St.Luke's

Clouds stayed and spent the night over St. Luke’s. Anna woke and felt an empty bed beside her. The covers were pulled up to her chin. ‘Was it a dream?’ she thought. The single thought released the dam that she had to keep at bay daily otherwise she would cry for the stupidest reasons.

“No.” she cried softly. She opened her eyes and saw a window with stormy skies staring back at her. “No.” she cried again. “I don’t want to wake up.”

She felt a presence beside her. The warm form cuddled her and she cried a little less. “Shhh.” it breathed against her. “Princess, Princess why do you cry? In the forest painted by the setting sun, I made a promise to a demon boy that when the full moon ascends in the sky I’ll become his bride.” his voice sang gently. (A/N: just so you know: that little rhyme does not belong to me.)

“Lullaby.” she barely stopped crying before her dream like state resumed its full force sleep.

She awoke to the screeching sound of someone screaming. Anna’s brain was still hazy from the night before. She bolted up in bed. Her body did not agree with this movement, fire flashed across her eyes and she laid back down almost as fast as she had risen. She groaned against her will and rubbed her sore muscles. “Damn.” she whispered.

Then she caught something from the distant argument. “I don’t care if she was naked begging you to fuck her you do not disobey me goddamnit!”

“Anger?” she mumbled.

“Do you think I would just disobey you if I got the chance?” a second voice shouted. “Do you really care so much…” the second voice was interrupted by the first. “How dare you? You arrogant little shit. I knew from day one you would be a problem.” “For what? A problem that I am more in demand than you?” “That’s egotistical. You indecent filth.” “And like what you did was so much better?”

Anna crept toward the door with ease and finally came to rest at the door, ear pressed flat against it. She listened closely. “Do you think her mother will take kindly to the fact that you fucked her?” the first voice hissed triumphantly. “No, but it wasn’t fucking, it was love being made, but you wouldn’t know anything about that would you sir?”

Anna opened the door, confused by what they were talking about. What she saw brought everything back to her. Each memory flashed before her.

“Head master?” “Its just Jason now.”, “Please call me Alex.”, “Remember the fun we had”, “Anna answer me!”, “You like that huh?” “Oh yeah. That’s right. You’re Wise’s bitch.”, “I’ll miss you too much.”, “I am not a wimp.”, “Auntie Imani…”, “The Law…”, “Divorce”, “Not very bright is she?”.

The entire year screamed past her eyes in the total of thirty seconds. She blinked and stood back in the doorway staring at two men who were waving their hands in front of her face. “Hello?” asked the headmaster.

The image and remembrance of him burned in her brain and she felt anger boiling beneath her level of control. “You aren’t any better Jason.” she said. She had meant to call him an arrogant indecent sexist pig but she somehow managed his name. “You just did what my parents asked didn’t you? You stole something that did not belong to you or Aaron or even Alex and for god’s sake you stop staring at me like I am a piece of meat, or some spit and shined trophy for the winning.” she wrapped the blanket tighter around her body.

“I only did it as a favor to your mother.” the headmaster said quietly.

“Well you can tell her, since you are so good at following orders, to go to hell!” she shouted. “By the way you shit,” she didn’t even want to know “am I my father’s child?”

The headmaster hesitated but a second too long. Anna groaned and stomped her foot. “I don’t even know my own dad. Great, just fan fucking tastic.” she raged.

Alex wrapped an arm around her shoulder as the headmaster had reached for her. She began to cry again and Alex began to lead her back into the room when she stared up at the headmaster. Her hair was a frizzy mass of red and her eyes were puffy. Her checks were stained with last nights makeup and she was in a blanket from Alex’s bed. She stared at him and whispered so quietly that he barely heard “So I was nothing more than a good little pet? Jason? You didn’t even enjoy it did you?”

The headmaster stood stunned that she would ask such a thing. Had she not heard him moaning her name that night? Did she not she the adoration in his eyes? “If you have to ask, my dear, and you don’t already know, then I would think that you wouldn’t ever know.” he turned and began to walk away.

“But I need to know.” she grabbed his arm and he stopped. He turned around and found her in tears. He had caused them. “Please.” she hadn’t meant to whine but it came out kind of breathy.

“Do you mind Serrano?” he sneered at Alex who with one nod from Anna took his leave and stepped back into his room slamming the door so that the walls rattled. The headmaster sighed. “Where do you want me to start?”

“How about we find a private place to chat?”

“Fine, no one in there right mind would be anywhere near my office we will chat there in,” he looked her up and down, admiring what he saw.

