It's thirty below and we're far gone.
(Sorry about the format, Wordpad sucks balls.)
Anica laid there in the bathtub, beaten and bloody, barely breathing. She could hear muffled sounds, like pounding and screaming. But she didn't know where it was coming from. Or where she was anymore.
The light in the bathroom was off, she could barely see anything except from the light coming in from the bedroom.
Somebody was blocking the light now, and she figured out where the screaming was coming from.
"Where the fuck is my shit?! Huh?! Do you want me to kill you Anica? Because I fucking will."
All that came out were tears, 'my shit' referred to almost five hundred dollars cash, a half ounce of Coke and an ounce of Weed. Which Anica had earlier stolen from Tony while he was sleeping.
It was his mistake though, he'd fucked with the wrong girl and left all that out while he was passed out. About a month earlier Tony and Anica had gotten into a fight about Anica's best friend, Lori.
Who at the time was dating Tony. Then Tony broke her heart and further bullshit followed.
"I did all your Coke Tony, all of it. And I sold your weed. But I still have the money." she laughed
"You cunt, you would've died if you did all that and you know it."
"I didn't say I did it alone. I made a whole lot of money off you tonite." Talking was such a hard task at this point and it required a lot of breath that Anica didn't have.
"Wait until Jeremy finds out what you did, you're fucked T." she exhaled, exhausted.
"Yeah right, Jeremy's the one who told me where you were. He doesn't give a fuck about you Anica! He said you're nothing but a little bitch!"
Anica's chest heaved and she burst out in tears. With all her might she held herself up and climbed out of the bath tub.
"You're a fucking liar! You're a piece of shit and that's all you'll ever be Tony!" she grabbed the hair dryer that was laying on the counter, and ripped it out of the wall she walked towards Tony, pushing him out of the bathroom, swinging it at him.
"You know Jeremy loves me and it fucking kills you! Because nobody will ever love you! NOBODY, even your mother hates you!" she kept on screaming and swinging the hair dryer at him.
He backed into the bed and fell on his back, Anica collapsed onto him and started hitting him, with everything she had in her.
She beat him until he was unconcious then with a horendous shout she got off the bed, in search
for her cell phone.
She pressed send twice to call Jeremy.
"Hey hun." he answered, like he always did when she called
"Jeremy.." she cried
"What? What's wrong Ani?" he aksed, sounding panicked.
"It's Tony, he thinks I stole his shit. Jeremy I hurt all over, so bad."
Now she was sobbing, laying on the floor between the two beds.
"What did he do to you?!"
"He hit me and he hit me, he wouldn't stop. And he kept on screaming at me, please come here before he wakes up."
"Where are you?"
"At the hotel!" she urged
"Alright, alright I'll be there baby, in five minutes. Less than that! Just hang on!" he pleaded.
Jeremy was only a few miles up the road, at Alex's house. He got off the phone with Anica and yelled for Alex and Scotty.
"We gotta go to the Hilton, Anica's in some shit and Tony's fucked."
"Alright well let's go."
They grabbed their coats and the bottles of alcohol they'd been sipping on all night and got into Jeremy's Expedition
He hauled balls up the road, speeding at three in the morning, while he was drunk. But he didn't care about anything but getting to Anica.
He ripped into the parking lot and parked in the first spot he saw.
They ran into the lobby and up the stairs to room 217.
The door was being held open by a high heel, one of Anica's.
Jeremy walked in and absorbed the damage. Tony was squirming around on the bed with his hands covering his face, complete with cuts and bruises all over his head.
"Anica!" Jeremy yelled when he didn't see her.
"I'm in here Jeremy." he heard her from the bathroom. He turned the light on to find her huddled in the corner with a washcloth, trying to get all the blood off of her.
"Oh my God, Ani. Tony did this to you?" Anica looked in Jeremy's eyes and she could see the rage growing inside him. He looked hurt and bewildered.
"Alex come in here with her." Jeremy said, walking into the bedroom.
Alex came in and shut the door. He was one of Jeremy's oldest friends. He was tall and skinny and one of the nicest guys Anica had ever met.
"Are you okay?" he asked, kneeling down in front of her.
"Do I look okay, Alex?" she laughed, sniffing her nose.
"No, but you'll make it. You're a trooper Ani."
She smiled at him and bit her lip. "You think so?" more tears started to come, she couldn't help
but cry.
"So what started all this?" Alex asked, he just had to know.
"Tony thinks I stole a bunch of drugs and money from him."
"I see," Alex said, thinking for a minute. He stared at Anica with his knowing look.
"And did you really take all his shit?"
Anica smiled. And Alex just burst out in laughter. "God you're crazy girl."
"I had to, I did it for Lori. I told him I did all his Cocaineand sold some of it, and sold all of his weed.
I told him I made a lot of money off him tonite."
"I can't believe you sold all that shit! Why didn't you just keep it all!? We could've partied down!"
"I did keep it all you idiot, I just told him that to piss him off."
Alex smiled, this girl knew what she was doing, sometimes.
All of a sudden they heard Tony and Jeremy yelling.
Anica went to get up but Alex stopped her. "Don't, you don't want to see this."
