Epilogue Julian
Epilogue
Julian
They had humiliated me.
They had treated me like an animal.
I seethed as I looked at the images that had been plastered all over social media. I raged as I saw my naked body being joked about, turned into memes, cut and pasted into degrading scenarios. And I made a list of each and every person who had liked, commented on, or shared it.
This wasn’t the end.
I felt the adrenaline coursing through my veins, giving me strength.
I sat at my computer and opened my special folder. The one with the videos, the emails, the photos, the text messages. I had something on everyone. I knew their secrets, and I was going to use them.
But that wasn’t enough. That wouldn’t placate my rage. There was only one person who could’ve made me feel better.
I’d sent her a message asking for forgiveness, but I hadn’t gotten a response.
I kept checking my phone over and over, and finally it came through. My heart was pounding, and I felt dizzy as I saw her name on the screen.
You’re the most despicable person I’ve ever met. Don’t speak to me ever again. Don’t even look at me. I hate you, Julian. You deserve all of it and more.
My heart rate steadied, and I forced myself to remain calm.
Kam wouldn’t turn her back on me.
Kam was mine.
Everything I’d done was to make her mine, to help her understand she deserved better than all those morons we went to school with. She was a queen. She was gorgeous. She was elegant. She was the most beautiful girl I’d ever met.
I clenched my fists as I heard a knock at my door. I stood and opened it. There she was, my little lapdog. “Come on in, Kate,” I said, standing aside. My sister walked in, staring at the floor, the way I’d taught her.
“What are you going to do, Jules?” she asked, paralyzed with fear.
I closed the door and sat down on my futon.
“What am I going to do about what?”
“People know it was you. Are you going to transfer to another school again?” She was so stupid; she thought I wouldn’t be able to detect the hopeful tone in her voice.
“You honestly think I’m going to up and leave after what they’ve done to me? After how they’ve treated me?” I screamed.
Kate flinched and stepped back.
“I…I can’t do it anymore.”
“You can’t do what anymore?” I stood and stepped toward her. “You’ll do exactly what I tell you to do. You’ll keep behaving exactly as you have up to now, understand me?”
Kate pursed her lips.
“Or did you forget what could happen if the videos of us came out? You do remember what you and I did together, don’t you? And how much you liked it? How you kept begging me for more?” I said, knowing I had her under my thumb for life.
Kate started crying, and I made a sad face, mocking her.
Girls are all so predictable…
“Now get out of here. I’m not in the mood to deal with you today.”
Kate walked out, and I climbed the ladder to my loft, where I had a bed and a small TV.
Kate’s mom and my dad never went up there, and that was where I could enjoy my little collection.
All over the walls were photos I’d taken of Kam.
Kam sleeping, Kam naked, Kam laughing, Kam with Thiago, Kam with Taylor, Kam with her brother, Kam with her father, Kam’s eyes, Kam’s shiny hair, Kam’s legs, Kam’s chest, Kam cheerleading, Kam buying groceries…
How it turned me on, following her everywhere and capturing her with my camera lens.
She was so beautiful…she was perfect.
Kam had to be mine. She had to give up everyone else and stay by my side. I’d make her a better person. All those jerkoffs at school were ruining her. She was too good for them. After all, look how easily they’d shut her out, with hardly any effort on my part.
They all had their dirty secrets, it had been easy enough to find them out. And when @omv_ovamat started threatening them, they’d all caved.
The only one who had put up any resistance at all was Ellie. But who touches themselves in front of their laptop with the camera uncovered? I got what I needed on her. In the end, she’d done what I’d said.
Getting her to hook up with Danny had been the final piece in the puzzle to make sure Kam felt even more lost, even more alone, even closer to me…
Everything had been going so well…
So how had I been discovered?
It had to be the Di Bianco brothers.
They were the ones who had fucked everything up.
I hated it when Taylor touched her, when Thiago looked at her… She was mine!
But it was no big deal. Soon enough, it would all be over.
At first, I’d thought this time might be different. I’d never gone to a school where everyone hadn’t rejected me and called me a weirdo…But after what had happened that morning…
I opened the trunk at the foot of my bed. With what I had in there, I could finish off every one of them. And I’d still have plenty left over.
They had lit the wick.
And now, the dynamite was about to explode.