Blair's pov.
After that whole Alex yelling at Bryce I haven't talked to anybody I headed home. I was getting ready to go to bed when I received a text from Bryce.
Bryce💙: come over?
I replied saying I'll be right over and when I arrive his maid told me he was out back in the guest house.
"Hey you made it," he says kissing me
"Yea I'm here," I said going straight to the couch
"So what you wanna do," he asked sitting next to me.
"Let's watch a movie tonight"
"Okay you pick whatever"
Not even 20 minutes into the movie he tries to kiss me. I pushed him away
"Come on, lover give me a little I had a shitty day," Bryce says
"Yeah, I know I was there when Alex had one of his outbursts babe," I said
"Well, the kid is sick. I feel bad for him now forget about that" he says
Push me down on the couch and he gets on top of me and starts kissing me. I push him off
"Babe I thought we were watching a movie tonight."
"I've seen it too many times with you," he says kissing me
"But you said it was fine."
"Yeah, so I don't have to pay close attention. I rather pay attention to you." Bryce says
He kisses my neck and he puts his hand in my pant
"Ow careful," I say pushing him back.
"Yeah is that better," he asks as he undid my jeans
He keeps on kissing me but I push him off
"Bryce, what's up with you tonight?" I asked
"Just the usual being into you." He says and pulls off my jeans
"Babe what about the movie"
"Fuck the movie"
He pulls off my underwear and he starts kissing all up on me.
"You're good, yeah?"
"Yeah"
"You want to right?"
Okay now he wants to ask for consent
"Right"
He starts going in on me and I felt uncomfortable but I don't stop him. Bryce was hurting me.
•
Clay called me in the morning telling me that the tapes were released online. Now everyone will know what happened. We're all fucked... especially BRYCE WALKER my boyfriend. Fuck and I have a feeling it was clay who released them.
I stayed over at Bryce and we arrived together at school.
"Yeah the ribbon cutting," Bryce says
We were walking with the guys and Bryce was holding onto me.
"So with a giant pair of scissors and all that?" Scott asked
"How the fuck else do you cut a ribbon, Scotty?" Monty says
"What I don't know I've never been to something like this" Scott says
"Not that big a deal but bring your appetites my dad promised food trucks," Bryce says
"Oh hell yes"
"Cool"
I noticed everyone was staring at us but especially Bryce.
"Hey, you're coming today right?" Bryce asked me
"Yes, babe don't worry I won't miss it," I say kissing him
"You're coming too Zach right," Bryce asked
"What? Yeah, no totally" Zach says
"Yeah"
"All right"
We made it to Bryce's locker everyone walked away
"Hey who did this? Get the fuck back here" Monty yells at everyone
Someone wrote rapist on his locker
"Hey relax it's fine. It'll come off." Bryce says
I'm shocked someone had the balls to do that, especially to him.
"Just a stupid fucking prank, right?" Bryce says closing his locker
"Dude, that's pretty fucked up. Should we do something" Scott says
"What would we do," Bryce says grabbing onto my hand and we walk away.
"It's messed up"
"I'm not worried about it," he says
"Let it go, Scott, we can't do shit anyways," I say
Then Bryce's voice is heard on the speakers someone is playing that fucking tape. I can't believe clay recorded him that night at my house.
"You wanna call it rape, call it rape she wanted me. She was practically begging me to fuck her. If that's rape, then Blair and the other girls at school want to"
All of us rushed into the classroom where the audio was coming from.
"Where the fuck did you get that?" Bryce asked everyone in the room and they all leave
The audio stops
"What the hell was that? Was that you" Scott asks
"Yeah it was me," Bryce says walking to the door I went after him
"Hey it's okay come on calm down," I say
I guess our secret was out.
"What do you want us to go?" Scott asks
"You want me to go after them?" Monty asks
"How the fuck did this happen?" Bryce asks me and Zach
"Someone posted the tapes online last night," Zach says
"Someone"
"Anonymously," I say
"That's fucked up," Scott says
"What are you gonna do," Monty asks
"Um. Uh— I Uh— I just— I need to think for a minute." Bryce says
"You should call you're dad babe," I say
I try to calm him down this whole situation is fucked up.
"I will be right back I'm heading to the restroom and Bryce just call you're dad and don't say or do anything stupid," I say walking out of the classroom.
I made my way to the restroom I opened the door and two girls were talking in there about the stupid tapes.
"I know did you hear what he said on the last tape?" One says
"Okay, but how could she be dating him if he did it?" The other one says
"Unless she didn't know"
I stopped and listen I made myself known and they looked at me.
"Blair hey, the ribbon cutting today, I might be late. Are you still going?" She asks me
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I asked
"Okay"
"Yeah well, we'll see you later."
"Okay," I say
"Bye" they left the restroom
Fuck now everyone thinks I'm just some dumb girl who dating a rapist that I didn't know. I made my way into the stall to calm down. I looked at the door and there were a lot of mean things about Jess on the door.
"Jessica Davis wanted it"
"Rape is what skanks say when they regret it"
I picked up my bag and pulled out a black marked and I covered up all those mean comments on the door.
I made my way back to class instead of going to check on Bryce.
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Justin's pov.
After this morning when I found out the tapes were released and someone playing Bryce's confession. I was gonna confront him.
I walked up to his locker and he was on a phone call. Probably someone to get him out of this fucked situation he caused.
