Thanks to all who reviewed. Chapter 27!
Mack and Coach Bolton walked into the West High gym to see a team on team fight. Everyone was so bloody and bruised, Coach Bolton could hardly tell his players from the Knights. "Hey, break it up guys! Break it up!" He started to pull players off of players and push them to the sides of the gym. At the very bottom of the pile of fighting basketball players were Troy and Cam, looking as awful as ever. Both boys were even more bruised and bloody then their teammates.
"Stop it!" Mack yelled at the two teenagers, from behind her dad. Troy and Cam reluctantly stopped fighting, but still held the looks of hatred on their faces. Coach Bolton grabbed Troy by the arm and pulled him up and off of Cam.
Mack looked around. The team she had learned to love like brothers looked horrible and unusual with their bruises and bleeding cuts. It looked as if everyone of the team did their fair share, even Ryan which made her laugh. But she stopped chuckling when she looked at Troy. He looked natural with the blood streaming out of his nose and mouth. The coach pushed Troy toward the door, making the injured boy moan and almost fall over.
"If you can fight Troy, you can walk to the car," Jack said in an angry tone. He turned his attention to the team. "Come on, everyone out." Mack watched as he gave the hardest glares to the kids that were like his sons, Chad, Jason and Zeke, making them feel even worse about what their little act of revenge.
Once they were outside in the parking lot, Coach Bolton's calmness was soon forgotten. "I am very disappointed in you boys. No only did you break into another gym and try to destroy it, but you got yourselves hurt! I thought you would have had more brains than that!"
"The fight wasn't our fault, Coach," Chad said in a whisper.
"Then whose fault was it?"
"Cam Boucher," Jason answered for Chad.
"It was your faults, every single one of you! He walked in on you ruining his gym!"
"But Dad," Troy interrupted.
"I don't want to hear anything from you Troy, you'll have plenty of time to speak at home! Go get in the car!" Troy hung his head and walked very slowly toward the car. "Don't you get blood on my seat either!"
He turned to his team and shook his head. Every member had been there except the two seniors, who were practicing for the North vs. South all-star game. He looked every boy in the face before finally speaking. "I should kick each and every one of you off the team, but I'm not going to. You guys are better than that and I know how sorry you are, but I want it in writing. Five paragraph essay, on my desk by 2:30 tomorrow afternoon, on why what you did was wrong. I'll see you tomorrow."
All the boys walked off in the direction of their homes, knowing that they shouldn't make their coach even angrier. They all knew that they had gotten the easy sentence. Troy was going to get yelled at harder than anyone of them, and he hadn't even wanted to really be there.
Once he had seen that all the boys were well on their way home, Jack turned to look at his car. Troy was sitting in the front seat, sucking on his shirt to make the bleeding in his mouth stop. Mack was rummaging through the back to find any scrap of cloth that Troy could use to clot the bleeding until they got home. Jack walked a little quicker to the car than he normally would. He opened the door and sat in the drivers seat before taking a good look at his son. His nose was still bleeding and Jack had a feeling it might have been broken. His blue and white striped button up shirt was covered with red blotches. Troy had unbuttoned it to stick part of it in his mouth, showing a white undershirt that was no longer white but a bright red color. Jack could tell that Troy was having trouble breathing because of the shirt and his nose, he was taking long, labored breaths. He touched Troy abdomen and pulled back immediately when he winced. Jack was sure most of his ribs were broken.
Troy took the shirt out of his mouth and -although the bleeding hadn't stopped- said, "I'm sorry, Dad."
Jack sighed as he started the car. He didn't know what he felt. He felt disappointed in Troy's actions and worried because of the shape he was in.
"I know Buddy," he said, ruffling Troy's hair very gently. They pulled in the driveway and the coach looked at his son. "Lets go get you cleaned up." They both got out of the car, leaving Mack to silently take everything in.
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"Cam what happened to you?" Karen Boucher said as Cam walked through the door. She and Daniel walked over to the limping boy, completely forgetting about the boy they had just been punishing. Calum wasn't going to come home, he was going to stay at Teagan's, until his father came to pick him up from the meeting. Since he had gotten home, the only thing they had done was scream and yell at him, occasionally slapping him for being 'so stupid.'
"It's nothing," Cam said as he collapsed into a chair. "Bolton and I just got in a fight, that's all."
Mrs. Boucher ran to get water, ice and towels to clean him up, but Mr. Boucher stayed in the same spot, his concerned face changed and he now held a smug look.
"I told you he'd never forgive you. I told you he was heartless, but no, you didn't believe me. Do you believe me now Cam? Bolton's think of themselves, and only themselves." He let out a disgusted sound. "Ugh, look at you! Bolton did a great job," he slid his hand fiercely down a deep gash in Cam's face, making him whimper.
"Was that a whimper? You're worthless," he said, shoving his blood-covered hand in Cam's face. "Good for nothing imbecile! I bet Bolton came back unscathed. Do you know what that means Cam?"
Cam was about to answer when his father interrupted him, "no, you don't because you're too stupid to have known that!"
"Here we go Cam, let's clean you up," Mrs. Boucher said coming back into the room. Calum could tell that she had heard their father, but was denying he ever said that, because that's what she always did. He hopped off the chair unnoticed by his mother and father, but he felt Cam's eyes on him the entire way up the stairs.
Not my favorite, but it had to be done so we can hear what happens after. Tell me what you think!
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