Falling for bad

Episode 4

Axel's pov

Right in front of me stood Leah. How did I know you may ask. Well, she has her usual hoodie on.

"Zen!" Lisa yelled for him.

"Lisa, where's your mum? Who brought you?" Leah asked concerned.

"Oh, Axel did. He's right there. Lisa pointed to me.

Leah looked my way then slowly nodded. "Alright, have a good day, nothing of you should stay out of trouble, okay?" Leah asked.

"We will, I promise." Zen said pulling Lisa with him into the building.

I can't believe Lisa is supposed to start grade school thus year. I know she's the perfect age, It's just.... to me she'll always be a little girl. Yeah, so what she's six and apparently ready cuz she has Zen by her side. And from the looks of it they'll always be close. They'll always have each other.

I spotted Leah leaving. She was heading to school. "Hey I'll drop you off. Come with me." I offered.

"No thanks, I'm fine with walking." She mumbled.

"Come on, you'll be late if you walk there. It's a twenty minutes walk from her and school starts in ten minutes." I try to persuade her.

She thinks over it before agreeing.

I escort her to my car and we both get in. "So how are you?" I try to make small talk.

"What do you care?" She whispers.

"Will it kill you to answer my question?" I ask.

"Why the sudden interest?"

"What do you mean?" I ask genuinely confused.

She stays quiet.

I sigh in frustration. She's making this harder than it needs to be. I'm just trying to get to know her. She's the only one that I'm trying so hard to know. And I'm still trying to figure out why.

"I could walk to school. I have no problem doing that." She says.

"You dont have to be ungrateful about it." I mutter.

"I didnt ask you to drive me to school, Axel. I was perfectly fine walking.",She almost yells. This is the first time I've heard her without straining my ear.

"Well I'll try to remember that that next time." I say as I pull up in school.

She storms out. Banging the door on way.

I angrily hit the steering wheel. The first time I had Leah in my car and I couldn't control myself enough to not argue with her. I'll have to apologize later. I halt realizing what I had thought of. Apologize, since when do I apologize? It's not even up to 48hrs yet and Leah is changing me already. I run my fingers through my hair. I take one last breath to calm myself before leaving the car.

Leah's pov

I didn't know what came over me. I've never flared up like that before. It's not his fault I had a really shitty morning. Dad woke again before I could leave the house. He beat me as usual. I feel pain everywhere. Everything hurts and I have P.E today. I've always worn my hoodie for P.E, so no one has ever noticed my scars. Worst thing is today of all days I wore a white hoodie. A previous cut has reopened and soon enough the blood will soak the blood and it will be visible.

The moment I got into hallway, Brittany pulls me into the girls restroom.

"So what? You think you can have Axel? Stay the hell away from him." She knees me in the guts. "this is just warning."

I sat on the floor of the girls restroom. b***h opened another cut on my stomach. My hoodie is starting to soak. I stay in the restroom so when the bell rings so I'll go to the nurses office. Luckily i didn't have to wait long before the bell rings. The moment the bell rings and I felt like the hallway was clear, I try to leave the restroom. Turns out the door was locked. Brittany locked me in the bathroom. I start hitting the door, praying someone comes to my aid before I bleed out. It didn't take long before the door bursts open and I came face to face with Axel.

"What the hell happened?" He asked shocked.

I couldn't formulate a proper lie. ".... I ....um."

" Don't you give me that s**t about falling." He hissed out. ",Your shirt is nearly soaked."

"I bleed a lot." was all I could reply.

"Are you wearing a tank top underneath that?" he asked.

I was confused but I nodded.

"Take it off." he said.

"No." I stepped back in refusal.

"Your i juries could get seriously infected if you don't free it." He tried to persuade me.

I thought about it, he had a point but I couldn't risk him seeing my scars. "Don't worry. I'll get it treated."

"Get the hoodie of Leah, or I'll get it off you myself." he threatened.

I sighed then reluctantly pulled the hoodie.

He saw the open cut on my arms along withe the scars. There was a line that went from the top of my tank top down that it was covered by it.

He raised the tank top a little spotting other marks. "Who did all these to you?" he asked confused and slightly angry.

"No one. It doesn't matter." I move away from his view.

"What the hell do you mean it doesn't matter? Look at you, Leah. There are marks everywhere. Just tell me what is going on please." He pleads with me.

"It is not important.",I look away from him.

"Fine don't tell me. Let's just get you to the nurses office.",He says all while taking off his Jacket.

"What are you doing?" dumbfounded and confused, I asked.

He stretches the jacket to me. "Put it on." he doesn't leave room for rejection.

I sighed and put the jacket on. Axel took me to the schools nurse.

He waited outside while I was being attended to.

"Well, I've done what u can do. I treated it with anti-septic and covered them with plasters. Just try to stay away from rough activities. Your skin isn't healing the way it is supposed to due to all the injuries." Nurse Melina says looking at me.

I was just about to leave her office.

"Wait.." she halts my steps.

"Yes." I turn back.

"You know you can tell me what wrong, right? You can trust me." She says.

I nod before walking away.

"What happened in there?" Axel asked the moment I came out.

"Nothing. She treated them and that was it." I replied. "Thank you for helping me." I say.

"Well, I have to apologize to you for earlier. I was being an inconsiderate ass. I won't pressure you not to tell me these things if you don't want to. I get it though, we just started talking yesterday, I don't actually expect you to pour out all your secrets to me." he says in one breath.

I was surprised because apologizing isn't Axels thing. "it is okay, I overreacted as well. I shouldn't have shouted at you and stormed off like that. I'm sorry." I also apologize.

"We should probably go to class." Axel suggests.

"Yeah we should." I start in the direction of the class we were having.

"You should stop covering your face. Your eyes are to pretty to be hidden." Axel suddenly says.

I choke on nothing. "What?" confused i ask.

"You heard me right the first time, Leah." he chuckles.

"it was just so unexpected." I mumbled

"What? Nobody has ever complimented you before?" he jokes but the truth is no. My mum did but the she left, so everything she has ever told me is invalid.

My silence probably gave me away. "For real? No one has ever told you that your eyes are pretty, your lips are perfect and your nose is shaped to perfection." He says the words like he meant them. I don't want to believe anything that he says, but how can I not when he says them looking at me like that.

I look away trying to hide my reddened cheeks. This is the first time anyone has gotten thus reaction out of me. "What about your girlfriend?" I asked remembering why I was locked in the toilet in the first place.

"Who is my girlfriend?" he asks confused.

I scoff "Brittany."

"She's not my girlfriend." He laughs.

I was so happy when we reached the front of our class, I really didn't want to continue this conversation anymore.

"Late." the teacher said the moment we walked in. All eyes trained on us. I could feel the glares and stares. Thus is the first time without my hoodie, some people are probably wondering who the hell I am.

"We were in the nurses office." Axel explains.

The teacher sighs before permitting us to go to our seat.

I catch Brittany's gaze. She's pissed and her glare us promising a hell of a time after words.

"Just ignore her. She thinks we are together, but we aren't. I won't allow her to touch you anymore." Axel whispers to me.