High School with Newt

Chapter Three

"Oh my goodness! What happened?" the school nurse, Nurse Penny, asks panicked when we enter her office.

Newt looks down at me asking me what to say. I shake my head, if anyone knew about Gally he would be even worse to me.

"She tripped and I found her lying on the ground," he says.

I mouth the words thank you and he sets me down on one of the beds and sits in a chair next to it.

"Nasty fall," the nurse says skeptically. Thankfully she doesn't ask questions. She gives me a quick look over, "Your head is hurt and you're pretty badly bruised, you should rest for a few days. I'll have your dad come pick you up."

"But she'll be okay right?" Newt asks nervously.

"She'll be fine."

Newt looks at me relieved. "Good." Newt starts to sit down in a chair next to the bed when the nurse interrupts.

"You should head back to class."

"It's lunch time can't I stay?" Newt replies.

"5th period starts in a few minutes, that's all you get," she instructs him.

Newt tucks the hair that was falling out of my ponytail behind my ear. At first he just looks at my eyes, then he takes my hand.

"Are you doing okay?" he asks looking concerned.

"My head hurts," I say.

"I know I'm sorry love," he says.

"It's not your fault Newt."

"Yes it is. I... I...," he begins to say.

"You can tell me," I say, trying to coax whatever he was going to say out of him.

"Y/n I lo-" he begins to say but he is interrupted again by the Nurse.

"Newt your class should be starting soon, I'm sorry but it's time to go," Nurse Penny says.

Before leaving Newt says,"Get some rest love." I smile at him and then he leaves.

I couldn't stop thinking about what he was going to say; 'he lo-'? What was he going to say? At some point I give up on trying to imagine what he was going to say and think about Gally. I'm glad that I don't have to see him for a few days, but I'm scared that he'll be meaner to me when I finally come back to school. I can't stop worrying until the day finally comes.