The Tainted Rose

Chapter eight

Have you ever been in a fight?

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After my second period, I looked for Ashley everywhere. I wanted to know what happened, how did she do in the exam. The thing is that I didn't find her anywhere.

Where could she be? Did something happen? I wanted to keep looking, the thing is that I had to enter my next class. Halfway into the class, someone knocked on the classroom's door. It was Ashley! Though, when did she change her dress? "Excuse me, professor. May I borrow Aiden for a moment?" She asked James.

"Yes, you may."

I exited the classroom and entered the hallway.

"So?"I asked curiously.

"Well, I know that I promised you that I would pass..." She had her head lowered.

"What happened? Did you fail?" I thought she was ready for the exam.

"The thing is that....." She sighted and raised her head.

"I passed! I'm going to be with you in twelve A." She immediately hugged me and thanked me. "I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

"What!? I told you, you could do it. We're going to celebrate when we get out of here." I knew it, I knew she was ready.

We hugged and then I entered the classroom again. From tomorrow on she would be in my group; today was her last day on twelve C. After the class ended, Ashley told James everything. He was really happy for her and kind of excited himself. When they finished talking, we went to the cafeteria. She took her lunch and I only took an apple with a bottle of water. I didn't eat that much when I was in school. Out of it, it was like another me, I ate everything and I was always hungry. Anyway, we sat at the last table of the cafeteria, away from everyone. As you already know, everything happens in the cafeteria in the movies or books and apparently in real life too. Yoana and Damien approached us.

I think they're dating.

When Yoana approached Ashley, who was on the other side of the table, she slapped her really hard. I tried to get up, but Damien held me down. "You're gonna sit there if you don't want any in trouble with me." He whispered in my ear.

"So you think that you're better than us and that you can change groups to wherever you want?" Yoana said to Ashley who had her hand on her face. Ashley looked at Yoana and answered, "No, I'm not better than you. It's just that I'm smarter than you." as she said it, she had a smile on her face.

"You little whore!" Yoana launched over Ashley and they started fighting. I wanted to stop it, but Damien was still holding me. As they kept fighting, Damien noticed that Ashley was kicking Yoana's ass. I smiled and said, "Well, aparently I can be here all day if you want because my girl is owning yours".

He looked at me angrily and told me to shut up. At that time, Ashley got on top of Yoana and started to pull her hair and hit her. Damien couldn't take it so he let me go and rushed towards them; I was right behind him trying to hold him. He lifted Ashley and threw her to the side. When Ashley fell, she hit her head with the end of a table and was knocked unconscious. I rushed towards her and tried to wake her up, she wouldn't respond so I put her head back down gently and walked straight to Damien ready to punch him; maybe kill him. The thing is that James arrived at that moment and stopped me.

"Don't do it Aiden. You could get expelled if you do it, just calm down." He said to me as he held me tightly.

"Let me go!" I yelled as I tried to get loose. The whole cafeteria was watching closely everything that was happening.

"I'll let you go if you don't do anything stupid. Ok?"

"Let go of me!" I yelled again trying to get loose.

"I'm going to let you go, just don't do anything you're going to regret." He let go and I went straight back to Ashley who was bleeding from the back of her head. I lifted her up and took her to the nursery. James took Damien and Yoana to the principle's office.

"You're going to be ok, but you should still go to the hospital. I'll call the ambulance." The nurse told Ashley.

"No, it's ok, I'll take her to the hospital." I helped Ashley up and took her to my car.

In the hospital, they said that she had a concussion and that she should stay the night. I stayed with her until her parents arrived at the hospital. When they did, I left. It was time to pay Damien a visit. I looked him up on the internet and since his father is a big deal, I got an address. I parked my car some houses before his and walked the rest of the way. He was going to pay for what he did to Ashley, just not right away. I had to first learn more about him. That didn't mean that he wasn't going to at least be scared. It was really late so everyone was asleep. I climbed through his bedroom window; which was locked but I opened it with my pocket knife. I entered his room and took a bag of blood that I took from the hospital out of my bag. I wrote, "You'll pay for what you did"on a wall. Also, I wrote, "DIE!" on his forehead. After that, I climbed down and left his window opened. When I reached the ground, I grabbed a rock and threw it through the window. I hid nearby to hear the entire spectacle that was about to happen. He woke up and after a few minutes, I could hear him screaming for his dad. I smiled and fled to my house.