FrAcTuReD (Part One) (Completed continued in Part Two)

Chapter. 29

He merely shook his head and continued on down the hall with Stacy chasing after him.

When school ended, the rain continued to fall heavily, showing no signs of letting up, Alex had sent a text to Charla during the lunchbreak but received no response, Charla might have been busy with her niece or for all she knew Charla wasn't back yet.

She sighed, there really wasn't much she could do, but then became distracted when she heard some students talking about a man who seemed to be loitering outside the school's front gate. Where the class was, Alex could easily look out the window to see who it might have been, only to then see Will run off. She wondered why but the received her answer when she looked out the window herself and saw the man that made her feel sick to her stomach.

"We should go after Will," Jason offered.

"Already had that in mind." She said before the two ran off to catch up to Will who skidded to a stop just a few feet away from the gate's entrance.

"What are you doing here?!" Will demanded as the pouring rain continued to fall as Alex and Jason just managed to catch up to him.

"Why I'm here isn't any of your concern, so do me a favor and..." he stopped midsentence when he saw Alex. "So, you were here, guess my intel was wrong, from what I know you'd normally ditch school altogether."

Alex sent him a leveled glare. "How the hell did you get away from the cops?"

He scoffed. "Money can do wonders to give those bastards the slip. Idiots cops are all the same, be it the big city or some crappy little town like this."

But Alex on the other hand remained silent, looking at his arm that was in a sling before looking to how far he was from the gate before saying. "I'm surprised you're even able to get around this town without being spotted considering word will be going out that you almost assaulted a kid."

"You did what!?" Will demanded before looking to Alex. "Is that what you meant this morning?"

Alex glanced to Will, this morning she told Will that she had a run-in with his cousin, and that he may end up hearing rumors of what he did recently, she could have told him flat out, and she would have, but this was a school, and just talking about certain incidents would spread like a damn wild fire, and that was the last thing she wanted to put her friend through. "Yeah, it was my intention to go into more detail while at your place but... you know." She then looked back to Duke. "Charla isn't here, you probably wanted to try and threaten her right? But you can't even get near the house..."

The glare the man gave was scathing, but it wasn't anything new to Alex. She had given and as well as been on the receiving end of those types of glares much of her life. It didn't change anything when coming from this scumbag.

"You should just cut your losses and leave this town." Alex said. "God knows it's a mercy you don't damn well deserve."

He scoffed. "And why the hell should I listen to a kid?"

"Because you're the idiot who came to the school looking for her. I'm not sure if you remember but we tend to look out for those we care about." She let out a menacing growl in her voice as her eyes narrowed. "And if you mess with those we care about there isn't anything that will stop us from returning it ten-fold."

"You should be more then familiar with that." Will said suddenly drawing Duke's attention. "After all, what uncle Tom did in reaction to you pushing that girl to killing herself should be more then enough of a reminder."