Selena's POV
During homeroom I got a text from Nick, asking me to meet him by my locker. I knew that he would probably have heard by now that I was gay. I texted back to tell him I'd be there and put my phone back in my pocket. My stomach was in knots at the thought of how this conversation would go.
The end of homeroom came quicker than usual and I walked slowly to my locker, where Nick was waiting for me, leaning against my locker. As I walked over to him I felt eyes watching me from every direction possible. I suddenly felt really uncomfortable walking and just wanted to go home. The warning bell rang and people left, once everyone was gone Nick raised an eyebrow at me.
"Please tell me that what I've heard from Becky Roberts is a complete lie and you are not a lesbian." He said angrily. I looked down at my shoes and then back up at Nick.
"I'm sorry. I was going to tell you today before you found out for yourself, but obviously it's too late. I'm so sorry." I told him honestly. Nick shook his head and he looked suddenly angry.
"I can't fucking believe this! People are going to say I turned you gay! Do you know how fucking shit that's going to look on me?" He shouted at me, getting right up close to my face.
"I'm sorry." I whispered. He growled at me and before I knew what happened I felt a sharp pain in my cheek; he'd punched me. My hand went straight up to where his fist had hit me and I clutched my cheek in pain. He punched me again, but in the nose this time. I felt liquid build up in my nose and I knew he'd caused it to start bleeding. My head started spinning and I couldn't see properly, I was in so much pain it was unbelievable.
He hit me one more time; in the stomach this time, and the pain was too much. I fell to the floor, clutching my stomach for dear life, wishing only that he would leave me there to die from the pain. My wish came true because he walked off after spitting on me. I heard him mutter something about 'fucked up dyke.'
I'm not sure how long I was left lying there for, but I remember a loud scream and then being scooped up into a pair of arms and carried somewhere; I'm not sure where.
I must've fallen asleep at some point because when I opened my eyes everything was blurry and the room I was in was bright, really bright. I noticed that I was lying on something soft, and it definitely wasn't the floor I'd fallen on previously.
"Where am I?" I asked the blurry figure peering over me. I couldn't quite make out who it was but there were three of them. I blinked a few times to try and get my vision back to normal and I saw that the three people were my Mom, the principle, Mrs Jacobs and Miss. Lovato.
"You're in the hospital sweetie." My mom told me, taking my hand in hers. I smiled at her and noticed that I wasn't hooked up to any machines but I felt a cotton wool bud tapped to my nose which felt slightly wet from blood.
"What happened, why am I here?" I asked them, not completely sure what happened after Nick started hitting me.
"Somebody beat you up…" Mrs Jacobs started to say but I cut her off.
"I know that, I mean what happened after that, did I pass out or something?" I asked them wanting to know why the hell I'd ended up in hospital.
"I had a free period first lesson and I was taking some papers to Mrs Jacobs, but I saw you lying on the floor by the lockers. You were awake but I think you were delirious, I carried you into my classroom and you passed out on the way. The office phoned for an ambulance when you didn't wake up after ten minutes and you were brought here. The office secretary phoned your mom and we've all been here waiting for you to wake up for eight hours. The doctor said if you'd been left for any longer you probably would have died from head injuries; you were brought here just in time." Miss. Lovato told me as she smiled sympathetically at me.
"Thanks, I'll be grateful for that forever." I muttered, unsure of what to say. The woman had saved my life.
"It's no problem. I just did what I knew I had to do." Miss. Lovato said with a smile. I smiled weakly back at her and turned to Mrs Jacobs when I heard her clear her throat.
"Selena, do you remember who actually did this to you?" Mrs Jacobs asked the question I'm sure all three of them wanted to know the answer too. I nodded my head and told them.
"It was Nick Jonas." I told them. My mom and Miss. Lovato gasped in shock and Mrs Jacobs looked at me in shock.
"Your boyfriend? But why on earth would he do that to you?" She asked me, clearly surprised that it was him of all people.
"Because he found out that I'm gay. He thinks people will think he 'turned me' that way." I told her calmly. My mom cried; I could see from the corner of my eye that there were tears running down her cheeks.
"Oh my god, Selena I'm so sorry, it's my fault, I shouldn't have urged you to tell people. This is my entire fault." Miss. Lovato said sadly with wide eyes at the thought that she caused what happened.
