In a way, I was happy I had such a stress reliever. It prepared me for the next events that were to come. Aryiana clung to Sage and I more than before and she felt as though she was being too needy, but we didn't mind. The fact that she was talking was what I was looking at. If she was quiet and shut down..thought that no one cared, who knows what she would do?

We stood in front of my locker as I gathered books, Aryiana gazed around and pulled at her rubber band; it stood out to me, like a red flag. She pulled it at school often in anxious situations and mostly during school in fear of seeing...him.

"What are you going to say to him?" She asks for the fourth time this morning, I close my locker and place my hands on her shoulders. "Are you sure you want me to talk to him? We can just go straight to authorities if you want." I ask her and she bites her lips and looks away, searching for him. "No. I want him to know that I won't be silenced. That he didn't win..." She pauses and looks over at me- but for what? Affirmation?

"He didn't win Aryiana." I say just so she can hear the echoing of my words. So it would sink in for her. We watch as Zachary walks over to Julianna Brooks locker, grinning wildly and stroking her arm slowly. Julianna giggles and grips his hand and Aryiana groans. "He doesn't deserve to be with Julianna....I do." She whispers and my eyes widen.

"He tried to tell me to back off of her and I said no, I thought she was pretty and apparently she's bisexual so I was talking with her. He didn't like that, he tried to convince me to go to a guy instead and I said I didn't like guys and then he..."

It took every bit of strength that I possessed to not walk over and grip his skll then bash it up against the sharp edge of a table

"Did you sleep with Julianna?" I ask and she nods. "At the party. I want to warn her. I don't want anything to happen to her. To any female Zachary tries to come on to." She whispers and I notice that Aryiana begins to pull viciously at her rubber band. "I'm going to approach her." She whispers and something bold takes over Ary and she walks straight for Julianna. She doesn't make any eye contact with Zachary. "Can I talk to you?" She suddenly says.

I immediately don't like the look on Juliannas face and she rolls her eyes and steps away from Zachary. I back up and give them space to talk and eye Zach. "What?" He asks and I bite my tongue.

You rapist. You filthy rapist. I want you dead.

I couldn't say any of it. Not yet. I look back over to see Aryiana turn back to me with a wide jaw. "What?" I aks in a hushed tone and she grips my hand and leads me away. "Aryiana what happened?" I ask and she leans over. "She doesn't believe me."

"What?" I practically scream.

"Zachary told her that I was unstable and was using my pregnancy from another guy as a cover up to being gay. And that I claimed to be raped for sympathy since Violet was in the hospital and I was no longer getting attention from being popular." She spits out the words like venom and my skin is boiling.

"I'm going to fuck him up!" I scream and turn my heel and she grips my arm. "No. I already know how this story ends." She whispers. "What story?" I ask and the bell rings.

She looks at me with hopeless eyes and a wounded soul. "The story I'll never finish writing..." She lets her voice trail off and she begins to walk up the stairs.

What was she talking about? "Aryiana, let's go home." I offer after her but she shakes her head. "I'm not going to run." She whispers and disappears up the flight of stairs. I turn my back to confront Julianne and Zachary but they're gone as well. I take that time to go to my class, but I can't concentrate.

I feel an anger boil inside me that I never noticed before and I want to hurt Zachary. Not like just hit him a few times but I genuinely want to cause him pain. Slow pain.

Then I felt anguish and loss, this was ripping me apart and I didn't know how to cope with any of it. I didn't know what to do.

I decided that Ian should know, he would believe me. And I needed to tell him quickly before anything else bad happen, but upon my arrival to meeting Ian....Ms. Evelyn already beat me there.

"That's impossible." Ian says shaking his head and I stare from behind the door, out of sight. "It can only be yours Ian. How do you plan to take care of this baby? We might as well get back together. Dating." Ms. Evelyn whispers.

"I told you never again. It can't be my baby Sara. We've only fooled around lately. We haven't had actual intercourse. Besides you're too far along for it to be mine. 5 months!" He says and she shakes her head.

"It's yours. I know for sure." I can't hear anymore, I just simply walk away. My heart thumping my chest and nausea flowing through me.

Even as I walked out of the class door to get some air away from him..... I noticed how quickly rumors spread, in less than 3 periods, it had gotten around that Aryiana was gay, pregnant and accusing Zachary of rape and being the father.

And everyone believed Zachary.

"I heard she's keeping the baby and making him pay child support."

"I heard that she's not even really pregnant, it's just a lie to cover it up."

"She's pregnant?"

Each whisper I heard, I went up to and corrected them. "Bullshit. Zachary fed you all bullshit. You don't know anything thats going on so just shut the fuck up!" I screamed. Of course they all ignored me and steered away from me and that made me even more upset. My mind was racing.

Between Ian and Zachary. I was just angry. Angry that all of this was occuring. Angry that I didn't know what to do or where to turn to.

Everything needed to slow down.

Down the halls, students gazed at me as if I had three heads. They didn't listen to my words. So I went straight to the source.

"Zachary." I shouted down the hallway. Heads whipped around to watch me march towards Zachary's locker. He feigned innocence.

"What's wrong?" He asks me and I lean close to his face. "You're full of shit." I spat at him and he tilts his head. "With what? Oh....your poor friend Aryiana." Zachary says, shaking his head as if he felt sorry for me.

"You can feed everyone else all of those lies but I know the truth. You bastard. You raped Aryiana!" I say and he shakes his head. "She told you that too? Sad girl. However I have admitted to sleeping with her. It's not rape if you enjoy it. She wanted it. She was wearing a tight little skirt and her cleavage was out. How could I not pursue? She wanted me and she said so. It was all consensual." He says and I swallow hard.

"You're a disgusting excuse of a man. Does your ass ever get jealous of the shit that comes out of your mouth? I know the truth and soon everyone will too." I whisper.

The bell rings and the people that are acting as if they aren't paying attention all swiiftly move to class. Zachary grabs a book from his locker and then slams it.

"You really think I did it though? You really must think I have another secret to hide and that I would rape Aryiana knowing that she would eventually tell you, which would lead to other events occuring? That I would make up simple lies to feed everyone because I would know everyone would believe me? That even if you do tell adminsitration about this claim. I'm already prepared for this investigation. You really think that's what I'm doing? I would never!" He says, holding his chest as if he's insulted.

"Marley, I would never take advantage of you. Or anybody and if I came on to you. You would like it. Just like Aryiana did-" I can't hear anymore, I can't speak. All I do is ball up my fist and extend it, feeling my anger course through me as I let my energy sink all into my right arm and watch it collide with Zachary's face. But I don't stop after one punch. I then punch his nose. Then his eye, back at his jaw and I barely notice that we're on the ground until I hear echoing and feel arms on my shoulders.

"You bastard! You're lying. You raped her!" I scream and I notice the blood on the tiled floor. He gazes at me, looking distraught as teachers look at his wounds. He makes direct eye contact and then grins, as I go to say one more thing, I'm turned away, forced to look in front of me. As three teachers haul me down to the office.

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You thought this was intense...you have no idea what's to come. Before I continue any of the upcoming chapters, I will warn you all.

If you have expectations for this book; drop them now. This book is teaching more of a lesson than any of my other books have. This book will be twice as intense as Possession was. I want you to read with an open mind- if you can.

All of this is happening without warning for a reason. All of the tragedies are happening for a reason. The authors note will be more elaborate than others.

This is the last book by Flower for a long long time....so I want to make this book legendary. I hope you all understand.

If you're on a computer, youll see to the right a picture. The girl on the right with the brown hair is Celeste Desjardin, she is a model who I picked to play Marley :)