Wanna Bet? (21 page)

“
Oh my god” I moan aloud
and then freeze when I hear Matt choking on something and Sophie
laughing.

“
You okay in there Brooke?”
Sophie calls laughing.

“
Yeah I think I’m going to
sleep in here from now on” I call back smiling to myself, maybe
this is how I cure my nightmares, get myself relaxed enough and
I’ll just drift off.

When I get out of the bath
something catches my eye in my mirror, without thinking about it I
grab my robe, after I have slipped it on I run out of the bathroom
and grab my phone ignoring Sophie, Matt and Tucker that are all
watching me as if I’m crazy.

“
You bastard!” I snap into
the phone as soon as Dave answers.

“
Let me guess, you fond
them” He laughs back.

“
How could you let me do
that?” I demand so beyond angry now.

“
You wouldn’t listen to me,
It was quite amusing, how do you think you lost your jeans in the
first place?”

I hang up the phone,
pissed off and embarrassed.

“
What’s happened?” Matt
asks watching me looking slightly worried.

“
Well I guess I know now
how I lost my clothes. Soph?” I ask and gesture for her to come and
see.

She walks over to me
slowly and I turn my back to the boys. I ignore her frowning at me
and open my robe turning slightly to the side.

“
You got a tattoo!” she
screams at me.

I snap my robe shut and
throw my hand over her mouth but it’s too late.

“
Yeah laugh it up” I shout
at al three of them who are laughing so loud I’m not sure they
heard me.

I walk back to the
bathroom and slam the door behind me.

A few minutes later there
a knock on the door.

“
I’m sorry Brooke, let me
take a look please” Sophie calls through the door.

I open the door and glare
at Matt who is still laughing, wiping his eyes.

“
Come on” Sophie encourages
moving so I can hide it from the boys again.

“
What is it?” I ask closing
my eyes not sure I want to see what it is.

“
It’s actually really cute”
she tells me and takes a photo of it on her phone.

“
Huh” Looking at the
picture I relax completely. It is kind of cute. I have a little
pink bow about two inches big tattooed on me, the only downside is
that it’s right at the top of my backside.

“
Can we see?” Tuckers asks
getting up from the table.

“
Give me a minute” I say
before he gets any closer hen grab some clothes. Once I have
changed in the bathroom I walk back into the room and stand in
front of them where they are sat on the sofa.

“
Well?” Tucker
asks.

I turn around and lift my
top up with one hand, with the other I lower my jeans
slightly.

None of them say anything
so after a few minutes I turn around to face them they still have
their eyes in the same position so I clap my hands because they are
no longer staring at my backside.

“
Say something?” I tell
them.

“
That’s sexy as hell”
Tucker says finally looking up at me, Matt nods and turns to Sophie
but she just shakes her head at him laughing.

Something Dave said earlier
makes me stop. I’m pretty sure he asked if I found
them
and as far as I
know I only have one tattoo.

“
What’s wrong?” Sophie asks
noticing my expression.

“
There’s more” I frown to
myself.

“
Where?” Tucker asks
lifting my top higher.

“
I don’t know” I shrug and
turn to the bathroom “Soph I need you to help me search” I call
over my shoulder.

“
I’ll do it” Tucker offers
standing up and closing the bathroom door on Sophie and Matt
laughing.

After a thorough check by
myself and Tucker we haven’t found any more I slump down on the
floor trying to remember if I did anything else last night,
flickers of the tattoo parlor come back to me and I remember seeing
that they also did piercing. We didn’t find anything pierce either
and there is only one place that we haven’t checked, but I wouldn’t
do that, would I?

“
Oh no” I groan as I
remember the conversation that Jack and I was having about an
exgirlfriend’s of his who had her clit pierced.

“
What’s wrong?” Tucker asks
when I stand up again.

I shake my head at him and
return to the room headed straight for Sophie. I pull her up and
take her into the kitchen area away from Matt and
Tucker.

“
I need something removed”
I whisper to her when I’m sure I have her full
attention.

“
What?” she frowns at
me.

“
I had something pierced
last night, can you take me to the emergency room to get it
un-pierced?” I ask

“
Brooke you can’t go to the
hospital to have a piercing taken out” she tell me not whispering
like I am.

“
Then what the hell am I
supposed to do? I want it gone”

“
You’ll have to do it
yourself or get someone to do it for you”

“
What now?” Matt asks
looking at Tucker who just shrugs.

“
Soph ….”

“
Where is it?” she asks
rolling her eyes at me.

“
Ummm…” I move my eyes down
to the ground hoping she picks up on it.

“
Nuh uh, no way Brooke, get
someone else to do it, that’s too weird” she shakes her head at me
laughing.

“
Can we see?” Matt
asks

Sophie shakes her head at
him still laughing.

“
Can’t you take a photo and
show us?” Tucker asks and Sophie just laughs even
harder.

“
I haven’t even seen it” I
tell them both over Sophie.

“
Soph, why are you laughing
what is it?” Matt asks her looking confused.

“
She’s laughing because I’m
a virgin who has her fucking clit pierced” I snap at them
both.

“
Oh” Is all he says and
Tucker just sits there staring at me open-mouthed.

“
You’re a virgin?” he asks
finally.

“
You already know this, I
kind of have other things on my mind right now” I say
dismissively.

“
But you and Andrew…” he
trails of frowning at me.

