Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Runaways ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )
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By: Saiyagurl87 
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 09.24.2012 | Updated On: 09.24.2012 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.3K | Visits: 199 | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Suspense | Type: Songfic | Uploaded On: 09.24.2012 | Updated On: 09.24.2012 | Pages: 2 | Words: 4.3K | Visits: 199 | Status: Completed
Author: Thanks so much for the reviews! I really appreciate it and I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: Don’t own sm.
Serena glared at Diamond heatedly as she was nearly being dragged down the hallway by her teacher. She knew the woman was talking to them both but none of that was important. Her full attention was locked upon the violet eyed boy who was using his forearm to wipe the blood from his face. On closer inspection, she realized that besides the fact that she may have broken his nose, she also gave him a gash on the bridge of his nose as well and she couldn’t help the satisfied smirk that came upon her face.
She stuck her tongue out at the boy once more before the trio stopped in front of the door that led to the nurse’s office. As soon as Mrs. Maxwell released her hold on Diamond’s arm to open the door, the young boy screamed, causing the teacher to jump startled. Before the woman could register what was happening, Diamond lunged at Serena and the pair fell to the ground in a tangled heap.
Serena let off a small yelp of surprise as she suddenly found herself slamming her back onto the cold tiled floor below her. She gasped when she felt Diamond’s body weighing her down as he straddled her waist and placed his hands around her throat. Serena gagged, immediately trying to pry his hands off of her neck when his hold tightened. She could vaguely hear her teacher yelling at Diamond to stop and could somewhat see the woman pulling on the boy’s shoulders frantically.
Ignoring the blood that was leaking on to her face from Diamond’s wounds, Serena took her fingernails and dug them within the boy’s hands, clawing at the flesh viciously and drawing blood. Diamond howled in pain, releasing his grip around the blonde’s throat and Serena took this moment to push him back, making him roll off of her. When the boy quickly climbed to his feet and made a mad dash towards her; Serena, who was still lying on the floor, drew her knees to her chest and kicked as hard as she could. The unexpected blow landed upon the boy’s chest, his feet nearly leaving the floor as his back slammed into the wall behind him.
Sliding to the floor completely stunned, Diamond grabbed at his chest as Serena sat up, clutching at her rapidly bruising neck. Clenching a hand into a tight fist, eyes darkening and a low growl escaping from deep within her, Serena slowly climbed to her feet and wiped at the blood staining her face. Before she was only upset, now she was pissed the fuck off and was going to make this boy pay for causing her pain; a smirk that would normally appear on Amara’s face came upon her own…
Diamond really crossed the line!
Mrs. Maxwell snapped out of her surprised stupor when Serena suddenly kicked the hell out of Diamond. Now she felt fear rising within her as she saw the dark look that promised a world of pain come across her new student’s face.
She had to put a stop to this!
Taking a quick step forward, the teacher was able to grab a hold of the blonde’s arm before she lunged herself upon Diamond, who still sat on the floor clutching at his chest. She whirled the small blonde around, nearly losing her grip on the girl when the child growled at her. Now more determined to separate the two, she pulled Serena towards the nurse’s door once more and heavily pounded on the door, wondering how the nurse hadn’t heard all of the commotion. When Nurse Adams came to the door, her eyes widened as they landed on Serena’s face that was caked in blood; she snapped her eyes up towards the teacher.
“Wha..What happened?!”
Mrs. Maxwell sighed deeply as she tightened her hold on the now struggling blonde. For someone so small, she was pretty damn strong and her teacher was having a hard time keeping her grip on her. Before speaking, she hoisted Serena up and moved towards the nurse’s office as the nurse stepped aside to let her in. The nurse suddenly let off a small gasp as she spotted Diamond sitting on the floor, holding his chest and drenched in blood as well.
“These two have been fighting and I think they need medical attention!” exclaimed Mrs. Maxwell.
The nurse turned towards the teacher, noting that the woman was definitely right. “I’m going to call for an ambulance. Do you think you can manage these two for a few moments?”
The teacher nodded, knowing she really didn’t have any other choice. The nurse quickly disappeared as Mrs. Maxwell held onto Serena, standing in the doorway so she could keep her eyes on Diamond as well. She was softly pleading to the blonde to calm down, but the 7 yr. old just wasn’t having it! Soon enough the nurse returned, with two towels in her hands.
She handed one to Mrs. Maxwell. “They’re on their way and I have spoken to the principal as well, so that he knows what is going on.” Turning away from the teacher, she made her way to Diamond, kneeling before the dazed and confused boy and began to dab at his face with a towel.
Mrs. Maxwell suddenly gasped, alerting the nurse. “I left my student s by themselves!”
“No worries, Principal Jonas is sending someone to watch over your class for you.” The teacher smiled in relief. A few moments rolled on by as she held the towel to Serena’s still bleeding forehead, tightening her hold once more on the blonde and silently watching the nurse trying to control the blood gushing from Diamond’s nose.
