Meant To Be

11. Man, that hurt.

Charlie's POV

Cecilia giggled as I threw a piece of paper at the back of this guy in front of us. He whirled around to look at us and we looked away, holding back our laughter.

I never knew class could be so fun until I met Cecilia.

The class soon ended and she stood up and collected her things.

"Charlie, one of these days your playfulness will catch up to you, you know." She joked, putting her bag on her shoulders.

"Well hopefully that day isn't today." I said.

She laughed and winked at me. "Hopefully. Bye Charlie."

"See ya Peanut."

She walked out and I sighed. Damn she was awesome.

I had a free period so I went out into the yard to meet up with Alec.

"Hey man." Alec greeted as I neared.

"Hey." I said.

As we talked, some guy I'd never seen before came up to us.

"Charlie, right?" He says.

"Yeah, and you are?" I ask.

He looks me up and down. "Finn. Now I'm going to make this short. Stay away from Cecilia or else."

I stared at him. "Excuse me?"

"You heard me. She's fine as hell and will be mine. But you're getting in the way of that. Stay away from her." He growled.

"Or else what?"

He fisted my shirt. "You'll know what."

I scoffed and shoved him off me.

"So is that made clear? I wanna see that girl without the glasses on and moaning my name."

That little perverted bastard.

"Burn in hell." I growled.

"What's wrong, Hall? Does it bother you that you can picture me eating her ou-" I punched him.

He looked up in disbelief. "Let's go then, bitch." He kicked me in the gut and I doubled over. Alec yelled for him to stop but he ignored him. He repeatedly punched me in the face and I felt my nose bleed.

I managed to punch him in the nose and in return he punched me in the gut again. But a lot harder.

Man, that hurt.

My vision started to blur as I heard Alec call to someone entering the yard and trying to pry Finn off of me.

"Stop! Leave him alone!" A voice yells and Finn stops and turns.

Cecilia.

He looks at her up and down and licks his lips. "Hey, its not what it looks lik-"

She ignores him, shoving him off of me and helping me up to my feet. She said something to Alec and walked towards the dorms, to my room.

She took out Alec's key which he had just given her and opened our door.

She carefully leads me to the bathroom and sat me on the closed toilet seat.

She went over to the cabinet and took out the first aid kit, getting out some antiseptic and gauze.

Cecilia looks at my face and winces, but puts her hand on my cheek and begins cleaning my cuts.

I watched her. She looked concentrated and focused as she slowly treated my wounds.

She then gets to a particularly bad cut and looks at me. "This might hurt a bit." She warned.

I shrugged. She took my hand and I looked at our hands intertwined.

Hers fit perfectly in mine.

She then places the antiseptic on it and we both wince. She gets a bandage and wraps it.

"Why?" I ask.

She shrugs. "I don't like jerks. Plus, you've been amazing to me." She looked in my eyes. "I'm sorry."

I looked back at her. "Why are you apologizing?" I held her hand. "You didn't do anything wrong." I said softly.

We stare at each other for a minute before I speak. "You're good at this, you know." I say, gesturing to the bandages.

She laughed. "Thanks, its my specialty." She flipped her hair and I laughed.

"Thank you." I said and hugged her. "You saved me."

***
"Dude, this girl likes you." Alec said to me, sitting on his bed.

"Are you sure?" I asked.

He looked at me. "Positive. As soon a s she saw you on the ground before I even called her over, she rushed to your side. She likes you."

I sighed. Of course I liked her. How couldn't I? She was so sweet, funny, kind and so darn beautiful. Just seeing her face makes me go crazy.

"Shoot your shot, man. Today was a perfect example of how many guys are out to get her. I'd do it before any tools can take her away." He said a matter of factly.

I stared at him "You just think your Mr. Love because you got a girlfriend."

He smiled at the mention of the girl he loves. "You know it."