Erin sat on her bed and watched her with a smile. “You look great.”
“Thanks, BFF!” Felicity replied with a big smile with her completely-healed face that was covered in her favorite makeup for going out, as she posed in her usual pose — her butt facing the mirror with her left hand on her hip with her chin resting on her left shoulder. She had on her tight black pants along with a flaming red cap-sleeve tee.
Erin continued to smile at her as she took several pictures of herself in a variety of provocative poses. “Um, Felicity?”
“What’s up?” Felicity replied.
“I’m just wondering why you don’t wanna talk to Sherwood and Seals about what happened that night.”
“Because I know they wanna ask me who did this to me and I don’t remember, okay?” Felicity replied, with an irritating tone in her voice.
“Well, do you have some idea who could’ve did this to you? I mean, someone out there still has your old phone — even though I know it’s been shut off where they can’t use it — and everyone who had some kind of interaction with you was questioned about your incident. Everyone, including myself, was treated like a suspect, and I think a lot of us still are.”
“Well, the only one that they need to stop treating like a suspect is you because you’re the only one who didn’t hurt me and never will,” Felicity replied, as she looked at her selfies that she’d just taken.
Erin sighed. “I know. And I think Sherwood and Seals knows that about me. I was very cooperative and I always will be. But I think you should at least give them an update about how you’re doing, you know, go there in person and see them. I’ll even go with you.”
“Nah, I don’t wanna go to a police station,” Felicity replied, as she adjusted her selfie.
Erin sighed again. “Felicity, they worked really hard on your case and trying to find out who hurt you. I think you owe them that much to just go in person with me or with your family to thank them for it.”
“That’s their job to do what they did, Erin,” Felicity replied. “Besides, my parents did send them a card of their many thanks for how they conducted the investigation. Look, it’s over, okay? I don’t wanna talk to them or anyone else about it anymore. I don’t remember what happened that night and I don’t ever wanna remember. It was the worst night of my life and I wanna forget about it.”
“I understand,” Erin said. “But you haven’t been back at school since it happened. The doctors said that you could’ve went back to school over a month ago, but you haven’t come back yet, but you can go out to these different places that we’ve been going to now?”
“Well, I’m just not ready to go back to school, and it doesn’t matter if I do or don’t because I’m current with my work and everything that my teachers e-mail me,” Felicity replied. She put her phone down and looked at Erin. “Erin, I survived something that I wasn’t expecting to survive and was told that I wasn’t gonna survive. No one knows how I feel, and no one cares. I haven’t said anything, but no one has even asked me how I’ve been — not Sloan, not anyone — and that’s really disrespectful to me and my family. I just don’t know if I’m ever gonna go back there.”
“I don’t wanna start a fight here, Felicity, but you know why people aren’t asking about you. You know the kind of fuckery you caused, and I know that your memory hasn’t been completely wiped out of all of it. If you’re afraid of something or someone and you don’t wanna go back to school because of it, please tell me because I need to know, as well as your family and Sherwood and Seals.”
Felicity stared at her. She smiled. “There’s nothing and no one that I’m afraid of at school, Erin. I just don’t wanna go back there, just like how I don’t ever wanna go back to Moves. My parents even said that I didn’t have to go back to school, especially since the teachers are all e-mailing me everything I need to keep up with my classes, and they were elated when I told them I’m never going back to Moves. I’ve been through a harrowing ordeal, and it’s like no one cares that I have. You just can’t count on people to really be there for you when you need them, but I’m lucky that I have you.”
I can’t believe she’s saying this, Erin thought. “Felicity, I’m pretty much your only friend, and that’s your fault that no one has cared about you but me and your family, so yes, count yourself lucky in that aspect. Look what happened to you because of your fuckery? Do you want it to happen again?”
“It won’t happen again,” Felicity assured her.
“I don’t know that to be certain, Felicity, and you know you’re not certain of it, either. I mean, I would think that what happened to you would make you not cause fuckery to people ever again, but it seems like it’s not going to.”
“Well, I’m not gonna back down to someone who talks shit about me, and I’ll let everyone know it right now!” Felicity declared. She picked her phone back up and typed in her usual hashtags, and then posted her first selfie since her incident. BEEN DOWN BUT I’M BACK UP! AND I WILL NOT FALL AGAIN, YOU FUCKIN’ HATERS! YOU HAVEN’T PUT AN END TO ME AND YOU NEVER WILL! TRY ME! I WON! She pressed the button to post the pic to all of her new social media pages. Suddenly, she got a text from a guy name Greg that she met at her favorite coffee shop a few weeks earlier. She read the text. Hey, girl. Wanna go to a party tonight? “Yes! Of course!”
Erin looked at her. “What are you talking about?”
“Oh, I just received a text from Greg, a guy I met at the coffee shop — I told you about him. He’s invited us to a party tonight.”
“Where at?” Erin asked.
“It’s like one of those underground parties that’s in a warehouse that’s only word of mouth. Do you wanna go?” Felicity asked.
“Sure, sounds like fun. We haven’t been too many places since you’ve been back home,” Erin replied.
“Great!” Felicity said, and then texted him back and said that she would be there with Erin, and he gave her directions to where the party was located.
As Erin pulled out of Felicity’s driveway, she looked up at Taylor’s bedroom. The lights to his bedroom were on, but his curtains were closed. “Felicity, have you talked to Taylor since you’ve been back home?”
