Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

-Rob Siltanen

XXVIII | TOBY

Brooke smirked evilly at me, she was truly Satan's daughter. I knew Brooke was a secret witch, so she can pull anything on me right now. "Truth or dare Valerie," she asked and I frowned.

It would be nice if she would stop pretending that she didn't know my name at least once. "Dare," I replied, without thinking about it. Her smirk grew even more. I mentally gave myself a hardcore slap on my face.

"Hmm," she said, resting her finger on her chin and looking around the circle. Her eyes lit up in satisfaction. "I dare you to kiss Jake," she chuckled.

"What?" Jake, Ronnie and Reece said at the same time.

Everyone turned to Reece with confusion, he cleared his throat, "What, I'm just surprised that's all," he said raising his hands in defense before resting it back of Brooke's shoulder.

"You crazy bitch, you're asking for a death wish," Ronnie sneered, she was about to stand up and attack Brooke but Jake held her in place.

All Brooke did was smirk. "I won't repeat myself, do it now," she said, glaring at me with her icy blue eyes. Yup, still believe she's Satan daughter.

"Isn't there anything else she can do,or someone else she can kiss?" Zoey asked.

"No," Brooke replied.

"Brooke just give her another dare," Reece grumbled and Brooke glared at him.

"And why would I do that?" she asked before Reece could respond I interrupted him.

"Plus, I'm kind of seeing someone," I shrugged. I mean Brandon was someone to me.

Brooke snorted. "Okay, I'll make you a deal, it's either you kiss Jake or you kiss Toby," she said pointing to Toby.

I almost gagged, Toby was a total player in our school, he had sex with about twenty girls per week, and no I wasn't lying. "Ewww, gross," Ocean said, eyeing Toby up and down in disgust, all he did was a wink at her.

I breathed in and out, it's either Toby or my best friends-almost boyfriend or, already boyfriend, I don't know what they are now.

I sighed. "Fine, I'll kiss Toby," I groaned about to walk over to him, but Brooke interrupted me.

"Ah ah ah, I mean, like in a bedroom, come on, this isn't elementary school any more people," Brooke smirked.

"You are a demon, I swear," Ronnie said, Brooke's smirk grew.

She flipped her raven Black long hair. "I've heard worse," she said, nuzzling her head in Reece's neck.

Reece was glaring at Toby who was eyeing me up and down like I was eye candy. I sighed, standing up, making sure I pulled my dress down before any of these perverts see something they shouldn't be seeing.

"You don't have to do this," Zoey said.

For all I know Brooke would tell me to run naked around the whole house instead, this was better than what she could possibly suggest instead. "Don't worry guys," I reassured my friends. Toby stood up as well, walking towards me and winking at me. I wanted to slap his face so much and remove that smirk, but I refrained myself from doing so - yup, another guy added to the list for Coco to eat his balls, he is of course, after Xavier on the waiting line.

He took my hand. "Let's go, babe," he whispered in my ear. I coughed, the alcohol was clearly heavyset with the smell of his breath.

"Call me that again and I will cut your dick off and put it inside those shredders they use in offices," I said with a frown, all he did was laugh.

It was like he was mocking me with a 'is that all you got?' type of face.

We climbed towards the stairs, the music was still loud and people were still dancing, but most people were just chilling and sitting down, either drinking, smoking, or talking to some friends.

I gulped in fear as he brought me towards the stairs.

"Can't we just pretend that we kissed or something, we don't have to necessarily go upstairs right?" I giggled nervously.

He looked at me and smirked. "Nah you can't back out from this now," he said, his grip on my hand became harder, almost painful as he dragged me up the stairs. We entered a room and he locked it.

"Why did you lock the door?" I asked nervously.

Oh no, was he going to kill me? At least let me call my grandmother a useless witch before I die and tell her how much I hate her.

His smirk grew and he came towards me. I wish I brought my bag with me upstairs, it had pepper spray in it, yes, I know how these parties are.

"Toby, just wait, we don't have to do this okay, like I said, all we have to do is just tell them we kissed," I said, basically begging him. His eyes grew dark with anger.

He pushed me towards the bed hard and climbed on top of me. "Shut up," he demanded, grabbing both of my hands and planting them on above my head.

"I've wanted you so badly, ever since I found out you were with Reece, and now that you and he are over, it's my turn to have fun with you now," before I could say anything, he crashed his lip onto mine. I wiggled to break free, but he just kissed me only harder.

I felt tears already starting to roll down my eyes.

So this is how I was going to lose my virginity? Getting raped by the biggest playboy in school.

I cried more as he kissed me. "Stop fucking crying," he said and bit my neck.

"Owww," I screamed in pain.

He sucked and licked on the spot he bit, removing himself from my neck and stared at me with lust in his eyes.

I gasped, there was a little blood on his teeth, I couldn't touch my neck because his left hand held both of my hands above my head.

I began to wiggle again, trying to break free and I began to cry harder. I even kicked him in his private area, he groaned at first but quickly recovered.

"You think that's going to stop be Violetta, I won't stop until I'm pounding into you so hard you won't be able to walk the next morning," he hissed in my ear and nibbled it.

Before I could reply, he tore my dress allowing the fabric to split into two.

I cried harder, "please don't do this, please!" I begged him. He only smirked as one of his hands cupped my one of my breasts, thankfully, I was still wearing a bra but it still didn't help the situation.

I cried even harder due to his action. "I'm going to make you feel so good, beyond your imagination Violetta," he whispered as his finger trailed to my underwear. Before he could remove the material, the door flew open, or rather it fell, I watched as the door landed on the floor with a loud bang.

Reece stood there, his face red like a tomato and he was panting vividly. He looked at both of us, his eyes soften looking at me before turning to Toby, his eyes immediately changed, forming a darker shade of blue.

