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I look over and see one of the girls Jessica was scheming with in the bathroom coming towards us... I had no clue what her name was.

"What the fuck are you talking about Dana?" Gerard says holding my hand tightly in his.

"Jessica." She says grabbing at his other arm trying to pull him from me.

"What about her?" He says roughly pulling back from her.

"She really got into it with Paul." Dana says kinda desperately.

"What do you mean got into it?" I yell out and she glances over at me.

"They were fighting about I don't know." She sighs not looking at me. She kept her eyes on Gerard... "And then Paul said something about she was his date and better start acting like it and then he said something about going out to his car." She says and Gerard just looked at her. Then he looked over at me... I shrugged. I didn't know what the fuck she
was trying to say...

"Why are you telling me this Dana?" He says plainly.

"Cause I think he's gonna try something! He dragged her out kicking and screaming." She says like Jessica's some kinda innocent virgin and Pauls gonna rape her in the backseat of his car... I rolled my eyes a little bit... The whole story sounded highly unlikely...

"Why don't you go tell Mr. Bonner or one of the chaperones Dana...Gerard and I were just leaving." I say as Gerard squeezes my hand tightly in his. Gerard just looked at me and then at her and didn't say anything.

"Wow Gerard." Dana says. "I guess Jessica was wrong about you, but she had you pegged right Elle." She says nastily turning and walking back into the gym...

I just stood there in total shock...I mean I would've said something back but my mind was spinning...And the look on Gerard's face...I mean I know I just told him that Jessica was up to no good, that she didn't need his help but I started to get a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach...

"Elle I have to go check." He says stepping back from me and I felt like he was tearing my heart in two...

"Gerard..." I say biting my lip a little. He wanted to go check on her...even after all the crap he just told me about putting me first...He was gonna go check on her...

"Elle if you could look me in the eyes and tell me there's no way that he'd ever hurt her, we'll turn around and walk out of here together and not look back." He says and I look down.... I couldn't... I know Paul... he doesn't like to be teased...

Paul's words from before were echoing in my head... about making her sorry.... Fuck...
"Gerard." I sigh a little defeated...

"I'm sorry Elle... I have to..." He calls out as he walks backwards down the hall...I followed him.

"You promised to be with me tonight." I say my eyes welling up with tears.

"And I will be... I'll be right back Elle wait for me inside." He says and I sighed a little as he leans over and gives me a peck on the cheek and darts out the exit.

I went to go back into the gym and Dana was kind of standing in the doorway grinning a little... She was spying on us...She went to say something to me but I shook my head at her like I didn't want to hear it and pushed past her back into the gym.

Everyone was kind of sitting at a big round table towards the corner... Well not everyone... I don't know what happened to Chrissy or Frankie... I hadn't seen them since I got here... But Bob was sitting there with Julia. He had his arm around her whispering something into her ear and she was giggling, and Marie and Mikey were sitting next to them.

Marie was kinda blushing a bit cause Bob had stopped whispering in Julia's ear... He was now kinda licking it as he kissed her, fuck maybe Laura's right and he is a dog, It's either that or Julia's just a slut...

Ray and Laura were sitting across from them, and Ray was still making googly eyes at Laura... it was cute but I just wasn't in the mood... I collapsed down into the only empty chair between Bob and Ray and put my head down on the table.

"You okay? You look a little pale." Ray asks and I feel a hand on my back. I look up. It wasn't Ray's hand... it was Bob's...He had pulled himself off Julia and was rubbing my back now.

"Let me get you some punch honey." Bob says getting up and I shrug and put my head back down... I didn't want punch... I wanted Gerard.... Almost instantly Bob was back. He put a cup down on the table in between me and him.
"Drink it." He commands me. I lift my head scoffing a little...Husband or not...He commands me?.... What the fuck?

I was gonna tell him something when just then little Miss sunshine herself- Chrissy appears behind us. "Oh my god!" She squeals. "You look awful Elle, what's the matter you're not having a good time!" She says and I couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic or not.

"Kinda hard to have a good time when your date's obsessing about some other girl." I say snidely.

"Tell me about it." Julia scoffs and jumps up suddenly knocking the punch cup over that Bob just put down. It kinda spilt all over table and onto him. He jumped back from the table cursing as I grabbed at the napkins trying to clean it up.

"Julia!" He yells as she stomps off totally unexpectedly. He went to go after her but Laura stopped him.

"I'll go." Laura sighs. "Just go dry yourself off Bob." She tells him and he walks off towards the bathrooms...

"What the fuck's her problem?" I say trying to sop up the spill the best I could. I think she might have done it on purpose too... God talk about mood swings... I mean she looked pretty happy before I sat down...

