Never Say A Word

Chapter 5

That night I got a call at midnight.
"Hello?"
"Jennifer?" Michael asked in pain.
"Michael? What's wrong?"
"Can you come get me?"
"What? Where are you?"
"I tried to walk to Calum's and I...fell."
"Car?"
"Car." He said before I hung up. I put on a jacket and flip flops before I snuck out and drove up the street and found Michael laying on the sidewalk. I got out and ran over to him. I got down next to him.
"Michael omg you ok?!"
"No." He shook his head. He was bleeding on his head.
"Come on." I helped him up and helped him into the car. I drove back to my house and snuck him into my room. He laid down on my bed and started to cry a little. "What happened? Why were you going to Calum's?"
"He texted me and told me something about you and I wanted to go over to hang out with him. Someone pushed me from behind and I fell hitting my head and they kicked me in the stomach." He winced. I looked at his cut on his forehead. I ran out and got a wash cloth wet and came back gently dabbing it on his cut. He stared up at me while I did silently crying. I hesitated before giving him a gentle kiss on the cut.
"Kiss to make it feel better." I smiled.
"How come nothing hurts when you try to fix it?" I shrugged trying to get the little blood out of his hair. "What are you doing?"
"Getting the blood out of your hair."
"How can you tell there is when my hair is red?"
"Because blood makes your hair stick together making tangles." Once I was done I put the wash cloth away and came back in closing the door. "You're not planning on going back home are you?" He shook his head a little. "I'm not gonna make you sleep on the floor and you can't sleep anywhere out of my room because of my parents. So? What should we do for sleep?"
"I don't care if I sleep on the floor."
"I do. I'll just sleep in my round chair." I said going into my big closet and pulling put my green round chair.
"That can't be comfy."
"Actually it kinda is." I said getting a blanket.
"But how? You can't stretch out your legs."
"Michael I'm fine. Need anything before I go to sleep?" He looked at me. "Want me to tuck you in?" I asked and me smiled. I smiled and pulled the covers over him.
"Thank you Jenny." He says before closing his eyes and I turned off the lights and got into my bed for the night soon falling asleep.

In the morning I drove Michael home because there was no way he was going to school then I went back home getting ready for school.
When I got there Calum didn't talk to me neither did Ashton.
"Hey guys." I walked up to my locker smiling. They didn't turn to look at me. "Guys? Calum? Ash?" Nothing. I shrugged and got my things out of my locker. "Maybe after school we can-. I closed my locker door seeing that they were gone and walking to 1st period. "Hang. Out." I slowly said watching them. I walked to class and once I sat down Calum moved his desk closer to Ashton without looking away from his paper. I wrote a note on a sticky note and threw it onto Calum's desk. He looked at it then swiped it off his desk onto the floor. It bounced over to me and I picked it up sighing. What did I do? I looked at Luke's empty seat. Where was he? I saw him this morning at the bus stop when it was only him and me.

At lunch I sat between Calum and Ashton and they got up. I grabbed their arms before they could get away.
"Guys what are you doing?" I asked. They looked at me then sat at the other end of the table sense they couldn't move tables. I sighed putting my head down. Then I saw Luke peeking into the cafeteria. I got up and snuck out when the teacher wasn't looking. "Luke?" I whispered in the hallway. Then when I was about to go back someone grabbed my arm and pulled me into a closet. "Luke?" I asked and he covered my mouth. "What are you doing?" I whispered taking his hand off my mouth.
"Why are caring about me?!"
"What do you mean?"
"I bully you I try to kill you and you tried to include me yesterday."
"So? I like being nice unlike you!"
"Stop!"
"You stop bullying me then! Look, Luke, I'm not saying I care but I'm not saying that I don't care whether you're happy or not, but I can't help but be nice to people."
"Why would you give a shit about me? Nobody does." He covered his mouth but he tried to make it look like he didn't.
"What?"
"Nothing I didn't say anything."
"Sure you didn't." I crossed my arms. Then I walked out and of course Ashton and Calum were in the Hal and they saw me walk out and Luke still in the closet. They shook their heads and walked away. "Wait guys!" I said running after them. Then the bell rang and lunch was over.

After school I went to Calum's house. Once he saw me he closed the door but I stopped him.
"Calum stop it!"
"Go away!" He yelled a little trying to push the door closed but I had my back against it and my foot pushing against the wall.
"Calum stop! Why are you acting so weird!"
"Ashton!" He yelled and Ashton came down. "Help she's trying to get in!" Ashton then came over and pushed me making me fall getting scratched and they closed the door locking it. I looked at the window and they looked down at me then walked away. I sat down leaning against his door looking at my scraped knees and elbow. What did I do to make them hate me? Then Michael came and sat next to me.
"What happened? What is him?"
"No." I shook my head.
"Who?"
"Them?" I pointed to Calum's door.
"What?" He asked shocked. He got up and knocked on the door. They came up and looked for me but they couldn't see me and opened the door. Then they saw me and tried to closed the door. "Even injured I'm still stronger than you both combined. He said opening the door. I got up and stood behind Michael peeking at them. "Keep her away from us. She can't come in anymore she's not welcomed." Calum said.
"Calum stop it." I said.
"Guys what the hell did she do?"
"She made out with Luke in a closet at school!" Ashton yelled pointing at me.
"What?!" Michael looked at me shocked.
"What? When the hell did that happen?!"
"At lunch!"
"I wasn't making out with him! He pulled me in there to talk."
"Talk about what then?" Calum asked crossing his arms.
"He asked why I care about him!"
"Because no matter who it is you care about everyone." Michael smiled and I nodded but when I looked at Calum and Ashton and knew they didn't believe it.