Never Gonna Be Alone

Chapter 18 Comfort or Something More?

Laten sat alone in his room after his Godfather left, trying to control his nerves. 

There was always a problem in Laten's school. One major one was that nobody in that damn place could keep a secret.  There is a certain chain that follows when secrets come to play. This is how that chain goes:

Student tells teacher--> Teacher asks for advice from coworker--> Word travals so all teachers now know.

That's step one. Step two is like this:

Teacher tells student said advice--> Another student over hears.

The last step is pretty obvious for Laten.

A group of students know, and gossips..then others over hear and so on.

He can't believe how quick this has happened. Since when did Jenkines even care about him?

Never. It's not care. In Laten's P.O.V it's revenge. Because his favorite kids have got expelled temporary, and he's taking it out on Laten. 

'I can't believe this.' Laten thoughts. But the truth was, deep down, Laten knew they would know at one point or another. It was bound to happen.

This was Laten's one top reason of why he should stop, but he was so sure it wouldn't go this far.

How very wrong he was. 

He turned his head to look at the clokc on the night stand. 

5: 30 p.m.

He started fishing his phone out form his pocket. 

He got it out, and went to his contacts list, and started scrolling down, but stopped when Tankie's name came up.

It seems to Laten that he's been calling him with every problem he had. Should he say it's an emergency call? Should he just call to talk? Should he even call?

Laten sighed as his tumb hoovered over the call button.  "Oh, get a grip." He told himself. 

He hit the call button.

BEEP........BEEP....-

"Hello?" Tankie answered. 

"Hey, Tankie...uh..this is kind of a big thing." Laten was surprised he was even able to get THAT out because of how hesitant he was. He heard some noise in the background and a door shutting.  Laten felt a sharp pain of guilt. "I'm really sorry for calling."

"Never be sorry for calling. That's what I'm here for. What's up?"

Laten laid down on the bed on his back. "I swear, he's out for revenge. Jenkines started making accusations and he apparently called for a teachers' meeting."

"Wait, so how do you know this?"

Laten sighed. "My Godfather."

"Oh that's right. I ran into Mr. Jenkines yesterday after school when I tried looking for you. He asked me if you were cutting, because he said that by law, he has to know. He does have to know by law just so you know."

"Well, no crap. That's why we have to make sure he doesn't find out. Because he doens't have to, and there's no one for him to report it to. I'm already getting help."

Tankie nodded his head on the other end. "Well, you should tell him that. Tell him that your getting help."

Laten sighed. "Yeah, maybe. What did you say when he asked you that?"