Rinnnnnnnng...Rinnnnnnnnnng... Kagome jerked awake and realized that the phone was ringing. She glanced at the clock. 6:00 in the morning. She answered the phone and said "Hello?" tiredly.
"Kagome you are going to school today aren't you?" Sango asked. Kagome groaned. Sango really did know her too well.
"No I'm not. I want to give the swelling another day to go down and do you really think I want to see Koga?"
"You know he'll come to your house after school if you don't show up."
"Easy I'll just pretend that I'm not home." Sango was silent for a few seconds.
"You know that won't work. Remember the last time you tried to do that?" Kagome remembered and the memory shook her to the core. It was after the first time he hit her. Back then he only hit her where no one would see. She was planning on breaking up with him and she just wanted to be by herself for a day before she got enough courage to do it. Koga pounded on her door after he got out of school and when she didn't answer he climbed the vines that grew on the side of her house to look in her window. Kagome not expecting him to do that was in plain sight, watching her television.
She had been terrified to look out her window and see Koga's mean face looking at her.
"Kagome I'm still coming to pick you up. You better be ready." Sango said.
"Sango would you want to go to school like this?" Kagome spat into the phone.
"Kagome I wouldn't but I would because I wouldn't let some jerk scare me away. I would act like it barley fazed me." Kagome smiled at Sango's strong personality.
"But Sango, I'm not you." Kagome said quietly into to the phone.
"Kagome don't worry. Inuyasha has a lot of classes with you so it won't be all that bad."
"Alright, I'm just worried with how Koga will act." Kagome said into the phone before hanging up.
A half hour later Sango was in Kagome's driveway and Kagome ran out to meet her. Kagome was wearing a denim mini skirt and a light green long-sleeved top with the ends of the arms flared. The mini skirt reveled more purple and green bruises that had been left behind by Koga.
"I figured if I had to show my face, then it wouldn't hurt to wear my favorite skirt." She said to Sango. Sango nodded her approval and started to drive to school. Kagome looked at herself in the mirror. She winced when she saw her rainbow colored face but was glad of her hairstyle. She had pulled half of it up like Sango had done Friday. "Koga is going to kill me." She said aloud.
"I won't let him. Remember I know a few moves myself." Sango said. Kagome wished that she had Sango's bravery. If she was Sango Koga would have already been out of her life.
Inuyasha walked into first period expecting to be bored. He hadn't seen Kagome earlier so he was guessing that Kagome stayed home. He couldn't blame her. As he walked in however, he saw Kagome sitting in her seat copying the assignment on the bored in her agenda.
He smiled and was about to make his presence known when he noticed what she was wearing. She had a green top on that looked fabulous on her, but she was also wearing a mini skirt that normally would have made him drool, but he noticed all the bruises on her legs.
Kagome looked up and Inuyasha stopped staring. He sat down in his seat next to her. "Aren't you worried about what Koga is going to say?" He asked her.
"Terrified. Why do you think I got to class so early?" She replied. Inuyasha was about to say something when Hojo came over to him and started to talk to him.
"Inuyasha how was your date with Kikyou? I saw you two at the movie theater." He said. Inuyasha wanted to kill the creep. He knew the only reason he was talking to him, was to get close to Kagome. It was clear that he still had the hots for her.
He heard Kagome gasped when she heard that. Inuyasha looked over at her, than answered Hojo.
"The movie was good."
Inuyasha went to see a movie with Kikyou? Why would he do that? Kagome asked herself. She looked over at him and heard him say, "The movie was good." Does that mean that the date sucked? She asked herself. Hojo walked off and she gave Inuyasha a curios stare.
"Kagome the only reason I did that was to get closer to you. You yourself said that the only people Koga let around you were Sango, Miroku, and Kikyou and a current boyfriend." Kagome remembered saying the words. "I need to be able to be around you out of school Kagome. In case Koga pulls something..."
