RÊD FLÂGS
Red Flags – Episode 39 & 40
(Badasses•Bad•Jerks)
★★★★★★★★★
• YOU WANT THE BODY BACK? YOU WANT YOUR SECRET SAFE? THEN KILL EMORY CARSON.
The phone fell from Omar’s shaky fingers, landing on the soil then sliding into the pit from there.
“Who the hell…is this?” He muttered, blood draining from his face.
“If you’re confident enough show me your damn face!!!” He yelled, standing on his feet.
His voice echoed in the forest, and he looked around, but only the sound of nocturnal animals could be heard.
He looked back into the pit where his phone fell, and another drop of snot came out of his nose.
He wiped with his palm before jumping in the pit to get the phone.
He climbed out and inserted his fingers into his mouth, biting his nails while scratching his hair hard with the other hand.
*
RAVE*
“Why would you say that?” Rebekah faced Rain immediately Emory left for the washroom.
“I only said something harmless and I didn’t know the music would go off at that same moment. I didn’t know she’d deny it and I didn’t know Banks would be mad about it too” Rain replied innocently, and Rebekah smirked.
“Banks? Mad?” She muttered, coming closer.
“You’d try a lot more if you wanna make him mad” she said to her face, and Rain blinked as Rebekah turned around, following Emory.
“Are you really part of the friendship?” Sybil asked immediately.
“Huh?” Rain faced her.
“I mean… Rebekah doesn’t seem to like you” Sybil replied, taking a sip from her solo cup of rue.
“We’re cool, she’s just overbearing” Rain smiled.
“I can’t believe the first guy I took interest in has a thing with my cousin. My bad luck” Sybil sighed, swirling the drink in her cup.
“You heard when she said there’s nothing between them” Rain replied.
“Meaning?” Sybil blinked.
“You can still shoot your shot, girl!” Rain encouraged.
Sybil smiled after a while.
“You’re right” she snapped her fingers.
“Here” Isaac arrived with the drink.
“Thank you” Rain took the cup from him and clinked it with Sybil’s cup.
“I like you, cheers!” She said.
“Cheers!” Rain smiled.
*
WASHROOM*
Emory backed the zinc bowl, one hand on her forehead and the other one on her hips as she rested on it.
Various thoughts were spiralling through her mind as she stood there, and she didn’t blink till Rebekah came in.
“Why did you say that?” Rebekah asked, walking to her.
“Say what?”
“Say they meant nothing! Are you for real?” Rebekah replied.
“You’re acting like a mother right now. That’s my roleplay” Emory said.
“Well I’m switching roles with you tonight” Rebekah replied, and Emory chuckled softly.
“Don’t change the subject, why did you do it?” Rebekah asked.
“But it’s true. All the kisses were forceful and aggressive that we ended up biting each other. They were just kisses, no strings attached” Emory replied.
“But he’s the only guy you don’t get triggered by, yeah?” Rebekah said.
“And Omar” Emory replied.
“Don’t talk about that moron here!” Rebekah raised her hand.
“Fineee… But Levi is… He’s toxic, like concentrated toxicity… Yunno” Emory said, a frown etching on her face.
“Just give him some time and get used to him, maybe you can unravel the parts of him we weren’t able to unravel” Rebekah said.
“Meaning?” Emory asked.
“He’s like a senior brother to everyone of us in the frat club. Everyone is either 21 or 22, but Banks is 25” Rebekah replied.
“What! He’s three years older than me? But he looks young” Emory gasped.
“You’ll understand why he’s still in college at this age if you hear his childhood story from him. We treat him with respect not only because he’s our leader, but he’s our bro” Rebekah smiled.
Emory’s eyes remained wide.
“You should have just agreed with him to put Rain in her place earlier. Her questions are getting too much” Rebekah said as she pulled Emory out of the room.
“I noticed that too, she’s… somehow” Emory replied.
“You should fix things with Banks soon” Rebekah said.
“Is he mad at me now?” Emory asked.
“Mad at you? Banks doesn’t get mad, he only refines his strategy. I’m sure he’s planning something” Rebekah replied.
“Whatever, we should FaceTime Nina and Lizzy before leaving” Emory said.
“Yas!” Rebekah kissed Emory’s cheek, and they chuckled before entering the main hall.
