“Nick, you hurt me!” Em shouted. Her eyes glossing over the same they did that morning.
“Why? What did I do?” He asked, not seeing it.
“I understand why it couldn’t work out. That’s okay. But you totally ditched me Nick. I was alone with no where to go. And you didn’t care. That hurt.” Em tried explaining.
“If I recall correctly, it was you who left.” He coldly stated. And she sat beside him, her head bowed to cover the tears that began to fall from the safe haven of her eyes.
“Why? Is it not good enough for you anymore?” He asked with a edge of anger in his voice. She bit her lip to keep the tears in.
“Nick, some of us aren’t as young as you. Some of us…need more…” Em tried explaining.
“By saying some of us, you mean you, and you know what Em, I want MORE too. Just not with you. So how does it feel now?” The memory still fresh in her mind. The pain now was too. Damn him, why’d he return.
“Nick, why in the hell did you come here today?” Em asked.
“Kat dragged me. It wasn’t by choice mind you.” He uttered. She stood up. Suddenly all she wanted to do was kill him. She hurt so much. The rage was like a fire in the pit of her stomach and it needed to see him hurt too. She pulled him up with surprising strength and pinned him against the wall with her long nails digging into his sides.
“Psychotic Bitch, what the fuck do you think you are doing?” He asked surprised and angry too. They had a lot of loose ends to tie up.
“DIE!” She shouted. And began to pound on his chest with her tiny hands. Tears became rushing again. Nick wasn’t being hurt much by her but she was going so fast he couldn’t escape.
Amy and Brian heard the shouting from the kitchen and walked in on the scene. They stood gaping. Brian had just regained control of his emotions to see this. There was the bad part, Nick was talking about. He had hurt her.
“You deserve to die.” She shouted, continuing the pounding.
“PSYCHO!” He screamed. And tried to stop her arms, but ended up grabbing her breast. She caught him off guard and kneed him, his head falling just inches from her crouch, he reached out his hands as a defense only to grab ahold of her pant waistband.
“So YOU GOING TO RAPE ME TOO? YOUR A LYING BASTARD NICK CARTER! I’D BE BETTER OFF WITH EVAN!” Em shouted. Nick let go of her and she ran upstairs, to her empty room upstairs.
Brian looked at Nick, in pain. He didn’t mind much.
“So I guess that’s part of the bad part. Huh?” Brian stated coldly. Nick didn’t say anything as he tried to get his nose to stop bleeding.
“Nick, you never said she was raped.” Brian commented making no attempt to help him.
“She’s psychotic, I am sure she was asking for it.” Nick explained.
“FUCK YOU!” Brian shouted and decked him. Nick smiled evilly.
“oh she did plenty of that. But I guess you wouldn’t know about how kinky side, eh Bri?” Nick taunted.
“Son of a bitch!” Brian exclaimed. He hit him once more in the gut and turned to the bewildered Amy, “I am going to see if she’s all right. I can’t stay in the same room as this tithed.” Brian informed her before leaving her with Nick.
“Nick, if you weren’t hurt, I would leave you too. But instead I’ll do the good thing and get Kat, which wasn’t that hard since they had ran downstairs wondering what was up.
“Nick, what happened?” Kat asked and helped him up.
“That Psycho Bitch Emily and her EX.” Nick said as Kat led him to the bathroom to get him cleaned up. She loved him, always had but these people were her friends and she didn’t know what to do. Moral was such a confusing thing.
“My god, what happened?” Lissa asked baffled.
“I don’t know, Bri and I walked in her cause we heard shouting and she was hitting him and crying and somehow he made a move to her pants and she said something about rape and ran off crying. Was she raped? Then Brian goes up to him and says something about it being the bad part, calls out vulgar comments, Brian was so vulgar. He asked him if she was raped and Nick said that she probably asked for it so Brian hit him a few times and ran off. I don’t want to lose him again to her…” Amy babbled.
“She was raped.” Megs confirmed, “ I drove her home from the scene.”
“Shit Megs, why didn’t you tell me?” AJ asked.
“I can’t lose him.” Amy stated, falling to her knees and crying.
“Sweets, its okay.” Megs comforted, Lissa right beside her.
“This is some strange shit.” Mark confirmed.
“What’s up with Nicky boy? Do we need to put him on prozac?” Howie asked disgusted. Someone knocked on the door and in came Kevin and Kristin. Howie and AJ filled them in.
“This is some fucked up shit. I had never seen Nick and Brian fight like this before.” Kevin commented.
“Yeah and we thought Nick and Em were so happy.” Lissa shared.
“No one’s going to be happy completely. If it’s not one person, its another. IT’S NEVER ENOUGH around here!”Amy wisely shared.
“Em, are you okay?” Brian asked, finding her in the corner of her room. She was curled up, crying and shaking.
“He said He’d be there. He’d said He’d help. He said he’ll make it all go away. He said I didn’t need you.” Em cried out hysterically. Brian walked up towards her. He took hold of her shaky hands and felt immense guilt wash over him. He sat down in front of her. Let go of her hands and softly wiped away every tear that hadn’t sunk into her blue tank top.
“Tell me the whole story Em. From the moment you dumped me on.” Brian encouraged. He needed to know everything.
“I wanted to try it out with Evan. So he took me out to a bar. We got drunk and he….h-h-he forced himself on me….and left before I-I-I could do anything.” She said looking more traumatized now than he figured she did at the scene. “Megs picked me up. We went to Amy & Cate’s were I guess Meg now lives. She took care of me. And so did Nick. We let AJ & Meg have there own time and Nick & I we watched movies. He was so sweet. He listened. He cared. We laughed. We kissed once. It was so nice to kiss someone besides that dirtbag Evan. He held me all night. And in the morning called you, but I woke up. I am so sorry, Brian we hadn’t done anything yet.” She explained. He felt bad for her. But mad at himself and that Evan dude.
“Nick & I, we just started to hang out and by that evening we ended up sleeping together. It made me so alive. I never knew he’d hurt me. He kept promising and it worked. I didn’t hurt. When I thought of you, he told me he’d be all I ever need. It became a daily competition to see how many times a day we could have sex. Only a few people found out. It was nice. But it didn’t last. I woke up one morning ready to move on to seriousness. I need more than he was giving me. He got defensive and mocked me. It hurt. It hurt so bad. I didn’t want to admit to him that I had actually began to fall for him. But he didn’t care. I ran here. I had no where else. I have no where else. Howie found me. Howie helped. And Nick came back. I was almost okay. I was almost safe. But he used me like Evan used except longer. I was manipulated. “ Em shared. The water works didn’t start again but boy did she want it to.
Brian pulled her up a bit and into a hug. He blamed it all on himself. She was sexually assaulted and then came Nick, who had done the same in a different sense. HIS best friend.Make that ex best friend, he thought coldly. Nick had lied. He had lied to them both. And it felt good to have Em in his arms again, even in this condition. He thought he didn’t know long enough to love her when they were together. But at least knew he cared. It was his responsibility, he’d have to help her through this. And by god, he sure wasn’t complaining.
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