Chapter 4

Dream:

"Father… Father…! Are you here? Where are you? Please answer me!" I yelled into the air as I fall to my knees. I slammed my fists into the damp, cold, muddy ground as tears threatened to spill forth. I felt light hit my eyes and looked up to see someone walking towards me, with a white, flowing gown.

"Why'd you have to leave me with mother? Why…father… why...?" I yelled out again to the figure while pounding my fists into the ground.

The figure just kept walking and ignored my question. I tried to stand up, only to fall back down to my knees. I grunted as my back made contact with the ground. It was then that I had felt a hand brush against my shoulder.

When I got up and looked around, I didn't see anything close to me that could've brushed up against me. I then felt my eyes grow heavy and start to blur, like I was just waking up or something. I tried to blink, but my eyes just kept on closing on me. Then I heard something or someone calling my name. My eyes just dropped close and I listened to the voice that was calling to me.

With Chris:

I couldn't believe it. I just couldn't… I stood there with this punk called Lucas twisted my right arm behind my back while his other hand was clamped onto my shoulder, and telling me that if I move even an inch, that Stacy was going to throw Danny around until she looked like a mess and knock her out cold.

'NO!! Leave her alone you bitch! She didn't do anything to you other then defend herself…' I wanted to shout out as I watched this bitch punch and slap Danny like there is no tomorrow. But didn't…

Then I saw Danny stand up, causing Stacy to stumble backward. Danny straightened and towered over Stacy, sighing before saying;

"Stacy… how do start telling you this… well, how about this! You don't know who I am, or even what my life is like bitch!! You know nothing of me and don't even think about pulling that 'we were friends, we told each other out deepest secrets' shit, we may have been best friends back then, but we aren't now and I'm really happy about that. Then you wouldn't have to see what I go through every day…! And you may be rich, but you can't buy friends or even potential boys to be your boyfriends, and you know this…

Remember when I told you that I couldn't be friends with you, that school was getting in the way… well I just didn't want to lose another person close to me…" I saw that Stacy's eyes widened as Danny just continued after looking at Stacy.

"And by the way, you can do anything you want, punch, kick, slap, etc to me. But like I said, I've been through WAY worse than all that in my life. And lastly, get lost you bitch-Skank before I beat the shit out of you!!" I saw Danny glare daggers at her.

I turned my head around when I heard the clapping and hooting start up. I smirk as I saw Lucas and Joe go wide eyed at Danny's ranting. I saw Danny walking towards the crowd and I when I saw Stacy out of the corner of my eye straighten up and grab Danny's collar and throw her to the ground like rotten hot dog, I about lost it. I wanted to run up to Stacy and tell her to leave Danny the fuck alone. But I just stood there and watched Stacy beat the shit out of Danny.

"This should teach you, you little Emo Bitch!" I saw Stacy grab her again and slam her into a locker. Her shirt had ridden up a little and it looked like Stacy thought it would be funny to lift it up.

I heard Stacy gasp once she had the shirt up.

"What the hell are you doing to yourself? I think that you need to see a psychologist or something, but for now, I think that I'll keep getting you back!" she laughed evilly as she threw her hand back and slapped Danny with all she got.

I looked around when I saw that no one was going to stop Stacy and saw that there were only us with 3 other people that must have been Stacy's little fan group.

Stacy just went at it when I heard Danny yell out over the cheering of the little group;

"URGH…! God damn… stop… please!! God damn you bitch! GET THE HELL OFF!!!" Danny grabbed Stacy's wrist that was holding her shirt over her head and dug her nails in it.

Stacy yelled out in pain and that's when Lucas and Joe let go of me so that they could get to their 'damsel in distress' and help her with anything. It was then that I saw Joe punch her in the head. I saw he check her mouth and cheek. I saw blood trickling down her chin. She started walking/stumbling towards me when I saw that she was about to fall. I ran up to her and caught her before she could hit the ground and hard too.

