Chapter 4: The Scars of War

~Wednesday: Mid Evening~

Rachel wasn't surprised that her mother never showed up at school to bring her home. Kori offered to skip the rest of school to drive her but she just felt like being alone. Rachel walked up the steps to her apartment and pulled out her keys. She opened the door and saw a note on the fridge. She closed the door behind her and set her things down next to the door. She walked over to the fridge and pulled the note off the magnet.

Sorry, hun. I had an important meeting. I couldn't cancel it. I'll try to be home as soon as I can. Dinner is in the fridge, I actually cooked. Be home soon. ~A

Rachel let the note fall on the floor as she opened the fridge to cooked, but still frozen chicken breast. She touched it with her finger and felt slim.

"I actually cooked,' My ass..." Rachel mumbled as she took out the frozen chicken. She walked to the window and threw it out, hearing it crash on someone's windshield. She closed the window and walking to her room.

"Come on! I gotta go!" Garfield thrashed around on the cot in the nurses office. His wrists were tied to the bed as the nurse, Mrs. Diana, stood in front of the cot with an annoyed look on her face.

"Mr. Logan-"

"Let me go!" Garfield tried sitting up more and glared at Diana. Garfield and Diana stared at each other before Garfield laid his head in defeat.

"You beat Adonis pretty bad," Diana sat down at the end of the bed. Garfield laid back down and looked at Diana. They stared at each other for a few minutes before Diana stood up.

"At the end of the period you will get to go to your next class."

"...Can you please untie me?" Garfield asked.

"Will you be calm?"

"Do I have a reason not to be?" Garfield raised an eyebrow.

Diana walked over to him, "Do you?"

"I heard he put Adonis in the hospital!"

"I heard Adonis is going to kill Garfield when he comes back to school!"

"I heard Garfield's parents left him."

"I heard Garfield is fucking that dark haired chick."

"Garfield was protecting her, that's the only reason he fought back so hard after Adonis hurt her."

"Is it true Garfield is an orphan?"

"Rachel is such a lucky bitch. She gets to leave school for just getting a bump on the head."

"Isn't Adonis so hot?"

Garfield couldn't believe all the crap he was hearing. The fight was only 2 hours ago, but wow. The rumors this school could make up. Garfield walked into class through the door in the back and sat in the corner. He hasn't even looked in the mirror yet to see how bad he looks. Diana gave him some pain pills but they should were-off by time school ends.

He turned to look out the window as the class started to fill up. Everyone was whispering and glaring at Garfield, it didn't really come as a shock when Rachel's friends sat around him. He never ever saw Rachel after the fight was broken up.

Victor was sitting in front of Garfield while Kori sat next to him, Richard sat in front of Kori and beside Victor.

"We aren't mad," Kori didn't look over at Garfield.

"That makes...what? Three out of three thousand." Garfield murmured.

"It makes four out of who else matters."

And that is chapter 4! And don't worry – I haven't forgotten about you guys c: