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Disclaimer: If this was mine, I'd be too busy happy-dancing to write fanfiction.

Chapter 2

"Melvin, have you seen Bucky today? He's taking forever," The boy shrugged in response.
"Alas, he was not in Chemistry. I was going to lend him a game, but he didn't come to see me for it," The rain pattered against the windows of the library with tree braches flailing wildly at the windows as though begging to be let in. The smoky clouds eclipsed the sun, leaving only the occasional lightning flash to kill the darkness. Thunder's voice boomed and shouted in unison with the dull ticking of the clock. "Let us give him five more minutes before we soldier on without him. The fair maiden won't rescue herself,"

Twenty minutes later, the two were still waiting.
"I could have been studying this whole time," Beatrice joked, or tried to."Where do you suppose he is? He's never late,"
"Maybe he went without us?"
"Maybe. We'll give him two more minutes-"
"You said that fifteen minutes ago,"
"Did I? That went quick," The girl squinted out the window for a moment. Wind and wetness, but no sign of their friend. "Maybe you're right. Sorry about making you wait," Melvin nodded.
"'Tis not a problem. Come on, before the heavens open again," he added before the nerds stepped out of the library, books over their heads to protect them from the cold, constant rain.

They didn't get very far before Christy darted over like a dog after a rabbit.
"Beatrice," she panted, wringing her ponytail out. "I heard that Bucky's in hospital- is it true?" Her eyes flashed with excitement at the concept of getting some fresh gossip. The nerds looked at each other, faces paler than calcium.
"W-What did you say?" the nerd girl checked, aching for the gossip to start laughing, to say she was joking.
"Bucky- Angie told me that Pedro told her that he heard Crabblesnitch tell Miss Danvers that Bucky was in hospital," The fact that this was fourth hand was little reassurance. I looked at an equally shocked Melvin.
"He's your roommate, isn't he? Please tell me she's joking," At this, Melvin went whiter than the abominable snowman.
"Um- I didn't see him this morning, but he usually gets up early and goes to the library. I thought he was there," The gossip vulture was still staring, that sick , sinister imagination of hers probably concocting something horrid.
"Christy- Are you absolutely sure? Is he ok? What happened to him?" Appalled by the mad belief that a friend's safety mattered more than gossip, the non-clique student rolled her eyes.
"Angie says he's at the hospital now with all sorts of breaks and bruises, according to Lois."

That was all the boy's friends needed to hear. The blonde girl rushed over to her bike, waited the millisecond it took Melvin to jump on his, then peddled madly, pleading quietly, over and over like a song on a loop.

"Please let him be all right,"