Soon enough, the hallway was soon crowded with two sets of paramedical teams, both pushing a gurney towards the two children and women. The first team effortless retrieved Diamond and settled the boy on the bed and quickly wheeled him off. Unfortunately for the other paramedic team, the blonde was still relentlessly trying to escape from her teacher’s arms, growling insanely as she watched Diamond disappear from her line of vision.
Serena’s eyes widened in alarm as two men grabbed a hold of her and she began to panic, wildly thrashing about. Within her hysteria, she did not hear the teacher or the paramedics trying with all their might to console and calm her down. Unable to restrain the girl, the paramedics decided to hold the girl down by hand and wheel the screaming child out of the building; teachers and students looking outside their classrooms staring after them in curiosity.
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Elaine quickly walked around the receptionist desk, making her way to the screaming child and the two highly aggravated paramedical guys trying to control her. She quickened her pace when she heard the small blonde screaming for her sister and began kicking her legs and swinging her arms more urgently when one of men pushed her back down on the bed by the shoulders.
“Serena!”
The small blonde froze in mid strike as she was ready to punch out the guy who had just pulled her back down to the bed, stopping her escape attempt. The paramedics took advantage of her startled moment and quickly found the straps to the gurney and strapped the child down to the bed. Once Serena realized her predicament, she was about to start thrashing and screaming again, when she suddenly saw Elaine’s worried face hovering over hers.
Elaine chewed her bottom lip, seeing the deep gash upon the child’s forehead and she felt her hands clench upon seeing the bruises around the girl’s neck. She narrowed her eyes, looking upon Serena who was staring back at her with tear filled eyes. Elaine brushed away the tears with a hand and then pulled back Serena’s blood coated bangs from her eyes.
“What happened?”
Serena took a shaky breath as her bottom lip began to quiver. “Diamond…he started it.” She closed her eyes, expecting an outburst from the woman, waiting for the rain of insults and blows to the body like her father would have done. Though, she slowly opened her eyes to see that Elaine was looking upon her intently, deep concern flooding her eyes.
Seeing that the blonde had considerably calmed down, the paramedics took this time to slowly wheel the child towards the emergency room, with Elaine walking with them, still running her fingers through the blonde’s hair.
“Tell me everything that happened, Serena.”
Serena slowly nodded as she tried to steady her breathing. “It started when I first got to my classroom and my teacher told me to go to a seat she picked out for me. Well, when I was going to my seat, Diamond tripped me and caused me to fall and everyone started laughing…I told the teacher and she sent him to the Principal’s office.”
Elaine felt anger rising in her as Serena began to tell her the story, already wanting to give this Diamond boy a piece of her mind! “What happened next?”
Serena closed her eyes as she fully calmed her resolve and began to feel a dull ache in her head. “Well, he didn’t come back to class. Anyways, I asked the teacher if I could go to the bathroom, she said I could and that’s what I went to do. When I was leaving the bathroom, I saw Diamond coming down the hallway, so I started to go back in the bathroom because I didn’t want him to bother me. When I couldn’t see him anymore, I heard someone scream. I came out of the bathroom to see what was going on and Diamond was picking on a girl Amy from my class in the hallway.”
Elaine narrowed her eyes upon the name. “Amy? What is her last name?”
“I don’t know, but she has really cool blue hair.”
Elaine smiled; she knew exactly who Amy was. “So what happened after you saw that.”
“Diamond knocked the books from Amy’s hands and that’s when I told him to leave her alone! So he started pushing me and I kept telling him to stop. He then pulled my hair and I slapped him across the face…I didn’t mean too it just happened!”
Serena furrowed her brows at the memory, “He didn’t like that too much and shoved me into the wall. It really hurt so I head butted him in the face!” Elaine couldn’t stop her jaw from dropping, ignoring the sniggers the two paramedics made as they were too listening intently to the story.
“You head butted him?!”
“I sure did! He should have stopped when I told him too!” Serena frowned in distaste as she thought about the rude boy. “We were about to go at it again but the teacher stopped it. She told Amy to go back to class and she took both me and Diamond to the nurse’s office. When we got there, my teacher let go of Diamond to open the door and that’s when he tackled me to the floor and started choking me. I scratched his hands up and pushed him off of me. When he tried to run at me, I kicked him in the chest and he flew into the wall. I was really going to mess him up after that but my teacher held me back.”
Elaine watched as Serena’s frown deepen and could tell that the girl wasn’t satisfied with the outcome of the fight. She suddenly looked around her surroundings and noticed that they were now within the emergency room and was surrounded by nurses and doctors getting equipment to fix and clean up the blonde. She quickly grabbed a stool that was in the room and sat beside Serena, continuing to run her fingers through the blonde’s hair in a motherly fashion.
“Alright Serena, we will talk about this more later. Right now the doctor needs to look at you and see what they need to do.”
Serena shifted fearful eyes upon the nurses moving around her and the doctor who stood beside her, eyeing the wound upon her forehead, a clipboard held tightly in his hand.
“Are you going to leave me?”
