Warning: blood, sexual frustration, && lots of sobbing
Drew's Point of View:
The ground couldn't stop moving, I couldn't help but feel my stomach roll around uneasily while feeling the continuous shaking.
My eyes wandered to an empty seat three rows over, a Gucci bag laid there, open somewhat, I knew that Gucci bag anywhere and it wasn't with its owner.
Quickly I shouted over the commotion,
"WHERE'S FIONA?"
Everyone looked over at me in shock that I have even uttered a word, much less concerning where Fiona may be at.
Although someone did answer me, Marisol.
"SHE SAID SHE WAS GOING TO THE WASHROOM!" Marisol screamed over the commotion.
I didn't even check to see if anything was going to fall on me, I just bolted straight for the door and rushed down the hall to see something that I never expected to see.
Fiona was laying down by a fallen trophy case, as I ran closer, I saw that blood was coming from her head and pouring out onto the floor, she was knocked unconscious for God knows how long.
Despite the blood getting on my clothes, I pulled Fiona's unconscious body onto my lap and held her close, I shouted.
"HELP! SOMEONE HELP! CALL 911! ANYONE PLEASE!"
I looked back down at Fiona, hoping to see some sort of sign of movement.
Nothing, she looked practically dead.. No.
She couldn't be dead.
Not on my watch, she wouldn't die.
Clare's Point of View:
I had my face pressed against his chest for what seemed like forever, and I wanted forever to be forever.
I was content here, I was safe and protected here.
Eli wouldn't dare let me go, his arms like vices around my small body, holding me tight, I could still feel his breath down my neck as his head laid on my head, rocking me slowly.
I wondered if he knew he was even doing at the moment.
Then all of a sudden, the ground stopped shaking.
No one moved though, Eli continued to rock me back and forth.
I heard, Ms. Dawes's voice ask concerned,
"Is everyone okay?"
No one responded, but I could hear shuffle of feet and desks being pushed aside to stand up, so people were okay.
"Are you alright?" Eli whispered in my ear, I nodded.
"Are you okay?" I asked him, he breathed a quick yes and let me go to stand up.
I stood up on shaky legs and Eli stood up as well, but on stronger legs than me.
"No one's hurt?" Ms. Dawes's asked us again, scanning her eyes across the classroom.
With no response to that, Ms. Dawes's took that as a yes.
"I have to talk to the administrates about what to do next, so please stay in the classroom and if an aftershock happens, please stay under your desks." Ms. Dawes advised us before she bustled out of the room.
Everyone in the class slowly started separating into their social groups, sharing reactions to the earthquake that just happened.
I looked at Eli and sighed,
"Thanks for.. What you did back there." I thanked him, Eli stiffly nodded and looked down at the ground.
"Why did you do it? You hate me and not even five minutes ago I was making fun of your hair." I asked curiously, this time, Eli sighed and rubbed the back of his neck.
"Don't think I'm weird or anything, but.. I felt the need to protect you back there. Something told me to get out from under my desk and under yours and to hold you and protect you. For some strange reason, I obeyed whatever told me to do that and I.. protected you." Eli explained while looking down at the floor.
I gave Eli a confused yet soft look, Eli looked up and blushed a bit.
"Yeah yeah. I know. Its weird and creepy. But don't judge." Eli said with a quick chuckle. I smiled uneasily.
"No.. I don't find it weird and creepy at all. It just that.." I paused. "I've never expected anyone, especially you to come and protect me. No one ever protects me." I said more glumly then I wanted to.
Eli raised an eyebrow,
"Why wouldn't anyone protect you, Clare? I mean, I can understand why I wouldn't. But why wouldn't anyone else protect you? You have friends." Eli said. I snorted.
"Yeah, Alli and Fiona and do you think that those two would save me from a falling bookcase, Eli?" I asked him with a smirk, Eli chuckled lightly.
"I suppose not." he then paused. "I like your sense of humor." Eli complimented me. I smiled.
