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I told Gerard about my conversation with Pete. He wasn't too happy about it. But it was too late now. I already agreed to it and I wasn't gonna go back on my word. I honestly don't see what the big deal was anyway. Pete was just gonna drop me off. It wasn't a real date...

After art class Gerard was walking me to gym. We were passing by the guidance office. I was trying not to look in the window. I hadn't seen Mr. Samuel all day. It was weird. Maybe Gerard was right about him avoiding us...

All of a sudden I spot Mr. Samuel. He's coming out of the office. In quite a rush too... Right towards us no less. I stop walking. Gerard starts muttering obscenities under his breath.

"You." He says pointing at us. "Both of you. In my office. Now." He says harshly. I look up at Gerard. He smirks a little. I nervously step forward towards the door.

"Not gonna happen."  Gerard says reaching out and putting his hand on my shoulder holding me back a little.

"You can either come in and we can discuss the situation like adults Gerard or I can have Mr. Bonner call security and have them escort you off school grounds." He says roughly. I just stared at him. "I told you I will not be bullied by your threats." He tells him pointing his finger in the air. What the fuck was he talking about? I looked at Gerard. He looked just as confused as I was. "Your choice Mr. Way." Mr. Samuel says as the bell rings.

I tugged him a little towards the office. "No Elle." He said quietly.

"Please Gerard... can't we just settle this once and for all." I beg him softly and he shakes his head and follows me in. Mr. Samuel shuts his office door. I sat in the chair I usually sit in. Gerard just stood next to me. I pulled his arm a little and forced him to sit next to me.

Mr. Samuel sat down at his desk and just looked at both of us. There was so much tension in the air it was choking me. There was a knock on the door. It opened and Mr. Bonner walked in. He shut the door and stood to side of Mr. Samuels desk.

"Where exactly were the two of you during lunch?" Mr. Bonner says looking down at us.

"We went for pizza?" I said nervously. What the fuck is going on? "Why?" I ask looking at both of them.

"Alone?" Mr. Samuel questions me.

"No we were with Ray and Laura." I say and Mr. Bonner looks over at Gerard.

"Ray Toro, Laura Halverson?" He says and Gerard nods. "I'll be right back" Mr. Bonner says to Mr. S and he walks out. I look over at Gerard. He looks just as confused as I do...

"Elle I want you to listen to me very carefully. Okay?" Mr. Samuel starts.

"I.. " I start to interrupt him and he holds his hand up.

"No Elle. You will listen to me first and then you'll have an opportunity to talk. Do you understand?" He tells me and I frown, but I nod a little. I was scared that if I argued back he'd throw Gerard out of school. Fuck... I know Gerard doesn't care. But Donna does. How am I gonna face her or Helen again if I get Gerard tossed out of school, by school security no less...

"Some one slashed my tires during lunch." Mr. S says plainly and Gerard smiled a little.

"I'm sorry to hear that." He said smirking a little. I nudged him.

"Gerard." I whispered. It was obvious they thought Gerard did it. Him taking delight in it just made him look more guilty.

"Do you know anything about this?" Mr. Samuel says looking right into my eyes.

"No!" I insist. He frowns a little. He turns to Gerard.

"I didn't fucking do it." Gerard laughs a little. I roll my eyes. Can't he try to take this a little more seriously?

"Elle I've exhausted all my options with you." Mr. S says sounding a little resigned. "I can't protect you from him unless you tell me what's going on." He says and I look at him a little confused. "Legally there is nothing I can do to protect you unless you admit there's a problem to me." He says and I shake my head no. "and if you continue to cover for him..."

"I am not covering for him..." I interrupt. "He didn't do it, he was with me I swear." I say insistently. "So can we go." I say starting to get up.

"Not until Mr. Bonner gets back... verifies your alibi." He says looking over at Gerard.

"Alibi?" Gerard scoffs a little.

"mm hmm I expected you to cover for him Elle." Mr. Samuel sighs a little, leaning back in his chair.

"I'm not covering for him." I say rolling my eyes a little. "You could even fucking ask the guy in the pizza place." I say shifting in my chair a little. "Anyway what makes you think that we had anything to do with it?" I say a little loudly.

Mr. Samuel opened his drawer again. He reached in and pulled out something and drops it on the desk in front of me. It was the book he gave me. It looked like someone ran it over... a lot... I mean pages were torn and it looked like it went through hell.

"I found this on the hood of my car." He says and I reach over and touch it.

"Is that the first book you gave me?" I say swallowing nervously. I open it up and sure enough on the inside cover is Mr. Samuels official school stamp. I look up and he nods a little. I look over at Gerard. He looked a little pale.

"Is that blood?" I hear Gerard say reaching for the book on the desk. Fuck. I didn't even notice that. The side was kinda stained red.

"I believe its jelly." Mr. Samuel tells him.

