Chapter Nine
Chapter Song: Breathe Into Me - Red
Elena's Point of View
I parked my car right behind Austin's on the side of the road. I ran out of car and he turned around. "Elena you need to leave right now."
"No I'm not letting you go in there by yourself! What if you get hurt, at least I'll be there for you."
"No, what if you get hurt? I can't risk that. Now get in your car and drive back home," he said trying to stay calm and cool.
I rolled my eyes. "Do you really think I'm going to do that?" I walked up to him and grabbed his hand. "I'm going in with you no matter what."
"You know Elena you're really stubborn."
He led me back in the woods where a two story wooden house was. I wonder how old it was. Before he was going to barge through the door he grabbed onto my shoulders, "Don't do or say anything. Leave it all to me." I nodded. He reached in his back pocket and held up his gun. "Remember what I said." He kicked the door open just in the right spot and he opened. "Dean I know you're here with Casey!" Austin shouted. "Get behind me we're going upstairs to the bedroom." He reached out his left hand and I grabbed it, making our way upstairs.
It was silent. We both remained quiet to find at least one noise that would give us a hint as to which door to go through. The floor creaked below our feet. I tried walking without so much pressure, but that didn't even help. Austin stopped in front of the only door that was lit from the bottom. He took a deep breath before ramming his foot against the door, once again opening the door. Casey was pushed up against the wall in her undergarments with Dean kissing her.
"What the fuck!?" Austin shouted. He ran up and yanked Dean off of Casey. Severely pounding Dean's face in with his fists, Austin was thrown off as Dean dodged a hit and landed a solid punch to Austin's nose, blood gushing from the side of Austin's head flew. Spitting blood, Austin rammed his knee into Deans gut causing him to crouch before he slammed him into the ground. Austin punch him a good amount of times, Dean dodging some of them. Finally, he took his gun and aimed it to his head, "You rally thought that you would get away with this huh Dean. Well, I've been waiting for this exact moment to pull the trigger and watch the bullet cut through you head."
"So this is it huh Mahone?"
"You better fucking believe it is."
"Austin don't!" I shouted. He turned his head back. "Please don't shoot him, at least not right now." I sighed. He was breathing heavily, hesitating whether to pull the trigger or not. I was getting ready to cover my eyes. He dropped the gun and grabbed Dean by shirt. "Don't think your off the hook. I only did it because of her." he let go and wiped the blood from his face. "Casey put on your clothes and get in the car." He said gritting his teeth. "Let's go Elena."
I followed him downstairs, waiting for Casey. She came down the stair not even making contact with Austin. "I want all of your shit out of my house when we get there. I want you to never talk to me or any of the guys."
"But Austin-"
"No buts! You're disgusting for doing that, I know that your affiliated with him. Let's go."
I walked outside and it was dark out. Austin was leaning up against his car smoking a cigarette with Casey in the back seat of his car. "Hey I'm sorry about Casey."
"Don't be. She's a fucking mess." He threw his cigarette on the ground to put it out.
"What about your nose?"
"It will heal, I can take care of it." "Oh, okay well see you around," I started walking back. "Why do you come back to my place? Only if you want to."
"But my mom-"
"Remember what I told you."
"Yeah, okay."
Casey got all of her things and it was packed in the SUV in the driveway. Zach offered to bring her back home so he was gone. "Austin, let me fix up your nose. Where's you first aid kit?" He smiled, "You're willing to?" "Of course." "Alright I have one in the upstairs bathroom."
I opened up the cabinet and grabbed the kit. Austin took off his shirt and threw it on the ground while hopping on the counter. I went and grabbed a rag, getting it wet with warm water and started rubbing the blood of his face. I saw how muscular he was. His abs were perfectly toned. "Checking me out babe?" I looked up to see him looking at me with a teasing look. "No." I looked down and I could feel my cheeks become hot. "This going to need some stiches." I said looking at how deep the cut was on the side of his nose. He groaned, "I'm not going to the hospital." "Luckily for you, I know how to stich up cuts." I grabbed the needle and thread out from the box. "This wont hurt that bad, I promise." "Oh please, I've been in more pain than you can imagine." While I was stitching him up he kept trying to make these jokes and make me laugh. "Stop it Austin you're distracting me." I cleaned it up a little bit more and was done. "Your nose isn't broken, it will just be bruised." 'I can handle that." "Well I have to go." I walked downstairs and opened the door. "Goodnight Elena. And thanks for fixing up my nose." He laughed. I smiled and walked outside.
I walked inside and was about to go upstairs to freshen up for bed. "Where have you been young lady?" My mom stood by the wall smoking a cigarette. "I was helping out a friend." "I thought I told you to come home Right when school was over."
" Actually you didn't tell me anything." I corrected her and started walking upstairs. "Listen up you slut, don't walk away from me when I'm talking to you!" "I don't want to listen to anything your drunk ass has to say!" I shouted from up the stairs and slammed my door. I locked it and grabbed my headphones from my dresser. My mom was pounding on the door shouting name at me and I blocked her out with my music. I was leaning against the door and just closed my eyes.