"Thanks. I didn't know you knew what humor even was." I said, Eli shrugged.
"I don't really smile anymore. Genuinely anyways." Eli admitted, my smile faltered.
"And why is that? You seem pretty peachy when you're bullying people or running off with Jenna." It was hard having to say Jenna's name.
"I'm not exactly happy doing that, Clare. It pretty sickening what I do to people around here." Eli said softly.
"I don't find that hard to believe at all." I responded, Eli cocked an eyebrow.
"Really? Why is that?" Eli asked, I swallowed and answered,
"You're just hiding who you truly are. You're probably not this big scary guy everyone thinks you are. Its just all for show. Yet you're afraid to go back to being the real you that you use to be because you're afraid of being alone." I explained, Eli still had an eyebrow cocked.
"The real me? I don't follow, Edwards." Eli replied. I rolled my eyes.
"You can quit the act, Eli. No ones looking. Stop pretending." I said sternly, Eli's façade dropped quickly and he sighed."I know.. I know." Eli whispered.
Maybe now would be the good time to tell Eli that I do know about his life. That I know it all, maybe if I tell him, I could help him out. Make him better his life. I've always wanted to better someone's life, its what I want to accomplish before I die.
I sighed deeply and began to tell him,
"Listen Eli. I know about it all. I know that your best friend, Drew's brother, Adam committed suicide because he was a transgender. I know about why Drew is so quiet, that its all because of Alli and Adam. I know that you hook up with Jenna just to make it seem like everything will okay by having sex, but you're just hurting her. I know that your dad.. I know that he beats you and your mom, but your mom does nothing of it." I explained all in one breath, I paused, waiting for his reaction.
Suddenly, Eli was full of rage, he grabbed me by the arm and pulled me into the corner of the classroom and his face was inches from mine when he spat,
"Who told you?"
It took me a while to even find my tongue to speak,
"You did." I said confused.
Eli was still angry and seemed to get more furious by the second, he raised his voice even higher. "WHO TOLD YOU?" Eli shouted.
By this time, the whole classroom was staring at us in awe, Eli still had me by the wrist and looked like he was about to throw me against a wall, everyone was certainly enjoying this show.
Everyone but me.
Drew's Point of View:
I still had Fiona's unconscious body on my lap, more blood was seeping from her head, I had already taken my jacket off and pressed it firmly against her head, but it was doing no good, she was still bleeding profusely.
I looked up to see a great majority of people standing around, looking shocked to see that Fiona was bleeding, but their stares didn't matter.
"Did anyone call 911?" I asked loudly, I saw some blank expressions, but Marisol nodded.
"I just called not too long ago. They're on their way." Marisol said, her eyes were full of fear as she glanced down at Fiona.
Soon I heard a sobbing girl next to me, Alli.
"What happened?" Alli cried out, her makeup running down her face as she pushed back Fiona's hair to get a good look at Fiona's face.
I felt frustrated and pissed with everyone around me and not only that, but Alli was right next to me and it wasn't doing any good for me.
"I don't know! I think the trophy case fell and hit her head! I really don't know, Alli!" I shouted. Alli was still sobbing next to me, I saw her grab Fiona's hand and kiss it."She has to be alright, right? She just has to. Right?" Alli asked, looking up at me with those big brown eyes that I fell in love with.
I didn't say a word to her as I adverted my attention back to Fiona, what could I say? That Fiona would be alright?
I wasn't even sure of that myself, she was bleeding pretty badly.
I had a feeling she wouldn't make it.
Clare's Point of View:
I managed to pull myself out of Eli's grip and when I did so, I faced the class,
"Go ahead. Tell them, Eli. They seem so interested." I said and I was walking toward where my seat was so I can sit down, everyone did seem interested. Their eyes widen with excitement for Eli's "big news".
But Eli grabbed my arm, softly this time and spun me around so I can see him.
"When. When did I tell you?" Eli asked quickly, I pulled my arm away and crossed them across my chest.
