I want to live

Chapter 14

Even if they wanted his happy moment to last, they couldn't, the nurse came into the room smiling. "I'm sorry to disturb you, but Elijah? You're good to go now, the lunch has just started so you can begin to join the classes afterward. Also, if you don't want your health to get bad again, please make sure to eat three healthy meals a day." After she was done with her small speech. he smiled a small smile, bowed and walked out the room again, slowly sliding the door shut.

"s**t! That's right!" Elijah quickly sat up, quickly getting ready to leave.

"Why the hurry Elijah?" Roman said as he sat there still a little startled by the sudden movement of the boy.

"I'm new to this school, so I had to go to the teacher's lounge 5 minutes before the first class and now it's already lunch!" Elijah stumbled a bit while trying to put on his shoes.

"Who did you have to meet?" Ryan asked while throwing him his other shoe.

"Brown...? Yeah! that was his name."

"Whoa.... yeah~ he's going to kill you" Roman began laughing, and Ryan gave Elijah a weird face as to say, 'go my brave soldier' and made a fist of his hands pointing it at the ceiling.

"Ugh~ you're not helping me at all," Elijah said with a smile and ran out of the room, leaving the two.

"...You think he's going to be alright? I'm worried for him, Ryan..." the older looked over at the other with a sad smile. "I don't think he's going to open up to us any time soon... but we will definitely help any way we can, all of us, don't worry Roman." Ryan put a reassuring hand on Roman's shoulder while smiling. "We're going to protect him, right?" And Roman returned the smile. "Of course, we are!"

They got up and went their separate ways to get to their lockers and decided to meet up at the canteen.

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Meanwhile, Elijah was getting scolded for not sending either of the people that helped him down to say what happened. He was apparently really 'worried' for him. „Suuuure you were~„ He rolled his eyes and was soon told to leave and come again 5 minutes before the next classes start.

He walked out into the halls that were filling with students going from and to the other classrooms. He also noticed that a bigger percentage of the people went into the room the halls were centering around, „The canteen? „ He made his way there and he was right.

The second he came inside he was bombarded with the sound of people talking, yelling, screaming and even some were singing. Elijah has always had an extremely sensitive hearing, so this much ruckus made his ears ring. He didn't hate it however, it made making and playing music so much easier. Being able to taste almost every ingredient in his food was still weird to him. And not being able to go to concerts because of his hearing never bothered him since he didn't really have any bands, he thought was worth it. And the rest of his senses only helped him in his daily life. Although he learned to keep quiet about since people used to call him a freak because of it... it wasn't his fault.

He let out an annoyed sigh when he remembered bad memories from all the middle-schools he had been in. He shakes his head trying to forget it he looked around and wasn't surprised when he didn't recognize anyone at all. He went over to the booth, got his food and paid for it.

He looked around and to his luck a table in the corner of the room, he made his way over there and sat down. He stared hard at his food but couldn't find any contempt to eat anything. He once again let out a sigh as he slightly pushes the food closer to the center of the table and laid his head on top of his arms and closed his eyes. Quietly going into his small and silent headspace, blocking out all the sounds of the people around him, he always enjoys going into his headspace.

His own escape from the world.

As he was laying there he didn't notice when someone walked up to the table with a mean glare on his face.

"Hey, Faggot! What are you doing at MY table?!" The stranger slammed his hand into the table making Elijah startled, but he didn't show it, he wouldn't show a weak side to an asshole that disturbed him in his headspace.

"The f**k do you want" He looked at the angry male in front of him with a bored look in his eyes and a pout on his lips. It was difficult to tell if he wanted to kill the person in front of him or if he was just bored and tired

Anyway, the guy took a hold of Elijah collar and shoved him into the wall. "Don't you know who I am?! Huh?!" The assaulted male made a face of disgust. "Do you know you spit when you talk?"

He smirked when the guy just seemed to get angrier. Sure, this guy was scary, but no one could even come close to how Luke could get if he was annoyed.

Elijah grabbed a hold of his wrist and twisted it, the guy letting out a whimper. "Not so cool now, huh?" He completely twisted his wrist making him forcefully turn around and when Elijah kicked him in the popliteal, he faces planted his face into the table. Elijah turned him and looked at the pin on his uniform. "How can a freshman be so mean to his hyung? ~"

He leaned down and with venom in his voice whispered into the squirming male beneath him. "Now I'm going to let you go~ and you're going to go away and not bother anyone like this again okay? Because~ if I see you doing this to anyone again. I'll break your whole arm~" he smirked as he let the guy go and he ran away like a pup with its tail between the legs.

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????'s POV

"What's going on? Why is everybody circling that table?" I asked.

"Some guy nobody knows just beat the living s**t out of a freshman. And now he's just lying on the table sleeping... Scary~" The girl besides be explained but without looking away from the table.

I pushed past people to try and get a glimpse of this mystery person. I squish myself past some guys and stumble forward realizing I stood right in front of the unknown person.

I look up to see his sleeping figure... Wait...?

"Elijah...? What're you doing here." The said male cracks open one of his eyes and made eye contact with me. Beautiful...

"Why are you here—"

"...Jackson?"