Best Friends
Chapter 2

Author's notes: This is the last story I will be uploading for couple of days...at least. Exams are this week and although I will be not uloading them I will still be writing them so your stories that you have requested will be up soon. Enjoy and please review :D


Today was the last day she would be in this hell hole she calls a house. Tomorrow she would be back at school where she would have the kids to worry about and not herself. She had been in this house for 6 days and the only person who had come to visit her was Michael. He had been nice to come and visit her but he wasn't Tom...she wanted Tom and she didn't know why.


She had just entered the staffroom, when Michael had come over. She didn't want people's sympathy, she just wanted to get on with her day but no he 'HAD' to make sure she was OK. "Good to have you back." He told her with a smile, trying to be as friendly as possible. "Good to be back," She replied. "Daytime TV was turning my brains to mush." "Well I'm glad to have you back." He told her. She hoped Michael wasn't the only one.


It was break time and Nicki had been in for at least 3 hours and she hadn't seen Tom once. He had been avoiding her. She wanted to see him and ask him why he hadn't been to see her yet. Maybe he had been embarrassed for what he head tried to do. Whatever it was she had to talk to him...and NOW.

She was walking down the drama corridor when she heard shouts from the stairwell. "This is assault...you're all witnessing this." She could recognise that voice as kyle's but why was he here? He had been excluded and Michael had made sure of that.

Next thing she noticed was Michael walking down the corridor holding Kyle in his hands. Kyle noticed her and stopped and turned to face her. "Alright gorgeous." He said to her. Two words that brought her whole world crashing down. The memories of her as a child rushed through her mind. Her dad always used to say those words when he walked through the door. That was his first words out of his mouth the first time he done that dispicable act. The act that no dad was suppossed to do tho their child. She scrubbed herself red-raw in the shower after her dad had done that to her. She thought that she was unclean, but she didn't lure him so why did he do that?

She was on her way to see Tom but she was now with her back against the cold wall feeling terrified, the thoughts filling her mind. Her breathing was rapid and she had the feeling that someone was trying to strangle her. She couldn't see Tom when she was looking like this. He would ask too many questions about her home life...questions that she didn't want to answer.

She ran back to her classroom to cry there. She didn't know how people would take their strong and fearless english teacher crying. The one who had been there for everyone...The one who everybody needed. The one who would sit by you and say "Everything will be ok." She was there for everybody else but when she needed someone no-one was there for her except from Tom.

She wanted Tom...No, She needed Tom.

He was the only one who made her feel welcome, he surpisingly gave her a reason to live. She helped him help and his son and he would be there for her...at least she hoped he would be there for her.