Different Sides To The Same Story

Chapter four - Jason Dalton

   I planned to meet up with Lil after school, she said she'd meet me by my locker, but she never showed. Jaime, Callie and Seth found me when I was looking through the emptied halls for her. So they decided to help me.

I hear Lil's voice down the hall, as I speed up the others follow, when we reach the end the hallway turns. I stop as I hear other voices.

"Lilith, he's bad news." A male voice says,

"He's a good guy." A voice I immediately recognize as Lilith's says.

The guys get my hint and slow to a stop instead of turning the corner. "I can't believe you even sat with him and his little band of freaks today." A female voice says

"That one girl, the one with the pink hair, pretty sure she's a freaking lezbo." I move my eyes from the wall I've been staring at to look at Jaime. She crosses her arm over her stomach, subconsciously. "She was in my class last term, I mean does she know goth has been out of style for like a decade now?"

I'm about to start punching walls but before I get to it, Callie's over protective side kicks in, as she rounds the corner. "It's actually called grunge but nice guess, jackass." She half yells, fueled by pure anger.

We follow her to the group sitting on the floor, turning their heads hearing Callie's remark. I make eye contact with Lil as her friends rise to their feet. "What are you her girlfriend?" The guy says, trying to beat Callie's trash talk. Wish I could warn him, but not really, he deserves it.

"Yeah something like that." Callie spits, glaring at him.

He lets out a little laugh looking between Callie and Jaimie. "What's funny about that?" I question, towering over the small boy. "You really are just as bad as your teammates I guess." I tell him.

"So you're like their bodyguard?" He asks, looking amused.

I purse my lips, "Seeing your twig body, Callie and Jaime- and basically anyone above the age of ten could beat your ass up."

"Hey back off." Blaine the small girl says, trying to push my arm.

I glance back at Seth letting him know it was cool to let his little secret go. Getting my message he walks up, grabbing Blaine's boyfriend's collar and smashing him against the lockers. "Bet you'd like to know how often your girl texts me after midnight." He comments.

"Wh-what?" The poor boy stutters looking over at his girlfriend, "Blaine what's he talking about?" He asks.

"Don't listen to him, he's ly-" Blaine starts before Seth cuts her off.

"I'm talking about when it's 1 am and your girlfriend texts me because she's not satisfied with the job you did, and she needs a real man to get it done." Seth says, making the boy look back at Blaire.

I look again at Lilith who's now standing, watching the confrontation with a blank face, "As for you, you little bitch," Callie starts, shoving Blaine's small shoulder "Jason and Seth may be above kicking a preppy girl's ass, but I'm not." She tells the girl, who looks terrified, as she hits both her shoulders this time.

"Oh yeah, you think you can beat me up and get away with it, lay another hand on me I dare you." Blaine threatens. Callie looks back, making eye contact with me as she shrugs and turns back to the brunette, punching her right in her cheekbone. Lilith lets out a noise in surprise, "Oh you're gonna wish you never did that, my dad can ruin your life, one call and you'll get expelled, sent to jail for assault-" Blaine looks ready to list of a million more things but she gets cut off when Lil pulls her back.

"Blaine stop!" She yells, "Enough already! I'm done with you bad talking Jason and his friends." She says loudly, "They are nice people Blaine, for one in your life take fucking responsiblity for your actions." she tells the girl, breathing heavy, probably from the adrenalin.

Seth drops the guy's collar, "You're off this time, talk bad about my friends again, I won't let you off so easy." Seth says, his voice low and threatening as his chin is jutted out.

I look over at Blaine who's already forming a bruise on her dark skin, "C'mon guys let's go." I say, grabbing Lil's hand on instinct and pulling her away from her horrible friends. It's a miracle Lilith turned out half as nice as she is after being friends with those assholes for four years.

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I could see Lilith unwinding slowly as the smoke I exhale blows in her face by 'accident'. She let me lay my head on her thighs as all of us stopped skating for a smoke break.

I'm not saying Seth's a dealer, but he's not not a dealer, you know? He often has extra joints laying around that we can smoke. Today was one of those occasions.

I stared at Lil's pretty face as I felt the effects kick in. We're all sitting on top of one of the empty ramps. The cuddling started after Callie and Jaimie, started holding hands and cuddling and the competitive side of me wanted to one-up them.

She let me lay down with my head on her legs, then when Callie and Jaime's cuteness raised, I held her hand. And she let me. She probably just thinks this is some way to sell our relationship to my friends, but really I just wanted to hold her hand. Maybe it's the weed, probably.

I blew more smoke into her direction as she giggled, the sound making me smile more. "Stop doing that." She tells me, as I take another puff, blowing it into her face again, "I said stop." she laughs.

"I just don't know where else I'm supposed to exhale." I tell her, laughing a bit too.

She rolls her eyes, "Then why don't you just sit up?" She questions, she still hasn't noticed her hand's been playing with my hair subconsciously, as her other lies on my chest.

"I like the view too much." I tell her, prompting another giggle from her.

"Will you guys stop being cute? It's making me feel lonely." Seth comments, sadly, I lift my head only a bit, just enough to see him glaring at me.

"Just go get a girl, man." I tell him, laying my head back down and closing my eyes.

I hear him scoff, "I have girls dude. I have tons of girls." He says, overselling the lie and igniting laughter from the rest of us. "Okay maybe I don't have tons of girls." He mutters.

I take another puff this time turning my head to blow it away from Lil, before I turn back to stare up at her. Her hand combs through my hair making me feel happy, just being this close to her I'm happy.

"God, Lil I think I got you high." I tell her as she giggles,

After she calms herself she looks down at me again, "I like it when you call me that." She tells me softly.

"Yeah? I thought you hated it, now I can't call you that." I say, laughing through my joke. "Oh no!" I exclaim, realizing something.

Lil's eyes widen, "What?" She asks.

"Oh no, I'm corrupting you!" I say loudly,

"You know if this is being corrupt I don't mind it that much." She says, her eyes wide and her smile wider.