As I picked her up, I yelled out to a random kid that was standing in the corner.

"Hey you… Yes you… come here and help me with her stuff. I can't carry and her stuff at the same time. Please help me…" the kid ran up and grabbed her stuff.

I asked him where the stairs were to the basement and told me that no one was aloud down there. I demanded that he show me where they were, or that he was going to end up the same way as Danny was at the moment. He just nodded at he started walking to some stairs.

I looked down and saw that Danny was drifting;

"Oh shit… she's drifting… this is bad…come on…let's go…. I need to bandage her before she dies from losing too much blood…" I ordered as I followed the kid down the stairs.

As we made it downstairs, I noted that Danny was turning even paler than before. I felt her shift in my arms.

'Whoa… god, thank god she's still alive… man she scared me for a little bit there… and I thought that today was going to be an uneventful day today too… Hahaha…' I thought as we came upon a corner that I was sure that no one would see us, even if they came down to the basement.

When I got to the corner, I set Danny down and saw that her wounds started to heal. All the blood from them was drying up and would soon be totally dry. And I noticed that my t-shirt was almost completely covered with her blood.

"Just set her things down other there and go back to class. Thank you for the help by the way." I thanked as I looked at Danny's wounds again. He quickly set her things down and went back upstairs.

I moved her to get a better look at the intensity of the back. The slash marks were back and just disgusting to look at. The burses that lined her back were just amazing to the fact that her mother could do this kind of damage. The slash marks were reopened from the fight with Stacy.

'God… I'm really starting to hate that Stacy girl! Why would she want to attack Danny… what did she ever do to deserve this??' I thought as I grabbed the bandage wraps and started wrapping the worst of the burns and slashes that looked like hell.

When I was finished, I dumped the old bloody bandages into a pile by her books and turned her back onto her back so that I could try to wake her up. The first thing that I saw on her face when I turned her back over was pure pain. Her eyes were tightly shut, her mouth was open a little and her face was scrunched up too.

"Danny… wake up! You're okay now… no one's going to hurt you. Danny!!" I said, shaking her lightly.

I looked at her face and saw that she was starting to come around.

"Thank god…" I sighed in relief.

"Ugh… dad…wait… you're not m-my dad… ugh! My head hurts like hell…" Danny mumbled as she came to. "Chris… what's happened? I don't really remember… I remember pain and blood, but… that's it…" She said as she turned onto her side.

"Danny, you're okay? And Stacy really beat you up… she reopened your slash marks and I think that she saw them too. I don't really know though…" I answered as I pulled her into a sitting position.

"Ugh… yea I'm okay and thanks for telling me. I just need a breather." She replied as she started coughing and laid her head on her knees.

I sat back and sighed with relief, knowing that she was going to be okay.

Normal Prov.

God… my head felt like it was split in half, then put back together with lighters in it. I looked down to see that I had new bandages in my stomach and thighs and that no blood was showing. I looked at Chris after I thought this over and blushed beat red.

"D-did you… um… change my bandages by any chance..?" I stammered as I tried to stand up. But I didn't get far before falling back down onto my butt with a loud thud after feeling something push me back down.

"Yes… because if I didn't, you wouldn't have woken up. And I… um… didn't want that to happen…" he confessed as he looked away with a light pink blush on his cheeks.

"Well… thanks I guess… Well, maybe she should be getting back to class, before they send out a search party." I suggested as I stood up without any help.

Chris stood up and helped me grab my things as he handed me a piece of paper with numbers. "Well, okay… but if you need help taking care of Lucas and/or Stacy in case they come after you again, text me. Here's my number." Chris mumbled as he handed me a piece of paper with a number on it.

Once I could stand straight without falling over, I grabbed my stuff and started walking to the stairwell with Chris in toe. As I walked up the stairs, I started to sway from side-to-side and grabbed the handle bar to keep still.

"Danny… you okay?" Chris asked startled

"Yea I'm okay, let's just get to class." I mumbled as I kept walking up the stairs.