Campbelle Academy

Chapter 7: Attacked

The way back from the library was quiet except for a few students making their way back to their rooms from the lounge area. Bailey made his way to the boy's dorms, holding his history books and papers and walked up the steps. As he made his way down the corridor to his room, he saw someone had opened his door and left it ajar slightly. Bailey sighed as he thought Liam was in his room trying to scare or jump him again.

"Damnit Liam, I thought I told you that if you try to jump me I will kick your-" He began but saw a senior male student there, going through his dresser. Hearing his voice, the male student froze. Bailey stood in the doorway, staring at the stranger. Looking around his room, he saw all the dressers open and his desk a mess with papers everywhere. 

"Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my room?" Bailey questioned but didn't move. The senior male was a good foot taller than he. The student straightened himself and Bailey saw he was holding a few of his personal belongings. The older student noticed and suddenly sprinted towards the door. Startled, Bailey was caught off-guard as the senior body tackled him out into the hallway, his books and papers scattering across the hall. The senior student pinned Bailey to the ground.

"Get the hell off of me!" The senior student smirked as he raised his hand. Knowing what's going to happen, Bailey closed his eyes as he awaited the impact of the strike. Hearing a door open nearby, Bailey heard the sound of someone doing a running start before he felt the weight of the older male was thrown off him.

Opening his eyes, Bailey saw Liam on top of the senior male, his arm pressed against his neck. Bailey sat up as Liam dealt a heavy blow onto the student's chest, the student having the air knocked out of him. Probably hearing the commotion, more students piled out of their rooms, two senior students having to pry Liam off the senior student he was beating on.

"For the love of- Liam, you almost beat him unconscious!" The two senior student held Liam back as Julian helped the beaten student to his feet.

"Gene, what the hell did you do this time?" Julian questioned as he took a firm grip on the beaten student named Gene. Gene grinned as it started bruising around his left eye.

"Nothing, just wanted to see the newbie" Gene joked as he looked right into Liam's eyes mockingly. Bailey got a good look at Gene's face which was bruised on the cheek, around his left eye, a busted lip and blood dripping from his nose.

"You know that's a load of crap Gene. You're holding a few of Bailey's personal belongings" Julian scorned as he yanked them out of Gene's grasp. "I remember them from his suitcase when he was unpacking on his first day" Gene grumbled and swore silently under his breath.

"I seriously hate how good your memory is" Gene mumbled as Julian hauled him to the third floor to where the infirmary was. After calming down somewhat, with some much needed explanation of why Liam almost beat Gene to death, the two senior students let Liam go as they ushered everyone to get back to their rooms.  Once everyone was cleared out, Liam went over to bailey to check on him.

"Are you alright Bailey? He did not hit you before I had stopped him did he?" Liam asked as Bailey kneeled down to pick up his scattered books and papers.

"I'm alright, just a little sore from when he tackled me. Felt as if I was hit by a car" Bailey answered as he felt his neck and back sore from the impact. "But I'm other than that I'm fine it's not as if I haven't been in a fight before" He smiled, standing up after collecting his scattered belongings. Liam sighed and smiled but not his usual goofy smile or grin, this one was more sincere.

"Good, I seriously hate Gene's guts. He enjoys picking on the newbies because he's intimidating for the first few weeks to them. Tried it with me and I beat his ass though got campus duty for a week." Liam sighed as he ran a hand through his blond hair.

"A heads up would've been helpful you know. It's as simple as 'Hey Bailey, just letting you know you might be targeted by this senior who might break into your room.' But whatever" Bailey joked and Liam cracked his signature grin followed by a half sincere apology with a few jokes hinted in. After the painful moments of realizing the jokes, Bailey went in his room with Liam to clean up the mess Gene left while rummaging through his room.

"Thanks for the help Liam, see you tomorrow" Liam left after everything was put away. Looking at the clock on his night stand, he saw it was almost midnight. Sighing, Bailey got dressed for bed and climbed in.

Today was Saturday but it was hard for Bailey to get out of bed, waking up with a sore neck and a dull pain in his lower back. Reluctantly he got up, gathering his things he needed to shower and trudged off to the boy's showers. As usual, the showers were voided of anyone due to Bailey's habit of waking up 30 minutes earlier than everyone else.

Going to the stall he usually showers in, he out his stuff in the cubby near the shower. As he was going to get undressed, he heard the door opened. Turning his head towards the sound, he saw Gene there, his face showing a darker shade of blue around his bruises.

"Ugh" Bailey made a sound of distaste as he carried on with his business. Gene grinned and advanced towards Bailey, stopping only a few feet away.

"Does the newbie enjoy showering early?" The senior male asked raising an eyebrow. Bailey paid half attention to gene, not wanting to deal with his last night's attacker.

"What do you want Gene?" Bailey asked unbuttoning his shirt and heading towards his stall. Gene stepped in the way and stopped him from entering the stall.

"Look what Liam did to my face. My devilish appearance has been tainted by these bruises because of you." He stated and pointed to his bruises and cut lip.

"Pretty sure you are 1: Delusional if you think it's my fault that Liam beat your ass and 2: Your 'devilishly good looks' wouldn't have been tainted if you were a complete dick and asshole" Bailey stated with air quotes around 'devilishly good look' with his fingers. Gene furrowed his brow and sneered down at Bailey who was smirking.

"Don't get cocky with me newbie, I could still kick your as-" the senior male began but was cut off by Bailey.

"And then everyone in the academy knows you're the one who attacked me thanks to last night's incident" he finished which shut up Gene who growled silently. Gene gripped his hands into fists as he leaned down towards Bailey.

"Touché" was all Gene said before leaving the showers. Sighing at how much time he lost, Bailey hurriedly showered and got dressed in regular clothes due to no classes and headed to his room to put his towel and pajamas in the laundry hamper.

Afterwards, he went over to Liam's room, knocking on the door and opening it to find the blond male asleep half naked with his covers and pillows strewn about his bed and his school uniform lazily tossed to one corner of the room. Rolling his eyes, Bailey went over to Liam's sleeping form and shook him gently only to receive a mumble sounding like '5 more minutes mom... I'll pick up my dirty underwear from the floor later...' Bailey furrowed his brow at the comment.

"Okay ew..." Bailey said to himself  before shaking him more vigorously "Dammit Liam wake up!" He yelled and Liam's eyes opened, sitting up with his blond hair a halo of sticking ends and messy curls.

"Bailey.... is it breakfast time yet?" Liam asked while rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Sighing, Bailey threw one of the many shirts that were discarded on the floor at Liam.

"Yes it's breakfast time now get changed. Oh and don't forget to pick up your dirty underwear, mommy said so" Bailey joked before leaving the room, looking back one more time to see a red faced Liam that jumped out of the bed and hurriedly collected his dirty clothing.