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about saying bye to Tommy. I just need to get away from the carnival and away from Eastbrook. God, I can’t wait to get the hell out of here.
    Tommy
                  I didn’t like that. In fact I’m furious and enraged that some preppy assholes would even have the balls to say that to a woman and call themselves a men. I don’t care if she has fucked the whole football team. I. Did. Not. Like. It. I would have been happy to join her in kicking their asses, but once I saw those cops, I couldn’t let her get in trouble.
                  But now I can do something even better.
                  After Ella and her friends leave, I watch James and his buddy laugh about the jokes they made and get in his BMW. I follow them to their high school football field, probably wanting to relive their glory days. I watch as they laugh and pass their vodka bottle while sitting down on the grass. I see the guy James smiling and enjoying life. I see the other guy and think about what he said to Claudia about her being shot. I don’t like people like them. The only time I like them is when I’m kicking their ass. I get out of my car and walk across the field. They both see me and laugh.
                  “Look, it’s Ella’s friend!” the friend says.
                  “Here to ask us what she’s like in bed?” James laughs.
                  They both stand up, tall and mighty, thinking they’re gonna kick my ass.
                  “That’s really funny,” I say calmly as I walk faster towards them.
                  Once I get to James, I jab him right in the nose. His head goes all the way back as the blood splatters across his face. His friend swings at me, but I duck and throw my right fist into his stomach, then give him a left hook to the face.
                  “What the fuck is wrong with you, man?! You broke my nose!” James holds his nose with both hands.
                  “Oh, did I?” I pull him up. “I’m sorry.”
    His friend gasps for air while he holds his stomach. “All this for a bitch?”
    I throw James on the ground next to his friend and pull out the gun that is tucked in the back of my jeans. Both of their eyes jump out of their skulls when they see their death sentence staring them in the face.
    “Hey, man, please! Don’t do this!” James begs while his friend starts crying and screaming like the pussy he is.
    “You see, guys like you really get to me. You can have anything you want, you’re rich, good looking. You didn’t grow up the way I did. So I just don’t get why you act like shit.”
    “I don’t know why either, man.” Now James is crying too. “Listen, we’re sorry!”
    “Say that you were lying. Better yet, tell me what all happened with you and Ella?”
    “What?” James looks confused.
    I press the gun against his head. “Tell me.”
    “It was just sex!” James yells.
    I pull the trigger. “AHH!” The sound of the click sends James in a spiral.
    “You see James, every chamber isn’t loaded, so you better start giving me details because who knows when it might just…” I pull the trigger. Click again. “Go off.”
    He shakes and all of a sudden a wet spot appears on the front of his khaki pants.
    “Did you piss yourself, James?”
    “Yes!” James has the ugliest crying face.
    “Details,” I demand one last time.
    “I lied! After Eric Anderson hooked up with her, he said she was easy. I took her on a date and tried to get her to give it up. She didn’t want to. We kissed, but that was it!”
    “Oh, so she isn’t a whore?”
    “No.”
    “Okay, well from now on, I want you to tell the truth.”
    “Okay.”
    “And James, if I hear that pathetic and bitch ass lie come out of someone’s mouth again, I will come for you.”
    “Alright,” he snorts.
    I pointed my gun at his friend. “And you. What’s your name?”
    “L─Li─Lionel,” he