Saved by the Bad boy

That was close!

There was very little persons at school since it was really early. They were the nerds who liked to reach at school early, some were person who wanted to catch the teachers early because of homework or assignments.
I came early because I wanted to get out of the house. I know I haven't cooked his breakfast, but I had to get out.

I entered the school and walked to my locker to put my bag away.
Then I went to homeroom. I was happy that I was the only one in there. I quickly went and sat in my usual seat, quick was way at the back beside the window.

I rested my head on the desk and tried to block out the pain in my ankle. I layed there for quite some time, because out of the blue the bell rang signaling everybody to get to homeroom.
Everyone came piling into the room and sat at there usual seats. Some of them cast glances at me.

I was looking around to see if Jake came into the room, but I couldn't find him.

After homeroom everyone went to their first period. Unfortunately I had gym.

I didn't want to change into my gym clothes because they would have seen my bruises.
"Let's go people have a seat. We don't have all day." Shouted the coach.
Today we are going to play dodgeball."

A few of the girls groaned, some shrugged, and the boys shouted, "yes".
I did neither, although I was screaming,"WHY!"in my head. I had to play even thought I didn't want to. Because I couldn't afford to get an,"F" in any of my classes.

Then the door to the gym slammed open, and in walked the notorious bad boy Jake and his crew.
"Well look who finally decided to show up for class." Coach said sarcastically.
"Let's go Jake and Devon pick your teams while I set up the balls."

Jake and Devon flipped a coin to see who was going to pick first and Devon won.

"Lilly"
"Lilly"
LILLY" someone shouted.
"Huh"I pathetically answered. Some students snickered, other glared at me annoyingly. Then I realised everyone had already been picked. I was the only one on the bench.
"I picked you." Jake told me.
I was shocked. I didn't expect to be picked.
I got up slowly so I didn't hurt my back and walked over to Jakes team.

"Okay Noe that your all on teams, let's get this game started." Shouted coach.
We each went onto one side of the gym with the balls at the middle.

"When I blow my whistle, begin. The winning team gets a treat. The losing team has to run around the track 4 times without stopping. If you stop you are going to have to start over."
All of the girls visibly shuddered. The guys was positive that they were going to win.
I was to absorbed in looking at the guys on the other team taunt the guys on my team, that I didn't see Jake come stand beside me.

"Hey princess." Jake said.
"Hi." I whispered back.
"Are you okay? You look a little pale, and stiff." Jake asked worriedly.
"I'm fine."I forced out.
"Wh-
"Okay." Coach said cutting off jake from what he was about to say. "Ready! Set! Dodgeball!" Then he blew the whistle.

Everyone ran to get a ball and ran back.
I hurried and scrambled to get the ball in front of me that I had my eyes locked on, but as soon as I bent and winced to get it Ashley got a hold of it. Then shale laughed at me.
I hurried to run back over to my team because there were no more balls.

Then balls were flying. From left, and right. I saw a ball coming towards me and I tried to run the other way but not fast enough. I was waiting for he pain to come but it never did. I opened my eyes and saw Jake standing in front of me with the ball in his hand. He threw it back over to the other team and it hit Ashley. She threw a fit and stomped over to the bench and sat down.

(One game of volleyball later)
That game was intense. Jake protected me from being hit by the balls. And we came out the winners.

The day was going very quickly. And thankfully nobody bothered me at all.

Lunch rolled around and I got my food and went to my usual table way at the back of the cafeteria. I could see everything from where I was. I saw Jake and his friends coming towards my table.

The came and sat down without saying anything.
"Umm excuse me!" I said nervously.
They all looked at me with a serious look.

"Why is there a bruise on your neck and a cut on your forehead and lip. Also a hand faded hand print on both of your cheeks?"
Jake asked and all of them nodded in agreement.
I was too shocked to speak. I totally forgot to cover them up. I was silently hoping nobody else saw them.

"I-i I um i-i." I just kept stuttering. I didn't know what to say.
So got up and ran out of the cafeteria outside I sat on a bench under a big tree and started crying. I let all of my emotions that that I had bottled up, loose.
I cried and cried. I hadn't even noticed when Jake came put of the school. I only felt when he put his arms around me and held me while I cried.
I was a little happy that I had someone's shoulder to cry on. I'm not happy about the circumstances though.

"We will talk about this when you are ready. I don't want to push you to talk about it if your not ready yet. But I want you to know that we will be talking about this." Jake said sternly.
"O-o-kay." I said through hiccups.
Only thing was on my mind was, "Whew That Was Close!"