Mr. Mendes

Truth Time.

Lexi.

"Hey Lex, how come we didn't hear from you the whole weekend?" Sydney said while grabbing my arm as we walked into the school.

"I was busy," I lied and she shook her head.

"Oh come on stop with the bullshit Lex you can tel us," Amanda said while rushing to my side.

"Really guys, after the party I just wasn't feeling that well anymore so I stocked myself up with work," I lied again and they nodded.

"And why is that? Too much partying with Mark?" Emma asked who was being followed by Chase.

"Um no," I said while violently shaking my head.

"Well that was a quick response," Liam said while cutting between Amanda and I to put his arms around the both of us.

"Well only because it's the truth," I smirked and they all nodded.

We continued walking to class and right when we walked up to Shawn's classroom, Mark was waiting right outside the door.

He was looking down at his hands and right when we passed by his face lifted up and stared at me.

"Lex, can we talk please?" He said and I shook my head.

"Right now isn't really a good time Mark," I mumbled while trying to squeeze into the room.

"Please I really want to talk to you. When are you free?" He asked and his eyes were swelling with tears.

"Never. Especially not for you...ever," I hissed and pushed myself through with the help of Liam.

"Everything all right?" Liam said while wrapping his arm around me.

"Ms. Rivera," I heard Shawn's voice say and I turned my head to my right and saw him smiling at me.

"Mr. Mendes," I nodded and took a seat next to Liam.

When I took my seat, I couldn't help but to stare at Shawn. I hadn't seen him since Sunday, and we didn't have school yesterday so I was almost thirsty to have him in my grasp.

"Hello? Earth to Alexis?" I heard Liam's voice break my thoughts and broke my stare towards Shawn.

"Sorry what?" I said while turning to face him.

"Alright you have to tell me the truth, and no bullshit okay?" Liam said and I nodded.

"Depends on what you're asking," I said and he glared a little bit so I knew he was serious.

"It doesn't matter what I ask but you have to tell me the truth," he said in a stern tone which scared me a bit since he's only used that tone with me once in the time that we've known each other.

"Alright ask away," I said and he nodded.

"Okay, but first you have to swear on our brother/sister relationship that you'll tell me the truth," he said and I nodded.

"I swear on our 'relationship,' and I also swear on Mr. Ultra Cuddles," I said, referring to my old teddy bear he had given me for my seventh birthday.

"Alright, so first, what's going on with you and Mark?" He said and I looked down at my notebook.

"Well at the party I called you to pick me up and something happened," I said and he nodded.

"And I could tell you were crying so spill," he said.

"I got a text from Mr. Mendes who was looking after me while my parents were away and he saw then-" I stopped my sentence and could feel my eyes start to tear up.

"Aw Alexis come here," he said and pulled me in for a hug, completely ignoring the fact that Shawn was teaching.

"Ms. Rivera, is everything alright?" I heard Shawn's voice say and I looked up to see Shawn's face drop.

"Mr. Porter, you and Ms. Rivera may be excused," he said in a gentle tone and we both got up from our seats and walked out of the room.

"Thank you sir," Liam said before he could slip outside with me.

"Sorry I just-" I mumbled but Liam cut me off.

"Lex, don't apologize just tell me what happened," he said and I just nodded.

"Well when he saw the text he got mad and he-" I stopped again to keep my tears from rolling down my cheeks.

"He what?" Liam said and at this point he was raising his voice.

"H-he hurt m-me," I choked out and his hands started shaking.

"How?" He said and his voice was full with fury...I could feel it.

"Liam it's no-" he cut me off and clenched his fists together.

"Bullshit Lex what did he do to you!" He yelled and I'm surprised no teachers had come out to check on us.

"He grabbed me okay!" I yelled back not knowing that anger was also building up inside of me.

"Where?" He growled and I rolled up the sleeves on my jacket to reveal slight bruises on my wrists.

"This bastard is going to pay," he spat out and before I could hold him back he stormed back into the classroom.

"Liam stop!" I pleaded but before I could stop anything, he already had Mark on the floor.

"Mr. Porter and Mr. Sanders break it up!" Shawn yelled and tried prying Liam off of Mark.

"Liam that's enough!" Amanda said and she moved to my side once I finally let the tears go.

"What the hell man!" Mark choked out while trying to fight Liam off of him.

"How dare you lay a hand on her!" He growled and gave him one hard punch in his face.

"Mr. Porter enough!" Shawn yelled and finally was able to hold back Liam as Mark tried to regroup himself.

Not only was there blood on the floor but it was all over Liam's hand and Marks' face.

"You two! Principals office!" Shawn yelled and Liam stormed off without saying another word.

With that, the bell rang.

"Alright we'll continue our lesson tomorrow, and now let's just forget about this," Shawn said and I quickly gathered my stuff to rush out of his class, but unfortunately that didn't happen.

"Except for you Ms. Rivera. We need to have a word."

Well shit.

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