KODIAK

I look at Meaghan and I instantly feel guilty. "get out" i say and she looks at me in bewilderment.

"what? but i thought-" she starts

"get out! we aren't anything and we aren't going to be anything get that through your thick ginger filled head that we're never gonna happen. So make a bridge and get over it. I like maybe even love someone else. You were and will always be just another hook-up. Some girl who couldn't keep her legs shut so as I said before. GET THE FUCK OUT!!!!!" i scream and she runs out crying.

My phone rings and I reach over and pick it up.

"Hello?" i say

"Hello? Kodiak?" Stacy says on the other line.

"yeah, it's me. what's up?" i ask

"Is Tatum with you?" she asks and my eyebrows crease in confusion

"no, i thought she was back at the dorms" i say confused

"no she isn't, last i saw her she went to your room to ask you out on a date. She said she was going to ask you to be her boyfriend on the date and told me she would be back around 12 and its 2:30 and i still haven't seen her. I am starting to get worried she said she would call me if anything changes but she hasn't. Kodi, i have this feeling in my gut that something is wrong she would've called me if she wasn't coming back" she rushes out.

"alright, I'm on my way. Call Robin and tell him to meet us at your room. We'll find her" i say determined.

"okay" she mutters

"bye Stacy" i say

"bye" she says back and i hang up.

i quickly get dressed and rush to my door. I look down when i step on something and my heart sinks to the floor and shatters.

I know exactly what she mean't by we're done. She didn't mean relationship wise because we weren't even together yet. It meant that any possibility of a relationship was not possible now.

"I'm sorry" i mutter "damn it"

The one girl that who would truly love me for who i am, i hurt her. Why did i do that?

She probably ran off after seeing this, but she would most likely go back to the dorms and let Stacy comfort her. Maybe she didn't make it there.

I run out of my room with the polaroids in my hand and run through the court yard. I am almost to the girls dorm when my foot kicks something.

a phone? who would leave a phone out here? I think to myself. I pick it up and turn it on.

It's a picture of all of us at the Cafe but instead of Tatum and I looking at the camera we're looking at each other. It was before that needy slutty waitress asked us to kiss. Stacy had asked her to take a picture of all of us but Tatum had caught my eye right before it was taken and she looked at me. The photo was one of my favorites, I guess Stacy sent it to her and after last night she made it her backgrounds on her phone. That makes me feel a hell of a lot worse.

I make it to Stacys dorm and open the door. When Robin gets here I explain everything that happened and surprisingly Stacy slaps me.

"ASSHOLE!" she shouts "She was doing good, she was clean, she was happy. And then you go sleep with someone else don't you know that's inadvertently cheating. She wanted to be with you and then saw you do the somethings with another girl!" she says and looks at my shocked expression.

"yeah she told me" she says "you should've seen how happy she was telling me this...she looked like she was...i don't know. In love?" she asks "she just looked so happy. I hadn't seen her this happy since she got here. She had something foreign in her eyes when she talked about you. It was hope Kodi... you gave her hope and then you took it away mercilessly" she states and my head hangs low.

My phone rings and i take it out of my pocket.

"hello?" i say

"Well, hello Kodiak" an unknown voice says.

"I'm sorry who is this?" i ask

"well, you don't know me but you did know the person who was the leader before me..." he says

"oh yeah, and who was that?" i ask

"Pierre Ricci" he states and my blood runs cold

"what?" i say strained

"oh yeah, well i killed him and took his position. You know when you left he didn't think you were enough to chase while i knew better and thanks to you i am going to get something out of chasing you. You see at first i wanted to kill you but why would i do that when i can just take away the thing you love most" he says

"if you touch her-" i start

"oh please save the cliche 'if you touch her speech' for someone who cares"

"please don't kill her" i quietly beg

"Now why would i kill her, such a pretty creature she is. When i said take her away i didn't mean kill her i really meant make her unavailable to you. Since she is mine now i really should thank you if it weren't for your such profound displays of affection towards her i wouldn't have found my new and improved leading lady...if you know what i mean" he says and my insides twist with disgust as imagine him smirking.

"are you going to tell me who you are?" i ask

"why would i do that when i would be more fun to see you drive yourself mad as you try to figure it out?" he taunts

"i swear to god-" i start but he cuts me off again

"nah ah ah. No need to swear to the good lord. We wouldn't want you to have bad luck now would we?...what is that saying you Americans have that indicates you won?.." he trails off.

"ahh wait i got it...checkmate" he says and the line goes dead.

"DAMN IT" i yell at the top of my lungs and throw my phone across the room.

"Kodi who was that?" Stacy asks

"i don't know exactly but i do know who took her" i says sadly

"who?" Robin asks

"the Italian mob"