Elena
I don’t know where I am. My body is moving as if I’m inside a car. I slowly squint my eyes open, I feel pains shooting up my neck. I growl a little as I try to seat up. I’m in a car, whose car is that? How did I end up here?
Wait.. I remember I was locked in a bathroom! I start to panic when I hear a familiar voice. “ Elena are you okay? Don’t worry we are almost home.” her voice is tense as she say, and she’s driving somehow fast as though some car is chasing her from behind.
“E-Ella?” I try to speak, the pains I feel all over my body are unbearable. My wrist hurts badly, it must be the rope tied on my hands all night. But how did I get out?
“ Elena I’m sorry.” she says as she’s driving, and I can hear a little cry from her voice.
It feels like I’m a little tipsy in some seconds, but after a while of blinking I could clearly see I’m in my car and yes, Ella is the one driving me home.
“Ella! Are you fine? Where did you stay last night?” I’m worried about her instantly that I get my senses back.
“ Elena don’t worry about me. That question should be for you. Are you okay? You don’t look good at all. I’m sorry it’s my fault.” her voice is breaking, as she takes a left turn driving into the main entrance where you would find the house we live in.
“ I’m fine.” I battle to say, gulping saliva down my throat. I feel sore down there, from screaming and crying last night.
“ You don’t sound fine, Elena. Let’s get home first.” she say, tightly holding the steeling wheel as she drive into the garage. I don’t find Avera’s car anywhere.
Yes, that bitch is gone out. I feel I can breathe a little, after discovering I wouldn’t be seeing the bitch now. Not when my whole mind is all messed up. I need to breathe.
“ Yes, that’s right.” I say, rolling my red hair from the bare skin of my neck. It’s itchy and it’s nothing but the alcohol that asshole bath me with last night.
She pull over my car in my favourite parking spot and drop out immediately after taking off her seat belt. She rounds the car, opening the door of the back seat while she supports me out.
I feel weak, I can’t really move on my own. I feel boneless and all thanks to the hell I went through yesterday.
Ella hangs my right hand over her shoulder while she holds the other out. We slowly move upstairs and I’m groaning in pains at every step I take.
She drops me on my bed carefully, kneeling on the floor as she takes my heels off.
She’s done, now she just stare pitifully at my face with tears in her eyes.
“ Why are you crying Ella?” I ask, trying to smile even though my cheek also hurts from Ryan pressing my chin.
“ Can’t you see it’s my fucking fault you are in this state?” she cries out. I don’t want her to feel at fault. Nothing of sort was her fault. She just didn’t know the Quads well, and it’s all my fault I couldn’t stop her last night.
“ Don’t fucking try to beat yourself Ella. It’s my fault. I couldn’t stop you from going.” I say, as I bring my hand to her caramel hair.
“ Go have your bath, we will talk.” she say, throwing her face away as I hear a whimper escape her lips. I don’t know ask why she is crying yet, but some part of me knows why she is.
I say nothing, while I find myself to the bathroom.
I really need a bath like I need to fill my stomach.
My skin hurts from the drink, apart from that it feels sticky I hate the feeling. I throw myself into the hot water in the bathtub and I growl out loudly from the pains shooting up all over my body.
“ Elena are you okay?” Ella knocks at the bathroom door after she hear my loud cry.
“ I’m fine.” I bite down the bottom of my lips not to let out another loud cry.
“ You sure?” she sounds skeptical.
“ Yeah, I will be done soon. Don’t worry.” I say slowly, shutting my eyes as my breathing steady, while I relax my whole body in the water. The pains only hurt once you get in the hot water, but as soon as your body get use to the water, it doesn’t hurt anymore.
I relax a bit, I try not to remember what happen last night. I don’t want to start crying again. All I need to do now is to be strong and not think about the pains.
I root myself out of the water after some seconds, then I grab my towel. I’m wiping my body dry as I step into the room. Ella is still there waiting for me. She’s sitting on my bed while she pinches her fingers and head down.
“ Hey. Are you still crying? Don’t worry about me I feel good now.” I say, and honestly after taking a hot bath I feel much better. I smile at her, as she raises her head up.
“ Can we talk now?” I ask her, and she nods.
I’m not dressed, still on my towel but I don’t mind about that. She ‘s more like a junior sister to me and I’ve been naked around her so many times.
“ Ella they used you,” I start to say as I’m catching my breathe. “ They used you to get to me, Ella.” I tell her, She’s crying again, now the tears is rolling down to her lips like she is truly feeling bad.
