Darling, just hold on

3. Best birthday I've had in a few years

Tuesday 01/02/2011

'Sorry, I don't feel so good' is all I can say before everything goes black.

I open my eyes. The light is way too bright. My head and my stomach hurt, my throat is sore and I don't know where I am.
I sit up when a woman walks in. She looks familiar but I don't think I've seen her before. She looks up and sees me.

'Aah you are awake, that's good. My name is Jay, I'm the school nurse. Can you tell me what happened? Mr. Deakin told me you didn't feel good and fainted.'

'That sums it up.' I tell her, not wanting to get questioned any further.

'I don't believe you' Jay states, waiting for a reply that satisfies her.

'I threw up in the bathroom on the floor. You can check. I really didn't feel good.' I told her while panicking.
She didn't believe me. Nobody would believe me. I'm just a waste of space.

'Calm down, love' she answered. 'There is no need for panicking. I believe you that you didn't feel good, but you are not telling me the full story.'

At that moment, Mr. Deakin came into the room. I'm going to be in so much trouble.
He talked to Jay a little and went back outside. I was shaking. What if they found out? What if Noah thinks I ratted him out? I can't do this. I started hyperventilating when Mr. Deakin came back into the room.

'Just follow my breathing. In, and out. In, and out, ....' I hear Jay say and I start to breath normally. 'Good job' She continued.

'Hey, what happened?'

This time, it is Mr. Deakin voice. 'Jay said you threw up in the bathroom so I went to check but the mirror was broken and there was a puddle of blood.'

'I just lost my temper, I guess. Seeing the blood, made me threw up. I just want to go home now.' I lied. I don't want Noah to get in trouble. I don't know what they would do but something worse than this.

'Okay, I will call your dad so he can pick you up.'

'No, he's working. He can't come.' I told him. Even if he wasn't working. He would never come over to pick me up he thought.

'Okay, what about your mom?'

I started to tear up. I didn't want to cry. They would think that I'm weak. I am. Weak. But they can't know that. I couldn't stop the tears.

'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you' he said.

'It's okay, she died a few years ago but I can just take my bike and go home.' I tell him.

'Definitely not' he said, 'you just fainted half an hour ago. I'm not letting you ride your bike home. I can bring you by car'

'No, don't. I feel fine!' I shouted and jumped up but regretting it immediately. The dizziness returned and I had to sit back down.

'Yeah, I see you feel totally fine.' He answered sarcastically. 'I will go to the office to tell them you are going home. Then I'm coming back and we are put your bike in my car and I'm gonna drive you home.'

'Thank you.' I was defeated and started to cry again. Somebody was nice to me, acknowledges me. Jay comes over from across the room and hugs me. Mr. Deakin went outside while I was still cuddling with Jay.

Daniel Deakin POV

I went outside the nurses' room again. I hate seeing kids' breakdown like that.
I didn't believe him. Harry was such a sweet and easy-going boy. He wouldn't just lose his temper and break the mirror. Plus, the blood was on his head, why would you break a mirror with your head. It didn't add up.
 I'll have to check the camera footage from the hallways tomorrow morning. In the bathroom weren't any cameras for privacy but maybe I could see something from the ones in the hallway. I went to the office and found Harry's file. I put a note in from the nurse and search for his address.

I went through the papers 'Name, name parents, date of birth...' talking to myself. 'What? His birthday is today?' I'm looking further for his address until I found it, then I return to Jay and Harry.

Harry's POV

I'm still cuddling with Jay when Mr. Deakin comes back and asks to speak to Jay outside.
After a short time they come back inside and they start singing Happy Birthday.
How did they know? Why would they care? Why are they so nice? When they finish the song, my eyes are tearing up again.

'Happy birthday Harry,' Jay begins, 'you said that your dad was working, would you like to come eat dinner at my place? Mr. Deakin is coming too and I'm sure my kids would love you.'

'Thank you, but why? Why would you want me to come home with you? You don't even know me.' I answer a little overwhelmed.

'Because from what we have seen in class, you are a good kid and it's your birthday and nobody likes to be alone at their birthday.' Mr. Deakin says.

'Plus, you can't be alone tonight because you don't feel good.' Jay continues Mr. Deakins answer.

'Okay' is all I can say.'

Then Jay speaks again. 'I'm have to pick up our kids from school first Harry, so you can ride with Mr. Deakin and then we will celebrate.'

Jay takes her bag and leaves. Mr. Deakin helps me up and we walk to his car, then, goes to get my bike.

It was a fun evening. The best birthday in the past few years. It started as one of the worse and ended as one of the best days. 

I'm in Mr. Deakins car and looking out the window while thinking.
When we earlier arrived ad Jay's house, it was a lot of chaos. Apparently, she has 2 sons and 5 daughters and she and Mr. Deakin are married. Mr. Deakin has only 2 children, the youngest twins, Doris and Ernest.
She told me, her eldest son was 19 and moved out to live with his friends and he already had a job. Everybody was so welcoming. Jay and Mr. Deakin ordered pizza for everyone and before we started to eat, everybody sang Happy Birthday again. It sounded really good. They all have great voices.

After dinner, Jay's eldest twins, Phoebe and Daisy, who are 6 years old, were excited to show me their karaoke machine. We started but after a while everybody joined in except for Doris and Ernest who Jay had just put in bed. 

We sang all songs of One Direction and nobody looked at me like I was crazy for knowing all the lyrics. I, on the other hand was surprised that everybody, even Mr. Deakin knew all the words. It was great.
Mr. Deakin told me; I had a great voice. I don't believe him but just said thank you. He was probably just being nice because it's my birthday.

I fell asleep during the car ride. Mr. Deakin wakes me up and I see we are in front of my house. There is no light inside which tells me that nobody's home yet.
Its 21.30 when I look at the clock in the kitchen. It isn't that late but I'm tired so decide to go to bed.