Chapter 101

The sort of shock, that went through my bones when I had seen the faint outline of the address she had already texted to me, I don't think I've ever felt that sort of shock in my life.

It is the sort of shock that makes you go red with anger, and yet it makes you as cool as a pond on a hot afternoon. It is the sort of shock that makes you prepared to kill someone, but yet you find your hands trembling at the thought of it.

The address is one that I have been familiar with for about four years now, and one that I had currently hoped I would never find myself going back to.

Aaron's address is like second nature to me. It is something I had memorized on our first days of being together, but yet I feel I want to forget it so badly. I want to forget that someone like him ever existed, someone that could have been as horrible as him and yet had blinded my eyes so thoroughly that I had fallen head over heels with such a little monster.

I wonder at the odds that he would actually have been the one to kidnap my best friend. I guess that's why I'm taking at least three guys with me, so they can beat the hell out of him before I play the hero and rescue Oakley.

All three boys that i want to take seems to hesitate to follow me as, I think Scott's nature has rubbed off on all of them.

They don't seem to all be too eager to be jumping off into danger, and I find, considering the urgency of Oakley's texts and the voice note she had managed to send, there is no way that I would manage to pull off a successful rescue without at least explaining what is going on to the people who are to help me.

"Oakley has been kidnapped by Aron" I say, and I expect something of a collective gasp of shock to go through all of them. Instead Scott just starts laughing, like stupidly laughing, which I think the situation does not call for.

"Your former boyfriend has kidnapped your best friend" he says, and I find that the word, that word that Scott says so easily feels like lead in my ears.

Aron is nothing to me now, he's nothing more than a jerk who planned to totally humiliate me in front of the whole school, and when you saw that he could not get his way with me, now he seeks to use my friend against me.

The Utter irony of the situation actually makes me giggle a little bit, and I think it's either  from all the sugar in the drinks that I have taken this past two hours, or maybe it is just the fear that causes this rush of adrenaline through my veins.

I feel oddly elated at the thought of going to Aron's house and giving him a sound beating, but yet I don't think I'll be the one to do that, I don't want to dirty my nails, the line of thought makes me laugh and I can see Eras and Clay looking at me and my brother like we were always sharing this sort of silent jokes, that no one else seems to get or understand.

We recover from it fast enough though, as Scott's face takes on a neutral gaze, a neutral gaze that becomes deadly the next minute, as I know he has mentally prepare himself to beat the daylights out of Aron.