A/N: Wow, how'd ya'll like that last chapter? Kinda freaky huh? Guess I
didn't do too badly with the horror story. Um, it wasn't real. I made it
up. Completely. Lol So to whoever asked, it wasn't real. Or at least
not that I know of. It could be I suppose. FREAKY!
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"So, since I didn't hear from you Friday nite, I'm assuming you got in trouble?" Jeff asked as he and Cinder walked down the hall of the school.
"Um, yeah. Massively. I'm grounded for a month. No phone, dances, after school activities, band, or just hanging out. The only things I'm allowed to do is cheering," she answered as they stopped in front of his locker. "Plus if I get into anymore trouble between now and this Saturday my Mom won't take me car shopping."
"Oh man. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get you into that much trouble," Jeff apologized.
"That's okay. No big deal. I had so much fun that it was worth getting into all this trouble," she smiled. "I just have to make sure not to get into trouble between now and then. How about you? Did you get into too much trouble?"
"Oh shit yeah! My dad went mad crazy! I had never been that badly verbally assaulted by him before," he smiled.
"I'm sorry."
"You shouldn't be sorry at all. I had a lot of fun too, ya know."
"C, why didn't you return my calls this weekend?" Charlie asked as he ran up to her. She pulled her olive green cargos down on her hips more as he put his arms around her bare stomach. She giggled as he lightly kissed her neck.
"I'll see ya later C," Jeff called as he disappeared into the crowd of kids.
"So? What happened?" Charlie asked.
"I'm so grounded," she laughed.
"For what?" he asked as he turned her around so he could look into her blue eyes that stood out from the white eye shadow she wore.
"Jeff and I skipped all day Friday," she answered.
"And did what?!" he exclaimed.
"Chill Charlie," she frowned. "We just went bungee jumping and walked around the city and shit like that."
"Well, just as long as I have you on my arm at the homecoming dance I don't care," Charlie smiled as she let out a deep sigh.
"About the dance."
"Oh no. Cin, I was really looking forward to dancing with the princess of the court!" he yelled.
"I know, but I'm grounded for a month. I'm sorry."
"Jesus, this is my last homecoming dance at Wakefield. I wanted to go out with a fuckin bang!" he continued to yell.
"Charlie, if you don't stop yelling at me, I will seriously punch your face in," Cinder threatened as she crossed her arms.
"Well someone obviously needs to yell at you! God, think of someone but your self for a fuckin change!" With those last words Cinder pulled back and swung at Charlie's head, knocking his cheek with her fist. His head whipped back as she stared at him, glaring. He looked down at her and gripped her shoulders tightly, causing a sharp pain to flow through her body. "I don't believe you fuckin did that!"
"Let me go," Cinder growled.
"Don't you EVER hit me again!" he yelled in her face as he held her tighter. Cinder struggled to free herself from his grip, but had no luck.
"Charlie, let her go," Shane demanded as he walked up behind him. Cinder closed her eyes tightly as the pain continued and she felt herself being lifted off the ground. "Let her go man."
"Like I'm gonna take demands by some comic book nerd. Right," Charlie laughed as he pushed Cinder into the lockers and ganged up on Shane. Cinder's shoulder and back slammed into the lockers as she sat on the floor, her legs pulled up to her chin.
"Charlie, leave him alone," she spoke just as Charlie went to punch Shane. He turned to her quickly and laughed.
"Shut up!" he growled before turning his attention back to Shane.
"Don't ever touch her like that again," Shane demanded as Chris ran to Cinder's side and Rob ran up to Shane.
"You alright, Cin?" Chris asked in concern as he knelt down to her.
"I'll be fine," she whimpered.
"You don't look it," Chris said softly as he observed her slowly bruising shoulder. "You're already starting to bruise."
"I'll be fine," she repeated herself as Charlie pushed Rob back. Rob laughed as he turned the push into a backhand spring type move. Charlie's face grew into a scowl as he soon went after Shane. Cinder quickly jumped up and lunged at Charlie. She jumped on his back, but unfortunately her 135 lbs body didn't do much damage. She wrapped her strong legs around his stomach tightly as she held onto him. Chris walked up behind them and tried to take Cinder off Charlie's back but she fought tooth and nail.