Elaine’s felt her heart cracking, hearing the fear and desperation in the Serena’s voice. She took a hold of the child’s small hands into her own and held onto them tightly.
“I’m not going anywhere…”
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Darien grinned, taking a seat with his two best friends; Andrew and Melvin. Sitting in between the two, Darien picked up his slice of pizza and took a bite as both of his friends were hungrily devouring their own slices.
“I love pizza day!” exclaimed Andrew, mouth full and tomato sauce on his face.
Darien laughed, taking a bite from his own. “I know! This food is so much better than my last school!”
“Really?” questioned Melvin, fixing his thick glasses upon his face and taking a bite of his pizza.
“Way better!” exclaimed Darien, swallowing down a mouth full.
Melvin shifted his glasses once again, turning to his two friends. “Hey did you hear about that fight that happened before lunch?”
“What fight?” asked both Darien and Andrew in unison.
“I heard it was between Beryl’s little brother Diamond and some new girl in his class.”
“He hit a girl?” asked Darien a bit incredulous, though the surprise slightly dissolved…he was Beryl’s little brother and new he caused a lot of trouble...but… actually hitting a girl?!
The trio’s conversation was suddenly dropped as their classmate Beryl Kurotsuki suddenly stood from her seat, rage burning in her dark green eyes.
Andrew narrowed his eyes upon the girl he didn’t like in the least. “What is she up too?”
“Whatever it is…its trouble.” muttered Melvin. Darien’s eyes narrowed as well as he watched the girl leave from the table and head to another lunch table that contained another class. He watched as she came up to a boy that was happily chatting with a girl with wavy sea-green hair. Darien zeroed in on the boy’s appearance, suddenly struck with déjà vu as he caught sight of emerald green eyes.
“I’ve seen him before…” whispered Darien.
Andrew arched a brow, not understanding what the ebony haired boy had said. “What was that?”
Darien shook his head, not taking his eyes off of the boy who was oblivious to what was about to happen. He turned around fully in his seat to see more clearly when Beryl shoved the boy from behind, causing his pizza to fall to the floor and his milk to spill across the table.
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Amara was chatting merrily with Michelle, unable to believe that she was actually talking this much…and with someone she had just met to top it all off! The blonde picked up her slice of pizza and was ready to take the first bite, when she was suddenly shoved from behind. She fell into the table, shoving her lunch tray into her open container of milk, causing it to spill over on the table. Her pizza slipped from her hand, bouncing off the edge of the table, than falling to the floor with a splat.
Completely outraged, Amara whirled around in her seat, hands already balled up into tight fists and ready to strike. Her gaze landed on a girl a bit shorter than she, dark green eyes filled with silent rage and curly fire red hair that cascaded down her shoulders.
The blonde sneered upon the girl. “What’s your problem?!”
Beryl returned the sneer. “You tell your sister she just messed with the wrong person!”
Amara narrowed her eyes into slits. “What are you talking about? Serena wouldn’t mess with anybody!”
“Oh really? She sent my brother to the hospital right before lunch.”
Amara’s brows suddenly shot up in surprise. “Really?”
At Beryl’s nod, a small pout came upon the blonde’s face. “Man! I missed it!”
Beryl frowned, completely baffled. “You what?”
Amara shifted her eyes towards the red head with narrowed eyes, a smirk touching at her lips. “I said I missed it, Serena never gets into fights! Your brother did something that made her really mad so he deserved it.”
Beryl clenched her jaw, balling her own hand into a fist. “You just tell her she better watch her back!”
Amara leaned back against the table, her smirk deepening and an eyebrow arched. “Now why would I do that?”
“Because I’m going to beat her up.”
“No you won’t.”
“I won’t?” questioned Beryl, slightly appalled by this boy. Nobody tells her what she is and isn’t going to do! She was Beryl Kurotsuki damn it!
“Yep!” grinned Amara. “Because if you go anywhere near her I will pound your face in.”
Beryl’s jaw fell slightly agape and began sputtering. “Y-y-you can’t d-d-do that!”
Amara furrowed her brows in confusion. “Why not?”
“Because you’re a boy! You can’t hit me!”
“Who said I was a boy?”
The stunned expression on Beryl’s face was priceless. “Huh?”
“Well…since you seem to be slow, I’ll explain it to you! I’m a girl and I will pound on you until your whole face is black and blue if you touch my sister… and that goes for your brother too!”
A whistle suddenly sounded off, signaling it was time for recess. Amara reached down to the floor and picked her now inedible slice of pizza and tossed it on her tray. She stood to her feet, completely ignoring Beryl and turning her attention towards a very wide eyed Michelle.
“Come on; let’s go to the playground Michelle!”
Only able to nod, Michelle stood from her seat, retrieving her lunch tray and following after the blonde.
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Andrew abruptly turned from the stunned Beryl, looking at his friends with wide eyes. “Woah! Did you see that!?!”
“Yeah! That was amazing! No one has ever talked to Beryl like that!” exclaimed Melvin.
