My Secret Admirer Is My Bully

Chapter 3

Leo

I grabbed the enabler’s arm today, all week she had been missing, and the week before, I had seen her walking slowly. When I see she was ready to pass out by me holding her arm, I quickly let go. I could see me, and the boys were interested now. Jace pulled off her hood and you could see what looked to be bruising from a boot on her face, the dent was deep, had she been in a fight?

Reece grabbed her other arm I thought was to keep her still but when he ripped up her sleeve I noticed the bandage, blood started to steep through. What the f**k has she done to herself, is she crying out for attention? Thinking this is the way to make friends.

Reece let out a gasp loosening the grip of her sleeve, which gave her the chance to pull it down and hood back over her head. All of us was frozen to the spot on what we had just seen. This gave her a chance to escape. Why would she do this to herself, I called off the bullying for the time being, as I wanted to see if it was us that made her walk slow. But by the looks of it, she is the cause. What has she done?

I planned with the guys who I call my brothers; we are to keep an eye on Rose all week. Something is up with her, and I can’t put my finger on it. I don’t like being in the dark.

All week we followed her, she was struggling to move from class to class, she held her ribs and her right arm. I don’t think she realised she was doing this it seemed to be a habit, forgetting you do this. The blank distant stare helped to see it was subconscious not deliberate for attention. I made sure no one touched her, anytime anyone went near her I made sure they learned quickly to stay away, to not even breath near her.

Friday came around and Rose didn’t show up for school. By the second lesson still a no show I left school and drove around town, I went to her house to sit outside and nothing. Not even Alan was there, probably in the pub getting pissed. Now where has she gone.

All weekend I wondered if she would show up Monday and she did. I noticed she had fresh bandaging on and a cast. So she went to the hospital, making a note to go to Hacker later to hack the hospital records, see what she has done or if it is attention and she is a good actress.

All day we followed her and never did she look at us once. Now with Rose I have noticed she is aware of her surroundings; she would know a shadow was there before the shadow knew. What’s changed, did she genuinely not know we are there?

For a few weeks we followed her and made sure everyone stayed away, she has really piqued my interest. Rose was a good-looking girl, too skinny for me I like my girls with some meat on them. she was quiet, quieter than she was before now, always been a good girl, polite and kind to all. Even now, not a bad word said against us or to our faces.

When I got to the club and found Hacker, he looked into the records at the hospital. Her hospital records were interesting as there was nothing there, no hospital trip. So I made a trip down to speak to Diamond, she had worked that Friday, she was part of the club, her old man Hawk worked in the mechanics the club owned. He was the best with bikes. Yet when I spoke with Diamond, she had no idea what I was talking about. Rose had never stepped foot into the hospital. Interesting.

One week she didn’t show up for two days. The first day I stayed at school as pointless to go out and waste time looking for her, but the second day, me and the guys skipped out and split up to look for her. She is now under our watch.

Jace messaged and said he had found her, she was in the park just watching the birds in the lake. Me and Reece made our way over and see her in the slight distance.

She wasn’t moving just watching the birds in the lake, even when the wind picked up which looked like rain coming in, she just sat and didn’t move. She was on the right bench the one under the tree. This bench is well loved as the tree keeps you covered. Was she not cold sitting there with this wind, she only had that hoodie on, no coat to keep her warm. Should I go over there and give her mine?

I don’t know where that thought came from, no way would I help her she enables her dad, pays for his drink, I see she had got a job I wasn’t stupid. I have heard all the rumours about her. I will not let her fool me to giving her sympathy. What I would do to have my parents back. Never would I let them drink and help them to drink to kill them off quicker, how she could show her face I don’t know.

Thinking about my mum a thought popped in my head, one day she was picking me up from school when she sees Rose, a sad look came over her. I couldn’t understand why she looked sad and pitied her. I asked my mum about it, and she said, she never believed the rumours about her, sometimes bad things can hide in plain sight, and we just refuse to see it, just ignore it and hope it goes away. My parents died a week later. They were gunned down at a meeting.

Each day Rose came in after the park visit, she looked better, she seemed more, I don’t know, healthy, I guess. She was walking better, the cast and bandage had gone, her hood wasn’t pulled so low down. I heard some boys taking an interest in her, wanting to sleep with her, as they heard she was good in bed. This made me snap, how dare she sleep around and pull the innocent act.

I later found out it was Amber saying this as she had caught on to me and the guys following her. Amber was a jealous one. I’m glad I didn’t sleep with her; I could just about handle her standing next to me.

I managed to do some damage control by laughing at people who believed Amber. Any rumour after that was questioned and not believed. I noticed also she skipped lunch, and a dinner lady would sneak over some left-over food into the corridor where she would sit between some lockers. Is she not eating? How long has this been going on? Have I really missed a lot and just seeing for the first time as I’m paying attention to her? I need to investigate this. I pulled the dinner lady aside and found out she never eats lunch, never came to the canteen, it was only one day she needed the bathroom and found Rose, so she started to sneak food to her as she can’t stand to see someone hungry.

I thought she was just on one of those diets the girls get obsessed with when she started losing some weight. I put money on a school canteen card and gave to the dinner lady to make sure she gets a fresh meal a day.

Next thing I need to sort out, we have hit winter, and she was wearing the same hoodie no coat. This will be tricky as she would never take anything off me or anyone associated with me. She never goes to her locker so pointless putting it on there. I wonder if she would take it if I put it around her. Probably not. I'll ask the girls at the club what ideas they can think of.

Watching her trying to keep warm just looked pathetic, like a wounded animal. With the animal you would just put it out of its misery, but I can’t do that with her. I do not know what changed with me. following her made me see more of what I missed and now it has got me thinking.

Some of the girls at the club gave me some ideas and helped me to plant the coat next to her, at first, she kept leaving it not even looking at it. One day I told her she had forgot her coat to get her attention on it, she wouldn’t touch it saying it is not hers. I was getting pissed off, how the f**k do I get her to take the coat.

One day she was outside sitting under a tree it was freezing out. I lost it, grabbing the coat from my locker I marched outside and put the coat over her telling her to wear it and walked off. After that she wore it each day.

The guys noticed and looked straight to me, they knew I had that coat in the locker. They wondered why I was helping her. I told them about the memory of my mum, and they agreed, something seemed wrong.

She wore the coat every winter, even when it ripped you could see she had sewn it up and still wore it no complaints. Even when we finished school, she still had that damn coat like it was the best gift given to her. What is going on with you Rose, what are you hiding.