Layla

Alex and Lisa had just dropped Kaitlin and I off at school, and I could tell Kaitlin was really nervous about today. I told her about Zander, and I told her I would show her who he is so she knows who to stay away from. We were walking in the parking lot when I heard my name being called, I looked up and saw Jasper, Brent, and Chris standing by the door.

“Oh look, theres our friends. Come on.” I said to Kaitlin with a smile, which she returned. She had gotten to know Chris a lot better, via text message. We walked up the rest of the stairs and made our way to our friends. “Hey guys.”

“Hey Layla.” Jasper said with a smile.

“Welcome to Dulaney, Kaitlin!” Chris said.

“Thanks.” Kaitlin replied with a smile.

“Well, we have to go to the main office to get Kaitlin’s papers, you guys wanna come?” I asked. They all nodded their heads telling us sure, and we all walked into the school building and made our way down the hall. “Well Kaitlin, this is the school Rian, Jack, Alex, and Lisa went to.”

“It’s smaller than our old school.” She commented.

“Everything is smaller when it comes to Cali.” I said with a laugh.

“True.” Kaitlin said, laughing as well. We walked down the hallway and passed a lot of kids on the way. I watched as I saw Kaitlin’s eyes lock on some girls ass as she passed by.

“See something you like?” I asked with a knowingly smirk.

“She’s got a pretty nice ass.” Kaitlin said turning her head back and returned my smirk.

“And you are checking girls out, why?” Brent asked. Oh yeah, they don’t know about her being a lesbian.

“Because I’m gay.” Kaitlin spoke.

“Your gay?” Chris asked, looking a little bit disappointed.

“Sure am. Always have been. Always will be.” She said, with a little smile as she didn’t notice the disappointed look on Chris’ face.

“So tell me Layla, are you a part of the gay community?” Jasper asked.

“I support all gay rights. But when it comes to being gay, that’s not me. I’m as straight as an arrow.” I said with a small laugh.

“Cool.” Jasper said with a smile. I have to admit, Jasper was kinda creeping me out a bit, when we were at the ice cream shop yesterday I would always see him out of the corner of my eye. He would be looking at me and biting his lip. But I just let it go. Can’t mean too much, can it? I broke from my thoughts when we all walked into the office together. I took the lead, since I knew Kaitlin wouldn’t do it, she’s not good around new people.

“Hi, my friend is a new student here. Her name is Kaitlin Smith.” I spoke with a smile.

“Ah yes, here is her classes.” The woman said with a smile handing me a paper, which I gave to Kaitlin.

“Thank you.” I said and we all walked back out of the office. “Okay, so you have every class with me, so I will take you to all of them. First class of the day we have with Chris. That’s how him and I met.”

“Okay. Sounds fun.” Kaitlin said with a smile.

“Not really. Zander sits behind me.” I groaned.

“Ew.” Kaitlin said as she made a disgusted look, making all of us laugh.

“We will catch up with you guys before lunch. We got to head to Chemistry.” Brent spoke, for both him and Jasper, since they had the same class.

“Alright guys, catch ya later.” Chris spoke.

“Bye guys.” I said with a smile.

“Bye.” Kaitlin spoke. They both sent us some waves and left us. Chris, Kaitlin, and I took our walk up the stairs and to our first class of the day. By the time we got there, the whole class was already in there. Nothing new for the first class of the day. Chris and I were always last, but we always got there before the bell rang. Chris walked over to his seat and I took Kaitlin to the teacher.

“Mr. Morgan. This is my best friend from California, Kaitlin. She’s new here.” I spoke.

“Ah yes! Hello Kaitlin, it’s so nice to meet you. I’m Mr. Morgan, and I will be your History teacher. Since it seems like you and Layla know each other already, you can go over and sit with her and Chris at their table.” Mr. Morgan spoke with smile.

“Thank you.” Kaitlin spoke shyly. I let out a small giggle and took her hand in mine.

“I’m so glad you are here. Like, you don’t understand how awesome it is to finally have my best friend back with me. Even if we were only away from each other for a little bit over a week.” I spoke as I pulled her over to Chris and my table, which had a extra seat next to Chris and i, putting her in the middle of us. I sat my backpack next to my seat as I sat down, Kaitlin sitting next to me, and giving Chris a smile to which he returned. I felt my chair be kicked and I let out a groan, and tried to ignore it. He kept repeating the action, making me turn around. “What the hell do you want, Zander?!”

