Two

Primrose's P.O.V.

Things had ended badly between Henry and me. It shouldn't have ended this way.

"Class! Your oral presentation about the downfall of a U.S President is due tomorrow!" Bellowed Mr. Syme.

"Do you think we'll get it done?" Asked Henry as we made our way out of the classroom and toward our lockers.

"We were messing around in class too much, so we'll need to do some work on it after school if we wanna get it done on time," I said, attempting to open my locker. I could never get the combination lock open on the first try. "How about your house?"

"Sure, that's good since my dad's on duty," Henry said as he put his books away.

We made our way to the bike racks and rode to Henry's house. Butch's car was there.

"I thought he was at work?" I questioned.

"Come on," said Henry, sounding concerned.

Henry opened his front door to reveal his dad sitting in an armchair reading the paper.

"Hi, Officer Bowers," I greeted.

"Call me Butch," he said, getting up.

He held out his hand, I took it and he shook it, holding on for an uncomfortable amount of time.

"Dad, seriously? Prim and I have been friends since forever," Henry said.

"Primrose! Of course, I remember you. I just haven't seen you in ages, Henry never has any friends over," Bruce stated.

"After what you did to Mum, I'm afraid too," Henry said, earning a dirty look from his dad.

Henry grabbed my hand and we went upstairs. Before we could make it to his room, I felt someone grab my ass. I turned around, it was Butch.

"What the fuck?" I said.

"What?" Cried Henry. "What did he do?"

"He fucking grabbed my ass!" I screamed.

"That language! Naughty girl. How about we have some fun?" Butch suggested.

"She's twelve years old you fucked up perve!" Henry yelled, as he grabbed my hand and pulled me downstairs and into his front yard.

"Get on your bike and follow me," said Henry.

I followed him and we rode away from his house and into the forest. Soon, we came to a clearing.

Henry got off his bike and I got off mine.

"Sit," said Henry, gesturing to a log that was in front of a lake.

"I come here all the time, mainly when I wanna get away from my dad, or just to think," he told me.

"It's nice," I complimented.

"Thanks," Henry said. "Can I tell you something? It's something I never told no one."

"Sure," I agreed.

"My mum, she didn't leave us like my dad says. Well, like I say," Henry began.

"What happened to her?" I asked calmly.

"My dad killed her," Henry said, before taking a deep breath.

"Oh my god," I gasped. "That's terrible. I'm so sorry Henry."

"It's okay, I'm over it now," Henry told me.

"Can I tell you something too?" I asked.

"Of course," he said.

"My Dad raped me last month," I told him.

I knew it would be hard the first time I said it out loud, but it felt a lot better.

Henry looked shocked and disgusted.

"That's bad, like really bad. Have you told anybody?" Henry asked.

"It's actually really hard to talk about. This is my first time saying it out loud," I told him. "Like I haven't even told my brother."

"I'll always be here for you," Henry said solemnly as he took one of my hands in one of his. "I promise."

Promises can be broken.

I shook the memory out of my head and focused back into what was happening.

Henry punched Ben in the face multiple times.

"Stop!" I cried, trying to pull Ben away from them.

Vic grabbed me by my wrists and pushed me against the wall of the covered bridge.

"What do we do 'ta this one?" He asked.

"Let's have some fun with 'er," Patrick said. "But firstly for Tits, I'm gonna light 'is hair on fire."

Patrick made a fire gun with a lighter and a can of bug spray, and shot fire out just above Ben's head. It would be cool if he didn't threaten to use it on people, or actually use it on them... Who knows what he does in his free time.

I tried to get out of Vic's grip, although by now I'd decided that I wouldn't mind being in his grip if he wasn't trying to get me killed.

"She's getting away!" Vic yelled as I got free from his arms.

Belch caught me before I had a chance to escape, pushed me onto the ground and pulled out his switchblade. He sat on me so that there was no chance at all of me escaping. Belch raised his switch over me, but before he could do anything, Henry yelled "No! Leave her!"

There was a silence as Belch had his arm raised over me, knife in hand.

"What?" Questioned Belch.

"I said leave her!" Snapped Henry.

Belch let me go and I quickly climbed over the fence and ran into the forest.

That was weird. Why did Henry tell them to let me go? I thought he didn't care about me, and from the way our friendship ended, it didn't make sense for him to care.

I looked back, Ben kicked Henry in the nuts and quickly got away. I didn't want to risk anything so I just ran. The sewer was near here anyway, I could meet the Losers there.

I ran down the rocky, leafy hill watching out for trees and shrubs with Ben close behind me, and Henry, Patrick, Vic and Belch hot on Ben's tail.

"I'M GONNA CUT YOUR FUCKING TITS OFF!" Henry screamed at Ben.

I ran, but all of a sudden I realized I wasn't watching where I was going and tripped on a twig sticking out of the leafy ground.

I fell to the ground, not able to find the strength to get up.

"Hey, are you okay?" Ben asked as he caught up to me.

"I think so," I said. "Are you?"

Ben helped me up and I dusted myself off.

"I'll be fine," Ben said.

"I'm Ben, but everyone calls me the new kid," Ben said.

"Well, Ben. There are worse things to be called," I told him. "Besides, I already know your name."

"Yeah, I know you too, Primrose. I just didn't expect you to know my name," Ben said in surprise.

I gave him a smile and he returned it.

"Glad I got to meet you before you died," I said, breaking the silence.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Tits and Big Tits," Patrick said, laughing.

"Which one am I?" I asked.

"You're Big Tits," Belch said.

They came closer to us and I stepped back a bit.

"Why don't you show us those big tits?" Patrick asked.

"No," I snapped.

"If you do, we'll leave Tits here alone," Belch said, gesturing to Ben.

"Henry won't be happy if you let him get away, will he?" I pointed out, trying to distract them.

Ben looked confused about what I had said but quickly caught on.

Patrick had his hand on his chin in thought.

"What should we do?" Asked Belch.

While they were scheming and my plan was working, I whispered to Ben, "Let's make a run for it!"

We ran across the creek and around the rocks. As it got deeper, I ran out of the water before it got too deep, I knew this place well. I forgot to give Ben the heads up, so he got drenched as he ran through the creek.

Sure enough, the Losers were there.

"Hey, guys," I greeted.

"Holy shit, what happened to you?" Richie yelled.

"Bowers Gang," I said.

The four of them nodded and ran over to us.

"You guys okay?" Eddie asked.

Ben didn't look like he was in the mood to say anything, so he simply lifted up his t-shirt and displayed his injury.

Ben had a large gash on his stomach from where Henry cut him.

"Let's go to the drug store and get you fixed," Eddie said.

okay how hot is that gif of patrick. okay so some of you may know that it's often very hard for rape and sexual assault victims to come forward, so that's why primrose hasn't.

- ella