Chapter12- Break Down
When Cait got to Monk's apartment, she saw her father was not alone. The Captain and Lieutenant Disher were there. Cait glared at them. Then she had the perfect idea for how to get back at her father. "Captain, Lieutenant, could please you give me a moment with my dear father?" Cait asked dangerously sweet. The Captain and Lieutenant went out into the hall. Cait walked right up to her father and without warning she embraced him tightly. She knew that was the best form of payback. Her father was germ phobic, and she technically couldn't get in trouble for hugging her dear father. She kissed his cheek. "Thanks for showing that you cared tonight." She smirked to herself as she went into her room.
Cait was pretty sure that she got her point across. She pulled out her phone and dialed Julie.
"Hey, Cait," Julie answered the phone.
Cait told Julie everything about Monk sending Randy and the Captain to follow her and Neil on the date. Cait also gave Julie every little detail about the date itself.
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The diner pretty much became Cait and Neil's place. They went there almost every time that Neil took Cait out. The diner and the park. When they went for walks they always ended up at the park. That was just how it worked out. It was normally the same people each time at the diner.
At school Neil and Cait normally left the cafeteria to go into an abandoned hallway and talk. Normally Neil tried to keep himself from breaking down so he mostly listened as Cait talked about whatever was on her mind. One day, Neil came in completely covered in bruises, he couldn't move without being in extreme pain. When Neil and Cait were in their hall for the day, Cait didn't talk about the usual stuff, like tests and teachers. She decided that, although she didn't bother asking every time she saw a new bruise on her boyfriend, about his bad "fight with his brothers."
"What happened?" She asked Neil sympathetically.
He just shrugged, "I don't know what you're talking about."
Cait shook her head, "You're covered in bruises, and when you move, it's obvious that you're in pain."
"I-I got into a f-fight with my fa-frickin brothers." He said barely audible.
Cait went to kiss Neil lightly on his forehead, he was piping hot with a fever. "Neil!" Cait exclaimed.
"W-what?" He asked softly.
Cait stood up and held out her hand to help him up from the floor. As Neil accepted, it slowly standing up, she spoke again, "You have a fever, and I don't care what your argument is I'm taking you to the nurse."
Neil nodded slowly, his eyes unfocused and half closed. Cait slowly led him to the Nurse's office. The Nurse took one look at Neil and began to panic. She pointed to a kid sitting in a chair with a nose bleed, "You out!" She threw a tissue box at him, "Go to the main office!" She turned to the other kid laying down on the bed thing, who was holding ice to his eye, "You too! Take the ice with you!"
The nurse ushered Neil to the other bed that was in the office. She pulled over a chair and sat right next to him. Before she started asking him questions she turned to Cait. "What is the problem with him? The teachers told me that he was in bad shape but . . . my god."
Cait sighed, "He told me that he gets into fights with his brothers a lot, and on top of that he has insomnia so he's a bit off anyway, and I think he has a fever."
The nurse suddenly became very tense. She turned to Neil and then back to Cait, "Please go to the assistant principal's office, and wait for him to call you in."
Cait nodded as she left Neil and went into the assistant principal's office. She waited for a while until the assistant principal called her into his office. "Caitlin Monk, right?" he asked sitting down behind his desk and he motioned for to sit at one of the chairs in front of his desk.
Cait nodded, "Yes, I'm Cait Monk."
"What can you tell me about Neil?" He asked Cait cutting right to the chase.
Cait shrugged, "There isn't much to say. He has insomnia, so that makes him emotional some days, due to his lack of sleep. He has bruises sometimes, he tells me that he gets into fights with his brothers, but I don't know how true that is. Today he had a fever, like insanely."
The assistant principal nodded, "Thank you Caitlin, let me write you a pass to class."
Cait nodded, as she took her pass and headed back to class.
AN: The updates will slowly be slowing up because of school :'(. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeez review
