Teenage Memories

Chapter 4

Author's Note: Hey! Because the last chapter was not so long and I was not that impressed of it, so this one is longer. Hope you like it and happy reading! Don't forget to review please, and follow and/or favorite my story if you like it. Happy reading!

"God damn it, Dylan, stop!" Brandon yelled and starts pushing Dylan but Dylan fought back. "Jason! Tell Charlie to get Gibbs, now!" He yelled as he pushes Dylan back harder. Tony was released and he crawled away from the two guys that were holding him, coughing, trying to catch his breath. Then, Gibbs comes running down the hallway toward the place. Tony can't hear him clearly, his vision was swimming and his ears were ringing.

"Dylan, go back to the field, now!" It was the first words that Tony had heard in the past three minutes. Dylan and his two goons walk away, mumbling something Tony can't make out. Tony was still leaning against the wall, trying to calm his breath.

Charlie was crouching down at him, "You okay?" He asked and Tony nodded. Then, Brandon, Charlie and Gibbs were all sitting down around Tony. "What was it about?"

"He told me to get away from Jackie." Tony said simply, looking down at the floor.

"And you didn't?" Brandon asked curiously.

"Of course I did, why wouldn't I?" Tony said, looking Brandon straight in the eye, eyebrows furrowed.

"And then why was he beating you up?" Charlie said, sounded demanding.

"He said because Jackie likes me." Tony said, eyes locked in the floor. He heard Gibbs sighed and gazed his eyes toward the blue eyes slightly. He was surprised went he caught a glance of anger and concern in his eyes.

"Charlie and Brandon just go back to your things; I'm going to talk to Tony." Gibbs said and he stood up along with Charlie and Brandon, who walked away straightly. "Come on, Tony." He said and Tony tried to stands up and failed miserably. Gibbs gave out his hand and help Tony up. "Let's take you to the nursery." He said and they both walk toward the nursery. Tony was limping and Gibbs was steady, ready to catch the younger boy if he falls. And after a few feet, Tony's knee gave out and he fall, but not before Gibbs could catch him.

"'m sorry." Tony mumbled as his arm was spread across Gibbs' shoulder, leaning heavily toward Gibbs. The pain in his body push the urge to safe his dignity away.

"Let me tell you something," Gibbs said and Tony listens to him carefully. The fact that he was leaning against his crush was distracting him. "Dylan is one of the most selfish, hard headed son of a bitch I've ever know," Gibbs said with so much force making Tony smile, "And he had been bugging me since I was in the ten grade, and there's two solution to shut him up," Gibbs said and Tony looked up, "first, stand up to him or two, just ignore him." And finally, Gibbs looks up at Tony too, and their eyes met. Tony's cheek was turning red slightly. "It's up to you."

Tony snorted and looks away, "I'm so ignoring him." Gibbs chuckled and shook his head. When they arrived, Gibbs help Tony to sit on one of the beds and called a nurse.

"Let's see, what had happened now?" The nurse said and cleaned her hands, "What's hurting?" She asked immediately.

"Chest and stomach are hurting the most." Tony said and the nurse nodded.

"Can you take off your shirt?" The nurse asked and Tony's breath hitched. He ca't take off his shirt, or the bruises would be revealed and … his thought trailed off and he quickly shook his head.

"That won't be necessary; I'm already feeling better now." Tony said and the nurse nodded with her arms crossed against her chest.

"Still, take it off, just to make sure." She said and Tony was stubborn. Denying and refusing, until Gibbs said.

"Tony."

The words were short and sound meaningless, but the use of stern and gruff tone make it sounds a lot scarier. Tony sighed.

"Do I really have to?" Tony said, no scratch that, he was pleading.

"Yes, now, mister." The nurse said and Tony sighed. He slowly, trying not to flinch, pulled the jersey off of him trough the head. Then he sighed, putting the jersey aside, eyes closed as he heard the nurse softly gasp. "Dear boy, what happen to you?" The nurse said. He opened his eyes and Gibbs' eyes were unreadable and the nurse's eyes completely show terror.

