Snapped Strings

Chapter Two

Oliver groaned. "You're lucky I don't have a choice-" He grumbled as he glared at Elise.

They go into a room in the back and start restringing the guitar.

"Don't think we're friends now just because I'm helping you either-" He snapped, rolling his eyes.

"Who would want to anyway-" She muttered to herself rolling her eyes as she took the current strings off the guitar.

Oliver heard her but ignored her. Oliver snatched the guitar out of her hands and started restringing it.

"Thanks- I could do it myself though..." She said, staring at the floor intently, trying not to make eye contact with him.

"Mhmm." He mumbled. He finished restringing her guitar and he threw it into her lap carelessly.

"Damn-just throw my guitar around-" She muttered under her breath. She stands up and walks back into the band room. But, by the time she was back in the room, band was over. She sighed, put her guitar away and took her red and black, customized iPod out. She turned on her favorite My Chemical Romance album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, and exited the band room, into the hallway.

Oliver was quite a ways behind her. She walked with her backpack slung over her shoulder, to math class. Oliver kept staring at her when he walked behind her. He got a random flare of jealousy in him...she was perfect to him...

He started quickening his pace until he was quite close behind her, so close he could touch her. He got directly behind her and kicked the back of her knee and pushed her onto the floor.

Elise falls forward onto her chest. She ends up hitting her forehead in the process. She lay on the floor with her stuff scattered around her. She groaned as she held her throbbing head, the music of MCR still flooded her head.

A guilty look fell over Oliver's face...he stood there...clueless about what to do. Nobody cared to help her up off the floor, people just went around them, ignoring them. He studied her intently...her head was bleeding...he knelt beside her, a wave of empathy and guilt washing over him.

"Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god- uh-" He stuttered. He grabbed his zip-up jacket and rested her head on it. He used his t-shirt, that had a Pierce the Veil print on it to wipe the blood off her forehead.

Elise was clearly concussed, so she wasn't fully with it, and she was a bit hazy and unaware.