"Yes, I do." Anica pushed his hands out of the way and staggered over to the door. She opened it to find Jeremy holding Tony down on the bed by his throat.
"Why the fuck would you do that? Why, T?!"
"I didn't 'cos, I swear I didn't! God danit you're going to believe that bitch over me? I'm family!"
"That bitch is beaten to hell and back, are you going to tell me you didn't do that? Then who the fuck did? And why the fuck are you here now?!"
Jeremy started hitting him, over and over. The whole time ignoring Tony's cries.
Scotty stepped in after about then tenth punch and pulled Jeremy away.
"Stop, you don't wanna kill him Jeff. I'm telling you that right now."
"Yes I do Scotty, let me go! I'm gonna kill this mother fucker! I swaer to God."
"Look at Anica, Jeremy! You don't think she wants to kill him just as bad as you do?! But what's that going to solve? Nothing. You'll be sitting in jail for even longer than you already have, wasting away."
Jeremy looked at all his friends, they were right. It wouldn't do any good. Tony had gotten his beating and had hopefully learned something. It was over with, time to go.
"Get all your shit Anica, and let's get the fuck out of here."
Jeremy looked down at his bloodstained shirt. He walked over to the bed and slapped Tony.
"Look what you did to my fucking shirt, T! I swear to God if you ever come around me or Anica again you'll regret it. I promise you that."
Tony didn't say anything, he only stared up at Jeremy, scared to death. Jeremy backed away and Tony sat up and watched as Anica got all her things into her bag. She finished and limped towards the door.
"Fuck you, bitch." Tony said, spitting her way.
Anica walked right over to him and straight jacked him in his jaw, sending him back down on the bed.
"No, fuck you Tony!" she screamed
"Here Alex, take her bag, she can't even walk." Jeremy said handing Alex the huge shoulder bag, he picked Anica up with no protest from her and carried her out of the room all the way down to the car.
The woman at the front desk just stared at all four of them, horrified and unsure if she should call the police or not.
"Scotty will you drive, please? I'm gonna sit in the back with her."
"Sure cuz."
They got in the car and drove back up the road to Alex's. Anica laid in the backseat with her head on Jeremy's lap, staring up at him.
"You know I love you Jeremy. Do you know that?" she asked, tears still running down the sides of her face.
"Anica.." he trailed off, lovingly stroking her cheeks with his soft fingers. "I love you too."
"I'm glad, I don't know what I'd do without you."
Scotty pulled into the driveway and turned the car off. They grabbed their bottles and Anica's things and headed inside.
There was actually still a party going on and everyone wanted to know what the hell was going on.
But Jeremy left Alex and Scotty downstairs to explain. he carried Anica up the stairs and into the bathroom so that he could give her a bath.
She sat there against the wall, watching Jeremy while he turned the water on and found some band-aids underneath the sink.
"How did I get this lucky?"
"What do you mean?"
"I have you to take care of me, and love me. I feel like.. a million dollars even though I just got the shit beaten out of me. You make me feel so good, Jeremy."
Jeremy stopped where he was and sat down with Anica. He took her hand and kissed it all over.
"I know, I guess we were just made for each other."
Anica smiled and he smiled back, then kissed her forehead and got up. The bathtub was just about full, he turned the water off helped Anica up, and out of her clothes. He had even put bubbles in.
She laid there and let Jeremy nurse her. She leaned back and let out a heavy sigh.
"Can you find me cigarettes, in my bag?"
Jeremy nodded and searched through her bag, finally he just dumped the whole thing out. They just giggled at each other. He got her a cigarette, lit it and put it to her lips.
"So you really got rid of all Tony's shit, huh?" Jeremy asked\
"What? No.."
"Well then where the fuck did you put it all? I know he searched that room."
She gave him a mischevious smile and pointed to the pile of stuff that came out of her bag.
"Give me the box of Tampons." she said. He handed it to her and she opened it up, dumping out all
it's contents next to Jeremy on the floor. There was a wad of cash, a bag of Coke and a bag of weed.
It was all there.
"He didn't bother to look in there. I knew he wouldn't, so I just told him I sold it all and whatever."
Jeremy just laughed. He couldn't believe Anica had gotten away with all of it.
"Wow, you're amazing."
"I know." she smiled and leaned over to give him a kiss.
"Oh my god, I completely forgot. Where the fuck is Lori?"
"I don't even know, I haven't heard from her all night. I think she's with her mom or something."
"Well fuck, gimme my phone she's gotta get over here."
"Scotty said we could stay up in his room."
"What, up in the batcave?" Anica laughed, when Alex and Scotty first moved into the house he
called his room the batcave, since it was in the attic.
"Yeah." Jeremy smiled, handing Anica her phone.
She dialed the number and put the phone up to her ear.
"Lori, where are you? Well get the fuck over here to Al and Scotty's, I have to tell you something.
No, I can't right now, just come over here. Alright, love you too." she closed the phone and handed it to Jeremy.
"Is she coming?"
"Of course she is." Anica smiled and lifted one of her legs out of the water and ran her hand down it.
"I shaved my legs earlier."
Jeremy followed her hand down her leg to her toes. "Feels nice." he said, leaning in to give her another kiss.
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It's not quite done yet. :) But I love it.