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I went in to the locker room and Jessica came in right behind me. I don't even know why I had to even be in gym class. I had that fucking metal brace on my arm still. I should've asked if I could sit out. Maybe go to the library or something.

Naw. I don't want to sit in there with that fucking bitch librarian. Hey...maybe she's the one that sent the flowers...She's never liked me...and she has access to the same fucking files that Mr. S does. I did leave that chipmunk book out. I mean I didn't put it away that day. I just left it on the desk. Maybe she flipped out and swore revenge on me?

Oh stop it Elle. Now you're being ridiculous. Talking about how Gerard's got paranoid delusions. Fuck. Good thing no one knows what you're thinking! I laughed a little to myself.  Oh fuck. Everyone's almost done changing and I'm just spacing out...

"Don't forget to lock my locker Elle." Lisa calls out from the doorway. I nod a little as she leaves. Fucking Lisa man.

Class hasn't even started yet. I don't know why she's in such a fucking rush. Hell she's probably out there doing extra jumping jacks or something.

I was still fussing with my shoes. It's hard to tie laces with one and a half hands. I mean the brace was only to keep my wrist steady but it fucking came up kinda like a glove and I couldn't close my left hand into a fist. I struggled with the laces and then I finally got it and I stood up.

"Come on Elle." I hear Jessica say behind me. " We're the last ones left still in here." She giggles a little. Fakely of course. I don't think she had a sincere bone in her body.

"I'm coming." I say reaching in to grab my sweatshirt.

"Don't forget to shut your locker." She kinda talks over me and as I was reaching in she slams the door shut.

"Aaaah." I scream flinching a little. I look over at her in horror clutching my arm back against me. She covers her mouth a little and gasped.

"Oh my god Elle. I'm so sorry are you hurt?" She says pretending to be concerned. I pull up my sleeve and look at my arm. The fucking metal brace was dented. She slammed the door so hard it dented my arm brace!

If I didn't have the brace on she could've broke my arm. She looked over the arm brace blankly. I don't think she knew I was wearing it. "Jessica- you." That was all I managed to say as the Coach Marcia came in.

"Lets go ladies." She yells at us.

"Jessica shut the locker on my arm." I say harshly glaring at her a little. Clutching my arm still.

"I'm so sorry Elle. It was accident." She says acting like she was gonna cry.

"You all right." The coach says looking over at my arm brace. "You're not hurt or anything are ya? Need to go to the nurse?" She says and I shake my head no. "All right then it was just an accident Elle." She says and I swore Jessica smiled a little. "Now lets go -go- go." Coach Marcia chants at us motioning towards the door. "Calisthenics waits for no one." She yells as we walk out and I roll my eyes.

"Fucking took you long enough." Bob mumbles as I walk out. He was waiting by the door. "You all right?" He says noticing my expression. I was still kinda in shock from what just happened.

"Yeah I..." I looked over at Jessica. She was smiling at Joey what's his name again. Touching his arm. Giggling a little as he flexed his bicep for her.

"You still worried about her?" Bob chuckled a little.

"I just don't like her." I say as we head outside. It was unseasonably warm and fucking Coach Marcia was running class today. She wanted us to jog around the football field. And for those of us who cant jog, and she said this looking directly at me too.. For those who don't jog, they can walk it but you loose a grade point or some crap. Bob could've easily jogged it, but he walked along side of me.

I guess Jessica was going for the jogging option cause she jogged past me and Bob and then she looked over her shoulder and smiled at him a little. "Bitch." I mumble under my breath and Bob heard me.

'What'd she ever do to you Elle?" He chuckles watching her as she moved further and further away. I guess when he no longer had a good view of her ass he turned back and looked at me.  "What?" he said as I made a face at him.

"What did she ever to me?" I laugh sarcastically. "Well not to mention the fact that she's totally flirting with you, my husband, right in front of me no less!" I say and he laughs. "She fucking tried to break my arm." I say and Bob rolls his eyes a little.

"Jessica!" He says like he doesn't believe me. I nod. "When?" He laughed.

"When, like two fucking seconds ago." I say holding out my arm brace. "Look." I say and he slows down walking a little and looks at my arm brace.

"What?" He says frowning a little running his fingers along the dent.