"Well, can't you tell Warren to handle it faster? It's a shit show around here." Bryce says
He notices me just standing near him and he hangs up the call.
"Hey, I gotta go," Bryce says and he closes his locker.
"I heard your confession," I say
"You feeling okay, brother? You didn't look so good the other day." Bryce asks me
"You're going down, Bryce," I say
"How do you see that happening, exactly? Without you going with me?" He asks me
"I will do whatever I have to.. to make you fucking pay," I say
"I'm not gonna pay for a goddamn thing, Justin. I've got a legal team working for me around the clock. I've got state fucking senators that will talk about what a good citizen I am. What you got? A junkie mom and a deadbeat dad? Oh shit, wait that's right you don't even know your dad, do you? You never met the guy, you're just a white trash piece of shit, Justin. Nobody's gonna listen to your truth. Nobody in this world gives a shit about you not even Blair gives a shit about you. You've got nothing and nobody." Bryce says
He walks away and I'm hurt over what he said. I look over and I spot Blair with her friends.
Flashback
I was reaching out to Blair to ask how she was after Jessica's party.
"Hey Blair, yeah I'm just.. yeah I'm at home. Yeah, I had to split my mom called me super early. She got in a fight with meth Seth, so are you okay? I mean you were pretty out of it last night. I mean, we both were huh? Uh yeah, we did do you not remember? Shit yeah, we were both pretty trashed. Sorry I mean yeah, you seemed like you were pretty into it last night. Oh, we must've just both passed out after. Yeah, it was a fucking great party."
She walked away I had been wanting to talk to her but Bryce was always by her side. Instead, I went to a classroom to talk to a dealer to buy drugs to numb everything that was going on. I shouldn't have come back.
•
The Walker's pov.
Why can't we explain what actually happened? Why can't we make a statement?" Bryce asks
"It's not the time?" Mr. Walker says
"When is the time? Everyone knows what she had to say about it." Bryce says
"You wouldn't want it to sound like you were attacking this girl to the press." Mrs. Walker says
"I just don't want people to think I'm hiding from this. I want them to hear my side." Bryce says
"They will as soon as you testify. In the meantime, just block out the noise. Now let's try and enjoy this damn thing, shall we? We got a lot of eyes on us today." Mr. Walker says
"You have some fans dear." Mrs. Walker says seeing a group of children waiting on Bryce.
He walks off to the kids.
"This other girl, are we worried about her? Mrs. Walker asks
"The girlfriend? No Blair is harmless" Mr. Walker says
"No not Blair she's a sweetheart. The girl on the tape at the party?" Mrs. Walker says
"We don't even know if there was anyone at any party. It's just a story." Mr. Walker says
"Is that the position you're taking or something you truly believe?" Mrs. Walker asks
"These kids Nora they want what Bryce has." Mr. Walker says
"You don't think your son could do these kinds of things?" She asks
"Of course not. Jesus do you?" He asks
They both stay quiet
"I know the boy we raised."
"Are you sure?" She asks
They make their way to be seated but someone was calling out to them.
"Excuse me, Mr. And Mrs. Walker?"
"Hi"
"What do you have to say for yourselves and your son?" The lady asks
"Excuse us"
"Everybody knows what he did to Hannah Baker. How could you let him be celebrated like this?" The lady says to the couple who ignored her.
"We have everything well contained," Mr. Bolan says to the Walkers
"You should be ashamed of yourself, Mr. Bolan," the lady says
•
Marcus was giving a speech about the grand opening of the Walker field but instead, he exposed Bryce's.
"In recent years, our values have gone to shit. I'm part of the problem, I lead a group called enguytened, which is supposed to be for enlightened guys. But today, I'm officially resigning from that group because I'm a hypocrite how can I say that I care about protecting girls when I've been protecting a rapist like Bryce Walker." Marcus says
The crowd is shocked to hear him say this
"Bryce Walker should pay for what he's done. Hannah Baker was a victim of Bryce Walker. Liberty needs to change the culture of their school." The same lady from earlier was talking
"Okay. Okay, all right. Uh." Mr. Bolan speaks up
"It does not protect a child," the crowd against Bryce say
"Well, our students are playing some sort of prank. One that's in poor taste obviously but let's move ahead with our program." Mr. Bolan says
"What the hell is going on at this school," Mr. Walker asks
"The young man clearly felt burdened by something. He needed to make a confession" Mrs. Walker says
"It's blackmail someone got something on him," Bryce says
"We are so thrilled to be he— excuse me. Can we have some quiet, please? Thank you we're thrilled to be here would you please join me" Mr. Bolan tries to move on.
"You know this is all bullshit right? It's all lies" Bryce says to Blair.
"Yeah, of course, I know that I gotta believe the lie to save you," Blair says to Bryce
She knows the truth but she can't go against Bryce her boyfriend.
•
Bryce and Blair walked away to go after Marcus
"What the fuck did you just do?" Bryce asks Marcus
"Hey, look I came to you for help and you didn't do shit man. They're still blackmailing me they made me say that" Marcus says
"Who the fuck is they," Bryce asks
"I don't know how I know. Look if that video gets out, man it's out forever, okay? And I still have a future. But for you, the tapes are out. I didn't say anything that hadn't been said already." Marcus says
"Big mistake," Blair says
"Big fucking mistake," Bryce says
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