I'd Never Expected

Chapter 6

The island. The island was coming. I could feel it. Ground, that's what I touched. I walked but.. That person. Who the hell is that? It's just us. The figure walked to me. Closer and closer. I stared and it spoke.

"Serenity?"

I blinked. What? The voice was male. I was sure of that… And, I recognized it.

Again. "Serenity?"

The blurry figure shifted into a glowing light. Quickly my surroundings became white and the white glowing figure began to shift again. It became one solid object… A light bulb.

I blinked when a face I recognized invaded half my vision and blocked out the light.

"Serenity?" Suddenly the voice wasn't so deep anymore.

I turned but the left side of my face felt sore. I groaned and touched it. There was an ice pack on my eye.

"No, leave it," Vita grabbed my hand before I had a chance to remove it.

My vision slightly cleared as I looked at her. Was she the one that had been calling me the whole time?

I noticed I was laying down on one of the medical office beds. "What happened?" I asked her. I could feel my left eye throbbing underneath all the ice. I really wanted to remove it.

"You don't remember?" she asked, sounding a little concerned.

I shook my head. "I remember some stuff…" I winced my left eye. "Did James hit me?" I was about to sit up when the school nurse walked in.

"Oh, sweetie, how do you feel?" she asked and placed her hands on my shoulders as precaution to lay me back down.

"I feel alright, my eye just hurts." I sat up and she didn't resist to hold me back. Instead she offered to replace my ice pack.

I nodded. When she left I touched my eye. It stung like a bruise.

"Yeah, James didn't spare ya there," Vita commented.

I looked at her. "So he did hit me?"

She nodded. "Yeah, you practically dove into his swing."

I sighed and shook my head. "I was just trying to stop him. That was a dirty trick they tried to pull on Ronnie, there. Is there a mirror around here?"

Vita handed me her compact.

I glanced at my eye. It was deep purple and swollen. That was the reason why my left eye's vision was so blurry. I groaned, "Egh... It's going to take days to heal." I gave Vita back her compact when she began to question my reason for trying to save Ronnie.

I shrugged. "It wasn't fair to fight him like that. If Dave had James then Ronnie had me. I think it was worth it, that I jumped in there. At least they got a fair fight now."

"Pfft, if you call being knocked unconscious for an hour worth it then okay," she joked.

"What?" I looked at the time. It was about ten minutes before two pm. "I didn't know I was out that long?"

Vita laughed. "Yeah, we were worried there for a sec. The nurses had to call your parents."

I sighed. "I figured they would do that. Oh well.. I just hope they're not too mad."

"Why would they?" she asked. "You tried to save Ronnie. What's so bad about that?"

I shook my head. "I'm talking about Ronnie. I hope they're not too mad at him."

"Oh, yeah.." She nodded.

"So where is he?"

Vita pointed at the dean's office across the hall.