Blackheart Forever (Cody Culp)

Chapter 9

After about an hour and a half, Cody gained consciousness again.
"Hey", he croaked out.
"Hi", I whispered back as I brushed his hair away from his forehead.
You'll find I do that a lot.
"You feel any better?", I asked as he sat up."Easy."
"Yea, my throat burns a little bit, but other then that I'm fine", he said as he stood up and I stood in front of him in case he fell.
"Good to hear, well", I sighed and put my hands on my hips."Ill give you a summary the bitch they got up in here said..."put a bandaid on it and walk it off"."
"Figures", he scoffed and shook his head, but then he turned back to me, and gave me a sad look."You saw it happen too?"

I bit my lip as I looked at the floor and nodded, then looked back up at him.
"Yea", I said, then shook my head."Im so sorry."
"Me too", he said and wiped a tear that I did'nt notice fall, away with his thumb."Come on lets go."
I looked at him with a "you sure", look and he nodded.
"I cant walk, your good", he laughed, then he walked out the door, holding his bad arm.
"Jesus, if this is what the girls do to you, then babe, your gunna have to be coming back here a lot more often cause what I can do is 10x worse", some nasily voice said behind us, and I cracked my neck as I turned around slowly to face Tracy.
Of course it's Tracy.
WHO THE FUCK AM I KIDDING?!
Ohhhhh now is so not the time.
I just saw one of my best friends being killed, LET her say something to me, I will knock her fuckin lights out.

Cody and I rolled our eyes at each other, then walked away and headed for the stairs, but of course she followed.
"Hey why don't you give me your number and we can-"
"Quit thinkin about yourself, bitch", I growled as I cut her off by pushing her."We just saw one of our best friends die."
"Mohawk pulled a gun on him-what was he supposed to do?", she snarled in my face.
""Mohawk pulled a gun on him"", I mocked her, then glared at her."Where you there?I don't think so!We were!Mohawk was so fuckin wasted, he would'nt have known which end the bullets come out."
And with that, I turned on my heel and walked up the stairs after Cody to our next class.

We walked silently to our history class, then once we got inside, we sat down and i held my head in my hands as I put my elbows on my desk.
Im quite sure everyone was staring at Cody and I, because the room was quieter than usual and i heard whispering every few seconds.
Then our teacher, the old guy, Mr. Hardin, came in and they all either quieted down or got back in there seats.
"Good morning", he said, and some of us responded.
I took a deep breath in, then dragged my hands down my face, and put them together, resting them on my mouth.
Weird to explain, but you get the picture.

"The study of history is...is rewarding",Mr. Hardin said."Not only in its wonderful richness, but also in the lessons that can be gleaned from it...so let's turn our attention to the Trojan war."
I sighed and started to turn to the page in my history book, but then there was a knock on the door, and then they knocked again, almost like they were drunk or something.
Confused, I looked around to see who we were missing, and then it hit me and i turned back to the door in time to see Mr. Hardin let in, and extremely fucked and wasted out of his mind Sonny.
The last thing I needed to see.
This isn't gunna be good.

"Your late",Mr.Hardin said as he stumbled around the room.
First he went down Codys row and patted his shoulder, but Cody grabbed his arm.
"Sit down. Sit down",Cody said to him, but Sonny kept stumbling down the asle.
"Sonny, please sit down",some girl said as Sonny walked by her, but he still kept stumbling around the room.
"Did you get a note from the principal?",Mr. Hardin asked getting more and more pissed by the second.
"No",Sonny giggled back as Curt did the cross sign over his chest."But Id be happy to take some time off to get you one."
Finally Sonny stumbled down my row, knockin into desk, but he lazily fixed it and then walked down towards me.
"Oh, hi Jesse!!", he literally waved in my face as he stumbled by me, his cross he had on a necklace almost hitting me in the face and I grabbed his arm.
"Sonny, sit down, now", I gritted, then he ripped his arm from my grasp and walked up to Mr.Hardin, then the next thing I knew, Sonny bent over and vomited all over the floor.

I did freak out, or flinch, or gag, I just shut my eyes and sighed.
When I opened them, I saw Mr. Hardin had grabbed the back of Sonny jacket and was now forcing him out the door, making Cody and I stand up in Sonny's defence in case he needed it.
But after they left the room, Cody sat back down and everyone in the room went back to talking and jackin around doin whatever.
I finally sat back down, and stared at my desk, but then slowly looked over at Cody and gave him an unsure look, to which he gave me the same thing.
I shook my head and leaned back in my chair, waiting for them to come back, then a couple minutes later, only Mr. Hardin came back.

When he came back in, everyone got back in line and I sat up straight once more,folding my arms and putting them on the desk.
Maybe he took Sonny to the principal's office?
I had no clue.
"As you'll recall..", he trailed off."The salient point in the story of Achilles..."
I noticed Mr. Hardin was messing with something in his hands, and of course Im going to notice this because hes literally right in front of me, but when I looked down, my heart stopped and my jaw dropped.
He had Sonny's, now bloody cross necklace in his hands.
I stared wide eyed at it, and I looked over at Cody to see he was staring wide eyed at it as well, then he turned to me and he had the most scared, shocked look on his face ever.

I opened my mouth to mouth something to him, but nothing came out as I shook my head.
We watched him put it in his pocket like he never had it and he continued on with his lecture.
I looked over at Cody again and we were both suspicious.
Sonny never takes that thing off.
His mom gave it to him when he was 14, and he never takes it off.
What the fuck is HE doing with it?!
I let out a shaky breath and looked down at my desk, trying to calm down, and then Mr.Hardin said this.
"And so, you see, the strategy is...find the weak spot...and attack."

I looked back up at him, wide eyed once more, then slowly I started giving him a death glare.
A million different thoughts ran through my head, but only one kept coming back...
He just killed Sonny...
And Cody knows it too...
"Principal Langford, security, custodian, and ER personal to section B", some guy announced over the intercom.
"Ahh, must be another overdose",Mr. Hardin said, and I glared as hard as I could at him.
I looked over at Cody and he was staring at his desk, with an emotionless expression.
I looked back down at my desk, and swallowed hard as tears started forming in my eyes.

Were section B...he really did just kill Sonny.