"It's not your fault; you didn't make me tell them, that was my own choice so please, do not think that this is in any way down to you. Nor you mom, before you think that as well." I said, quickly turning to face my mom who I knew would be thinking the same as Miss. Lovato.
"I'm sorry baby girl. You don't have to go back there if you don't want to. I'll move your school so that you don't have to put up with anything else like that again." My mom said with a smile. I shook my head quickly.
"I don't want to move schools, I'm going to get that kind of thing wherever I go, and at least there I'm hopefully over the worst of it. I have Meg there and there's no point in moving me because there's only a year left." They were my reasons for wanting to stay, but I also wanted to stay because of Miss. Lovato. Because of what she did for me, making sure I got to the hospital and everything, my slight crush on her had grew bigger and I didn't want to leave knowing she was at the school.
"Selena honey, I would really prefer it if you moved." My mom said. I was about to reply when Mrs Jacobs replied.
"If Selena doesn't want to move then I can have her seats moved in all her classes and I can have her leave her classes and go to the next one 5 minutes late so she doesn't have any encounters like that again because everyone will already be in class by the time she leaves. For break and lunch times she can go and stay in a classroom with one of the teachers or she can go home for lunch. It's better than having her school work messed around by moving her in her final and most important year." Mrs Jacobs told my mom who looked like she was contemplating it.
"You're welcome to come and sit in my room during break times, you can you the computer in there or just do whatever you want to." Miss. Lovato offered before my mom could answer.
"Selena, would you be happy to do that?" My mom asked me. My god, jackpot; quality time with Miss. Lovato every day for five days a week? I wasn't exactly going to say no.
"Yeah, if that's alright with you lot, I really don't want to leave and that would be better for my school work as Mrs Jacobs said. If I have any more major problems with Nick or anyone else then I guess I'll leave but unless that happens I don't really want to." I said as I thought of the kind of shit I would probably get from Nick when I got home.
"You won't get any more trouble from Nick, I can tell you now. I'm going to have him in my office with his parents as soon as I get back and any more incidents occur, he'll be out of the school quicker than he can say he's sorry." Mrs Jacobs said with a reassuring smile. I shook my head violently at what she said.
"No, please don't do anything about this, if you do it'll just cause more trouble. Please just leave it and if anything else happens, then you can have his parents in and stuff." I asked Mrs Jacobs sadly.
"Selena, the boy nearly killed you!" My mom said, shocked that I didn't want anything done.
"I know, and if his parents get called in, I'm pretty sure he will kill me next time." I said seriously. I knew Nick, I'd been dating him for three months, I knew what the boy was like.
"Alright, I won't call his parents in, I'll have him in detention for a month and I'll warn him that if anything else happens he will no longer be welcome in the school. Is that okay with you?" Mrs Jacobs asked me.
"If I say no you're still going to go ahead and do it, aren't you?" I asked her. She nodded and Miss. Lovato chuckled slightly from her seat in the corner. "Fine then, do that." I said.
"Right then, I'm going to go now seeing as I have to pick my daughter up from after school club. I'll sort Nick out tomorrow and I'll see you back at school when you're back." Mrs Jacobs said as she got up from the seat she was sitting in. I nodded and she waved. "I hope you feel better soon, Selena." She said with a smile.
"Selena, are you okay? You don't feel ill or anything?" Miss. Lovato asked me as she moved into the seat Mrs Jacobs had been sitting in so that she was closer to my bed.
"I'm alright, my cheek and my nose are both sort of throbbing and my stomach feels like I've been winded, but other than that I'm okay." I told both, Miss. Lovato and my mom who I knew also wanted to know the answer to the question.
"Oh baby girl, I'm so sorry that this happened." My mom said sadly, looking like she was about to cry again.
"It's not your fault mom, you didn't make me tell people. It's not anyone's fault." I told my mom who still had my hand grasped in hers. Miss. Lovato smiled at me and then pulled her phone out of her pocket.
"Oh crap, its 5.30, I have to go, I have a date with Kristen in an hour. I'm sorry, I'll see you when you're back, Selena." She said as she got up from the seat she was sitting in and shook my mom's hand.
"Nice meeting you again." She said to my mom who nodded.
"You too and thank you, if it wasn't for you my only daughter would probably be dead." My mom said with an extremely grateful smile.
