If only you could save me || Imagine Dragons Fanfic

Chapter 22

DAN

Damn. I guess I was names Dan cause it's similar to Damn. I wake up to a sharp yell,

" REYNOLDS!" Great. I fell asleep in class. I open my eyes and say,

" I'm so sorry Mister Teacher." Uh you stupid mess up, it's Miss, she's goddamn female for goodness's sake! " Sorry i mean Miss im so sorry." I say. I guess I'm so sorry is my new line. No one is looking at me. Oh. No one except that female teacher and Ben and Platz and... Wayne. How long was I out? I don't know. I ask in a quiet voice, " How long was I out?" Wayne, who seemed to be in a trance, shakes his head then asks,

" What did you say?"

" How long was I out?"

" Uh I don't know you were out when I came here." He says and suddenly Ms Hannah walks in,

" There you are!" She angrily says to Wayne, who immediately jumps to his feet and runs, but Ms Hannah is closer to the door and grabs him by the collar, " Three weeks of detention, Mister." He sighs and says,

" But it was Fred." I feel hopelessness ringing in his voice. Well, I don't care! Or do I? Oh come on Dan admit it, you do care. You care about stupid Wayne. But he hurt Fred! Why wouldn't he do the same to me? This whole world is so freaking messed up. I don't even know what was real before I started dreaming, maybe I'm still dreaming, maybe I never dreamt and it's a prank. Maybe I was never even alive and this is just one looong dream. No actually the pain is too vivid to be a dream. But the pain was vivid in my dream too! Or was it not a dream? Oh stop it Daniel Coulter Reynolds! When I see that no one is looking at me because everyone is looking at Wayne I hit my own hand as hard as I can. My finger's still broken so I guess I really did that, but the pain isn't there in my shoulder. Well, not the pain of a detached bone. I only faintly hear the Principle talk about Wayne getting expelled and having to fly to California with a sheep with wings. Wait, what? I focus on what they're saying and realize they said nothing about California. Damn. It's minutes after Wayne and Ms Hannah left the room that I realize they aren't there anymore and I'm the only one staring at the empty air in front of the door. Maybe they think I'm bored and want to leave school. Well I don't, I want to stay here, I don't want to go home to my goddamn aunt. I barely recognise the word expelled.

WAYNE

Great. Just great. I'm walking home hours early from school, expelled. Just great. I don't have Dan's number, maybe I can't ever talk to him again. Of course I do know where he lives, but would I be welcome? And what will my mother react to the news? Well, at least Fred can't bully me and I can still talk to Ben and Platz. I decide to go to Dan's, just to clear things about Fred up before it could get serious. Oh right, not everyone's school ended now, Dan is still in that goddamn school. I don't think I ever cursed so much in thought before. I'm just so angry right now. I hate Fred. I still remember the fear on Dan's face when he first saw him enter the classroom, and now I understand him. Fine, i don't, i don't know what happened between them, but from this Fred I could think of anything from him killing his mother in front of his eyes - Very sheer chances, I'm pretty sure he just got a message and only 'new his mother died because of that, - to cutting down both of his legs and hands. Fine, those legs don't seem mechanical, but still! That Fred's way too aggressive. I so hate Fred.  I decide to text my mother and tell her I'm expelled, I mean, that's easier. So I take a deep breath and turn my phone on. I text her,

I have bad new mom... I'm expelled. I'll get into details at home, You know I'm awkward over text... 

Well, that was kind of short, but it's true I'm just awkward over text. Maybe if if I knock on Dan's house's Dan's aunt lets me in and let's me stay until Dan comes home? Probably not, I'm not sure if even my mother would let someone do that. But maybe it's worth a try... No. And I couldn't prove I don't want to steal anything, I mean, she never met me, and she'd just see an overly-thin boy with bags under his eyes from not sleeping enough because of insomnia... I sigh. My phone beeps and I check what mom wrote. Of course, she didn't write, 'Yay congrats!'. Instead, she wrote,

Oh my gosh why?!