“Nope,” Felicity replied, and then applied her lipgloss.
Erin looked at her. “Why not?”
“Well, you should be asking him that. I’m the one who got hurt and was fighting for my life in the hospital, not him. My parents told me that his parents and his brother have been over to the house, but not him. I didn’t see them when they came over because I told my parents that if anyone came over to see me that I was resting. But no, he hasn’t once come over or called or texted me to see how I’m doing, but that’s okay, I’ll remember it even if I live to be a hundred years old.”
Erin sighed. “Felicity, look. Maybe he’s still upset with you. If you didn’t cause any fuckery to him then he would’ve came over to see you, and I’m sure he would’ve been the first one besides me that would’ve.”
“It doesn’t matter, Erin. He’s not my friend. You’re my only friend and you proved it. You only need one good one, anyway, so fuck him and all of the others.”
“Felicity . . .”
“Erin! I have nothing more to say about what happened to me that night, okay? It’s over. Let’s just find where this party is at.”
Erin nodded as she looked at Felicity while she looked at her phone. There’s so much she’s still not telling me about that night, and now I don’t think she ever will, she thought.
As they approached the place where this party was being held at, it started to rain.
“Oh, great! It’s starting to fuckin’ rain?! What the fuck? Did they say anything about rain tonight? Do you have an umbrella in here?” Felicity asked.
“Yeah, I always keep one in my car. And I didn’t check to see how it was gonna be tonight since I was just planning to stay over your house,” Erin replied, as she drove around to find the front entrance of this place. “This is an old warehouse.
They should’ve torn this place down years ago. I’m actually surprised that it’s still standing.”
“Yeah, the bricks on it are all tattered and look like they’re gonna fall down in a second. And not to mention everyone leaving their mark that they were here by the whirlwind of disgusting graffiti all over the fuckin’ walls,” Felicity said.
“Well, I don’t see too many cars here. Is Greg sure that it’s here?” Erin asked.
“Yes, Erin, he said that this was the place. It’s a big area to cover so maybe all of the cars are on the other side.”
“I hope so,” Erin said, as she drove around to find a place to park. She parked in a front space right on the side of the building that was only a few feet from the door. It started to rain a little harder.
“Come on. Let’s get in there before it starts pouring,” Felicity said.
They got out of the car and trotted up to the building so Felicity wouldn’t slip and fall in her four-inch leopard heels.
The moment they walked into the building, they could tell that this was an old warehouse. The old stench from the past had said it all. They walked around the dark halls that had little to no light in them as they tried to find their way to where the main party was at. Suddenly, the faint sound of music could be heard.
“I hear music!” Felicity said with excitement. “Do you hear it?”
“Yeah, I can hear it. We must be getting close to the main area,” Erin replied.
They walked up the hall and could now see a faint light with several colored lights flashing.
“It’s definitely this way! Come on!” Felicity said, and then grabbed Erin’s hand as they started to go from a walk to a light jog up to where the lights were.
“Felicity, have you seen anyone else? Because I haven’t,” Erin said.
“Yeah, I saw a few strays walking outside that looked like they were on their way here, Erin. Remember, this was by word-of-mouth only and Greg said in his text that the organizers of the party told people to limit it to only two people that they tell because they didn’t want attract too much attention to the place because there’s not supposed to be anything going on in here, so don’t expect for a lot of people to be rushing in here.”
“Oh, okay,” Erin said.
Once they got to the main room where the music and lights were at, the sound was unbearable.
“IT’S TOO FUCKIN’ LOUD IN HERE!” Erin screamed to Felicity.
“I KNOW! I LOVE IT!” Felicity replied, as she bobbed her head.
Erin looked around. “Just where the fuck is everyone? I thought that there would be at least some people here by now!”
“Relax, Erin. People will start coming in; we’re obviously very early. It’s not even midnight yet and that’s usually when a lot of people start coming to these kind of parties.”
Erin nodded as she continued to look around.
Several minutes later, the music got quieter, and still, no one was at this party but Felicity and Erin.
“Felicity, I think we should go,” Erin suggested.
“Why?”
“Because it’s obvious that no one is showing up, I mean, it’s not that early.”
“Maybe the rain outside is slowing people down,” Felicity replied.
Erin sighed as she looked around some more. “I don’t like this, Felicity. I think we need to get out of here right now.”
“What are you talking about? We’re early, Erin.”
“Where’s Greg? Did he tell you that he was gonna be here?”
Felicity gave her a blank stare.
Erin shook her head. “Just as I thought. Let’s get out of here, now.”
They turned around and headed out of the room.
Suddenly, someone appeared in the room in head-to-toe black wearing a ski mask, sunglasses and gloves! And several more people out of nowhere appeared wearing exactly the same thing!
“FELICITY!” Erin screamed. But before she could say anything else, someone grabbed her from behind and ejected something into her left arm! She immediately became unconscious and fell to the floor!
“ERIN!!” Felicity screamed, as everyone in the room closed in on her. She looked at all of them as they came closer and closer to her in slow motion. “Just who the fuck are all of you, huh? What the fuck did you do to Erin?! What do you want from me? What did I do to all of you, huh? Leave me alone! Who the fuck are you?!”
One of them finally spoke. “We’re here to put an end to your fuckery, bitch! Forever . . .”
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