I woke up and checked the time. 10:23. Shit I was late for school! I grabbed my black skinny jeans and red v-neck. I threw my hair up in a pony tail and put on my black vans. I grabbed my keys and I sped on my way to school. I'm lucky that I didn't get pulled over. I quickly walked through th halls to get to Mr. Andrews class. I walked in and everyone had their eyes on me. I sat in my usual seat, next to Tyler. "Well you're late for a first." he laughed. "It was a long night. I didn't even get a chance to brush my teeth, do you have a piece of gum?" He nodded and reached in his bag handing me a piece of trident mint. I smiled, "Thanks." English is just so boring, most likely my least favorite class. Mr. Andrews assigned us to write a paper on what we think true love really means. "This is really lenient so the paper is not due until February." The bell rang and i caught up with Tyler in the hall. "Hey, It's been a while since we've talked," Tyler said. "Yeah I know. I'm just running around everywhere." "Hey how about on Friday I pick you up and we can go see a movie and just talk." "Sounds great to me!" "Alright well see you in art." "Bye."
At lunch Austin was just standing by himself smoking a cigarette. Casey came walking from around the corner and kissed Zach on the cheek. "What the fuck is she doing here." Austin snapped his head over to Zach's direction. "She's mine now Mahone." "What the hell did I tell you guys, all of you! I know for a fact that she is up with Dean. After what she was doing, she seemed pretty into it." Zach looked at Austin like he was crazy. "She was sucking faces with our biggest enemy! Don't you fucking know that Zach!" "Whatever Austin just leave us alone."
"You're unbelievable." Austin snarled and walked away. I got up from the table and followed him. "Austin," I said and I grabbed onto his arm. "What!" he yelled and turned around. "Don't even mind Zach, he obviously wanted her all along, and got her. He doesn't care what she did. Just let them be." He ran his fingers through his hair, "No one fucking gets it." he groaned. "No but I do. I mean, I was there with you. I saw the anger in you're eyes, I could feel the blood boiling, your fist were clenched. I understand Austin." He took a deep breath and grabbed onto both of my hands, "Why do you always calm me down?" I shrugged my shoulders. "I guess I can just relate to everything."
We both stood there in silence until Austin started leaning in towards me. He was going to kiss me. He was so close I could feel his hot breath come into contact with my face. "Hey Elena!" Tyler came walking towards me. Me and Austin let go of each others. "Oh hey Tyler." I said quietly. The whole time me and Tyler talked Austin just stood there, glaring at Tyler. The bell rang, "See ya." Tyler waved and walked into the building with everyone else. I nudged Austin, "What was that all about?" "I didn't know you were still talking to Tyler." "Well yeah we're friends. Does that bother you?" "Actually yeah a little bit. He's an asshole and I don't like him." He walked and caught up with Alex and they made their way into the building.
"So what was going down over there with Austin? Do want to know." she giggled. "We were just talking about some things." "Alright I'll see you in a little bit." She walked into room 213. As usual I caught up with Tyler in art.
After school we all went over to Austin's. Casey was also there and Austin tried to stay away from her as possible. "Okay now this goes out to everyone. Be careful and cautious when you're out alone. As you can see, we can use Casey for example." She crossed her arms and rolled her eyes. "If you do, I would recommend carrying a knife or gun. Most of you don't do that, but Dean is getting petty serious so keep an eye out. You don't want to get killed or it's game over." I'm still spooked about when he pushed me up against my car and told me things that I didn't want to hear. I have to be ready for Friday because I know Dean will do anything to get to anyone that is associated with Austin.
Austin pulled me off to the side after he was done. "Dean has his guys go out for bait. So if you see anyone that looks suspicious I want you to walk away from them and stay as far away from them as possible." "I got it." We wee over at his house until 9 at night. "Shit! I have to go, my mom is going to kill me."
I climbed on the tree and jumped on my balcony. I never lock those doors, so I opened them and turned on my bedroom light. I walked over to my door and pressed my ear against it to listen to any sound. I didn't hear my mom so I opened it and made my way to the kitchen to grab something to eat. I opened all the cabinets and the fridge and there was nothing. Great we need to go grocery shopping. I turned through the hall and saw my mom standing there, arms crossed. "You just don't listen to me ever do you!" She ran towards me and pushed me on the ground. She grabbed me by my hair and dragged me into the kitchen and started whipping me. "You're a fucking whore aren't you? You were out having sex with guys every night? I bet that's what you did when I was gone!" I felt her sharp nail claw into my cheek. I winced and was so numb from all the pain. She yelled and kicked me for about 15 minutes, finishing off by smashing her beer bottle on my head.
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Ok so just to clear this up, Tyler is not the Tyler that left the crew. Dylan O'Brien plays Tyler.