"Whoa whoa whoa! What is goin on here?!" Mr. Bischoff yelled as he pushed through the crowd of people that had formed around them. Shane stopped mid punch while Cinder jumped off Charlie's back. She crossed her arms angrily and scowled. "I asked what is goin on here?!"
"He started it!" Shane and Charlie accused each other of being at fault.
"Charlie, Cinder, Shane, and Rob, all of you in my office, NOW!" he yelled as he stormed off for the office. Cinder sighed as she ran to catch up with Shane and Rob, leaving Charlie to trail behind them.
"Thank you Shane," Cinder said quietly.
"No problem. You okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she shrugged as they slowly walked into Bischoff's office.
"Would one of you care to tell me what the hell was going on out there?!" Bischoff screamed as he slammed his hands down on the desk causing Cinder to jump.
"I was trying to help Cinder, sir," Shane answered looking at the floor.
"Help Cinder with what?" he asked.
"Charlie had this death grip on her shoulders and she was pleading for him to let go, but he wouldn't. So I demanded that he do so and he threw her into the lockers. That's when the fight started," Shane explained.
"Now, Mr. Haas, what were you doing treating her that way?" Bischoff asked.
"She punched me sir," he replied rubbing his cheek.
"And why was that Miss Copeland?"
"He was yelling at me," she replied.
"He was yelling at you so you punched him?" he questioned.
"Yes sir."
"That's no reason to punch someone. What am I going to do with the 5 of you?" he said shaking his head as he paced the room. "Cinder, you're already in trouble with the school for skipping Friday."
"I know sir."
"And Rob, you already have detention for half the year."
"Yes sir, I know I do," Rob replied.
"You're all suspended from school for the rest of the day," Bischoff said.
"WHAT?!" Cinder and Charlie exclaimed.
"Don't argue with me or I'll suspend you all for the week!" he threatened. "Now go!" We all stormed out of his office and began walking down the hall.
"This is all your fault!" Charlie yelled as Cinder walked between Shane and Rob.
"Fuck that Charlie. It's yours!" she yelled back. "God my mom is gonna kill me! I'm already in deep trouble. I guess this means no car."
"Don't worry, we'll explain this all to her somehow, C," Rob said with a cool calm smile.
"Can one of you give me a lift?" she asked.
"I'll drive you," Charlie said angrily as they all walked out into the bright hot sun.
"No way asshole," she growled.
"No prob. I gotcha," Shane said as they walked towards his car.
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"Ya sure you don't want me to stay around?" Shane asked as Cinder got out of the dark green SUV.
"No, I'll be fine," she answered. "Thanks for everything."
"Not a problem babe," he smiled as she walked into the empty house.
"CINDER?!" Adam yelled as she stepped into the living room.
"ADAM?!" she screamed as she threw her bag down, slightly startled.
"What the hell are you doin here?!" they yelled together. Adam sat up on the couch as she stood in front of him.
"I, um, you can't tell mom any of this," Adam said.
"Not a word," she replied.
"I skip the second half of school once a week. Depending on what's goin on," he answered.
"Dude, how?!"
"Well, unlike you, I only have one class that takes attendance and that class is in the morning. And I'm not watched like a hawk," he said.
"You suck!" she laughed.
"Now, what are you doin home?"
"I got suspended," she answered softly.
"What?!" he exclaimed as he stood.
"I got in a fight so I got suspended for the rest of the day."
"Lisa?"
"Yeah, you might think that, but no, not even close. And I wasn't alone."
"Then who?"
"I can't tell you."
"Kiddo, if you tell me, I might be able to get Mom to go easier on you."
"Adam, I can't tell you," she repeated as she shrugged her shoulders painfully.
"Tell me what happened."
"Well, um, please don't make me."
"What happened to your shoulders?!" he exclaimed.
"The person I was in a fight with wouldn't let me go," she answered as he walked away.
"Keep talking while I get you a couple ice packs," he said as he walked towards the kitchen. "Who was involved?"
"Rob, Shane, me, and someone else," she answered as she followed him. She hopped onto the bar stool as he walked towards her with kitchen towels and ice packs.
"Cinder, what happened?" he demanded to know as he placed the packs on her shoulders gently.
"Charlie started yelling at me for skipping with Jeff and was kinda accusing me of like cheating on him. Then he was yellin at me for not being able to go to the homecoming dance. So I told him if he didn't stop I'd punch his face in."
