"Go to hell. Benjamin" Luan took out of her pocket the pictures she and Benny had taken with their dolls and cut them into pieces in front of him. "I can't believe I spent so much time and words on you."
"I'm sorry, Ruby. I hope we can still be friends." Immediately, Luan says goodbye to Vera and Martin and then leaves the room.
Ruby walks to the bathroom covered with a blanket and her clothes in her hand. After a few minutes, she came out already dressed. "Well, I'll go too. But before that," Ruby walks over to Benny, who covers his face to protect his cheeks but leaves Ruby's true purpose vulnerable.
The girl kicked hard, lifting Benny an inch off the ground. The blow left him breathless, and the boy's face changed from red to purple, turning blue, and his eyes seemed to bulge, wanting to snap out of his head. Benny kneeled on the ground, holding his damaged parts. The pain was so severe that he vomited.
"Fuck you, Benny" Ruby spits at him in the eye and leaves the room.
"Ouch... you... oh... please... a... u... Give..."
Martin grabs Benny's hair and lifts him up. "You... you're a disgrace to the family! For the devil's sake, put on pants! Let's go!" Martin hits Benny in the butt with his cane, leaving a mark.
"Ouch. Uncle Martin, please. Aunt Vera, say something."
The old lady was standing there, wiping her tears with a handkerchief. "Benjamin… How could you do this to that poor, beautiful girl?"
"No... Aunt Vera, you don't understand."
Again, he received a blow from Martin's cane in the buttocks. "Shut up. Let's go. Walk to the car, and then you'll explain this to your parents when I call them"
Benny finished getting dressed and walked desperately to the car. At the door, standing outside the room, he could see Luan. There, the girl said some unusual words to him, but in this case, with all the rights in the world, she could say them.
"You know what, Benny? If you really loved us and didn't really want to hurt us... you should have been honest. And if sex was what you wanted from our relationship, you should have asked me to break up instead of causing all this shit."
That was the last time they saw each other or spoke, because she turned and walked to Martin's car, took her bag from it, and then ordered an Uber to take her to the bus station.
On the bus back to Royal Woods, one by one, Luann deleted all the photos and videos she had with Benny from their first date. Although she can select and delete everything at once, she prefers to prolong it as much as possible. Maybe because of the subconscious desire to see all the good memories that happened with her boyfriend for the last time. Even if seeing it hurts her.
-End flashback-
The loud family were speechless. The girls felt a real desire to go where Benny was and give him a good beating, and they weren't the only ones. Her mother was equally angry, not to mention her father. Mr. Loud got up from the chair, took the keys to the truck, and went to the door.
"Baby. Where are you going?" Rita asked.
"I'm going to go find this idiot. No one would do this to my girl."
"I support you, Dad." Lynn Jr. had a metal bat in her hands.
"Us too." Lori, Leni, and Luna were walking towards the door when their mother stopped them.
"No one's going anywhere. Can't you see that Luan needs you here? First, you have to take care of Luan until she feels better. Then we'll look for that filth."
"We will go?" Luna asked.
"That's how it is. No one does this to my kids."
Luan wiped the last tears from her face. Her family really cared about her a lot. In her own strange and noisy way.
Once she finished drinking her hot chocolate, Luan went upstairs to lock herself in her new room. The girl liked the circus style mixed with the theme of the comedy show. With an unpainted background wall tiled, neon lights forming the face of the comedy, and a closet full of costumes. This led her to question her way of life all this time. Since her brother left, her comedic level has dropped a bit. She only remembered being momentarily transported back to her fourteen-year-old self when she learned that Lincoln would return. She missed those days when she was "funny" at home. Jokes from quotes. Well, after she grew up a little, she realized how bad her jokes were, but now her whole life was occupied by the university and Benny. Even her comedy act at the campus café took a hit. He leaned more toward complex, politically charged topics than the sarcastic, abstract humor that once characterized her. She still remembers this act she did with her friend that made her laugh at that party. She hadn't felt so alive and free in a long time. Unfortunately, she was devastated by this arrogant, shallow boy who abused them for not being "pretty enough," even wishing them dead. But her brother put him in his place.
And once again, those feelings overwhelmed her as she remembered Lincoln dressed as a knight and the way he had defended her and her friend, the physical strength he had gained in these three years, how he had insulted that boy, and the beautiful words he had addressed to her while laughing. There was no doubt about his maturity. She shook her head quickly. She had had enough of the situation with Benny, and the last thing she wanted was for those thoughts about her brother to continue to drive her crazy.
Luan closed her eyes so she could rest. That day, she had cried so much that she fell asleep.