Page 56 of Degradation
When no one speaks again for a few seconds, I glance up to urge things along.
‘Who?’ I ask with a frown, still looking at my phone and pretending I don’t know anything about what’s going on.
‘Some girl who decided to come to school here,’ Baker mutters. ‘There’s rumors everywhere. She killed a kid in middle school and went to jail, or something. Heard they let her out early.’
‘It’s probably all just bullshit,’ Deluchay mutters. ‘You know how those sorority girls love to stir shit up. What did Jolie want us to do, anyway?’
‘Scare her. Rough her up a little. Make her leave.’
‘Jesus.’ Deluchay rolls his eyes and smirks. ‘That bitch is on another level of crazy. I mean, can you imagine if the wrestling team was to, like, stalk some girl around campus to beat the shit out of her over some rumors? Fucking nuts.’
Baker and McCauly glance at each other. The former clears his throat and Deluchay looks up, eyes widening. ‘You didn’t actually do anything, right?’
They look uncomfortable and I hold my breath, waiting to learn what these motherfuckers did to Daisy and when because they didsomething. My heart is pounding uncomfortably in my chest.
Wouldn’t she have told us if someone was bothering her?
Why would she have? The whole frat was bothering herbecause of us.
‘Well, uh, we were with a couple of the girls,’ McCauly murmurs. ‘Me, Baker, and Kirkland and we saw her. She was out by the field, where those trees are. I told Kirkland it was a bad idea.’
‘What the fuck did you guys do?’ Deluchay mutters, looking from one to the other.
‘Us? Nothing! But…’ he winces. ‘Kirkland pushed her down a couple times. One of the girls filmed it. He told her to leave. He wanted to do more, but she said she knew...’ His eyes widen and he glances at me as if only just realizing I’m there.
‘Knew who?’ I ask casually, my eyes boring into my teammate.
The expressions that move across his face would entertain me any other time, but not today, not with this.
‘I remember when this happened,’ I mutter. ‘Her knees were all fucked up. Her hands, too.’
‘You actually know her?’ Baker asks, his voice trembling a little.
‘Yeah,’ I say. ‘I know her.’
I stand up, watching them closely.
The truth is, I don’t know what I’m going to do to them.Yet.
‘Where’s Jolie?’ I mutter.
‘I saw her going into the sandwich place to get lunch twenty minutes ago,’ Deluchay says smoothly.
‘See you at practice,’ I mutter.
I get to the door and look behind me. They’re all silent, watching me leave.
‘In case you dumb fucks don’t get it,’ I say over my shoulder, ‘she’s mine. You stay the hell away from her and pray I’m in a better mood by the time seven-thirty rolls around.’ I let them see my sneer. ‘Don’t ruin the surprise for Kirkland.’
I’m across the Quad and searching faces for Jolie ten seconds later. I see her walking with some of the other bitches and smile at her, giving her a wave.
She grins back almost slyly, probably thinking that the dirty pics she sent of herself the other day have drawn me back to her. The truth is I deleted them without even looking so I’m just assuming that’s what they were. Knowing her, I’m right though.
‘Hey,’ she says. ‘Long time no see!’
We saw each other at the Halloween party, remember? You wanted to suck my dick, and I turned you down because I’d rather have Daisy’s lips around me.
I resist the urge to roll my eyes at her. Instead, I give her a token smirk while I pretend to stare at her chest.