I like this in my mother. Of course, she does get angry if you do something bad, but she doesn't instantly judge and she cares and worries about me far more than gets mad at me. Before I could answer my mother calls me and I decide to pick it up,

" Hey, Mom?"

" Oh my Waynie boy! Why did it happen?"

" Wellllll.........." I say, " It's a long story."

" Tell me my son!" I sigh and start,

" Well this boy called Fred-" Should I tell about what he did or only about what he said I did? I mean maybe she'll- uh you can trust your own freaking mother Wayne! " Once before he threatened me with a knife and if I wouldn't do what he asked which was to bully Dan he would kill both Dan and I and I had to make my friends bully Dan too-"

" What?!" My mother interrupts and I just continue,

" So yeah uh and then Platz said something bad to him before he fainted, you know I told you about that?"

" Yes..."

" And so uh now he threatened again because I was nice to Dan and then Ms Hannah appeared and he made it seem like I was doing what actually he was and I got expelled for a big knife and violence and that's it." I say, sighing deeply at the end. Then I put the call down because I reached our house and go in to find my mother instantly at the door,

" Daniel Wayne Sermon, oh my thank goodness you're okay!" I nod, I mean I'm grateful she cares but I'm just so freaking exhausted and frustrated. I go to my room without a word and lie headfirst into my bed. I haven't slept for days and this day was so just frustrating and it hasn't even ended and I'm just so angry and tired and I just want to shut my many many thoughts off for a moment, I just want to sleep to rest. I don't care it's around noon and I'm in my normal clothes, I just lie into my bed, tossing the blanket aside and close my eyes, trying to sleep, while wondering how Dan is doing. I hope he's okay. I hope Fed didn't hurt him. And I mean the way he just collapsed then I just hope he's better. I mean fine he didn't fall unconscious but for goodness sake he collapsed! I care about him, I want him to be fine. My mother comes into my room and asks,

" Tell me, did he only threaten or he did he actually hurt you?" I sigh, does she really have to bother me with this? I just don't care if he would have hurt me or no. 

" You don't get it, do you?" I say in a calm and just completely exhausted voice, just barely annoyed, " This is about Dan, not me. Fred even said 'I'm going to make him trust me and I'm going to use him' Use him! He could get in some serious trouble and pain and hurt and- Mum, he's been through enough!" My mother already knows about his uncle. But she just shakes her head,

" Wayne, I get it and I want Dan to be okay, but I need to know if Fred or whoever hurt you. Please, darling." I grumpily say,

" Fine, he did hurt me a bit, just hit me a few times." I say. I don't mention that he hit my head enough times and hard enough to make me unconscious but it's not like I'm lying! And it's just details, all that matters I Dan, I don't mat- Well actually Ben and Platz too but uh Dan May get really hurt! Mentally and physically! Then I say quietly, " But mother, Fred even took away his number."

" Huh?"

" He deleted Dan's number from my phone." I see her head turn red,

" That bitch! I'm reporting!" With that she storms away. I try to sleep. I don't sleep. I still can't seem to tell my mind to. Fucking. Sleep. I'm tired and I need sleep, but my brain dosen't seem to see that. I close my eyes when suddenly my phone rings. I instantly pick it up when I see it's Platz. 

" Hey. Aren't you learning?"

" Nah, left early so we could come to yours. Ben's here too, we asked but Dan stayed in school."

" Okay." I say, not nearly as surprised that they left school sooner once I know Ben's with Platz. He's a good learner in school, keeping all his grades perfect - except science, which is just nearly perfect - but he is the most mischievous out of the four of us. Four. Maybe Dan will never talk to us again if he thinks I hurt Fred... I so freaking hate Fr- I already thought this enough times. I say,

" Do y'all want to come o-"

" Yes! Thanks!" Platz puts it down and I roll my eyes. And I fall asleep just when there's a knock on the door...