Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:15:12 -0700
From: Amethyst Rose <thepleiadescall@gmail.com>
Subject: Diana Celes Part 4

This story is fiction. This story will also involve sexual and intimate
relationships between two (or more) males, and if this offends you or it is
illegal for you to be reading, then please leave. If you are under the age
of consent for your community, please leave. And if it does offend you, I
honestly don't know why you're even here in the first place. Really,
though. It's perplexing.




Jake, also the school's track star, easily caught up with Dee, who wasn't
really walking that fast anyway. He strode along side him. "Dee, what's up?
Why're you upset?"

Dee shook his head and wiped away some tears with his free hand. "Go away."
he whimpered. "I knew you didn't actually wanna be friends with me..."

"Oh, come on! That's not true!" Jake rolled his eyes briefly and tried to
make eye contact with Dee. Dee wasn't having any of it. "Dee." Jake touched
his arm, but Dee shook it off.

"I said get away from me!" In shaking him off, Dee dropped his books on the
ground. Again. Seeing his books on the pavement for the third time in a
row, Dee stopped. He gave an ironic sort of laugh, slightly scaring Jake.
"What... the hell." As he bent down to pick them up, he saw that the cover
of his Calculus book fell off. Dee sniffled, then collapsed completely in
tears; his face in his hands.

He felt Jake pat his back and this time did nothing to stop it. Jake leaned
over, finally catching a glimpse of his tear-stained face. For a while he
was silent, with Dee just going through that inevitable sniffing that
crying makes one go through.

Dee finally wiped his eyes completely, and sniffed resolutely. He looked up
at Jake; his face was gentle and considerate, and Dee thought that he would
cry again seeing it. He realized how much of a mess he must look right now,
and was glad no one was there to see them.

"Okay..." Jake rubbed his back firmly. "...so will you tell me what's
wrong?"

"..." Dee got up onto his knees, and wiped his eyes again, feeling a little
itchy from his contact lenses. Jake smiled a little; he was also kneeling.
Dee swallowed hard, trying to think of the best way to articulate.
"O-Obviously... I didn't change schools j-just because of bullying. And
yes, I...I-I have to agree with Jaina that Diana Celes is crazy school."

"Hey, don't listen to her-"

"She's absolutely right!" He yelled, and trembled. Dee looked around to
make sure no one was eavesdropping. His voice reduced to a whisper. "I-It's
all true... That molestation case? It was me." Dee bit his lip until it was
almost bleeding again, cringing remembering. "My gym teacher, he was- it
was- so wr-wrong, I hated every living moment of it, but he wouldn't stop!
And I told him Ôno' but he would corner me, and-" he stopped, not wanting
to go further. "...So finally, I did. I told. He dared me I couldn't but I
did."

"...But that was just the beginning. I thoughtÐthat it was over by then;
that-that I could just go to school like normal, but no one let me. The
papers didn't say, but word got around what happened. And, I got attacked
by classmates, by- by the teachers even! I couldn't... couldn't go anywhere
without glares, or- or names, or someone throwing something, and Jake, they
thought it was consentual! They called me slut and whore and, and... and
they thought I would do it with them too, but it was wrong! They were wrong
but I couldn't fight back." Dee truly did begin to cry again, talking in
between sobs. "And my friends... m-my friends..." "O-only two of them
stayed with me. Ellie and Kiera. My best... M-my best friends... And-and
after that, they got hurt more than I did! And *I* was the one at fault."

"And- and a week later... They were found in the bathroom, holding hands.
Blood all over the floor." Tears fell free flow. "They killed themselves!
They- they killed- and I- it was *my* fault! All my fault!"

"So... there. I begged my mom to change schools. I show up here, I- I- I
completely forget what happened, and I start with a clean slate. There." He
forced himself to stop crying, and regained a shred of his composure. "Here
I am now. A... whore, with two dead friends." He said it icily, with no
humanity. As soon as he was done, Jake gently watching and still listening,
Dee dropped his backpack off his arms, and stood up. "And now... now you
know. I don't deserve any of this. Goodbye, Jake." He wiped his face
again. "Just leave me alone."

Before Jake could get up, Dee ran at full speed to the school exit.
"Dee..." he whispered, as though it would travel the wind and reach his
ears. He gathered up Dee's backpack and his now decrepit books, and looked
after him; he was long gone in no time.

Dee just kept on running, hearing his feet slam against the concrete. He
passed some classmates who were notably confused by his outburst. Allegra
brushed into him, but he didn't make eye contact. It was the middle of the
school day; he was supposed to be going to Spanish, but that obviously was
not what he had on his mind right now.

Dee wanted to die. He wanted to dig a hole six feet deep, climb in, and
bury himself where no one could see. The rather brief incident he had with
Jake and Jaina and... those two other guys he couldn't remember the names
of... was too much to handle at once. And on top of that, he had to recall
the past experiences at Diana Celes.

He shuddered, remembering the cruel touch that came with thoughts of
Mr. Poeveldt. Tears stung, remembering Kiera's last words to him, before
she and Ellie were found in the afternoon in a bloody heap:

"Don't worry, Dee. It's not your fault."

-even though it was. Everything was. Dee trudged down the sidewalk: he
didn't want to go to school anymore. He didn't want to see teachers,
classmates, those assholes Kari and Alan, not even Allegra or Jake.

...Jake.

Dee fumed, his head becoming a bastion of some awful emotion between anger
and hopelessness. Flashbacks of Jaina cuddling and Jake smiling; Jaina
kissing and Jake laughing rolled into his mind. Ohh, and their names both
start with "J": Jacob and Jaina, how sweet. Maybe they'll get married
someday.

"Ugh!" Dee stopped and kicked the ground. He shamed himself, thinking about
something so trivial after everything. His mind was a disastrous mess that
could not be cleaned; he couldn't think straight, and he could still feel
himself trembling on his way home.

He prayed for them silently. ÔMaybe... I should join you.'

				   * * *

Allegra contemplated what just happened. ÔStrange. Usually cold and pissy
are *my* character traits. Isn't Dee the shy but lovably zany one?'

She organized the thoughts in her head, trying to figure out what could be
wrong. Grades? No. He was top of the class at this point. Parents? Couldn't
be. He loved his mom, and plus it didn't make sense for that to be a
problem in the middle of the school day. That left one possibility:

assholes.

Jake simply sat in the courtyard, holding Dee's books and backpack. He
didn't have class for another period anyway, so he just sat staring at
Dee's things. A shadow loomed over him. At first he wasn't sure if anyone
was really there. But he concentrated; as he looked up, a girl with a book
bag and dreads was staring right at him. Had he seen her before?

Whoever she was, she was pissed. "We need to talk."


                                                       * * *

"Fun" fact for fans!: I didn't ever mention it, but Allegra's last name is
Morrison, after the amazing author Toni Morrison (I just read her book Love
a couple of weeks ago). Allegra's look is based on a much younger Toni
Morrison that I envision in my head (I'd hope Allegra's younger! Toni's 77
:D).



Chapter four ahoy...

What will Jake do? Or more importantly, what will Dee do? Or maybe more
interestingly, what will Allegra do? There is no shortage of plot tension
here! :D Chapter five may take a little while longer, but don't worry, not
too long ^^.

As per usual, thanks for reading!


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If you like Diana Celes, maybe there's the very vague possibility you'll
like other stories I've submitted:

Charmed Reborn (celebrity), Final Fantasy Rosa (celebrity), Pokemon:
Amethyst (celebrity), Teth (fantasy), and Hallow (sci-fi/fantasy).