| The End is Only the Beginning Chapter 12: Fall From Grace No one could knock Kathryn off the high she was experiencing today. The funny thing was it wasn't even drug induced, no it was completely natural. It came from the knowledge that all her enemies were finally going to pay for hurting her. First there had been Chris. The whole of New York was already buzzing with the knowledge of his incarceration. Most people were buying the fact that he was some kind of pervert as her mother called him. There was just too much evidence against him. The school was also a buzz with talk of Chris but not just about his arrest. No everyone was talking about 'the virgin' web site that had debuted over the weekend. Most of Manchester had gotten an anonymous e-mail inviting them to check it out. It already had over three hundred hits in the past day. The site featured a supposed virginal head masters daughter performing some lewd acts with not just one but three different guys. Yes Sebastian was a very talented boy. By lunch time Annette's reputation was already in ruins. Students could download a video of Sebastian and Annette's 'supposed' first time and pictures of her and the married guidance councilor. And of course there was that video of her with the child pornographer himself that had everyone buzzing. Kathryn's only regret was she wasn't there to see the poor dears face when she found out about it. The school day was half over with and Kathryn had yet to bump into Annette. It occurred to her that she had probably just gone home, which was fine as far as she was concerned. Sebastian had called her after her third period class and told her to meet him in the up stairs computer lab. As she opened the door he was sitting in the room by himself staring at a computer monitor. He didn't hear her so she snuck up on him and let her hand slid down his chest. "I said twelve thirty, your late" he told her She brought her head level with his "when have I ever followed directions?" He kissed her hand resting on his chest "true." She laughed and sat down next to him "everyone is talking about this." She looked at the monitor and found him playing with the site. "I have to admit it was quit the stroke of genius on your part." "Thank you. Tell me does it merit some kind of reward?" She threw him a wicked smile then got up and straddled him "possibly. What did you have in mind?" "Would a blow job be out of the question?" "Hmm" her small hands unzipped his pants and she let one hand slid in. He was already hard do she decided to tease him a little before giving in to his request. "Let me think about it." She watched with amusement as his jaw clenched "don't think too long or I'll come before you get a chance." Kathryn giggled and then squeezed him harder making him groan. "I do have a question though. Are you sure all of this can't be traced back to us?" "Positive. The site's registered to Mr. Phillips." "The tech teacher? How did you manage that?" At this point he could barely concentrate on what she was saying "it's complicated. Jesus Kathryn I mean it if you don't do it soon I'm going to-" She gave him a fake smile and pulled her hand out of his pants "well I'll just stop then. That better?" "No!" He roared. "That's not funny." Kathryn smiled "sorry." She leaned in and kissed him softly before slowly getting on her knees in front of him. She took his hard erection out of his pants never breaking eye contact with him. Her tongue lashed out at the tip taking in the pre cum making Sebastian groan. Just when she about to take him into her warm mouth his pants started ringing. She pulled away "I believe that's you." "Ignore it" "I can't answer it" she ordered him. He rolled his eyes "I have more pressing issues at the moment. Your not getting out of this you promised." Kathryn pulled her hand away from his crotch and put it in his pocket searching for his phone. Pulling it out she handed it to him "answer it now, could be important." Sebastian set out a loud groan of frustration "I seriously doubt it." He glared at her smiling face as he opened the phone "what?" "No, I can't now...I'm busy" he petted Kathryn's head as she went back to licking him. "Is it really that important...what she can't...ok...ok...fine...I'll be there." Kathryn pulled away and scowled "there's something more important than me?" "Hardly. That was Alex, that old fart Ms. Bowie is planning on having me suspended if I don't make an apperannce in her class." "Would you like me to talk to her?" He smiled "no I should handle it. This will only take a moment, stay here." Kathryn frowned "I have French." "Well we can do some of that when I get back, just don't leave." "Fine but be back soon or I'm leaving" "Deal" he leaned over and kissed her before exiting the room. Kathryn sat at the computer playing with the web site when a voice called out behind her "I knew you were behind this." "Did you?" Kathryn asked as he swung around in her chair. Annette came in the room and shut the door behind her. "I've known that you were capable of some pretty twisted and fucked up things, but what you did to me and Chris was just sick." Kathryn stood up "you and Chris? What exactly did I do?" "You know damn well what you did. You were the only one who had access to those videos and pictures." "Wrong, try again. I'm not the only one who had access." Annette shook her head "are you blaming Sebastian for this. He would never-" "Oh but he would" she interrupted. "Do you have an idea how much you hurt