Claire fades in and out of consciousness with the pain being a constant presence every time she is awake and aware of what is happening to her. Claire finally snaps fully back into consciousness and along with the bruised and battered feeling of her body and the excruciating pain between her legs she can feel a wetness leaking out of her sex which she knows has nothing to do with arousal but everything to do with what Marcus has just done to her. The first thought that runs through Claire’s head is that she wishes she was dead because she doesn’t know how she is going to live with the knowledge of what has just happened.
Claire lies alone crying on the carpet for a long time so long that her tears dry up and she is left sobbing silently and tearless. The chiming of her phone catches her attention and seeing through a haze Claire finds her phone not too far away from her but what she sees when she checks her phone makes a calm determination fall over her because the message are sent to everyone at school and contain her full name and address plus the picture of her cumming in the classroom.
The determination comes with a complete lack of care about consequences for the two items she finds and steals from the house, she stuffs the items into her backpack and heads out quickly without running into either Kelly or Marcus.
Claire switches her phone over to airplane mode as furious texts from her from her parents, cruel messages from people she thought as friends and even what looked to be a concerned message from Eve. Claire types into the notes app on her phone as she walks through the streets with a specific location in her mind, the little flower garden in the park where she had sat with Eve, the flower garden means a lot to Claire because of the time she spent there with Eve.
Claire types more into the notes app, she knows exactly what she wants to write so that is what she writes. Claire details everything that has happened recently from Kelly catching her masturbating in a classroom at school, to being forced to perform sexual acts on herself and Eve in front of Kelly for what she can only guess is Kelly’s amusement. Claire writes about how spending the time she did with Eve when they were alone together was some of the happiest times of her life, even though everything else was falling apart around her.
Claire walks into the park and feels tears start to slowly trickle out of her eyes slightly surprising her because she was sure that her tears were all dried up, she had stopped writing for a second as she thought about how close she was to the flower garden and how quickly she would reach it. Claire tries to type quicker but her hands are shaking and she stumbles as she has to blink tears from her eyes but she manages to type even though she has to walk slower.
Claire writes about how she is certain that her parents don’t love and maybe never have, she writes that she thinks that they shouldn’t have had her just to not care about her and how she thinks that maybe that would have been better for all three of them but. She also details that even though they have been distant and seemingly uncaring she still loves them and just wishes they would care even a little about her and her life.
Claire sits on one of the few benches around the flower garden letting her backpack fall softly to the floor while she finishes typing, she says that she is going to leave this not open on her phone so when the police get here they will hopefully read it and discover all the shit that Kelly put her and others through and do something about it. Claire reaches down and opens her backpack, placing her phone down on the bench next to her she starts to take the items she had stolen from the house, the first is a bottle of alcohol.
The most experience Claire has with alcohol is that she had taken one of her dads beers once, hated everything about it and then gotten in trouble for taking when her dad realised what she had done the next evening. Her inexperience with alcohol is what makes Claire take the lid off the bottle labelled Gin and quickly drink a mouthful, the liquid burns her throat and she almost drops the bottle as she fumbles trying to quickly put the lid back on the bottle as she takes gasping breaths.
“I wouldn’t recommend gin but I can understand why you want to drink after what Kelly’s done.” Claire hadn’t noticed Eve walking into the flower garden but there she was walking around from the other side of the water feature that the benches all face.
“I didn’t think it really mattered.” Claire says feeling fresh tears run down her cheeks because she realises that Eve only knows that Kelly had released the picture of her and not what Marcus had done too.
“Why? She sent out that picture but it’s not the end of the world or anything…” Eve trails off as Claire bursts into sobs that had Eve rushing over to her.
“It’ll be ok.” Eve says as she knocks Claire’s backpack over as she hurries to comfort her, she hugs Claire but cant stop herself from glancing down at the ground where she had heard something tumble out of the backpack.
“Claire?” Eve asks softly and more than a little shocked as she sees the bottle of pills that had tumbled out of Claire’s backpack.
