Mag-log inLuther's POV
“Wh– what?” I stammer. “Come on, stop being a pussy.” He growl under his breath. “You want to fight me, don't you?” I swallow a dry gulp, I couldn't take my eyes away from his. Him holding me against the wall like this, it was doing something to me, it was causing a stir in my pants. So, I am going to be that kind of freak? The kind that gets turned on by his bully? “Marlon, I don't know what you are talking about. I don't want any trouble, let me go.” No one dare intervene, even though my legs are barely touching the ground for support. Only William rushes in when he sees what's happening, and place a hand on Marlon's shoulder. “Just let go of him, man. It's not worth it.” He says. Marlon sigh, cursing under his breath before he let go of me. I'm red in the face with embarrassment. I adjust my collar, trying to hide the slight bulge in my pants as I walk back to my seat. Bernice draws closer to me with concern. “What the hell, Luther? What's up with both of you? What's that about?” I can barely steady my breathing as I look at her and shrug. “I don't know, maybe he is still sour about the math test.” The geography teacher walks into the class and everyone has to settle down. Marlon and the crazy thoughts in my head are forced to take a backseat for now… For the next few hours of class everyone is talking about Marlon and his mysterious beanie. They think it's sexy, a fashion statement of some sort. Bernice on the other hand won't stop bugging me about why she thinks Marlon tried to beat me in the middle of class. She is one of my only friends in this hellish classroom, but she is getting on my last nerve right now… I'm updating my biology notes when a warm liquid pours on my pants and shirt. I gasp and find myself all stiff. Hannah has just spilled her coffee all over me. “Goddamn it,” I slam my pen against the table. “Oh my God, Luther, I'm so sorry.” she gasps and try using the sleeve of her sweater to get as much of the coffee off me. “Just forget it, okay?” I tell her as I stand up to my feet. I walk to the restroom and examine the damage done. I take off my shirt and start to wash the stain under the sink. I try my best not to drench the whole thing with water. I start to wipe my trousers too, as carefully as I can. “God, I hate this school.” I mutter. The door slam shut, and I immediately feel a tightening of doom in my stomach. I turn around to see Marlon standing in front of me, with his hideous beanie. “What do you want, Gustave?” I ask, trying not to appear so scared. He doesn't answer, instead he is biting down his lip and staring at my torso. I forgot that I am not wearing a shirt. With the speed of light, I turn around, lest he would see how red my face is. I don't understand why he is staring at me so much. Is Marlon Gustave… gay? “You aren't the most smooth criminal, you know. I saw you with the stupid brick. You almost gave me a concussion, you fool.” He snort. “If it's enough to teach you a lesson not to mess with me, I'm glad I did it.” I say without turning around. My words anger him, and for the second time today, he push me against the wall, holding my neck like he wants to crush it. My lips are tightly pressed together as my chest move up and down. “Don't try to bully me again, Marlon. I still have that brick in my bag.” He shut his eyes and let out the most hungry growl I have ever heard in my life. “Fuck it.” His lips crash against mine in the most passionate kiss I've ever experienced. The warmth and fierceness of his lips consume me, and I find myself kissing him right back, fighting his tongue for dominance. He grab my hands and pin them above my head and he used his other hand to caress the bulge in my pants, my eyes almost roll to the back of my head. The throbbing is like nothing I have ever experienced in my life, I feel so close to releasing in my pants…. Then a sudden panic fills my heart. “Stop! Stop! ” I tell him in a shaky voice that I can't even recognize as mine. “Someone might see us.” He pulls away with a realizing frown on his face. “Crap, I got carried away.” He stands a few feet away and pull his lower lips as he thinks. “What's your house address?” He suddenly asks me. “Huh?” He brings out a pen from his pocket and sticks out his left hand to me. “Here. Write it down.” I work like a sex starved robot. I take the pen and scribble my address over his hand. When I'm done, he reads through it and nods. “Keep your window open tonight.” “Wh– what?” “Don't you understand fucking english, Wayne?” He snap at me impatiently. He walks out and bangs the door very loudly after him. I turn to stare at myself in the mirror. I am sweating and shaking like a leaf on a windy day. I can still taste his lips on my tongue. What the hell just happened between Marlon and I?157. MARLON I have just laid on my bed, staring depressingly at the white high ceilings when my phone rings by my side. I have this sudden urge to fling it against the wall, but I stop myself. I don't even know who is calling. I pick it up without even looking, and blurt out. "Hello?" "Marlon? Where are you?" I sit up immediately. It's my sister Maybelline, that is calling. "Um, May? What's the matter?" "We've found her." Maybelline says, and my heart skips a couple of beats. "God, it was so hard, but we were finally able to find her." That bitch. If not because she is a girl, I would have taught Bernice the worst lesson of her life. I immediately stumble into my closet, trying to find something to throw on. "Where are you guys? Tell me so that I will come to you." I tell her. "It's not that simple, Marlon, she is not even in Densberry anymore." May says. "Yeah, no shit." I huff. "She is at the hotel just at the border, and she is asking us to meet her at the really luxur
