A STORY WORTH WRITING

      Cherry ran out of the room panting, she didn't know why she was running but what she knew was that she wanted to get out that place immediately she ran to the party area where she stopped and went down and began to seriously pant.

     Travis spotted her and walked up her, "what's wrong ?"  Travis asked, he didn't know why she kept randomly disappearing, she couldn't answer him because she couldn't talk over her own breath, so he just held her and walked her over to a seat. "Travis could you take me home", she said after she finally managed to catch her breath.

" but it's not yet ten the party is just getting started".

        Looking around people were drinking, dancing, making out and generally having fun but she didn't think she could have fun  anymore.

      "I want to go home Travis"

"what about the paper you're supposed to write", Travis reminded her, She had forgotten about the freaking paper she looks around for Marcy and s called her name immediately she found her. Marcy was making out with her boyfriend when she heard her name, she paused a bit to make sure it was her name that was being called then turned around to see who it was. It was Cherry she apologized to her boyfriend and walked towards Cherry and Travis who were seated on a couch.

"Marcy I need your help"

" with what?"

"could  you cover the party for me"  Cherry said in quite a shaky voice.

"Why? you're here you could do it yourself"

"  I don't feel too good and it want to go home"

     Marcy  looked at her with understanding as an agreed to do it.         

       Ever since they were kids Marcy had Cherry's back and Cherry had her back and she believed that it will continue like that unless one of them died. She watched as Travis walked towards the car and drove her home        

      Cherry entered her room and immediately laid down on her bed and covered her head. She slept off thinking about what had happened "what the hell is up", she said to herself that she slowly thought about what hed happened till she slept off.

        The next day Marcy had sent nice images and videos of the party she had always been into photography.

    Cherry stared at her note pad  as she worked on the week's paper she stared at the headlines that she had written down.

"SNEAK PEEK OF THE TEACHERS LOUNGE"

" 12th GRADER PARTY GONE WILD"

     " CHERRY'S FRESH RELATIONSHIP"        

     she might be the journalist but that doesn't stop her from writing about herself. She stared at the last one with terrified eyes as if  she was contemplating on  if she'll use it or not "THE MYSTERIES OF TROY RIVERS". 

     She stared at it for about 5 minutes before grabbing her pen and cancelling it's like her intention was to cancel it away from the face of the earth.

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     Troy stared at paper that the had been given to him by the teacher in surprise, he has never been this shocked in his  life. Apparently the school had put all it's grade 12 students on a tutorship program, they thought it would look good on their college applications.  The school picked the students that were extremely strong and certain subjects to tutor the students  who were weak in those subjects and guess who he was tutoring.

"CHERRY KELLER".

     Wow, he was even supposed to be in school this week but decided to come just to prove Cheery's  paper of the previous week wrong, thank goodness  she didn't write anything on him this week, he felt like she was going to because he caught her sneaking into his library, speaking of that incident he needed to talk to her urgently  but he couldn't because he didn't even know what to say, he didn't even know how to break it to her, how the hell was he going to explain to her that from now on how life was going to be in constant danger. Watching her was also one of the things that brought him to school and being in public at this time was dangerous especially now that he found it harder to control himself, thanks to Cherry.

      " Troy, I've been calling you for five minutes straight", Holland said.

  Troy suddenly looked up at Holland, he looked at him with obvious hunger in his face, two of his veins seemed to bulge out from his face suddenly and he licked his lips as his mouth opened.

" is this the right time", Holland  said noticing something wrong with Troy.   

Troy suddenly shook his head like he was coming back to his senses.

"No, it's fine what do you want?"  "could you tutor her at our house, I know you're not a people person and you may find it hard to leave your house but...."

"  No, it's fine, I'll be there at five" "thank  you"

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    Travis and Cherry sat down at the dining table together, obviously on the soccer teams table it was counted as an honour to seat with the soccer team but that's honour  only applied to the girls, as a boy it would make you a laughing stock.

   Marcy chose to seat away from the soccer team today even though her boyfriend was on the soccer team. She really didn't go for lunch because she brought some food but for some reason she found herself in the dining hall staring at Cherry and Travis from afar she felt like something was wrong she just didn't know what.   Cherry and Travis looks even happy together. "Maybe it's just Cherry"  she said to herself she popped a grape in her mouth, she studied both of them for about 10 minutes but still couldn't find the answer for her worry, she decided to walk out of the hall after getting frustrated.

   She was walking away from the hall when she felt someone dragging her back.