"Thank you Miss. Lovato, I'll never ever forget this." I told her honestly with a genuine smile.
"You're welcome. I'll see you soon." Miss. Lovato said before she left the room.
"Are you sure you're okay baby?" My mom asked me worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm alright. I'm just really tired, do you mind if I go to sleep?" I asked my mom who shook her head. I moved around a bit in the bed I was in and finally got comfy with the thin pillow folded over into two so that it was thicker.
"I love you." My mom whispered to me before kissing my forehead.
"I love you too." I told my mom quietly as sleep began to take over my body.
Two days later
I was let out of hospital the next day and was back at school the day after, after convincing my mom that I would be okay. My mom took me to school at eleven, when everyone else was already in lessons. We went straight to Mrs Jacobs's office as we had been instructed the day before through a phone call from Mrs Jacobs herself.
"Hello there, Mrs Gomez, Selena. How're you feeling today?" She asked as she gestured towards the seats in front of the desk she was sitting at. My mom and I both sat down on a seat and I answered her.
"I'm okay thanks, a lot better that I was the other day." I told her with a smile.
"Glad to hear it. Now, with regards to your lessons, you'll still have the same schedule as you only have two lessons with Nick Jonas. I've spoken to Mr. Harding and he's said that he'll move your seat as far away from Nick as possible and of course Miss. Lovato has already agreed to it before the incident. All the teachers are aware that you'll be staying in class for five minutes after everyone else and will be arriving five minutes after everyone else. Miss. Lovato is happy to have you in her room at break times and if she's not in there she said she'll leave you with the keys." Mrs Jacobs explained. My mom and I both nodded along in agreement and when she was finished speaking my mom spoke.
"Thank you for help. What's happened to Nick?" She asked Mrs Jacobs.
"Aah, he has been given a month of detention where he will be either writing lines or scrapping the chewing gum from underneath the tables. I've also told him that if he so much as looks at you in a way that upsets you then he will be out of the school and he won't be back. It's vital that you come straight to me or another teacher if he does so because if you don't he'll think he can get away with treating you like that." Mrs Jacobs explained.
"I will, I promise." I told her. Mrs Jacobs nodded her head and looked at the clock behind her. It was ten past eleven.
"Okay then, morning break has just this second begun so would you like to go to Miss. Lovato's room or stay in here and then go to your next lesson in twenty five minutes?" Mrs Jacobs asked me. I was grateful for everything she'd done for me, but I'd rather be in Miss. Lovato's room.
"I'll go to Miss. Lovato's room if that's okay, I'd like to speak with her anyway and thank her again for what she did for me." I told Mrs Jacobs who nodded and smiled.
"I'll take you there so that you don't have any trouble on the way." Mrs Jacobs said as she got up from her purple swivel chair.
"Sweetie, invite her round for dinner tomorrow night, to thank her for what she did." My mom suggested. I knew that my dad wouldn't be in, he was only ever at home on Saturday nights and Sundays but for the past two weeks he'd been working in LA so he was staying in a hotel there.
"That's okay isn't it Mrs Jacobs? There's no rules about that kind of thing is there?" I asked the principle, who shook her head to tell me it was okay. "Okay then, see you later mom. I love you." I told my mom as I hugged her goodbye.
"I love you too. Have a good day and be careful. I'll pick you up after school." She said before she kissed my cheek softly. We all left the office and my mom went right and out of the school, whilst I went right, following Mrs Jacobs to Miss. Lovato's room.
There was only about twenty pupils in the school building, the rest were all outside. None of them were from my year but they all stared; they all knew who I was and were shocked when they saw the huge purple bruise on my cheek.
Mrs Jacobs nodded at me and left when we reached Miss. Lovato's room. I knocked the door and she called me in without looking up from her computer screen.
"Oh, Selena, how are you?" She asked, clearly surprised to see me.
"I'm okay thank you. Uhm… my mom wants me to invite you to dinner tomorrow night, to thank you for what you did for me." I asked her shyly. Miss. Lovato grinned bashfully and nodded.
"I'd love to, what time?" she asked.
"Probably around 5ish, have you got some paper so I can write our address down?" I asked her. She nodded and pushed a plain piece of paper to me along with a pen.
"Great, so we'll see you Friday night?" I asked her.
"I look forward to it." She said with a smile.
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