Fasterthan anyone could react, I ran past the girls, past Anna and Bryce, andout the door.My purse, which had my keys and my phone was still at the pa...ty, so I waswithout the means to drive back to the apartment or call someone for aride. I didn't care, though, I just wanted to be away from Rachel then.Not because I was angry at her for her comments, but for my unwarrantedresponse.It sickened me that I would hit her like some fragile-minded bitch forsuch a comment. I hated myself and I wouldn't. "We cantake him." I don't know," Aiden hesitated."Listen, this is what we do," Josh said, and kneeled over the table,ignoring the warning bell for the end of lunch.----- ------ ------It was the following day when the bullies pulled their plan intoaction, Mark was among the last of the boys headed to the bus.Suddenly, four boys leapt out of the bushes near the entrance, holdinga hockey stick, baseball bat, a large stick, and a knife."You're going down, punk," Aiden said, holding the knife."Are. By chance a client mentioned that she worked for a music venue and asked if Kelly was interested in earning some extra money working the occasional evening backstage, applying and removing the makeup for female artists appearing in concert.Kelly jumped on the offer, as well as the money it had the benefit of getting her backstage at the gigs for free. Kelly soon became a favourite of the visiting stars and they began asking for her by name whenever they played. Other venues in the LA area. So I'm going to take it under advisement." Would you go for six hundred cash," he asked."You come Thursday morning and I will hand you three one hundred dollar bills. Finish it and I will give three more," I suggested."Fair enough," he said."When they left, I carried my two backpacks from the trailer into the building. Then they went upstairs and into a corner of the room. I locked the door carefully before heading for Williamston. It was a forty five minute ride to the much larger town..