*
OUTSIDE*
Levi got on his bike after minutes of sashaying around the hall.
He put on his leather gloves, and the moment he made to wear his helmet, Chadwick walked up to him.
He stood in front of the bike with a smile Levi detests so much.
“What’s funny?” Levi smirked deeply.
“My father says thank you, and… I’ll be grateful for the rest of my life too. Thanks for sparing my life. I came to the Loft yesterday but Hyce denied my entry” Chadwick replied.
Without uttering a word, Levi wore his helmet, kicking his bike to life.
“I’ll do anything to prove myself worthy of your time! Anything at all!” Chadwick shouted as he drove off.
*
AN HOUR LATER, CARSON’S MANSON*
The girls returned from the party twenty minutes ago, and while Sybil is sitting in front of the mirror, wiping her makeup… Emory is in bed, her face in her phone.
She’s busy posting the pictures she snapped with Rebekah on her IG, and immediately she saw Nina’s comment, she laughed out.
Nina: Sending hate from my house!!!
Rebekah: Damn, we’re so pretty *several kiss emojis*
Nina: *Smirking emojis*
Emory laughed out again, but before she could witness their impending argument, she received a text.
Immediately she clicked, she sat up in bed.
It’s the d+ck picture again, and this one came with a message.
~ Leave Banks alone!!! F+ck these d+cks on your screen instead.
“What the f+ck!” She voiced out.
“What?” Sybil faced her.
“Oh …. Nothing” Emory replied, slowly deleting the picture.
“And about the Banks guy… Are you really not interested? Should i seduce him? I seriously want to date him” Sybil said.
Emory remained silent, remembering the look in his eyes earlier and how he turned back and left without a word.
Her damn mind went to when he worshipped her skin with his tongue in the dark garage, and she gulped.
“Emmy?” Sybil’s voice brought her back, and she blinked twice.
“Huh?”
“You’ve been quiet for two minutes. Say something” Sybil said.
“Go on… I’m.. I’m fine” Emory replied, piling the duvet over herself.
“Yes!” Sybil jumped, leaving the room.
*
NEXT MORNING, TERRAVERDE PALACE*
Rebekah ignored the maids greetings as usual as she descended the stairs, her hair rolled into a twist.
Her pyjamas knicker is so short that her mid thighs are left out, and the shirt is transparent as usual.
That was the first thing Conrad noticed when she got to the dinning door
He’s already waiting, and he drooled with no self-control till she stopped in front of him.
“If you continue staring at me like that, i might think you’re starting to fall for me” she said, bringing him back.
“Let’s go” he quickly composed himself.
At once, they entered the dinning hall where Elsa and the king are already at.
Elsa is behaving like a potentially good wife again, serving the king his water despite the present maids.
Immediately the king saw Rebekah’s pyjamas, he dropped his fork.
“Go back upstairs right now, and change into a longer dress. Your stepbrother is here what are you thinking!” He chastised.
“I don’t think stepbrother is the right word to use in this context, considering the fact that we’re in love” Rebekah replied.
“What!” The jug of water fell from Elsa to the ground and broke up.
“What bull are you spewing!” The king’s eyes changed to hostile.
“We’ve been dating, way before you started planning your wedding. Conrad is my boyfriend” Rebekah replied.
“F+ck yeah, we love each other and you better cancel the damn wedding before the whole of this island hears about our relationship too” Conrad shrugged.
“What has come over you Conrad! Is this a stunt to ruin this marriage? Huh?” Elsa came closer.
“Stunt? Watch me” Conrad pulled Rebekah closer suddenly by the waist, leaning in…
He was about to kiss her when she took in her lips, making his lids flicker.
“I knew it!” Elsa laughed.
“Are you both that desperate to see this wedding fall apart? So desperate to the point of staging a drama?” The king said calmly.
Conrad let go of Rebekah slowly, and she cursed herself inwardly.
“You both can’t leave the palace grounds today, you’re grounded” the king ordered.
“What!” Rebekah gasped.
“Well you’re not my father! Tell that to your daughter!” Conrad spat.
“Connie!” Elsa gasped.
“To hell with you!” Conrad fired and walked out of the hall furiously.
Rebekah rushed after him and met up by the vast living room.
