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What's in it Gerard?" I repeat when he doesn't answer me.

"Nothing." He says and I let go of Ray and take a step forward looking into the empty trashcan. Gerard lifts the lid on the second can. It was empty too. We just stood there looking at each other.  "Maybe one of the neighbors..." He starts to say and I move away from him a little.

"Gerard I've lived here for 18 years and not once has anyone ever dragged in the garbage pails for me." I say holding back tears. Gerard sighed a little and pulled me into his arms.

"Come on lets just go in." He says walking me towards the steps. He didn't know what else to say... There was nothing to say...

Ray went in first, then Gerard then me. We went to the kitchen and Ray started making something for us to all eat. I tried to tell him that I had no appetite but he said I would change my mind once I tasted his frozen pizza...

Ray was standing in front of the oven carefully watching the cheese melt on the pizzas. Mumbling something about taking it out at just the right moment when the cheese starts to brown but before it burns...

Gerard was sitting at the table staring off into space deep in thought. The cigarette he was holding was just burning away untouched in his hand.

"Hey!" I call out startling him a little. The silence was killing me. He looked over and gave me a weak smile.

"Elle I think maybe you should go to the police." Gerard says in a low voice. I shook my head a little. I had already thought of that.

"And say what Gerard that some one sent me flowers?" I laugh a little. "And then they took in my garbage pails for me...Geez sounds like a nightmare!" I say smiling a little and he frowns.

"Elle I'm serious." He snaps at me.

"I am too!" I say shaking my head a little at him. I look over at Ray.

"Well maybe not the police." Ray says looking over at us while still keeping one eye on the pizzas. "But if it is Mr. Samuel then you should go to someone in the school." He says opening the oven door and peeking in and then shutting it quickly.

"Yeah sure Ray, I'll just go complain to uh Principal Bonner that my guidance consular is umm 'taking an interest in my life'!" I say and Gerard frowns. "Well come on! Nothing's happened. You guys are the ones carrying on about proof and all that crap. What proof do YOU have?" I say loudly to both of them.

Gerard looks over at Ray. Ray doesn't say anything. They knew I was right. "Uh pizzas ready!" Ray says flipping the oven off and pulling them out.

"I really don't want to eat." I say and Ray puts the dish down in front of me anyway.

"Aw come on Elle... I worked so hard on this" He pouts a little. Uh he hard worked hard on it? It was frozen. He put it in the oven. He took it out... Its not rocket science...

"Fine." I give in. "Uh can I have some milk please?" I say and Ray nods a little. I should've got up and gotten it myself. I don't know how this happened. I mean Ray started making the food for all of us for lunch once he realized that I couldn't cook. But now he fucking serves us too..."No never mind I'll get it myself." I say starting to get up.

"No stay Elle." Ray says pulling the milk out and putting it on the counter... "You're fucking weird you know that!" He says putting the glass down in front of me a few seconds later. Gerard makes a face at it.

"What?" I laugh a little.

"Milk and pizza Elle?" Gerard says pretending to gag a little.

'Its good you should try it." I said picking my glass up. I was just about to take a sip when I caught a glance of Ray putting the milk away. "Oh fuck, this is Lia's milk." I say nodding towards the container. Ray made a face and turned it to the side and looked at the big L on the side.

"No its not." He says.

"I told you Ray I marked her stuff." I say and he nods a little.

"Yeah and this says "L". That's you- Elle." He says and I shake my head no and try not to laugh.

"Actually that's 'L' for  'Lia'. " I say smiling a little. "Damn Ray you just got demoted." I say and Gerard snickers a little.

"De-moted?" Ray says putting the milk back and shutting the fridge. I swirled the milk around in my cup. Fuck it was covered in Lia's germs... But I didn't want to waste it...

"Yeah you use to be the smartest guy I knew." I say and Gerard laughs.

Ray came walking back towards us. He was gonna say something but I cut him off.

"Did you put ice in here?" I say looking into my glass. There was something floating on the top. Looked like a sliver of ice.

"No." He says like putting ice in milk was the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard. I tilt the glass a little and look in.

There was definitely something floating in my glass. I tilt the glass and reach in to pull it out with my index finger and I get the sharpest pain unexpectedly. My finger felt like it was on fire. Swirls of red appeared in the glass. I screamed out and Gerard jumped up out of his seat as I dropped the glass on to the table. The milk poured out rolling onto the table and dripping on the floor.

"Elle!" He cries out as I clutched my bloody finger in my other hand. I still had the brace on my arm and I couldn't squeeze my hand shut around my bloody finger. Gerard took my hand in his and was examining my finger. "What the hell?" He said trying to figure out what happened. I was starting to cry. "Shhh, its all right I got it." He tried to sooth me.

"Gerard." Rays voice said unsteadily. He was standing up too now. Looking down at the table. Most of the milk had rolled off the table leaving thousands of shards of glass behind.

"Holy shit." Gerard exhaled softly and he looked at Ray. Ray just stood there.

"No." I said shaking my head a little. I pulled back from Gerard and stepped towards the fridge before Gerard could stop me. I grabbed the milk and poured it out in to sink as Gerard called out to me to stop.

I watched in horror as little pieces of glass poured out along with the milk. There were a few bigger pieces at the bottom.

"Fuck Elle why'd ya do that?" Gerard says coming up behind me and taking the now empty container from me.

"What?" I said stepping back from him.

"Well there goes our proof, right down the drain." He says looking over his shoulder at Ray. Gerard reaches in and picks up a rather large piece of glass that was in the sink. He holds it up to the light. It had a rather distinct diamond cut pattern on it.

"That looks kinda like the vase you broke." I blurt out.

"It is the vase I broke Elle..."