Cruel Lies

by Ember Rose

  I put my hand up to shut him up “just stop Tigger I don’t give a fuck. I never asked you for anything more than what we were doing... Which by the way was nothing! We’re not fuckin Tigger, were not together, we’re not fuckin anything.” I take a breath “look you asked me to step off. That’s what the I’m doing!” I storm off I hear Tigger call my name I just continued to my room. He doesn’t like the way I’m handling this? Like is he for real! Fuck him!

  Ghost

  I was sitting by the bar in the club house drinking a beer. I notice Tigger walking toward me with a serious expression “what the fucks wrong with you?” Tigger shakes his head before replying “you’re fuckin sister is what’s wrong.” I sit up straighter “why? What’s up?” Midas buts in “yeah you gonna tell us why you, and the princess are on the outs?” He’s having way too much fun with this. Tigger rubs his hand through his hair “remember when I told y’all to give her, and I a moment to talk in private?”

  My palms start to itch. I don’t like where this is going. “Yeah, what about it?” I asked in a hard tone. Tigger rolls his eyes “yeah well I told her that we should cut back on the flirting. I told her, and I quote ‘we’er never gonna take this further.’ I told her that I couldn’t lose the club.” Midas had his hand over his mouth, and then removed it “you fuckin serious?” Midas is right... He shouldn’t have said it like that. For a guy who fucks girls like he eats food. He sure isn’t too bright. “Well at least now I definitely don’t have to worry about you two. Shit I would just stay as far from her as you can get. She’s icing you out.”

  Tigger looks that me “why the fuck would she do that!? She said it herself we aren’t anything so what’s the fuckin problem?” Midas finishes chewing some peanuts “let me ask you brother. Has she ever tried to take it further than flirting?” I tense at Midas’s question.

  I relax when Tigger shakes his head “nah man it never progressed behind some intense as fuck flirting.” I growl Midas nods “mmhmm, and you decided to have the ‘let just be friends talk with her?’ Or the ‘ it’s not you it’s me’ or ‘I just don’t feel that way about you anymore, and you need to move the fuck on talk.’ When she’s never tried to move farther?” Tigger jumps up “hold the fuck on I didn’t say shit like that!” Midas shakes his head “actually you did. Instead of just actually laying off the flirting, and letting it naturally dye out you made her feel like you view her as a love obsessed club girl.”

  I growl again. Tigger rubs his hand over his face “how do I fix this?” I laugh “you don’t brother. Like I said ,she’s going to ice you out, and you’re gonna just have to deal with it. Good news is I don’t have to worry about y’all flirting anymore. Even if you tried she probably just ignore you like you don’t exist.” Tigger blows out a deep breath “I’m gonna fuckin fix this. But, Ghost can we talk in private for a second.” I chug the rest of my drink “yeah follow me to my room.” As soon as my door was closed Tigger started talking. “Look I walked in on something in the kitchen that rubbed me the wrong way. I saw Kinsley, and Snake arguing.”

  My brows furrowed “do you know what they were arguing about?” Tigger shook his head “nah, I walked in, and the air was just tense. Ya know? It looked like Snake was gonna snatch her up. He looked pretty pissed.” What the hell are they hiding? Tigger continued “I asked Kinsley if everything was alright she said yeah, and walked off. But, I don’t know something didn’t feel right to me.” I nod “I know what you mean. After, that talk we had when we were arguing about her, and Grim she said the Lawful Citizens didn’t rape her. Something just feels off.” We sit in silence for a bit. Then I said “you remember the first night she was here? When her, and Ashley got into that fight about Ashley calling her a slut?” Tigger nodded “yeah what about it?”

  “Something just seemed off with the way she acted when Snake asked to talk to her.” “I wasn’t really paying attention. Maybe we’re getting this all wrong. Maybe she’s just pissed about the barbecue.” I nod “Look Tigger I want you to watch Snake close maybe I’m tipping over nothing or maybe something is going on. Better to be safe than sorry.” We walked out my room, and back to the bar. When we get there I see Snake, and I just have this feeling that there’s something he, and Kinsley are hiding.