156. JANAE "But, I don't understand–" "I'll get you out of here, I promise." He tells me. "Just, don't talk. Let me handle this." I'm at a crossroad here, but even with that, I nod to tell him that I am going to fully trust him, even though I still can't believe that he is actually here. I told myself that I never wanted to see, or speak to him again. Not because I hated Marlon Gustave Sr, but because I didn't want what happened with Preston to happen again. Deep within him, I know that Marlon is a good man who has a lot of complex layers, but I know that I am not the one for him. Not when I have my own troubles, and I desperately want to put myself together...The detectives walks back into the room, and I can't help but notice how much their counternance have changed. Especially seeing that Marlon is sitting so close to me. "Mister Gustave, we appreciate that you are trying to give back to the community and all, but the public lawyer is already coming, so you don't have to
155. JANAE I have never thought that the day would come when I would be too defeated to even lift a finger. A day that my nightmares would become true, or imagine the fact that I may never see my Luther again. Nancy smirks when he sees the look on her eyes, and like the evil bitch that she is, sure reaches to push my hair away from my face. I flinch, willing myself to move away from her, but I can't. That's how weak and broken I am. She looks over her neck, as if to see if the detectives are far away enough for her to sit down and blab her nonsense. "First of all, I should tell you that the cameras have been turned off!" She chuckles as she carelessly points to the two strategically mounted in the corners. "I mean, it's all over. The case is closed, you're going to jail." I sigh and look down, feeling that tightening feeling crawling up my throat again. "Oh, baby," Nancy pouts her lips as she reaches to hold my hand. "I told you not to mess with me. But you never but you neve
154. MARLON I blacked out and by the time I come back to myself and pull my body off Preston Cooper, he is a bloody mess. My fists are still tightly wrapped, and it's covered in blood. He is breathing heavily, groaning as he clutches his hand over his lips. "You.... Fuck!!!" His voice rings into the night. "You broke my nose!" You're glad that's the only thing I did!" I yell right back at him. "How dare you talk about Luther and Janae like that? And to ask me for money on top of that?! Are you crazy?!" He pulls himself over the ground, before turning over and lifting himself back to a standing position. He can hardly stand straight, painfully clutching his belly as he glares at me with all the hate in the world. The only reason why he has not charged at me is because he knows that he would not be able to beat me. "I could go to the police now and get you arrested for assault," he spits on the ground. "Bet your father is going to like that." "Oh, you should do that," I take a
153. MARLON "Fuck," my eyes close and my hands goes over my head. That explains a whole lot. Nancy Huston is right in the middle of this. She is the reason why the people Janae has been running from have suddenly caught up to her? What happened between Nancy and Janae? I know this doesn't have anything to do with Luther, Bernice, and I, because from what Luther said, Janae disappeared right before he just got back home from prom night. That was too fast. Whatever Nancy was plotting against Janae was already in motion before that. But again, Luther has never told me about any problems between his mother and Nancy Huston. I mean, I don't think he even knows about it! If he had suspected Nancy, that would have been a piece of information that he would have shared with me..Preston stops chewing, so that his confused eyes follow my face, and then with a sigh, he decides to clear my confusion. "I guess you want to hear the entire story," he clasps his hands together. "I was at a ba
152. MARLON His lips are slightly parted as he breathes so heavily. Was he scared because he almost died, or because he had to run all the way here, from god-knows-where? My hands are still on the steering wheel as I stare intensely at this man, like he is supposed to be a ghost. "Heyy," he raises both of his hands, asking me to calm down, because he thinks I will run over him. "I know you don't know me, but my name is Preston Cooper." "I know who you are," I say with unblinking eyes. A small smile creeps on his face as he lowers his hands to his side. "Is that so? Then that saves both of us a whole lot of trouble. I think you and I need to talk." ****Is this a good idea? No. I'm supposed to go back home to tell my Dad that Janae has been arrested, and he needs to intervene before she gets moved out of Densberry, into a maximum security prison, but here I am. Sitting across from my boyfriend's father, in an almost empty diner. I haven't ordered anything for myself, but Presto
MARLONSeeing Bernice like that on the ground has left something inside of me snapped. It takes me back to six years ago, when I found my sister curled up in her bed crying. She had sneaked past our ridiculously expensive minders to go to a party, and someone spiked her drink. She was sexually a
LUTHER I clear my throat and walk to my seat, which is just next to Bernice's. She has tossed the expensive bouquet of flowers from the table, but the cake is so nice that she can't bring herself to throw it. She moves it to the very edge of her table, and brings out her makeup kit to retouch he
LUTHER I'm boiling with rage because I am being forced to clean up the hallway while the rest of my mates are in their classes, receiving lessons. Why did Marlon do something like this to me? He didn't have to, he knew that it was a mistake, but he turned it into a whole other thing. My arm star
LUTHER On one of those quiet school afternoons, everyone is seated around the rink and watching the shirtless players. The coach is punishing them for what he called “Sloppy teamwork” in the home exhibition played against another team last week. He has punished them by making them practice witho







