Chapter 2: Retaliation and Vengeance

The rest of the day went by quickly, I couldn't stop thinking about my run-in with Jason. The words he yelled at me rang in my head the entire time, "Just wait Jeff! Just wait!". I fazed everyone out the whole day. My friends went home at the end of school, but I stayed behind because Mr. Callahan let me use his art class to paint after school.

It was around 7:00 when I finally got home, it was a little dark, and both my parents had gone to work. I saw Jason's car along with one of his friend's van in the driveway and I walked in to the house to see all of the lights were turned off. As I was searching for the light switch, someone hit me on the side of my head, next thing I knew, two of Jason's friends were holding my arms as Jason repeatedly hit me in the face. "Go start the car" Jason said to the two guys.

When they let go of my arms, I fell to the floor. Jason then continued the attack by stomping on chest and head. "We're ready to roll" One of the guys said as he walked back into the house. He and Jason picked me up and started to drag me to the van. I was fading in and out only to see blood dripping from my face and onto the concrete outside. They shoved me into the van. One of the guys was ready at the driver's seat, and the other handcuffed me to a metal loop in the back of the van. As we were driving away, Jason went on and continued to hit me in the face, getting more and more blood on his knuckles .

I felt the car finally stop, Jason took the handcuffs off of me and the two guys threw me out the back door. The horn of the car honked loudly and speed off in the darkness. My vision was blurred and I had no idea where I was until a dark figure approached me and I herd Crunch's voice.

"Somebody get some help!" he yelled, after that I blacked out.

I woke up the next morning on Crash's couch to see Coco in a chair beside me watching TV, She saw me waking up, "Jeff!, are you ok?, what happened?"

"Jason, …and some other people, …they were hiding out at my house" I said, with a little bit of a mumble. Just then, Crash walked into my view, "Jason did this to you?" he asked. "Call the police" he whispered to Coco.

"No way, I going to find him and beat him to an inch of his life." I answered back.

"You need to stay here and rest" Crash said, and with that him, Coco and Crunch left for school.

(This portion of the chapter will now be told in Crash's POV)

I had to go talk to everyone to let them know what happened, I felt like returning the favor to Jason, but for one I didn't want to end up like Jeff, and two he wasn't worth my time.

I found them hanging out at the courtyard like they always do. "Guys I need to talk you"

"What's up?" Val asked

"Last night,… Jason and a couple of his friends jumped Jeff, after that, they took him to our house and left them there. When we found him his was bleeding pretty badly, he at our house right now, resting"

Everyone was shocked, but before anyone can comment, Jason walked up to the group.

"Hey losers, next time tell your buddy Jeff not to be such a hero or next time it will be a whole lot worse."

Val snapped, "Let's see you try that shit on me!" She yelled while pushing Jeff.

"You better be gentle to me babe, or I wont be so gentle with your boyfriend. I don't see why you even give him the time of day, you should be with a real man." Jason whispered in Val's ear while forcing a hug on her. Val was finally able to slip from Jason's grip. He backed up a little with a crooked smile on his face.

Just when he was about to leave, Jeff tackled him from out of nowhere. Everyone could see what happened to Jeff the night before with his face still bloody and bruised, he stared to hit Jason's face so hard he was knocked out cold after the first punch. After Jeff got about ten good shots at Jason's face I stepped in and pulled Jeff off him to reveal that Jason's face was now even more cut up than Jeff's.

I turned to my friends, still holding Jeff back, "We need to get him out of here before campus security shows" Without hesitation, everyone sprinted to the student parking lot and drove to Crash's house.

In my living room, sat Coco, Crunch, Nina, Val, Andrew, Jessica, Jeff, and myself.

"What do we do now?" Coco asked.

Andrew answered by saying, "Well, first we build a catapult made of logs and rubber band and we launch….."

"I'm begging you, stop now" Jeff quickly said, It got a small chuckle from the group, but the room grew quiet again.

We all sat in silence for a couple hours until people started to go home, the only people left in the room were Jeff, Val, and I.

(The rest of the chapter will be told in Jeff's POV)

I fell asleep about an hour ago after taking some painkillers, but I was just starting to wake up, Crash and Val hadn't noticed me and I could hear them talking to each other.

"Crash, I'm worried about Jeff, he might get hurt even worse if this goes on."

"I don't know what to do, but I think he attacked Jason today not because of what happened the night before, but because he was touching you."

"Jason's just mad that I'm in love with his brother" Val instantly knew what just slipped out of her mouth. " I mean…. umm… just that…you know…" Crash stopped her.

"You're secret is safe with me"

"Thank you" Val replied.

"Well, I better get to bed, I'll see you tomorrow Val"

"Night"

Val was leaving to go home, and just as she reached the door, she herd something,

"Val…" I mumbled.

"Yeah Jeff?"

"I love you too"

Val's eyes grew wide, she realized she had been caught so she just walked out the door.

Author's Note: Well, I'm going to be on vacation for a week , but ill have the next chapter up by the end of June. READ AND REVIEW PLEASE!

-Your fellow writer,

A.J Penn