  ◆◆◆

  Kinsley

  It’s finally Friday, and I couldn’t be happier that the week is finally over. I’m getting my books out my locker, and you know how you can tell when you being stared at. So I turn my head, and Grim, and Ashley are giving me the looks that could kill. I just put a huge smile on my face, and finish getting what I need. My eyes never leave theirs as I walk past them to first period. It’s almost lunch we’re in P.E., and just got done running two miles. It feels so fuckin good to get back into running. I run for endurance when I train so it feels good to get back to it. We’re done for today, and we head to the showers.

  Once I’m done. I reach out of the curtain for my towel. It’s gone. So I walk to the lockers dripping wet, and naked. I reach my gym locker, and everything’s gone even my phone. I skip my naked ass over to the lost, and found. They think they can beat me? Ha! I look in the lost, and found box to find it completely empty “what the fuck!” I kick the box.

  I take a few breaths. That’s fine. It’s fine. Everything is fine. Fuck them. They think they can embarrass me!? I’ve lived through worse. I lift my head high. I’m walking the schools crowded hallway. Holding my tears in, and keeping my face of stone in place. As I hear whispers of ‘slut,’ and whistling from the students of the school. I see Grim, and Ashley talking in the hallway. Both of their eyes find me. Ashley smiles “I told y’all once a slut always a slut!” And, she laughs.

  Grim just stands there holding my clothes in his hands, and my bag at his feet. I gave them the coldest look I can muster given the circumstances. I’m naked as the day I was born. Fuck! I see Tigger, and my brother waiting at the entrance of the cafeteria. As I’m walking up they look my way. Tigger’s mouth drops “holy shit.” I try to cover myself for my brother’s sake. My brother has the look of fire in his eyes. “Ghost can you give me your shirt or jacket or something?” He rips off his jacket, and then his shirt. He throws his jacket back on lightning fast “what the fuck Kins!” I shake my head “look, I’ll talk about it at home. Right now I’m going to sit by my car until you go get my bag from Grim. He must have had Ashley take my shit while I was showering.” Tigger pipes up “I’ll get it.” I snap at him “ Tigger back off! I asked my brother!” I turn, and walk away with what little pride I’ve saved.

  Chapter 11

  Grim

  I’m standing in the hallway getting ready to walk to lunch when Ashley practically skipping to me with a huge grin. She holds her hands out handing me someone’s clothes. “Hey baby I did this for you” she tells me with a giggle, and I’m so confused. “What the fuck is this Ashley?” I ask “why are you handing me clothes?” She looks at me with a proud grin “you’ll see baby.” Every time this bitch calls me baby it makes me wanna cringe. Ashley then drops a school bag at my feet. I know whose bag that is! That’s when I see a naked Kinsley walking down the hall. Ashley starts laughing, and says “I told y’all once a slut always a slut.” I don’t say or do shit! God damn her body is amazing! My dick hardens against my jeans. Fuck. She’s walking like she gives no fucks that the whole school is laughing, and whistling. I notice her arm is badly bruised around a scab like wound. Is that a fuckin bullet wound? What the fuck.

  I see her walk to her brother, and Tigger. Her brother rips his jacket off then shirt, and gives it to her. As he’s putting the jacket back on I notice dickhead Tigger just gawking at her. He fucks practically everyone, and anyone. He’s the last person she should be fuckin with! Fuck I need to get that information from Gear soon... I watch as she leaves school.

  I snap my eyes back to Ashley “why the fuck did you do that.” She looks at me confused “I did it for you for what she did to you yesterday.” Please give me a fucking break I think
to myself. “I don’t care what she did to me Ashley! We fuck. That’s it. I told you from the beginning I don’t date. You have no right to do shit to her on my behalf. You’re own shit is just that. You’re.Own.Shit! That was for me to decide! Stay the fuck out of club business, and in case you weren’t aware. That’s what this was considered, this you’re warning. Don’t do me any more fuckin ‘favors’ unless I asked. Now get the fuck out of my face!”

