Nerds With Tattoos

Chapter 17 - Stories

I watch in amusement as every tackles each other. Even though I can't participate I still had to turn up for the program, I was told I could take 'notes'. John catches my smile and walks over,

'So, Chelsea approached me yesterday,' he says, I can't help but laugh, 'I was wondering if you had anything to do with it?'

'Chelsea does what Chelsea wants. I don't know what she is doing these days,' I tell him. He side eyes me,

'I thought you guys are close?' He asks, I look away,

'We where, but we went different paths, I moved away from my brother she didn't.' I tell him,

'That's not what I've heard, although he hasn't been around in awhile.' He smirks at me knowing he's caught me mid bluff,

'I barely seen him. As for his disappearance maybe you can shed some light?' I ask. He looks caught off guard but he gives a fake smile,

'Careful Riley.' He tells me, I frown at him but our attention gets drawn when there's a loud smack. Brant has knocked Hannah unconscious as she lies motionless on the floor mat. John groans and gets up making his way towards Brant,

'I fucking told you to reign in kid.' He hisses at Brant who just smiles in return,

'She was annoying me' he retorts. I smirk at his comment and look over to Logan. He is laughing at something Charlie and Elliott had said. I look back over to John and see him finishing talking to Brant before he comes back over.

'I swear that kid is worse than your family.' He mutters as he comes to sit next to me. I stiffen at his words,

'Well you know what they say about the Jones's' I answer back, my voice is tense and he seems to notice it,

'Sorry.' He starts, before sighing, 'you know when your uncle approached me about this job, he said it would get me away from them.'

'And now because I'm here you think you're going to get dragged back into the mess?' I mutter side eyeing him. 'I'm trying to stay out of their way as much as possible. I don't want anything to do with them except Alec. Chelsea is friends with Alec, if you don't want her to be apart of anything near you, you sort it out.'

'What about your brother and his mysterious disappearance?' He asks,

'Like I said. Perhaps you would like to shed some light on that for me?' I question. I focus my attention back onto the others and see Logan looking at me. He quirks and eyebrow as if to ask if I'm okay and I give a slight nod of my head.

'Be careful Riley.' John says standing up, 'You're not like your brothers. Your uncle never got to you when you where young, don't let him get to you now.'

He claps his hands to get everyone's attention.

'We are finished for the day. Go get lunch and go to your normal lessons this afternoon.' He tells everyone. Grabbing my crutches I use them to push myself up from the bench I was sitting on. Logan makes his way over and grabs my bag.

'You okay?' He asks me.

'Fine, just bored of not being able to do anything.' I mutter to him. We make our way out of the hall to the cafeteria, my body aches at the movements but I ignore it.

'What where you and John talking about?' He asks as we make our way to Iana and Nolan.

'He's just curious about what happened to me in the accident.' I lie, not feeling entirely too trusting with the true extent of how I know John. I look at Logan notice him studying me. I smile to try and reassure him and he returns it.