“Conrad I…
“Do you hate me that much? Enough to fold your lips for a harmless kiss? F+ck I hate you too but you don’t see me pasting it around! We could have smashed the wedding if that kiss happened, but you had to f+ck up!” He shouted angrily.
Rebekah became speechless.
“Yunno what? Ion care if they get married anymore. Have fun carrying their kids, prude!” Conrad spat, walking out of the palace afterwards.
Rebekah started blinking back her tears, standing there like an idiot.
*
LEGACY COLLEGE*
• If it isn’t the epileptic fashion icon!
• Hehehe! She’s brave to show up in school
• But at least she’s pretty.
• Pretty face, foamy mouth… Bad combo, who’d date her.
• Who knows when next she’s gonna start wriggling on the ground like a salted worm?
• Eew!
Lizzy just had to lock up and act as if she didn’t hear all the comments coming from the students as she walked into the bloc with Nina and Emory by her sides.
Sybil and Rain are at the back.
Students made way for her quickly, not wanting their body to touch her, and she almost broke down.
“Aren’t they being too harsh? I mean… It’s just epilepsy, not like she’s a killer” Sybil said.
“Don’t mind them” Rain replied, and then the attention of the students moved to another person who just entered the hallway.
Levi and his friends.
Levi got a new tattoo on the lower arm of his right hand, and it’s so f+çking s+xy.
“el zorro es mio”
It’s a Spanish sentence which means… THE FOX IS MINE.
Emory’s heart skipped one beat when she saw it, but their eyes never met.
He’s not even looking her side no matter how loud the students are fawning over his tattoo.
• That’s one hell of a tattoo!
• Who’s his tattooist? It’s so beautiful!
• Now I wanna be a fox!
• Maybe he likes foxes
• I can’t stop crushing on this guy! I want him between my legs!
Rain was smiling as she watched him, wishing she could lick the tattoo.
‘Fox must be his favorite animal’ She thought, her heart beating do wild.
She’s so in love with this guy.
“Help, he’s so hot! I love his tattoo!” Sybil gushed loudly.
“Banks gave them something to talk about again” Nina grinned.
“He knows what he’s doing” Lizzy replied.
Emory said nothing as they finally left for class.
Getting to class, Levi’s tattoo gist continued, killing any talk about Lizzy completely.
Lizzy felt relieved as she settled with the girls.
“Rebekah won’t be coming. His Majesty grounded her” Emory broke the news.
“Bad news! I miss her!” Nina pouted, resting her head on Emory’s shoulder.
“Why did you follow Emz when you’re not even a student” Rain asked Sybil.
They’re sitting behind Nina and Emory.
“I can’t sit at home, duhh… I only have to hide my face when the lecturer comes in” Sybil replied, and Rain smiled.
Levi and his friends are in the middle…
“You look mad, did someone piss in your morning coffee?” Hyce asked Conrad with a grin
“Obviously a girl problem, pity” Levi replied point-blank, his eyes not leaving Emory who’s in front of him.
“Girl problem… Check… It’s Rebekah” Conrad replied.
“Beks? What did she do?” Hyce faced him.
“Not ready to talk about her” Conrad replied, checking his wristwatch.
“You haven’t told us about the trenchcoat dude Banks! You said it’s a girl then who? Is she in this class right now?” Hyce asked, smiling when he saw Issac coming in.
“Yeah” Levi replied.
“Wait…what!” Hyce said, the smile falling from his face.
Emory turned back slowly, and her eyes met Levi’s.
She quickly focused back to the front, and an evil smirk appeared on Levi’s face.
Omar is in class too, but he looks madly confused, his left hand in his hair.
The right one is holding his pen, and he’s busy scribbling things in his diary.
Vans and trenchcoat✓Emory’s freezer incident✓North’s body✓ Inhaler✓ Kill Emory ✓Whoever owns the inhaler is the person…
Chadwick walked past him, knowingly hitting down his diary to mess with him.
Omar gasped as the diary landed on the ground, and Chadwick picked it up.
“Give it to me bastard!” Omar snatched it from him.
Romeo and Juliet stood behind him, ready to fight if there’s a need for it, but Chadwick just smiled.
“Tuck your tails back into the middle of your legs, I’m not in the mood” he scoffed, taking his seat.
Romeo and Juliet sat back too, and Omar left the class.