“ I’m sorry, I’m fucking stupid to let them use me,” she say. “ I would have listened when you said I shouldn’t go. I thought Darius loved me like he said.” she cries. I let out a low soft laugh, when I hear Darius and I hear love. He is a devil in his beautiful nature.
“ Ella don’t beat yourself. Now do you trust I would never hinder you from anything good? If I do, I’m trying to protect you.” I take her fingers in my hand.
“ I never wanted you to school here in the first place, because I knew it wouldn’t be good if the Quads find out you are related to me.” I’m getting a little warm, now that feels better but doesn’t mean my heart is healing from the guilt. My deadly sin of forgetting my Love’s birthday.
“ Yes, I’m so sorry. I love you Elena. Thank you for saving me.” she eyes lowers.
“ Darius is a monster!” she yells out through gritted teeth. I smile again, they are my mates I know them better. And I know they are not stopping there, last night was just to show this is a warm up.
“ Why the fuck are they after you?” she frowns.
I sigh. “ They think I try to ruin Ryan and besides, they are my mates,” I say. “ I thought I had truly ruined his dreams until I found out it was something I didn’t even do.” I stand as I try to dress up now.
“ What?” she ask.
“ It’s a rape video of him and someone. They think I did it, but I know someone is framing me because I never did such.” I grumble.
“ Fuck them all!” Ella yells.
“ I know. They want to fuck me too.” I say, dragging on a jean trouser up my tiny waist.
“ Elena are you going out? You need to recover.” she stands up coming behind me.
“ Ella, I did a terrible thing. I don’t know if he would ever forgive me.” I turn around to look her in the face. My blue eyes are filling up with tears.
“ What Elena?” her brow arch.
“ Whoever in this world would forget her dad’s birthday? I know I went through a lot last night but does that justify forgetting my dad’s birthday?” I’m letting out the cry, I don’t tell her what I saw Avera doing last night. I still don’t know it I should talk it out to anyone, but until I do I will continue to be suffering inside of me.
“ Shh. That’s okay. I understand you, and I’m very sure he is looking at you up there and he says he understands.” Ella pants my back. When I picture what she just said, I burst out loudly in tears. It feels like my dad is here. Like I could feel him.
“Dad can you see or hear me? I’m very sorry for forgetting. Don’t think I’m a bad person like Avera. I can never be her dad..” I say in my heart as I’m crashing on Ella’s shoulder.
After some seconds I rise up from her hug. It’s weekend and the day is still bright.. I don’t want to visit the cemetry late at night. Now it’s the time I can go.
“ I have to go visit him at his Grave, Ella.” I tell her, my nose is still so red.
“ Yes, do that. I wish I could come along too.” she say in her soft voice.
“ Sure, why not? You can.” I say, wearing a white top that says ‘ don’t give a fuck, always be happy.’
“ I’m sorry. I really need to go visit Andrew's parents.” she is sobbing slowly.
Shit, now I fully understand why she has been so remorseful. Ryan killed him, and you know the annoying thing? The matter would die that way. Just some pay would keep the cops shut up, and some compensation to his family.
I feel really terrible. I fucking feel pissed at myself. Everything is my fault from onset.
“ I’m so sorry about that, Ella.” I say, but she doesn’t stop sobbing and I wonder who he is to her. It looks like she knows him for years, and it’s actually the first time I was seeing him.
“ He was my fucking best friend back from California, he followed me here to New York to school with me.” she whimper horribly. “ He said he couldn’t withstand me leaving California without him. That is why he school in Ivy Prose.” I suddenly feel attacked in my chest.
Fuck! This is so fucked!
I feel terrible. I don’t know what else to say but to pull her into a tight hug. “ That’s okay. You need to go now, and I need to leave soon too.” she say.
“ Are you going like this and are you going to be fine?” she is still wearing her night party clothes, and she's sober.
“ No I would change to something good.” she say sniffing her nose as she cleans the wetness from her cheek, I smile even though it isn’t a free one. I want to make it so.
“ You can go with my car. But first can you drop me off at the cemetery?” I say in my little cracked voice. I don’t feel like driving today, especially when my body aches. I can’t drive.
“ That’s perfect. Thank you Elena. And I’m sorry again at what I caused you last night.” she lets out a smile but her green eyes are still very reddish from the cry.
As she is about to step out, she turns back, “ Hey, here is your phone. Darius used it to text me while you were still unconscious.” when she mentions him touching my phone and my breathing picks up again!