Teacher Be Mine

Chapter 20

Mariah's POV.

I grabbed my camera and ran out the door. Today I was wearing a pink hoodie and dark blue jeans. Veronica's friends think that I hate pink. When I actually love the color. And I had sunglasses on. Nobody would know it was me following Veronica.

Why am I following her? Well I'm not sure if you know, but Veronica and Katie are planing on 'laying low'. I know that they are planning on getting together soon. I may not seem it but I can hack into Veronica's phone and f*******: account. Anything she has, I can hack into it. That's how I know that their planning on getting together.

Anyways, I was hiding in the woods behind Veronica's house. She walked out the backdoor with Faith. She looked beautiful today. She was wearing a black shirt with a wolf on it and black jeans. She had her hair down. What is give to run my fingers through it. I did it one time, pretending that there was something in her hair. She believed me.

Off topic. They started walking so I followed them. They were probably going to Faith's and then Katie was picking her up from there. Ugh. She disgusts me. Having a relationship with your 16 year old student. Anyway, I followed them to an ice cream parlor. Taking random pictures along the way. What? I couldn't help myself. She's so beautiful.

I sat in a booth by myself and ordered a milkshake. I watched as the two of them conversed and then looked at the pictures I had taken. That's when I heard my name.

"Are you really going over there?" Faith asked.

"Well yeah. I mean she's a friend. Kind of. And I want to see why she thinks Miss Rivers and I are in a relationship." Veronica said.

So either Faith doesn't know or she's trying to talk in code. Oh s**t! Veronica's coming to my house! And my rooms a mess! Great. Now she'll think I'm a slob and never want to date me. Veronica hates slobs.

Don't look at me like that. Her ex was a slob. Veronica was constantly reorganizing her things for her. But I took care of her. Veronica never had to worry about her again thanks to me. No I didn't kill her. I have her a warning. I might have. No I'm not crazy! I just want Veronica to be happy. And he can't be happy with Katie. Why? She's four years older than her and she's our teacher!

Veronica and Faith got up and paid then walked out. So I did the same. They walked to Faith's and Veronica started walking to mine. I took a short cut. I wouldn't have time to do anything but take off my hoodie. s**t! It would be okay.

I got home and ran to my room to take of my hoodie. I hid it in my closet in a box I had in there. That's when Veronica knocked at my door. I ran down and opened it.

"Hey!" I said, feigning surprise.

"Hey. Can I come in?" Veronica asked, smiling.

"Yeah. Defiantly." I answered, moving so she could walk in.

We walked up to my room and sat down. We were talking when Veronica asked me if she could go get a drink. I got up and told her I would get it for her. So I walked down the stairs doing a little happy dance that Veronica actually came to my house. Even if she was trying to found out how I knew about her and Katie.

Veronica's POV.

One Mariah left I jumped up and started walking around her room. There had to be something that showed how she knew about Katie and I. I found a Manila folder that was labeled 'DO NOT TOUCH' and opened it.

There were thousands of photos of me in it. There was one of me with frosting on my face and had the date on the back. Of course it was my 13th birthday. There was some of me sleeping. Me at parties, at the arcade, when we went camping, there were even ones of me changing in my room.

I knew she was obsessed but I didn't know she stalked me like that. Who takes pictures of someone outside their window when they're getting dressed? Apparently Mariah.

I'm scared now. Really really scared. I opened her closet and found even more pictures of me. Then I found pictures of my exes. They each had a red 'x' marked on them. Mariah made them break up with me? I mean, I knew she drove most of the girls that I had a crush on off, but this?

"What are you doing?" I heard behind me.

I turned around to see Mariah standing there, "Mariah? What is all of this?"

"It's nothing. What are you doing in my closet?" She asked, walking over to her dresser.

"I-I uh. What are you doing?!" I asked when she picked up a pocket knife.

I know I said I was scared before but now I'm down right terrified. I was shaking!

"Ok. Now listen to me and listen good Veronica, "Mariah said. "I'm going down stairs to leave my mom a note saying that I went out. Your going to stay there and not move a muscle. And if you do, you'll regret it. Got me?"

I couldn't say anything so I just nodded.

"Good. I'll be right back."

What kind if i***t leaves their hostage alone? Maybe she didn't think this out. I grabbed my phone and called the cops.

"911 what's your emergency?"

"I'm at my friends house and found pictures she took of me and now she's trying to kill me." I said, still shaking.

"What's the address?"

I told them the address and hung up because I heard Mariah coming back up.

"Okay. Lets go." She said.

"Hang on. Lets talk about this." I said.

"Talk about what?" Mariah asked.

"What happened. What's going to happen. Mariah it doesn't have to come to this. Think about your options. Please!" I said.

"My options? Okay. Lets think." She said, making me relax a little. "One, I let you go and you go straight to the cops. Then I could tell them about you and Katie. But then I'd get arrested anyways. Two, I kill you. Then tell the cops that Katie did it because she was afraid you were going to tell everyone and get her arrested. Three, I kill you then kill Katie and make it look like she did it. I think I'll go with number three."

And the little part of me that had relaxed, was now terrified again. But then I heard sirens and relaxed again. Mariah narrowed her eyes at me.

"You called the cops?!" She yelled.

"Your trying to kill me Mariah! I course I called the cops!" I yelled back. Big mistake.

Mariah came at me with the knife and I screamed and ducked. I dived to the side and knocked her feet out from under her. Then I got up and ran out the door. I ran down the stairs and almost got to the door. Almost. Mariah grabbed me and threw me against the wall. I could see the lights through her window. There was a knock on the door.

"Police! Open the door!" I heard.

Mariah of course didn't, "I'll kill you before they can get in."

Then I felt the knife go into my stomach. Again and again. The door was broke open and someone pulled Mariah off of me. That's when I lost consciousness.

I woke up in the hospital. Again. Everyone was there. Then some police officers walked in. They talked to my mom for a minute and everyone walked out. I guess they were going to question me now.

"Hello Veronica, my names officer Brown. This is my partner officer Starr. Can you tell me what happened from the start?" He asked.

"I went to my friend Mariah'a house and we were chilling in her bedroom. I got thirsty and asked for a drink. She went to get us something and I looked around. Like she does in my room. I found pictures of me and got creeped out. Then I opened her closer and found more. I also found pictures of my exes. They all had red 'x' marks through them. Mariah found me and went to write her mom a note. That's when I called the cops."

"Okay. We have her in custody. But she keeps telling us that your in a relationship with a teacher?" Officer Starr said.

"I'm not. I don't know what she's talking about." I said, acting confused.

"A Miss Rivers?" He asked.

"Oh!" I said. "No. I'm not. I told her and my other friends I WISH I could be in a relationship with her. But I know that even if she wanted to, we couldn't. I do wish we could though." I said.

They asked me a couple more questions about my beautiful girlfriend and then left. My family and friends walked in and started throwing questions at me. After a while everyone but my mom, sister, cousin and girlfriend left.

Naomi, Faith and my mom left to give Katie and me some time. Which they probably shouldn't have done. I looked at Katie.

"Hey." I smiled.

"Hey. We have to stop meeting like this." Katie said.

"I missed you." I told her.

"I missed you too." She said and kissed me on the head. "So what happens now?"

"Now we hope that Mariah goes to jail and we get to be together." I told her.

"What happened anyway?" She asked.

So for the next 15 minutes I explained everything in detail. Once to Katie. Once again to my mom. And again to my cousin and sister. And after all of that..... I passed out.