Amber’s P.O.V.
It has been two days since we met in the park, and I’ve been to school again. And I’m telling you Joshua is good at spreading rumors. Everytime I walk through the hallway, I hear people whisper or chuckle and they’re all giving me these looks. I don’t know all of the rumors, but there’s one that I have hooked up with Luke and then this one that I’m too dumb for this school. There were several others, too. Now I was standing in front of my locker to get my books for the next class, science. At least, I had classes with Calum and Luke, Michael wasn’t in this class. Once I shut my locker and turned around, my books in my hand, pressed close to my chest, I saw a boy barge into me, on purpose of course. It caused me to stumble and drop all my books. This happened a lot lately, people would bump into me on purpose or throw paper balls at me or something like that. It’s not easy to take, but after all, there’s nothing true about the rumors. I sighed as I crouched down to pick up my books, but before I could touch just one book, a hand had picked them all up. I looked up to see Calum, his jaw clenched, tense. He handed me my books and I took them. I hate seeing Calum like that, angry and tense. The boy who bumped into me stood a few feet away and chuckled. Calum walked up to him. “Don’t you dare to do that again” he hissed and the boy’s facial expression changed into scared when Calum grabbed his shirt. “Did you hear me?” Calum snapped and focused on the boy. “Y-yes” he stuttered. “Good. Then say that you’re sorry. Now” Calum ordered and I just stood there with my books in my hands. The boy looked towards the floor and mumbled “sorry”. “Look at her while you’re talking to her, dammit!” Calum snapped at him and the boy winced and looked in my face, his cheeks were burning red. “I-I’m sorry” he said and I just nodded. Then Calum just walked towards me and the boy ran down the hallway. “Are you okay?” he asked, the anger in his voice replaced by concern. I looked at the floor and nodded. Of course it was hard to take, people hated me for no reason. But I didn’t want Calum to know how weak I really am. I just stood there and Calum pulled me into a hug. That’s weird about him, everytime he tries to calm me down, I do calm down and relax. It’s the same with the other 3 boys, but Calum does this best. He’s always comforting me. “Don’t worry, okay? This is not going to happen without a punishment as long as I’m in this school” he said quietly and I nodded while I leaned against his chest. There, he did it again – I felt like crying and now I’m calm and okay, I feel comforted and safe. Then we went to the maths room together and he sat down next to Luke and I sat down on my seat next to Steph. Steph doesn’t know about what happened, I told her I had been sick and I think we are some kind of friends. May and Corey always give me these looks too, but they act nice around me and I heard Steph scolding them for doing it once, too. Luke and Michael still don’t know about Vicky and neither Calum nor Ashton have told me to tell them. Steph greeted me with a side hug. “Hey, how are you?” she asked and I sighed. “Uhm, I’m okay, it’s just the rumors” Steph nodded and laid one of her hands on my back. “As long as your friends know that it isn’t true it’s okay” she said and smiled at me. I smiled back.
When the bell rang after the 4th lesson, I quickly packed up my things to get some lunch, but when I went out of the classroom, I heard people yelling and cheering. I tried to make my way through the crowd of people, and then I saw something I didn’t want to see. Luke, who was holding back Calum, in front of Joshua. Joshua had an insane expression and was laughing, Calum was tense, angry, his fists and jaw clenched. He was trying to get out of Luke’s grasp. “Calum, let it be, he’s not worth it” Luke said desperately. “Oh I bet the little slut is watching and doin’ nothing about this now isn’t she” Joshua slurred and laughed. He was obviously drunk. “Stop calling her that Green, just because she slapped you” Luke said angrily, raising his voice. “She was fucking right when she slapped you in your face” Calum hissed. Then, Joshua took a step towards him and swung a punch in his face. My breath hitched and I felt tears burning in my eyes. Luke let go of Calum and swung his fist in Joshua’s face. Joshua groaned and held his hands in front of his nose while Calum went up to him and punched him in his stomach. Joshua lifted his knee and kicked Calum right in the balls. Calum crouched down on the floor groaning in pain and Luke started to attack Joshua. When Joshua was about to punch him, he took Joshua’s arm, turned it around and pushed his shoulders which caused Joshua to fall onto the floor. Then, Luke kneed him in the