"She fucking shut Lisa's locker on my arm Bob. I mean she said it was an accident but...." I stopped walking and sniffled a little. Coach Marcia blew her whistle at us.

"Lets keep it moving Miss Waller." She yells from across the field.

"Come on Elle." Bob says tugging me a little to keep up. It was silent for a minute. "So you think she did it on purpose?"

"I don't know." I sigh. We were halfway around the field now. Coach Marcia was setting up for the flag football game.

We just kept walking. I looked over at Jessica and Joey as we passed them. They had both jogged the filed and were sitting on the bleachers.  "I know you want to play Bob." I say and he shrugged a little. "No really go, jog the rest of the way." I tell him and he shakes his head. "Bob please." I insist. "Ill be fine. You go play and I'll sit up on the bleachers when I'm done." I say and he sighs a little.

"I'm not gonna leave you Elle." He says and I smile a little.

"I really want to be alone. You know think a little." I say nudging him forward. "Go." I encourage him and he refused. He said he'd help me think. How do you help someone think?

I don't know, we did make it around the track eventually. I was able to clear my mind a little we I walked. I told Bob all the crazy things Ive been thinking all day. It seemed like the more I tried to sort through things the more confused I got. Bob said I wasn't crazy. That its sometimes just the simplest explanation. Eventually I ended up on the bleachers cheering Bob along as I watched him play in the flag football game Coach Marcia set up. He was kinda good too. It reminded me off all the times I sat in the same bleachers watching Paul play...

After class I went and changed tried to change quickly cause I knew Bob was waiting. But I don't know. I'm just slow. The fucking arm brace slowed me down and Lisa kept gossiping to me distracting me a little. I kept one eye on Jessica the whole time. She fucking changed so fast and took off with out saying a word to me. I knew where she was going. To Gerard's locker of course.

Probably to tell him how she closed Lisa's locker on my arm. Accidentally of course... He'll probably believe her too.. 

I grabbed my bag and shut Lisa's locker double-checking it was locked before I left. When I came out Bob was standing by the door. He took my bag from me.

"You don't have to carry my bag Bob." I say as he tosses it over his shoulder.

"I know" he says and I take his hand in mine and swing it a little as we walk.

"I mean that's not part of your guarding duties you know." I tease him a little as we go down the hall.

"Yeah but it is one of my husband duties." He laughs.

"Oh yeah what are the others?" I say and he smiles and doesn't answer me. I look down the hallway I can see Jessica standing by Gerard's locker. "aw fuck." I mumble and Bob looks over too. Gerard was frowning a little at whatever she was telling him. As we started to get closer she walked away.

"Elle you okay?" Gerard says pulling up my sleeve a little and looking at my arm brace. I knew she was gonna fucking tell him. Bob dropped my hand when Gerard reached for me.

"I'm fine." I say pulling my arm back from him. 

"You gotta be more careful Elle." Gerard tells me.

"What?" I laugh in disbelief.

"She said you reached in when she was shutting it." Gerard tells me taking my bag from Bob. I look over at Bob and raise my eyebrows a little. He didn't say anything. He didn't get a chance to. Frankie came running up from behind Bob and jumped onto his back.

"Fuck Frankie get off me." Bob grumbled trying to shake him off.

"You bringing me home Bobby?" Frankie says still gripping on to him.

"I’ll bring you home Frankie but not on my fucking back!" Bob yells trying to reach over and swat him off. Frankie jumps off.

"I thought Gerard was gonna bring you and Mikey home." I say and Gerard shuts his locker and just looks at me.

"Oh I thought you guys had something to do." Frankie says looking at me and then at Gerard.

"Well we don't." I say.

"Yes we do." Gerard says and I roll my eyes a little as Mikey walks up holding Maries hand.

"Hey Marie." I say and she waves a little at all of us.

"Yes we do what?" Mikey asks looking at all of us. "What are we doing?"

"Well, I'm gonna go home and get something to eat, since I haven't eaten all day, If you guys want to come you can" I say as we start to walk outside.

Mikey just looked at me a little confused. Then he looked over at Gerard. We were all in the parking lot. A few feet from Rays and Bobs cars. I was gonna walk home. Like I do everyday. They were all just staring at me. No one was saying anything. Finally Gerard spoke.