"So he didn't stop and you punched him."
"Right. In which he growled at me, gripped onto my shoulders as tight as possible, and wouldn't let me go."
"So how did the others come in?"
"Shane came to my rescue and demanded that he put me down."
"Did he?"
"Yeah, right into the lockers. He threw me right into them. My back and shoulder slammed right into them," she said softly as he turned her around on the stool and lifted her shirt up slightly. A light colored bruise was on her back and tender to the touch.
"That fuckin bastard," Adam growled.
"Adam, please don't get into any of this," Cinder pleaded as she looked into his eyes.
"Sweetie, he had no right to treat you like that."
"I know, but I'll take care of everything."
"Alright, so how did Rob get into this?"
"Well, while I was on the floor, Chris ran to me to check on me. Rob rushed to Shane's side and got pushed by Charlie. But you know Rob, he turned it into a backhand spring type move and laughed it off. So Charlie got pissed and went right after Rob and Shane. So I jumped up, and me being the fighter I am, I jumped right on his back. But it did no good. Chris tried to pull me off, but I wouldn't budge. Then Bischoff came and stopped it all, and suspended the four of us for the afternoon," Cinder explained.
"Jesus C. Mom is gonna kill you."
"I know. Guess this means no car," Cinder sighed.
"Let me talk to mom. If she understands what happened, she might not punish you for this fight."
"I should have just backed down and let him yell at me."
"No way. I taught you to stand up for yourself and you did. I'm proud of you. That asshole deserves everything that happened. Did you hurt him at all?"
"Well, you've been behind one of my angered punches, what do you think?"
"That's my girl," Adam laughed proudly.
"You must really hate Charlie now, huh?"
"Oh more than you can even imagine. Please tell me you're gonna break up with him."
"I don't know what I'm gonna do right now."
"Do you hurt badly?"
"Nah, I've got a high pain tolerance. You know that," she laughed as she playfully elbowed him in the stomach.
"Well, since mom won't be home for another few hours and I don't have practice today, why don't we go to the beach?"
"But I'm not supposed to leave the house to have any fun."
"I don't think Mom really needs to know about this," Adam smiled. Cinder smiled at him with a childish sparkle in her eye. "Go get in your bathing suit and grab your board miss THANG!" She hopped off the stool and ran up the stairs with Adam running right after her laughing all the way.
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"So, since I didn't hear from you Friday nite, I'm assuming you got in trouble?" Jeff asked as he and Cinder walked down the hall of the school.
"Um, yeah. Massively. I'm grounded for a month. No phone, dances, after school activities, band, or just hanging out. The only things I'm allowed to do is cheering," she answered as they stopped in front of his locker. "Plus if I get into anymore trouble between now and this Saturday my Mom won't take me car shopping."
"Oh man. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get you into that much trouble," Jeff apologized.
"That's okay. No big deal. I had so much fun that it was worth getting into all this trouble," she smiled. "I just have to make sure not to get into trouble between now and then. How about you? Did you get into too much trouble?"
"Oh shit yeah! My dad went mad crazy! I had never been that badly verbally assaulted by him before," he smiled.
"I'm sorry."
"You shouldn't be sorry at all. I had a lot of fun too, ya know."
"C, why didn't you return my calls this weekend?" Charlie asked as he ran up to her. She pulled her olive green cargos down on her hips more as he put his arms around her bare stomach. She giggled as he lightly kissed her neck.
"I'll see ya later C," Jeff called as he disappeared into the crowd of kids.
"So? What happened?" Charlie asked.
"I'm so grounded," she laughed.
"For what?" he asked as he turned her around so he could look into her blue eyes that stood out from the white eye shadow she wore.
"Jeff and I skipped all day Friday," she answered.
"And did what?!" he exclaimed.
"Chill Charlie," she frowned. "We just went bungee jumping and walked around the city and shit like that."
"Well, just as long as I have you on my arm at the homecoming dance I don't care," Charlie smiled as she let out a deep sigh.
"About the dance."
"Oh no. Cin, I was really looking forward to dancing with the princess of the court!" he yelled.
"I know, but I'm grounded for a month. I'm sorry."
"Jesus, this is my last homecoming dance at Wakefield. I wanted to go out with a fuckin bang!" he continued to yell.
"Charlie, if you don't stop yelling at me, I will seriously punch your face in," Cinder threatened as she crossed her arms.