him by cheating on him with that pervert? Do you even care?" "Of course I care! Unlike you I do care what happens to Sebastian. I'm not just using him to get revenge." "So you were just using him for sex then? The truth of the matter Annette is that Sebastian came up with this idea all on his own. He wanted to see you ruined much more than I did." Annette was quiet for a minute as she took all this information in. Kathryn could tell she was trying to figure out if he was really capable of hurting her like that. She whipped around to face Kathryn suddenly "Chris." "What about him?" She asked in a bored tone. "I know what you did to him. You set him up, he's not guilty on anything." Kathryn snickered "are you high? I had nothing to do with that." "Yes you did." "Why would I want to hurt Chris?" Annette advanced slowly on her "probably the same reason you told Sebastian he attacked you." This statement shocked Kathryn. Sebastian told her? "What?" "That night I caught you two I told Sebastian about how I saw him one night hugging you in your bedroom. He told me he was comforting you after Chris attacked you. What did you do Kathryn, play the victim act? I think we both know Chris would never touch you." "I wouldn't be too sure of that" Kathryn replied softly. "What are you talking about?" Kathryn had the sudden need to get out of that room. She really didn't want to sit there and discuss what Chris did to her with Annette. She started to head out of the room but Annette pulled her back "wait a minute, what did you mean by that?" She pulled out of her grasp "Chris isn't who you think he is. Trust me he's more than capable of hurting someone and if I were you I'd watch my back." Annette shook her head "you're lying. I'm not going to let you hurt him." Kathryn smiled cruelly "too late. Chris is going down and he deserves every minute of it." "You bitch" Annette slapped Kathryn hard across the face. She recovered easily "oh I don't think so. I'm not doing this with you again." Kathryn walked out of the computer lab making Annette's anger grow. Ever since Kathryn returned her life had gone down the tubes and she was sick of it. As she felt her rage start to simmer over Annette charged out of the room after her and knocked her to the hard floor. It was in-between classed so the halls were crowded. Everyone stopped as soon as the two girls fell to the floor. Annette pulled herself up before Kathryn has a chance. Kathryn turned around and glared at her enemy. "Don't you dare" she hissed at her "or-" "Or what?" Annette shouted back. She then hit her again and again across the face not even realizing what she was doing. If she had she might have noticed that Kathryn strangely, wasn't hitting back, she only tried to push her off. But she was so full of rage that she didn't seem to notice. As the two girls fought none of there classmates tried to stop them. Instead they looked on in excitement. A couple minutes after it started both Sebastian and the headmaster were coming from two different direction of the hallway. The both came upon the scene at the same time. The dean was horrified as he pulled his daughter off Kathryn "Annette! Annette, what are you doing? Stop that!" Kathryn watched as the dean pulled his fighting daughter off of her. She struggled in her fathers grasp for a second then relaxed when she noticed the crowed gathering. Kathryn too had noticed it which is why she hadn't hit back. As Annette had started to attack her a plan had started to form in her mind. She would of like to have hit that stupid bitch back but she had to appear as the victim. At the same time the dean came Sebastian was by his step sisters side. He helped her up and glared over at Annette "what the fuck is your problem!" "You know damn well what it is!" She shouted back. "That's enough!" The dean shouted. "I want both of you girls in my office now. The rest of you go back to class, including you Sebastian." Sebastian looked over at Kathryn who just nodded her head and followed the Hardgroves down the hall. * * * * * * Dean Hardgrove had taken the two girl to his office when he got called away for a minute. He left them alone on the promise that they would behave. They had both nodded there heads quietly. After she was sure he was gone Kathryn said in a quiet and menacing voice "if I were you I'd keep quiet." Annette turned to her "excuse me? About what?" "About these little theories of yours that I'm some how responsible for your supreme down fall." "God you never stop do you?" Annette asked as she shook her head in amazement. "What are you threatening with me now Kathryn? I don't think there's anything left for you to do?" She was quiet for a moment before asking "your still planning on going to Harvard right?" "Yes" "Well if you still want to go keep quiet or else I'll make sure you never see your scholarship to that school or any other." "You can't do that" Kathryn turned to her with a smile "of course I can. I'm a Merteuil with more power and influence than you've ever dreamed of. Don't fuck with me." Annette was still staring at her in shook as the dean entered the room. "Well it appears we caught who was responsible for that web site." Annette sat up in surprise and Kathyrn felt her stomach tighten. "Who?" Annette asked. "One of the faculty, Mr. Phillips. It was registered in his name." Kathryn relaxed in her chair but Annette immediately sat up "what? Why would he do that to me?" "Well we've had a variety of complaints from the female student