"You're gonna what now?" He says stepping towards me.

"I'm gonna go home Gerard." I say plainly. "I'm gonna have something to eat. Maybe take a bath... do my homework. I don't know." I shrug.

"You are certainly not going to eat anything at your house Elle." Gerard says firmly shaking his head a little.

"Why?" I reply.

"Elle are you kidding?"  Ray interrupts. "Who know what the fuck else has been contaminated." He says and I laugh.

I couldn't help it..."Contaminated?" I repeat. "You think my food is contaminated?" I say smiling. They all frowned. And I mean all. Even Marie.

"Elle I don't think you should eat anything there either." She says softly. "Maybe you can stop at like pizza hut or something on the way." She adds and Mikey nods.

"The way to what?" I say and Gerard bites his lip a little. "Don't even say to the fucking police Gerard cause I'm not going." I insist yelling at him a little.

Gerard looks over at Ray. "Can I fucking choke her now?" He mumbles to him.

"You have been bossing me around all day!" I yell a little at him poking him in the chest. "And I didn't say anything." I tell him poking him again. "I put up with your crap... I humored you. I let you all follow me around and what happened?" I say looking over at them all. "Nothing! That's what!" I exclaim.

Gerard stepped back and mumbled something to Ray. Bob grabbed my arm and pulled me towards him a little so I had my back to Gerard.

"We're just all worried about you honey." Bob says rubbing the sides of my arms a little..

"well I don't know why." I moan. "The milk wasn't mine it was Lias." I pout a little.

"Wait what?" Mikey interrupts.

"It was Lias." I say and his eyes light up.

"You didn't say that Gerard." Mikey calls out to him.

"Does it fucking matter?" Gerard snaps at him.

"Well yeah cause if the milk wasn't meant for her it means whoever we're looking for doesn't like Lia." Mikey says thinking out loud a little.

"Well that eliminates very few people in the tri-state area." Frankie laughs. I roll my eyes.

"You got that suspects list Elle." Mikey says holding out his hand. I look at him like oh fuck. "Elle!" he whines a little.

"I'm working on it Mikey." I say apologetically.

"You know what it doesn't matter who the fucks milk it was it" Gerard says loudly waving his hands in the air a little.

"They were in your house Elle." He says and my eyes start welling up with tears. "They were watching you." he says pointing his finger at me and I frown. "Some ones fucking with you and when I find out who." He was becoming enraged. It kinda scared me a little. I stepped back. "And you're fucking acting like its no big deal." He yells at me and

I step back again. Bumping right into Bob. He put his hand on my shoulder and rubbed it a little as Gerard carried on. I tuned him out. Some thing about sickos and perverts and how 'he's' obsessed with me. He still thinks its Mr S...

"You know what Gerard. I know you're worried about me." I said when he was finally finished ranting. "But honestly. I don't think anyones trying to hurt me. You got everyone all wound up and you know what. You should be worried about yourself." I say and he smiles.

"Myself?" He kinda chuckles.

"Yeah I mean you broke the vase. Not me." I say looking down at my shoes. "If someone really is obsessed with me like you seem to believe." I say kicking the dirt a little. "Then you know whats standing in their way." I say looking back up at him. "You."

No one said anything. It was silent for what seemed like forever. Finally Gerard came close to me and lifted my chin a little and looked into my eyes. Tears started to fall. I couldn't help it. If anything ever happened to him especially cause of me I think I'd die. My heart would break and it would literally kill me.

"Elle. Nothing is going to happen to me. And nothing is going to happen to you. I promise you." He says and I nod a little. "I don't want to yell at you baby." He says softly wiping the tears from my eyes. "I just want you to understand that this is serious okay?" He says and I nod. 

He still wanted to go to the police station. I didn't. I some how managed to convince him to wait. That maybe it was just a bad joke. That if anything else funny happened I would go. I  just wanted to get something to eat. He didn't want me eating anything at my house.

The only thing we agreed on was going to Crystals house. But for different reasons. I wanted to go check on Lia. He said he still hadn't gotten a chance to talk to Brian. He wouldn't say exactly what he wanted to talk to Brian for; but I suspect it was probably something about that night at the club when he was tried to 'tip' me.

