Alone

Lukas

I look over at Tyler, who is just staring at the ground, with this look on his face. He looks up. "You okay?" He says, putting one hand on my shoulder.

I feel that his hand is shaking. But then I realize it's not him, it's me. He notices too. "I'm fine," I say, although my voice came out shaky. I look over to see the boy walk back with his friends, and I can tell that he's telling them everything because they keep glancing at us.

Tyler stares at me for a few seconds before turning back to his locker. "I'm sorry about him...he's a very bad guy and you need to stay away from him, okay? All of them."

There was no problem for me there, I didn't want anywhere near those guys. We start making our way to our class room. We walk in and the teacher greets us. His name is Mr.Kilo. I take a seat next to Tyler, too nervous to sit anywhere else.

I watch as all different kinds of people walk in, most of them already knowing each other from previous years. Then I watch as the boy from earlier walks in, causing me to have a mini heart attack. I look over at Tyler to see if he saw him come in, but he was occupied looking through his backpack for something. I watch as he makes his way towards me.

But then he takes a seat near the back of the class, causing me instant relief. The teacher starts calling people's names.

"Jack"

"Here"

"Ciara"

"Here"

"Tyler"

"Here"

"Lukas"

"Here"

I turn around to see that it was the boy from earlier that said here. His name is Lukas.

"Summer"

"Here," I say quietly, hoping Lukas didn't hear that my name was summer. The last thing I want is for him to know my name but when I glanced at him, I could tell by the look on his face that he heard.

I was listening to what Mr.Kilo was explaining when a note hit the back of my head. I knew it was from Lukas. I opened it and all it said what for me to pass it to Tyler. I was a bit confused, but I did it anyway. Suddenly Mr.Kilo stops in front of my desk.

"Passing notes are we?" He asks sternly.

"Well, no, I..." I realized how stupid the truth would sound, and it would sound like a complete lie. I look down as my face becomes extremely red.

"We do NOT pass notes in my classroom, understood?"

I nod my head, feeling extremely embarrassed as everyone stares at me and snickers quietly. Everyone but Tyler, who is turned around glaring at Lukas.

Mr.Kilo goes back to explaining how the school year will go and classroom rules, etc. someone taps me on my shoulder and I turn around.

"Summer Davis!"

I turn around, feeling like a deer caught in headlights. "Yes, sir?"

"No talking in my classroom! What do I have to do to get through to you? Pay attention!" Mr.Kilo says angrily.

I nod my head, wanting all the whispering about me to stop. All those small laughs shared with friends, and I know that their all about me. Tyler stares at me, and I can tell he feels bad for me. I smile at him, letting him know that I don't care, even though my brain is telling me otherwise.

"Okay shall we continue?" Mr.Kilo says.

And so we continue. Mr.Kilo hands us papers and tells us to answer honestly and no cheating. I start filling it out, and when I'm halfway done, the boy next to me taps me. He's someone from that hot boy group. He points to something on his desk and I look. It's a tiny paper. I start reading it. Watch what happens while you read this it's really cool and -

The boy raises his hand. "She's copying," he says loudly. I look up and I see an angry Mr.Kilo. "Please move her," the boy says.

Then I realize exactly what was happening. All those distractions that got me in trouble were planned. Lukas got his friends to get me in trouble so mr.Kilo would move me away from Tyler and near Lukas. I feel my heart beat quicken as the realization hits me.

"Fine," mr. Kilo says, "she's obviously too distracted by the people around her." He searches the room for a spot to put me.

Lukas raises his hand. "She can sit next to me, I'll keep a very good eye on her." Mr.Kilo nods his head in agreement.

"Go on Summer, go sit next to him."

I glance at Tyler, seeing the realization hit his face as well. I pack my stuff slowly and make my way to the back. The whole back corner is taken up by the group of hot guys. Bad hot guys. They smirk at me as I take my seat next to Lukas.

I can't help the anger that builds inside me as I think about how he planned this. He sat in the very back just so he was sure we would never be noticed much. This was going to be a nightmare.

He writes his number on a piece of paper, and I know I have no choice but to put it in my phone. Lukas puts his hand on my thigh, rubbing his thumb up and down. I stiffen and start to shake in fear.

I stare at the back of Tyler's head, wishing for his help more than ever. Tyler turns around then, catching my eye. He gives me this apologetic look. He doesn't see what Lukas is doing to me, because of the tall guys in front of me.

I feel my heart beat fast and hard. But then, the bell rings. I was literally saved by the bell. But he still kept his hand on my leg. He looked over at me, a wide smirk on his face. I stood and grabbed my stuff trying to get away as fast as possible. He grabbed me by the arm though, facing me towards him. "Text me," he said, not nicely at all.

I nod my head and scurry away. I get into the hall, shaking harder than I have in a very long time. My breaths come out ragged. Crap. I have bad anxiety and I know it's starting to kick in. I look around for the closest bathroom. Suddenly someone touches my shoulder, and I yelp, just about jumping out of my skin.

I start to stumble away, not even caring to look who it is. Someone grabs me around the waist, pulling me into them. I open my mouth to scream, but I'm instead met with a hand. The person that holds me turns me around, and I'm met with Tyler's worried face. I relax in his arms and he lets go of me. I feel the tears coming into my eyes.

It's not like I want to cry, it just happens. It's hard not to cry when I start having an anxiety attack. But that boy really scares me. Sure he's hot, but he's intimidating, and I know that he's no good. People like him scare me. The fear that held me captive suddenly evaporated when Tyler hugged me. He must have seen the tears in my eyes.

My body shook against him, although I wasn't that cold. I always shake pretty bad when I have anxiety attacks. I slowly start to shake less as he comforts me. He pulls me away from him and stares at me, "you okay?"

"Yeah." I say quietly.

"Did he scare you?"

I nod my head. "He didn't hurt you did he?" I saw anger flash across his face at the thought of it. Why is he so protective of me? Probably because I'm a foster kid. "No," I say. Technically he didn't hurt me.

We move on throughout our classes, Tyler not being in all of them. Lukas was in quit a few, or got moved into mine. I'm sure it wasn't by chance. He tried his hardest to sit next to me in most of them. I finally got through the day. It was hard but it finally came to an end. The relief I felt was magical, honestly.