Damn, that's hot. Really Violetta? You were about to get raped and all you could think about is how hot Reece is?

I mentally faced palmed, before Toby could say anything he was roughly removed from me. I watched in horror as Reece started to beat the living daylight out of Toby. Blood already started to form on Toby's face.

"Reece, stop!" I shouted, even though Toby was about to rape me, I couldn't stand the way Reece was hurting him. "I said stop!" I cried louder, coming towards him, I made sure I wrapped the cover around me first.

I tried to pull Reece off of Toby, but he used his left hand to push me, I stumbled on the ground as Reece continued to throw punches at Toby's face. The person in front of me wasn't Reece, I watched as his eyes grew even darker.

Miles, Jake and Landon suddenly came, their eyes bulged at the scene.

Me on the floor crying, wrapped in a bedspread and Reece basically killing Toby. Jake and Landon went over to Reece while Miles came to me.

"You alright?" Miles asked and I nodded, I didn't have the energy to speak. Jake and Landon after a few tries, removed Reece from Toby.

"Fuck off, I'm not done with him!" Reece screamed in anger, his face was redder than it was before.

"Bro, chill okay, he's already knocked out cold," Jake reassured as Reece's chest was rising up and down in anger, Jake and Landon still held him in place.

My breathing hitched as I stared at Toby's face, it was covered in blood and I was sure a black eye, a busted nose and a bruised cheek would form in no time.

I wasn't even aware that Reece had bridal style carried me out of the room next, he hurriedly walked down the stairs as Ocean, Zoey, and Ronnie came into view.

"Jesus, what happened Violetta?" Ocean questioned in horror as she stared at Reece's bloody hands that were holding me. Before I could answer her, Reece quickly carried me out of the house, we reached outside and he quickly walked me, to I assume, his car.

I didn't say a word, I didn't know what to say in fact, I was too afraid to speak. I mean I had an accusation that Reece fights, like the day he came to me with a black eye and busted lip, but I was hoping it wasn't true.

Reece struggled at first but quickly opened the car door and sat me down in the passenger's seat and put my seatbelt on for me. He quickly got into the driver seats and immediately started the car, driving off.

I rested my head on the window, the images of what had happened flashing in my mind.

What if Reece didn't come sooner? I felt a single tear roll down my eyes, I quickly wiped it away.

From the corner of my eyes, I saw Reece glance at me. "Everythin' is goin' to be okay," he reassured and I nodded and closed my eyes. I was too exhausted to stay awake. I felt myself drift off to sleep.

I opened my eyes. I shifted a little and realized I wasn't in the car seat anymore. My eyes adjusted to the sudden light. My eyes went wide and I immediately sat up on a soft surface, I looked around the huge bedroom. Black and white themed furniture decorated the room, it was very neat and styled expensively, it was very obvious whoever the owner of this room was, was extremely wealthy.

Where am I? I groaned as I felt a headache form in my head.

"Good, you're awake," I looked up to see Reece on a couch at the other side of the room, he had a book in his hand and was wearing glasses.

Wait, Reece wears glasses? "Yeah I do," he chuckled.

I mentally faced palmed when I realized I said that out loud.

"I didn't know you did," I said, he chuckled again as he rested the book on the coffee table near him and came close to me, sitting down on the edge of the bed.

He obviously had taken a shower, since he was wearing basketball shorts and a white top now, because I knew that wasn't what he wore to the party and his hair was slightly damp.

"It's just for readin' , I have dyslexia, so it helps when I read," he said shrugging. I stared at him in shock.

Reece has dyslexia, that's new.

"Sorry, I didn't know you have that," I replied and he smiled.

"It's okay, most people don't know anyway." He shrugged.

"Wait, I've never seen you wear it in class, I'm sure you read in class," I said and he shrugged.

"I don't really read in school or take notes. I prefer readin' at home and I do listen durin' class, if I do miss a topic, I just ask someone what we have learned that day," he answered and I nodded in understanding.

I looked down and noticed I was wearing pink nightwear, I looked up at him, his eyes looked at me then at what I was wearing, he smirked.

"Don't worry, I didn't change you, one of the maids helped you," he said and I sighed in relief, that would have been awkward...for me at least.

"Who's are these anyway?" I asked, his lips formed into a straight line.

"My sisters," he replied. My eyes opened.

"Oh, I didn't know you have a sister, is she around? I would love to meet her." I smiled.

He gave me a small smile. "Another time," he said and I nodded.

"What time is it?" I asked.

He looked at his watch. "Midnight," he replied and got up.

"Where are you going?" I asked. He turned to look at me.

"I'm sleepin' in one of the guest rooms, I was just makin' sure you slept well before I left," he said and I nodded, then flashes of what happened at the party came to view in my mind.

I bit my lip."Reece," I said, he turned to me since he was about to leave his room and turn off the lights while doing so.

"Yeah?" he asked.

I gulped, "I-I don't want to be alone tonight, I'm scared...um, do you mind staying with me...if y-you doesn't i-it's okay," I stuttered. He smiled, before turning off the lights and walking towards me, the room grew pitch black.

"Sure, just hand me a pillow and I'll take the couch," he answered. I couldn't see his face because it was dark, I frowned.

"Um, I meant sleep with me," I gulped. God that sounded so wrong. His breath hitched. "I-I mean if that's o-okay with you," I stuttered.

He ignored me and climbed onto the bed. Reece gently wrapped his arms around my waist and rested his head in the crook of my neck. I felt his breathing and it sent shivers down my spine, but I didn't mind. Because I knew I was safe. I knew I was safe with Reece.

I closed my eyes and slept off.