Why us? - Montgomery De La Cruz

Burn Book

"seriously who says maybe to a free vacation?" Montgomery says in confusion with his mouth full of the bacon, lettuce and egg sandwich that he had just taken a large bite out of after he and Scott had sat down with Bryce and Chloe to try and sort out what was happening with Bryce, however, all of them noticed how different Chloe was acting and how she walked away after saying maybe to going to Italy. None of them had seen Ella the whole day and it was already lunch

Scott and Montgomery had been worried about her for the whole day, they had even skipped second period to go around the school grounds looking for her but no matter what they didn't find her. They had gone around talking to the teachers asking if they knew anything about her absence and while they would usually say that they couldn't say, they knew better than to say that to Montgomery De La Cruz, especially when it came to his girl, Ella Emblen. Ever since the first bell had rung they had been continuously blowing her phone up but they hadn't gotten a single reply or call back from her and it was only making them even more worried, which they didn't think was possible. They had talked to their friends and all of them had said that they hadn't seen her since she left the ceremony after school yesterday.

"jesus, chew your fucking food" Bryce says with a smirk and a laugh and then he pats Montgomery on the shoulder and goes to open his lunch, he goes to start a conversation with Scott to tell him about what his dad had said but but his smirk disappears when his blue eyes landed on someone entering the schoolyard with a hoodie over their head, their blue eyes were faced towards the ground and their pale skin was glowing in the sunlight though that wasn't the first thing that he had noticed about her, bryce instantly recognized the crimson blood staining her dirty clothes that she had been wearing yesterday as well as all the cuts and bruises coving her usually smiling face which today was bare from her usual natural makeup and it wasn't hard for anyone to realise that it would have hurt to much to put makeup over the cuts that had litered her face.

 Her face was looking down at the ground and her legs we also covered in multiple different sized bruises and cuts that looked like they hadn't been cleaned properly and he was sure that she was the one who had tried stitching the wounds, which she had done a crappy job of and was probably going to allow it to get infected.

Bryce was confused because he knew that she knew how to stitch wounds properly because she had stiched him up as well as Montgomery, Zach, Justin and heaps of the other guys from their friendship ground. As he looked at her blood-soaked hoodie he was sure that the skin that was hidden from the hoodie was much worse than the skin that was showing "holy shit" he finally mutters out and his jaw had dropped and his eyes held a look of fear and concern, he knew the girl hated him, she didn't do a good thing of showing it but they did used to be best friends a few years ago, though she was always closer with Justin.

It were as if everyone had heard Bryce and all laughter and talking in the courtyard had stopped as they all looked at the girl in shock, concern, worry and disbelief. They had seen her come to school like this before but it had been a while and it definitely had never been this bad and after hearing the tapes, a lot of their assumptions had been that it was definitely Montgomery

"what is i-" Montgomery asks in confusion and turns around and notices Ella walking towards the cafeteria "what the fuck" the boy had said and Scott and Bryce heard the raw emotion in his voice, he didn't even waste a second before he quickly chucked his sandwich on the table and quickly got on his feet and ran over to her and the other two quickly ran after him "Ellie" he called out a few times, trying to get her to stop walking but he quickly stopped when he noticed the girl flinching and he finally made it to her small, broken body and stood in front of her "ella baby what the hell happened" he says softly and a small gasp escapes his lips as she looks up at him to meet his eyes and he had never seen it this bad "I'm going to fucking kill him"