"At Sav's party. I was walking around looking for Alli or Fiona, when I found you sitting by yourself, wasting away on beer and cigarettes. That's when you spilled the beans on your home life. Looks like what they say about alcohol is true, when someone is drunk, they always say the truth." I observed, I saw Eli's expression go from angry to surprised to disappointment - in himself.
"I was drunk!" Eli exclaimed. "That's just fucking peachy. Great. Ugh." Eli then pulled his wallet out from his back pocket and pulled out a wad of cash. "How much do you want?"
I was confused. How much did I want? I didn't understand.
"What?" I asked confused, Eli sighed.
"How much do you want for keeping your mouth shut about my secrets?" Eli asked, showing me the wad of cash. I scoffed.
"I realize that I'm the last person on this planet that you would ever tell your secrets too, but I would never, NEVER accept money from you so I could keep a secret. I've kept this secret a secret for the past couple of weeks, I'm not going to slip up about me. I know we don't like each other, but I'm not the type of girl who would spread that secret around just so your life is horrible." I explained, feeling disgust toward Eli.
I noticed some people start to leave the room, obviously our little show got boring for them.
I saw Eli lean against the wall and slide down, stuffing his wallet into his back pocket again.
I felt guilt and pity for him, seeing his face turn sour and sad. I sighed and sat down next to him.
"Things could be worst, Eli." I commented. Eli scoffed.
"You're only saying that, because your parents died. Living with Darcy and Ms. Edwards is the best you could get. So stop pretending you know how it feels to be shit.. Stop relating me. Stop saying you know what I'm going through, because you have no fucking clue how I feel, Clare. None at all." Eli said through gritted teeth.
I could feel anger boil in my veins by hearing him trying to one up people in the pity party.
"You don't know that, Eli. For all you know, I could have it way worse than you." I said hastily. Eli rolled his emerald eyes.
"I find that to be highly impossible." Eli said.
"You're way too quick to judge, Eli." I retorted.
Suddenly, I could hear loud voices and sirens out in the hallway.
"What is going on out there." I muttered as I got to my feet and walked out of the classroom, Eli was close behind me.
I got closer and closer to the group of people surrounding something, I pushed my way through the crowd with the help of Eli to only see in my horror, Drew with a bloody unconscious Fiona in his lap, Alli was next to him, sobbing hysterically. I felt Eli push past me to kneel down by Drew and Fiona.
"What happened to her man?" Eli asked exasperated, looking at all the blood around them. Drew scoffed.
"As if you even cared, Eli." Drew spat, I had never heard Drew talk with such distaste in his voice, Eli sensed that and sprung back up next to me, I still had my eyes glued to the bloody Fiona, her skin seemed to get paler and paler as more blood drained out of her.
I quickly looked at Alli who's attention was all on Fiona.
"Has anyone called the paramedics, yet?" I screeched, thinking that the sirens were the police sirens outside.
Just then, paramedics rushed inside with a gurney, moving with force speed towards Fiona.
Students backed away as the paramedics came by and pried Fiona from Drew's bloody arms and loaded her onto the gurney, they shouted doctor gibberish at each other as they rushed outside of the school to load her onto the ambulance.
Suddenly, Ms. Dawes came into view, her face held sadness and she tried not to stare at the puddle of blood on the ground.
"Alright, alright. Nothing to see here, everyone go back to your classrooms and stay there until further notice." Ms. Dawes advised.
Everyone else walked back to their classrooms, everyone except, me, Eli, Drew and Alli.
Ms. Dawes saw us and sighed.
"Guys, Fiona will be alright. No need to worry, just report back to your classrooms." Ms. Dawes said.
I heard Alli's sobs become even louder.
"Please.. M-Ms. Dawes. Let us-us go with her." Alli pleaded between her sobbing.
I looked out the window to see that they were loading Fiona up into the ambulance, people were looking around the school in horror.