  As soon as I said that I see Ghost, and Tigger walk up. Ghost pushes me in the chest, and my back slams into the lockers. I drop her clothes that Ashley handed me. He immediately starts going off “what the fuck is you’re problem!? After everything you’re club did to my sister you just can’t seem to leave her alone.” The nerve this fucking guy has! “She hasn’t gotten shit! Compared to what you’re club has done to mine! To my family!!! To my own fuckin mother! Man fuck you, you fuckin cocksucker!”

  My anger is rising I can feel it boiling. I see the guy I think they call Midas walk up, and Tigger picks up the bag at my feet, and hands it to him “ bring this to Kins she’s by her car.” I can see Ghost is hella fuckin tense. He steps forward, and through clenched teeth he quietly says. “you’re fucking diluted if you think what happened to your mother whatever the fuck that was. Is anything close to what you’re piece of disgusting shit of a member did to her when she was 14. Then top it off, you keep defiling her!”

  What the fuck! I can’t think straight. I shove him hard, and when he stumbles back I say “don’t ever speak of my mother you bastard, and as for Kinsley I have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about!” Tigger puts a hand on Ghost shoulder. “Take a walk brother let me handle this.” Ghost takes a deep breath and nods, ghost picks up Kinsley's clothes, and heads off.

  Tigger waits for him to be out of hearing distance “look you obviously don’t know about what a club member of yours did. We don’t know if it was someone acting alone or it was a club idea. Honestly, I don’t give a fuck.” Where the fuck is this going. “ Can’t we take a walk or something I need a joint if we’re talking deep shit with each other, and singing kumbaya at the end of this” Tigger chuckles, and nods.

  Tigger starts up with a question that I didn’t expect “mind if I ask what our club did to your mom?” I was a little taken back “uh yeah you’re fuckin club threw alcohol bottles with a fire string going inside our club. One of the bottles landed on my mom . Now her entire right side is burnt to a crisp.” The more I said the more pissed I got “she’s fucking scarred!” Tigger nodded “when did we do this?” I rolled my eyes “three fuckin’ years ago. She hasn’t been the same since!” I gritted out. He nods again. “What man?? Say what the fuck you wanna say” I spit.

  Tigger blows out some smoke “ok, fine. What I was thinking is that it makes sense that our Pres wouldn’t care about an ole lady when doing that shit... Under normal circumstances He wouldn’t ever hurt another bikers women, rival club or not. Especially since he lost his old lady to cancer four years prior.” I laughed “yeah so what changed his fuckin mind?” Tigger Gave me a dead look before replying “the fact that you’re club beat, and raped his 14-year-old daughter. That’s what changed.” He walked off before I could actually wrap my head around what he said. What the fuck...

  It’s the end of today, and I haven’t seen Kinsley since the incident I’m assuming she left for the day. I don't blame her. I wouldn’t wanna stay here after that shit. Especially after finding out what happened to her? I don’t for a minute think it was anyone in our club, but the fact that she was raped does make me feel bad for all I’ve done to her... From now on I think it’s best to leave her out of my revenge. I wonder what made the club think it was one of ours who raped her.

  I’m almost to my bike when I notice this douche truck. Yes, I said douche truck cause it’s obnoxiously big. I’m getting on my bike, and turn the key. My bike won’t start. I keep trying, but no luck. I hear footsteps and turn my head. I see Kinsley walk from around the big ass truck. Next, thing I know she throws a whole bucket of pink paint on me, and my bike. “What the fuck!!” I roar “it wasn’t fucking me who took your shit today kinsley.” She cocks her hip “don’t fuckin lie you prick!” As she’s walking away she stops with a smirk “oh, and good luck getting far with water in the tank.” Nooo “you’re fuckin bitch!” As much as I’m pissed I can’t help, but admire her. My girl is a fuckin warrior... What the fuck my girl? She’s not my girl, and the bitch will never be. I don’t even know why I thought that. I pull out my phone, and called Gear “I need a tow truck. Like now! And, bring me some towels!”

  Gear pulls up, and gets out. He puts both his hands on his head. “mannnn, what the fuck happened?” I glare at him “Kinsley fuckin happened.” He kneels next to the bike “fuckkk, do you know why it won’t start?” I laugh “yeah, the bitch put water in the gas tank.” He rubs his hand down his face “the bikes fucked man.” I nod. On the ride back to the clubhouse I told Gear all that happened at school today since he skipped.