body over the past year relating to is behavior. We should of done something about it earlier, but he's fired now. Hopefully he'll get help, as for the sight its being torn down." Annette shook her head "thanks dad." It was little relief though, everyone had already scene the video's and pictures. Annette was pretty positive that Mr. Phillips had nothing to do with the web site. The guy might be a pervert but he wouldn't have gone that far. Only two other people she knew would have. She was awaken from her thoughts by her fathers voice "Annette why did you attack Kathryn?" She glanced over at Kathryn who was waiting expectantly with the dean "I-I thought she might have had something to do with the site but obviously I was wrong." "Why would Kathryn do something like that?" Kathryn eyed Annette waiting to see if she would lie. "I thought she blamed me for hurting her brother and it was a way to get back at me. I guess I just wanted someone to blame." "Yes well you can't just go around attacking innocent people." Innocent? What a joke, if her father only knew the true Kathryn, "yeah I know dad." "Well I want you to apologize to Kathryn and then I'm sorry but I'm going to have to suspend you. Its school policy." Annette had expected this "ok dad, I understand." She then looked over at Kathryn who was wearing a small innocent smile as she waited. God she really didn't want to apologize to her, but what choice did she have? She knew Kathryn could very well stop her from getting into college in she wanted to. "I'm sorry Kathryn, I never should of hit you I was out of line. I hope you except my apology." "Of course" Kathryn replied as she touched her bruising face. "Oh Kathryn, why don't you go down to the nurse so she can take a look at your face?" "Alright" then got up and left the room. Once she was gone the dean asked "ok now what was that really all about? Why on earth would you think Kathryn had something to do with this?" Annette got up "dad you don't know the real Kathryn she's-" Annette stopped herself remembering Kathryn's earlier threat. "Never mind, I don't know what I was thinking. Its just with everything that's going on with Chris and then this web site I'm just not feeling like myself." "Well if I were you I would start concentrating more on your future. You have Harvard to look forward to in the fall. I know you want to help Chris but you should be worrying about yourself also." "I know dad and I promise no more trouble." * * * * * * After leaving the headmasters office, Kathryn went to the girls bathroom to examine the damage goldilockes did to her face. She stepped into the empty bathroom and went to the mirror. The left side of her face was starting to bruise, it was going to take some serious make up to cover up the damage. "Fuck" Kathryn whispered. "I leave you alone for two minutes and you somehow manage to get yourself in trouble." One of the stall doors behind her swung open and Sebastian walked out calmly smoking a cigarette. She was not at all surprised he was in there "well if someone hadn't been so damn insistent about getting a blow job I wouldn't be in the room in the first place." Sebastian placed his hand on her face and examined her "something tells she would of found you anyways." He put out his cigarette then grabbed an ice pack out of his jacket that was wrapped up. "Here, I thought you might need this" he placed it gently on her face "does that hurt?" "No" she said surprised by his concern. "What are you doing in the girls bathroom?" "I always have my afternoon smoke in here" he told her matter o factly She shook her head and took the ice pack "I don't even want to know." "So are you going to tell me what happened?" Kathryn sighed "well do you want the good news or bad news first?" "Bad I guess" "Well they took down your web site-" "Son of a bitch!" Sebastian said as he hit the wall in frustration. "And they fired Mr. Phillips for it. At least it wasn't traced back to you." "Is that the good news?" "No" Kathryn said with a sly smile "guess who got suspended?" "Well I'm guessing it wasn't you?" Sebastian laughed "he suspended his own daughter?" "School policy" she said simply. Sebastian smiled as a realization his him "which explains why you didn't fight back. Well done, leave it to you to turn a messy situation to your own advantage." "Thank you. It appears our plans have worked, so is this the end of our partnership?" Sebastian leaned down and kissed her softly on the mouth "I certainly hope not." - to be continued The End is Only the Beginning Chapter 13: The More Things Change Two weeks after her suspension Annette returned to school. She was technically only suspended for a week but Spring break followed it. Annette spent most of her time studying for finals and visiting Chris when she had the chance. His lawyer was trying to get him released on bail and his hearing would be in a couple of days. She knew that Chris was innocent of all the charges and vowed to stick by him threw all of it. After the debut of the website, which had since been taken down, Annette's reputation in school was in shambles. Oh she still had a couple of good friends who didn't judge her but the majority of the students were under Kathryn's control. If she told them to do something they usually did it, including freezing out her. Annette had also spent her time away trying to forget about Kathryn and Sebastian. Although she desperately wanted to see them pay for what they did to her she also knew nothing good