"Oh my god." I say starting to shake. Gerard picked the book up off the table and flipped through the pages, looking for... I don't know... I just sat there in shock.

"Elle.. this is a destructive relationship." He says pointing to me and Gerard. I shake my head no. He continues on, ignoring me. "He obviously has a problem with me helping you...I know you cant see it. I know you're scared. I'm telling you, you don't have to be afraid of him anymore. I can help you if you let me." He says and I look over at Gerard. He was staring off into the distance... "Don't look at him Elle...look at me." Mr. S and I look back over.

"Mr. Samuel I...I..." I was too shocked to speak...

"Okay Elle." He sighs a little. "I'm just gonna lay it all out there for you. You're a smart girl. I hope you'll make the right decision." He leans forward in his chair. "No one saw Gerard do it... no one heard him threatening me except you." He says giving me a hard look. "Unless you're willing to speak up I can not do anything to protect you... Do you understand?" He asks me and I just stare at him. "If you tell me that you're scared, if you tell me he's hurt you. I can help. I will protect you. I promise you that." He says and I bit my lip a little.

"Can I talk now?" I ask and he nods.

"Gerard's never hurt me." I say slowly so that he'd understand. Mr. S sighed a little.

"What happened to your arm Elle" Mr. Samuel nods at my arm brace.

"I was in a car accident." I say a little defensively.

"You told me you cut it." He says like he caught me in a lie. "You sat right there with your arm bleeding through the bandage and I told you to go to the nurse remember?" He says and I bit my lip.

"I did." I argue

"You didn't go to the nurse. I checked." He says and I shake my head a little.

"No I did..I did cut my arm... I cut it... not him." I say tearing up a little.

"You don't have to protect him Elle." Mr. Samuel says leaning forward. I could see Gerard shift out of the corner of my eye but I wouldn't break my gaze from Mr. S. I wanted him to know I was telling the truth.

"Gerard didn't hurt me." I say and he frowns.

"And the bruises?" He asks and I sit back a little.

'What bruises?" I ask knowing full well what he was talking about...the bruises I got from Brutus...

"You had some faint bruising on your neck the first time we spoke." He says and I shrug.

"I don't..." I didn't know what to say. I glanced over at Gerard. He was still staring off a little. "I fell." I mumble.

"And even now Elle. What is that mark on your neck?" He says I reach up and touch my neck where Gerard had bit me during lunch, covering it a little.

'It looks like it was bleeding." He says squinting at it a little. It was. Well I mean it did. He bit me pretty hard, drew a little blood. It was actually kinda hot...

"This was.. I mean he just bit me a little hard... he wasn't trying to hurt me." I stammer.

"So you're saying you liked it?" Mr. S laughs a little.

"What?" I say a little confused.

"You're saying you like it rough? That's where the bruises come from? You're into bondage?" He smirks a little.

"You motherfucker-" Gerard jumps up. I grab him.

"No!" I scream grabbing on to him, holding him back a little.

Mr. Samuel just sat there. "Well isn't that what you're trying to get me to believe Elle?" He says leaning back a little smugly. He'd love it if Gerard hit him. He'd be fucking expelled. That's for sure..."This is what I'm talking about Elle, you're covering for him." Mr. Samuel says rather smugly. "He has anger issues. He's angry with the fact that I'm trying to help you" He says and I shake my head no.

"No he's angry cause you keep twisting things around." I yell a little. "I didn't say I was into bondage and even if I was, I'm not comfortable discussing that with you." I say and Gerard relaxes a little. "And if you're gonna keep asking me questions about my sex life I'm gonna ask Mr. Bonner when he comes back for a new consular cause your making me really uncomfortable with your sexual harassment and shit." I say forcing Gerard to sit back down.

"Is it drugs?" Mr. S says loudly startling me.

"What?" I gasp a little.

"Is he giving you drugs Elle?" He repeats and I shake my head no... Fuck if anything I've been giving Gerard drugs...

"Is that what's going on here?" He says and I roll my eyes. "Darling, I cant help you unless you tell me." Mr. Samuel says and I sigh. "Look Michelle." He says and I look away. "Yes I'm taking a personal interest in you, but that's only because of Katrina." He says softly and I look up at him. He looked sincere. "I truly cared for your mother." He says and I feel my eyes tears up. "I wasn't there for her. I let her down. And I'm not gonna make that mistake again." He tells me and I feel my heart break.

"He's not giving me drugs. He's not abusing me. He's not nothing." I say a little exasperated.

"Elle this is a classic textbook case of abuse." Mr. Samuel says opening his drawer and pulling out a large book. "Its all right here." He says opening it up to a page he had marked he begins to read.  "Bruises and other signs of impact on the skin, with the excuse of  'accidents.' Depression. Outbursts of crying. Frequent lateness. Decreased attentiveness. " He carries on. I shake my head.

