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BILLY.

Xavier sighed as he shook his head. "That's my son for you," he murmured. "Always has to make an exit."

Sebastian chuckled in response. "He seems like a good guy," he chuckled, "other than the, um, sleeping around quality."

Xavier chuckled as he tilted his head down. "Yeah," he murmured with a small smile, "I guess you're right."

The five of us glanced around at each other for a few moments before my father placed his hands upon his knees loudly. "Well," my father sighed as he began standing up, "we'll let you kids get back to whatever you were doing before. We'll get back to you guys later."

Xavier stood up as well and stretched his back while Sebastian, Alice, and I stood up from our seats.

"No," Alice cooed as she offered him a small smile. "We weren't doing anything, really. Don't feel pressured to leave."

My father made a face as he shooed away her comment while Xavier chuckled. "Yeah, yeah," my father remarked as Xavier trailed him towards the door. "Go do something fun and less stressful than talking with us."

Sebastian, Alice, and I chuckled as we followed them towards the door.

"Thank you," I murmured as my father opened the door, "for all of this, Dad. Really."

My father offered me a small smile and nodded his head as Xavier walked past him out the door. "Anything to help take the fuckers who fucked with my son and his friends down," he responded.

I smiled widely as my father winked while he closed the door. Now, it was just the three of us.

Alice sighed as she closed her eyes while leaning her back against the wall. "I need a drink," she murmured as her eyes fluttered open.

Sebastian smiled as he gazed upon her. "I would say let's go to Oliver's, but..." he murmured as he chuckled.

Alice exhaled a small laugh while meeting Sebastian's gaze. "There's always what's in our refrigerator," she chuckled while glancing between Sebastian and I.

I giggled as I shook my head. "The people who work here are gonna think we're alcoholics," I mumbled with a small smile, "because all of our alcohol keeps disappearing."

Alice smiled as she winked at me. "Then who's another round of missing bottles really gonna hurt?" she asked while wearing a smirk.

I exhaled a laugh while glancing at Sebastian.

Sebastian sighed as he ran a hand over his face. "I guess I'm an alcoholic now, too," he chuckled, "because I've been drinking as much as you guys have."

Alice raised an eyebrow as she glanced between the two of us. "Shall we invite the boys?" she asked with a wide smile.

Sebastian glanced at me and I nodded my head while wearing a small smile. He sighed before pulling his phone out of his pocket and typing something. "They'll be here in a few minutes," he murmured as he glanced between us. "I guess we're all alcoholics now."

———
OLIVER.

"Let's change the course of history," Zayn remarked as he looked at me through the corners of his eyes.

I sighed as I nodded my head. "Let's do it," I whispered.

Zayn began turning on his laptop and typing in his password before he glanced at me cautiously. "You said you'd triple whatever Austin's paying me," he murmured while raising an eyebrow at me.

I nodded my head quickly. "And I will," I began as I studied him. "What's he paying you? Name your price and I'll handle it."

Zayn studied me before going back to typing his password. "He's been paying me five hundred thousand a month," he mumbled as he hit the enter key and his home screen popped up.

I stepped a foot closer to Zayn as I searched his face. "I'll pay you two million just for this one time thing," I said, causing him to snap his gaze to meet mine. "That's more than triple his price, Zayn. I'll do it."

Zayn's eyebrows raised as his eyes bore into mine. He cleared his throat while slowly nodding his head. "It's a deal, Blackheart," he whispered as his gaze snapped back to his laptop.

I sighed as I nodded my head. "Thank you," I whispered while thanking both him and the heavens for this ordeal that's finally being erased forever.

"Don't thank me yet," Zayn commented as he plugged a flash drive into his laptop. "I haven't done jack shit for you yet, Blackheart."

"But you're going to," I murmured lowly as I watched him.

Zayn turned his head towards me and plastered on a wide smile before turning back to his laptop. "I most certainly am because of the price you're offering," he chuckled as he shook his head. "Money's money, Blackheart. You know I don't give a shit about you and your fuck up."

I sighed as I closed my eyes while clenching my jaw. "Means a lot, Zayn," I murmured as my eyes slowly opened.

