Chapter One: No One

Alex exited the school with her hands in her pockets, not expecting anyone to be waiting for her. Her mother was probably too bruised to move, and her step-father would be wishing she was the one shot.

Jay walked up behind her wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "I'm taking you to my house," he led her towards his orange civic.

She stopped. "No Jay, if my mom has heard about the shooting, and I don't come home, she'll be scared out of her mind, I can't do that to her. Just take me home, ok?" she said with more of a demand, than a question.

He looked around quickly to make sure no one would over hear them, "But Lexxi, I can't let you go back to him." he said with a pleading look in his caring blue eyes.

"Jay we go through this everyday, I can't and won't leave my mom there. Now are you going to take me home, or do I have to walk?"

Knowing when he was beat he opened the door for her in response, and opened his own, got in and started his car.

She silently got into the car and went to shut the door, but had a microphone shoved in her face instead.

"Did you witness the shooting?" the obnoxious reporter asked a very annoyed Alex.

"No," she said simply, attempting to shut the door again but the camera man, stuck his hand out and stopped it.

"Do you know anyone who witnessed it, or got shot or the shooter?"

"I knew them all, dumbass I do go to school with them."

"I meant were any of them your friends"

"Yes, now if you don't let me shut this door right now I'll make you wish you had." she snapped with a look that would kill in a matter of seconds.

The reporter and the camera man quickly walked away from her.

Alex slammed the door before angrily putting her seatbelt on. Jay knew better than to say anything to her when she was like this, so he just turned the radio on. As he did, Avril Lavigne's voice came drifting through the speakers.

She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken insi-

Alex turned the radio back off.

"Sorry." Jay said quietly.

"It's not your fault, you can't control the radio. Just drive, I need to get home."