would come of it. They would just retaliate ten times worse. Still she was curious what the awful twosome had been up to while she was away. She was especially curious if they were still together. When she went to her locker she found her friend Margie waiting for her. She told her about how classes were going and the boy she had a crush on. Annette smiled and nodded and then noticed Sarah Walters, a pretty cheerleader run into the bathroom crying. "What was that about?" Annette asked. Margie rolled her eyes "your ex strikes again. He did it with her behind the stadium in full view of the football team. She's completely humiliated." "Jesus" Annette remarked shaking her head. "That poor girl." "He's such a jerk, you guys break up and already he's back to his old self. It's disgusting and the whole school worships him for it" Margie said in disgust. Margie was one of the few girls who had never been taken in by Sebastian's charms. The truth of the matter was she probably would have had he tried, but he had never bothered with her because she wasn't as pretty as some of the other girls. "I'm trying my best to forget about him." "It's too bad, he seemed to be trying to become a better guy when he was with you. I wonder what changed him?" Oh I know what changed him Annette thought. "Ego is what did it. Speaking of ego what have you heard about Kathryn?" "You haven't heard?" Margie asked and Annette shook her head hoping she would tell her Kathryn had been horribly disfigured or something. "She's going out with Michael Perry." "Are you serious?" Annette asked surprised though she wasn't sure why. She could see why Kathryn would want to go out with him. Michael was handsome, wealthy, smart, from a good family and most surprisingly a nice guy. Annette had worked on a project with him last semester and has been surprised by how kind he was. She couldn't help but feel sorry for him that he was dating Kathryn. It was her guess he has no idea what he was getting into. "How long have they been dating?" "Practically since you left. Apparently they became good friends when they were both doing that student exchange thing in Europe. Lucky girl." So Sebastian was busy screwing cheerleaders and god knows who else, while Kathryn was busy with Michael. Could it be that they were no longer together? This thought was with her for most of the day. So far she had yet to run into either one of them, which she was happy about. However this changed after sixth period. Annette was going to the auditorium to retrieve a script for her drama class. She found it easily and as she was leaving when the sound of three familiar voices floated back stage. She peeked behind the curtain and saw Kathryn and Michael standing arm in arm talking with Sebastian by the orchestra pit. The strange thing is that they were all chatting happily. "Well I hope you can make it Michael, I know Kathryn will want you there" Sebastian said smiling. "Of course I wouldn't miss it for the world. Oh man look at the time I have to get going or I'm going to be late." He leaned down and kissed Kathryn quickly on the mouth "I will see you later tonight." Kathryn smiled sweetly "I'll call you later" "Sebastian it was nice talking with you. Look after my girl will you?" "Sure thing" Sebastian said as he waved goodbye. As soon as Chris was gone the smile on Sebastian's face dropped and he said in a mocking voice "look after my girl. Christ what is this the fifties?" Kathryn laughed "jealous much?" "Of boy scout Mike? Not a chance" She stepped closer to him until they were only centimeters away "liar. Michael is everything your not and it drives you nuts." He scowled at her "everything I'm not? Well he must be bad in bed." "He gets the job done in fact- Sebastian cut her off when he quickly pulled her into a kiss. Kathryn kissed him back wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him closer. Annette's stomach churned at the sight of them. She really couldn't believe those two. Kathryn was with this wonderful guy who seemed to adore her and yet she still cheated on him with Sebastian. When they pulled away Kathryn smirked up at him "I didn't say he was better. He barely compares." Sebastian smiled at this and pulled her back to him. As they started to kiss again Annette decided to make her presence known. "The more things change the more they stay the same" she said as she walked out on the stage. The couple slowly pulled apart and glared at her. "Annette your suspension over with so soon?" Sebastian asked. "Yes sorry to disappoint you. I see nothing has changed with you two. Still using others to get what you want." Kathryn pretended to look hurt by this "still blaming us for all your problems? How's Chris by the way, has he made any friends around the cell block?" She glared at her as she walked up to them "like you care." "Aren't we bitter. Has he replaced you already?" Annette shook her head "maybe I should go warn Michael what he's getting himself into. Tell him about the more incestuous aspects of your guys relationship." "Try it Barbie and see what I do to you. Besides do you really think he'll believe the ramblings of some bitter ex girlfriend?" "Probably not, it looks like you have him pretty much wrapped around your finger. Almost as much as Sebastian" He touched his chest in shock "was that a dig at me? Ouch" "Well as much as I'd love to stand here and chat with you all day I have class." Kathryn turned around and licked Sebastian's bottom lip "I'll see you at