The Pain that Lingers

Chapter three- Hidden Signals

Lucy 

Detention ended and it was a nightmare. At first I had to meet with the Headmistress to talk about how I felt about the situation. Candace and her minions were getting two weeks of detention for bullying Karina. Although Karina felt embarrassed I did not want her to go through that kind of pain and torture. It was for her own good. 

I walked to my locker and tensed up at the sight of Jayden and Marcus. The two of them made everyone's lives a nightmare. I quickly got my books and closed my locker and headed to class. I felt a hand jerk me back. 

"You think that you would get away with that stunt you pulled?" Jayden asked. 

I tried to free my arm from his grasp. "What stunt?" I asked. If he meant Candace and her minions getting detention, they deserved it no doubt. How could someone get away with treating others like that? 

"Get off of me!" I said. Jayden would not let go and he dragged me to the locker room, no one tried to stop him or Marcus from hurting me. The lights quickly turned off in the locker room, and I started to panic. My breathing became heavy and I was starting to go into fight or flight mode. Why was he doing this? My breathing was so heavy at one point I passed out. I don't remember what happened after that or how long I was passed out for. I slowly opened my eyes and Jayden and Marcus were hovering over my body. What the hell? I saw him with his phone and I heard the camera noise turn off. Did he do this on purpose? Fuck, I had to get out of here. I picked myself out and darted towards the door. 

I felt Jayden grab me with full force pushing me back down to the hard floor. "Not so fast," He said. "if you dare do this again, you will have it much worse. Got it?!" What did I pass out from? I knew it was a panic attack, but I have no recollection of what just happened. When he put me down I immediately felt the pain from my ribs. Did they assault me? What the actual fuck. I nodded my head and he finally let me go. 

My entire body felt numb, but the pain never last's for me. I guess my pain tolerance is non existent. I walk into my third period class, which was Chemistry with Mr. Meyers. He looked very disappointed as I walked in. "You must be the new student, I'll give you a first day pass. But no tardiness in my class. Understood?" He asked. I nodded my head. "Good, now take a seat." He said. 

He got on with class and went over a project we had to do for his class all semester. I knew no one in this class, and felt so alone. I sighed opening my notebook to the Chapter that we were working on. 

"Alright class, I am going to assign you with partners. I want you to work together to choose a project to present at the end of the term. This will be your final exam grade. No pressure, but I want you to work on this project early and get a head start." He said. 

"For this project..." He continues. "I want you all to be creative with this project, you and your partner can choose any topic that we cover over the semester. The due date will be the last day and believe me the semester goes by quickly." He said. He was calling out names and partners and I was pretty much the last one to be called. I was paired with a guy by the way. 

"Lucy and Harrison." Mr. Meyers said. Lord, help me. After he called out our partners names, the bell rang for fourth period. My fourth period was study hall thankfully. I walked over to the library to work on my homework for Math, English, and Chemistry. So far I enjoyed my classes, the teachers were nice and understanding.

I flinched as I bent down remembering what happened before third period. Jayden and Marcus are truly horrible people. I never met anyone as cruel as the people who go to this school. There are some nice people, but no one wants to be my friend. I hate being at an elite school. Why did my dad make me go here? 

I spent the rest of study hall doing some homework. When I was done the school day had ended. We only had four classes, but the classes were an hour long and mortifying. I took a deep sigh and waited for everyone to leave so I didn't have to deal with the traffic heading home. There were only two cars in the parking lot and guess whose car it was? Jayden and Marcus's car. Screw it, I'll just make a run for it. Thank God they didn't notice me and my car, or else I would have been screwed.

I drove off home and collapsed on my bed and called it a day. 

"Honey, dinner is ready!" Mom called. 

"Coming!" I shouted back. 

I rolled off my bed and onto the floor and stretched out my body. I was in bed for a good couple of hours just clearing my head. My mom made us a nice dinner as soon as Dad came home from work. "Looks great Layla!" Dad said. 

"Thank you, Mark!" Mom said. She loved my Dad with all of her heart. I know it. Sometimes, my father gets so consumed with his job, that he barely has time to spend it with us. It get's lonely without him here. He's focused on his cases, he's just that good of a detective to back down from his job. My brother wasn't home as usual. Where the hell was he? I haven't seen him in days.

I broke the silence by asking my parents where Logan was. "Have you guy's seen Logan?" I asked. 

"He's at practice, he will be home later." Dad said. 

I nodded my head and continued to eat dinner. I wanted to talk to Logan, he's been AWOL since dad's attack. He can't be mad at me forever! 

Chapter three is now finished, I am going to post my story and edit it before I publish it, so it might take a while.