Bra seemed to notice the flaws of the flow of life over the course of the next day. For one thing, when you're trying to avoid something it has a funny way of popping up everywhere.

Pulling the parking lot next to a sporty red convertible, she knew her day wasn't going to be good. She looked out of the windshield of her electric-blue Neon SXT and saw Goten and Amy. This wasn't going to be her day.

"Well, look who it is." Marron sneered.

"Let's just pretend we don't see them." Bra said, reaching into the back for her junk.

"Her fat ass is pretty hard to miss." Bra smiled.

"Come on, let's just get out of here." They rushed past.

"So, did you tell Trunks about the project?"

"Yeah."

"What did he say?"

"He said our teacher is lame for making us do it."

"He's right." Marron told her. "Even though I'm with James, it's still a pretty lame project."

"Goten sucks. And he's going to drag me down with him." She complained.

"To true." Marron said, checking her watch. "We have about twenty-minutes."

"Way to hustle. We never get here early. Let's grab a seat by the cafeteria." Most of Bra and Marron's friends hung out by the cafeteria before school started. Speaking the truth, Marron and Bra were usually late.

"Why were you so early this morning anyway?" Marron asked her as they set off down the hallway.

"Couldn't sleep." Bra didn't think anything of it. Maybe she was so anxious about how the day would be ending up at Goten's house and how she was dreading it that subconsciously her brain would not let her sleep. Bra shook off the feeling that it was directly related to Goten as one of Goten's friends walked in front of them and into the restroom a little way ahead of them. Then they heard a cry for help.

Bra turned swiftly. She knew that voice. It was coming from the boy's restroom. Marron seemed to have heard it too. She had turned to Bra.

"That's Todd."

At once, they both made furious attempts to make it to the restroom and stood in the doorway. Four boys were pummeling Todd. They were all preppy boys. Before they knew what had happened Bra had ran in and punched the closest boy so hard in the nose that he stumbled backwards, hit his head on the sink and went unconscious. The other three boys began to gang up on her. Todd was gasping for breath on the ground, clutching his stomach where it seemed they had punched him repeatedly. His nose was bleeding everywhere and his eyes were both blossoming black. She hadn't realized it before but Marron was next to her, backing her up.

"What has he done to you?" Bra screamed, pointing at Todd. "He didn't do anything to deserve this!"

"Shut up!" The closest boy lunged at her, but she dodged him and he tripped and fell behind her. As she regained her balance, one of the other two boys punched her in the eye. She fell backwards onto the boy behind her trying to get up. He wrapped his arm around her throat. She couldn't breath or see and she did the first thing that came to her head, elbow him in the ribs.

She kept at it until she felt his grip loosen. She sat up, stars winking in her face from the punch, and began to beat the boy behind her until he crawled away and out of the bathroom. She stood up slow, trying to find right side up and she heard Marron yelling at the other two boys. She seemed to be putting up a pretty good fight. They had both ganged up on her, but from what she could see out of her one eye, Todd needed help too. One of the boys had pushed him against the wall and was kicking the snot out of him. He began to spit up blood.

The other boy was chasing Marron around but Marron ran over to Bra and the boy started after hr instead. Marron, meanwhile, ran and tapped the boy on the shoulder who was beating up Todd. He turned around and she punched him as hard as she could in the nose and Bra heard it crack. He fell back. She wouldn't have to worry about him for a bit. Just then, the boy who had crawled away earlier had returned with another boy. Bra kicked the boy who'd been chasing her where it counts as hard as she possibly could and he doubled over in pain. She ran to Todd. His face was contorted in pain. She heard Marron wrestling with the other boys.

"Hey are you okay?" She said touching his face. He winced and she pulled back. The boy who she kicked got up with difficulty and ran out of the bathroom. She paid no attention.

"I need to go to the hospital." He whispered.

"Marron, can you take them alone?" Bra screamed, helping Todd gingerly to his feet.

" Yeah! Go ahead!" She yelled as she pounded the other boy. Bra whipped out her cell phone and hit 911.

"911."

"My friend! He's been beat up!"

"Your call is being traced from the high school."

"I know! How fast can you be here?"

"We're already on our way."

"Okay, I'll meet you in front!" She threw the phone down. Todd seemed to be very weak.

"Please miss, don't hang up." She heard the voice on the phone say from the floor.

She got to front and set Todd down. She had to be ready to get the ambulances attention when they arrived. She heard sirens. She began to jump up and down. They saw her and skidded to a halt and pulled out a stretcher and got Todd on it and whisked him away. A police car behind the ambulance pulled up.

Out stepped Sergeant Davis, a tall tanned man. She breathed out with relief. Sgt. Davis was one of the police officers that had the school in his district. He was a good friend of Marron's mom so he knew Bra, Marron, and Todd pretty well.

"Davis!" She yelled running over to him.

"How did I know you were involved?" He said smiling. She didn't think it was funny. She crossed her arms.

"Don't laugh. They rushed Todd to the hospital." His eyes were suddenly concerned.

"Todd Baker?" She nodded. "What happened?"

"Me and Marron were walking by the bathroom and these four boys were beating the crap out of him. So we ran in and helped them." He sighed.

"Did you hurt them?"

"Hell yes."

"Bra!"

"I'm not going to lie. I will accept the consequences for my actions." She told him angrily. "And so will they."

"Where is Marron?"

"I left her in the bathroom to get Todd out here."

"Show me where it was!" Bra hesitated.

"What are you-"

"The bathroom! Go! Now!" She ran and he was at her heels. She shot into the bathroom where Marron had locked herself in one of the stalls because the two boys had gone insane trying to reach her. Davis surveyed the scene. The first boy Bra had punched was still unconscious by the sink. The boy Marron had punched in the nose was slumped against the wall and his whole lap was drenched in blood. He was moaning and clutching his face. The two boys, seeing Davis, held up their hands.

"We're here Marron. You can come out." Splatters of blood in random places where the boys had beat Todd up. Marron emerged. Her arms were bruised and she was limping a bit but she wasn't hurt too badly.

"Where is Todd?"

"An ambulance rushed him to the hospital." The bell rang. Marron looked at Bra with uncertain eyes. Would they still have to go to class? Wasn't there a way they could go see Todd?

"Davis?" Bra asked uncertainly. "What should we do?"

"Marron, go call the station and call for Sergeant Banks to come over. Then go to the janitor and get him to lock the bathroom. Bra stay here," he told her as she went to go with Marron. "You," he said pointing to the boys who had been chasing Marron, "come with me."