Save my soul [Imagine Dragons Fanfic]

Talks

Ok, guys thanks for reading and voting. I just wanted to tell you that I am on sports week and maybe won't update every day. That's it, have a nice week!!
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Platz:

I'm confused! Like really confused. "What do you think, why did he try to rob you? Do you really think, it was because of the money?" "I honestly don't know what to think. Do you?" "Hmm.." I lean back. After the attack, we went to sit in a cafe and now we are eating ice and talk about Dan. Again.

"So what should we do now?" I ask. "Let's rethink the whole situation," Wayne suggests. "He is new in our school, extremely anxious and shy and always scribbling in his notebook. By now we know that he is writing songs." He pauses. "About pretty deep stuff. He doesn't want anyone to know anything about him... Did I forget something?" I shake my head.

"Well, I don't know if it's just my mind playing games but maybe..." I look at him, trying to read his mind. "Maybe what?" "Every time someone touches him he flinches, maybe he is always surprised.." "Or he is hurt." I finish the sentence. "Yeah." "You think that his dad might...?" I start but Wayne interrupts me."We shouldn't say such things without thinking. Maybe he is just always in his thoughts or something. Just because you are always pessimistic doesn't mean that his dad is abusive or something. We have no evidence. That's just in our minds. We don't know that."

"You're right," I agree. "We don't know anything which is why it is so hard for us to do anything. And now we can't talk to him anymore. I mean he told us clearly enough." Wayne nods. "So..any ideas what we do now?" I ask. "Nothing," Wayne suggests. I look at him surprised. I guess he could read the confusion in my face because he continues: "Well we can't talk to him. He somehow finds out when somebody is following him and we already caused enough damage. Maybe we should stay back and watch him from the distance." I nod.

"And we have to tell Ben about what happened!" Wayne smirks. "Yeah, but we should wait until Monday. He and his parents are at his grandparents' house and I want to tell him about what happened personal. You know how protective and aggressive he can be when he hears that someone wanted to hurt us. We need to explain the whole situation or he maybe does something stupid." I nod. "Yeah. I have a feeling that he doesn't even want to steal. If Ben overreacts..."

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On Monday Wayne and I sit in class again and wait for Ben. Normally Dan is the first one in class but today it's only us. As I watch Wayne, I immediately know that he is worried about Dan. He won't admit it but I can tell by the look of his face.

Ben enters the classroom shortly after us. He smiles and sits down, then he looks at our faces and his smile fades. "What?" he asks. "We need to talk!" I start. "On friday after school I asked Dan if we could talk a little. He agreed but he didn't want to talk on the schoolyard so walked a few streets. As we entered a small side street..." A girl walks by us. By now many people are in the classroom. Only two minutes until school starts. Everyone is in here. Except for the teacher and Dan. We have to talk more quietly because we don't want anyone to know what we are talking about.

"And then?" Ben asks. "Then he pulled a knife out and attacked me and.." Wayne continues but Ben interrupts him. "He what??" Ben screams. The whole class is looking at him. "Sorry." He says sheepishly. We wait a few moments until the attention of the others doesn't rest on us anymore. I try to talk but Ben just continues. "Who does he think he is? Why did he even have a knife? It's better for him to stay at home for a while because when I get him..." "Ben calm down" I try.

"What did he even want?" "Well, he told me that he had enough of us getting everything we want and then he took my money and.." "Stop! He took your money? I'll kill this little bitch. I promise. As soon as he shows up he is dead. I won't let anyone attack you!" "Ben calm down. You didn't even hear the whole story. Just listen! And don't do anything stupid. You'll get expelled." I try again. This time it works. Ben takes a few breaths and looks at Wayne again. "What happened then?" he asks. But as soon as he speaks I know that he won't listen to me and do something stupid if Wayne doesn't tell him the whole story.

"Then.." Wayne starts again but this time he gets interrupted by our teacher entering the room. "Good morning!" She says. We all get back to our seats. As nice as she is she doesn't like talking students. Her classes are always quiet. Seems like we have to tell Ben the end of the story later.

As soon as the bell rings all three of us get together again. We just ignore the people around us and continue talking. We don't have the same classes now so we have to hurry. Wayne explains Ben as fast as possible that we met Dan's dad and Wayne got his money back. Then we hurry out of the classroom. As I walk down the hall to my other class I think about one small detail. Dan didn't show up today. I mean it's possible that he is sick but what if his father is really hurting him? Maybe he is caged in his house for stealing or something. I shake my head to get those thoughts out of my head again. Wayne is right, I always think about the worst case scenario. He is probably just sick. I shouldn't make such a big thing out of everything.