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Chapter 3 – Who saved Rachel Part 1

Blackwell Campus – 2:12pm 29th March 2013

"I'm going to fucking kill him" snarled Chloe angrily as she slammed through the door to the Blackwell dormitories and stalked down the path towards the main building, dismissive of the fact that Rachel was hot on her tail.

"Chloe calm down" pleaded the smaller blonde as she tried to get in front of the raging blue haired punk. She hated it when Chloe was like this, full of rage and unwilling to listen.

"Calm down! He tried to hurt you Rachel!" barked the blunette as she came to a halt as the smaller blonde managed to get in front of her. To say the blunette was dumbfounded by the blonde's desire to calm her down would be an understatement. Nathan Prescott had dared to hurt someone she cared about, to hurt Rachel and Chloe was going to unleash hell on his white elitist ass for it.

But Rachel understood her best friend better than anyone. She understood that Chloe was undoubtedly the most over protective person she would ever meet and after telling her everything that had happened Chloe had reacted in a very typical 'Chloe Price' fashion.

She couldn't deny that she was angry at Nathan and she wanted him to pay for what he did. But she didn't want anything to happen to Chloe.

"Chloe I need you to calm down and think for a second. What exactly are you going to do if you find him? We don't have any evidence that he did anything to me and if you start beating him into the ground all that's going to happen is you get arrested and charged with assault"

Rachel knew she had won the argument when Chloe released a frustrated huff and placed her hands on her hips.

"Then what do we do Rachel. We can't let him get away with this" the smaller teen nodded slowly. Rachel had been giving it a lot of thought, trying to piece together the events of last night with what Kate Marsh had told her.

She remembered being grabbed by Nathan and then a sharp pricking sensation to her neck, a girl with brown hair and freckles coming into the room and yelling at Nathan to stop, being shoved forward and then dark blue eyes staring down in fear at her.

She couldn't remember anything from that point until she woke up back in her room with Chloe and Kate there.

Kate explained that she had seen a girl with brown hair coming out of her room with blood stains on her clothes and a limp. She didn't get a chance to look at the girls face as she pulled up her hood and raced out of the dormitories.

"We need to find the girl who saved me" stated Rachel. Chloe frowned thoughtfully at the idea.

"We don't even know who she is Rachel, so how are we going to find her? It's not like we've got a name to go on and there are loads of girls with brown hair and freckles"

She does have a point.

"Kate said that she saw blood on her clothes and that she had a limp. We could check out the hospital, see if anyone has been admitted within the last 24hrs"

It was a start at least. If they wanted to make Nathan pay then they would need the girl.

"And what if we don't find her?" asked Chloe

Before Rachel could answer that question she noticed someone approaching from over Chloe's shoulder.

"Rachel shouldn't you be in class now?" asked Mark Jefferson as he came to stand behind Chloe, his attention strictly on Rachel. The punk turned to eye up the teacher with distain and annoyance clear on her face at the interruption.

"Do you mind? We're kinda in the middle of a conversation"

Her irritable tone attracted a raised brow from the Blackwell photography teacher. She could feel her irritation grow as the teacher eyed her up before giving her a disapproving stare. Like she cared what he thought about her.

"Rachel, you are aware that only students, faculty and parents are allowed on the premises at any given time. Judging by the way your friend is dressed I can safely say that she isn't in any of those groups so I'm going to have to ask her to leave"

Chloe turned her full attention to the teacher and crossed her arms against her chest defiantly.

"Oh right and if I don't leave what are you going to do about it?" she challenged.

I would love to see him try anything; I could take him no questions asked.

A slight frown formed on Jefferson's face as he pushed his glasses to settle further up on his nose from where they had slid.

"I wouldn't need to do anything except call security and ask them to remove you from the school grounds." Chloe scoffed at the threat.

"Go on then, call security and while you're at it you can go bother some other students"

Rachel rolled her eyes at Chloe's antagonising behaviour.

Typical Chloe, always with the problem with authority.

She needed to quickly defuse the tension before it escalated. She would also need to apologise to Mark later for Chloe's behaviour.

"Sorry about this Sir, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. I do have theatre class now so I'll quickly get my friend back to her truck so she can leave and get to class."

Before Jefferson had a chance to say anything further, Rachel grabbed onto Chloe's arm and started pulling the blunette towards the car park where her battered truck was parked.

The photography teacher glared at the blue haired punk as she flipped him the middle finger as she was dragged away by his star pupil.

"What the hell Rachel?" asked Chloe as she followed the blonde student. Shrugging her shoulders, Rachel released Chloe's arm and looked at the taller girl.

"Really don't need you getting into fights with my photography teacher; we need to focus on finding that girl so we can get back at Nathan" Chloe nodded her head.

"Fine, fine. Private Investigator Price at your service"

"Idiot" Chloe grinned down at her.

"Yeah but you love me anyway"

Rachel felt her heart twist painfully at the way those words slid off Chloe's tongue. She cared for the blue haired punk...just not the way Chloe wanted her to. She wasn't blind to the poor girl's feelings towards her, the flirting was painfully obvious and the blunette was so affectionate after getting high...she just couldn't bring herself to hurt Chloe by dashing her hopes so cruelly.

Chloe Price had been hurt more than enough by those she loved, William's death and Max's departure from Chloe's life, that shit had scarred Chloe deeper than she would ever admit and Rachel...she just couldn't be put on that list. She just couldn't bare the idea.

"I gotta get to class. Why don't you go chill at home for a bit and come get me at 4pm so we can start looking for this mystery girl"

The blonde hated the sliver of dejection that entered Chloe's eyes when she refused to say anything affectionate back.

The punk shrugged her shoulders before offering her a small smile.

"Sure, you go be awesome and I'll just...find something to do I guess"

Rachel nodded her head before turning and walking towards the main campus building. Silently hating herself and wishing she could care about Chloe as much as Chloe cared about her.

It is shorter than the first two chapters I'll admit but do expect a much longer chapter to come next.

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