Beyond the Reasons || JUSTIN FOLEY

Twenty

LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL
IMOGEN'S POV

After I met with Chlöe, her mom, Hannah's mom and Hannah's lawyer, I came to school. When I walked in, I noticed Justin and Bryce were chest to chest with Clay and Tony close behind. Bryce dropped his duffelbag and Justin shoved him against the lockers and started to push him. Then Monty grabbed Justin and held him in front of Bryce, while Bryce gave him a couple punches so I immediately ran over.

"Monty! Justin, stop it!" I yelled. Tony moved me out of the way before pulling Monty off of Justin and throwing him into the lockers and then he held his hands up.

"I don't want to fight you, just breathe." Tony said, and I put myself between them and looked at Monty.

"Mont. . stop, you're better than this." I said to him.

"Faggot." Monty said, looking past me, and looking at Tony. Tony continued to back up, while I kept myself between them. "You fucking coward faggot." Monty snapped.

"Monty!" I snapped.

"Imogen, move." Tony said.

"No. . Tony, you're on strike three, you can't get caught fighting." I said, but Tony moved me out the way and then punched Monty, hard, which sent him falling straight to the ground. There was no hope for this to stop, so I just got clear of all the action before I accidentally got hit.

But I was still watching.

Then Alex started walking through the hallway, because Zach was now in the fight and he was fighting Monty, but then Alex went to Monty and hit him with his cane so that he would get off of Zach, and then Mr. Porter finally came through, but that didn't do well because he and the coach ended up fighting.

"Fucking boys." I heard from beside me, I turned to see Courtney and Ryan had rounded the corner I was standing near, watching this all go down.

"Fucking disgusting." Ryan said.

"You can say that again." I said. Courtney rolled her eyes, and turned the corner, but then she pulled the fire alarm, and tapped me and Ryan to follow her. It was a good idea. I just want to know how they're going to deal with everyone who was involved. Especially seeing that the majority of people involved were my friends, and my idiot brother.

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COURTROOM

"You fucking lost them!?" I snapped at Clay. Me, him, Jessica, Alex, Zach, Justin and Tony all stood outside the courtroom because Chlöe was about to testify for the Bakers against Bryce, but Clay told us how he lost the box of pictures because like an idiot, he left them in the car in the fucking backseat where anyone could just take them.

"Jesus, keep your voice down." Justin said.

"Don't tell me to keep my voice down, Justin. Clay shouldn't have been a fucking idiot, and had them in the backseat. There's this thing called the trunk, it's much harder to break into." I snapped.

"What the fuck, Justin?" Zach snapped.

"Bryce took them." Justin said.

"Look, we'll get them back." Clay said.

"Yeah, and this time, anybody but you is going to hold onto them for safe keeping." I snapped.

"How? How are we going to get them back?" Zach asked, which is a good question. If someone on the baseball team took them, they're not going to put them back in the same spot they were in before, unless. . they really are that stupid.