Chadwick tapped his fingers on his desk…
He actually saw what’s in the diary.
*
12PM*
The first two classes are over, and students are currently going for lunch before the upcoming classes marathon.
Emory’s friends are already in the cafeteria, but she excused herself to go use the restroom.
She needed to pee.
She did her business and came out to see Levi walking the hall with Conrad.
She followed behind till Conrad left him, and then only him entered the smoking spot behind the bloc.
She stayed by the door, watching as he got a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.
He picked one and placed it loosely between his lips.
Emory gulped, her throat bobbing.
Why is that so…hot?
He was about to get a zippo when Sybil came to him through the other door.
“Hey I’m Sybil! Emory’s cousin. We can be friends if you don’t mind” she said brightly, wanting to touch his new tattoo…
“I wouldn’t” he said before she could touch.
“You don’t like touches? But you’re hot, and I …
“F+ck the hell off” Levi cut her off, going out the other door.
“He’s so arrogant! F+ck!” Sybil stumped her foot.
Emory left the door, tucking her hands in her jacket pocket as she started descending the stairs.
Omar appeared behind her, and he stretched his hand forward, following her closely while trying to push her.
He kept following, keeping his hands stretched and waiting for it to get to her.
Emory finally got downstairs, and he folded his fists as she left.
“I can’t do this!” He said and turned to go back upstairs, but he met Levi standing in front of him already.
“Banks?” He mumbled.
Five minutes later, he was already at the gazebo with Levi.
Levi actually dragged him here, and the moment he let him go, Omar threw a punch at him.
Levi caught the fist and slammed it on the pillar instead.
Omar’s knuckle bones cracked, and he cried out with all his mouth open as blood poured out of the knuckles to the ground.
Levi hit the fist on the wall again, and one of the fingers bent backwards as another bone cracked.
Omar fell on his knees, tears coming out of his eyes.
“Bastard!!!! Let me go!!!!!” He cried out, his nose running again, joining his blood on the ground.
“Not so quick” Levi replied, retrieving scissors from his back pocket.
Omar’s eyes widened, but before he could process it, Levi already cut off the smallest finger on his right hand
“Arhhhhhh!!!!! Banks!!!!! Ahhhhhh!!!!!!” He roared in agonizing symphony.
His finger fell on the ground, and Levi dropped the bloody scissors.
“Keep trying, and at every attempt you make to kill Emory, I’ll cut off one finger from you, and when you become fingerless… i’ll sever your f+çking tongue” Levi said, stepping out of the gazebo.
Omar’s mouth couldn’t close as tears poured out of his eyes in handfuls, blood pouring out of his cut finger in the same manner.
*
10PM, CARSON’S MANSON~EMORY’S ROOM*
The house is silent as everyone went to sleep already.
Emory licked her lips in her sleep, looking so peaceful and restful till she couldn’t feel her freedom anymore.
Is her hands supposed to be over her head?
Why is it like that? And why is her wrists restrained?
It reminded her of when Levi chained her to the tub at Forte, and her eyes flew open.
She gasped, and sweat broke in her brows when she saw her freedom really got robbed.
Her two hands are chained over her head, to the headboard, and the room smells like cinnamon.
“Levi you realize this is my house right?” She said, not trying to struggle since she’s already aware that it’s useless.
Levi is standing by her window, staring out the balcony with an apple on his lips.
He took a bite before looking back at her, and she gulped.
“What is it this time? Is it dangerous for me to go out again? As you can see I’m sleeping and I’m not going anywhere so untie me” She said softly.
His eyes were devoid of softness as he began walking slowly to her bed
He sat beside her, taking another full bite from the apple.
His lips became so wetly red, and she didn’t know when she licked her own lips, moving her wrists slightly so the chains clanged.
He brought his right hand to her ear, rubbing the shell while she pressed herself to the mattress at the tickle.
She has three piercings on her ear, and he touched everything, looking at her like his property, his own.
“They meant nothing? I dare you to say that again” he said.
“Who chains a girl up if not a toxic abnormal man?” She replied, her palms sweaty.
“I tossed a dare. Tell me the kisses didn’t make your little pu$+y wet and tell me you don’t want more” he replied, dropping the apple.
“Stop talking dirty!” She moved.
