"Okay so..." Cyrus tries to explain some math problem to me, and I zone out.

It's been like a week since the fight, at school and my mom is looking for a lawyer already.

I can't focus on anything, I'm paranoid.

Jason and Derek aren't suspended anymore so there back at school, which resulted in me getting a black eye, them getting matching one's thanks to Buffy, and Leo cowering in there shadows again.

Jade won't stop texting me and I won't even bother to look at the messages because I don't want her to get to me again, I'm done with drinking and all that.

I'm just trying to get my life back together.

Like Cyrus said, I just have to think positive...which is really hard.

He makes it look so easy how he can just walk around with a smile on his face, even though his parents are fighting over him. He still manages to keep his self and everyone else around him happy and I'm like, how?

I'm not complaining though, I'm glad he's in my life he makes me happy.

I think that's something positive, I just thought positive...Yay!

"Why are you smiling?" Cyrus speaks and I blink away my thoughts, focusing in on his smiling face.

"Because of you" I sigh.

"Me? What'd I do?"

"You just being you"

"Are you drunk?"

"No" I roll my eyes.

"You sure?"

"Yes"

"You sure, you sure?" Cyrus's smile grows.

"Don't you dare do the thing where Spongebob kept asking Ms.Puff if she was sure at the boating school thing in that one episode" I groan.

He laughs, and I feel my cheeks heat up when I stare at him.

My phone buzzes in my pocket and I pull it out to see a text from, Jordan.

My smile quickly fades as I click on it, opening it.

He hardly texts me. Why is he texting me now?

"Who is it?" Cyrus asks and he crawls behind me and he rest his chin on my shoulder as he looks over onto my phone.

He Who Shall Not Be Named: If I were you I would call off the lawyers Bicycle, you're just gonna make things worst I mean you don't want to see your wittle boy toy hurt. Would you? By the way Jason and Derek owe me a few favors so I advise you stay away, have a nice day.  Xoxo- Jordan

I place my phone back down and I stare at the ground with wide eyes.

"Don't let him get to you, we-"

"Don't you dare say we have a Buffy" I hiss and I stand up pacing back and forth in my room running my fingers through my hair.

"I wasn't, I was gonna say we have nothing to worry about he can't hurt us, he's probably just saying the to get into your head. Which you're letting him do"

"The big word there is probably Cyrus, he's going to hurt you. Who cares if he hurts me, he wants to hurt you. I can't, I don't want anything to happen to you, you're like all I have next to my mom and I can't lose you"

"Calm down, take deep breaths" He grabs my shaking hand into his and he guides us to sit down on my bed. "Nothing is going to happen to me"

"You can't predict the future" I whisper.

"And you can't either, but think positively you thinking negative all the time isn't going to help anything, it's just going to make it worse. Like look at you right now, your hand is still shaking, calm down."

I start taking slow deep breaths, now I just have to keep Cyrus away from Jordan, Jason, and Derek.

That doesn't seem so bad...no it is it totally is, how am I supposed to avoid all three of them?

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I walk to my locker all alone, paranoid looking around the halls. Watching the kids make there way to lunch in the middle of the school day.

It's going to be okay.

I repeat Cyrus's words in my head, before I open my locker just to get it shut right back into my face. I shut my eyes quickly hoping not to see any of the three guys that I'm avoiding.

"I'm n-not going to h-hurt you" I open my eyes at the shaking voice to see Leo playing with his sleeve and looking at the ground.

"Just here, because J-J-Jason and D-Derek are pl-pl-planning-" I cut him off by placing my hand on his shoulder.

"I used to be nervous, and I still kind of am when it came to talking to people I didn't really know. I know how you feel, so just take a deep breath I won't hurt you" I give his shoulder a slight squeeze and he takes a deep breath.

"They're planning on doing something to Cyrus in the lunch room" He whispers looking away from my gaze. "I'm not supposed to be telling you this, I have to go before they get suspicious"

"Don't" I stop him before he turns away. "I always wondered, why do you stand behind them and watch them do what they do if you know it's wrong?" I ask.

"Jason slaps me if I don't listen, so just think about what he w-would happen if I told on them"

"I know exactly how you feel" I sigh, referring to Jordan. "Go find Andi's locker she's most likely there and get Buffy she's most likely with her and meet me in the lunch room" I tell him and he nods before he rushes away and I rush into the cafeteria finding Cyrus pinned up against the wall by Derek.

I run over yanking Derek back by his hoodie, and I feel arms wrap around me and I turn to see Jason.

I didn't think this all the way through.

"Bicycle" Jordan appears in front of me bouncing a milk carton. "You got my text right?"

"Leave me alone" I hiss wiggling around.

He smirk and laughs "Nope" He walks over to me and runs his hands through my hair.

"What is going on here!?" I hear a teacher's voice and Jason let's go of me and Derek slowly lowers Cyrus to the ground.

"Nothing just playing around" Jordan lies.

"I'm not stupid, I heard about you Mr.Pickleson and what happened in between you and Mr.Beck. You're coming to the office with me and so are you two" The teacher walks over and guides Derek, Jason, and Jordan out of the lunch room.

I run over to Cyrus and he wraps his arms around my waist burying his face into my chest.

Buffy, Andi, Marty and Leo walk over to us.

"Pickleson?" Buffy snickers and Marty smiles.

"Not the time for jokes, I've never seen Cyrus like this" Andi says and we all focus on the shaking boy in my arms crying into me.

The lunch room grows louder as know one is interested in our drama anymore.

"I know an empty classroom we can go into" Marty speaks.

"Well let's all go there" Buffy says, and we leave the cafeteria.

"Cyrus I can't walk like this" I whisper into his ear, as I'm basically waddling with his feet dragging across the floor in between my legs.

"Carry me" He mumbles and I stop and groan waiting for him to get on my back, so I can give him a piggy back ride.

He gets on my back hiding his red face in my shoulder and we catch up with the other four.

"I swear when I see those three again-"

"No violence" Andi cuts Buffy off from her little rant.

"Unless it's necessary" Marty says.

"What classroom are we even going to?" Buffy asks.

"Mr.Green, he's my uncle" Marty shrugs.

"Wait what!? The math teacher is your uncle? Can you ask him to give me a higher grade then?" Andi asks.

"You have a B" Buffy sighs.

"And an A would look even better" She smiles.

"But then your grade would be better than mine, and then I would have to work harder to go from an A to a perfect 100" Buffy argues.

"No you don't" Andi groans.

"Yes I do, my grades are higher than all of you guys I have an A in all of my classes" the biggest smile grows on her face.

"Not all classes, you have a B in science" Andi says.

"I-I have a-a-a perfect 1-100 in sc-science" Leo stutters.

Buffy comes to a screeching halt and she turns quickly to glare at Leo. "Excuse me?"

"You can't win everything" Marty grabs Buffy and turns around kissing the top or her head.

"I wish I could" I hear her mumble.

"I know" Marty says quietly.

We keep walking and I start hearing snores in my ear.

Great, he fell asleep.

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Sorry for not posting Saturday, but don't worry I risked getting caught and wrote half of this chapter in class...you're welcome.

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