“How about an hour?”

“Sounds good to me. Wear clothes and maybe some lingerie” he wiggled his eyebrows. “Perfume perhaps?”

“No. I will see you in an hour sharp.”

“Fine.”

Anna turned on her heel and headed into the dorm room where Alex was sulking. She walked in to find him staring out the window. She closed the door and walked over to him. “I need to know Alex.” she sat on the bed and refused to look at him.

“Isn’t it enough to know what I think?”

“Is it fair to want to know that my rapist is opening his soul to me? Is it fair that my virginity was stolen? Is it fair that there are games that go on in this school that should be against the law?” she stared at his back.

“No. I can’t make any of that go away.” he turned to her. She felt a dagger stab her heart. There were tears in his beautiful brown eyes. “Is it fair that I can’t get you the hell out of my mind and that no matter how much I deny loving you, my heart seems to over throw my head on this? You shouldn’t care what that bastard has to say. Don’t you see the lust that grows in his eyes every time he sees you. Him and Wilson.”

“I don’t care about them.” she pleaded. She grabbed his hand. “Did I not prove anything to you last night. I never saw such love, passion, fear in someone’s eyes before. Can you honestly say that I gave nothing that meant something to you?”

“It did.” his voice barely registered in her ears.

“You saw my passion. Do you have any clue what it took to let you touch me like that?” she wanted so bad to kiss him but she settled for cupping his face. She let her voice drop. “To let you love me like that?”

Alex just stared at her. The tears were no longer there but there was an unspoken understanding. There was still the promise. “Go take a shower and get dressed.” he said moving away form her.

Anna crossed the room and got her costume off of the floor. She sent into the bathroom and started the shower. It only took her a few minutes to wash her hair and body. She dried the red mangled mass and put it up in a loose bun. She walked out and saw Alex changing his shirt. ‘He has a great body. I didn’t get to see enough of it last night.’ she thought blushing slightly.

He turned and smirked at her. “Like what you see?”

“Only the shirt that you’re holding in your hand.” she joked.

He tossed it to her. “You have to give it back.”

“Maybe for Christmas.” she put the white shirt on and headed out of the door. “By the way,” she said turning back to him and catching his eye. “Prometo.”

She headed down to the office that haunted her dreams and occupied the rapist headmaster. She was early by the school clocks so she waited patiently. The hour struck and she knocked loudly on the door. “Headmaster? I am here.” she announced.

“Come in.” he called out to her.

She opened the door and went in. she closed the door behind her and turned to see him by the fire where he had been the first time she had meet him. She jumped when he looked up. There was that same look in his eye as the first day. “Don’t even think about it.” she warned.

“Fine.”

“I want answers.” she stated sitting in a single chair.

“I am sure I can answer most if not all of your questions. Would you care for something to drink?” he asked.

“Not from you. Sit.”

“Demanding little thing aren’t you?” he smirked and sat on the couch. “Too bad you didn’t show it that night.”

“Shut up.” she was sick of this game he was trying to coax her into playing. “Enough with the games. Cut the crap and answer my damn question.”

“Which one would that be?”

Standing she walked over to him. “The question that I asked in the hall. The questions I want answered,” she grabbed his throat and dug her nails in. he squirmed and grabbed onto her wrist. She grasped tighter. “ you’re dieing to tell me.” he managed coughing and then she let go.

Gasping he stared up at her. “Are you going to sit there all day or are you going to answer my questions?” she asked.

“Give me a moment to compose myself.” he did so very well. Straightening his shirt he sat up straight and looked at Anna. “One thing you need to understand is that your parents asked me to do that to you.”

“OH you mean rape me?”

“Yes that. I wouldn’t have don’t it if they had not insisted.”

“They insisted did they?”

“Yes.” he was getting annoyed by the way she kept interrupting he would never get around to explaining. “I risked you going to the police for your parents.” he pleaded “I went easy on you and I don’t go easy on anyone. Ever.” he paused letting it sink in.

“I see.” she was surprised by his answer but determined not to show it.

“Surprised?” he smirked at her. “If you don’t know that I enjoyed it then you are even more naive and innocent than I originally thought my dear.”

“Whatever. I have my answers. Later.” she began to leave when she froze. “Why don’t you approve of me and Alex?”

“I thought you had all of the answers.” he cocked an eyebrow at her.

“Why is it that you approve of that bastard Aaron and not Alex?”

