Highschool Life

Chapter 5: Turned Over a New Leaf and Kidnapping?

At that time, Jay, Crystal, and Alexander's gang were chilling awkwardly. Nothing unusual happened until a group of guys came, and in front of them was someone Crystal knew, commanding his goons to capture her, but Jay fended them off as Alexander's guys were caught in the crossfire. During what was happening on the other side, the two continued to talk about his side of the story.

"I needed to act tough and create my gang, even becoming a dirty being, which I didn't want to become."

"So that's the reason—well, you can turn over a new leaf. You acknowledge yourself as a disgusting bastard."

"But I've been acting like a scoundrel to my boys; I don't know what they will do once they find out that I've been acting all this time!" After saying that, Erwin puts his hand on Alexander's shoulder with a little flinch. "They will understand; don't worry."

Alexander wiped his tears and nodded. With the topic ended, the two headed back, but what they saw was that some of Alexander's guys got beaten to a pulp, and Jay was, for some reason, unscathed but with some bruises on his face.

"Jay, what happened, and where is Crystal!?" Erwin, with his tone raised, asked Jay, idling, and realized he had fainted while standing in place.

"Marvin, what happened?!" Alexander asked his second in command, giving a helping hand with a cough as he sat up straight. "Wade's guys came, kidnapping your toy-"

"Marvin, I have a confession to make," Alexander interrupted.

"What is it?" Marvin asked curiously, with some goons watching.

"I've been acting all this time. I didn't want to become trash; I just wanted to protect my little sister."

Marvin looked at his leader with relieved eyes, smiling with honesty. "We know, Alexander, all of us knew because we were her classmates to begin with."

With the shocking revelation, his reply was, "Wait, what?!"

Before the time of the accident, half of the boys were secretly friends with Alex after school when they started their first semester until fourth semester. They'd go to karaoke, bowl, or go to a cafe to chill with no malice whatsoever because these guys were raised as gentlemen.

"Alex told us that you couldn't go to school for some time due to your father's debt. You had to work multiple part-time jobs, leaving your little sister in our care."

"She... knew?" Alexander was dumbfounded.

Alexander didn't realize that Alex had followed him secretly ever since he came home late for quite some time. She saw him working at a construction site, being a waiter, a fast food worker, and even helping people in need. She knew already that her older brother was a nice and kind person.

"Alexander, no matter what, we will follow you and help you to pay off your father's debt and Alex's hospital fees."

Alexander began to tear up again. "You don't have to," he said, wiping his tears and sniffling.

"We are Alex's best friends; we want to help you." Marvin stood up and looked at the surroundings as Alexander did as well. Alexander's guys were helping each other up, checking themselves if they had a bad injury, looking at him, nodding, giving a thumbs up, and even commenting to help him with Erwin helping Jay to sit down on the bench.

"Hic... thank you... you guys!"

The boys smiled at him as Alexander finished wiping his tears. While they helped each other, Erwin waited for Jay to be out of a trance, coming back to his senses with heavy breathing.

"Jay, what happened?" He looked around, in a daze for a bit, and told him what happened with his breathing calming down.

Jay got caught off guard by Wade's fighting style and was knocked out unconscious while standing up, creating an opportunity to kidnap Crystal.

The rest of Alexander's gang was defeated evenly when they fought each other. Jay said that half of Wade's gang are street fighters, Erwin pondered.

"Tell me the details of its fighting style."

We see a scene where Wade was standing there with his fists open and doing a stance that Jay does not know of. Jay prepared and provoked him to take the first strike, but it failed, making Wade strike first, but in an instant, he was unconscious while standing.

"He wasn't hitting me back but intercepting my attacks, but I did hit a couple of times with my tics."

"Oh yeah, you have Tourette Syndrome right?"

"That is correct. How did you know?" His finger tic.

Erwin smiled. "I studied disorders when I met her."

"Met her? Who?" His nose ticced two times.

Erwin did not reply straight away but answered, "I'd rather not talk about it."

"I'll respect that,"

"Are you two done talking?" Alexander approached them.

Erwin stood up and replied, "Alexander, did it go well?"

Alexander smiled, fully knowing that he has done it and will change himself into a new person soon, but that will wait because it is time for them to devise a plan to save Crystal, and Alexander's men know where they went when they were in middle school—an abandoned big warehouse.

Inside was Crystal, tied up on a chair and taped to her mouth. Her surroundings were all guys looking at her and standing guard as Wade came in and went to Crystal.

"You look pretty cute when tied up." He removed the tape that was covering Crystal's mouth.

"Why are you doing this, Wade?!"

"It's because we have unfinished business."

Wade has a lot of bandages on his face, but that's not important as Crystal's emotional state begins to rise and she remembers the traumatic experience from 3 years ago.

"Let's have some fun, shall we-"

A sudden brawl begins to be heard outside, and it was Alexander's goons fighting and making an entrance for Jay, who had a tic, Alexander, and Erwin. They walked in style, preparing themselves for another fight because the fight back then was just a warm-up.

"Wade Smith! You motherfucker!" Alexander shouted as Jay did a tic. "You are one messed up fucker! You should have been in jail for what you did 3 years ago!"

"Ha! I'm a minor, so how can I-" Without a moment's notice, Erwin was secretly sneaking behind Wade while Alexander talked because he was the center of attention. He interrupted his speech with a low kick and made Wade fall and get on top of him, smashing his face again, just like last time.

Wade's gang charged at Erwin after seeing what happened, but Alexander's gang flanked and fought them back to help Erwin. It was an all-out brawl between two different schools—the finest of school wars.

Fists swing left and right, Wade's guys used wooden planks and steel bars to smack away their foes but Alexander's gang also used the same method. Some got hit on the head, the face, the kidney, and any other body part that could be hit with serious injury. Alexander fought with his members, and the main boss was being dealt with by Erwin. Jay secretly untied Crystal, but Jay was confused because Crystal passed out. He tries to wake her up, but to no avail.

With everything happening simultaneously, the biggest fight is about to happen. Wade forcefully turned around up with the stomping of Erwin's foot. With a bloodied face, he grabbed Erwin's nonstop stomp attack, using his knee to make him fall as well, and got up.

With distance, Erwin got up and was surprised by Wade's stance.

"So it's Jeet Kune Do. Sorry, but with that kind of fighting style, you can't beat me because I ignore the rules."

"Because this is a street fight, not in the ring, fucker!"

"Let's end this."

Wade, who has seen multiple stances in his martial arts career, did not expect the kind of stance Erwin took.

"Let's see if you can handle a Mauy Thai Box Stance created by me."