"Well someone obviously needs to yell at you! God, think of someone but your self for a fuckin change!" With those last words Cinder pulled back and swung at Charlie's head, knocking his cheek with her fist. His head whipped back as she stared at him, glaring. He looked down at her and gripped her shoulders tightly, causing a sharp pain to flow through her body. "I don't believe you fuckin did that!"
"Let me go," Cinder growled.
"Don't you EVER hit me again!" he yelled in her face as he held her tighter. Cinder struggled to free herself from his grip, but had no luck.
"Charlie, let her go," Shane demanded as he walked up behind him. Cinder closed her eyes tightly as the pain continued and she felt herself being lifted off the ground. "Let her go man."
"Like I'm gonna take demands by some comic book nerd. Right," Charlie laughed as he pushed Cinder into the lockers and ganged up on Shane. Cinder's shoulder and back slammed into the lockers as she sat on the floor, her legs pulled up to her chin.
"Charlie, leave him alone," she spoke just as Charlie went to punch Shane. He turned to her quickly and laughed.
"Shut up!" he growled before turning his attention back to Shane.
"Don't ever touch her like that again," Shane demanded as Chris ran to Cinder's side and Rob ran up to Shane.
"You alright, Cin?" Chris asked in concern as he knelt down to her.
"I'll be fine," she whimpered.
"You don't look it," Chris said softly as he observed her slowly bruising shoulder. "You're already starting to bruise."
"I'll be fine," she repeated herself as Charlie pushed Rob back. Rob laughed as he turned the push into a backhand spring type move. Charlie's face grew into a scowl as he soon went after Shane. Cinder quickly jumped up and lunged at Charlie. She jumped on his back, but unfortunately her 135 lbs body didn't do much damage. She wrapped her strong legs around his stomach tightly as she held onto him. Chris walked up behind them and tried to take Cinder off Charlie's back but she fought tooth and nail.
"Whoa whoa whoa! What is goin on here?!" Mr. Bischoff yelled as he pushed through the crowd of people that had formed around them. Shane stopped mid punch while Cinder jumped off Charlie's back. She crossed her arms angrily and scowled. "I asked what is goin on here?!"
"He started it!" Shane and Charlie accused each other of being at fault.
"Charlie, Cinder, Shane, and Rob, all of you in my office, NOW!" he yelled as he stormed off for the office. Cinder sighed as she ran to catch up with Shane and Rob, leaving Charlie to trail behind them.
"Thank you Shane," Cinder said quietly.
"No problem. You okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she shrugged as they slowly walked into Bischoff's office.
"Would one of you care to tell me what the hell was going on out there?!" Bischoff screamed as he slammed his hands down on the desk causing Cinder to jump.
"I was trying to help Cinder, sir," Shane answered looking at the floor.
"Help Cinder with what?" he asked.
"Charlie had this death grip on her shoulders and she was pleading for him to let go, but he wouldn't. So I demanded that he do so and he threw her into the lockers. That's when the fight started," Shane explained.
"Now, Mr. Haas, what were you doing treating her that way?" Bischoff asked.
"She punched me sir," he replied rubbing his cheek.
"And why was that Miss Copeland?"
"He was yelling at me," she replied.
"He was yelling at you so you punched him?" he questioned.
"Yes sir."
"That's no reason to punch someone. What am I going to do with the 5 of you?" he said shaking his head as he paced the room. "Cinder, you're already in trouble with the school for skipping Friday."
"I know sir."
"And Rob, you already have detention for half the year."
"Yes sir, I know I do," Rob replied.
"You're all suspended from school for the rest of the day," Bischoff said.
"WHAT?!" Cinder and Charlie exclaimed.
"Don't argue with me or I'll suspend you all for the week!" he threatened. "Now go!" We all stormed out of his office and began walking down the hall.
"This is all your fault!" Charlie yelled as Cinder walked between Shane and Rob.
"Fuck that Charlie. It's yours!" she yelled back. "God my mom is gonna kill me! I'm already in deep trouble. I guess this means no car."
"Don't worry, we'll explain this all to her somehow, C," Rob said with a cool calm smile.
"Can one of you give me a lift?" she asked.
"I'll drive you," Charlie said angrily as they all walked out into the bright hot sun.
"No way asshole," she growled.