"Look Mr. Samuel I know you are new to this. I know you are trying to be what they tell you to be, but you can not force me into your book." I say making no sense.

"Elle." He says and I shake my head no.

"Why don't you close your book and look at me. Just me." I say getting a little loud. "Stop trying to make me into a textbook case. I'm not. I'm just me." I say. 'If you listen to me, instead of trying to analyze me with your books you'd see there's nothing wrong." I tell him and he frowns.

Just then the secretary lady walks in. She whispers something to Mr. Samuel. Mr. Samuel nods a little and then turns to us. "Well, your story checks out." He says condescendingly "You both are free to go back to your respective classes now unless you have something to say." Mr. Samuel tells us and Gerard shakes his head no and stands up. 

I just sat there. "Gerard I have to tell him." I said and he shook his head no. "I have to." I said pleading a little. Fuck they slashed his tires, they tore up his book.. and the fucking jelly... they saw us this morning...that's for sure...Who ever it was saw what happened and didn't like it anymore than Gerard did...

"Elle." Gerard gave me a look like no.

"Its okay Elle don't be afraid." Mr. Samuel says loudly.

"I warned Lia." I say to Gerard totally ignoring Mr. S. "Now I have to warn him its only fair." I say and he sighs a little and sits back down.

"Someone's been fucking with me." I blurt out and Mr. Samuel raises his eyebrows. "You know sending me flowers and crap, following me around." I say and he just looked at me. "A lot of things have went missing from my house, like that book." I say pointing at it. "and I don't know." I say looking over at Gerard. He was still staring at the book on the desk. I know it scared him. Fuck it scared me...

"And you don't know who it is?" Mr. Samuel says sounding pretty concerned. I shook my head no. "Have you gone to the police?" He asks me raising his voice slightly. I continue to shake my head no. "Why not?" He says in disbelief.

"She fucking wont go." Gerard says looking up.

"Elle." Mr. S starts to lecture me.

"I'm sorry okay, I'm sorry...." I say sniffling a little. "At first it was just not a big deal but now...." I sighed a little. "Look I'm real sorry Mr. S about your car and your book and-" I started to cry.

Gerard reached over and put his hand on my leg. I wiped the tears in my eyes.

"Elle you need to go to the police do you understand me?" Mr. Samuel says handing me the tissue box.

"And tell them what some crazed convict name C Hunter is after me?" I laugh a little in frustration.

"What?" Mr. S says sitting back. His tone totally changed. Gerard picked up on it too.

"C Hunter... do you know him?" Gerard asks. Mr. Samuel shook his head.

"No I never heard of him." Mr. S says shifting in his chair a little.

"How bout a N Walker?" Gerard says and Mr. S shifts again.

"Where are you getting these names from?" He says a little nervously.

"I found some of my grandfathers papers-" I start to say and Gerard squeezes my leg and I stop talking.

"You sure you don't know them?" Gerard says staring intensely at Mr. S.

"I believe I said I didn't." Mr. Samuel says defensively.

"If they're fucking trying to hurt Elle and I find out you knew something and didn't tell us..." Gerard jumps up and starts to yell pointing at him.

I jump up and grab Gerard's arm. "He said he doesn't know them, Gerard.. fuck just let it go." I tell him. Shit. Its like he's determined to give Mr. S a reason to expel him... I reach for my bag. "Fuck this is just pointless...lets just go
okay." I tell him and he frowns.

"He fucking knows something Elle." Gerard mumbles and I shrug. Yeah Mr. Samuel knows a lot of stuff about my mom. Its like pulling teeth though to get him to tell me anything... Now Gerard sees my frustration with him...

"Elle I think its best if you take your own advice and  just let this whole thing go too." Mr. Samuel says and I give him a funny look. "In my experience...I think its probably just an old flame, messing around with you." Mr. Samuel tells me. "Sometimes people let their emotions get the best of them.. Especially teenaged boys." He says and I look over at him like what the hell. He's doing a complete turn around. Isn't he?  "I think it would just be best for you to..." He paused a little. "Let the whole thing blow over Elle." He says and I make a face.

"You don't think I should go to the police anymore?" I ask and he shrugs.

"You could I suppose but I think the best way to deal with someone like this is to just ignore it...It probably and old boyfriend or some one you've turned down for a date." He says and I look over at Gerard. "Childish harmless pranks." He adds.

"But they slashed your tires..." I say a little confused.

"Typical adolescent behavior Elle." He shrugs. I felt like I was in a fucking alternate universe. Now the slashed tires are no big deal... before he was ready to fucking lock Gerard up for it... What the hell is going on? ... Mr. Samuel stood up and kinda pushed us towards the door.

"I think its best if you both just go back to class and never mention the name Christopher Hunter again." He tells us.
I'm about to walk through the door when Gerard stops and grabs my hand tightly.

"She never said his name was Christopher..."