Chapter 9 : busy day to be at school

Jason POV

Have you ever been woken up by someone reciting poetry next to you? It's romantic, right? Well I just got woken up by someone reciting whole passages from the Twelfth night... In the correct form of speech with all the necessary voice changes. It's kind of amusing actually, if you like Shakespeare, otherwise it's creepy but don't tell her that.

I got out of bed as soundlessly as possible and decided to surprise Bella with breakfast. I settled on cocoa puffs for one very simple reason. I almost burnt my college dorm to a crisp the one time I actually tried to fry eggs and bacon.

"Morning"

Bella was behind me, all sleepy as she climbed on a breakfast stool in the kitchen.

"Morning"

I kissed her and couldn't help but chuckle as lapped her coffee like a hungry kitten

"What?"

"I really regret not knowing you at school"

"Why?"

She tilted her head to the side munching her cereal

"Let's just say I'd be getting straight A's in literature by now"

I joked and she blushed a red deeper than her tank-top of choice and tried to hide her face behind her curtain of hair.

"You're mean"

"Yeah I am"

she stuck her tongue out at me playfully. I thought about dousing her with my cereal but the one time I pulled that move on Ali had me sleeping in the dog house the next week. And we never even had a dog. Ali talked Ken into buy the doghouse 'just in case' and made me sleep in there.

"Gotta go, bye babe"

"babye"

Going to school on a daily basis long after you've graduated is no fun. Luckily Ken's graduation gift had been a motorcycle and that helped things along.

"Hello Jason"

I saw Ella Montgomery watching her son get into it with a jock.

"Hey Mrs. Montgomery"

"I'm not that old! Call me Ella. I won't say it again"

I looked at my feet ready to come up with the appropriate response (living with Bella really softened me) but Mike and the jock started a fist fight. I moved to separate them but Ella beat me to the punch. I shook my head.

I really don't miss high school.

Having Garrett there isn't a good thing either. I haven't spoken to the guy since I went to sober-ville. How am I supposed to get close to him to find out if he was Ali's -A-?

"Garrett!"

"can't talk, sorry"

he rushed by me holding a crying and gasping Emily in his arms. Without thinking I ran after him, I think this one and Ali were pretty close.

"What happened man?"

"Beats me, she collapsed and i called an ambulance. I gotta go"

he climbed in the ambulance with her and I texted Bella. I sent a prayer to a God I wasn't sure I believed at

"Please tell me she's not being hospitalized because of us."

The HGH was supposed to give her some problems with the school team, not send her in to the E.R. I headed back home only to find a post-it from bella. she was going to the hospital.

Bella POV

Seeing the text message from Jason floored me. I needed to know exactly what I had done to the girl and the hospital was the only place to find that out. The only question was: with all the liars there, how am I supposed to go unnoticed?

the answer came in the form of Alison. She had snuck into my room dressed as a candy striper.

"Guess I have to go shopping"

I muttered. A quick stop for a wig in buzz cut style and in an unnatural bright red color, another stop for a pair of forest green contact lenses and a third stop at a Halloween costume place and I was ready. It was amazing!

"I'm in the same elevator as 'Bookworm' (Spencer) and 'Barbie' (Hanna) and they didn't even look at me."

I texted Jason before going to the children section of the hospital that was conviently next door to the wing that 'Swimmer' (Emily) is. I may have listened in while a resident doctor was talking with her about her injury.

She has an ulcer but is on her way to recovery. I let out a huge breath off my chest. It wasn't our fault. They found out about the HGH and she's gonna get hell from the school. That's according to plan. I watched as she fell asleep before I snuck inside with a full tube of pain cream, a cup of coffee and an -A- note for her.

I saw and followed Officer Smalldick to the morgue where he took a page off a coroner's report on someone and run out to my car before he ever saw me.

Jason POV

"I have some news"

I pounced on Bella the moment she walked in. she handed me a paper bag full of Thai takeout

"so do I"

we sat on the living room

"are you gonna remain a redhead or change back? I do like the outfit though"

she broke laughing and pulled the wig off letting her hair frame her face in tousled waves. we served dinner

"what's your news?"

"I spied Garrett and Jenna, in his car, outside this very house. You?"

"I spied Garrett stealing pages out of a coronary report at the hospital"

"whose report?"

she shrugged taking a sip from her soda.

"I hightailed it out of there before he ever saw me. What were they doing in the car?"

she asked me with a slight frown.

"Talking and making out. Nothing different from what they always did. where the others there too?"

"Yeah, all of them. I saw Aria with the teacher before I left"

I nodded thoughtfully. Maybe it's time to try and break them again?