Andrew nudged at Darien’s shoulder playfully. “You need to hang out with her! Maybe she can get Beryl to leave you alone!” he laughed but he soon frowned as Darien didn’t acknowledge him. His eyes were locked upon Amara as she and Michelle walked passed them, emptying their trays and handing their trays to the lunch lady. They both made their way towards the double doors to go outside and Darien abruptly stood to his feet, picking up his tray that held his barely eaten pizza and quickly did away with it, hurriedly making his way to the doors.
“Dare! Where you going?” questioned Andrew, only receiving silence as his answer. He and Melvin quickly stood from their seats as well, following the lunch tray procedure and quickly tried to catch up to the boy.
Darien didn’t acknowledge his friends; all he wanted to do is talk to this Amara girl. If he was correct like he knew he is, then she is Serena’s big sister that he didn’t get to meet back at the orphanage. That would probably explain that feeling of déjà vu he had a few moments ago. Going through the doors that lead to the playground and scanning the area thoroughly, he spotted the blonde tomboy sitting on top of the globe shaped jungle gym with Michelle sitting beside her.
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Michelle ran her slender fingers through her wavy hair, shaking her head slightly before snapping.
“Are you insane!?”
Amara arched a brow, turning towards her friend. “What do you mean?” Michelle’s jaw dropped before snapping her mouth shut and placing her hands on her temples, closing her eyes and began massaging them for a few moments.
“That whole scene in the cafeteria! Do you know who Beryl is?!”
The blonde smirked, shrugging her shoulder. “Nope! All I know is that she isn’t going to touch my sister.”
Michelle sighed heavily. “I understand that but Beryl is not one to mess…especially Diamond. The youngest, Sapphire seems to be alright…but I really don’t know him.”
Amara huffed, rolling her eyes. “What’s so special about Beryl and Diamond?”
Michelle narrowed her eyes, staring off in front of her. “They’re crazy…”
Amara threw her head back, letting off a roar of laughter. “Is that all?”
“Wha…” Michelle’s eyes widened in disbelieve. “Is that all?! Beryl tried to drown a girl in the girls’ bathroom two weeks ago...and…and Diamond…he’s done some really messed up things… I hope you know this isn’t over.”
Amara shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. “Well they can bring it.”
“Hey!”
Both Amara and Michelle abruptly ended their conversation, turning towards a boy climbing up the jungle gym, two others not far behind him. The duo furrowed their brows as the boy who called out to them, stopped before Amara.
“Amara right?”
Amara arched a brow. “Yeah…why?”
“I’m Darien.”
The blonde narrowed her eyes at the name. “Darien?”
“Yeah…I met Serena back at the Orphanage.”
Amara smirked with a nod of the head in recognition. “So you’re the one she keeps talking about?”
Darien’s brows shot up in surprise. “She talks about me?”
“To the point that I had to tell her to shut up and that I would scream if she said another thing.” Amara eyed the boy as she saw the faintest hint of a blush touch at his cheeks. He suddenly turned away from her, looking towards the two boys that were quietly sitting on the jungle gym behind him. Turning towards Amara again, he pointed towards the brunette with glasses.
“This is my friend Melvin.” Amara gave the boy a nod as Darien pointed towards the blonde. “And this is my friend Andrew.” Amara arched her brow while taking in the boy’s features, noting that he looked rather familiar. Putting the thought behind her, she gave the boy a nod before shifting her eyes upon Michelle.
“This is Michelle.” The boys nodded towards Michelle as the girl smiled at them with a small wave of the hand.
Amara then turned her attention back onto Darien. “Serena’s going to be glad that I saw you.”
“I don’t want you to tell her you seen me.”
Amara cocked her head in confusion. “What? Why not?”
“Well…I want her to see me for herself.”
Amara nodded, not quit understanding. “Okay, I won’t tell.”
Darien grinned, “Thanks!” Bitting upon his bottom lip, he turned towards Amara curiously. “Have you seen Chad?”
Amara shifted her eyes towards her shoes with a hint of sadness within them. “No I haven’t.”
“Oh,” whispered Darien. “I’m sure he’ll turn up soon.”
Amara smiled. “Yeah...”
“Hey…not to interrupt you guys but recess is almost over and I would like to get a game of tag in before when have to go back to class.” Darien turned towards Andrew, who was grinning at him waiting for a reply, than to Melvin who was nodding his head in agreement.
“Want to play?” questioned Darien, turning back towards Amara.
The tomboy grinned, nodding her head. “Yeah!” she turned to Michelle. “Are you coming?”
Michelle returned the blonde’s grin, “Yep!”
“Great! Let’s go then!” exclaimed Andrew as the boy was already half way off the jungle gym. Darien and Melvin weren’t far behind him and as Amara began to descend, Michelle placed a hand upon the girl’s shoulder; pausing, Amara turned towards the girl questioningly.
“About what we were talking about earlier…just be careful around Beryl and Diamond…okay?”
Amara grinned. “I will and I can take care of myself…so quit worrying.” She reached out a hand to Michelle so she could help her down the jungle gym. “Now come on!”