“To annoy you. And to find out who the short girl is.” Zander spoke with a smirk.

“Fuck you.” I spat at him.

“Any day baby!” He said. I gave him a disgusted look, basically telling him never-in-his-fucking-dreams. “Just tell me who she is and I’ll leave you alone.” He tried to reason with me.

“She’s a friend of mine friend California, will I tell you her name? No. Fuck off.” I spat and turned back around.

“Sassiness only makes me want you more, my dear.” Zander spoke from behind me, I could hear that dumb smirk still on his face. Kaitlin looked over at me and our eyes met. I gave her a look saying he-will-be-the-death-of-me, as I rolled my eyes. She let out a giggle, making me giggle as well. The rest of the class went by pretty fast, which was fine by me. I just wanted to get away from Zander. When the bell rang, I stood up from my seat and bent down to grab my bookbag. When I stood back up and was back to put a strap on my shoulder, I felt a hand slap my ass. I gasped and turned around quickly. Slapping the person behind me, right across the face. Guess who it was. If you guess Zander, you were right.

“Don’t you dare touch me again!” I shouted at him. I’m sure the teacher would have come over, but he wasn’t in the classroom anymore.

“Layla, what happened?” Kaitlin asked as she stood by my side, Chris next to her.

“This prick just slapped my ass!” I shouted, feeling myself about to blow up.

“You pig!” Kaitlin shouted as she put her hands to Zanders chest and pushed him back.

“Ooh, California girls are feisty as hell. I’ll see you before lunch Layla, oh, and I will get payback for that slap you did to me.” Zander spoke with a smirk before walking passed us. As he walked by Chris, Chris pushed him into the table, making him fall back.

“Keep your fucking hands off of her.” Chris growled.

“Oh, emo-boy finally has the nerve to stand up to me?” Zander asked with a smirk as he stood back up. “Bring it.” I watched as Chris was pulling his arm back to hit Zander, but the teacher came in and stopped it.

“Chris! Zander! What the hell do you think you’re doing?!” Mr. Morgan asked as he approached us.

“I wasn’t doing anything sir. Chris pushed me and I hit my side into the table, then he tried to punch me.” Zander said, acting like he did nothing.

“Bullshit!” I shouted.

“Layla, would you like to explain what really happened?” Mr. Morgan asked.

“I stood up, grabbed my bookbag and Zander slapped my ass! Chris was just being a good friend and defending me.” I spoke, you could hear the venom in my voice.

“Zander, come with me.” Mr. Morgan spoke as he grabbed onto Zanders bag and pulled him along. “I will come find you three if the Principal wants to talk to you.” And with those words, Mr. Morgan dragged Zander out of the room with him, Zander was sending daggers into my with his eyes.

“He said all three of us, does that mean as well?” Kaitlin asked softly as we all walked out of the classroom and down the hall, making our way to our next class.

“Yes.” I said. “But don’t worry, you won’t be in trouble or anything. You would be a witness to what happened, so you just say what really happened.” I spoke, trying to get her to calm down, she was never good around authority figures.

“Okay.” She replied, keeping her soft tone. We arrived at our next class, which was a class we had with Chris, we don’t have the next class with him, but we have the one after that with him, and lunch. The rest of the morning classes went by pretty slowly, probably because I couldn’t really focus in class, my mind was going everywhere. I had all these different emotions going on. I felt like I wanted to break down and just be held. I felt like I wanted to ignore everyone and just scream. I felt like I wanted to just find things and break them. I wanted to see, Jack. I needed to see, Jack. Chris, Kaitlin, and I all walked out of our last morning class and into the hallway, where we were met by Jasper and Brent standing by lockers, waiting for us.

“Hey guys.” Chris spoke as we approached the two boys.

“Sup?” Brent asked.

“Nothing much. Did you guys hear what happened with Zander in our first period class?” Chris spoke. They shook their heads no, and we started walking to the lunch room, my arm laced with Kaitlin’s so we didn’t lose each other in the huge crowd of students. All three of us explained what had happened and Jasper and Brent both looked pretty pissed off about the whole time. Which would be a lie if I said I wasn’t pissed off, as well. We were almost to the lunch room when I ran into a body in front of me since I wasn’t looking forward.