"Marcy I need to talk to you", Cherry  whispered as she dragged Marcy to the bathroom.

"What's wrong", Marcy asked as soon as she closed the door.

" absolutely nothing " , Marcy  had a confused expression on her face as she stared at Cherry.

" it's just that I feel like a terrible person and it's eating me up inside" "okay, why?"

"  it's Travis he's a romantic" 

"which you should be happy about, right?"

    "I'm yeah but I'm not because.... because I don't like him"

     Marcy rose an  eyebrow as  she stared at  Cherry wondering if that was  what she felt wrong with her but it wasn't, she knew whatever was wrong with Cherry wasn't that petty, it was serious and it was very possible that Cherry didn't know herself.

"well, then why did you accept him in the first place"

"  because I wanted to get into the party, but now he's treating me all nicely and I feel so terrible about myself"

"  as it should be"

"you're  meant to make me feel better Marcy, what the hell am I going to do" "tell  him", Marcy said with a straight face.

"but  his heart Is soft he will be heartbroken",  Cherry had always cared about people who weren't even related to  her for some reason, she didn't even find it comfortable seeing somebody that she never knew cry beside her.

" well don't tell him"

" you're meant to be making things better Marcy, you know I've always had a problem with liking boys"

    Marcy gave a  sigh  that indicated that she was about to say something that would either offer a solution to her problem or leave her with a big decision to make. Marcy has always been a very straight-forward person and will tell her the truth no matter how hard it stung.

   "Cherry since you've gotten into this already why don't you just play along and see where it takes you maybe you would begin to like him along the way", Marcy said, she had other things in her head like scolding Cherry for getting into it in the first place just to attend the party which she eventually ditched. Sometimes Cherry could be immature and didn't think about the consequences of her actions.

   Marcy knew that it would be really hard for Cherry to play along for more than one week because she loved being  real  and found it hard to be fake but she didn't have time to think about Cherry's Petty problems, what was on her mind at the moment was finding out what was wrong with Cherry.

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          Troy was walking down the hallway after school naturally he was  one of the only people in the hall except for a few persons who stayed behind to do one thing or another. He was passing a corridor when he felt someone grab his hand, he turned to the direction where hand came from and saw Marcy putting her finger on her lips tell him to be quiet, she signaled him to follow her they entered into one of the science labs to talk.

" you're not supposed to be in school", Marcy said.

"  I know I needed to take care of a couple of things"

"  including Cherry what happened to her", she was obviously expecting answers from Troy she didn't know what to expect or how she would take it but what she knew was that she needed answers quickly.

" she touched my Ecryplis",

     the  expression on Marcy's face showed both surprise and shock, worry and anger .

"fuck,how can this be happening", Marcy said in a frustrated tone.

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Cherry opened the door for the person who rang the bell she noticed it was Troy, Wow, this could never get more awkward. Her brother had already left for his tutorship and her mum hadn't come back home from work yet so it was just she and Troy in the house. She rubbed her head and opened her mouth as though she had something to say to him but couldn't say it, she sighed because she knew that things were going to get more awkward quickly if she doesn't say something fast.

"I'm sorry for Saturday, I guess I was too curious", she finally said after seconds of contemplation in her head.

       Troy nodded as  he walked in with his school bag, he took his shades and face cap off immediately Cherry shut the door. She had decided to take the lessons on the dining table, she walked into the kitchen and came  out with a medium-sized box that was Pink in colour.

" I made a box of doughnuts, you know, to apologise properly"

   Troy grabbed it from her hand and sniffed the atmosphere around it then looked up at her with a smirk on his face.

"strawberry?"

"yeah, I figured it was your favourite"  Cherry said as she sat down next to him.

"Apology accepted"

    Troy didn't need her to apologise infact he was the one that was supposed to apologize for not locking his house or for being careless with his Ecryplis, nevertheless, a little snack will don't kill him.

      They studied together for about an hour but got distracted when a huge crash was heard in the kitchen Cherry ran to the kitchen and discovered the window was broken and the plates on the rack had crashed to the floor, she rushed back to the dining table to inform Troy that someone might have broken in but he wasn't there. She heard a loud crash coming from upstairs.

"Troy!!!!", she screamed as she ran upstairs she discovered that Troy was tackling another person, probably the person who had broken into her house. Troy scratched his face and a huge injury appeared as though his nails were really sharp claws or knives, the Veins around his face has bulged out and through his opened mouth you could see his animalistic dentition.

He threw the person to the wall which broke immediately and the fight went outside.