“That answer stays with your mother and father. I wont discuss it further. I have things to do and you know where the door is.” he walked away from her and sat behind his desk. “Get to getting.” he said not looking up.

“No.” she walked over to his desk and grabbed the letter opener. She pointed it at his throat. “That’s enough of your bull shit. You either tell me or I can slit your throat.”

“Fine.” he didn’t flinch. “You met Mr. Serrano did you not?”

“Yeah so?”

“So he was the one to take your mother. She doesn’t want her daughter to sleep with, who she assumes, is the enemy.”

“She doesn’t give a damn about my feelings. But you know what? Screw the entire process. I am going to call my parents now and tell them that Alex is my choice.” she dropped the letter opener and stormed out of the office. She glared at the secretary and ran into the hall.

She went to the emergency phone in the main hall and dialed her home number and got a busy signal. “Godda. . .” she slammed the phone down and picked it up and dialed her mother cell number.

“Hello?” came the sickening voice.

“Mom. I chose Alex.”

There was a pause and some shuffling on the other end. “Honey. . .”

“No I don’t want to marry either Aaron or James. Didn’t you just know when you wanted to marry dad?” there was another pause “Okay bad example, but its only because you are a conniving bitch.”

“Anna. . . .”

“No either you send in the acceptance letter for Alex or I call dad who over rides all your authority. Which is it mother?”

“Neither I have already sent in an acceptance letter for Aaron Wilson.”

There was a pause on Anna’s side of the conversation. “YOU DID WHAT?” she shrieked into the receiver. Anna started in, calling the woman who claimed to be her mother every name in the book. “And further more you senile old bat. . .”

“I believe that people are staring at you about now my dear daughter.” her mother said calmly.

Anna glanced around. Indeed there were several students and members of the faculty that were staring at her with great distain. “What you’ve never heard a girl talk to her mother before?” she sneered at them as they continued on their ways.

Anna heard a muffled laugh and rounded again on her mother. “Listen old woman, I know the history between you and Mr. Serrano. Can’t you just drop it and let me have some happiness? You only took me out of my hometown, put me in a new school, thoroughly humiliated me, had me raped, and embarrassed. All while you knew the entire time what the hell I was going through and neglected to mention that I am not my father’s child. Divorced the man that you supposedly love, and on top of everything else,” she shouted at the top of her lungs “YOU DID THIS ALL DURING THE MOST DIFFICULT YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL!” seething, Anna slammed the phone down. Breathing hard and having no desire to interact with any human of any kind she set off for the gardens.

She sat on the main fountain and glared at the dieing flowers, and decaying plants. No one came to sit beside her. No one got within glaring distance. She ignored every person that past her. Then a thought struck her. ‘Why haven’t I started? It is the first of the month.’ she thought a moment “Oh shit.” she groaned out loud. She looked up at the cloudy sky “Is this punishment for something?” she shouted at the clouds. “What did I do this time?”

Dreading every new step she was taking, Anna dragged her feet the entire way to the hospital wing. She walked into the sickly smelling ward and called out to the nurse “Hello? Any one here?”

“Yes dear what can I do for you?” an older woman with graying hair and a lined face came out of her office and smiled at her.

“Well. . .I was wondering, well, if maybe you, umm, had some, you know” she could barely bring herself to say it. She mumbled the last part.

“Sorry dear, I didn’t quite catch that last part. What is it you need?”

Anna turned eight shades of red “You know home pregnancy tests?” she tried to laugh it off but the old woman stared wide eyed at her and went to one of her cabinets.

“Kids these days.” she mumbled “No self respect” rummage, rummage “Sex obsessed little bast…”she muttered away while sifting through the cabinets.

“You know I can hear you.” Anna said loudly.

“Yes dear and you should hear it loud and clear.” she found what she was looking for. “Here we are, dear.” she handed Anna the box.

“You call me ‘dear’ one more time you old bat and I will shove a bottle of Advil down your old throat.” she grabbed the box and bolted. She went straight to one of the girls bathrooms and followed the directions. She chewed her nails and waited. It felt like years had past before she looked at it. She groaned. There was no doubt, she was pregnant.

A/N: Hey hey I have the funniest story! One of my friends told me that ‘Alex’, (Well not the ‘Alex’ in the story but the guy who inspired the character.) Any way she told me that he and I should have sex cause he is a virgin and I am . . .well I am me. . . She told him too. You can imagine. . . For those of you who know me I blushed as deep red as my hair and then some. . . . Oh God. Then again I don’t think that its going to happen . . . But she is rather persistent about this issue. . . *blushes*