Chapter 27

"Coach! He's back, he's back!" gasped Megan. She laid Cody on a bed and laboured to explain. "Sebastien and Squib are beating him up behind the faculty residence! YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! KILL HIM!" She slammed the wall as her hands shook with anger.
"Are they still there?" Coach Gunnerson asked.
"I don't know! I'm got to help them!" Megan was about to run out of his office, but he caught her before she got out.
"No! We don't need more students involved in this. Take care of Cody, call an ambulance, find more staff to help me." She stared at him. "GET GOING O'CONNOR!" With that, he dashed towards Squib, Sebastien and Jake.
"Break it up boys!" he thundered as he raced towards them. "Break it UP!"
They paid him no heed as he tried to pull them apart. Realizing they were too strong, he ran into the residence and banged on the doors of his colleagues. The other coaches and teachers ran out to stop the fight, Dr. Myer's among them.
With all the extra help, it wasn't difficult separating them. "WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?" roared President Bates. "Who is this?"
"He was trying to get Cody again!" huffed Sebastien. "She broke her leg trying to get out of the window."
Dr. Myer's paled. "What do you mean, get Cody?"
"She didn't tell you?" Coach Gunnerson was surprised. He thought for sure Cody's father would know.
Squib flinched. "SHUT UP! WHERE'S CODY?" When he heard the ambulance, he wrenched free of whomever was holding him, and sprinted to meet it.
"You people are all crazy!" spat Jake.
"ARHHHHH!" Sebastien too got free and landed on top of Jake again, punching and kicking violently. Too soon, they were separated, and all eyes were on Sebastien.
"You better explain yourself, and you better do it fast Mr. Dubé!" threatened President Bates.
"He's a rapist! Before Cody came here, he'd been abusing her!" He turned to Dr. Myer's. "A week before you took her to Cascadia, he forced her to have sex with him. He beat her up so bad she couldn't resist! Then she went to him a few days ago to ask him to pretend to be my band for the dance, and he did but only if she slept with him again. When we all found out, we got Cody to cancel the gig, but he came back anyways. He said she owed him, and he was looking for her that day in the caf. He came back, tonight. He got in the house and Cody couldn't get away because he'd broken her wrist…but she tried to climb out her window anyways and broke her leg. He was going to rape her you have to kill him!"
"BS!" Jake yelled. "I was just visiting an old friend!"
"LIAR!" Sebastien could barely control himself. Dr. Myer's emerged from the crowd and studied Jake.
"I have nothing to say to you." He turned, holding back tears and ran to the ambulance.
"Bring these two boys to my office. I'll call the police, and we can all have a little chat," said President Bates. "They c-"
"I need to see Cody and Megan," interrupted Sebastien.
Bates was about to disagree, but Coach Gunnerson said, "He needs to go to the hospital anyways. He's probably made his arm worse."
The crowd cleared as Gunns and Sebastien made their way to the hospital in silence. Each of them feared what they might find there- was Cody okay?