She is not bad

Chapter 18 : A cigarette

As every lunch time at school, the group of friends sat at their table all together to enjoy this moment. But today, they had some guests. Gabrielle was sitting next to Lucas, but next to Jane too. As Jane missed some classes, Gabrielle was helping her to catch up. Max tried to not create a new fight, but seeing Clara sitting next to her, Dustin sitting in front of her with a smile, and having to sit next to Dustin was making it worse. She had to see her stupid face the whole meal. And Jane looked pretty awful today, her left eye was swollen, same for her lip, she had a bandage on her nose and around her hands, and she seemed unable to do some movements. At least, this time, Lucas didn't seem happy to see Jane here. Probably because the brunette was sitting very close to his girlfriend.

- "What happened to your face?" Dustin asked, knowing everyone was wondering.

- "I got hit by a car," Jane mumbled.

- "You told me that you fell in your stairs," Gabrielle frowned.

- "I know."

- "Why did you lie to me?"

- "I lied to him too."

- "She doesn't want you to know what happened to her, it's not complicated to understand!" Max intervened.

The redhead drove her fork in her salad and began to eat when she felt all the looks on her. She looked up and noticed everyone looking at her.

- "Um, it wasn't directly against her," Max said.

- "I got it," Jane answered.

- "Maybe you should see the nurse," Bev intervened.

- "She is not here."

- "We'll have a new nurse," Gabrielle added.

- "My mom applied for the job," Will said.

- "Really? That's cool! She'll be nicer than the last one!" Lucas stated.

- "She is not hired yet."

- "I'm sure she'll be! Your mom is the best!" Dustin said.

The table agreed with energetic nods except Jane who preferred not reacting. As they noticed that Max was tensed to eat at the same table as Jane, Dustin began a conversation about a movie, letting Gabrielle and Jane working. But after a few exercises, Jane was done. She wasn't understanding anything, and her wounds were hurting. She threw her pen on the table and clenched her jaw while looking down.

- "You okay?" Gabrielle asked.

- "Yeah, yeah. I'm just tired."

- "We can stop if you want. We already did a lot!"

Jane nodded. Gabrielle smiled to her, but Jane was too focused on her hands. The black-haired girl helped her to take the bandages of her hands off before placing new ones.

- "You should see someone for this," Gabrielle advised.

- "My aunt used to be a nurse. I'll see her tonight."

- "Cool. It must be cool to have a nurse at home."

- "Maybe."

Gabrielle finished to wrap Jane's hands. The brunette stretched her fingers before looking at Gabrielle with softer eyes than usual.

- "I like you," Jane said.

- "Hey!" Lucas intervened.

- "Not like that. In a platonic way. Except if she doesn't want anything platonic, I'm okay with that too."

- "You won't say anything!?"

- "Relax, she is messing up with you," Gabrielle chuckled. "And you have enough sex friends like that."