You'd Better Hide the Bullets

"Ali, are you sending shitty messages to Scarlett?" I asked her.

"What? No way." She said, I could tell by the look on her face that she was lying.

"Stop lying to me." I almost yelled at her. She flinched at the sudden harsh tone in my voice.

"Vic please don't be angry at me." She begged. I looked at her with disgust.

"You're unbelievable. How did you get my journal?" I demanded. She stood there with a complete dumbfounded look on her face. It was driving me insane. "Answer me." I said getting bored of this shit.

"I took it from your room okay." She answered quickly. I shook my head and laughed slightly.

"You're such an asshole Ali, I honestly have no idea why I'm still with you." I groaned, placing my head in my hands.

"You talk as if you're a totally nice guy yourself Vic, if I recall you made my sisters life a living Hell when we first moved here. Maybe we're a good match after all." She shrugged, walking up to me. "Look I didn't mean for you to get caught up in this. After I knew you two were getting close so I took your journal to try and put her off you. It was working until I seen you guys kissing on New Year's Eve so I knew I had to up my game. You were never meant to get hurt in this, I just wanted to make her dislike you so I could secure you for myself." Ali cupped my cheek with her hand. I shook her off in frustration.

"Ali, I'm nothing like you. This is too far. You basically put personal details about your own sisters mental health around her school. That's unreasonable." I looked down at her. Her face was beginning to look angry at me.

"I did it for us." She argued.

"And don't you think if you had to work that hard to keep me that maybe, just maybe it's not working out?" I spat at her. She looked really hurt at that comment. "Look I can't do this anymore. It's over." I pushed past her.

"I don't think you should be so hasty in your decision to break up with me." Ali said softly. I turned to look at her and raised my eyebrow.

"Why?" I shrugged. She sighed and pulled her actual phone out of her pants pocket and went through it. She handed me it and it was a video. I pressed play and after a few seconds it was clear what the video was of.

"If you break up with me then I'll post this everywhere. I'll tarnish your name and you'll have your whole life ruined. Vic you can't leave me." She sounded so psychotic.

The video was of me and Ali having sex but she cleverly angled it so that you could only really see me, not her. Actually it's completely and utterly unfair because she asked me to be really rough with her, and now that I'm seeing this it looks as though I'm raping her. "This is blackmail." I furrowed my brows at the video.

"Yeah, well done there." She sighed and snatched the phone out of my hand.

"Why are you doing this? This isn't fair. You've made this look as though I've raped you. Do you understand how serious that is? I'm not like that." I began to panic. She's a fucking psychopath.

"Well it shows how serious I am here." She threw her phone down onto her bed.

"You're crazy, it should've been you who got locked up in the mental institution instead of Scarlett. I bet you made her worse. I can honestly bet my whole life on it." I ranted. Ali rolled her eyes and sat on her bed.

"Well, the choice is all yours now Vic. You can leave me and no one will ever want you again or you can stay with me and break Scarlett's heart, once and for all. What's it gonna be?" I stared down at her. My heart was beating so fast and my palms were sweaty.

Scarlett's P.O.V

I sat in my room, completely bored out of my mind. Jaime left an hour ago and I could hear Vic and Ali arguing again. They always argue but this time it sounded serious. There was a knock on my door and I got up and opened it. Vic was standing on the other side with a totally devastating look on his face. "What's up?" I asked, a small suddenly appearing on my face.

"Do you wanna go for a walk with me?" He asked quietly. He didn't seem like himself at all, which worried me.

"Sure, let me grab my shoes." I said walking over and slipping my vans on. I walked out of my room and we left my house. The air was thick with tension and I felt completely out of place. "So how come you wanted to go for a walk with me?" I asked, breaking the silence.

"I just wanted to chat to you." He said softly. Something was definitely up.

We approached the park, nightfall was beginning to gain on us. "What about?" I questioned as we walked over to the swings.

"Just general stuff, how are you?" He asked me, sounding completely distant.

"I'm fine, what about you?" I looked at him but he just stared off into the distance, watching the sun disappear over the horizon.

"Could be better but hey, that's why I'm here." He sighed.

"Are you just gonna tell me what's wrong or am I gonna have to guess." I laughed nervously. He closed his eyes and hung his head.

"Scarlett I need you to stay away from me." He said softly. I looked at him and let out a laugh.

"That's cute, but we both know that's not gonna happen." I said playfully nudging his arm. He yanked it out of my reached.

"I'm not kidding here, stay the fuck away from me." He mumbled, standing up off the swing. I stared at his back, hoping he'd turn around with a grin on his face and tell me he was joking but he didn't.

"Why are you being like this Vic?" I choked. He didn't turn around.

"Don't you get it Scarlett, you've ruined my life!" He screamed and spun around to look at me. I jumped a little out of fear of his tone. He sounded so angry at me. "Since you came along my life has been going downhill. You made me love you when I didn't even wanna like you. I'm dating your sister so that you'll take the hint and leave me the fuck alone. I need you to go away." He said to me. He towered over me.

"Vic please don't be like this." I begged, tears beginning to form in my eyes.

"You're nothing but a waste of space. I wish you never came to San Diego. I wish you never got let out of the mental institution. I wish you never came into my life. Ever since you did, I've wanted nothing more than to leave this town. Fuck off." He growled at me. The tears began slipping out of my eyes, I felt like my heart was breaking.

"I'm sorry." I sobbed, my head in my hands, crying so much.

"You're fucking pathetic Scarlett, look at you. You're nothing but a pretty face. Bye." He mumbled and walked away, leaving me to my broken life, ego and heart. I felt numb, disgusting.

Vic's P.O.V

I walked away from the park, tears streaming down my face. That was the most disgusting and difficult thing I've ever had to do. This has just made me realise that I don't deserve her though, I was selfish and chose myself over Scarlett, I chose to secure my own future instead of choosing to be with the girl I love. Then I single handily broke her down, breaking everything that she built up over the past months. I shattered it.

The worst part of all this is that now I have to live on the edge, hoping that Ali won't ruin my life. There's no way I can get out of this without her doing something damaging to me or Scarlett. I'm stuck. That's why I had to do this.

Scarlett is much better off without me. A part of me wants to take off, run away and never come back. I can't though, I need to deal with this. I need to accept the path I have chosen and deal with it. Ali has my balls in a vice and I need to do exactly as she says or I'm done for.

I got back to my house and found Ali sitting on my porch, waiting for me. "Is it done?" She smiled up at me.

"Yes, happy now?" I mumbled to her.

"Of course." She got up, kissed me on the cheek and walked away to her own house. Me? I just walked into my house and never wanted to leave again.

Notes

I'm so sad, that was difficult!