“Then drop the attitude, or I’ll f+ck it out of you here” he replied, and her eyes widened.
“Are you…are you gonna rape me?”
He kept quiet, noticing the fear in her eyes at the mention of RAPE.
“Don’t… Please… Don’t do it” she muttered.
His expression fell.
“Don’t rape me” her eyes went shut, and she felt hotness behind her closed lids as she remembered that night.
How uncle Fred was slamming his monstrous p+nis inside her without stop and how she was begging him to stop.
How blood filled the kitchen…her blood…
“Please… please don’t!” She started crying, struggling to move.
“What the hell Emory” Levi held her face.
“Please don’t do it!!!” She cried out again.
Levi unlocked the chains, holding her in place, but she kept struggling.
“No don’t…don’t touch me… please please… Please!!!” She shouted, getting more violent.
She hurt him with her nails and bit his skin countlessly with her teeth, but he kept pulling her despite the fight, trying to get her back.
“Noah!” He called sharply, and her struggling reduced as tears poured out of her tightly closed eyes.
“Who am I?” He asked.
“Uncle…unvly Fred” she stuttered, and blood filled in Levi’s eyes immediately.
What the… Shit!
“F+ck” He stood, letting her go.
He jumped down the balcony, leaving the house and mounting his bike.
Now it’s starting to come together…
Why she hates males, why she gets nightmares, why throws up at any sudden contact, why her voice isn’t loud no matter how hard she screams.
Gawd damnit…
He should have deducted it, he should have known..
He should have f+çking known.
His body was shaking with rage till he got to the casino and stormed in, meeting Master X at the office.
He’s sitting at his desk expressionlessly.
“Who’s Fred?” He questioned.
Master X remained silent, so he pushed the table with his leg.
The wood went flying across the room, smashing on the wall and sharing it’s splinters around along with the laptops and documents on it.
“Who the hell is Fred!!!!!” Levi yelled in blind piping rage.
“He was … My right-hand man when Hazzan was sick that year. He worked for one year in this casino, and he’s Emory’s uncle” Master X finally talked.
“And?” Levi growled.
“He raped her when she was eleven, and I’ve been watching over her since then, but when she became a college student three years ago, I felt like you’d do a better job watching over her since you’ll be closer to her, which is why I told you to start protecting her” Master X looked up.
“Why?” Levi swallowed his breaths.
“Because her parents lied to her. Fred was never arrested. He escaped, and he might come back anytime for her” Master X replied, and Levi laughed out like a maniac, the sound echoing in the room with a scary thrill.
He stormed out of the office, his body still shaking as he took heavy steps out.
Fred will definitely wish he wasn’t born into this world soon.
Even if he’s the middle of a f+çking jungle, he’d drag him out.
He’ll make him eat his own flesh and drink his own blood, he’ll make him cry and no water will come out even if he sticks his finger into his eyes.
He’ll cut off every part of his body and leave them in the open for vultures to feast on, and he’ll kill every single one from his bloodline till there’ll be no one left standing.
Even if anyone is left standing, he’ll wait till that person procreates, then he’ll kill him and his bloodline too.
It’ll be unending.
Unstopped.
He’ll maim!
Every muscle in his body were bulging, and every bicep swelling as he made his exit.
His eyes are a darker shade than they’ve ever been.
He came to an halt when he got out and saw Emory standing there, beside her car.
She’s barefoot, still in her pyjamas, and tears are still on her face.
She must have followed him here.
“The hell are you doing here?” He questioned, and she sniffled.
“I… Did I say anything to you in my sleep?” She asked, her breathing unsteady.
Levi kept looking at her.
Her barefoot, her shakiness, her tear-streaked face and red puffy eyes.
“Yeah…i know everything now” he said, and she came closer.
“I really begged him, I screamed. He didn’t stop. He kept doing it, and I bled so much in the kitchen… He… He said I belonged to him … He hit me with the rolling stick and i almost died. He beat the crap out of me and forcefully took my… My virg…
Levi pulled her to him, wrapped his arms on her and hugged her so tight that she couldn’t say the rest of the words, she just continued hiccuping like a baby.
“I’ll bring you Fred’s head on a platter, little fox. I promise” Levi whispered hoarsely into her ear, and she buried her wet face in his chest, her temperature so f+çking high.
TBC
