said Brooke, her hands still held up for calm.
Madison looked down at Marissa and released her grip. Marissa shuffled back from Madison very unsteadily until she knocked against Erica's legs.
Brooke knelt down beside Madison and consolingly rubbed her back.
"It's going to be okay." she soothed and Madison collapsed down into her lap in floods of out of control sobbing.
"They were supposed to cheat." she whimpered.
Scott dropped from the edge of the bed and crawled towards his girlfriend. He stopped though about a metre away, not sure what to do about her tears or her rage. He wasn't really sure what had just happened.
Erica bent down to help Marissa who was struggling to get up. She got very unsteadily to her feet and was leaning on Erica heavily.
"I feel sick." Marissa moaned and staggered towards the bathroom.
Erica looked to Madison; she seemed to have deflated under Brooke's attention so she followed Marissa just to make sure she was alright. As she passed the bed though she could hear her daughter's tinny voice crying desperately from a phone on the carpet.
"Bianca." she said lifting the cell phone to her ear.
"Mom! Oh, thank god! What's going on?" her daughter asked frantically.
"Madison's had a breakdown I think." said Erica. "She just snapped."
"I know. We know. We've been trying to reach you guys all day!" said Bianca. "But Marissa…"
"I think Madison may have drugged them."
"Is she okay?" Bianca asked anxiously.
"I'll just got and see. She's a little unsteady, but I think she's alright."
"And don't let Madison go." added Bianca. "She needs to go to hospital."
"We won't. She's with Brooke. I think she's calming down." said Erica.
"Should I call Jesse and let you know you've found her?" Bianca asked.
"Brooke was talking to someone." said Erica. "But we need to alert the authorities."
"Okay." said Bianca, "But you'll take care of Marissa?"
"I will." said Erica. "Try not to worry sweetheart."
"Too late." said Bianca with a resigned sigh. "Just please look after her."
"I swear." said Erica. "I won't let her out of my sight, okay? And… and I'm sorry. If I hadn't…"
"Not now mom!" said Bianca, "Just take care of Marissa for me."
"I will… I will…"
All Erica could think was…
This is my fault!
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