nose. By this time I had finally made my way though he crowd. “Luke, stop” I cried and tried to pull him away from Joshua. But Luke just stood in front of me, his arms almost around me, protecting me. “Ah there’s the little slut” Joshua slurred and laughed. “Wanna slap me again?” he asked. His nose was bleeding. I felt tears streaming down my cheeks. “Stop it Green” Luke hissed. With that, Joshua grabbed Luke’s wrist and pulled him over, Luke stumbled and almost fell. Joshua stood up and grinned insanely at me, his breath in my face. He smelled like cheap alcohol and cigarettes, I almost gagged at the smell. “So? Wanna slap me slut?” I just shook my head. Joshua’s facial expression changed into angry and he clenched his fist. And then, everything seemed like a blur. Luke yelling at Joshua, Joshua taking a step closer towards me and grabbing my arm, Calum yelling at Joshua, Calum standing up from the floor, Luke trying to hold Joshua back, Joshua trying to punch me, Calum jumping in front of me and getting hit in his face, Michael running to me and carrying me out of the scene, me crying. “CALUM” I squealed and tried to get out of Mike’s arms to get to Calum. “Shh” Michel soothed me while he was carrying me out of the hallway, running. I was crying into his chest, soaking his shirt and holding on to him for dear life. “Mike th-this is all m-my fault” I cried into his chest and started to sob. He sat down on a bench outside the building and I was on his lap, still crying, burying my face in his shoulder. He was rubbing my back. “It’s going to be okay. I promise. It’s not your fault” But this time, he couldn’t calm me down. The only one that would’ve been able to calm me down now was Calum.
Calum’s P.O.V.
I felt myself getting dizzy from the pain, my vision was blurry and my head hurt. I could see Joshua being really close to Amber, way too close. Luke was yelling at him, Joshua was laughing insanely, Amber was crying. When Joshua was about to punch her, I could think properly for a short period of time. Luke was yelling at him, and I jumped up and ran in front of her, his fist hitting me right in my face. I could see Michael picking up Amber and carrying her out of the hallway, thank god. I was concentrated on swinging punches at Joshua who was trying to kick me in the stomach, until he suddenly let go, looked confused and just passed out. Luke was standing right behind him, an atlas in his hands. His lip was swollen and cut, there were scratches on his arms and he was going to have a black eye. He looked surprised at the fact that he just knocked out Joshua with an atlas, but then dropped the atlas and looked at me, concerned. I felt my vision getting blurry again, and the last thing I could hear before everything went black was Amber, squealing my name. “CALUM”
And then I woke up in a bed with white sheets. There were needles in my arm and my head hurt like hell, I was feeling sick. While my eyes were adjusting to the light in the room, I looked around. There was another bed next to me, and my eyes widened when I saw who it was. Luke. He was obviously awake, Liz next to him on a chair. “L-Luke?” I managed to get out, my throat hurt and my mouth was dry. He shot around. He had a black eye, the cut on his lip was swollen and the scratches on his arm had begun to heal. “Calum, you’re awake?” He said, surprised but glad. I nodded and Liz got up and went out of the room. I cleared my throat and gulped. “What happened?” I asked and pointed at all the needles in my arm. With that, a nurse came inside the room with Liz. “He just woke up” Liz told her and the nurse nodded. “How are you feeling?” she asked. “My head hurts and my throat hurts and I feel sick and dizzy” I said. The nurse nodded. “You have a concussion, that’s why you have a headache and you might feel sick and dizzy because of that as well. Do you know what happened?” I nodded “The most of it. I got in a fight and then I passed out.” The nurse nodded again. “Do you want some painkillers?” I nodded and she handed me a plastic cup full of water and two pills, which I quickly swallowed. And then something clicked in my head. “Amber” “Excuse me?” the nurse asked and looked at me confused. I looked at Luke. “I don’t know” he said and shrugged his shoulders. I felt like shit. Before I could think more about it, the painkillers started to work and I felt tired and soon enough I fell asleep again.
A/N
Holy plot twist.
What did I just write? So I have no idea about fighting I hope the scene is okay. I also have no idea about health treatment, I just now some things about mental cre treatment, so I have no idea if this is right with these concussion stuff.
THANK YOU FOR READING AND VOTING YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
xx Amber
