*~*Kaitlin*~*

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee chappy nine…

 Chapter 9: To See Again

You see my pain is real,

Watch my world dissolve,

And pretend that none of us see the fall,

As I turned to sand,

You took me by the hand

And declared that love prevails over all.

*~*Ego Brain, System of a Down

Lorelei sat besides Sam's bed in the hospital; she had been coming for around a week now. Every day she told him what had happened at school and talked to him about meaningless things that made her feel better, but mostly she came to sit next to his bed holding one of his hands and staring out the window, wishing to be anywhere else. Somewhere where all of this hadn't happened.

        "…and then Colonel Boom yelled at me again for not keeping my section in line. Like it was my fault. I mean, Jason and Mark couldn't help it if they didn't see the flute girl; um her name was tiffany. Anyways so Colonel Boom got mad at me and made me run laps. And its only because I'm the only female section leader. He even changed the flute section leader to a guy. I wish that…" Lorelei trailed off, staring out the window.

          Two birds were flying together, straw in their beaks to make a nest. They looped off through the sky and out of sight. Lorelei continued to stare long after they had gone. Slowly she turned back to same, absent-mindedly stroking the back of his hand with her thumb. As she got up to leave she gave his hand a quick squeeze and gasped when his hand squeezed back.

          Lorelei turned her head to see Sam smiling weakly at her. All she could do was stare, then her wits returned and Lorelei realized Sam would need a doctor. "I'm um…going to get a… get a… um…a doctor Sam ok? Right" and with that Lorelei rushed out of the room leaving Sam grinning after her.

*~*Two Weeks Later*~*

Sam was back at school, he was still a bit weak and had dizzy spells some times but he was feeling better. Some how he had coerced Lorelei into helping him around meaning that when he got a dizzy spell he got to have her help him, meaning her arm was around his waist. He wasn't sure exactly when it had happened but he stopped seeing Lorelei as the odd little 8th grader with pigtails and braces. It seemed as soon as he turned around one day she had grown. Long brown hair reaching her waist, pretty hazel eyes, and a nice body, this all added up to the new Lorelei he saw.

          Lorelei was helping Sam to his next class, which happened to be miles from hers, but she didn't care. She had had a crush on Sam for a while and now it seemed like something was happening between them. She remembered when she had been a freshman Sam was only a sophomore. He was hot then too, but in a more dorky way. Sam had grown up. While she was helping him to his classes she had realized how tall he was, and his muscles. He didn't have bulging muscles like the football team; he was more the slim type, enough muscles to be sexy with out going overboard. His hair was blonde and he never spiked it, his eyes were blue, the kind of blue that seems light until you look again and even then you aren't sure of its true colors. She watched Sam slip into his seat, before running to her next class: geometry, the one class she had a D+ in.

          Lorelei sat through geometry, waiting for those last few minutes of geometry to end so she could help Sam to third period, wind ensemble. The made their way there quick enough so as not to be late but slow enough to not have to deal with Colonel Boom for too long.

          Lorelei went into the storage room only to find another one of her sections jokes had happened and once again she was the butt. Her trombone was up on the top shelf, which happened to be awfully close to the ceiling. "Dammit" Lorelei stretched as high as she could, she was able to touch the end of her case but not able to grab it. "Dammit dammit dammit!" Lorelei tried again to reach her case.

          "Need a bit of help Lorelei?" Sam said in a teasing voice. "Now why would some one put their case where they cant reach it?" Sam walked over to Lorelei and looked down at her.

          "Shut up and help me Sam." Sam gave her a look and Lorelei grinned. "Please?" Sam reached up to grab the case, reaching it easily. He smiled down at Lorelei as he pulled her case out. Slowly he brought his face towards hers. Lorelei tilted her head up to meet him. Their lips were about to touch when…SLAM!

          Sam's head snapped up. He looked at the door "Shit, we forgot that Boom always shuts and locks the door once the late bell rings."

          "Well um…what should we do?" Lorelei asked.

          "I guess wait it out."

          They slid down to the floor sitting on the music that lived in the band room floor. Most of it was trombone music. "Hey. Look! It's the squishy thing, how funny I remember that from my freshman year. 'It lives on the storage room floor eating mouthpieces, trombone slide grease, and old music parts." Lorelei giggled.

          "I forgot about that thing. Some one really ought to get rid of it, its all old and nasty."

          "I wanna see what its eating first." Lorelei stood up and walked over to the squishy thing. She lifted it up and gasped. "Sam come and see this."

          " What is it?" He walked over to Lorelei and made a disgusted face. "they really ought to clean this room more often, that's just sick." The squishy thing had been eating one of Rudy's fingers.

          Small clanking noises began to fill the room. They echoed off the tiled floor and all the shelves. Sam remembered the hole in his locker, Lorelei what happened to that hole in my storage locker?"

          "I don't think anyone ever closed it why?"

          "Because that's where the noises are coming from."