The lonely rogue

There may be trouble ahead.

I sulked in my bedroom for a couple of hours, wallowing in my own self pity. I had messed up, I knew I shouldn't have wondered off so far on my own when I didn't even know where I was, but in my defence I didn't know that Darren would see me.

I heard a gentle knock on my door, "Gwen are you in there?" It was Jaime-Lou. I huffed, got off the bed and opened the door, "Hi Jaime-Lou" I sighed. "Hi Gwen" she replied a little sadly, "I hear you're having a bit of a tough time with Robbie at the moment." I nodded, "Don't worry, he'll come around, he always does". I really hope he does. "Anyway" Jaime-Lou grinned "I have been given orders to bring you to the living room" She started pulling me out of my room and along the hall, I knew I couldn't stop her, so I didn't even try.

I stepped into the living room, everyone was there and they hit me with a very loud "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" I was in shock. The living and dining room were completely decked out with balloons, banners and streamers, and there was a big birthday cake in the middle of the table. I felt tears falling down my cheek. In an instant Sarah was by my side, "Oh sweetheart Don't cry. I knew it was too much, we can take it all down if you want." I sobbed a little but, catching my breath, "No. I love it thank you so much." I sniffed, "it's been so long since I celebrated my birthday, I just got a bit overwhelmed, but this is amazing. Thank you everyone, this means so much to me." I couldn't control my tears, I was so happy. Everyone came up one by one, hugging me and wishing me a happy birthday, then Sarah started bringing out sandwiches, cakes, cookies and all other kind of party food. My eyes were the size of saucers, seeing all of this delicious food. I heard some music start playing and looked over to see Robbie at a little stereo. He gave me a little wave and smiled, I hoped this meant that he had forgiven me. We all ate and danced and laughed until it was pretty late. Some of the older people and younger children wished me happy birthday again then went off to bed, leaving just a handful of people left dancing.

I saw Jaime-Lou sitting on her own and went over to talk to her. "Hey Jaime-Lou, what's wrong, why are you sitting on your own?" She looked really sad. "You remember the guy I said I felt a pull to, and he felt it too?" I nodded, " Turns out we are mates" She really didn't look happy. "Jaime, that's amazing, I'm so happy for you." I shrieked, finding your mate is meant to be amazing, like love at first sight. Your whole look on life changes and you would do anything for your mate. "So why are you not dancing with Mr lover lover?" I laughed. I could see the tears forming in her eyes. "He rejected me" She said as her tears started to fall. I couldn't believe it, I've heard of people rejecting their mates before, but I never knew anyone in that situation. I've heard that it causes physical pain. "Jaime, I'm so sorry. did he give a reason. I'm going to kill him, he can't treat you like this. tell me what you want or what you need. I'm here for you" I was so sorry for my friend and so angry at the douchebag that did this to her. She sobbed, "He said I wasn't good enough for him, that I was too hill Billy. I thought he liked me." I hugged her hard "Let me take you to your room Jaime, maybe a sleep will help you." She nodded and I lead her back to her room. As soon as we were in her room, she climbed in bed and started crying, I stayed with her until she eventually cried herself to sleep. Now I was going to hunt down that douchebag and give him what for. I stormed into the living room looking for him and bumped straight into Robbie. "Woah Where's the fire?" He laughed "I'm looking for someone" I snapped, he looked hurt, "Sorry Robbie it's just I think I'm going to kill someone tonight." He gave me a funny look, "I don't think killing someone is on the list of birthday traditions, but if you need help hiding a body I'm your man. So, who we killing?" I pulled Robbie over to the sofa and filled him in on everything that Jaime-Lou had told me, I could see his anger growing as I spoke. "What's going on here?" a voice said behind us, making us both jump. Robbie looked at him, he was really pissed off. "Gabe, you won't believe what Gwen just told me" I sat as Robbie filled Gabe in with everything I had told him. Gabe looked genuinely angry, but stayed calm which surprised me. I thought he would be joining our linch mob, but no he just stood there looking at us, "Jai is a big girl, she can look after herself, don't you two go causing trouble." He warned us, then walked away.