"A beat up." Tony said simply, eyes locked to the floor. He saw the nurse shook her head at the corner of the room and he can feel Gibbs' stare burning a hole in him.

"You should learn to walk out of trouble, young man." The nurse said and Tony simply nodded and the nurse starts putting some cream on the dark bruises. It was amazing how the nurse was not even curious. After a couple of minutes, and she was done and Tony was allowed to put his shirt back on. "So, just wait here a couple minutes and rest up. When I came back you can go back and do whatever you were doing."

"Okay, thanks." Tony said and the nurse leaves. Tony sat there, hands gripping to the edge of the bed, looking down at his feet that were swinging back and front. Gibbs, whose silently watching, slightly smiles. The kid's behavior was adorable in his eyes. But then, he put his serious face beck on and he said.

"Who?" He simply said, with stern, gruff tone. Tony's head snapped up as if a thunder had suddenly clap and the expression on Tony's face almost make Gibbs smile; almost.

"Who what?" The boy's voice was shaky and sounded fragile, making Gibbs feeling half hearted to do this special interrogation.

"Beat you up."

"You know who." Tony said with a huff and continues swinging his legs back and front. Gibbs took a silent, deep breath and pushed again.

"I'm sure Dylan was not the cause of that much bruises." Gibbs said and Tony just shrugged. He doesn't look up until a few seconds of silent and he finally did.

"I'm not sure, either. It's just that I'm easily bruised." Tony said smoothly, eyes locked with Gibbs', convincing him that he was not lying. After a while of awkward staring contest, Gibbs finally nodded.

"Don't lie to me kid, I'm attended to protect you from Dylan, and if you're hiding something, it would just be a waste." Gibbs said and Tony nodded rapidly before going back to his swinging legs thingy. And if Gibbs hadn't adored the younger kid, he adores him now. After a while of silent, Gibbs breaks the silent. "So you're Henley's friend, right?"

Tony's head snapped up, eyes wide. "Yeah." He said quickly before taking a deep breath, "He didn't tell you anything weird about me, did he?" Tony asked nervously.

"Tell me what?" Gibbs asked with raised eyebrows and Tony sighed and whispered out a soft 'thank god' making Gibbs smirked. Henley does tell him something, and he likes the news. "About you liking someone from the football club?" Gibbs asked, teasing. And he loved the expression on Tony's face. "Someone like the captain?"

Tony groaned, "God, he did tell you." Tony groaned and he put his face against his hands and his elbow resting on his thighs. "Please don't hate me." Tony mumbled against his hand and Gibbs chuckled.

"No of course not," Gibbs said and Tony let out a high pitched whimper making Gibbs chuckle more. "Not someone that I am protecting." And with those words, Tony's head snapped up again.

"Wait, what!? Define 'protecting.'" Tony said and Gibbs shrugged.

"I'll be your personal body guard, if that word could suit me, and Dylan nor Jackie would go near you." Gibbs explained and Tony sighed. Half of his heart was happy that Gibbs would always be anywhere near him, and part of him was anxious. Gibbs would be always near him, dammit! How can he control himself?

"Great."

The first day of having Gibbs as his bodyguard started out normal, Tony sitting in his usual chair and ignoring Jackie's flirty smile. Tony tried to focus up on the teacher, teaching the Biology. He was not good on Biology, and he was not going to worsen his grades because of his thoughts bothering him. After sometimes that seems like an eternity, the bell finally rang and the class dismissed. He walks quickly toward the next class, Music. He loves this subject, because he gets to play the piano and he love playing the piano. But, the class is mixed with every grade, but he hadn't seen Dylan from the last classes. And that's one of good news. Well, not until this class. When he entered the room, his eyes scan the room and he caught a familiar form on the back of the room. As he walks toward an empty desk, he remembers the figure. He was one of the guys that were holding him up while he was turned into Dylan's punching bag. His body tensed up and quickly sat down. He was anxious, what if Dylan's here and he knows that Tony's here too?

