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Drag Me to the Grave

CH 7

As Beth hummed along to the pandora station playing from her laptop, steam from her shower began to well up and creep through the bathroom. She threw her towel over the shower rail and pulled the curtain back, about to step in. She looked down and staring back at her was a giant black bug with long, thin legs.

"Nope!" She yelled. "No, no, no!" She grabbed her towel and swiftly wrapped it around herself. She burst out of the bathroom door and ran down the hallway towards her dad's room.

"Dad! Dad, wake up!" She pleaded as she nudged her slumbering father.

"What, Beth?" He groaned, half opening his eyes and rolling to his back to look at her.

"Dad. Giant ass bug. In the shower. Help me." She insisted.

Her dad glanced at the clock on his bedside table and defeatedly plopped his head back down on the pillow. "It's 11:30 at night." He placed a hand over his eyes.

"Dad please." She begged.

"Bethany, I am not getting a bug out of the shower for you at 11:30 at night. You're a grown adult. You can do it, sweetheart." Her dad rolled back to his side.

Beth pouted and headed back out towards the bathroom. Instead of going back in to face the bug, she reached in, grabbed her phone off the counter and texted Spencer. Was it the right thing to do? Probably not. But she knew he would be over in a heartbeat to save her from the demon bug waiting in her shower for her to return.

After sitting outside the door to the bathroom for ten minutes, Spencer finally came to the rescue.

"Beth?" He walked through the front door and called out.

"I'm upstairs!" She yelled out to him.

He followed the sound of her voice. When he reached the top of the stairs. He looked to his right and saw Beth standing there with just a towel around her.

"Giant ass bug." She pointed at the closed door to the bathroom.

He chuckled and opened the door to the bathroom. He tried to focus on getting the bug out for her but all he could think about was the fact that Beth was standing behind him in just a towel.

He pulled the shower curtain back and jumped a little when the bug started jumping itself. "Holy shit, what is that?!"

"I don't know!" Beth shouted.

"Alright." Spencer tried to calm himself down enough to grab a paper towel and scoop the bug out of the shower for her. "I got it."

She backed away. "Keep it away from me!" She cowered in the corner.

Spencer ran to the nearest window and let the poor bug free. "It's gone!" He called out.

Beth felt relief wash over her but there was still an ounce of anxiety from the possibility that more bugs could pop up here or there.

Spencer reappeared in the doorway. "The weather is starting to get warmer which means the bugs are returning from hell."

Beth clutched her towel closer to her chest. "Spence, what if there's another bug in there?"

Spencer shook his head. "I think you'll be fine." He went to leave but Beth caught him by the hand.

"But... What if I'm not?" She questioned, gazing at him with her big, blue, doe eyes.

"What do you want me to do?" He laughed. "Sit outside and wait for you to be done?"

Beth reached her hand over his shoulder and pushed the door closed behind him. "Or... You could just shower with me."

Spencer was bewildered. She didn't just say that. This was a dream. She had her mind on Andy ever since he called her that one day a few weeks ago. Then, her towel dropped.

***

"You're drinking again?" Emily whimpered when she walked into the kitchen to find Marcus downing shots of Jack Daniels.

Marcus smashed the shot glass down on the table. "Just let me do what I want, Emily."

"You haven't stopped drinking today. Every time I see you, you're taking more shots." She observed.

"I said, leave me alone, Em." Marcus raised his voice but didn't turn around to look at her. His brain felt fuzzy and his feet felt tingled.

"I'm just..." Emily took a step towards him but stopped herself from getting any closer. "I'm worried about you. Remember when you said you didn't want to turn into your dad?"

Marcus could feel his anger rising as the alcohol replaced the blood in his veins. He swiped his hand across the counter and knocked the shot glass onto the floor, shattering on contact.

Emily jumped back at his aggression. She knew she shouldn't have brought up Marcus's dad , but how else was she going to get his attention? She thought it could snap him out of this habit, but it only made it worse.

He turned to face her and lunged at her wrist, grabbing it in his big fist and twisting it up and back. Emily yelped in pain as the silver chain bracelet Marcus had bought her pierced her skin along with the twisting of her bones.

"Don't ever tell me I'm turning into my father." He hissed through gritted teeth.

Emily winced at the pain and closed her eyes so she wouldn't have to see Marcus like this. This wasn't the Marcus she knew and loved. This was someone else. Emily didn't know who this Marcus even was.

He untwisted her wrist and threw her lifeless arm back to her. As her arm swung back to her, the silver chain bracelet catapulted off her wrist and landed in a broken line on the floor. Emily furrowed her eyebrows and just stared at it, lying on the ground looking as broken as she felt. She held her sore wrist in her other hand and waited for Marcus to say something. He, too, stood there and stared at the bracelet lying on the floor. He looked at her and she flinched, thinking he was going to smack her around again and tell her this was all her fault.

"I'm sorry." He said. "I'll buy you a new one tomorrow, I promise."

Gifts. With every new bruise left on her skin came a new gift from Marcus. She knew he felt bad and it was his way of trying to make things up to her but a shiny new bracelet wasn't going to fix this; a necklace with a heart shaped jewel hanging from it wasn't going to heal that newly sprained wrist. Nothing could change the way she felt about this new Marcus.

Notes

thanks for being patient with me, guys. Work has been busy and stuff and I also just haven't felt like writing. I've had like 75% of this chapter written since the beginning of June and I'm just now finishing it and I wish I had finished it sooner. The hype of Warped starting a couple days ago has got me motivated as well since these characters started on Warped and that's how this story came about. I'm really looking forward to continuing this story. Hope you guys are enjoying it so far! Also, my warped date is July 13th if anyone out there reading is from Mass and will be there!

Comments

@thatscalledyes
aw, Spence! poor sucker! monogamy is such a pain!

anathema anathema
7/6/16

@anathema
yeah, Spencer and Beth aren't really dating officially since he knows her heart isn't all in it and he doesn't want to get hurt any more than he already is. And, well, Heidi isn't the smartest of the bunch haha

the gange and blow- talk about the weirdest combo in the world, what a terrible idea to introduce a total drug noob to both at the same time! Heidi's friend is the exact opposite of a smooth operator!

why can't Spencer and Beth wake up nakie? have they not been dating? is he just on to the fact that she has feelings for Andy?

anathema anathema
7/5/16

good for Spencer for not killing the bug! but that's pretty pathetic that Beth is a total pansy about bugs. even i overcame a major phobia of certain bugs to deal with them myself. it says something about her- good for her dad for not falling for it. it's a shame about Marcus. he needs prison time to shape up.

anathema anathema
6/27/16

i love this update soon