𝐈𝐅 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 → 𝖩𝖠𝖢𝖪 𝖣𝖴𝖭𝖪𝖫𝖤𝖬𝖠𝖭

𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄

Amber gripped onto Kimmy's shoulders and slammed her into the lockers, needing to get her anger out.

"You shouldn't want to mess with me,"

However, Kimmy had slapped her across the face. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" The students chanted.

Amber gripped Kimmy's hair and pulled it backwards, her head flinging back.

Amber kicked her stomach. Kimmy punched the girl across the face and Amber pushed the girl to the floor.

The continued to fight until Jack approached them. He pulled Amber off of the Stitcher, who looked beaten up.

"Calm down, Amie." He whispered, pulling her away from the scene. "But she deserved it! She was being mean to Jodi!"

××××

Later that day, Amber was having a lecture. "You're such a stupid bitch! Why the fuck would you pick a fight?" Alice slapped her daughter across the face, and repeated it.

Until Alice's hand was sore from the slaps. But that wasn't good enough. "Rodger! Get in here!"

Outside, Jodi stood at the Dunkleman's residence. The door opened and revealed Jack. He took the thing off of his head.

"Hi." Jodi chuckled. "How's it going?"

" 誰がドアにいますか?" A man asked from the headphones, in Japanese. Who's at the door?

"今はやめろ!" Jack replied back. Not now. "Uh, sorry, sorry, just my, uh, Battle Royale partner, Shoshi from Okinawa, but hey. Hi."

"I look ridiculous, don't I? I--i'm gonna go." Jodi turned. "What?" Jack asked back. "No, no, no, you don't look ridiculous. You look...." Jack trailed off, chuckling.

"You... you look amazing." Jack admitted to Jodi, at the same time Amber was getting beaten the shit out of by her own parents.

"Can you please stop?" She cried out in pain. She clutched her sides, ignoring her bleeding nose and bruised cheek.

"No!" The father spat. "You picked a fight. And you know what that means." Rodger crawled on top of her, and she screamed.

As loud as she could go. Her father tied her hands and feet and shoved a sock in her mouth. "No one will know, got it?"

"Ah, Jodi, hey." Stig made his presence known as they both missed the crestfallen look on Jack's face, though he seen it coming. "Wow, hi."

"Hi." Jodi breathed a chuckle as Stig let's out another wow. Jack looked off to the side and noticed something weird. "Uh, thanks for coming over."

Amber's curtains were closed. They never were closed, even when she was there, sleeping, they were open. She was always scared somebody was behind the curtains, so when he saw them closed, it worried him.

"Thanks for inviting me." Jodi smiled as Jack's jaw dropped. He got rid of the previous thought and focused on Jodi.

Though he knew he didn't like her. At least, not any more. Or maybe, just maybe, he never liked her. Maybe he pretended he did because he didn't want his real crush to know about his crush.

"Please come in." Stig invited her in. "Bye, Dunk." 

"痛かった!" That was painful.

Jack rolled his eyes. "誰があなたに尋ねました?" Who asked you?

Just as he was about to close the door he saw Amber leave her house. Bruises covering her body, a bleeding nose, a black eye, tears streaming down her face.

Jack dropped his things and ran towards her. "Are you okay?" He wondered, pulling her into a hug. She flinched, but soon hugged back.

"Do I look okay?" She asked quietly and he dragged her into his house. "Stupid question. Sorry." He apologized.

He took her to his room and helped clean her up. "How long have this been going on?" He asked, referring to her parents.

"A long time." She replied, staring at the floor. They could hear the musical that Jodi and Stig were watching.

Jack scoffed. "Are you okay?" She asked, placing a hand on his shoulder. He, once again, ignored the feeling and shrugged.

"The jumbo Swede, invited Jodi, to my house, so they could hang out." He grumped, making Amber roll her eyes.

"I'm bored. Want to annoy them?" She questioned and Jack smirked. "Obviously! Come on!"

The two left the room and started to whistle. They enter the living room and Jack walks in front of the screen, watching it.

Amber watched him do it, whistling to the tune of the song playing. "Oh," Jack turned around. "You guys watching this?"

Amber snorts, but realised It hurts to do so. "Ow," she groans. Jack's head snapped in her direction. "Are you okay?"

Amber ignored him and turned to the two, who sent glares at the two small ones. "How can you watch this?"

"Because we can." Stig replied, with a nod of his head. "Okay." Jack grabbed Amber's hand.

He continued to whistle and they left the room for the kitchen. Jack grabbed a bag of chips/crisps from the top of the fridge and starts to play with the bag.

"Want some?" He asked Amber loudly. "No thanks!" She replied just as loud. Jack walked back into the living room and eats some chips/crisps.

He started to play with them again, making Amber chuckle. He dropped one on the floor and just shrugged at them, standing in front of the television.

"I'm so silly." He stated loudly, eating more of them. "Salsa," he laughed. Amber furrowed her eyebrows.

"He's still so cute. I don't know if I still like him or not." She thought to herself. "Forgot." Jack finished.

"Be right back, guys." Jack left the room to get more salsa. "Are you going to follow him around like a lost puppy like you were just doing, or are you going to leave like you should be doing?" Jodi snapped at Amber.

Amber frowned, and that's when they both took in her appearance. Her bruised and bloody face. She had tried to get the blood off her face, well, Jack tried.

She glared at Jodi and walked into the kitchen, taking a seat at the table. "I see a lot of ingredients here that I can use for a nice little smoothie!" Jack closed the fridge with his foot.