Here is Chapter 9! Hope you enjoy!
"Is he gonna be ok?"
"I hope so."
"He really took a beating there."
"Wait, I think he's waking up!" Mark could hear voices all around him. He felt around and noticed that he was in a bed. He opened his eyes and saw that he was in a hospital room. All of his friends were standing around him; concern sparkled in their eyes. Mark's face surprisingly only ached a little bit. Wow, he took a real beating, but he almost looks completely fine. We're lucky that the nurse here has healing powers. Cry thought.
"H-how are y-you feeling Mark?" Cry asked, voice shaking with every word. He must have been really scared. Mark thought.
"I feel a lot better actually, why doesn't my face hurt that much?" Mark wondered out loud.
"Because our school nurse has a healing gift. Now your bruises are basically nothing." Mark looked to his left and saw Saph standing over him, her emerald eyes shone with relief.
"Saph! Thank you for saving my ass back there, I definitely would have been mincemeat if it weren't for you! But, why did you put yourself in so much danger?" Mark asked. Saph smiled towards Mark.
"One good deed deserves another." She beamed. What is that supposed to me-… oh…she knows that I went off on Jake because of her. Well shit. Suddenly, Ms. Wattman stepped into the room.
"Mark! Thank goodness you're ok! You should feel fine now, so you're still going to go to detention. You've been out for a couple of hours and we were waiting for you to wake up. Go on to Ms. Sullivan's room in half and hour, Saph will walk you there since she is in detention as well. Wait… Saph is in detention because she was defending me?
"Ms. Wattman wait, Saph shouldn't be in detention because she was trying to defend me! That's just not fair! If it wasn't for her I could have been severely hurt! Don't punish her!"
"Actually Mark, Saph is in detention because of something she did before you came to this institution." Ms. Wattman clarified. Oh, ok. Mark was embarrassed at his sudden defense for Saph.
"Mark, what the hell did you do to piss that guy off so much?" Sky inquired.
"Nothing! They just said that they were the tough guys around here and he just started beating on me! I mean what the hell?" Mark explained. Saph put her hand over her face and shook her head.
"Rex is a huge douchebag, he thinks that he's the shit. Don't let him bother you though." Saph let out an annoyed sigh.
"He must have thought that you were trying to be the tough guy on campus when you snapped at me. Rex tries too hard to assert his dominance, he's just like a fucking animal." Jake spat.
"Well, now he is in huge trouble at least! That's what he gets for messing with Ma'k!" Yami chuckled happily. Mark pushed the sheets off of his body and stood up. He was a little wobbly from being unconscious for so long, but he eventually got his footing.
"We should probably go to detention now, it'll take a little longer for me because I'm still a little dizzy." Saph nodded and Mark started walking towards the door.
"Ok, just be careful and don't push yourself too much!" Ken called after them as they walked down the hall. As the two made their way out of the clinic area, they started to talk.
"So Saph, why are you in detention?" Mark turned towards her.
"I trashed someone's room." Saph replied blankly.
"Whose room?"
"Rex" Mark's eyes shot open and he gasped in surprise.
"You trashed Rex's room?! Are you insane?! Why?!" Mark started to shout and Saph quickly silenced him.
"Revenge" was all Saph muttered as they entered Ms. Sullivan's classroom. She was seated at her desk, typing away on her computer.
"You two, I would like you to scrape the gum off from underneath all the desks. The equipment is in the closet." Ms. Sullivan stated, eyes still glued to her computer. Mark let out an annoyed sigh, walked over to the closet, and grabbed two scrapers and paper towels. Saph grabbed one and walked over to the first desk. Mark knelt next to the one to the right of Saph's desk and looked under it. He gagged at the mass amounts of gum stuck to the underbelly of the desk. He looked over to Saph, who was lying on the floor on her back.
"Dude, do it like this. It's much easier and you won't be as sore afterwards." Saph explained. Mark copied her position by lying on his back with his face looking up at the heaves of chewed gum. Eww…gross. Mark thought as he began to scrape the gum off into a bucket in between Saph and him. Reaching up to scrape off the gum felt very awkward at first.
