I glanced around the library before, I laid my head back into Eva's lap. She pulled her fingers through my hair. "When's your brother getting here Ams?" I crossed my ankles and looked up at her.
"I'll text him again, he probably got eaten up by the crowd in the cafeteria." I went to grab my phone, but Feri entered the room before I opened my messenger. My girlfriend's hands dropped from my hair.
"Oh shit." Eva held her wide framed glasses in one hand, the other one she used to force me to look at my brother. I raised my eyes away from my reffet. I recoiled in horror at what someone had done to his face. I sat up and stared. He had a bloodied lip, bruises stung deep onto his face and neck, his eyes were puffy and uncomfortably swollen.
"Feri what the fuck happened to you?" I was sure my dad would have noticed if he came to school like that. He shrugged at me as I tried to search his face for answers.
"You don't have to tell us." she shrugged back at him as I thought that he did in fact have to. "I could message Sam and ask them if they heard about it." Sam. Sam was Eva's baby sibling, they always knew what went on, even before the perpetrators knew about it. She pursed her lips and opened their contact.
"Please don't call them." he was kind of whining at us. He fumbled with his sweater sleeves before muttering an answer. I heard the last syllable of those names ring out. I felt my jaw clench, I stared at the tired eyes that had been argumentative and feisty this morning.
"Fucking. Gris." I growled.
"Him and his fucking clowns are assholes Feri. Don't let it bother you." She put her hands back propping herself up.
"NO. I'm done, I swear they've been assholes since kindergarten, and now they've really done it." I got to my feet and helped Eva. Eva's really tall, and I seem to forget that.
"Ami no. They'll expel your ass." Eva grabbed onto my sweatshirt.
"Then after school on the walk home when he's by himself." I was happy I had the last lunch of the day, meaning I had three periods left before I got to avenge my brother,
"Let's focus on getting your turtle of a brother, into the nurses office" Eva's voice had quieted down seeing as my brother was retreating into the top of his sweater so I could see his belly.
"Yeah let's do that." We made it to the nurses office. It was a tiny grey room with filing cabinets. Nurse Amy sat behind the desk next to the door filled with supplies.
"What?" her nasally voice rang through the tiny office.
"Um, my brothers hurt."
"Has he eaten lunch yet?"
"N-no but he got beat up."
"He can have a cough drop after he eats lunch."
"Ma'am." Eva but in, "He's bleeding and bruised he needs ice." The nurse gave out an exhausted sigh.
"Fine." She pushed away from the desk and waddled her whale body across the room to the freezer. She came back out with a band-aide and a fish-shaped plastic ice-pack. "How did this happen." she didn't really seem to care if he answered or not.
"Tyler, Aiden, and Gris, they snuck up on me in the CCTC Hall." He sighed as he held the pack against the bruises.
"You shouldn't hang around them then." I saw the confusion hit Eva's face as she licked her lips. Feri rolled her eyes and I just kind of looked at her funny.
"They're in the same class and he can't avoid them." the bitch mmhmm's me and tells us the adult 'professional' way of saying get out. I sighed and used this as extra fuel for my fight later.