Jordy quickly changed back into her tapout shorts and muscle shirt. These days she was frequenting her baggy fight shorts and t-shirts over her patented overalls. She was now a lean 5'2 with short black hair that was always pulled into a ponytail. Jordy walked into the hallway with her hoodie over her head hoping to avoid the ridicule that had started to become more frequent these days. As she made it to her locker to get her fifth period books she felt the door slam quickly on her hand. She dropped the books and cradled her hand in pain.
"Hey half breed." Jordy groaned as she recognized the voice. Slowly she got to her feet cradling her bruised hand. She closed her locker slung her bag over her shoulder and turned to walk away only to be followed. "Look guys she's trying to ignore us." Jordy shook her head, she really didn't' want to deal with this anymore.
"Kiss off," she said through gritted teeth. That was when he felt herself be shoved against a set of lockers. She dropped her bag and eyed Philip and his pack of mindless jocks. She sighed. Times had definitely changed in the last two years. Instead of Tristan and her spending every waking moment together, they were now seeing each other only at dinner. Once she started with Franco MMA, they picked her up for those three days that Randy was gone and she trained until the bus dropped her off just before dinner. At first it was cool, but in the middle of last summer he started playing football and basketball for the school and she was totally left out of the loop. Jordy looked around for Tristan hoping desperately that he would help, but she didn't see him. Philip chose that exact moment to push her to the floor simultaneously breaking the clasp on her mom's locket. Several mixtures of emotions ran through her, but then rage engrossed her. She punched Phillip in the nose and wrestled him down to the floor and proceeded to punch him several times before his goons pulled her off of him. Soon they got what Philip had and were on the floor groaning. Jordy grabbed her bag and ran through the crowd. She stopped as she noticed Tristan gawking at her. Jordy shook her head and left the school with tears pouring out of her eyes.
Fifteen minutes later, Jordy was still running down the street but her crying had become minimal. She dropped to her knees and clutched her mother's locket.
"Mama, I miss you so much," she said burying her head in her hands. A car pulled up and slowed down. She looked at it and backed away.
"Jordy?" She took a deep breath. Karlos noticed that she was crying and rushed over to her. He pulled her into his arms. "Sweetie, what's wrong?" Jordy took a deep breath and told him what happened. Karlos grunted and pulled her close.
"I'm sorry." Karlos shook his head.
"Don't worry about it, Sweetie. I'm sure the school has noticed you're gone, I bet your Dad is probably worried about you. Why don't you call him?" Jordy nodded. She took a deep breath and pulled out her cell phone.
"Jordy, why are you calling? You should be in school."
"Daddy," she couldn't get the words out before she broke down crying. Slowly she regained her composure and told him the story. Randy grunted on the phone.
"Alright, are you alone?"
"No Daddy, Mr. Franco is here with me."
"Can you put him on the phone please?" Karlos looked curiously at the phone as he took it from Jordy. "Karlos thank you for picking her up. Can you please take her back to the Kents house? She can tell you how to get there."
"Sure, um do you mind if I take her to the gym and let her get some of her frustration out? I think that would help and then I'll take her to the Kents."
"That's fine. Thanks again." Karlos handed the phone back to Jordy. "I love you Kix, call me tonight."
"Alright Daddy, I'll see you tomorrow. Love you too." Jordy closed her phone and walked towards Karlos's black Corvette. He handed her a tissue out of the glove box, she smiled and wiped away her tears. She really didn't know what to say. They never really talked about anything other than school or technique. Karlos was sitting staring at her, she looked so much like Emily it was uncanny. He sighed.
"So do you like your dad wrestling?" Jordy looked over at him and smiled weakly.
"Yeah, a lot actually. I mean when he's not home I can see him on TV and that always makes me happy." Karlos smiled, he was glad that she was happy.
They spent the next few hours talking and trying to get Jordy's anger down. She hit the bag and she jumped rope. Finally when it seemed that she had calmed down enough, Karlos brought her back to the Kents house. She smiled and got out of the car. "Thank you Mr. Karlos." Karlos couldn't help but smile.
"Sure thing Jordy."He reached into his pocket and scribbled his cell number on a business card. "Call me if you ever need anything." Jordy smiled and nodded. He watched her walk up to the house with a smile on his face. She was so perfect. Now, he just has to tell everyone the truth.
Jordy opened the door with her key and took a deep breath. She knew that the Kents would be pissed for her getting into a fight and not calling. "Where have you been!" Jordy sighed as she walked Mr. Kent stalk towards her.
"I was with Mr. Karlos, I'm sorry I didn't call."
"We were worried sick." Jordy looked at the floor, she wasn't in the mood to be harassed. "Why would you do something so stupid? What if Mr. Karlos hadn't picked you up?" Jordy took a deep breath, her anger was growing drastically. "What would your mother say if she heard about this?" That was it.
"Shut up! You don't know anything about my mother! Just leave me alone." Mr. Kent didn't even bother to raise his voice.
"Room, now." Jordy shrugged and walked to her room. At least she was alone now. She sat on her small twin bed and put her face in her hands. The locket was broken. She was deep in thought when her door opened, she glanced up and saw Tristan standing there.
"Hey," he said quietly. Jordy shrugged, he didn't deserve her attention. "I um, I'm sorry about earlier. Philip is a jerk." Jordy scoffed, he wasn't the only jerk. Tristan sat down next to her. "I didn't mean to leave you hanging." Jordy looked him in the eye with venom exuding from her body.
"We promised each other that we would always be there for each other. You broke that promise." Tristan shrugged.
"I didn't have a choice, they're my friends." Jordy rolled her eyes.
"I'm your best friend, or at least I was." Tristan looked back at her.
"Don't put this all on me, you're the one that changed."
"I changed? Dude we never talk. The Tristan I knew wouldn't ever let a bunch of idiots jump me, because he wanted to stay popular."
"Please, if it wasn't for your obsession with mixed martial arts we could all be friends. You used to be normal." That set Jordy off and she tackled him to the floor punching him in the eye. Before she could land another blow she was pulled off of Tristan.
"Jordanna what has gotten into you?" Jordy looked at Mr. Kent with fire, but said nothing. "Tristan what happened?" Tristan shrugged and rubbed his cheek.
"I came to apologize about today and she punched me." Jordy laughed, he was even starting to act like Philip.
"What's so funny?" A rebellious streak over took her.
"That your son is a lying bastard," she said matter of factly. Mr. Kent took a deep breath to suppress his rage.
"You get in that bed and stay there for the rest of the night, do you understand me?" Jordy rolled her eyes and walked toward the bed. Then she was alone. Her emotions were on a rollercoaster and tears were starting to form. As fast as she could she called her dad.
"Daddy, I really don't want to stay here anymore," she said sniffling. Randy closed his eyes and groaned, he hated hearing her cry when he couldn't be there to comfort her.
"Kix, take a deep breath and tell me what's wrong." Jordy told him the whole story and Randy was a tad irked. He could understand the Kents' side, but they hadn't even heard her out before jumping down her throat. He rubbed his head and took a deep breath. "Alright, Jordy I'm coming to get you in the morning and then we'll go from there. Can you make it through the night?" Jordy took a deep breath.
"Yes sir." Randy was glad that she had become such a strong young lady.
"Alright, I love you."
"Love you too Daddy."
"Oh and Kix, you're not weird." Jordy smiled.
"Thanks Dad." She hung up the phone and lay back on her bed. For once she was glad that she was exhausted because she didn't want to deal with these people anymore. She took a deep breath, who knows what tomorrow will bring?
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