“
Umm are friends, I told
him I had a boyfriend so he wouldn’t try anything on with
me”

“
But Sophie said…” he turns
to look at Sophie.

“
Don’t look at me like
that! You would have done it anyway” she tells him but I have no
idea what they are talking about and by the look on his face,
neither does Matt.

“
I have a little situation
here” I call to them.

“
Shit Soph!” Tucker shouts
and walks out of the dorm.

“
What was that all about?”
Matt asks her from the sofa.

“
I told him Brooke had sex
with Andrew”

“
What?” I ask turning to
look at her now.

“
I knew something was going
on between you both when we were in the hotel so when we were all
in the bar and you were talking to Andrew I told him he would have
the room to himself that night because you were going back to
Andrews” she says quietly.

“
Why would you do that?”
Matt asks her

“
Because he would have done
something to hurt her eventually, I wanted her to get out before
she had her heart broken” she snaps at him but is looking at
me.

“
That wasn’t for you to
do!” he snaps back and leaves the room.

“
So that’s why… him and
Mel… it was you” I whisper.

“
Brooke, I’m so sorry, I
was only trying to help”

“
Yeah and now I have a
tattoo, a piercing and a best friend that won’t talk to me” I snap
at her then leave her in the dorm alone.

“
What does daddy think of
the tattoo?” I don’t bother looking behind me when I hear Beth’s
voice instead I turn my glare on Tucker.

“
Really?” I don’t bother
trying to keep the disgust out of my voice.

“
I heard it basically
offers up your ass as a gift” comes from behind me
again.

“
Been spreading your legs
again Beth?” I ask her but still looking at Tucker.

“
Jealous because I got
further than you?” she whispers in me ear taking me by
surprise.

Narrowing my eyes at
Tucker I finally stand up and face her.

“
What else did he tell you
this time?” I ask her ignoring the few students that are staring at
us.

“
Brooke” Sophie warns but I
ignore her and pull my hand out of her grip when she attempts to
pull me back into my seat.

“
A few interesting things
really, nightmares, trips to towns trying to make you remember your
poor dead daddy, how busy you get with your mouth, house parties
that you get so drunk that you can’t remember getting a
tattoo…”

“
Does it not bother you
that after sex all you two can think to talk about it
me?”

“
See, I’m having a little
trouble here because if I remember correctly you were the one who
said I could only feel something if I had a dick inside me, but yet
it would appear you can’t feel anything at all”

“
Walk away Beth” Matt says
from the table.

“
No, I think I’ll stay for
a bit longer” she shakes her head at him then looks over to Tucker
and back at me with a smirk. “There is no wonder you’re step dad
hits you, I would if you were my daughter, can’t you see that
you’re an embarrassment? I’d be ashamed of you, I feel sorry for
you’re mum. You’re dad’s lucky he’s dead so he doesn’t have to
witness what a fuck up you turned out to be”

I can hear Sophie’s chair
scraping across the floor as she jumps up out of her seat but she
doesn’t get to do whatever it was she was going to do before she
can move Beth is on the floor under me and I’m punching her in the
face. She twists and throws me off her then we are flipped and
she’s on top of me.

“
I learnt that trick while
I was having sex, you wouldn’t know anything about that though
would you” she sneers at me before landing a punch on my
jaw.

“
Yeah, well I didn’t have
to spread my legs to learn this one” I snap back at her, I use all
my strength to lift her off me a little and then slam my knees up
into her back making her fly forward she curls up into the fetal
position on the floor and I grab a fist full of her
hair.

A few people are
surrounding us chanting fight and random other things.

I twist my fist into her
hair and bring her ear up to my mouth. “Say what you want about me,
do what the hell you want to me but mention my dad again and I
swear to god I will fucking kill you” I whisper into her ear and
then slam her face into the floor.

Matt pulls me up from the
ground and drags my arms behind my back, Beth turns to look at me
and smiles, her mouth covered in blood.

“
If he was anything like
you are, you’re mum’s lucky he’s dead too” she spits a mouthful of
blood on the floor.

I try to get my arms from
behind my back but Matt tightens his hold on them and someone lifts
Beth up off the floor holding her in the same vice type grip that
I’m in. I take advantage of Matt’s strength and without him
realizing what I’m doing I lean my weight against him and push both
my feet off the ground making them slam into Beth’s stomach, both
her and the person holding her stumble back and land on the floor.
Matt lets me go, out of shock I suspect so I walk forward until I’m
standing over her.

“
You want to fight and come
out on top? Pick someone who doesn’t put up with this shit
everyday”

Sophie pulls me away from
the group and sits me back down at the table, she starts wiping my
lip that’s bleeding but I push her hand away and try to slow my
breathing down.

“
God I hate that bitch” I
whisper drinking my coffee, most of the people in the café have
gone back to what they were doing before me and Beth went a bit a
crazy but a few people are still staring at us.

“
I don’t think you’re her
favorite person either” She whispers back “What are you going to do
about him?” I follow the direction of where she’s nodding until my
eyes find Matt and Tucker, it looks like their arguing.

“
Right now, I’d like to do
to him what I did to Beth”

“
He’d deserve it” she
shrugs.

“
I’m gonna go, I’ll see you
later” I tell her when Tucker and Matt start walking back to the
table. I pass them but don’t say anything as I head to my next
class.

To my surprise Tucker sits
in the seat next to me, he normally sits in this seat by why on
earth he would think I want to sit next to him I don’t
know.