Michelle gave a slight smile and nodded. “Okay.” She slipped her hand into the blonde’s and allowed the girl to help her down. Once the pair touched ground, they quickly darted off towards Darien and his friends.
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Serena glared at Diamond heatedly as she was nearly being dragged down the hallway by her teacher. She knew the woman was talking to them both but none of that was important. Her full attention was locked upon the violet eyed boy who was using his forearm to wipe the blood from his face. On closer inspection, she realized that besides the fact that she may have broken his nose, she also gave him a gash on the bridge of his nose as well and she couldn’t help the satisfied smirk that came upon her face.
She stuck her tongue out at the boy once more before the trio stopped in front of the door that led to the nurse’s office. As soon as Mrs. Maxwell released her hold on Diamond’s arm to open the door, the young boy screamed, causing the teacher to jump startled. Before the woman could register what was happening, Diamond lunged at Serena and the pair fell to the ground in a tangled heap.
Serena let off a small yelp of surprise as she suddenly found herself slamming her back onto the cold tiled floor below her. She gasped when she felt Diamond’s body weighing her down as he straddled her waist and placed his hands around her throat. Serena gagged, immediately trying to pry his hands off of her neck when his hold tightened. She could vaguely hear her teacher yelling at Diamond to stop and could somewhat see the woman pulling on the boy’s shoulders frantically.
Ignoring the blood that was leaking on to her face from Diamond’s wounds, Serena took her fingernails and dug them within the boy’s hands, clawing at the flesh viciously and drawing blood. Diamond howled in pain, releasing his grip around the blonde’s throat and Serena took this moment to push him back, making him roll off of her. When the boy quickly climbed to his feet and made a mad dash towards her; Serena, who was still lying on the floor, drew her knees to her chest and kicked as hard as she could. The unexpected blow landed upon the boy’s chest, his feet nearly leaving the floor as his back slammed into the wall behind him.
Sliding to the floor completely stunned, Diamond grabbed at his chest as Serena sat up, clutching at her rapidly bruising neck. Clenching a hand into a tight fist, eyes darkening and a low growl escaping from deep within her, Serena slowly climbed to her feet and wiped at the blood staining her face. Before she was only upset, now she was pissed the fuck off and was going to make this boy pay for causing her pain; a smirk that would normally appear on Amara’s face came upon her own…
Diamond really crossed the line!
Mrs. Maxwell snapped out of her surprised stupor when Serena suddenly kicked the hell out of Diamond. Now she felt fear rising within her as she saw the dark look that promised a world of pain come across her new student’s face.
She had to put a stop to this!
Taking a quick step forward, the teacher was able to grab a hold of the blonde’s arm before she lunged herself upon Diamond, who still sat on the floor clutching at his chest. She whirled the small blonde around, nearly losing her grip on the girl when the child growled at her. Now more determined to separate the two, she pulled Serena towards the nurse’s door once more and heavily pounded on the door, wondering how the nurse hadn’t heard all of the commotion. When Nurse Adams came to the door, her eyes widened as they landed on Serena’s face that was caked in blood; she snapped her eyes up towards the teacher.
“Wha..What happened?!”
Mrs. Maxwell sighed deeply as she tightened her hold on the now struggling blonde. For someone so small, she was pretty damn strong and her teacher was having a hard time keeping her grip on her. Before speaking, she hoisted Serena up and moved towards the nurse’s office as the nurse stepped aside to let her in. The nurse suddenly let off a small gasp as she spotted Diamond sitting on the floor, holding his chest and drenched in blood as well.
“These two have been fighting and I think they need medical attention!” exclaimed Mrs. Maxwell.
The nurse turned towards the teacher, noting that the woman was definitely right. “I’m going to call for an ambulance. Do you think you can manage these two for a few moments?”
The teacher nodded, knowing she really didn’t have any other choice. The nurse quickly disappeared as Mrs. Maxwell held onto Serena, standing in the doorway so she could keep her eyes on Diamond as well. She was softly pleading to the blonde to calm down, but the 7 yr. old just wasn’t having it! Soon enough the nurse returned, with two towels in her hands.
She handed one to Mrs. Maxwell. “They’re on their way and I have spoken to the principal as well, so that he knows what is going on.” Turning away from the teacher, she made her way to Diamond, kneeling before the dazed and confused boy and began to dab at his face with a towel.
Mrs. Maxwell suddenly gasped, alerting the nurse. “I left my student s by themselves!”
“No worries, Principal Jonas is sending someone to watch over your class for you.” The teacher smiled in relief. A few moments rolled on by as she held the towel to Serena’s still bleeding forehead, tightening her hold once more on the blonde and silently watching the nurse trying to control the blood gushing from Diamond’s nose.
Soon enough, the hallway was soon crowded with two sets of paramedical teams, both pushing a gurney towards the two children and women. The first team effortless retrieved Diamond and settled the boy on the bed and quickly wheeled him off. Unfortunately for the other paramedic team, the blonde was still relentlessly trying to escape from her teacher’s arms, growling insanely as she watched Diamond disappear from her line of vision.
