Hearts' Desire

Chapter Three

Alex or Christen, Christen or Alex. These thoughts run through my head as I go through school the next day. I hardly pay attention to my teachers. My head is filled with the two blue-eyed beauties. Due to this preoccupation, I'm not looking where I'm going and bump into someone. 

"I'm so-" I start to say before a fist makes contact with my stomach. 

"Watch where you're going, bitch!" Servando snarls, backhanding me across the face. I try to run away, but Servando grabs me and kicks me. He raises his hand to hit me again, but a black blur darts between me and him. His fist hits Thalia instead. My little sister winces, then delivers a hard blow right to his face. Blood spurts everywhere. Servando's nose is now misshapen. Thalia broke Servando's nose. Alex runs forward and holds her boyfriend back before he can kill Thalia. Press holds Thalia back so she can't kill Servando.

 "You little bitch!" Servando yells. "I'll get you back for this!"

 "You're lucky I didn't start below the belt!" Thalia screams. "If I had, you could kiss your family jewels goodbye!" at that precise moment, the principal walks out of her office and sees us. 

"What on earth happened here?!" she demands. 

"The little bitch broke my nose!" Servando yells. 

"He was attacking my sister!" Thalia yells. The principal sighs. 

"Miss Heath, we talked about this," she says. 

"No, you talked about this," Thalia replies, still glaring at Servando. "I ignored you. Maybe you didn't hear me clearly: dickless here was beating up my sister!" 

"Is this true?" the principal asks press. 

"Yes," Press says coolly. "This boy has no dick." Servando growled and tried to get at Press and Thalia, but Alex held him back. 

"Pretty boy here should have been suspended about a thousand times for what he's done to Tobin!" Thalia says. "When are you actually gonna punish him? Or is he too valuable to your precious football team?" 

"I've had about enough of your sass, Thalia Heath." the principal snaps. "Get out of here before I give you a detention." 

"Come on, sis." I say, taking Thalia's arm. "You too, Pressy. I'll take you home." we go to the car and drive to Christen's house. 

"Bye, Tobin!" Press chirps as she hops out of the car. "Bye, kitten!" 

"Don't call me that!" Thalia yells. Press just waves and goes into her house. Thalia and I drive home, and Thalia drags me upstairs and sits me on the bed. 

"Stay." she says like she's talking to one of Christen's dogs. I roll my eyes, but do as I'm told. Thalia disappears into the bathroom and comes back with a bottle of rubbing alcohol and some cotton pads. She takes my shirt off and starts cleaning the gashes left by Servando's state champions ring. 

"All done." she says when she finishes. 

"Thanks, sis." I say, pulling her into a hug. 

"No problem." she says. "I'll go start dinner." 

"Oh, no you don't." I say. "It's my turn. You did it yesterday." 

"Fine." Thalia says. We eat, then do homework and go to bed. Thalia comes into my room and snuggles close to me. I hold her close to my chest. 

"I'll keep her safe, mom." I whisper as she falls asleep. "I promise."