All Chapters of Crazy Bestie to the Rescue: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

When my best friend, Natalie Grey, was born, she didn't cry. Instead, she peed right in the face of her cheating father.Later, her mother ran off, and her father dumped her on the doorstep of a children's home.It broke my heart to see her so skinny she was nothing but skin and bones, so every day I snuck food to her.Digging into the meat in her bowl, she looked up at me with steely resolve. "From now on, if anyone messes with you, I'll take them out for you!"I thought she was joking. I never imagined I had actually raised a little hellion who would kill for me.In elementary school, a classmate gave me a nasty nickname. Natalie grabbed an inspection stamp from a pig farm, stormed into the classroom, and stamped "Grade A, Inspected" all over his body.In middle school, a local thug cornered me for protection money. Natalie charged at him, hoisted the five-foot-eleven hoodlum into the air, and swung him around like a strand of pulled taffy.In high school, a boy tried to force

If Natalie saw how badly I'd been bullied, she would lose her mind.But Selena just had someone gag me. "Why are you still talking? Let's get the warm-up started!"The dorm door swung open, and only then did I realize she had secretly brought back seven or eight people from off campus.Guys and girls reeking of cigarettes and booze looked me over with leering eyes.Selena suddenly pointed at me and said to a guy with bleached-blond hair, "This is the trash who refused to be my servant. She acts so high and mighty."I read her diary last time. She's never even had a boyfriend. Which one of you wants to do a good deed and teach her a thing or two?"The guys' eyes lit up at once. Whistling, they closed in on me.Terrified, I shrank back until my spine hit the cold wall.The blond guy crouched down and reached out to touch my face. I slapped his hand away.When Selena saw that, she kicked me in the chest.Waves of dull pain spread through my body, and it grew harder and harder to

The viewer count on the livestream was skyrocketing.Selena tapped the floor with the toe of her shoe and smiled as she gave the order. "Kneel."Natalie didn't move."I said kneel!"Selena's expression flipped in an instant, and she raised her hand to slap Natalie across the face.Natalie hesitated for a split second, then stepped back to dodge, shielding me with her body.That was like setting a match to a powder keg. Selena's face twisted. "Hold her down!"The two sidekicks rushed forward and roughly pinned Natalie's shoulders.The blond guy seized the chance to kick the back of her knee from behind, trying to force her down.Natalie stumbled but stood firm. She refused to kneel.She raised her head. Her gaze moved past everyone, over the pile of shredded clothes on the balcony and the shoes stuffed with thumbtacks, and finally returned to my battered face."You taught me," she said suddenly. Her voice was soft, yet somehow it rose above all the shouting in the room. "If s

[Holy crap, plot twist! The ugly roommate was the real victim all along. She's not a thief!][Look at all those shredded clothes on the floor! Somebody call the cops. This is a crime. Selena was the bully the whole time!][So pretty, and yet so vicious. I'm officially unfollowing!]Selena slumped on the floor as if every bone had been pulled out of her body. Her carefully done makeup was smeared all over her face in black and white streaks, making her look like a washed-up clown. "It's over. It's all over..."Natalie ignored her and walked over to me. She knelt on one knee and wiped the tears from my face with her sleeve. "I'm sorry. I came too late."I shook my head, crying too hard to speak.I wanted to ask her when she had collected all that evidence, how she knew Selena's secrets, and whether she'd had all of this planned from the start.But when the words reached my lips, all that came out were endless sobs.Hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside, followed by our advis