Serena’s eyes widened in alarm as two men grabbed a hold of her and she began to panic, wildly thrashing about. Within her hysteria, she did not hear the teacher or the paramedics trying with all their might to console and calm her down. Unable to restrain the girl, the paramedics decided to hold the girl down by hand and wheel the screaming child out of the building; teachers and students looking outside their classrooms staring after them in curiosity.
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Elaine quickly walked around the receptionist desk, making her way to the screaming child and the two highly aggravated paramedical guys trying to control her. She quickened her pace when she heard the small blonde screaming for her sister and began kicking her legs and swinging her arms more urgently when one of men pushed her back down on the bed by the shoulders.
“Serena!”
The small blonde froze in mid strike as she was ready to punch out the guy who had just pulled her back down to the bed, stopping her escape attempt. The paramedics took advantage of her startled moment and quickly found the straps to the gurney and strapped the child down to the bed. Once Serena realized her predicament, she was about to start thrashing and screaming again, when she suddenly saw Elaine’s worried face hovering over hers.
Elaine chewed her bottom lip, seeing the deep gash upon the child’s forehead and she felt her hands clench upon seeing the bruises around the girl’s neck. She narrowed her eyes, looking upon Serena who was staring back at her with tear filled eyes. Elaine brushed away the tears with a hand and then pulled back Serena’s blood coated bangs from her eyes.
“What happened?”
Serena took a shaky breath as her bottom lip began to quiver. “Diamond…he started it.” She closed her eyes, expecting an outburst from the woman, waiting for the rain of insults and blows to the body like her father would have done. Though, she slowly opened her eyes to see that Elaine was looking upon her intently, deep concern flooding her eyes.
Seeing that the blonde had considerably calmed down, the paramedics took this time to slowly wheel the child towards the emergency room, with Elaine walking with them, still running her fingers through the blonde’s hair.
“Tell me everything that happened, Serena.”
Serena slowly nodded as she tried to steady her breathing. “It started when I first got to my classroom and my teacher told me to go to a seat she picked out for me. Well, when I was going to my seat, Diamond tripped me and caused me to fall and everyone started laughing…I told the teacher and she sent him to the Principal’s office.”
Elaine felt anger rising in her as Serena began to tell her the story, already wanting to give this Diamond boy a piece of her mind! “What happened next?”
Serena closed her eyes as she fully calmed her resolve and began to feel a dull ache in her head. “Well, he didn’t come back to class. Anyways, I asked the teacher if I could go to the bathroom, she said I could and that’s what I went to do. When I was leaving the bathroom, I saw Diamond coming down the hallway, so I started to go back in the bathroom because I didn’t want him to bother me. When I couldn’t see him anymore, I heard someone scream. I came out of the bathroom to see what was going on and Diamond was picking on a girl Amy from my class in the hallway.”
Elaine narrowed her eyes upon the name. “Amy? What is her last name?”
“I don’t know, but she has really cool blue hair.”
Elaine smiled; she knew exactly who Amy was. “So what happened after you saw that.”
“Diamond knocked the books from Amy’s hands and that’s when I told him to leave her alone! So he started pushing me and I kept telling him to stop. He then pulled my hair and I slapped him across the face…I didn’t mean too it just happened!”
Serena furrowed her brows at the memory, “He didn’t like that too much and shoved me into the wall. It really hurt so I head butted him in the face!” Elaine couldn’t stop her jaw from dropping, ignoring the sniggers the two paramedics made as they were too listening intently to the story.
“You head butted him?!”
“I sure did! He should have stopped when I told him too!” Serena frowned in distaste as she thought about the rude boy. “We were about to go at it again but the teacher stopped it. She told Amy to go back to class and she took both me and Diamond to the nurse’s office. When we got there, my teacher let go of Diamond to open the door and that’s when he tackled me to the floor and started choking me. I scratched his hands up and pushed him off of me. When he tried to run at me, I kicked him in the chest and he flew into the wall. I was really going to mess him up after that but my teacher held me back.”
Elaine watched as Serena’s frown deepen and could tell that the girl wasn’t satisfied with the outcome of the fight. She suddenly looked around her surroundings and noticed that they were now within the emergency room and was surrounded by nurses and doctors getting equipment to fix and clean up the blonde. She quickly grabbed a stool that was in the room and sat beside Serena, continuing to run her fingers through the blonde’s hair in a motherly fashion.
“Alright Serena, we will talk about this more later. Right now the doctor needs to look at you and see what they need to do.”
Serena shifted fearful eyes upon the nurses moving around her and the doctor who stood beside her, eyeing the wound upon her forehead, a clipboard held tightly in his hand.
“Are you going to leave me?”
Elaine’s felt her heart cracking, hearing the fear and desperation in the Serena’s voice. She took a hold of the child’s small hands into her own and held onto them tightly.
