One Last Chance - Z.Dempsey

SIX

CHAPTER SIX

I was driving to school with Monty and Justin, me sitting in the back of course. When Monty breaks suddenly as we made our way into the school causing me to jolt forward sharply.

"The fuck dude, people are trying to walk here" Alex shouts from where he was standing in front of the car. Justin and Monty look at each other laughing making me roll my eyes. "The fuck is your problem?" Alex continues taking his bag off and walking to the side where my brother is sat.

"Dude, Alex chill. It's all good" Monty says trying to calm down an angry Alex but not really caring about nearly running him over.

"Oh it's chill is it?" Alex says getting angrier "You think you can just run people over like everyone else at this fucking school?"

"Your tripping, man" Monty laughs.

"Okay. Get out of the car" Alex slams his hand on the door "Get out of the car!" He yells loudly. "I'm gonna kick your fucking ass! Get out! Get out!"

We all start to make our way out of the car "Alex calm the fuck down" Justin tries but Alex starts shouting again.

"You calm down! I am calm! Man, I'm so fucking calm" Alex is shouting so loud that a crowd has come over to watch.

"Alex please calm down it's not worth it," I say grabbing his arm lightly.

Alex pushes me away from him roughly "Fuck off Natasha you're just as bad as everyone else in this fucking school"

"Don't fucking touch my sister!" Monty says getting closer to Alex.

"Just fuck off!" Alex pushes Monty hard against the car. In retaliation, Monty punches Alex around the face and a full-on fight starts with everyone chanting and no one trying to separate them.

After a lot of punches, Monty finally gets the upper hand and starts punching Alex continuously until Mr Porter shows up and pulls him off. "What the hell is going on?" The teacher asks.

"He started it," Monty says.

"Yeah, so what are you doing?" Mr Porter asks.

"Finishing it" Monty answers making me sigh and cover my face with my hand.

"You think that's funny? Yeah, come on let's go" Mr Porter grabs my brother by the arm and starts to drag him away "Everybody, go to class. The show is over, go to class!"

Everyone starts to disperse and I quickly run to Alex to make sure he was ok. I know he was kind of a dick to me but he's still my friend. Mr Porter was already there checking on him, my brother stood to the side looking awkward. I instantly walked over to him "Monty you have to stop this you knew that you would win that fight. Look I love that you were protecting me but you could have seriously hurt him"

"I'm sorry Nat but I couldn't let him push you around like that"

I sigh bringing him into a tight hug. "Love you Montgomery"

"Love you to sis"

...

So Alex and Monty had to go to this stupid meeting with the Honor Board which was the most stupid thing I have ever heard. Especially because it was made up of students who definitely were not honourable i.e Marcus, Sherri and Courtney. Monty ended up being suspended for three days whereas Alex was let off with a warning which was ridiculous because he started the fight.

I was sat eating my lunch with my usual group. I was sat next to Zach who was moving around really uneasily. "Zach, what's wrong?"

"It's Clay, he keeps staring at me. I think he's listening to my tape and it's freaking me the fuck out"

"Hey don't worry about it ok," I say grabbing his hand. He smiles at me and nodded before going back to the conversation about the basketball game tonight.

"You nervous for tonight Zach? I hope you don't lose" I say teasingly.

"Now how could I lose when I have my best girl cheering me on from the sidelines," He says putting his arm around me. I laugh a little before going back to my food but he doesn't remove his arm from around me. Not that I wanted him to.

Not that it means anything anyway because we're just friends.

...

The game starts and I put my pom-poms in the air cheering the team on. The team break from the huddle they were in as I notice Clay starting to walk towards Zach so I walk a bit closer to hear what's going on. He kept walking but kind of looked like he was daydreaming.

"Clay, what are you doing? Get off the court" Zach says standing straight and turning to the shorter boy.

"Jensen, get off the fucking court" Justin shouts to him but Clay just keeps walking up to Zach.

"What the hell Jenson the games about to start," Zach says confused. Clay snaps out of what he was thinking and instantly walks off the court. Strange.

"Where the hell is Jessica?" My coach asks walking up to me.

"She texted me. She was babysitting her brothers and had to wait till her mum got home to leave" I explained making up a lie on the spot to cover for my friend.

"Well, we can't wait for her" Coach walks to the other girls on the team "Ok ladies, let's go" All the girls get up and start cheering. I sigh loudly before joining them.

The game was going fine until the ball went into the crowd and none other than Clay was the person to catch it. He stood up with the ball but just stared into the crowd doing nothing. Everyone was shouting at him to throw it but he didn't. Tyler ended up having to take it from his hands a throw it causing a lot of the school to laugh.

Jess finally showed up but as I was walking over to her coach and Sherri showed up. Coach was telling her that she had to leave cause she had missed too much practise and the first quarter of the game. "You're out of today's game" Coach said before walking away.

I quickly make y way over to her "Jess where the hell have you been. Are you ok?"

"I'm fine, ok?" She says with tears in her eyes.

"Come one, we can leave together" I grab my stuff, linking my arm through hers and starting to make our way out.

"You're not leaving are you?' Bryce asks from his seat on the stands.

'I'm benched for the game, or didn't the entire gym just hear?" Jess responds.

"Well if you're benched why don't you come and sit with me?" he asks walking towards us.

"No, I think she's ok," I say tightening my grip on her arm.

"Come on, we're having fun up there" Bryce directs to Jess showing a hidden flask from inside his jacket. Jess agrees and goes to sit next to him. I sighed throwing my bag back down and taking out my pom-poms.