"You really don't know." Marie says softly and I look over a little mystified.

"Marie." Mikey nudges her.

"Know what?" I ask a little frustratedly. There was no way I was gonna clean up all this punch with fucking two napkins... I fold the tablecloth up over itself and throw my hands up in defeat.

"Where's Gerard?" Mikey ask and I shrug.

"I told you he's off chasing after Jessica." I sigh.

"Highly unlikely." Mikey replies.

"Well its true." I say and they all look at me. "What?" I say getting a bit uncomfortable under all their stares...

"According to Jessica's little friend there." I say nodding towards Dana, who was now flirting shamelessly with Jeff across the room.

"Paul was going all 'Back to Future' on Jessica out in his car." I say and they all just continued to look at me.

"Back to the Future?" Ray repeats back to me.

"Yeah you know that whole scene in the back of the bully's car where he saves his mom from the bully." I start to explain.

"Wait, Gerard went after Paul." Ray says jumping up.

"That's what I'm saying." I sing a little.

"Fuck!" He cries out and goes running out the door.

"Elle!" Mikey says starting to get up too. "How could you be so blasé about this?" Mikey scoffs as he stands up.

"Cause she's full of shit Mikey look at her." I say pointing over to Dana who's now dancing with Jeff. "Does she look like she worried about her friend?" I say shaking my head a little...

"Mmm not really." Marie says pulling Mikey back down...

"I'm just so fed up with all this shit." I cry out rubbing my forehead a little.

"Elle I don't know what-' Mikey starts to say. He was gonna make an excuse for his brother... I just knew it... That's what brothers do right? ... that what families are for... Fuck... I felt so nauseous... Mikey was saying something but I wasn't listening...

"I'm sorry Mikey." I say jumping up and stepping back from table... "I gotta get some air, I'm sorry." I apologize as I walk away.

"You want me to come with?" Marie calls out. I shake my head no and walk out the door alone...

I made my way around back towards the bleachers... I just wanted to sit somewhere alone and clear my head...

And that's when I heard them... It was Jessica...and Paul... I couldn't see them cause it was dark and they were kinda underneath the back but I could hear them...

Fuck... I cant believe he took her back here... I mean this is where we use to come to make out when we skipped class... The whole thing kinda turned my stomach...

"Paul please." Jessica's voice rang out urgently.

"Mmm Jess come on." I hear Paul grumbling a little and it sounded like they were struggling...

"I thought we were going to your car." Jessicas voice whines a little.

"Ah this is better babe- no one will catch us here." I hear him laugh... Jessica didn't answer... I knew why too... She wanted someone to catch them... but not just any someone... she wanted Gerard to catch them and then when he did she was gonna pretend that Paul was forcing himself so that Gerard could save her...

"Paul I-" I hear her cry out and then there was more sounds of struggling.

"What the fuck Jess!" He yells out. "I thought you said you wanted this." Paul insists.

"I did...I do...I..." Jessica stammers a little. She was in too deep...That much was obvious...she wound Paul up so tight too... He was about to snap...

"Then come on bitch." I hear him growl at her...Oh he's so romantic...

"Paul you know what I cant do this." Jessica says weakly.

"Aw hell no!" He yells at her. "You fucking tease me all night and now you say you cant do this!"

"Stop! Let me go!" She yells out and I was just about to say something. You know let them know I was here when a slap rang out... I couldn't see it but I know he hit her... I know cause he's done it to me before... And it was so loud that I felt it...

And just like that my mind totally betrayed me... I was no longer standing on the bottom of the bleachers...I mean physically I was but in my mind...in my mind I was back in Brutus's apartment...

All the fear and pain that I tried to bury came rushing back to the surface...I was overwhelmed...so I ran...I just ran as fast as I could back around the building towards the steps...My eyes were filled with tears...I couldn't see where I was going and I tripped...

I tripped on the curb and the heel of my three hundred dollar shoe snapped off but I didn't care, I just had to get away...Suddenly someone stepped in front of me...They grabbed me as I tried to run by...

"Elle baby..." It was Gerard...

"Oh God." I sobbed collapsing into his arms.

"Aw Elle I'm so sorry." He says hugging me towards him. "You were right." He says as I try to catch my breath. "There was no one in his car." He scoffs a little..."I should've listened to you babe." He tells me and I look up and Bob's standing there... So is Ray. "I don't know what kinda fucking games Jessica's playing Elle but when I find her, ..." he says shaking his head in anger.

"Gerard I..." I pant a little trying to catch my breath still...

"Come on Elle, lets just go home okay?" He says rubbing my back. I just looked at him...

Fuck...

Do I tell him Jessica is behind the bleachers with Paul? ...

Or do I leave her to get what she deserves? ...