Chapter Eleven: Seth In The Bathroom

When my eyes opened the next morning, Daniel was already up getting dressed for school.

"Good morning." He smiled as he slid a shirt on.

"Painful morning." I said slowly getting up, the dry blood on my body made me cringe.

I saw Daniel look down to the floor, then he looked back to me, a tear falling down his cheek.

"Jeremy, I am so sorry." He said, more tears fell. "I would do anything to rescue you from this."

Before I knew it, Daniel was crying his eyes out.

I swooped over to him and took him in my arms.

"Don't cry. I know. I know exactly how you feel." I said, I felt my voice crackle.

After Daniel stopped crying, I got dressed, and for the first time ever, we went to school together. As friends, instead of enemies.

I said goodbye to Daniel and went to my locker to get my Math book. After I retrieved the book, I saw Seth going into the bathroom quickly.

I followed into the bathroom and saw him setting in the corner with his head in his knee's.

"S- Seth?" I asked, moving closer.

"Cody, don't. Just go away." He said, and I knew he had been crying.

"I've learned to never run from someone in need." I said, standing there, waiting for a response.

He looked up to me and my heart fell.

His eyes were red from crying, one of them blackened.

"Cody...He hates me. He just hates me for no reason."

"Who hate you? What happened?" I asked reaching my hand out to him and helping him up.

Another kid entered the bathroom. He was about 5'9, his hair was short and black, and his eyes were the purest blue. He looked at both of us, expecially Seth.

"No one. Never mind. I'm fine." Seth said rushing out of the bathroom. The other boy smiled, then looked back to me.

"Stay in your own business kid. You have enough problems without his. Believe me, you don't want to get into it." He said, before backing away from me and leaving the bathroom.

I heard the tardy bell ring and started for my Math class. Wondering...What it was that Seth couldn't tell me. What it was, that he was hiding from me.

Seth was not at lunch. Even though Daniel was telling me a dramatic story about a fight in his fourth period, I was only thinking of Seth. I knew someone was hurting him. I knew this for many reasons, but only one mattered. Once before, a long time ago, I had been that boy. Scared and alone. I knew what it was like to be hurt by someone you trust, by someone, you thought was there to protect you...

A/N- Here's Chapter 11. Does the new Seth story line bother you guys? Just trying to add a bit of mystery. Good thing or not? I'll try and get chapter 12 up tonite as well. Thanks for being amazing and reviewing!