The Fight Song

 

                Friday was one of the longest days ever I swear. Waiting for New Moon was murder. All that day I could think of nothing but Bella and Edward. The school was filled with giggling fan girls and annoying skeptics. At three o’clock me and my friends ran to my room and started talking about the books. Eventually they remembered the fact that I had invited Alice to come. The girls and Alice were never fond of each other, the only thing that kept them civilized was the fact that I didn’t like it. They all loved me but they were all jealous of each other; Alice would forever call Sadie and Morgan the ones who stole me away. Before we knew it we had to leave so we could get good seats. I slipped on my New Moon s**t and the others followed suit. We went downstairs to find Ben waiting. He had on jeans, a button up light blue shirt, and some boots. Sadie and I grabbed Ben’s arms and I grabbed Morgan’s arms and together we all piled into Ben’s car. It was a black BMW convertible he’d gotten as a job perk. We were going to meet Alex and Alice and whatever date she decided to bring. We got there and Sadie put Morgan’s hand on Ben’s arm and walked over to where Alex stood waiting. Slowly she went up on tip toes and wrapped her arm around his neck and then she put her lips to his and I knew that she would never trade Alex for the world; it was only a matter of time before they got married. We walked in without them and there found Alice with a frown on her face and some blond jock on her arm. We went into the theater where we must have taken up half a row of seats. There was Alice’s boyfriend on the end then Alice then me then Ben then Morgan then Sadie then Alex. I put my head on Ben’s shoulder; Morgan started to read; Sadie, Alex, Alice, and her boyfriend all made out on their separate ends, you couldn’t find two more different couples than these yet… The rest of the theater was filled with chatter. The lights weren’t even dim when I saw Dex enter the theater with some young blond girl on his arm. They came and sat in front of us; before he sat down he said a brief hello that seemed especially for Morgan. She didn’t look up from her book. As luck would have it there was Wolfey down at the bottom of the steps looking for guess who, me that’s who. He came right up towards us. Ben responded to putting his arm around me to which I smile and then got up. Wolfey scooted past Dex and his girl and stood right in front of me.

                “Fancy seeing you here Ray,” he whispered. His face was so close to mine. I decided to test Ben’s tolerance by kissing Wolfey suddenly on the lips.

                “Izzy!” Ben screeched with a sudden rage. I pulled away and shoved Wolfey back in his seat. All the people to my left were giving me a dirty look; those to my right couldn’t give a damn.

                “I was just having a little fun, relax Ben. Jeez, one would think you were jealous,” I rolled my eyes and sat back down.

                “He broke your heart I just don’t think it’s a hot ideal to go around pleasuring the guy who hurt you that bad,” he seemed to be whispering just loud enough for Wolfey to hear. The room grew dark just then thankfully or I’d probably never hear the end of it. The movie lasted little more than two hours. We all went out for a night time snack at a nearby café slash bookstore even Wolfey. I was sick of watching Ben get girlfriend action all the time and I’d been wanting to show him what it felt like for a long time. Now was the perfect opportunity. I grabbed Wolfey who’d been staring at me for the past half hour and dragged him to the little bathroom. The bathroom was down a little hall to which Ben followed us. I slammed Wolfey on the bathroom door and started kissing him desperately. He would have seen that Ben had followed us; he probably knew what I was playing at but he didn’t care as long as he was getting some… from me. He looked at the floor for a bit and then I decided it was time to leave him hanging I opened the door and dragged Wolfey in. He gave Ben a huge grin as he left the hall. Then there was a knock on the door. I was surprised because I didn’t think he’d go this far. He giggled the handle and I let out a moan as Wolfey kissed down my neck and pounded the door. His hands wandered under my shirt and up to my bra. I’d let this go too far.

                “Unlock this door now!” he shouted jiggling the handle again. I really wanted to but Wolfey grabbed my hands and put them around his neck and dragged me from the door.

                “Ben! Help!” I screamed when Wolfey had finally let go of my lips. He was a monster still, his lips found every nook and cranny of my body. I started to cry.

                “Back up!” he shouted. Then the door came crashing down as Ben rammed his whole body on the door. He fell to his knees for a fraction of a second before he bounced up and ripped Wolfey from me and started pounding him with clenched fists. The only thing I could do was scream. I couldn’t believe that after everything that had happened Wolfey could still be such an a*s.