“I’m not going anywhere…”
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Darien grinned, taking a seat with his two best friends; Andrew and Melvin. Sitting in between the two, Darien picked up his slice of pizza and took a bite as both of his friends were hungrily devouring their own slices.
“I love pizza day!” exclaimed Andrew, mouth full and tomato sauce on his face.
Darien laughed, taking a bite from his own. “I know! This food is so much better than my last school!”
“Really?” questioned Melvin, fixing his thick glasses upon his face and taking a bite of his pizza.
“Way better!” exclaimed Darien, swallowing down a mouth full.
Melvin shifted his glasses once again, turning to his two friends. “Hey did you hear about that fight that happened before lunch?”
“What fight?” asked both Darien and Andrew in unison.
“I heard it was between Beryl’s little brother Diamond and some new girl in his class.”
“He hit a girl?” asked Darien a bit incredulous, though the surprise slightly dissolved…he was Beryl’s little brother and new he caused a lot of trouble...but… actually hitting a girl?!
The trio’s conversation was suddenly dropped as their classmate Beryl Kurotsuki suddenly stood from her seat, rage burning in her dark green eyes.
Andrew narrowed his eyes upon the girl he didn’t like in the least. “What is she up too?”
“Whatever it is…its trouble.” muttered Melvin. Darien’s eyes narrowed as well as he watched the girl leave from the table and head to another lunch table that contained another class. He watched as she came up to a boy that was happily chatting with a girl with wavy sea-green hair. Darien zeroed in on the boy’s appearance, suddenly struck with déjà vu as he caught sight of emerald green eyes.
“I’ve seen him before…” whispered Darien.
Andrew arched a brow, not understanding what the ebony haired boy had said. “What was that?”
Darien shook his head, not taking his eyes off of the boy who was oblivious to what was about to happen. He turned around fully in his seat to see more clearly when Beryl shoved the boy from behind, causing his pizza to fall to the floor and his milk to spill across the table.
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Amara was chatting merrily with Michelle, unable to believe that she was actually talking this much…and with someone she had just met to top it all off! The blonde picked up her slice of pizza and was ready to take the first bite, when she was suddenly shoved from behind. She fell into the table, shoving her lunch tray into her open container of milk, causing it to spill over on the table. Her pizza slipped from her hand, bouncing off the edge of the table, than falling to the floor with a splat.
Completely outraged, Amara whirled around in her seat, hands already balled up into tight fists and ready to strike. Her gaze landed on a girl a bit shorter than she, dark green eyes filled with silent rage and curly fire red hair that cascaded down her shoulders.
The blonde sneered upon the girl. “What’s your problem?!”
Beryl returned the sneer. “You tell your sister she just messed with the wrong person!”
Amara narrowed her eyes into slits. “What are you talking about? Serena wouldn’t mess with anybody!”
“Oh really? She sent my brother to the hospital right before lunch.”
Amara’s brows suddenly shot up in surprise. “Really?”
At Beryl’s nod, a small pout came upon the blonde’s face. “Man! I missed it!”
Beryl frowned, completely baffled. “You what?”
Amara shifted her eyes towards the red head with narrowed eyes, a smirk touching at her lips. “I said I missed it, Serena never gets into fights! Your brother did something that made her really mad so he deserved it.”
Beryl clenched her jaw, balling her own hand into a fist. “You just tell her she better watch her back!”
Amara leaned back against the table, her smirk deepening and an eyebrow arched. “Now why would I do that?”
“Because I’m going to beat her up.”
“No you won’t.”
“I won’t?” questioned Beryl, slightly appalled by this boy. Nobody tells her what she is and isn’t going to do! She was Beryl Kurotsuki damn it!
“Yep!” grinned Amara. “Because if you go anywhere near her I will pound your face in.”
Beryl’s jaw fell slightly agape and began sputtering. “Y-y-you can’t d-d-do that!”
Amara furrowed her brows in confusion. “Why not?”
“Because you’re a boy! You can’t hit me!”
“Who said I was a boy?”
The stunned expression on Beryl’s face was priceless. “Huh?”
“Well…since you seem to be slow, I’ll explain it to you! I’m a girl and I will pound on you until your whole face is black and blue if you touch my sister… and that goes for your brother too!”
A whistle suddenly sounded off, signaling it was time for recess. Amara reached down to the floor and picked her now inedible slice of pizza and tossed it on her tray. She stood to her feet, completely ignoring Beryl and turning her attention towards a very wide eyed Michelle.
“Come on; let’s go to the playground Michelle!”
Only able to nod, Michelle stood from her seat, retrieving her lunch tray and following after the blonde.
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Andrew abruptly turned from the stunned Beryl, looking at his friends with wide eyes. “Woah! Did you see that!?!”
“Yeah! That was amazing! No one has ever talked to Beryl like that!” exclaimed Melvin.
Andrew nudged at Darien’s shoulder playfully. “You need to hang out with her! Maybe she can get Beryl to leave you alone!” he laughed but he soon frowned as Darien didn’t acknowledge him. His eyes were locked upon Amara as she and Michelle walked passed them, emptying their trays and handing their trays to the lunch lady. They both made their way towards the double doors to go outside and Darien abruptly stood to his feet, picking up his tray that held his barely eaten pizza and quickly did away with it, hurriedly making his way to the doors.
