Biology

I walk out of my last class to meet with the girl I tutor. She was like Mackenzie, only less nice and likes black much more. Her name is Sydney, the one who told me to say that word. Honestly, her grades are only low because she doesn't care about her grades.

"Yo!" She calls from a table waving me over to her.

I nod my head acknowledging her before going over and sitting down. I place my bag on the floor against the leg of the table, opening it to find our revision materials.

"Today is our day for Biology," I tell her excitedly, clapping my hands.

"Ugh I hate Bio," she groans, allowing her head to fall against the arms, which were placed on the desk.

"It's okay, it gets easier," I smile as I place my hand on her arm.

She raises her head to narrow her eyes at me. "You smile too much," she grumbles moodily, before dropping her head once again.

"So I've been told," I say as I take our biology things fully out of my bag and place them on the table.

One of my stickers was slightly up, so I smoothed it out before smiling up at Sydney, "Let's begin,"

~Time Skip~

I walk out of the school to go to my brother's gym. My brother is a year older than me. He’s 18 turning 19 soon, while I'm 17 turning 18 in about 2 weeks.

I go to his gym to practice my gymnastics and he teaches me self-defense.

My mom doesn't know, if she knew, she would not be happy with me. My brother moved out the second he turned 18, while my mother was away. He has a kid and a girlfriend to provide for right now.

Yup, he has a kid. I've never met his girlfriend or the kid, Carter, but he has shown me pictures of his kid before.

My grandparents passed down 2 houses to Ryder and I. Mine is all the way in New York, while his is here in Los Angeles. They also gave us over $1 million each which only we were entitled to. Nobody was allowed to touch it, even our parents until we were 18, but my mom was going to take his, so he ran away before she could.

Me, however, I don't know how I could get away from it. I can't fight my mom and I doubt she'll let me go anyway.

It's not like I can go straight to New York the second I turn 18. Ryder got lucky since his house is here. I have friends here, and I still have to complete high school after my birthday.

My mom thinks I just tutor for an hour and a half, but I actually tutor Sydney for half an hour and the rest of the time, I go to the gym.

I don't usually lie to my mom, but I don't get to see my brother anymore since he dropped out to take care of his family while his girlfriend is getting her degree, despite the money he has. So they can live a good life and support themselves independently.

He said when he needs the money, he'll know he needs it and apparently he doesn't need it now.

I enter and run towards my brother giving him a hug and kissing his cheek until someone taps my shoulder, taking my attention away from my brother.

"Hi," I turned around to smile at the girl who tapped me, as I waved at her.

She cocked her head at me, "You need to back off," she says harshly

"Back off?" My eyebrows furrowed in confusion

"My boyfriend, he wouldn't date a little girl like you," she spat venomously.

I burst into laughter, "Exactly because that would be incest," I tell her before putting my hand out to her, "Nadine Otterson, nice to meet you," I smile

"Oh shit," she curses making me wince

"Please no profanity," I say softly

"I'm sorry," she apologizes sincerely, "I was really mean to you," she grabbed my hand tenderly

"It's all fine," I shrug smiling at her again

Ryder smacks my forehead, "No, it's not. Samantha, maybe you should figure shit out Before you go around cursing people out because you're jealous," Ryder tells her

"No profanity, please," I tell him more sternly after having to repeat myself

"Sorry, Dine, but seriously, if Nadine wasn't so forgiving she probably could easily cut you out of my life," Ryder adds unnecessarily

I gasped, "How could you say something like that?! That's not funny," I shout wondering how my brother could say something like that, "Apologize," I step from in between them and gesture towards his girlfriend.

He nods, "I'm sorry, Sam," he bows his head, "That wasn't right for me to say at all. Nadine's right, I'm fucking sorry, baby," he apologises sincerely, "Do you forgive me?" He gazes up at her.

"Yeah, whatever," she rolls her eyes turning sideways to hide her smile, "No need for profanity," she says for me making me smile

"Anyway, is Carter here?" I asked, glancing around the gym, looking for signs of an infant.

"No, he's at daycare," Ryder says placing his hand on my shoulder

I sigh, "I just wanted to say hi, I can't do any fighting or gymnastics today," I tell Ryder sadly

"Why?" Ryder asks, seeming suspicious

"I just promised Mom I would be home early," I made up a quick lie.

Ryder eyes me suspiciously before slowly nodding. I hug him again and hug Samantha before saying bye and leaving.

I start walking home. I walked past a group of guys who whistled at me and stuff, but I just kept walking, ignoring them as Mackenzie told me to.

"Want to show me what's under that skirt," One of them says as they begin to follow me

I ignore it and proceed walking, picking up my pace a bit, but someone grabs my hair.

"I was talking to you bitch," he spits- literally in my face.

"Please, let me go. I need to get home," I gather my courage to say

Why won't my self-defence kick in or something?

"After you give me what I want," A nasty smirk spreads across his face.

"I don't have any money, I'm sorry, just please don't hurt me," I say weakly as he pulls me against him making me smell his disgusting stench.

"No bitch, I want to fuck you," he seems annoyed with my words

I don't have anything more to say, just to writhe around in his arms fighting for freedom

"Oh, we've got a beauty on our hands," he tells his friends as they approach surrounding me

"Much more fun," one adds

I elbow the guy behind me making him groan and let me go. I stomp on his foot before taking off and running as fast as I can hearing their thundering footsteps behind me.

A hand wrapped around the back of my neck, pulling me to a halt, "Aww, I love when they fight," a guy sings sinisterly from behind me.

"I need to get home, please," I beg as his friends surround me closer, leaving me no angle to run or fight as tears begin to stream down my face

"Too late bitch," another says before they drag me to an alley despite my fighting

They started tearing my clothes off as I screamed bloody murder and begged them to stop while fighting them as much as I could. I prayed for someone to come save me.

My hand landed hard on my face, burning my skin and more tears streamed down my face as I continued to fight.

I was slapped again but harder this time. My ears started ringing and my whole world was spinning.

I can't see. I can't breathe. I can't move. I can't feel. All I can hear is the loud ringing in my left ear. All I can feel is pain. All over, not concentrated anywhere.

It hurts. Everything hurts.

I felt the limpness in my limbs. I must've been moved because the weight of my body felt much lighter.

I could feel the touch.

Someone's light, delicate touch.

I tried to speak, I tried to move but I couldn't before I fell into darkness and my body fully went limp.

My consciousness slowly slipped from me as I lay lifeless in the arms of my saviour.