Why Him?

Chapter Eight: STOP

      I walked down the hall, clutching my sketch book to my chest. As I headed down to art class, I was stopped by Jack. He was always there to stop me. He would never leave me alone.

      "Can you please move?" I said, looking down at my feet. Jack shoved me back into the lockers. My back hurt and I'm pretty sure that there's gonna be a bruise. "Ow," I whispered to myself, sitting forward.

      Jack forced his booted foot against my chest, knocking all the breath out of me. I was gasping for breath as Jack stood there with a nasty look on his face. "Listen fag," He sneered. "Stay out of my way. Stay out of my school. Stay out of my life. Stop exsiting. No one likes you. Leave," he told me, putting more weight on my chest. My back was pressed flat against that ground.

      I was contemplating on whether or not I should call the police and report Jack for attemted murder. I reached for the phone in my pocket when Jack stepped on my hand, crushing it under his weight. It hurt and I felt like it was broken. He was always hurting me like this.

      "Hey!" I heard someone call from the distance. It was my savior. Jinx came rushing over and pushed Jack away. I quickly stumbled to get to my feet as I stood. I began to run away, but a small though in the back of my head stopped me. 'What about Jinx?'

      Turning back, I watched as my boyfriend and Jack fought. Jack was tough, but Jinx was faster and arguably stronger. As Jinx landed a series of hits on Jack, he started to sweat. Jack and Jinx went on for a while until all common sense hit me and I ran to the nearest classroom. The bell had already rung so I'd be interupting a class. "Excuse me!" I shouted as I burst into my science teacher, Mrs.Gadd's room.

      "What is it, Micah?" She asked, rising from her desk.

      "There are two kids in the hall fighting," I told her. She strode past me as soon as the words were out lf my mouth. 

      "Boys!" She yelled. All of her students, plus me, were looking out the window to try and see what was going on. She had her hands firmly placed on the shoulders of Jinx and Jack. She was yelling at them both. Jack seemed irritated.

      Halfway through Mrs.Gadd's long shouted speech, Jack took a swing at her. He hit her right in the stomach. She fell back, holding her stomach. How much force did he hit her with?

      Pushing the teacher to the ground, Jack stepped on her like he did me. "Hello? One of our classmates is ..."

      One of the kids was freaking out, calling the police. Most of the kids were running up the office or down the hall to get another teacher. Jack was choking our teacher and there was nothing us as students could do.

      There were police sirens outside and there were shouts outside the window. Today was not a good day.

      Jack got arrested, Jinx got suspended, amd Kalee, Kai, Sarah and I were the only ones left in our small friend group. "This needs to stop. Jack really needs to stop," Kai muttered. We were sitting in the gym, waiting for our parents to pick us all up. The school staff wouldn't let us leave on our own. We had to wait for out parents.

      "Micah! Baby!" I heard my mom's voice call. I looked over and saw my mom running towards me. I stood up, allowing her to hug me. She squeezed me tight and kissed my forehead. "Are you alright? I heard what happened. Is everything okay? You're not hurt, are you?" She asked me, checking my exposed skin for bruises or scratches.

      "I'm okay, mom. No need to worry," I told her.

      "Hey kids, would you like to come with us? I can make you kids something to eat," my mom asked the remaining members of our group. They all discussed among themselves before accepting mom's offer. We walked out of the gym, my mother signing us all out.

      "Are you all okay?" Mom asked as we all saf in the car.

      "Yes mam. We are all fine," Kalee told mom.

      "That's good. Tell your parents that you're gonna be with us in case they go to pick you guys up and see that you're not there," mom told them. They all nodded and other than the music and notifications from the phones, the ride was silent.

This chapter was really short, I know. This one was written by Maiya and I would like to say that we took a really long break from this because we have been working on our own stories on our own accounts.

_Mai_Pai_Not_Yours_ is Maiya's account.

Grace_is_cringe is Grace's account.

Go check us out for more really good stories and we'll try to finish Why Him soon. Bye!