More Than Friends // Sequel of Friends with Benefits.

Chapter Twenty-Five: Yeah Just Dandy.

  So day passed and me, Tate and Alex all decided to go to school. Tate picked me up from my house like normal. We drove to school and walked in hand in hand. I wasn't really paying attention to anything as I opened my locker with Tate right beside me. I grabbed my books and shut my locker.

"Ready?" I said asking him. We nodded and we walked to our first class together. We sat down and waited for the teacher to arrive. Tate seemed very alert though and always looking over his shoulder.

"Tate calm down. I'm fine no one has the balls to mess with a Hemmings." I explained.

"I know, but I'm just keeping an eye out for anything weird." he said, not really looking at me. I rolled my eyes at him and scoffed.

"Whatever be miserable all day." I said, in a annoyed tone.

"Hey I'm sorry okay. I'll stop worrying." he said taking my hand in his and drawing circles with his hand.

"See was it that hard to do?" I laughed.

"Very." he giggled.

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Classes went by slow and eventually it was lunch. I sat with Nicole, Alex and Tate. Of course Tate was the most alert now, but I didn't want to say anything in front of the rest of them so I just ignored him.

"I'll be right back." Tate said getting up and this time I didn't try and stop him. Instead I stabbed my fork into my food.

"You two okay?" Alex asked hesitantly.

"Yeah just dandy." I said sarcastically.

"Come on tell me what's wrong" Alex said nudging me with his foot.

"Tate's got this big idea that since we are dating that someone's out to get me." I rolled my eyes. With that Nicole spits out her water that she was currently drinking.

"What did you just say?!" she asked me.

"I said Tate has this crazy assumption that someone is out to get me I said in shock at her reaction.

"Oh okay." she said in a nervous tone. I just brushed it off as just part of her crazy personality.

"It's Tate we are talking about here, he's going to be worried about you no matter what. Don't let it get to you." Alex stated.

"Yeah you're right."  I said, nodding.

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It was the end of the day and I hadn't seen Tate all day. The last time I saw him was at lunch. I was now more upset with him then I ever was before. He's blowing this way out of proportion. It's not like a gang of highschooler were coming to kill me. Once school got out I couldn't find Tate anywhere so I decided just to take the walk home. It wasn't too far so I figured it was better than waiting around for him.

Tate's POV:

I felt bad for not seeing Charlie all day but I had to do something. I had to check up on Madison. When we were walking into school I saw her and her friends looking at me and Charlie and she already knew just by us holding hands. I knew she would go to Aidan with everything so I had to find him first. School was ending and he hadn't seen either of them for the whole day. He was looking Charlie at the end of the day when he pulled by the back the shirt into the boy's locker room. The light were off and I couldn't anything. I tried to open the door but it was locked. Then suddenly I felt someone hit me in the ribs. I was immediately winded but for Christ's sake I was hit by a car. Then I was punched again in the eye. They ran and left me sitting on the ground in pain. I would've been fine if I didn't have a previous injury to the ribs before hand.  I crawled out of the locker room and just sat on the floor.

"Tate are you over here?" I heard people voice call for me but it wasn't Charlie. Nicole and Alex  came around the corner of the hallway and immediately ran for me.

"Tate what happened?" Nicole asked.

"I don't know exactly." I said admitting it.

"Who did this to you?" Alex asked me helping me off of the ground.

"Probably Aidan and his friends." I explained.

"Oh no." Nicole said, with fear written across her face.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

"Okay so before lunch today I heard Madison talking to Aidan out in the courtyard. They said something about how you and Charlotte were dating now and that she needed him to what they planned I don't know what it was but I have a feeling it has something to do with this." she said.

"So why beat Tate up though?" Alex asked. Then it snapped into my head.

"Where's Charlie?" I said.

"She wanted to wait for you but said you were taking to long. I offered to drive her home but she refused. She wanted to walk." Alex said.

"They were making sure I wasn't with her." I said. Alex was helping me to his car as we drove to find Charlie.She was nowhere to be seen. Until I looked down a dark alley. I saw movement then I heard her scream. I immediately got out of the car and ran to her. The tall guy saw me and ran the opposite direction. She sat the ground and cried. I ran to her. When I touched her she flinched.

"Charlie it's me." I said taking her into my arms.

"I didn't think they would go far." she cried.

"What did they do to you?" I asked, but all she did was cry. I picked her up and carried her to the car.

"What happened?" Alex said in a worried tone. I laid her in the back seat with me. I didn't say anything to him as we drove to her house. When we got there and I knocked on the door.

"Coming." I heard her mum say on the other side. She opened the door and immediately her smile disappeared when she Charlie standing next to me in her injured state.

"Oh my god Charlotte." She took her and helped her up the stairs. She laid her on the couch.

"What happened to you?" she asked her.

"Some guy grabbed me on my way home from school he threatened me I kicked him and tried to run but he cut me. He kept touching me." she cried into her mum's shoulder.

"Tate get her a wet towel to clean up her cut." I nodded. Charlie had a cut across her arm, not deep enough for stitches but still bad.

"I'm home!" I heard Charlie's dad call out as he walked through the door.

He's definitely not gonna be happy.

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A/N: Hey guys I really hope you like this chapter. I don't really know what to say so... I love you guys!!!!

-allytheo