CHAPTER SIX
Threats

Lunch

(Trevor's POV)
Making my way down to Corrie's table, I ran into a wall, or least I thought it was a wall. As I hit the floor, a huge shadow cast over me.

"Get up," it ominously said.

Rubbing my elbow, I cautiously got up, knowing who it was.

"Where did you think you were going?" Danny asked. He had two of his football buddies on either side of him. Behind him, a few feet away, you could hear the giggling of the cheerleaders.

Wanting to avoid conflict, I turned to walk the other way, only to be stopped by another two of Danny's friends.

"Answer me," he growled, grabbing the collar of my uniform.

"I was going to sit with Corrie," I answered, looking him straight in the eyes.

He brought up his fist. "I thought I told you to stay away from her."

"Why would I want to stay away from my girlfriend," I answered.

"Who says that Corrie is your girlfriend?" He was really angry now. I started to regret that I said that, but I couldn't back out now.

"Trevor, there you are!" Corrie said, coming at just the right time.

"Hey, Corrie! Me and Trevor," Danny said quickly, letting me go, "We were just going to have a talk. Do you mind?"

"Of course not!" she ran over to me, "Just make sure you come over. I need to be saved again." She placed a quick peck on my cheek.

As Corrie ran off, I looked over to Danny, who was boiling mad.

"Look! You stay away from Corrie!" he lunged at me.

"Why? She's obviously into me and I like her!"

"Cause, lover boy, if you don't, I'm going to hurt her," he growled, holding back because a sister was passing by, "And I know that you wouldn't want any harm to come upon sweet little Corrie."

"You better not lay a hand on Corrie!"

"What are you going to do about it? All you have to do is stay away and I won't hurt her," he smiled maliciously.

Just wanting to punch him on the spot, I turned and walked the other way. I would rather walk away from this fight then have him hurt Corrie. Besides, I would find a way to tell her.

Smirking, he laughed and turned to walk to Corrie's table while I couldn't do anything about it.

Taking a seat at a random table, I plopped down and didn't bother with lunch. I was too busy of trying to think of a way to get to Corrie without Danny finding out.

"Hey," a friendly voice said.

I looked up and saw that it was an innocent-looking kid. "Hey."

"I saw you stand up to Trevor there. Not many kids in this school have the courage to do that. My name's Matt Dillard."

He seemed friendly, so I introduced myself. "Hi Matt. I'm Trevor."

"I saw what happened. It hasn't been a secret that Danny's got something for Corrie."

"Really?"

"Yeah, he usually doesn't care for her when he's the only one that's trying to win her affections, but when someone else comes into the picture, he's, well, you saw."

"Well, he's not going to win." I looked over and saw Corrie all alone at the table.

(Corrie's POV)
When I returned to my seat, I hoped that the girls saw that me and Trevor were together, but they were too self-absorbed in their own things to care about me. I just looked down at my lunch and played with my food.

It had been several minutes and Trevor still hadn't showed up. Looking around, I saw Trevor was sitting with Matt.

Once I got up, the other girls noticed me. They all seemed to ask the same question at once.

"Where's Trevor?"

Looking at each other, they also seemed to say the same things at once again.

"Why are you asking for Trevor?
"I'm going to ask him out.
"You're going to ask him out?!"

"No way are you guys going to ask him out!" London said, "He's going out with me!"

"Says who?" Maddie retorted, "Anyway, Corrie's going to help me ask Trevor out, aren't you Corrie?"

"I'm going to what!?"

"No," Mary Margaret interrupted, "Corrie said that she was going to help me. Didn't you Corrie?"

"Fine!" London got up, "I guess I'm not sitting with you guys anymore. Corrie, come on!"

"Go then! I'll just sit with my real friends!" Maddie yelled after her, "Corrie, let's go."

"You two can go! Corrie's my real friend!" Mary Margaret exclaimed.

I watched as they all looked at me, then at each other, then storm off in three different directions.

Not knowing what to do, I just stood there and watched my friends leave.

"CORRIE!!!" they all bellowed.

I decided that I wasn't going to follow either of them. They weren't being good friends to me. They weren't listening to me, and they wanted me to help them land my boyfriend, at least I think Trevor's my boyfriend.

Walking up to Trevor's table, I was going to sit with him. Along the way, someone grabbed my arm.

"Corrie!"

Turning around, I saw that it was Danny and two of his football friends. "Yeah, Danny," I said quickly, wanting to get to Trevor before the lunch period ended.

"You're still going to wait for me after school today, aren't you?" He pulled me closer to him.

"Yeah, sure," I was beginning to wonder why he didn't let me go. "Umm, Danny, can you let me go?"

"Why?" he smirked.

"Cause, I'm going to see Trevor."

He seemed to wince at the sound of Trevor's name. "Well, I want you to stay here with me," he leaned in close, like Trevor did this morning, but it was very uncomfortable.

"Why's that?" I exclaimed, taking a leaf out of London's book, "Sister, you need me too help you? I'm sorry, Danny, I've got to run. See ya after school."

"Alright," he sounded sweet again, "I'll see ya then," letting go, he turned around and walked away with his friends.

"Now that was weird," I continued on my way to Trevor's table. "Hey Matt, Trevor."

"Corrie," Trevor stood up, and Matt did the same, "Corrie, I need to talk to you."

"What?" he made it sound urgent, "What happened?"

"It's about Danny. He's up to no good," Matt answered.

"Who? Danny?" I couldn't believe it, "Danny's one of the nicer kids to me in school."

"Corrie," Trevor looked at me with a serious face, "Corrie, he's not like that, not like that at all to others."

"Trevor, what did he do to you?"

"Corrie, just be careful around him," Trevor looked around, "Corrie, I have to go, okay? I can't explain now, but I will soon." He hugged me and gave me a quick peck on the lips.

Very confused, I watched Trevor run off. Then I looked at Matt. "Matt, what happened?"

"Danny happened, Corrie, Danny happened." He got up and followed Trevor out.