                “Ben! You’re killing him!” I screamed as Wolfey started to lose consciousness. He stopped and looked at Wolfey’s bleeding face. I couldn’t believe what had happened. There was a group of people outside the door. Among them were the stunned faces of my friends. I didn’t care I ran straight through them and into the now pouring rain outside. I ran, I didn’t know where but I just put one foot in front of the other and didn’t look back. When I got to the Brooklyn Bridge I stopped and sat down. There were footsteps flapping in the wet behind me and the next thing I knew I was crying in Ben’s arms. It wasn’t nice anymore now that I was thinking about what I’d really done to him. I thought back to that night he’d come crashing through practically sucking Viki’s face off and I wanted to smack myself; would have if Ben hadn’t been holding me so tightly. Lookers on probably thought we were the best couple, that’s what they always thought and that thought made me cry harder.

                “Ben… I’m so so sorry, I… don’t know what I was thinking!” I buried my face in his shirt. After an hour or so the rain lifted and Ben hoisted me off the ground. We got home in a taxi and I fell asleep on his shoulder. I remember waking up at about 11 o’clock the next morning. I went downstairs to find Ben reading the paper at the dining table. I went over and sat at the opposite side of the table. He didn’t look up for the longest time. He did eventually though; his eyes were sad and I couldn’t look at him straight.

                “I don’t want you to see him ever again,” he went back to his news paper.

                “I know,” I sighed looking through the clear glass table top to my fingers on my lap.

                “I mean it this time, Izzy, he’s going to go too far if he keeps this up,” he looked back at me with a piercing gaze.

                “Yeah try being on the raw end of that deal,” I looked back out the big window.

                “Izzy don’t you know that this guy would have absolutely no problem raping you?”

                “Yes he would. He wants me to love him for him. Besides he’s had plenty of opportunities.”

                “Exactly, he’s only got a few chances left till you finally close him out for good, he’s losing time, and he wants to do it before he can’t anymore.”

                “I guess you’re right, but”

                “No buts Izzy, he’s no good and I don’t want you around him, at least not without me.

                “Fine, I guess next time he randomly pops out of thin air I’ll come running to you.” I rolled my eyes and looked back at my fingers.

                “Yes exactly, only I don’t think we’ll be seeing much of him for a while.” He looked back to his paper.

                “What do you mean!” I stood up suddenly.

                “I made sure he was placed under arrest that’s what I mean!” he slammed his paper down and stood up to my stomach dropped and I covered my mouth with my hands, “Izzy how can you be upset after what he did to you?”

                I sat down on my chair. Jail meant more for Wolfey than the rest of us. He was a wanted drug dealer and black market specialist. Not only did the police want him but several gangs, mafias, and some terrorist organizations. This was not good. He was surly doomed. And it was my fault. I felt weak and told Ben that I wasn’t feeling well. I ran to my room and drew the curtains and cried for a good long time. I went to sleep again and woke up at around 9 o’clock in the afternoon. I got up eventually. I put on my pajamas and a silk robe. I looked out my door to see what I could. They were on the couch, Ben and Viki. I looked for a long time and figured I deserved it so I walked out of my room and down the stairs. Neither of them even acknowledged me they just kept looking at the TV screen. I looked to see what they were watching then went to the kitchen realizing I hadn’t eaten all day. I ate some cereal and watched them snuggle and wondered how they’d gotten back together. They started kissing twelve minutes after I started watching them. It got passionate as I watched Viki climb mount him. It was sickening to watch the sex driven b***h have her way with the one guy I really wanted to be with. How could they just do that with me in the room? Her shirt went flying somehow falling right on my face again. I cleared my throat real loud so that they would hear me and I watched Viki quite moving. Her head lifted above the edge of the couch. Her eyes were two little glowing specks in the pending darkness. She got off noisily and made her way to the kitchen. I saw Ben’s face poke up, his hair all messed up, before Viki blocked my vision of him completely. Maybe now would be a good time to describe the little s**t. She was the perfect motherly girl next door type, she had long blond hair that was put up in a long pony tail, and she had beady green eyes. She had taken all the home ec classes in high school. She was a motherly control freak, she was always bossing Ben around: telling him to tuck in his shirt or brush his hair. A lot of the time I wanted to smack her face because she would either be bossing me or Ben around. She annoyed the hell out of me and it wasn’t just that she had Ben either.

                “Izzy! Can’t you see I’m trying to get some here!” she whispered urgently into my ear. She grabbed my arm and dragged me into the kitchen.