"Ms. Dawes." Drew began. Ms. Dawes's eyes widened at Drew even speaking. "Just please let us go with her. We can't just stay here and not know how she's doing." Drew asked exasperated. Ms. Dawes sighed.
"You do realize that I could get fired for this, right?" Ms. Dawes said warily.
None of us said anything, we just stared at Ms. Dawes. Ms. Dawes sighed loudly.
"Alright. You may go." Ms. Dawes said.
Alli threw her arms around Ms. Dawes's torso and hugged her,
"THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU!" Alli exclaimed and once Alli was finished hugging, Ms. Dawes, we were running out of the school, running straight towards Drew's truck.
Hoping it could take us to Fiona in time.
Drew's Point of View:
We had been sitting here in the waiting room for about five hours now, only new person accompanying us was Declan, Fiona's twin. Declan was an absolute mess, his hair was haywire and his eyes were red from crying for an hour straight, now he was fast asleep on the couch, his iPhone on his chest, ready to alert him whenever his and Fiona's mother were coming to Toronto to see Fiona.
I heard a hushed conversation to my left to see that Eli and Clare were awkwardly asking each other things, when they both stood up, blushed a bit and walked towards the direction of the cafeteria.
I wanted so badly to shout that they needed to bang already and I would supply the condoms.
My mind kept on racing back to Fiona, her bloody body in my hands. Her skin paling by the minute. Her heart slowing her, her brain shutting down.
I couldn't stand not knowing what was happening with her, not one bit of it.
I heard the click of heels approaching and I looked up to see that Alli took her seat by me.
"I couldn't find the doctor anywhere. I guess he's still in the ICU and they're pretty strict of allowing people in there." Alli reminded me for about the tenth time today, I've sent her off just to find the doctor, to see if Fiona was alright, but everytime she came back, it was the same old news.
Silence danced around us, like it always does when Alli breathed in heavily.
"I know about you and Fiona." Alli whispered, my head turned in her direction quickly.
"What? How?" I exclaimed, I saw Declan stir in his sleep from the noise, Alli quickly shushed me.
"Fiona came to my house yesterday, bawling her eyes out, apologizing over and over for sleeping with you. She hated having to keep it bottled up so long, so she came out about it to me." Alli exclaimed.
"What happened after that?" I asked softly. Alli shrugged.
"I forgive you two. It was a long time ago, things have changed, people have changed. I'm not angry or upset about it, I'm fine about it." Alli told me.
I didn't say anything to her reply at all, until Alli sighed and asked,
"Drew. Why are you even here?" Alli asked disgruntled.
I sighed and stared up at the white ceiling, which was slightly cracked.
"Same reason you are. To see if someone important to me, is alright."
Eli's Point of View:
I've been sitting here with Clare a little over a half hour in the cafeteria. None of us have talked to each other and she wasn't even drinking her drink, she stirring it around with a straw.
The silence was eating at me, I had to find a way of conversation.
"So.. It was pretty nice of Ms. Dawes to let us out, huh?" I asked, Clare rolled her eyes.
"Eli. Why are you even here? You hated Fiona." Clare asked unamused.
"I never hated Fiona. Why would you think that?" I asked curiously. It was true, I never hated Fiona, she was nice, even if she was quiet and weird.
"Uhm. Because you called her ginger lover in the hall the other day?" Clare said. Then I remembered that I was teasing her about her liking towards Holly J.
"Oh.. Yeah. Well it was just a joke. Nothing serious." I explained quickly. Clare scoffed.
"Eli. You don't do that to girls. They are fragile!" Clare exclaimed. I bit my lip and looked up at Clare.
"Are you fragile?" I asked nervously. Clare shook her head and crossed her arms.
"We're not talking about me. We're talking about Fiona." Clare said.
I didn't say anything to her even though she was awaiting an answer from me, I just continued to drink my drink and bite my nails, which I do when I'm nervous.
Then out of the blue, Clare asks,
"Tell me about, Adam."
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