“Shit, sorr-” I cut myself off with a groan as I looked up and saw the person. Zander. “What the hell do you want, prick?”

“I said I would be seeing you later. Now, come with me.” He spoke as he tried to reach for my arm. I unlaced my arm with Kaitlin’s, just in case I had to fight him off. I pulled my arm away and away from his hand.

“No. Fuck you.” I spat.

“I said come with me. I told you I would get you back for that slap.” He growled at me. He tried to reach for my arm again but I slapped him again. He turned his head back to me and I could see the anger in his eyes. I took a few steps back slowly. “That’s it.” He spat. Before I could react to anything, Zander punched me. I fell onto the ground and I felt tears well up in my eyes as I held my hand to my eye, trying to sooth the pain. Kaitlin got down on the ground and put her arms around me. I noticed that there was a lot of kids around us, watching. I looked over to where Zander was standing. And saw that Chris, Brent, and Jasper all jumped on him. I saw kids being pushed out of the way in the group of people, and a few of Zander’s football buddies broke there way over to the commotion that was going on. Each one of them grabbed onto Jasper, Brent, and Chris and pulled them off of Zander. Pushing them away, as they left them go and helped Zander to his feet. He didn’t look to hurt, only had a bloody nose. Chris looked over to Kaitlin and I and rushed to his feet and over to us. Soon being followed by Jasper and Brent. Chris moved my hand away from my face softly, and tilted my head up so he can see better.

“Fuck.” He muttered under his breathe.

“That bad?” I asked with a small laugh, trying to lighten the mood.

“You already have a black-eye forming. Does anyone has a cloth to use to wipe away the blood from her lip?” Chris asked.

“Uh..here. Use this.” Jasper spoke as he took off his shirt. Chris took the shirt from him and pressed it to my lip. It stung pretty bad.

“Here Jasper.” Brent spoke. I looked over and saw Brent pulling out a shirt from his bag. He handed it to him and Jasper thanked him and put it on.

“It hurts.” I whined as I pulled away from the pressure that Chris was putting on my lip with the shirt.

“No shit it’s going to hurt. Your lip is busted pretty badly.” Chris spoke, as he put the shirt to my lip again. I let out a whining sound and Chris gave me an apologetic look. My lip stopped bleeding a minute later, and we all stood up off the ground. Then we saw there was still a huge group of kids around us still.

“Ha. Jasper took his shirt off in front of everyone.” Brent spoke with a small chuckle.

“I don’t care. I’m not ashamed of my body. Plus it was to help Layla, which is more important.” Jasper spoke. I sent him a small smile, telling him thank you. Not a big smile, because if I did, my lip would probably bleed again, as well as be in more pain than it already is.

“Okay everyone. Move the fuck out of the way.” Chris spoke as he made a path for us to walk to the lunch room. I had my head down and my arm laced with Kaitlin’s, she she could lead the way to the lunch room, as she followed Jasper and Brent, since Chris was at my other side once we passed the group of kids who were watching us. We walked into the lunch room and went straight to the table.

“Layla, do you want anything to eat?” Brent asked.

“No thank you. Just take Kaitlin to get something for herself, please.” I spoke, as I laid my arms on the table and hid my face in them.

“Layla, you need to eat.” Kaitlin spoke.

“I’ll eat when we get back to Alex and Lisa’s house. I'm not hungry.” I said.

“Come on Kaitlin, Brent and I will show you how it works here. Jasper you going to stay here with Layla?” Chris spoke.

“Yeah. I already have a packed lunch anyways.” Jasper replied.

“Okay. We’ll be right back.” Chris spoke. With those words I’m guessing all three of them walked away, me not being able to hear their footsteps due to all the kids in the lunch room talking to their friends.

“Are you sure you’re not hungry, Layla?” Jasper asked from the seat next to me.

