Chapter 14
It was so torturous for Chloe to get out of bed and head to school where she had to face the wrath of her peers. She had just finished getting out of a long and thoughtful shower, half of it being spent standing under the water, and the other half sobbing uncontrollably. She couldn't stand what the kids at school were saying about her, it was all too much and she was getting to the point where she wished she could finish the rest of the remaining months at home instead of in a class with people who loathed and made fun of her.
She stood beside her bed, combing through her hair as she sniffled, tears falling from her Bambi eyes. She looked in the mirror, looking at her bruised face, the bruises that Stacy had left were almost diminishing just like what was left of her dignity. Abbie stood leaning against the door frame, Watching Chloe sniffle quietly as tears fell from her eyes. She could only wonder what was bothering Chloe so much, Chloe wouldn't spill a thing to her so the only thing Abbie could do was call Laura and tell her about how emotional Chloe has been for the past week. And from what she heard of Chloe, Laura began to worry for her being and took it upon herself to call Robert and ask if he could go with her to Chloe's house to check up on her. Robert couldn't deny her request, knowing fully well it would cause suspicion, so he agreed to meet with her so that they could travel to Chloe's house together. Robert and Laura stood at the front of Chloe's house, Laura's fist knocking against the mahogany door as they waited for Abbie to allow them to come inside. Once Abbie was inviting them in, Robert and Laura followed Abbie up the stairs and into Chloe's room where they saw her weeping in sorrow on her bed, her wet hair causing the sheet to dampen in one spot. "Chloe, are you alright?" Laura quietly asked, not wanting to upset her further as she neared the foot of the bed where Chloe had been laying on her side, her knees curled up to stomach. Chloe looked up, seeing Laura, Robert, and Abbie in her room, each of them with a look of confusion and worry sketched onto their faces. "No." She answered quietly, bringing her hand up to face as she wiped at the nip of her nose.
"Could you tell us what’s going on? We're very worried for your being." Laura spoke, sitting next to Chloe on the bed. Chloe contemplated on whether or not she should even tell them what’s going on. She couldn't possibly say that it was about her, Robert, and their principal being in a sex tape, she couldn't get Robert in trouble like that.
Even if she was angry at him for what he did, a small ounce in her body said that he didn't mean it all and that he still loved her like he said did. She was in denial, being delusional over the fact that she thought that Robert could actually love her like He loved his wife. She would have recognized that Robert was fooling her if she only knew what love felt like, and she didn't. She was so naive to the word love that she would believe anything Robert said to her, just because he supposedly loved her. "Kids at school are being terrible to me, Laura, they won’t leave me alone and I hate it." Chloe cried as she leaned on Laura for comfort. Robert stared at Chloe with furrowed brows as he watched her breakdown with every word she said. She was being bullied? For What? "Why?" He asked and Chloe looked at him straight in the eyes as she said that a video of her went out to the whole school. And just like that, the color from his face drained, making him look pale as he stiffened under her look. "What was the video about?"
Robert dreaded the answer, knowing fully well that it was the video he shot of Liam and Chloe. He could only cross his fingers and hope Chloe wouldn't say anything about the video involving him. Chloe saw how he reacted, how he was as white as a wonderland Rose, and thought about it already destroyed Mr. Payne's life, she wasn't going to destroy Robert's too. "Please don't get mad at me, but it was of me and- and this guy having sex," Chloe quietly mumbled and Abbie gasped, ready to yell at Chloe for even recording such provocative acts on camera, but Laura stopped her, saying that she would handle it. "Wh..why did you let him record you?" Laura asked, trying to hold back her anger as she just wanted rosemary to stop crying and calm down.
"I don't know, okay? H-he wanted to and I let him. I don't even know how it got out, but now that it has, no one will leave me alone." Chloe mumbled through her tears. She felt like her world was over, like she was nothing but a floating ash in the wind. "Could I talk to Chloe alone for a second?" Robert finally spoke up, grasping onto his sanity as he finally got ahold of the situation. Laura looked at him questioningly but didn't say anything further as she left the room with Abbie, closing the door behind her. Robert opened his arms, and without any words said between them , Chloe ran into his arms, holding onto him tightly as she buried her face into the side of his neck. as heartless as it was, He needed to get her to like him again in hopes of her listening to him and promising not to let Laura or Abbie see the video. "I'm so sorry, baby, I don't know how the video couldn't gotten out, I sent it to Liam and I know
