The Player and the Nobody

Chapter 7: Pop Quiz

§Pop Quiz§

I wake up quickly and feel tears running down my face. I look around wiping off my soggy cheeks. There are nurses cleaning up blood and I cringe thinking about what they are cleaning up after.

"Hey hon." A nurse comes up to me, "How are you feeling? Any nausea, dizziness, or sickness?" I shake my head no.

"We can let her family in now." One nurse says to another, "She has quite a busy mom." What?! It's just Brandon and me. What do they mean by... I was in mid-thought when Jessi, Derek, Seth, and my mom walk in.

"Wha-What are you guys doing here?" I asked truly shocked

"We wanted to make sure you were all right." Seth smiles looking sincere.

"Since when did you become a softey?" I smile at his acting tough, but get interrupted by arms being wrapped around me with a grip that can only belong to Jessi.

"Are you okay? How's your nose? Do you remember what happened? This could have been me, or Karla. Why did you do that?!" Jessi takes a deep breath after her long rant. I sigh and shake my head.

"I'm fine. Its painful, but bearable. All I remember was you got in a fight, I tried to stop it, the world went spinning, Seth and Derek were over me asking me random questions, and then everything went black. I wanted to stop the fight, but I guess I made it worse." I look up after answering all of her questions. Derek and Seth are sitting in chairs that they pulled close to the bed and my mom is standing by the door crying.

"Mom?" She looks up and sniffs, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Its just hard to see you like this. To think that anyone would want to hurt my baby."

"Well to make it better, they didn't want to hurt her they wanted to hurt me." Jessi says turning to face my mom.

"Yea, but still. You're like a daughter to me and to think that is just awful." She bursts into tears again and leaves the room.

"So, I answered your questions, now answer mine. What happened after I blacked out? Why is my eye and back of my head killing me? What did they fix on my nose? And what did they mean by my mom was busy?" The guys smile at my last question, which only makes me more confused.

"Long story short, Mrs.DeBrat came...."

"Wait Mrs.DeBrat?" Seth asks clearly confused.

"Yea it's one of our many nicknames for people."

"Many? Do I have one?" Derek asks raising his eyebrows. Jessi and I look at each other and burst out laughing, "I'll take that as a yes. What is it?"

"No way in hell are we giving up our secrets to you two bozos. Anyways back to what I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted." She glares at Seth and Derek playfully, "Mrs.DeBrat thought that you started the fight, then Karla got her to believe that I had and that she was just trying to breakup the fight. Mrs.DeBrat of course believed her over me and she said I had detention. I knew that if I got detention one more time I would be suspended so I decided to make it worth it and I kinda broke her jaw." My mouth was touching the floor with shock.

"You broke Karlas jaw?! Awesome!"

"Yea, but now I'm suspended for 2 weeks after the end of this week. I would have been expelled, but the survailence caught Karla punching you and the damage she caused so they decided to let me partially off the hook."

"What?! But they should let you completely off the hook. Even if you did punch her, you did it out of self defense!" I couldn't believe what I was hearing. We continued to talk for a while until a bunch of nurses came in.