Fallen: Fallen

Fallen

Ike was worried. He had not seen Lacey in three days and more than once her he had heard his mother and her mother exchanging worried words. What was up with Lacey? She didn’t seem the type to dwell on break ups, more likely she thrived on them for power. Ike had only known her a few months but this seemed out of character. Usually he saw her going in and out all day.

‘Lacey! Mark’s on the phone!’ ‘Tell him I’m not home.’ ‘Lacey please! You haven’t taken a call in three days. Or even left your room. What’s wrong?’ Chrystal tried to get into her daughter’s room and more or less back into her life. Ever since they’d moved to Tulsa, Lacey had become very distant to Chrystal, more so in the last three days, not speaking at all and Chrystal didn’t know what to do. ‘Lacey?’ Chrystal thought she heard sobbing on the other side of the door. ‘Lacey let me in!’ ‘No! Please just go away!’ Lacey tried to keep the tears out of her voice. She just wanted to be alone. Chrystal was late for work so she left, but she vowed to get through to her daughter that night.

Zac watched as Mark stood on the Burbank’s doorstep ringing the bell. ‘Ike!’ ‘Ike get over here! You might want to see this!’ Ike grumbled and walked over to his brother, annoyed he had disrupted his game. ‘What is it Zac?’ he asked. ‘Look.’ Zac pointed out the window. ‘Oh.’ Lacey and Mark were sitting on the front porch of the Burbank’s house. It looked like Lacey was shying away from him a little.

Lacey was scared. Maybe more scared than she had ever been in her life. Mark was sitting opposite her, telling her he loved her and wanted her back. She wanted to refuse. But he was pressuring her, after all, he loved her. But she was shaking her head. Now he was yelling. She had to come back to him or he’d do what he did to her again and she couldn’t tell anyone, no one would believe her anyway. They all thought she was a slut. So now she was nodding, agreeing. He was happy. He kissed her, told her he’d ring her and left. Lacey was alone, shivering in the dark, recalling the last few minutes. But it was as if she’d just watched it on ‘Dawson’s Creek.’ It was surreal to her. It wasn’t her in the picture, it was some one else. But Mark loved her.

Ike continued to watch over Lacey and he noticed that she ventured out of the house, on the arm of Mark the next day. He was a little shocked as he thought they’d broken up, but just dismissed it. But when he saw them one day at the mall, he knew something was wrong.

Lacey was not her usual cheery self. She was a little withdrawn and quiet. She was at the mall with Mark when she spotted Adrian and some of his friends.

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