Metanoia.「skephalo」

27 | Breathe.

A loud bang produced by a fist hitting one of the locker behind Dave's back caused the two boys watching the fight to flinch, and for the Senior to abruptly turn his head towards the noise origin.

A boy, shorter than Zak, stood beside the cabinets with his hand still pressed against them. His mouth was covered by a light green balaclava, but despite it, anger and contempt shone from his deep black eyes, slightly hidden by his dark brown hair falling on them.

Harvey, with a clearly confused and anxious expression, stood behind the unknown kid, had his eyebrows furrowed together and was fidgeting with the hem of his baseball jacket, staring with horror at Dave still on the top of Zak, his knife pressed on the captain's cheek.

"The fuck do you want, fake mute nerd." Dave spat narrowing his eyes, voicing his hate towards the short boy. His harsh words broke the towering silence that lasted for a long moment after locker being punched, and dangerously increased the palpable tension in the room.

The Sophomore in the light green balaclava is a selective mute: he never talks, he's capable of doing so only with people he's comfortable with, which his no one. He communicated through his phone reading out what he would write, and more rarely with sing language.
He's rather popular as leader of the School Police, where chosen students basically go around school checking if everything's okay, if students outside their classes have a permit, and such.
Nobody knew his real full name despite his popularity, they knew it started with Me and his middle name started with Ga, so he got nicknamed Mega.

Dave's tease on his mutism caused to his nose to crinkle up into a grimace of disgust, and to the hate in his eyes to increase. Exhaling sharply, the short boy took his phone out of his turquoise hoodie with blue stipes in a quick motion, letting his finger dance on the screen at an insane velocity.

«I want you away from Zak. And the fuck out of here.» Mega's phone read with its robotic voice, his eyes narrowing as soon as their look connected.

"Or what, noob." the Senior retorted thinning his eyes in turn, shifting his weight on the knife on Zak's cheek, causing him to swallow anxiously as he moved his wide eyes on Mega.

A deadly stare from the short Sophomore replied to his questions, making him grit his teeth together and emitting a frustrated click with his tongue along with a enraged huff as he turned towards the baseball captain.
With a rough motion, Dave yanked Zak upper body from the ground, pulling him close to his face.

"It ain't over here." he growled to his hear, cutting deeper into his cheek before getting up and slamming his small body back against the cold ground. "Let's get the fuck outta here."

His two mates glared at Mega and Harvey as they stormed out of the locker room, but once Dave passed near them, he stopped in front of the short Sophomore, leaning in.

"You're gonna regret this bitterly, nerd."

Lifting his chin up, Mega thinned his eyes, his expression not changing a single bit from his threat.
In exchange of the younger hateful stare, Dave spat in his shoes, growling other insults under his breath before leaving the room.

The two young boy's eyes quickly moved on Zak, who lifted his upper body up with the help of his forearm, wiping the blood dripping down his cheek with the back of his hand, drenching his sleeve of his uniform with the warm and dense red liquid.

Without saying a word, Harvey hurried to his friend and captain, kneeling down and stretching out his hand, while his eyes swiftly ran on his small body to check his condition.

Zak's expression shifted into an angry one for the second time that day.

"Jesus fucking Christ Harv-" he started ready to scold his friend once again. This time, the Sophomore was faster, and cut him off immediately.