I'm Still Alive but I'm Barely Breathing (A Nick Jonas Story)
(recap)
"Where the f*** were you!" Kevin screams. And this is one of the times I know I have to answer.
"I-I got held up a-at school" is all I said before everything went black.
Nick's P.O.V
I wake up in my room on my bed. I guess I blacked out, but all I remember is coming home from Romola's house. I try to get up but I feel a surge of pain from my head and I fall backwards onto my bed. Everything hurts so much! I cant even breath right now without it hurting. I try to get up by holding onto my nightstand. I am finally standing up and I slowly make my way to the bathroom. My gosh what did they do to me it hurts
when I walk, when I breath, when I move! I look in the mirror and I cant believe it! I have a black eye! What the hell am I supposed to do! I mean no one will care at school but I know Romola is going to ask me about it. What am I supposed to tell her? I look at the clock and I have an hour till school starts . Man I was out cold the whole night! I better hurry up and get out of here. I quickly get ready and run out the door before Kevin or Joe wake up. I arrive at school and the hallways are empty because of it being early, so I take advantage of this alone time, get my books and head to the music room.
~30 mins later~
Romola's P.O.V
Well my mom had to go to work early and she insists on driving me so I'm in school early. I guess I will go in the music room, nick probably will be there later. I walk into the music room and I see Nick already in there with a guitar.
"Guess who?" I say while putting my hands over his eyes.
"OW!" Nick flinched.
Nick's P.O.V
"Guess who?" Romola said putting her hands over my eyes
"OW!" I shout in pain. The slightest touch on my eye hurt so much!
"What did I do?" Romola said quickly removing her hands
I really don't want to turn around but I have to. I turn around and Romola's eyes go wide.
"omgosh! What happened to you?" Romola says examining my eye. There was no way I was telling her what really happened.
" Oh umm I…I was playing baseball with my brothers and the ball hit me in the face….ha-ha see that's why I don't play sports!" I say. That was pretty good especially since I just thought it up.
"Oh wow your brothers must be really good at baseball because your eye looks really bad!". Romola says. In a way I could tell she didn't buy my lie but she seemed to be playing along.
"ha yeah they are extremely good!" I lie well not really lying, they are good at sports.
Romola's P.O.V
"Nick are you sure that is what happened?" I ask because the way he told me what happened was just a little to weird." Why would I lie to you about it?" nick says getting a little defensive
"I didn't say you would it just the black eye seems like its been from something else. It doesn't look like a baseball could do as much damage as you have." I say
"well apparently it could so lets just drop it!". Nick is yelling by this point. I am just staring at nick in shock from the tone of his voice and he must have noticed because he softens it.
"Sorry I didn't mean to yell at you, I'm just tired and really sore from yesterday…the sports I'm sore from the sports". Nick says the last part quickly as if I'm thinking he would be sore from something else. I honestly don't believe what Nick told me. I think something else is going on with him but I don't know what exactly.
" Its okay I'm making too big of a deal out of it. Just making sure Taylor didn't get to you". I say so he doesn't catch on that I'm on to his lie.
" Hey you wanna eat lunch in here so we don't have to run into anyone today?" nick said changing the subject.
" Yeah okay that sounds great" I say
Nick's P.O.V
The day is like any other and just how I expected. No one cared about my eye, they paid no mind to me and in this case I really didn't mind. Now its lunch time and I see Romola in the music room and Taylor is there with her. I don't go in but I listen to what they are saying.
" c'mon baby you really cant say you rather hang out with Jonas then me!" Taylor says to Romola and he is getting a little to close to her and I'm not liking it!
"Don't you have someone better to talk to like those slutty cheerleaders?" Romola says back to him.
"Ha-ha I think I can change your mind about me" Taylor says and grabs Romola's waist and pulls her close to him.
"what the hell are you doing?" she says then Taylor kisses Romola! Who the hell does he think he is ! I get so mad I run in the room and grab Taylor and I throw him on the ground.
" you shouldn't have done that Jonas!" Taylor says and he gets up and we start to fight. That kiss kept replaying in my mind and it only mad me more angry so I beat the crap out of Taylor. By the time I was finished with him he had a bloody nose and swollen lip, also when I pushed him a second time he fell back on a desk and I'm pretty sure he needs stitches. Oh yeah I also got suspended! Once my brothers find out I'm probably going to end up like Taylor maybe worse! Well I just got out of the principals office and Taylor went home early. I see Romola sitting outside the office.
"Nick what happened in there! I never saw you like that!" she says
" I don't know I saw him kiss you and something just went off" I say.
" How long are you gunna be suspended for?" Romola asks
" two days." I respond
"oh that not too bad" she says, but she doesn't know what happens to me at home so two days is actually really really bad!
Well the school day is over and I'm home for two days I walk in the door scared because I know the school called my house.
" Nick?" I hear Kevin yell from downstairs
"yeah?" I say
" Can you come down here" Joe says. This seems weird and I'm not sure if I should go downstairs but I don't really have a choice. I go downstairs and I see Kevin and Joe.
"Sit" Kevin orders me, and I know better than to not listen to Kevin so I do it .
" The school called" Joe says. I knew it! They know, I am dead!
" Why did you beat up Taylor?" Kevin asks and strangly he is being calm.
" He was just bugging me like always, I didn't want to deal with it anymore." I respond
"OH don't give me that bullshit! Hes been picking on you since you started high school! Don't F***en lie!"
Joe screams. Their going to find out about Romola because they know when im lying, but if I tell them they are not gunna allow me to see her.
"Calm down Joe we will make him tell us the truth". Kevin says and this doesn't sound good. Before I could even think about what they might do to me Joe threw me on the floor then Kevin grabs the vase off the table that we have in the basement, that was our mothers vase I still remember the day that Kevin gave it to her.
~FLASHBACK~ (mothers day, Nick is 6 joe is 9 Kevin is11)
" Mommy! Mommy! We got your present!" Joe shouts as he runs into the house. Kevin hands her a box wrapped in floral paper. She unwraps it and it's a white vase with pink roses on it.
"Oh boys thank you! I love it" my mother says as she gives each of us a kiss on the cheek. Kevin is the one who bought her the vase, he saved his allowance for 2 months just to buy it for her. Joe hands her a card that he bought with his allowance. Since I was only 6 I didn't get weekly money so I picked some yellow flowers outside for her vase.
"Here mommy, I picked some flowers for you" I said handing my mom her favorite color flowers.
"Aww thank you Nicky! My favorite color!" she said hugging me.
~ End of flashback~
"Kevin what are you doing?" I scream
" Who the F**k said you could talk!" Kevin screams back.