“I’m sure. Thanks anyways though.” I spoke. I heard him let out a small sigh and went back to eating his lunch. The rest of lunch went by pretty quick, as did the rest of the afternoon classes. I spent all day with my head hidden in my arms when we were in class. The last bell of the day rang, telling us we can go home. I didn’t see Zander for the rest of the day, till Kaitlin and I met with Chris in the hallway. My eyes met his and he smirked at me as he walked passed us. I felt my anxiety kick up and I started to shake a bit. Kaitlin took notice in this and unzipped my bookbag, she pulled out my ipod and headphones. Chris watched in confusion at what was going on. Kaitlin turned on my ipod and put in my headphones. Flipping through the songs until she came upon Therapy. It took a couple of replays to calm me down, but it finally worked, but I noticed I had tears streaming down my cheeks. Kaitlin gave me a hug, as did Chris, after Kaitlin explained to him what just happened. I took my headphones out of my ears and put my ipod back in my bookbag, continuing to walk down the halls and out of the building to leave and go back to Alex and Lisa’s house. Once we were outside, I wiped my tears from one eye, not being able to touch my other eye due to the pain of it. Chris, Kaitlin, and I walked down half the stairs till I heard my name being shouted. I looked up and saw Jack and Alex running over to us. I quickly ran down a few more steps, meeting Jack in the middle, as I pushed myself into his embrace. Chris explained everything that happened with Zander, leaving out the part where he slapped my ass in first class today, I’ll just tell them later when we get out of public. Jack carried me back to Alex’s car and I cuddled up to him in the back seat. The ride back to Alex and Lisa’s house was pretty quiet, other than Jack keeping me calm by whispering sweet things to me, and placing kisses on my head. Once we were back at the house, we all got out of the car, me pressing myself into Jack’s side, he didn’t seem to mind.

We got inside the house and we all walked into the living room, where I saw Lisa, Rian, and Zack watching TV. Lisa looked over at all of us with a smile till her eyes met my face. She gasped and jumped up from her seat and rushed over to me. She took me in her arms and held onto me.

“What happened?!” She rushed once she pulled away.

“Zander happened.” I muttered softly, getting the attention of Zack and Rian as well.

“Alex. You need to take care of this kid. I’m not letting my girls go back to the school with him there.” Lisa spoke to Alex.

“Oh, this is not all he did today.” I spoke up as we all walked over to the couches, there was no more seats so I just sat on Jack’s lap. Normally I’m sure Alex wouldn’t want it that way, but today he was letting it slide.

“What do you mean that’s not all he did today?” Zack questioned.

“In first class today, I picked up my bookbag and he slapped my ass.” I spoke.

“I’ll kill him.” Jack growled.

“Not before I do.” Rian spoke up.

“Hell no, I’ll be the first one to get to him.” Alex spoke.

“I don’t think so. I believe Jack will murder him before any of you boys get to him.” Lisa spoke, as Jack tightened his grip around me and placed his head on my shoulder.

“How old is Zander, Layla?” Jack asked.

“Uh...let me text Chris and ask.” I spoke, pulling my phone out of my pocket, sending a quick text to him.

Me:
Just wondering, how old is Chris?

Not even ten seconds later I got a reply back.

Chris:
19. He got held back last year.

Me:
Thanks. Ttyl.

I put the phone back in my pocket and spoke again.

“Chris said that Zander is 19, he got held back last year.”

“You are only 17. We can change him with assault, and harassment or a minor.” Rian spoke.

“Or I can kick his ass and then we can charge him.” Jack spoke.

“I can help.” Alex spoke.

“Normally I wouldn’t let you boys do this. But since he did this to Layla, I will let each of you get one punch in. Before we turn him in.” Lisa spoke. Everyone agreed to a plan, and continued to talk till it got dark out. Rian and Zack left, and Lisa and Alex went to bed. Kaitlin and I said our good-night’s and went to our room as well. We talked for about a hour till Kaitlin fell asleep. I stayed awake for a couple more hours till I realized that I wasn’t going to fall asleep anytime soon. I got out of my bed and made my way down the hallway, and down the stairs. When I got to the downstairs hallway I could hear the sounds of the TV on. I walked into the living room and saw Jack was sitting up watching the TV.

“Jack.” I spoke softly. He turned his head and looked at me.

“Hey babe, what are you doing up, shouldn’t you be asleep?” He asked me.

“I couldn’t sleep. Can I stay down here and watch TV with you?” I asked.

“Sure. Come on over here.” He spoke. I walked closer and he he moved so that he was up against the back of the couch laying on his side. I laid on the couch in front of him and he put the blanket on me, also putting his arm around my waist. I watched TV for a few hours till I felt my eyelids start to get heavy. And I fell asleep, cuddled up to Jack.

Notes

What do you think the boys will do to Zander?

Poor Layla ;-;

Hope you enjoyed!