Robbie and I thought hard about what Gabe had said, then we shrugged it off and went searching for Mr Douchebag. "Do you know who he even is or what he looks like?" I asked Robbie when it dawned on me that I didn't know what Mr douchebag looked like. "Yeah I know him, his name's Richard, he's been eyeing up my sister for a while, which is why I don't understand why he would reject her." We walked to the end of the men's rooms and Robbie banged on the door. "Kind of busy in here" a voice called out. Robbie banged harder, I thought the door would give way, "Open the door d**k" Robbie shouted. we could here talking in the room, then the door opened a bit. A girl with long black hair, wearing just a t-shirt looked at us. "Can I help you, we're a little occupied in here at the moment" She giggled. "Tough" Robbie snapped, pushing the door open and storming into Richards room. Richard was laying in bed, from what I could see he was naked and very sweaty. "What the f**k man" he shouted. " You have some explaining to do d**k" Robbie growled, "Want to tell me what's wrong with my sister?" Richard had the decency to look ashamed as the girl climbed into bed with him. "So what? you dump my sister then jump straight into bed with whoever this is?" Robbie growled, waving his hand towards the girl. "Um excuse me " the girl said in a bitchy voice, "I am Richards girlfriend, we are mates and we are trying to claim each other properly, so if you don't mind leaving." This time I growled, I had never growled at anyone before, it felt empowering. "Actually we do mind leaving, Richard, do you want to explain to us why you rejected Jaime-Lou, you know your MATE?!" The girl looked Richard and back to me and Robbie, " what do you mean his Mate?, I'm his mate, he told me I was his mate" She was whining, I can't stand whining. " Um, I think you'll find that he lied to you" I said sarcastically, "Do you feel anything for him? A pull? An insane amount of protection? Or complete and utter love?" Richards face was white as a ghost, "No" the girl said, "I mean, I like him a lot, but I'm not 18 yet so I wouldn't feel all of that, but Richard said he felt it and that we were mates." I wanted to feel sorry for the girl, I really did, but my friend had been hurt and right now that's all I cared about. Before I realised what was happening, Robbie had launched himself at Richard and was literally kicking his arse, I tried to get to him and accidentally knocked the girl over, causes her to crash into a table. I eventually dragged Robbie away, leaving Richard in a bloody mess in his room. I took him back to my room to calm him down and clean him up before anyone could see him. I don't know what happened to the girl, I don't even know if she was still in the room when we left.

I made Robbie go into my bathroom and clean himself up, and I ran to his room to get him some fresh clothes, I could sneak his bloody ones down to the laundry wrapped up in mine. I went to the kitchen to make us both a cup of tea, thankfully nobody was in there so could get in and out quickly without being spotted. I went back to my room and me and Robbie talked. We talked about what had happened with Richard, we talked about Jaime-Lou and Gabe, about their childhood and how they had ended up in this community. We talked for hours until we were all talked out.

At some point we must have fallen asleep. When I woke up, I was in my bed and Robbie was asleep in the chair. His face looked peaceful and he looked so young with no worries in the world. I didn't want to wake him, so I quietly got myself some clothes and a towel and went down for a shower. I was only about 20 minutes in the shower room, then I headed back to my room, I would need to wake Robbie. I had just got to my door when it flew open and Gabe walked out looking furious. "Gabe? what's wrong?" I asked. He glared at me, clearly pissed off, "I told you and Robbie to leave it last night, to not cause trouble, but you couldn't help yourselves could you!" he snapped. Oh s**t, I knew I was for it. " You and Robbie are wated in Tungi's room in ten minutes. DO NOT BE LATE!" He walked off, not giving me a chance to speak. I knew we were both in trouble, Richard must have reported us after last night. I knew we would be punished. I just hope it wouldn't last long.