Somehow I ended up agreeing to go with Bob and Mikey and Marie to get something to eat. And Gerard was gonna go with Ray and Frankie somewhere and then meet us at Crystals. He was real vague about what exactly they were gonna be doing but I was too hungry to argue and he kinda dropped the whole you're going to the police station thing so I let it go.

He was with Ray and Frankie so I wasn't worried. If it was just him and Frankie I'd be worried. But I knew Ray would stop him from doing anything stupid.

"So where do you want to go eat?" Bob asked as we pulled out of the lot.

"Oh I don't care honey." I say leaning back against the seat a little and looking out the window. Mikey and Marie were in the back seat. Bob was driving. I pull out my cigarettes and light one up as he drove.

"Come on now angel pick a spot." Bob says glancing over at me.

"What did you just call me?" I say sitting up abruptly.

"Angel?" Bob repeats glancing over at me smiling a little.

"That's what the card said." I say softly and Bob chuckles.

"So now you suspect me?" He says taking the cigarette from my hand smiling a little at me.

"Of course not Bob." I say pulling out another cigarette and lighting it up for myself.

"What happened to your arm brace Elle?" Mikey asks looking over. I had pushed my sleeves up a little when I lit the cigarette.

"Jessica." I hiss.

"Jessica did that?" Mikey says like he doesn't believe it either. Fuck what does she have them all fooled?

"It was an 'accident' Mikey." I say a little sarcastically.

"Elle." Bob mumbles. I guess he didn't want me to start going on about my theory.

"No tell me." Mikey says.

"Oh Its nothing Mikey." I sigh.

"Elle if it's about whats been happening then you should tell Mikey." Maries says softly. "He's real good at umm mysteries." She says and he blushes a little.

"Yeah well this isn't a Scooby-doo mystery Marie. This is my life okay." I say coldly. I didn't mean to be so bitchy to her. I was just hungry and in a pissy mood.

"Elle." Bob scolds me a little.

I sigh. "Okay I'm sorry Marie. That was uncalled for of me." I look over my shoulder at her and apologize. "I'm sorry Marie." I tell her and she nods.

"So go head and tell me Elle." Mikey says leaning forward a little. "What this about Jessica now?" He asks.

"Did you ever notice how close she is to Dave?" I say and Mikey makes a face.

"Dave?" He repeats back to me.

"Yeah Dave. He sits behind you in math class." I say and Mikey frowns.

"You mean her brother." He says and my jaw drops a little.

"Dave is Jessica's brother???" I yell out turning around in the seat and looking wide-eyed at him and Marie. She nodded along with him. How the fuck did I not know this.

"No Mikey., you mean Dave? From our math class?" I yell again.

"Yeah." He says.

"Mikey she was all over him in study hall the other day!" I say a little disgusted. "I mean she was sitting on his lap." I say making a face. "You saw them Bob, outside of the gym right?" I say and he nods. "Did that look like brother/sister come on!"  I say and he grins.

"Now that's what I call a close family." Bob laughs a little.

"Wait she was all over him at school?" Mikey says like it was no big deal.

"Yes Mikey I'm telling you I saw her." I say shaking my head a little in disbelief.

"And Gerard saw her?" He asks me.

"What the fuck Mikey. That's fucking sick." I say looking over at Bob. He's still kinda grinning.

"They're not blood Elle." Mikey says and I wrinkle my eyebrows a little at him.

"What?" I say a little confused.

"They're step siblings." He says and I roll my eyes.

"They live together right?" I say and he nods. "Grew up together?" I say and he shrugs.

"I suppose. I don't really know." He says.

"I'm sorry Mikey that's still...uugghh." I say shivering a little. "I mean her step-brother come on." I say frowning.

"That's why they broke up." Mikey says rubbing his eyes a little.

"What?" I say.

"Aw fuck." He mumbles. "I shouldn't have said anything"

"too late Mikey spill it." I say waving my cigarette menacingly at him. Mikey sighed a little but Marie nodded him on. I think she was curious too.

"Fine, IF you guys must know...but you didn't hear it from me!" He says shaking his head a little..."Uhh that's why Gerard and Jessica broke up... He umm caught her cheating...with Dave...."