His head hurts.
His body is full with pain.
Everything hurts.
Where does the pain come from?
Alex couldn't remember what happened to him.
He slowly opened his eyes, blinked a few times.
He woke up in a bed but not in his own bed.
He sat up and realized he isn't in school.
'Where am I?' Alex thought. He can't remember that he has been here before.
"What if I'm in Dave's bed and.."
Suddenly the door opened and Mr. Kane came in.
"Hey Alex how are you?" Mr. Kane sat on the edge of the bed and slightly smiled.
"My brain is going to jump out of me head and my body feels like it's going to explode in lots of pieces"
"Wait a moment" Mr. Kane went out of the room and came a moment later with a glass of water and some pills.
"Drink that it will help you a little" Mr. Kane gave him the water and the pills.
After Alex drank it a question came to his mind.
"Why am I here?" Alex asked, putting the glass on the night stand.
"Dave has beaten you and I tried to stop him and now he is suspended from school"
"Why is he suspended? It's not the first time that something like that happened to me or other students and the other teacher's haven't done anything against it"
"Well, I'm not like the other teachers. I don't want my students to be bullied or beaten so I did something against it." Mr. Kane said.
"Thank you a lot, Sir but I have another question, actually I- er- where am I? " Alex stuttered shyly.
"At my flat. I don't know where you live or if I should call your parents and tell them about what happened so I decided to bring you here and please don't call me Sir or anything like that"
"So what's your name then?" Alex slightly smiled.
"Miles"
"Good then. Thank you very much Miles" Alex smiled.
"You're welcome Al" Mr. Kane smiled too.
There was silence between them.
But not the unpleasant silence, no it was just the two of them smiling at one another which makes it comfortable.
After some minutes Mr. Kane stood up and went to the balcony for a smoke. Alex didn't know whether he should go with him or if he should stay in bed.
'A cigarette would be great now' he thought but he didn't have any. Maybe Mr. Kane would give him one.
Alex stood up and walked to Mr. Kane on the balcony.
"Hey can I have a cigarette?" Alex asked.
"Smoking is not good for your health" Mr. Kane said while he let the smoke out.
Alex wanted to contradict but Mr. Kane spoke further "I know I should not say that when I'm smoking too but I don't want you to smoke because you're young and you should not ruin your body and health like I do" Mr. Kane he crushed the cigarette and leaned against the terrain of the balcony.
"Yeah but I'm not smoking that much and after what happened I need a cig" Alex sat down on a chair behind him and pouted.
"Fine but it's your last one alright?" Miles held him a cigarette and a Lightner.
Alex nodded and took it. He took a long drag and let the smoke escape from his mouth.
"You're hot when you're smoking" Miles said quietly. So quiet it seemed like he has not said anything but loud enough that Alex could barely hear it.
"What?" Alex asked.
"Hm? Nothing." Mr. Kane turned around to watch the sunset.
"It's already 8 o'clock, I'm driving you home" Mr. Kane said.
Alex didn't want to leave. He liked Mr. Kane but he can't be here forever.
They grabbed their stuff and walked downstairs to Mr. Kane's car.
"Tell me your address so I can drive you home"
Alex told him his adress and thanked him.
"Are you still hurt?" Mr. Kane suddenly asked.
"Yeah my back hurts a little bit but that's alright" Alex said.
"It won't happen again I promise" Mr. Kane said as he parked in front of Alex's house.
"Thank you very much Mr. - I mean Miles. Thank you Miles" Alex smiled and walked to the door.
Alex greeted his mum and apologized for coming home that late.
He went to his room and went straight to bed. He had a lot of stuff to learn but there are a lot more things going on in his mind.
The next day he did his morning routine.
If you could call it like that.
He went to school and sat down to his friends.
"Hey what happened yesterday?" Matt asked.
"Yeah you just disappeared" Nick said.
"Dave has beaten me up and Mr. Kane 'saved' me and Dave is suspended from school." Alex sighed.
"What the hell?! I swear to god I'll kill him when I see this son of a bitch" You could tell that Matt was angry. The way he talked and how he crushed his cigarette in his fist.
"Matt it's alright. He's gone" Alex murmured.
"No it's not alright, this motherfucker has beaten you up and I said he can not even bother you and he did it, He is bloody dead when I'm done with him!"
"Matt really it's okay, thank you but I'm fine now" Alex hugged Matt and they went to their classes.
He had Music now. Which meant he would see Mr. Kane again.
He sat down on his usual place in the third row.
"Good Morning class, today we're gonna be talking about your favourite band and maybe we will sing a song from one of them." Mr. Kane said. He sat down on his desk and looked at his students.
He noticed that Alex was not fully concentrated so he asked him first.
"I- ehm - my favorite bands are The Beatles and The Smiths and I like David Bowie and Leonard Cohen" he said quickly.
"What's your favorite song by the Beatles?"
"Ehm I think I want you (she' s so heavy) is my favourite"
"And what do you think about David Bowie?"
Mr. Kane didn't care about the other students. Alex was more fascinating for him right now. It's mesmerizing how much they have in common.
"I really like him but I can't believe that he died and in case you'll ask my favourite song is definetely Moonage Daydream" Alex smiled.
"It's my favorite too, okay but now the other students" Mr. Kane laughed.
They discussed about their favourite bands and singers. Who is better than the other and stuff like this.
"So guys we're done for today. I'm sorry we couldn't sing anything but you all insisted to argue about singers and bands, but that's not bad, we're going to sing next time"
They packed their stuff together and left the classroom, except Alex.
He didn't want to leave. He wanted to talk to Mr. Kane about music.
"Alex you'll be late to your next class if you don't go now."
"I know but I don't want to go" Alex pouted.
"Why not? You'll have English and that's your favourite subject isn't it?"
"It is but I - eh okay" Alex packed his stuff and went outside.
"Have a great day Al" Mr. Kane said while Alex walked outside.
After English, French and Math he went home with Matt.
He helped Alex with his Math homework because Alex is bad at Math and he needs help.
They went to Alex room and sat on the ground with their Math stuff in front of them.
".. and then you need to put 5 in the formula" Matt pointed on the solution.
"Okay but wait.. why do I have to put it in?" Alex detests Math. He doesn't understand why he needs to learn all of this stuff.
"Because if you don't do it then you can't have the solution" Matt sighed.
"Math with you is so exhausting you know that?" Matt laughed.
" Sorry but I don't get it why I need to do all of this, I won't need it anyway"
"You can't know that Al, I don't want to do this either but somehow it'll help you because for the exams it's important."
"Yeah I know but.. man this is so fucked up" Alex sighed.
"Let's finish this excersice and order Pizza alright?"
Alex loves Pizza more than he loves himself so he was fully concentrated and they finished his homework to order Pizza.
The pizzas arrived and they watched some random tv show while they ate.
"Hey Al.."
"Mhm?" Alex asked and put his slice back on his plate.
"Are you okay? I mean are you really okay with what happened?"
"Yeah I'm alright.. I just don't know why these things just happen to me and everybody has a what seems to be a perfect life mine is such a mess.. I don't want to handle with these things anymore"
"I'm sorry I did not more to help you, I'm such a bad friend.. I- man this is so fucked up but it's over now right? He left school didn't he?"
"Yeah Mr. Kane helped me.. don't be sorry it's alright I'm fine now.. let's.. just forget about the past okay?" Alex grabbed his pizza and ate it.. he wasn't hungry anymore but it's a shame to waste it.
Matt nodded and out on a sad smile and after some time he went home too.------------
So guys here is the next chapter
I had a lot of school stuff to do so I couldn't publish it earlier
I hope it is not too bad
Let a comment:)