Zayn didn't respond to me as he worked his magic with me watching the entire time. I watched him delete file after file and numerous flash drives' contents that all contained my situation from that night.

"Here," Zayn murmured as he placed a flash drive in my hand. "I kept one copy of the video on that drive in case you ever feel the need to watch it."

I studied the flash drive in my hand before raising an eyebrow at him. "Why the fuck would I wanna watch this?"

Zayn shrugged his shoulders as he turned his laptop off. "I don't know," he cooed as he shut his laptop and stuffed it in his bag. "Why would anyone wanna watch Billy and Alice's leaked sex tape?" he asked while raising an eyebrow at me.

I shook my head as I placed the flash drive in my pocket. "Does anyone else have it?" I murmured as I studied him. "Does the girl have it?"

Zayn's eyes stared me down, causing me to take a slight step back. "No one else has it, Oliver," he murmured as he glared at me. "And, wait a minute, Austin didn't tell you?" he asked as he raised an eyebrow at me.

I wore a confused expression upon my face as I looked upon him. "Tell me what?" I asked slowly while searching his face.

Zayn sighed as he clenched his jaw. "First of all," he began as he closed his eyes, "the girl had a fucking name, Oliver." He opened his eyes slowly to reveal that he was still wearing a glare which caused me to slightly recoil back. "Her name was fucking Perry, Oliver."

I gulped as I studied him. "Was?" I squeaked as I felt myself internally panicking.

Zayn nodded his head while his eyes never left mine. "Yeah, Oliver, it was," he responded. "She fucking killed herself the next fucking morning because you along with other four assholes raped her," he mumbled as he stepped a foot closer to me with his duffle bag in hand.

"What?" I whispered as I stepped a foot back. Austin hadn't told me, but I should've figured that this would or could happen. My eyes blurred as the memory of that night kept playing over and over in my head. She was dead. Perry. Perry, the girl I had pushed to suicide, was fucking dead- and it was all my fault. "No," I whimpered as I backed straight into the kitchen counter along the wall. "No; no; no."

"And guess what, Oliver," Zayn murmured as he remained leaning against the counter in the center of my kitchen. "The girl knew who you fucking were but guess fucking what: in the video she made right before she killed herself, she took the other four assholes down and not you. You wanna know my guess? My guess is that she was too scared of how you could fucking ruin her family for supposed 'false accusations,'" he said while glaring at me.

I whimpered as I looked to the ground. "Oh my god," I murmured as a tear slid down my cheek; I watched it as it fell to the floor. I looked up to Zayn to see that he was tapping his foot impatiently. "I'm a fucking monster."

Zayn nodded his head quickly before holding out his hand to me and beckoning me over. "The money, Blackheart," he demanded as I walked slowly over to him. "Give me the fucking money, now."

I gulped as I nodded my head while pulling out my phone. Zayn pulled out his phone as well and had the app linked to his bank account already loaded. "Here," I murmured as I linked our bank accounts so I could send him the money. I sent the two million to him and then set my phone back in my pocket. "There's your fucking money," I whispered.

Zayn smirked at me before pushing past me and walking towards my front door. "Pleasure doing business with you, Blackheart," he called as he opened the door. "Have fun with fucking hopefully conscious girls," he exclaimed as he walked out of my house and slammed the door behind him.

I whimpered as I backed myself up to where I had previously been against the counter connected to my wall and slid down, and I brought my knees to my chest as I stared into open air. I'm the reason Perry killed herself even if there was four other guys who raped her. I was apart of that group at fault. I am the monster.

Tears spilled from my eyes as I buried my face in my knees while wrapping my arms around my legs. Jimmy and his three other friends were in jail for life for not only raping Perry, but for raping other girls as well. Jimmy's friend, Connor, was the one apparently who always roofied their victims, and then Jimmy helped him carry said victim to a separate room where the four could use her. I had found that out after Jimmy, Connor, Julio, and Henry had been caught, and I knew that I should've been enduring a similar type of punishment. Even though I had technically been manipulated and lied to in order to commit the act, I was still at fault here. It didn't matter that I had no clue what was actually going on- I still fucking raped her. It was my fault for being manipulated; it was my fault for being under the influence of numerous narcotics- it was all my fucking fault.