“Dare! Where you going?” questioned Andrew, only receiving silence as his answer. He and Melvin quickly stood from their seats as well, following the lunch tray procedure and quickly tried to catch up to the boy.
Darien didn’t acknowledge his friends; all he wanted to do is talk to this Amara girl. If he was correct like he knew he is, then she is Serena’s big sister that he didn’t get to meet back at the orphanage. That would probably explain that feeling of déjà vu he had a few moments ago. Going through the doors that lead to the playground and scanning the area thoroughly, he spotted the blonde tomboy sitting on top of the globe shaped jungle gym with Michelle sitting beside her.
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Michelle ran her slender fingers through her wavy hair, shaking her head slightly before snapping.
“Are you insane!?”
Amara arched a brow, turning towards her friend. “What do you mean?” Michelle’s jaw dropped before snapping her mouth shut and placing her hands on her temples, closing her eyes and began massaging them for a few moments.
“That whole scene in the cafeteria! Do you know who Beryl is?!”
The blonde smirked, shrugging her shoulder. “Nope! All I know is that she isn’t going to touch my sister.”
Michelle sighed heavily. “I understand that but Beryl is not one to mess…especially Diamond. The youngest, Sapphire seems to be alright…but I really don’t know him.”
Amara huffed, rolling her eyes. “What’s so special about Beryl and Diamond?”
Michelle narrowed her eyes, staring off in front of her. “They’re crazy…”
Amara threw her head back, letting off a roar of laughter. “Is that all?”
“Wha…” Michelle’s eyes widened in disbelieve. “Is that all?! Beryl tried to drown a girl in the girls’ bathroom two weeks ago...and…and Diamond…he’s done some really messed up things… I hope you know this isn’t over.”
Amara shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. “Well they can bring it.”
“Hey!”
Both Amara and Michelle abruptly ended their conversation, turning towards a boy climbing up the jungle gym, two others not far behind him. The duo furrowed their brows as the boy who called out to them, stopped before Amara.
“Amara right?”
Amara arched a brow. “Yeah…why?”
“I’m Darien.”
The blonde narrowed her eyes at the name. “Darien?”
“Yeah…I met Serena back at the Orphanage.”
Amara smirked with a nod of the head in recognition. “So you’re the one she keeps talking about?”
Darien’s brows shot up in surprise. “She talks about me?”
“To the point that I had to tell her to shut up and that I would scream if she said another thing.” Amara eyed the boy as she saw the faintest hint of a blush touch at his cheeks. He suddenly turned away from her, looking towards the two boys that were quietly sitting on the jungle gym behind him. Turning towards Amara again, he pointed towards the brunette with glasses.
“This is my friend Melvin.” Amara gave the boy a nod as Darien pointed towards the blonde. “And this is my friend Andrew.” Amara arched her brow while taking in the boy’s features, noting that he looked rather familiar. Putting the thought behind her, she gave the boy a nod before shifting her eyes upon Michelle.
“This is Michelle.” The boys nodded towards Michelle as the girl smiled at them with a small wave of the hand.
Amara then turned her attention back onto Darien. “Serena’s going to be glad that I saw you.”
“I don’t want you to tell her you seen me.”
Amara cocked her head in confusion. “What? Why not?”
“Well…I want her to see me for herself.”
Amara nodded, not quit understanding. “Okay, I won’t tell.”
Darien grinned, “Thanks!” Bitting upon his bottom lip, he turned towards Amara curiously. “Have you seen Chad?”
Amara shifted her eyes towards her shoes with a hint of sadness within them. “No I haven’t.”
“Oh,” whispered Darien. “I’m sure he’ll turn up soon.”
Amara smiled. “Yeah...”
“Hey…not to interrupt you guys but recess is almost over and I would like to get a game of tag in before when have to go back to class.” Darien turned towards Andrew, who was grinning at him waiting for a reply, than to Melvin who was nodding his head in agreement.
“Want to play?” questioned Darien, turning back towards Amara.
The tomboy grinned, nodding her head. “Yeah!” she turned to Michelle. “Are you coming?”
Michelle returned the blonde’s grin, “Yep!”
“Great! Let’s go then!” exclaimed Andrew as the boy was already half way off the jungle gym. Darien and Melvin weren’t far behind him and as Amara began to descend, Michelle placed a hand upon the girl’s shoulder; pausing, Amara turned towards the girl questioningly.
“About what we were talking about earlier…just be careful around Beryl and Diamond…okay?”
Amara grinned. “I will and I can take care of myself…so quit worrying.” She reached out a hand to Michelle so she could help her down the jungle gym. “Now come on!”
Michelle gave a slight smile and nodded. “Okay.” She slipped her hand into the blonde’s and allowed the girl to help her down. Once the pair touched ground, they quickly darted off towards Darien and his friends.
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