Old School

21 - Well I Can Look At You Tell You Ain't No Child No More

"Well I can look at you tell you ain't no child no more." Bill Haley - Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954)

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Studying today was great, since I have the same class as Steve. But not Kale, I wonder where he is. "Steve, I'll go to my locker."

"Okay, I'll meet you up there." Said Steve who's busy cleaning his locker.

I nodded, walking down the hall to my messy locker. As I almost got there, I moaned. Ryder and Keith is standing there, bullying some kids. I tried to go back but they spot me, walking to me. I walked in front of them to my locker, leaving them behind.

"Hey, look at the lady punk." Said Keith. 

"I take that as a compliment and anyway, this lady don't want any dogs like you guys approached her." I said, not bothering to look at them still tidying my locker.

Keith whistle as I rolled my eyes. I slammed the door of my locker and glared at them. "What do you guys want instead of annoy me? If it's just the thing to annoy me, leave me alone!" I commanded, making them giggled sarcastically.

"How about your nasty band? And your nasty Kale? Is he already sicken of your punk band?" Again, I hurt him. My knees fly hard to his thing, if you know what I mean, as he rolled around on the ground. 

"How about that?" I smirked at him, walking away as I could feel two hands are gripping me. "Ugh! Let me go!" I screeched, knowing that there's almost nobody to help me. Keith hands are gripping me tightly as I have tears formed on my eyes.

"How about that?" Repeated Ryder, he stood right in front of my, getting ready with his fist.

"Punch me! Punch me all you want! I don't care!" I shouted, as his first fist flied to my face. His punch surely harder than Crystal's, because my nose is literally bleeding. Keith released me as I fell to the ground.

"You're not a strong woman are you?" Said Ryder as I could see Keith face formed fear.

I held my nose, blood all over my hand. I need Steve. "You're a pussy! Dare to punch a girl but what about your heart? It is frozen! You ain't no child no more, asshole! What would you do when you're old? Murdering innocent person? Huh?" I saw Keith walked away from us because I know he wont like to be in a business like this, and he's a coward.

"Oh my god! Emily!" I saw Steve came to me as he tried to run here but ended with a punch from Ryder and fell to the ground as well. From a far, Kale watched us wide eyed and quietly came here punching Ryder on the face a couple times. 

"You! Dare! To! Punch! My! Girlfriend! I! Will! Kill! You!" He shouted between anger as I begged him to stop, but he didn't. He stopped after a minute since Ryder passed out and came to me and Steve. "Are you guys okay? I'll have to take you to the hospital school, now!" 

He placed my and Steve's hands on his shoulder, helping us to the hospital school. Everyone is in the cafeteria, so they can't see this. Too bad, they could just tell the principal and suspend Keith and Ryder.

"Hey, I've been looking for you guys! Oh my god, what's wrong?" Sky stared at us in worries as she helped to carry me. 

"The assholes is what's wrong." Kale told her, making she jumped.

She stared at me in confusion. "Ryder?"

"Yes."

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We arrived at home, as we could see Conner and Luca are yelling about something. "I can't tell who they are, they have those mask which hid their faces!"

"Oh, but we have to know! What if they do the same thing again?" Conner shouted back at him, like everything's wrong.

"Here they come!" Said Luca, approaching us. "Steve, someone wreck your house. Oh my, what's going on with you guys?" He said shocked when he saw me and Steve's bruised faces.

Steve widened his eyes. "Seriously?" He ran inside as Sky followed him after.

"Problem at school, it's fine anyway. What's with someone wreck the house?" I said, looking at nothing but peace. "Nothing's wrong."

"You haven't go inside. Come on." He led us inside, as I could see the house is a complete mess.

"Oh my god." I said, bewildered. Whoever did this need a lesson!

So much cracking glasses on the floor, and Steve's TV is broken. His couch is turned upside down and so does the table. "Our recording room!" I shouted, running to the room and when I opened the door, I saw the drum kit is broken and they broke my guitar! I screamed. The glass on the recording room is broken and the mic is missing. 

"What's wrong?" Kale came in as he stared at this in shock. "What kind of creature could do these to us?"

Conner, Steve and Skylar came in as Sky cried. "Oh my god, we couldn't do this thing anymore!" She cried.

"No, Sky. It's okay. We could fix these." Said Steve.

"We're done." I said as I cried as well, sitting down covering my eyes.

"Don't you ever said that, Luca is calling the police right now and everything will be alright. They will pay us, they will fix this, okay?" Conner said, comforting me. 

"The security camera!" Steve shouted as I stared at him. He ran outside and Conner followed him. 

"See, there's a security camera. Everything's will be alright, and this band wouldn't be done." He put me in an embrace as I took a peek at the frowning Sky.

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"Look at that!" Sky pointed at the girls who just walked in our house. 

"Who are they?" Said Conner.

"They look extremely familiar, I know them!" I said, and the video keep laying until they took off their masks. "Yes! It's Crystal, Abby and Courtney! Oh my god, I didn't realize Crystal is playing on me! I'm sorry, Steve I invited her here. This was all my fault." I knew it was them! Crystal is the only one that's evil whose I told about this house. But I didn't realize it would be this far, this is outgoing!

"No, Emily. It's not your fault. You're just trying to be nice, but they're the one who ruined this." Said Steve, as he tried to comfort me.

"Let's go," Sky took her coat and quit the room.

Kale followed her and so does the rest of us. "Where are you going?" Kale asked her, confused at her.

Sky gasped, staring at us in disbelieve. "Do you think I would do nothing?" 

"We all wouldn't do nothing. Luca just called the police and now they're heading here. We just have to show them the video tape and done, they will pay for what they've done." Kale told her, as she stood there staring at Kale in the eyes. 

"Okay." She said, putting down her coat. 

"This is terrible, I'm sorry guys." I screeched, began to cry again. "I know I shouldn't bring her here, she finally knows your house."

"Emily, it's fine. I'll take care of this since I'm the eldest. At least they didn't mess with our bedrooms." Luca told me, making me held my breathe.

"But our recording room? That's fucking terrible!" Conner shouted, now he's the one who's being emotional. "I didn't know you have girls like that in your school. They're completely horrible!"

I heard the sound of the police car as we all rushed outside. "Officer!" Steve called.