"Hey, can I sit here?" Came a girlish voice and Tony looked up and saw Jackie, somehow, hovering above him. Tony gulped and scanned the room again and he quickly shook his head. "Why?" Jackie said in a pouty voice.

"S-someone h-had already tag here." Tony answered nervously and Jackie crosses her arms across her chest. Tony's eyes scanned the room once more and he saw a pair of eyes staring, no, scratch that, glaring at him. It was Dylan's and Tony gulped once more. "I'm serious."

"Yeah, sure you are, if you're avoiding me, you can just tell me." Jackie said and Tony sighed. He was hoping that Jackie would just leave after complaining and making some kind of a mean comment toward him, it won't be that bad, but of course, it went like hell.

"Well, I'm sorry, alright, there's a better man for you." Tony grumbled and Jackie's eyebrows went up. When Tony was about to scan the room once more, Dylan was not in his place anymore. And when Tony looked back toward Jackie, Dylan was there behind her, staring silently.

"I'm sorry, is something wrong here?" Dylan blurted out and Jackie jumped and turned around, slapping Dylan's chest playfully.

"You're going to give me a heart attack!" Jackie exclaimed and she smiled at him, "Hey Dylan! And yes, something is wrong; he won't let me sit with him." Jackie mumbled and crossed her arms back across her chest and Tony fight the urge to roll his eyes.

"Maybe you shouldn't sit with him?" Dylan asked, trying to fish the attention and Jackie shook her head, almost stomping her feet.

"Why shouldn't I? We're close!" Jackie said and Tony was panicking, his brains jumbled up and he accidently exclaim.

"No, we're not." He said, his one said that it was period, and expressionless. It was convincing enough for them both to believe.

"What!?" The two people towering Tony said in mix of confused, angry and annoyed tone. And if there's no one by his side, he would get another beating by Dylan sooner or later, he just knew it. But he was lucky when another gruff voice cut its way in.

"Something wrong here?" The voice said and Tony looked up and once more, met piercing blue eyes that belong to Gibbs. He smiled slightly at him.

"Yeah, he said we're not close when we really are close and he won't let me sat down with him!" Jackie exclaimed and Gibbs stared back at Tony, Toby's eyes pleading, begging for a rescue. And he knows he will get some rescuing starts from yesterday.

"Well, maybe it would be better if you just sat down with Dylan and I'll sit with Tony, what do you think?" Gibbs said and Tony's heart fluttered.

Dylan's voice was frantic when he said; "But, she wants-"

"Don't want to repeat yesterday, do you, Dylan?" Gibbs cut him short with a raised eyebrow and Dylan groaned.

"Whatever, let's go Jackie." Dylan said and he takes Jackie's arm and took her away. The last thing they both heard was Jackie's high pitched voice asking 'what happened yesterday?'

When they were far enough, Tony sighed. "Thank you." He said and lean his head to his hand. Gibbs simply nod and Tony shook his head, "She's just too annoying, I don't get her, why would she make problem over this stupid little thing!?"

Gibbs chuckled, "It's typical for a girl like her, trying to get someone and they would do anything to get that someone, no matter what it caused some other people."

"Yeah, agreed! And I hate her fake, stupid high pitch voice. It's like she's trying so hard and end up sounded like a puppet." Tony said and Gibbs laughed, shaking his head.

"That's just plain mean."

"That's what they say, truth hurts."

Once more, Gibbs laughed. "Yeah, truth hurts." And he sighed, the smile faded from his face. Tony glances and furrowed at the change, but shook it off.

