I didn't follow him yesterday afternoon, and I am beginning to think that that was a mistake because he comes in with fresh bruises and a busted lip and he seems to have a little bit of trouble moving his shoulders. He lays his head down as soon as he sits down. The bell rings a few minutes later and I turn the video on so that all I have to do is hit play, though the only people that know that I'm about to play a video is the 'geeky' kids.
"Turn your attention to the board," I say and I get greeted by several groans. "I am going to play a movie and there will be questions afterwards, so please pay attention." It's on the subject that we are on and the questions are easy, so this is actually a time waster even if it has a grade attached to it. I sit at my desk and tune out the Romeo and Juliet video as I finish grading the papers that has somehow taken days to do. I keep glancing up from the papers to look at Danny, who feel asleep almost as soon as I hit play. I hand the papers to his row last because I don't want to wake the poor boy up. He looks flustered until he reads the questions and realises that it's the same paper that he did for extra credit a few weeks ago when we where working on grammar in Shakespeare's time. He ends up being the first one to finish and I even have enough time to go ahead and grade it; I smile proudly at the ninety five plastered in his paper in red ink. He only missed one. At least this grade won't upset him or make anything worse. Aaron sets his paper down and interrupts my thoughts.
Later in tutoring:
He managed to avoid getting a detention today, yet he walks into the room anyways, but this time Paulina, Star, and Kwan are joining him since I caught Paulina cheating on a test and Star and Kwan was running down the halls, yelling. It was almost like Star and Kwan wanted detention.
"Danny, your assignment is to write about your school day. Everyone else can read," I say.
"Why do you want Danny to do an assignment and not us?" Kwan asks.
"Because he's in here for extra credit assignments and you're in here for detention," I explain. Danny raises his hand after a few minutes of frantically searching his pockets and bag. "Yes, Danny?"
"I forgot my pencil in my locker," he says and two of the three 'A-Listers', as they're called, gawk at him since this is the first time they have heard him talk since the accident that stole his friends lives.
"Here," I hand him a pencil that was lying on my desk. I look over his shoulder as he writes and see that most of it says 'there was a test in so and so' s class that was boring and hard'. "Danny, your saying the same thing more than once. Try to word it differently." He glances at me before taking another piece of paper and starting over. He bends over it so that I can't see what he's writing, so I go back to my desk. I glance up at Danny and am shocked that I'm not the only one that gives him worried glances.
Kwan' s point of view:
I can't believe that Dash beat Danny up even though Danny was already hurt. Something is going on, and Dash might end up pushing Danny to far. Star was the one to notice that Danny was hurt, she even told Dash, but he didn't care. He doesn't care about anyone but himself, same with Paulina. She didn't even know our plan to get detention so that we Danny home to see what's up.
Lancer' s point of view:
Danny raises his paper in the air and I collect it. It says the same thing, but he worded it differently, just as I asked him to do. I really wasn't expecting him to use curse words, though.
Danny's point of view:
I'll join you soon, guys. I won't be half ghost for to much longer. I'll keep saying that I'm fine so that everyone will just leave me alone, but they can fuck off. They don't know what it's like to lose your friends and be all alone. They haven't been beaten by someone that they were supposed to be able to trust. I move my shoulders slightly and the pain reminds me about the gash marks that he made when he wiped me with an old rope. He's gone crazy and now I'm ready to die, and I won't let anyone stand in my way.
A/n I do not own Danny Phantom. Kwan and Star is getting involved now. There will be a lot of drama in the next chapter cause the story is about to get intense if it hasn't already.