Take Me Instead (A Jelena story) (ON HOLD. REVISION IN PROGRESS)

Chapter 1

A/N: You need to read the first two chapters to get the story so if you skipped, you betta swipe those fingers down twice.
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Selena's POV:
"Your test scores will be given at the end of the school week." My history teacher says as everyone scattered out of the classroom on their way to their period 2 class.

I start to make my way to Ms. Arnold's art class. As I enter the classroom, I notice the boy I bumped into earlier sitting at my table. What was his name again, oh yeah, Justin Bieber. I sit next to him and he tenses up.

"Hi. Justin, right?" I ask him. He nodded his head and continued to play with his fingers.

Suddenly I heard the bell ring. "Ok class today we will be exploring the wonders of partnership." My teacher Ms. Ross said. She's one of those fun, hippy kind of art teachers that always likes to 'explore' art. "Were going to do draw portraits of other people but in order to do that, you'll have to get to know your subject so I'm going to pair you all into groups of two and give you a couple of questions for each other to ask and then next week, we'll start sketching and painting." She said as she started handing out the papers. Your paper had the name of your partner next to yours.

She softly placed my paper on my desk and I hesitated before seeing who I was partnered up with. I quickly flipped the paper over and looked under my name.

Selena Gomez
Justin Bieber

I looked next to me and saw Justin's paper had my name under his. "So I guess we're partners." I said. He just nodded his head and looked the other way. "Do you want to like go over the questions at my house after school." I asked. He looked up and actually started to look at me but with fear in his eyes. "Sure." He said with his voice cracking.

"Give me your phone." I said. He handed me his without hesitation and I handed him mine. "I'll put my number in your phone and you put yours in mine." I said while typing and taking a picture for the contact photo. Once I was done, we switched back phones and just paid attention through the rest of the class period.

45 minutes later, the bell finally rang and it was time for 3 period which was Math with Mr. Trump and boy did I hate that guy. I entered the class room and saw one of my best friends, Vanessa, on her phone. I snuck up behind her and screamed "hi." In her ear. She jumped and almost dropped her phone, meanwhile I was in my seat dying laughing. "Haha, very funny." She said agitated.

"So whatcu doing?" I asked in a childish tone. "I was texting Sabrina and she was texting me about this party next month and said that we should go." She said. I starting to think about it for a couple seconds and then flat out say "nope." on the inside and out. "Why not? It'll be fuuuuunn." She whined.

I sat there and gave her that 'you already know' look. She just started looking at me with those puppy dog eyes that she knew I couldn't resist. "Fine." I huffed. She screamed yay and started clapping her hands. We heard the ring and in came Mr. Trump.
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After a painful 45 minutes, the bell finally rung and it was time for lunch. "You know what, I'm not really feeling school lunch today. How about I go get us some chipotle." Vanessa offered. My mouth started to water just at the thought of delicious chipotle. I nodded my head excitedly and waited for her while she signed out.

When she left, I decided to sit outside and enjoy the fresh air before I have to go back into that prison called school. I decided to text Sabrina and she where she was, I haven't seen her all day.

Selena: Hey where are you😜

Vanessa: Home sick😳🤒🤕😲

Selena: awwww hope u feel better😰😘🍵

Vanessa: Thx luv ya😘

Selena: love ya too😘

I decided to go on Instagram when heard a muffled scream and turned my  head to see some jock holding another boy in a choke hold. I ran over there and saw that the boy was Justin and he was grasping for air. "Let him go." I screamed at the jock. I managed to pull him off Justin. I then slapped him and ran to Justin.

"What the hell is wrong with you!" I screamed at the jock. "The ugly fucker stepped on my foot!" He screamed back. "I said I was sorry." Justin whispered as he was still trying to catch his breath. "And so that meant you have to nearly kill him." I asked the jock. He just walked away while I tended to Justin.

"Are you ok?" I asked him. He was about to say something but the only thing that came out were loud coughs. "Come on, let's go get you some water." I said as I helped him up. I slung his arm over my shoulder and helped him walk. I sat him down at our table and got him a bottle of water from the vending machine.

I handed it to him and he started chugging it down. The water was completely gone in 15 seconds. "Thank you." He said quietly as his voice still cracked. I started to notice some blood on his lip and under his nose. "Come on, lets go get you cleaned up." I said grabbing his arm and leading him to the bathroom.

We reached the girls bathroom and I peeked inside to see if anyone was in there. Thankfully there wasn't so I pulled Justin inside and locked the door. I ripped of two pieces of paper towels and handed him one. "Here, put this around your nose and lean your head down." I said. He just nodded and did what I said.

I grabbed the other piece of paper towel and wetted it. "This might sting a bit." I warned as I started to pat his lip. He winced a bit but started to get used to it. When I was done I asked if his nose was still bleeding and he shook his head. I started to was my hands when I heard him ask "Why did you help me."

"Why wouldn't I?" I asked back with a smile on my face. "Because most people    would just ignore me or join in." He said with tears in his eyes. My heart started to break a little inside of how people would watch a poor innocent boy getting abused and do nothing or actually help hurt him more.

"Well, I'm not like most people and I have to have my partner in one piece." I said giggling. He joined in and I helped him off the counter and made our way back outside.

Just as we were sitting down, Vanessa pulled up and I became so excited as I saw the Chipotle bag threw the window. She got out of the car, walked here, and handed me the bag. "Who's this." She asked in her politely perky voice. "This is my friend Justin." I said. As I said the word 'friend' I noticed a slight smile forming on the edge of his mouth.
"Nice to meet you Justin." she said. I took out my food and praised in my head the beautiful nachos in front of me. I quickly popped off the lid and dug in. "What some Justin?" I asked. He seemed taken off guard and started stuttering "m-me."

Me and Vanessa started laughing. "Well your the only Justin around here." I joked. "N-n-no it's ok I'm not hungry." He said clearly lying. "Oh come, you know you want some, plus it's not like I'm gonna finish it by myself." I teased. He finally gave in and nodded his head so I pushed the tray between us and he dug in.

We spent the rest of the eating and finished when the bell rung, signaling that it was time for period 5/6. I threw away our trash and walked over to Justin. "I'll see you after school, call me if you need me." I whispered to him and kissed him lightly on the cheek  and started making my way to Science class.

All through the class period I kept asking myself 'why did I kiss him on the cheek? Was it because I felt bad for him?"