Really? Chapter 16

Authors Note: Thank you sooooooooooooo much to everybody who has reviewed and to Marie Elaine Cullen for Betaing! Hope you enjoy! Please read and REVIEW!

Disclaimer: I don't own Alex Rider and I probably never will:(

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FLASHBACK

The day before Alex arrived at Isabella's.

Alex sat in the hospital bed waiting to be released. He had only been there for a couple of hours to make sure no lasting damage was done and he was already more than ready to be home. That would take at least another hour though, since he had to stop at the 'bank' on his way home for debriefing.

He felt absolutely horrible. His whole body was sore and he was lacking 24 hours of sleep. The doctors offered him pain medication, but he did not accept. He hated taking medicine, it always made him feel drowsy and out of control.

Alex snapped out of his thoughts as the nurse came in. She was right around five feet tall with long wavy red hair, with a fiery personality to match it. Her name was Abigail, it was her first time taking care of Alex. She was used to working in ambulances, doubling as a paramedic when it was needed, but there had been no calls today and Alex's usual nurse was out of the office.

"Hello Alex, How are you feeling?"

"Fine, thanks."

"Look, I don't know what you have been doing and I don't know if I want to know. Just be careful. You have no lasting damage and you can go home now. But, you are not allowed to go back to school for at least a week. I know you think I am probably over exaggerating, but your body has been through a lot in the past year and you need to give it some time to recover."

"Alright."

"Do you promise?"

"Yes, I promise."

END OF FLASH BACK.

When the paramedics came in to get Jake, one of their faces lit up in surprise.

"Alex Rider is that you?"

"Um, yeah…" Alex responded, as quietly as possible. In hopes that his classmates wouldn't hear. He couldn't believe that his luck had just became worse...

"What did I tell you about going to school! You promised me you wouldn't come for a week and its been what two or three days? You know it really ticks me off when patients don't listen to their doctors! Most kids your age would die to miss school, you're just... err… I don't know!" Abigail practically screamed.

The teacher walked up to see what the problem was. "What's going on miss?"

"This young boy shouldn't be in school." Abigail said sternly.

"Look, I know that he just knocked that kid out and he will be punished. But, we need to make sure Jake is okay first." The teacher said in an annoyed tone. Who did this nurse think she was, telling him how to punish his students?

"What!" Abigail said in a surprised tone. She couldn't believe that Alex was the one who knocked the kid out, he had always seemed like a sweet kid…

This was when Alex decided to step in.

"How about we calm down and focus our attention on Jake…"

The two adults seemed to have listened and started the process of putting Jake on the stretcher.

Alex sighed with relief, not noticing all the students staring at him with disbelief. How did that paramedic know him? And why did she not want him at school? And most of all, why on earth would he want to come to school? They had so many questions to ask him and Isabella, not to add that they still didn't know if they should believe him or Jake. And Jake was in the hospital now! If Alex was living with Isabella, was she in danger? Everything was happening so fast. Was Druggie's life always this much of a rush?

Everybody was interrupted from their thoughts when the PA system came on.

"Everybody back to class now. We will be starting lessons as normal in five minutes. We will keep you updated on Jake Wolfe. And will Alex Rider please come to the principles office NOW!"

Alex was relieved to get away from all the chaos. He prayed that Abigail and his maths teacher wouldn't talk about him anymore. He was pretty sure they wouldn't though. They were both in a hurry, after all...

He started to get nervous, as he walked down the long hall way to the principal's office. What was his punishment going to be? Was he going to be expelled from school? What were Isabella's parents going to do? When he finally reached the office, he came face to face with a very furious principal.

"I am dialing your guardian's number right now and we are going to have a little talk about your behavior at school today!" The principal said, trying to keep under control.

Authors Note: Thanks for reading! I found this chapter very hard to write, so I hope its okay and not really confusing... So, should the number the principle is dialing be Isabella's parents or MI6? Anyways, REVIEW LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER REVIEWED BEFORE:)