A few minutes later, the teacher enters the class and start babbling about an orchestra that he would be throwing at next summer. Yeah, it is still a long time to go, but he said that it's pretty hard to choose who play what and it's also hard to practice, since everyone is pretty nosy. And he explained that not all would be involved at playing, the senior grader won't be playing anything, and instead, they'll be watching. And the junior grader would be the comity, setting up the place and choosing the costumes and all. So, the main player is the freshman and the sophomore. Tony nodded to himself.

"You play?" Gibbs suddenly asked and Tony looked up at him with questioning look. "Play any instrument?"

"Oh, yeah, I play the piano and the guitar." Tony said and Gibbs nodded.

"Used to play the triangle in the orchestra for two year straight." Gibbs said and Tony chuckled, then let out a small laugh as he imagine Gibbs sitting in the middle of people playing instrument and he was holding up a triangle, hitting it twice or three times.

"You're joking." Tony said and Gibbs shook his head.

"No, seriously, I can't play anything!" Gibbs said shrugging and laughing along.

"Well, maybe you should learn something; it'll help you dealing with your problem." Tony said and continues, whispering, "Also, it's a charm for the girls." And Gibbs chuckle.

"If that's the case, I don't want to learn." Gibbs said with a chuckle and Tony stare at him confused, "I gave up on girls."

"And why is that?" Tony asked and Gibbs stays silent, so Tony tries again, "A recent break up?" Tony asked and Gibbs looked up, and shook his head, "An old scar?" Tony asked again and Gibbs simple shrugged, "It is…" Tony decided and look down, nodding, "I'm sorry."

And they both went awkwardly silent and Tony decided to just focus on the teacher. The teacher starts to talk about the parts of the orchestra and said we can sign up to him to do the audition that will happen two months later. He keeps talking about the instrument we can sign up for, and he did mention that we can just join to do the triangle, but it was still too awkward to neither laugh nor nudge Gibbs. So he keeps silent, smiling to himself. When the teacher stops talking about the orchestra and starts the lesson, Tony was not as thrilled as he is in the past meeting. Maybe the quiet and upset Gibbs sitting by his side is one of the reasons, but still, he was glad that he can be this close to Gibbs, to his crush. But then, suddenly Gibbs broke the awkward silence.

"You should sign up." Gibbs said making Tony look up and Tony just smile shyly and shrugged, then Gibbs raised both of his eyebrows. "Why not?" Gibbs asked and Tony sighed.

"I know that I look like a guy with full confidence, but I just don't like showing off." Tony said, covering up his real reason. He was scared that he'll crew up or that his father will not approve and give him another beating or anything like that.

"Yeah right," Gibbs snorted, "Stop hiding things from me!" He said desperately. Tony was about to deny, but Gibbs cut him short. "And don't try to tell me that you're not, because I know you do." He said with a sharp look, his finger pointing at Tony's face.

Tony gapped at him, "You read me like a book." Tony said and Gibbs nodded proudly, cocking his head.

"Now you know, you'd never can lie to me." Gibbs said and Tony rolled his eyes.

"Whatever, but I'm still not signing up." Tony said stubbornly. Gibbs just shrugged.

"The teacher could just pick you if he wants, you know."

Tony sighed and chuckle, "Yeah, but I am not that great."

"Oh really? Come on Tony, I've heard you play before, and I know that that is more than just great." Gibbs said and Tony gave him a questioning look, he did not know that Gibbs had heard him playing the piano. And as if Gibbs can read Tony's mind, he said. "Think I wasn't there the first day you walk in here and show off your ability, taking all the girl's eyes." Gibbs smirked and Tony blushed.

"I don't know that you were here! If I know I wouldn't even touch anything." Tony said and he played with his fingers, feeling nervous.

"And why is that?" Gibbs asked, the smirk still linger in his lips and Tony shrugged, Gibbs open his mouth to say something but was cut off by the teacher's words.

"You done chit chatting, Mr. Gibbs?" The teacher said and Gibbs shut his lips tight, and Tony was holding back a chuckle and they both fell silent. But Tony was soon smiling as he heard Gibbs whispered.

"Meet me here after school."