"After a while you'll get used to it." Saph muttered to Mark. The lack of conversation after that was killing him! So, he turned his head at her and tried to start one.
"So, what do you like to do?" Mark tried to start some small talk. What kind of stupid question is that?
"Well, I love video games too. I also love to animate, make games… and camping! I love going camping!" Saph listed her interests. Mark gasped when she mentioned camping.
"Camping? Why on Earth do you like camping? There's bugs and snakes and too many horror games are set in forests!" Saph playfully shoved him to the side.
"Well you're just a big baby! I love the forest and all that 'getting back to nature shit'!" Saph giggled. Mark noticed that she was already finished with her desk and was waiting for him to finish his.
"You're too good at this, you know that Saph?" Mark teased.
"Yeah, I know. I kind of get detention occasionally so I'm a pro." Saph laughed.
"So you're a bad girl eh?" Mark lifted an eyebrow.
"No, I'm just extremely unlucky."
"And you like to trash peoples' rooms." Saph stuck out her tongue at him. Mark finally finished with his desk and they moved to the ones behind them. They continued this cycle for about an hour. Saph would finish first, Mark would finish a couple minutes after, they would move to the desks behind them, and the entire time they talked. They chatted about interests, upcoming video game releases, trying to convince Mark to watch more anime, etc. Before they knew it, they were finished with all the desks.
"Ok, you two are free to go." Ms. Sullivan motioned towards the door. When the door shut behind them Saph waved goodbye.
"Bye Mark. Same time tomorrow?"
"Yeah, for sure." Mark chuckled and they walked in opposite directions. Maybe detention won't be so bad after all…
Mark opened the door to his room and saw Cry and Yami waiting for him. They giggled like little schoolgirls as he walked in.
"So how was detention Romeo?" Cry snickered.
"Guys calm down, we just talked." Mark knew they were going to act like this.
"What did you guys talk about?" Yami asked.
"Video games and shit! What did you expect?" Mark was getting agitated. Why the fuck are they keeping this up? I don't even like Saph like that! Mark thought with annoyance. Cry and Yami looked at each other for a brief moment, then looked back at Mark.
"Mark, you're going to have to admit it sooner or later. If you're not telling us something, then just say it! We'll promise that we won't tell her!" Cry insisted.
"It's SO obvious that you have a major crush on Saph! You stutter every time you talk to her, you tense up when she's around, and we've caught you staring at her multiple times! Just confess dude, you are in love with Saph!" Yami lectured.
"I-I…she…but" Mark stuttered. He walked over to the edge of his bed and sat down. He rubbed his face with his hands as he thought. All those things Yami said are true. I do stutter a lot when she's around and I even catch myself staring at her. It's just those beautiful emerald eyes…I can't look away. Every time I see her I can't breathe. Oh my God… I am in love with Saph! This is why I'm feeling so weird and why I defended her so fiercely. It's even why I tried to save her earlier! Mark took one last sigh.
"I give up, you guys are right." Mark chuckled. Both Yami and Cry stood up and cheered.
"Yeah! We knew it! So when are you going to tell her?" Yami asked.
"Tell her? No no no no no…I just can't tell her! What if she doesn't feel the same way? Then I'll lose a friend!" Mark sighed.
"Oh, the age old problem of risking it or friendzone. You're going to have to tell her eventually, you know you can't go on like this forever." Cry walked over and patted Mark on the shoulder.
"I'll think about it tomorrow, I'm just really tired right now. Goodnight guys." Mark threw the sheets over him and turned away from the other two guys. A couple minutes afterwards, he saw the lights turn off and the sound of Cry and Yami getting into bed. Mark tried to go to sleep, but whenever he closed his eyes, he could only see her and those gorgeous emerald eyes.
Awww…well there you go! Sorry for the short chapter this time. Hope you guys are liking it so far and don't forget to leave input! Thank you guys so much for the good reviews and suggestions! Your reviews make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside . I would like to congratulate Mark on 900,000 subs (I know it's a little late) and I can't wait until he hits 1 million! See you guys later! Bye!