Almost Normal (Editing)

Chapter Nine

JADE

The next day at school everyone was buzzing about Andrew and Angel breaking up. No one saw Angel at school either so most people assumed the worst. My personal favorite was that Angel was pulling a Selena gomez by getting a boob job to impress her man. Andrew of course remained amused by these rumors and didn't bother to correct anyone. In fact, I think he encouraged it knowing that no one will care after today.

I was in gym class and we were running laps, or walking for some. Most of the guys were ahead shoving each other and trying to go faster than the other. Most of the girls were behind, walking at a leisurely pace on their phones talking about God knows what. I was somewhere in the middle, jogging to clear my head. My mind kept getting these weird flash backs to the girl with the bloody smile. I lost focus and missed a step causing my ankle to bend the wrong way and me to fall to my side into the dirt.

I screamed in pain as I cradled my ankle and several of the classmates including the teacher hurried over to see what happened. I took one look at the black and blue lump before turning my head feeling nausea.

"Jesus Jade..." my teacher sighed as everyone whipped out their phones taking photos.

"You. Help her up and get her to see the nurse for some ice." He said pointing to a random male classmate.He turned to the rest of the class and added, "Rest of you. Put away your phones and head inside the gym. We're doing dodgeball."

The classmate helped me up putting one of my arms over his shoulder and his around my waist. Together we made our way to the nurse's office. Once we got there the nurse took one look at us before pointing to the empty cot. I lied down as the nurse brought over a plastic bag filled with ice.

"Have your girlfriend be more careful next time." She told the guy.

"He's not-"

"I will. Thank you Doris." He interrupted giving her a winning smile.

She huffed and walked off as he leaned back in the plastic chair closing his eyes. I looked over studied his features. Blonde probably box dyed hair, a muscular body, and what looks like a faint tan mark ending at his wrists. He opened one eye and looked over.

"You're staring." He said before closing his eye again.

"Maybe because you're still here and napping." I replied sitting up.

"Not napping. Meditating." He sat up straighter and turned around holding out a hand "Damien. I'm Angel's half brother." He grinned.

"I didn't know Angel had a half brother." I said shaking his hand before dropping it.

"I'm more or less the big family secret. But I guess it's not much of a secret now because you know now."

"How come I've never seen you around before?"

"I've been around." He shrugged.

We sat there staring at each other until the nurse came back in with crutches and an ace bandage. Wrapping it around my nearly healed ankle, I got up limping out of the nurse's office, Damien following.

"Well thanks for bringing me here, but I think I can get back to my locker just fine thank you." I said just as the bell rang signalling the end of class, and the five minute passing period before the next class started. I sighed as the halls started to fill up. Damien held up two nurse's notes and smiled.

"Not without one of these you won't." He said before adding, "We can take as long as we want, sweetheart."

I rolled my eyes and slowly made my way back to the girl's lockers room just as the next class started. I made Damien stay outside, despite him arguing that I might need help changing to my regular clothes.

I sat down on the bench and unwrapped the ace bandage seeing a fully healed ankle. I changed out the gym clothes and back into my jeans and sweater. I was about to put on my shoes when I remembered I had to look like I was still injured. I wrapped the bandage back around my ankle and limped back outside, my backpack hanging off one shoulder.

Damien was flirting with some of the freshmen causing them to giggle and blush. Somewhere inside, I felt a twinge of jealousy over them. I shook the feeling off limping over to the girls fawning over Damien.

"Damien!" I exclaimed, before slapping him across the face causing the girls to gasp. "You bastard. First you tell me you love me so I would have sex with you then you leave me the next morning pregnant with YOUR child!"

"We never slept together. Sorry ladies, clearly this woman is confusing me with someone else. I would never do such a thing." He said as the girls started to leave.

"Really Jade? I didn't think you'd be the jealous type." He said, walking with me back inside the building.

"I was showing the girls their future if they fell for you." I replied causing him to laugh.

"Jade, I would never tell a girl that I love them and get them pregnant. They're not even my type." He said, stopping me outside of the building. "Listen, school is practically over. Wanna just ditch the last class with me?" He asked.

I looked down at the time on my phone and saw he was right. Only fifteen minutes left, no point in going now.

"Alright, but where will we go?" I asked.

He grinned and crumpled up the notes tossing them onto the ground before answering my question with another question. "Well Jade... Where do you want to go?"