"Koga won't pull anything with people around." She mused. "No it's only when I tell him no to sex or if I talk to a guy and Koga thinks I like them or whatever. Inuyasha I thought you told me you hated Kikyou as much as I did?" She asked.
"I do, but I want to spend time with you, Sango, and Miroku." Inuyasha said. Kagome was about to say something else, but the final bell rang and the teacher started in about Algebra II. Koga isn't going to be happy about this. Espically since he told me specifically that I was to stay away from Inuyasha at all costs.
At that moment the door opened and the office aide walked in. Kagome turned pale and closed her eyes in horror. It was Koga. Koga delivered the note for the teacher and took a good look at Kagome. His eyes turned an icy shade of blue, then he walked out.
Sango noticed that Kagome was just picking at her food at lunch. "Kagome you know you should really eat more." Kagome looked up with scared eyes. Sango knew that she had been avoiding Koga and it was taking its toll on her.
"If it was a normal day I wouldn't be eating this either you know. I just bought it to look occupied." She said.
Sango looked at Inuyasha who still looked green. Kikyou had made a special visit to A lunch to say hello to her new boyfriend. She came over hugged him and gave him a full kiss on the lips. Sango had been astonished. Inuyasha had explained why he was dating Kikyou, even though he was completely disgusted.
Miroku was still laughing at Inuyasha's expression. "If you want to convince Koga that you have no interest in Kagome and that your hung up on Kikyou, then you better do a better job than that." Inuyasha glared at Miroku.
"Inuyasha, you don't have to do this for me you know." Kagome said. Inuyasha was about to say something when the Vice Principal came over.
"Kagome, will you please come with me?" Kagome visibly paled. She nodded. "Sango take my tray up for me?" She asked. Sango nodded and watched her friend walk away trembling.
"Wonder what's going to happen." She mused aloud.
Kagome sat in the uncomfortable chair across from the principal, her guidance counselor, and the officer that worked in the school. The principal, Mr. Elberfeld, had just asked her how she was treated at home.
"My mother wouldn't lay a hand on me! I-I fell." Kagome said.
"Why are you covering for you mother? Its oblivious that you were hit. There is a red hand print on your face." Mr. Moeler her guidance counselor pointed out. "Why don't you tell us what happened." He suggested.
Kagome barley heard him. She was struggling with herself wether to tell or not. She saw herself at a forked road. On one side was Koga, happy and smiling because she had lied for him. One the other side she saw herself constantly looking over her shoulder terrified he would come after her because she told.
"Kagome?" Mr. Elberfeld asked. Tears sprang to Kagome's eyes. She looked at them.
"How can you make me do this? Don't you think if I wanted your help I would have asked already? My mother would never lay a hand on me. If you do anything to say she did I will have her pull me out of this school and we will sue. Who hit me is none of your concern. It won't happen again." Kagome was openly sobbing.
Her mother had seen her face already. She knew it was Koga and was prepared to call Koga's parents and the police to get a restriction order. Kagome had stopped her.
"Mom no! He'll get mad!"
"Kagome you can't let yourself be pushed around by him!"
"Mom he'll do it again if I tell, and he might try to do something to you or Gramps." Kagome's mom gasped and her hand had flown to her mouth.
"He's threatened us?" Kagome nodded. "That's it. We're moving." Kagome cried and tried to convince her mom there was another way but she wouldn't have any of it.
"I won't talk anymore to you guys." Kagome said. She got up and left the office and headed back to lunch.
"I don't think it's her mother." The officer said.
"No it's probable a boyfriend. Did you see the bruises on her legs?"
"Yes this has been going on for a while now." The officer agreed. The principal got on the computer and looked up Kagome's schedule. He called up the teachers she had and told them to keep a look out on Kagome. See if they could over hear any conversation between herself and her peers and try to figure out who was abusing her. "Call Sango Takashi to the office." Mr. Elberfeld said to the secretary.
