Fire Hazard🔥🔥

Chapter 19

  I try to stand up feeling my stomach bruising and I instantly feel sick. I sit back down and I look up at him.

  "I'm fine." These were the only words I could mutter out.

  "Don't lie to me."

  "Andy I'm not lying, I'm fine to see."

  I go to stand up again and fail. I scoot over to where my stuff is and sit on the ledge. After a while of thinking and glancing up seeing Andy look at me with the look of worry, I finally speak the truth.

   "No."

   " No what?" Andy asks

   "I'm not OK there are you happy?"

    He doesn't say anything. He just takes out his phone. He walks away for awhile as I try to stand multiple times but failing altogether. He walks back over to me and says the thing I most dreaded.
 
   "Art is on his way."

I look away not wanting to talk to Mr.B I stand up this time, Fully standing. It's was very painful. Knowing my face was showing it I chose to try to smile.

   " I don't need to talk to Mr.B I will be fine. "

   "You just said you weren't fine. Now you are."

   " I don't want to talk to him."

  "Why not?"

   "Don't you understand," I say getting a little more frustrated.

    " Understand what?"

    "I talked to someone before and I got hurt. I don't need to talk, and I don't want to take to him."

     "Art won't let anything happen."

     "It doesn't matter they'll find a way. They always have."

   Andy looks down at his phone then looks up at me.

     "Art said he's almost here."

     "I don't need to talk to him."

  I stand up and look at my stomach which now has four bruises. I go to walk away but stop. I get a really sharp pain in my lower abdomen and I sit down.
   

     "I guess I'm staying until Mr.B gets here." I look up at him with pain filled eyes. I stand up and walk to the band room and sit in front of my cubbie grabbing my phone to text Liv to make sure she knows I won't be home until later.  As I finish texting Liv Mr.B comes flying through the door.
   
     "Where is she?"

     "I'm right here."

     "What happened?"

     "I told Andy I didn't need to talk to you."

     "Well, I'm here now."

     "I don't need to talk to someone."

     "Why's that?"

     "I don't want to talk about it."

     "What did you tell me," Andy says looking at me then Mr.B.

      " If I talk to people, mainly authority they come back and hurt me, but worse."

      " Yes or no answers then. "

      "Ok, fine."

      "Are you in danger?"
 
     "I guess."

      "Yes or no."

      "Yes."

      "If you leave this room right now will you be safe."

       "No."

       "Do you know who set the fire?"

        "Yes."

        "That's all I needed."

   Mr.B turns around and walks toward his office goes in and shuts the door leaving me and Andy in the band room. We sit in silence until Mr.B comes back out.

        "Would you talk to Mr.Crosson?"

        "No."

        "Why?"

        "If I talk I get hurt ."

       "We'll protect you."
  
       "It's like before there isn't any protection outside of school."

   I stand up and walk toward the band room door.

   " I can't talk to anyone about this."

   "You can talk to us," Andy replies.

   "But if someone finds out."

   "They won't."

    "But if they do."

   Andy and Mr.B just stand there for a while. I go to open the door when Mr.B finally speaks.

    "Promise me if something happens you'll tell me first thing tomorrow."

    "I promise."

     "I mean it."

     "I will I swear."

** later that night**

     After leaving the band room I didn't go straight home. I ended up going to the cemetery. I haven't gone since the day my gram passed. Once I get there I get out leaving everything in my car. I walk to the middle of the cemetery and I find my grams headstone placed right next to my dads. I sit in the middle of both. Its quiet for a while then I start hearing the pitter patter of rain hitting the ground. I don't move thought, I just stay there. I know it may seem weird considering they aren't actually here but I begin to speak.

  "I'm lost and need your guidance. It's just so complicated any more. I don't know what to do. Natalie is my friend but she did try to frame me. But I'd never turn my back on a friend. Never I've always made that promise to myself. Gram knows people have walked out of my life when I needed them the most I don't want anyone to experience that. But dad you always taught me to do what was right."

      I end up sitting there for another hour or so in the rain then I hear someone coming. I wasn't too worried so I just sat there. Then as the person got closer I realized who it was and I immediately turned around.

     "What are you doing here?"

     "I wanted to make sure you were ok you walked out of the band room so fast."

     "Thanks, Mr.B, but I'm fine."

      "Are you sure?"

       "Yeah, my stomach just really hurts."

       "How bad?"

       "What do you mean?"

       "On a scale of one to ten."

       "I'm fine Mr.B."

       "Please just answer."

       "Fine its about an eight."

       "Come on."

       "What, where are we going?"

       "If it hurts that bad you need to go see a doctor."

       "Mr.B I'm fine really."

      "Well technically you left the school and you haven't stepped foot on your home property so you are still in my care. So if anything happens it's on me so you need to go see a doctor."

     "I don't want you to get in trouble but I'm fine."

     "Does it still hurt?"

     "Well kinda, but I'm fine."

      "If it still hurts we're going."

     "I don't need to go."

     "If it means you're safe and out of harm's way I'm taking you. Would you be safe?"

    "I don't know probably."

   "Then we're going."