Save my soul [Imagine Dragons Fanfic]

Fight

Wayne:

I don't know what is going in my life right now. Ben shuts himself up and Platz keeps on thinking constantly. And by now I can also find myself thinking all over the day. Something is going on and I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Dan! After school I meet with Platz. Ben has to do something more important again. I want to know what he is on because he never acted that strange before.

"Platz! We have to talk!" I start after a few minutes of quiet walking. "About?" "About the fact that you and Ben are both acting strange since the incident with Dan!" He looks at me with a thoughtful face. But as soon as our eyes meet he sighes. "Alright. You know that Ben acts strange since we told him about what happened, right?" I nod and wait for him to continue. "Well as you know Ben you can be sure that he wants some kind of revange. That's just him.." He pauses a bit, like he doesn't know how to continue so I say: "Platz, we've been friends for years now. We've always been talking about everything. So tell me what's bothering you for days! Maybe I can help but don't shut yourself out like Ben! "Yeah, sorry you're right! Okay if you want to now what I'm thinking about I'll tell you. I don't know if you've recognized but Dan is getting bullied." I glance at him with a confused glare. "He gets bullied since Ben found out about his attack?!" Now I understand. "So... Do you think that Ben told someone to bully him?" Platz just shrugs his shoulders. "It's possible, isn't it?!" I think about that for a few seconds. Then I ask: "Should we stop them? I mean, yeah bullying sucks but doesn't he somehow deserve it?! You know Ben doesn't normally do that kind of stupid things. He hates bullying just as much as we do, doesn't he?" Platz nods.

As our way seperates we ended up with the result that we have to talk to Ben. Even though Dan did something pretty stupid, bullying isn't the way to end it! Never! No matter what someone did! We also talked about the fact that it doesn't have to be Bens plan but that it started just after he got to know...  That would be a too big coincident! No one deserves to get bullied, it can destroy your life. People kill themselves because of it and we don't know whats already going on in Dans life. We have to do something. I mean what if he is already depressed or something and then kills himself because we didn't do anything. We would be the reason for his death... OKay Wayne, calm down I tell myself. Don't get pessimistic! I have to analyzice the scene before I can do something. Hopefully it won't be too late then...

...

Friday. The weekend is near and I'm happy becuase I can finally get more sleep. Because of Dan and all these things that were happening I wasn't sleeping very much the past couple days. Hopefully I can get some rest over the weekend because I'm just exhausted. I've been up for four days straight and that's too much even for an insomaniac like me. On our walk to school Platz and I decided to do something about this whole Dan thing next week. I invited him to stay over this night because he can normally keep me from getting lost in my thoughts. Ben can do that as well but he is "busy" at the moment... I hope that he will talk with us soon because he talks more even when he is pissed.

The last lesson today is Spanish. All of my classmates seem to be excited about the weekend becaus it's going to be really hot. So it doesn't surprise me that our teacher has trouble keeping the class quiet and as the bell rings she doesn't let us go. She finishes the last sentences and gives us homework. As I leave the classroom Platz already waits in front of it and there are hardly students in the hall. We slowly make our way out of the building. Even though it's weekend we don't hurry because there will be so many students on the schoolyrad right now that we can take some time..

As we walk out of the building we immediatly stop walking. I stare at the scene in front of us for a few seconds, then turn around to Platz. He looks at me with a shocked expression and we both start running rowards the corner of the building. The corner is in the shadow however, we could see what is going on there within seconds. Dan pressed against the wall, three guys hitting him over and over again. But what shocked us most is the fourth guy, Ben. As we reach them Sven, Taylor and Tom stop punching Dan and he immediatly sinks to the ground. Ben hands them some money and just says: "Thanks guys. Just hold on to our plan and take this! He won't need it anymore.." They nod, take the money and walk away.

"What the hell Ben?" I shout and Platz and me stare at him. Ben just shrugs his shoulders. "He took your money, we took his. That's just fair." I just stare at him, disbelief written in my face. Then I turn around and kneel down in front of Dan. He sits up again and holds his head with the first hand and his stomach with his second. Blood is running down his nose and mouth and I can already see a bruise around his eye. And if I assess it right, he even seems to have trouble breathing for a few moments. In the meantime Platz keeps yelling at Ben. "Are you stupid? You can't bully someone because of that and you can't just take his money or beat him up. I mean just look at him! He is bleeding. Are really that stupid?" "I just did what he deserves, I don't care if you like it or not!" With that said he just turns around and just leaves us.