home." Sebastian watched her leave and then turned around to find Annette giving him a strange look "what?" "You two are unbelievable." "Yes, yes I know were such horrible people were going to burn in hell yada, yada, yada" he said with a dismissive wave of his hand. "Its' like you have no regard for anyone else but each other. I guess you really were made for each other. Too bad she'll probably end up marrying Michael and you'll end up still fucking cheerleaders." Sebastian laughed, "get real were in high school. Kathryn's not marrying anyone." Annette nodded "yet. If it isn't Michael it will be another guy just like him. Doesn't it bother you that your spending all this time with some girl who you could never fully have?" He smirked "I have had her, in fact I believe you walked in on us." "That's not what I mean and you know it. She'll fuck your brains out but she'll never be with you, not in public. You're her stepbrother and even if you weren't your reputation would only taint her and she knows it. Face it Sebastian your just her little fuck toy, she'll never love you." For a minute she thought she might have hurt him. A flicker of pain crossed his handsome face but it quickly turned to stone. "Who the fuck said anything about love? In case you haven't noticed I haven't been exactly mooning over her. She has her little distractions and I have mine. If she wants to go off and marry captain America I won't stand in her way." As he said it she knew he was lying. In that instant she knew Sebastian was in love with Kathryn weather he knew it or not. "Well for you sake I hope so. See you around Sebastian." * * * * * * Later that night Sebastian still couldn't get what Annette said to him out of his head. He knew she was just trying to mess with his him but he couldn't help but wonder if there was some truth in what she said. Was he just Kathryn's personnel fuck toy? He prided himself on his reputation but the idea that she was using him hurt more than he liked. In truth he never really thought about what would happen if Kathryn ever settled down. He wondered if he could deal with it if she did. He decided to go talk with her about it. He walked in her room with out knocking and found her in her underwear putting on her make up. He came up behind her and kissed her neck "you look nice." She smiled at him "thanks, but I'm late. Michael is going to be here any minute." Sebastian groaned and sat down on her bed "your going out with him again?" "Yes were going to the theater." "How fun" he said sarcastically. She gave him a devilish smile "I certainly hope so. I might be back late." This comment made his blood boil. Kathryn had started dating Michael weeks ago after they met up at a party. Since Sebastian had already started to gain back his horrible reputation she decided to go out with Michael. At first he was sure she was doing it just to make him jealous, but now he was worried she might actually like him. "Are you going to fuck him?" he asked bluntly. She glanced over at him and rolled her eyes "possibly. It wouldn't be the first time." Sebastian had heard all about the first time. Apparently while she was away Kathryn and Michael had slept together so she had reasoned that it was no big deal that she did it again. Sebastian had been out that night and when he returned home he could hear them going at it. He had been tempted to barge in and pull him off of her but he had resisted. They had both agreed that it was all right if they slept with other people, it wasn't like there were real feelings involved. Now he was starting to wonder if there might be. "Do you actually like this guy?" Kathryn smiled slightly "yeah, he's alright." "Do you love him?" Kathryn looked at him startled then smiled "oh yes desperately." He knew she was being sarcastic but it still stung. "What's with all the questions?" "I'm just wondering why you're wasting all this time with him. Time you could spend doing better things." She got up "like what fucking you?" She crawled on his lap and straddled him "poor Sebastian, are you feeling neglected?" He glared at her "stay home tonight." She rolled her eyes "I can't we made plans. If your board why don't you call Sarah up" she said with a laugh. "Not funny, I'm starting to think Annette was right." Kathryn pulled away "about what?" "She said your using me" "Christ why are you listening to her?" She got up and began to dress and Sebastian stood up as well. "Are you using me?" "For what?" "A fuck" She put on her shoes "I don't know are you using me? You haven't been exactly celibate lately." "Of course not" "Jesus Sebastian your unbelievable. You expect me to be at your beck and call. Mean while do I bitch and complain when you fuck the whole female student body?" "That's different I don't care about any of them. I care about you." Kathryn stopped what she was doing and stared at him surprised by this little revelation. They both stared at each other for a moment. The silence was finally broken by the sound of shattered glass followed by Tiffani yelling "god damn son of a bitch!" "That can't be good" Sebastian muttered. Kathryn sighed, "Lets go see what your father did this time." The two exited her room and found Tiffani in the living room poring herself a drink. "Mother, something wrong?" She glared at the two of them "you could say that. I just found your father fucking his secretary." "Christ" Sebastian whispered. "I have had it with him. I called the lawyer, were getting a divorce." - to be continued |