I screamed into my knees as my body shook from the anxiety rushing through me. I had been so selfish and involved with only me that night that I had let myself be manipulated into "sleeping with a girl who wanted to fuck me," when in reality I fucking raped her. I liked sex then, and I still do, but I would never do anything to anyone without their consent. But that was just a fallacy I told myself, because I had done exactly that almost a year ago.

I don't know how long I rocked myself back and forth while in my fetal position while my back repeatedly hit the cabinet below the surface of the counter, but at some point in time my phone began to vibrate. I sniffled as I wiped my eyes before pulling my phone out of my pocket only to see that it was Billy calling me.

"Hello?" I sniffled into the phone as I tried to calm myself down.

"Oliver," Billy exclaimed happily, and possibly drunkenly. "Leave your stupid ass party, or your godforsaken house, and come party with us!" Yep, he was definitely drunk. I only knew that because I was still convinced that Billy hated me even though he had told me today that he didn't.

I chuckled softly into the phone as I closed my eyes. "Where are you guys?" I murmured while chuckling.

"We're at their hotel room, Snowflake," Anthony exclaimed into the phone while the others burst out laughing in the background. "Get your stupid ass over here and play catch up!"

I giggled as I wiped more of the tears away from my eyes. "I'll be there soon," I murmured with a small smile. "Leave some liquor for me, please," I cooed.

"What's wrong, Snowflake?" Anthony asked as the background noise ceased. "You're always acting like a cheery little shit and now you're all quiet and mopey," he remarked.

I inhaled silently as I tried to cease more sobs from escaping my lips. "Nothing's wrong," I chuckled in response. Think, Blackheart, think. "I just watched The Conjuring and got scared," I murmured. Ok, I know that's a terrible lie, but it's actually happened before, ok? Yes, I'm the little bitch who cries at scary movies. Genuinely, when I watched The Conjuring for the first time when I streamed it onto my tv, I had a blanket pulled over my face the entire movie while I sobbed. I had known I was a little bitch even before that, but when I watched The Conjuring I had been genuinely trying to get over my fear of scary movies. I immensely failed. I'm still a little bitch who can barely watch horror films without calling the police. That happened before, too. I had watched Annabelle, another movie of The Conjuring series, by myself and had later on heard a weird noise in my house while I was trying to sleep. Long story short, I had called the police while crying in my bed and they showed up only to tell me that the noise was coming from the window I left open in the kitchen- don't get me wrong, the screen was still in place and everything- where a bird was currently building a nest. Needless to say, that scared me a little too because birds terrify me and they have ever since I was a kid when one poked my toe with it's beak. I cried that day, too, and now I hate birds. Wow, I am a little bitch.

"Oh, Snowflake," Anthony exclaimed into the phone as he chuckled, "get your stupid ass over here and drink away the demons!"

I chuckled as I nodded my head. "All right," I murmured as I began standing up. "I'll be there soon, but without the demons," I joked.

"Good," Sebastian exclaimed out of no where. "Don't bring any demons over here," he drunkenly slurred.

"The only demon that will be coming is me," I joked as I grabbed a set of car keys out of my little bowl that held them. I took the flash drive out of my pocket and placed it in the bowl before heading towards my door. "I'll let you know when I'm there," I chuckled.

"You better," Alice drunkenly slurred in the background. "Otherwise we may think it's a ghost," she sang airily as she made ghost noises.

"Stop," Billy demanded in the background while failing miserably at whispering. "You're gonna scare him, Alice."

"I can hear you, Billy," I chuckled as I closed my front door behind me and hit the unlock button on my car keys.

"Shit," Billy whispered before murmuring, "how?"

I chuckled as I shook my head. "I'll see you guys soon," I murmured before ending the call.

Thoughts continued to whirl around in my mind as I sat in the driver's seat of my car and turned it on. Every fucking song that I skipped on my playlist reminded me more and more of that night which just caused me to throw my phone in the passenger's seat and deal with the silence. I hated myself, I hated Austin, I hated Jimmy, I hated Jimmy's friends, I hated Zayn- I now hated a lot of people. And I was definitely going to be drinking away as many memories as I could tonight.

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