  Walking into the club “hey Gear come talk in my room real quick.” He nods, and follows me. I turn to him “did you ever find out that information I asked you to?” He nods “yeah I was gonna wait till tonight when my friend follows up on one more thing.” I nod “can you call him, and figure out if he has that info?” He nods, and steps out to make the call while I take a shower to rinse this pink fuckin paint off of me.

  When I get out both Ace and Gear are Chilin on my couch that I have in my room. “Whatcha got Gear?” He leans forward “well you wanted to know why she left 4 years ago... Well we know from what you, and Tigger talked about earlier... That’s probably the most likely reason.” I roll my eyes “yeah I figured that.”

  Gear went on... “Ok well word on the street is that nothing is going on with Tigger, and Kinsley. As of right now he’s not even on good terms with her.” Huh, he could have fooled me “ok, and what about Snake?” Gear gets real serious “that’s where things get interesting. My friend said this took some serious digging. Apparently Snakes parents, and step-sister died in a fire.” I nod “ok what does that—”

  Gear put his hand up “her aunt came forward after the fire saying that she threatens Snake because he was touching her niece, and she thinks that he killed them to keep her quiet.” What the fuckk “how old was the little girl?” Gear looked at me “the girl was thirteen, man. In the notes the police had, they said something was off about him, and they truly believed something happened, but couldn’t prove anything. He was really good about covering his tracks.”

  Fuck this guy is a real piece of work. “Thanks for checking that out for me man. I need you to look into one more things, but this needs to be kept quiet... I need you to find out if anyone in our club is really capable of raping someone.” Ace shot up “what the fuck man!?” Gear stood, and put a hand on his shoulder, and spoke “you really think one of ours could do that? That they would beat and rape a 14-year-old girl?”

  I shrugged my shoulders “I don’t know man. I feel like we don’t know a whole lot about anything! We didn’t know that the reason this whole war is going on is because Kinsley was beaten, and raped! So I wanna cover our asses before we start pointing fingers at anyone!” This damn girl is making me lose my damn mind. I need to get my shit together.

  Chapter 12

  Kinsley

  This morning my dad asked me to run to the store. They had forgotten a few items for today's barbecue. We have one like every Sunday! It’s really not a problem; it keeps me away from the one person I avoid as much as possible. Walking around the grocery store I watch badly Scarred woman accidentally bump into another woman. The scarred woman drops all the items and immediately apologizes. I watch as the other woman’s face bunches up in disgust, and yells at her “watch where you going you freak.”

  Oh fuck no. I really hate bullies. “Hey bitch; I dare you to call her a freak again! Come on! I fuckin dare you to.” She quickly scurried away. I turn to the woman, and help her pick her items up. “You
ok?” She smiles and nods at me. I look into her eyes. “Don’t listen to people like that. They are truly just pathetic ass people who hate their own lives.” She gives me a timid smile “th-thank y-you... you remind me of a girl I knew from high school. She was strong and sweet. ” The Woman stuttered out. I give her a warm smile “what’s her name?”

  She looks down and away trying to hide her scarred side of her face “hey don't look away. You’re beautiful you’re scars tell a story of your life. Let them build you up, and make you stronger. Don't let them tear you down.” She smiles “now tell me what you’re friend's name was.” She nods “she was my best friend ...her name was Shannon Michaels.”

  I look at her and my eyes water a little bit “that was my mom’s name.” I let out a deep breath “she passed away about 7years ago... from cancer.” I see her own eyes water “I’m sorry to hear that... We were best friends. It wasn't long after we graduated high school she had gotten married that we lost touch. I guess life just happens ya know?” I smile at her “its ok I’m glad I got to meet one of her friends. Could we exchange numbers? I would love to hear stories about her.” She nodded her head quickly “yes yes! I don't get out much anymore. We could do lunch if you’re free Wednesday?” You could tell she was nervous. “I would love that. Who knows maybe you'll become my best friend” I winked. She smiled big, and carefree “you're just like her!”