Part 7

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"You shouldn't have come. I told Jessica for y'all not to look for me."

"What's wrong, why can't we see you?"

"For a lot of reasons Tag! Did you even once look to see if you may have been followed? You could have led the police right to me!" I yell in a hushed tone.

I walk out of the janitors closet in a hurry but Tag follows quickly behind. "Hey, where are you going off too?" He asked with a frustrated tone.

"I want you to leave! I don't want you here!" I Responded getting angrier.

"No! I'm not leaving until you tell me why! At least come back with me!?" Tag reaches his hand out grabbing my arm and pulling me back to him.

Before I know it, a tall figure stands closely behind me grabbing Tags arm forcefully. Looking up, I see that its Ashton, he has a dark look on his face. Instead of the dark green eyes he had yesterday, they were even darker now, almost black.

"She said leave" Ashton said angrily.

"Who the hell are you?" Said Tag, angry that Ashton was butting into his business.

"None of your god damn business." Responded Ashton. Tag raises his other hand to punch Ashton and it knocks him straight in the jaw.

"Oh now you've done it pretty boy!" Responded Ashton ready to fight.

They both start punching each other until I step in the middle of them, pushing them both away in anger from them fighting. As a result, I get knocked by both Ashton and Tag, hitting me in my shoulder and backbone, but I only focus on breaking them up.

"Stop!" I say ferociously while turning to look up at Ashton. My eyes start to glow with a bright white around my contact lenses as I then turn to look at Tag.

"I-I'm sorry Danny. I better leave now if you have someone else. Just come home, if not for me, then for Jessica and Stacy." Tag says spooked, panicking over the fact that he decked me.

"Ashton and me aren't together, and when I left, it meant I was leaving everything, including them." I respond frustratedly.

"Please Danny, we're only trying to protect you. You were on the news which means they know. They will be coming soon. If you did do what everyone is saying, you need to come back with me!" Tag says sadly.

My eyes glow brighter as I put my hands down. Ashton looks at me concerned, as to what's happening with me and to what Tag means, before he turns his gaze back to Tag watching him walk away.

When I can no longer see him, I shake my head trying to get rid of the migraine that's forming. My eyes fade back to normal. As I turn back to Ashton, I'm looking down at the ground. "Thanks Ashton." I say.

"No problem kiddo.. are you okay?" He says concerned.

"Yeah, I'm... I'm fine." I respond back to him weakly.

"You don't look so fine, here, eat this." He hands me a bag full of bacon. As I take it, I eat a piece and feel almost as good as new. "Thanks but why do you have a bag of bacon?" "I skipped breakfast so this is my snack" Ashton chuckles. I look up at his smile as I smile myself and continue enjoying the bacon.

After about 5 pieces I start to feel like myself so I hand him the bag with the leftovers. He puts his arm around my back to help me incase I decide to pass out. I put my arm around him for support. We start heading to P.E. and upon our arrival, we remove our arms from each other and head into different dressing rooms.

I start changing into a grey sports bra and hear some girls whispering rather loudly behind my back. "Hey, look at her body" "what happened to her?" "Where did all those scars and marks come from?" "She must get into a lot of fights, we should stay away from her." "Is that a tattoo?" Is all I heard from the girls. I continued changing while putting on a pair of cargo pants and a loose long sleeve top. I put my other clothes into a nice stack as I set them inside a locker. As I'm walking out, the girls are still looking at me and as a response, I just give them a slight chuckle.

"Ok class, today we are playing dodgeball. Half the boys and girls on this side and the other half on the other side. Winning team gets to skip laps for the next week." Said coach Mark as the entire class starts to divide themselves. Ashton and Mason are on the opposing side but Kevin and Drew are on my side. The game has begun, I stand there waiting for someone to aim for me. Suddenly a ball comes straight at me before reflectively dodging it.

The game flied by leaving 5 people on the opposing side and 2 people on my side, it's just me and Drew now. A girl on the opposing side throws a ball for me while I am checking the number on my team, suddenly my instincts kick in. I immediately catch the ball with one hand. The girl, along with the rest of the class, starts staring at me in shock because no girl can catch her fast balls, especially when that person is not looking.

2 people are left on each side. Drew throws one at Mason and gets him out then one at Ashton but he catches it and now Drew is out. Ashton throws one at me but I dodge it. He starts to repeatedly throw them at me but I managed to dodge each one. He now has no more balls. I grab one and throw it. He couldn't catch it and is now out. My side wins.

Everyone in the gym is still looking at me in surprise, nobody has ever beaten Ashton. He gets up and shakes off the hit. People start surrounding me congratulating me and cheering but with them doing so, I start feeling frustrated and contained. As my migraine comes back, I slowly suck in the crowd and crawl out of the gym heading towards the woods. What I didn't know was that Ashton was following me.

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⏰ Last updated: Apr 21, 2023 ⏰

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