"No prob. I gotcha," Shane said as they walked towards his car.
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"Ya sure you don't want me to stay around?" Shane asked as Cinder got out of the dark green SUV.
"No, I'll be fine," she answered. "Thanks for everything."
"Not a problem babe," he smiled as she walked into the empty house.
"CINDER?!" Adam yelled as she stepped into the living room.
"ADAM?!" she screamed as she threw her bag down, slightly startled.
"What the hell are you doin here?!" they yelled together. Adam sat up on the couch as she stood in front of him.
"I, um, you can't tell mom any of this," Adam said.
"Not a word," she replied.
"I skip the second half of school once a week. Depending on what's goin on," he answered.
"Dude, how?!"
"Well, unlike you, I only have one class that takes attendance and that class is in the morning. And I'm not watched like a hawk," he said.
"You suck!" she laughed.
"Now, what are you doin home?"
"I got suspended," she answered softly.
"What?!" he exclaimed as he stood.
"I got in a fight so I got suspended for the rest of the day."
"Lisa?"
"Yeah, you might think that, but no, not even close. And I wasn't alone."
"Then who?"
"I can't tell you."
"Kiddo, if you tell me, I might be able to get Mom to go easier on you."
"Adam, I can't tell you," she repeated as she shrugged her shoulders painfully.
"Tell me what happened."
"Well, um, please don't make me."
"What happened to your shoulders?!" he exclaimed.
"The person I was in a fight with wouldn't let me go," she answered as he walked away.
"Keep talking while I get you a couple ice packs," he said as he walked towards the kitchen. "Who was involved?"
"Rob, Shane, me, and someone else," she answered as she followed him. She hopped onto the bar stool as he walked towards her with kitchen towels and ice packs.
"Cinder, what happened?" he demanded to know as he placed the packs on her shoulders gently.
"Charlie started yelling at me for skipping with Jeff and was kinda accusing me of like cheating on him. Then he was yellin at me for not being able to go to the homecoming dance. So I told him if he didn't stop I'd punch his face in."
"So he didn't stop and you punched him."
"Right. In which he growled at me, gripped onto my shoulders as tight as possible, and wouldn't let me go."
"So how did the others come in?"
"Shane came to my rescue and demanded that he put me down."
"Did he?"
"Yeah, right into the lockers. He threw me right into them. My back and shoulder slammed right into them," she said softly as he turned her around on the stool and lifted her shirt up slightly. A light colored bruise was on her back and tender to the touch.
"That fuckin bastard," Adam growled.
"Adam, please don't get into any of this," Cinder pleaded as she looked into his eyes.
"Sweetie, he had no right to treat you like that."
"I know, but I'll take care of everything."
"Alright, so how did Rob get into this?"
"Well, while I was on the floor, Chris ran to me to check on me. Rob rushed to Shane's side and got pushed by Charlie. But you know Rob, he turned it into a backhand spring type move and laughed it off. So Charlie got pissed and went right after Rob and Shane. So I jumped up, and me being the fighter I am, I jumped right on his back. But it did no good. Chris tried to pull me off, but I wouldn't budge. Then Bischoff came and stopped it all, and suspended the four of us for the afternoon," Cinder explained.
"Jesus C. Mom is gonna kill you."
"I know. Guess this means no car," Cinder sighed.
"Let me talk to mom. If she understands what happened, she might not punish you for this fight."
"I should have just backed down and let him yell at me."
"No way. I taught you to stand up for yourself and you did. I'm proud of you. That asshole deserves everything that happened. Did you hurt him at all?"
"Well, you've been behind one of my angered punches, what do you think?"
"That's my girl," Adam laughed proudly.
"You must really hate Charlie now, huh?"
"Oh more than you can even imagine. Please tell me you're gonna break up with him."
"I don't know what I'm gonna do right now."
"Do you hurt badly?"
"Nah, I've got a high pain tolerance. You know that," she laughed as she playfully elbowed him in the stomach.
"Well, since mom won't be home for another few hours and I don't have practice today, why don't we go to the beach?"
"But I'm not supposed to leave the house to have any fun."
"I don't think Mom really needs to know about this," Adam smiled. Cinder smiled at him with a childish sparkle in her eye. "Go get in your bathing suit and grab your board miss THANG!" She hopped off the stool and ran up the stairs with Adam running right after her laughing all the way.