“M…Mar…Marc…” Claire stammers as the weight of everything that had happened to her today slams into her like a train wreck rendering her completely speechless but she still manages to weakly point at her phone on the bench beside her.
Eve looks at Claire’s phone and upon seeing the block of text she scrolls up to the top and starts to read, she feels her anger rising as she reads Claire’s words that describe what had happened to her over the last week. Eve feels dread settle over her as she continues reading and consequently learns about everything that had happened to Claire today, what both Kelly and Marcus had done and that is when she understands the bottle of pills.
“No!” Eve screams dropping Claire’s phone and lunging at her to wrap her arms tightly around her where she growls, “don’t you dare, don’t you ever dare.”
“Please don’t leave me.” Eve cries after she spends a long minute with her arms wrapped around Claire as they both cry all over each other, “please never do that.”
“I don’t know what else to do.” Claire’s voice is quiet and broken as she clings to Eve like the world depends on her grip holding herself against Eve.
“It sounds horrible but please tell me you didn’t clean up?” Eve asks Claire hating that if she hasn’t she needs to get Claire to the police or hospital so they can get DNA evidence that will prove that Marcus is guilty.
“No, I… I didn’t even think about that, I could only think about…” Claire trails off as she alludes to what she had been planning to do with the bottle of gun and bottle of pills.
“Ok then we need to go to the police, they’ll take samples and then hopefully Marcus goes to prison.” Eve snarls the last part letting the rage she is feeling at Marcus and Kelly show through the calm exterior she is trying to hold on to so she can comfort Claire.
“Ok. I have messages from Kelly too that they should see.” Claire says sounding slightly more confident making Eve open the messaging app on Claire’s phone which reveals all the messages Kelly has sent her including the one bragging about releasing Eve’s picture.
“This proves what I told the police.” Eve is happy because this might be everything that is needed to prove her story to the police and end Kelly’s cruel games.
Eve’s happiness becomes worry when she looks at Claire because she is pale with bloodshot eyes that don’t want to stay open. Eve quickly takes out her own phone and dials for the emergency services to get an ambulance for Claire because she sees a stain on the crotch of Claire’s jeans that looks a lot like blood. Eve hears Claire mutter something about her head hurting and being tired that makes Eve shake her and snap at her to stay awake as she is put through to the ambulance dispatchers.
Eve descends into pure panic as she quickly explains what she knows has happened to Claire and that she thinks Claire had an head injury too because she had said she was dizzy and was trying to fall asleep. Eve already knew that she can’t let Claire fall asleep and tries to keep her awake as she tells them to hurry up and send help, time seems to stretch for her as she waits for any sign of the coming ambulance.
Eve feels slightly relieved as she sees the moving towards her after having told the dispatcher that she didn’t think she could move Claire because of a mix of fear that it would worsen her injuries and lack of physical strength, Eve had even tried to get Claire to move so she could attempt to get her to walk with her own help over to the road but Claire wasn’t able to. Eve scoops up both her own phone and Claire’s when the paramedics reach her, they don’t examine Claire for long before they decide to use a stretcher to take her to the ambulance, Eve manages to hand off Claire’s backpack to the paramedics who agree to take it with them because it will be better for Claire to have her own clothes in the hospital.
Eve tries to convince the paramedics to take her with Claire or find a way for her to get to the hospital stating the fact that she is Claire’s girlfriend as a valid reason for her to be going with them but they refuse and point her over to the police who had arrived because they need to interview her over the fact that she had stated that a serious crime had been involved. Eve tells the officers everything that Claire had told her and shows them the note Claire had written in her phone when she had been intent on ending her own life, she even shows them the messages between Kelly and Claire that not only show what has been done to Claire but also works as evidence in her own police case against Kelly.
Claire is only semi conscious as she is bundled into the back of an ambulance to feel them prod and poke her all over as they search for the areas that she is hurt the most. Claire starts to thrash around and panic as the paramedics start to remove her jeans because she has flash backs to what had happened a mere few hours ago and her mind convinces her that it is about to happen all over again, Claire passes out a moment later though leaving the paramedics to do what they need to do to stop her from bleeding any more.
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