                “Um maybe I don’t like you having sex with my brother in our house,” I said mater of facktly. I couldn’t believe her, she was a complete hoe. I wanted to shout it in her face.

                “Uhhh!!! What is your problem! He’s mine! I want it!” she was near screaming.

                “Hey is everything alright in there?” asked Ben still flat on the couch.

                “Yes!” we yelled simultaneously.

                “Your guy? Yeah he’s your guy but he’s my broth…”

                “Oh drop that my brother crap we both know you fancy him!” I couldn’t speak I just gave her one hell of a dirty look. I sat there like that for at least five minutes before I decided to do something. I ran over to Ben on the couch. He sat up real fast.

                “Ben I want you to know your girlfriend is a pleasure pig and a s**t,” I said it straight to him. He looked at me real funny a while before Viki stomped over. Before any of us could think about it Viki slung her fist right at me. I dodged it real easy. Ben popped up and grabbed Viki.

                “Go! Go upstairs Izzy. I’ll take care of her,” he panted trying to keep Viki in line. I ran upstairs and shut the door.

                “What do you mean take care of her?” I heard her shout. I sank back to my bed where it seemed I’d spent so much of my time lately and would be spending a lot more time now. I turned on the TV and started watching E, catching up on my celebrity gossip.

 

                The next day was Saturday. When I went down stairs Ban and Viki were nowhere to be found. Today was the day when me and Alice were going to finish up our first round of plans for the party. We met up at this expensive restaurant where we spread out papers and our laptops on our table. We had so much fun working out the little details. This time we planned a masquerade, we weren’t all going to be in masques all the time though. It would have a Victorian feel with a modern twist. I couldn’t wait! Only six more weeks! It was getting hard to wait for. Then there was Christmas coming up in five weeks. I wondered what I should get Ben. I started to make a list of people of what I get them. Oh and then there were only four weeks left of school, ug so much time. Nothing really notable happened during those last four weeks of school, but that didn’t mean they flew by. Viki and Ben took another break after that night so we got the apartment to ourselves, weekends we would hang out with the gang for awhile and then I would go help Alice with party plans. It was really nice going for the longest time and it managed to go on forever. I think the problem was what I was planning t do. I was getting very tired of waiting for Ben so this Christmas I was going to ask Ben to escort me to the party, since Ben and Viki were on a break I figured I wouldn’t really be “the other woman”. As luck would have it that week before was very eventful.

                That Monday lovely Viki showed up at our front door step. I first saw her on one of our monitors that we use to make sure no one comes in the building that’s not supposed to. She was dressed all in pink. She pranced her way to the elevator in her flashy pink dress that blew out whenever she turned, then a huge puffy pink winter coat, and then she had on these revolting fluffy pink ear muffs, and on top of it all shiny leather go go boots. It just so happened that Ben wasn’t home at the moment so when Viki knocked on the door I felt no obligation to answer it. The next time she came it was the next night and me and Ben were relaxing on the couch watching whatever was on TV, well I was watching TV while he read his book. She knocked at the door in that annoying little tone. I sat frozen waiting for Ben to get up. He sat finishing the paragraph before he got up and opened the door. He stood frozen when he saw her and then after three minutes she had had enough, she jumped onto him and started to kiss him passionately. I looked over at them with popcorn in my mouth. She was dressed in red today, all in red, she even had this annoying big red bow on her head. I let them have their moment and went back to the TV. She took him in the kitchen and I could only hear whispered murmurs, nothing really substantial but I’m sure she was apologizing for being so needy and pressuring and telling him that she really wanted him back. I put a pillow over my ear and drifted off to sleep. So that’s how it went for that week before the week of Christmas. Days we’d stay home she would come and either cook or sit in Ben’s arms while I sat on one of our big chairs. Sometimes we’d go out with Dex, Alex, Sadie, and Morgan to places like the bar and then places like the movies; she would always come and she would always be on Ban’s arm. She never let him go and the way she looked at him reminded me of an obsessed stalker face. I could see that he wasn’t really happy; I could see that she could never be everything for him. One day he would see what she really was; one day he would see that I was the only one for him. Friday we all went out shopping for Christmas gifts. That weekend me and Alice finished up our New Year’s party plans. Then Monday Ben and I went to the store to get food for Christmas dinner and we had a great time for shopping because we joked and played all around the store.

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[Dylan I. Cree]

Viki is getting on my nerves. Please get rid of her or kill her or something a horrible accident just let her leave.