A Wave Of Desire

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Ocean

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As I sat there, staring at my feet, I sighed in some sort of relief that this crazy and hectic morning was finally over. Yeah, it hadn't been a smooth morning at all. There had been so much that had happened that I couldn't say, at all, that it was a good morning, but it had its good points.

Now, though, it was time for all of us to leave and get to class. I was about to be the model student and show everyone, especially the teachers, that I wasn't going to be causing any problems at all.

The moment that I sighed, again, and got to my feet I felt someone pulling on my shirt. It made me think of that sort of fight I had with Justin last week. I say sort of fight because all he did was slam me into the lockers and I decked him in his ugly face.

This time, though, it wasn't Justin trying anything. It was just Makai pulling me in for a hug.

"What are you doing?" I wondered quietly as he wrapped his arms even tighter around me.

"I felt like you could use a hug. It's not been an easy morning, and you've been a target from so much of the bullshit.

"B..but you have been targeted too." I tried to point it out to him, but he just shook his head.

"I am still considered the new kid so it's not like it bothers me as much. You, though, you've known a lot of these people since you were little, you're the one being affected. That is why I am giving you some of my strength. You can have it all if you want."

With that, he pressed his lips to mine and slid his tongue into my mouth. He was kissing me passionately and deeply. It was like he was trying to make up for every negative thing that had happened to me lately.

I liked the kiss, I really did. But I couldn't really get into it too much right now because of the fact that Ben and Ryan were right there behind us, watching us. I didn't want them to feel uncomfortable or anything like that because of us, so I needed to put a stop to it right away.

The moment that I managed to push Makai away from me, I turned to look at Ben and Ryan. I didn't see the response that I thought that I would. They weren't looking at us with disgust or anything of the sort.

Honestly, I don't even know why I thought that they would, seeing that they were a couple as well. However, Ben was looking at us with a look of happiness, like he was glad things were working out for us, but he looked away the moment that I looked at him. Ryan, on the other hand, was looking at us with a goofy grin, like he wanted to kiss Ben like that, but the mood just wasn't there. It was like a grin of anticipation. That kind of embarrassed me a little but it also made me happy.

Were Makai and I really an example? Were we their relationship goals or something? That was a little odd to think about, but it was also a good feeling, just knowing that we were apparently that happy and loving with each other.

OK,I admit that, when I left the locker room, I had a grin on my face. I was floating on a cloud of euphoria and there was nothing at all that was going to make me come down.

Well, I thought that there wasn't anything that could bring me down, but I was wrong. Dead wrong. Because what happened just moments after I walked out of the locker room jarred me back to reality faster than the speed of light.

I was walking in the lead as we went toward our classes. Ben had just turned down a side hall to go to his class and the rest of us were on our way toward Coach Dickson's class. I didn't sense anything off at all, so I wasn't on guard for the attack.

Someone had been lying in wait for me. The moment that I walked past another hallway, someone darted toward me and tackled me through an open classroom door. I was about ten feet in front of Makai, who I had a feeling was daydreaming about the kiss we had shared in the locker room, so he wasn't right there to pull me out of the way or anything. Ryan, likewise, was walking a few feet behind Makai and didn't have the chance to try and intervene either.

The classroom that I crashed into with the attacker was empty, one of the only three or four classrooms that didn't have students in it at this time of day. While I was recovering from the tackle, the person who had attacked me stood and locked the door behind us. They also pulled the shade down over the window to block the view into the room.

It was then that I was able to see who had brought me into this room. Justin was turning around and glaring at me while I shook my head to shake off the crash that had caught me by surprise. It also didn't help that when I landed, my head had crashed into the teacher's desk at the front of the room.

"What the fuck, Justin?" I went to stand up, feeling a little unsteady at the moment. I didn't make it to my feet, Justin was at my side before I could. His fist slammed into the side of my head, and I went sprawling again.

I heard the sound of the punch reverberate through my head at the same time that I heard someone pounding on the door and screaming from the other side.

"OCEAN! OCEAN ARE YOU OK!?" The pounding was incessant. "JUSTIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" More pounding. "RYAN, GO GET THE PRINCIPAL, NOW!" Makai was frantic and scared. I could hear it in his voice.

"Oh, listen to that, Tinker Bell. Your boyfriend is worried about you. And he should be too."

Justin went to swing at my head again, but I managed to move out of the way just in time. Instead of hitting me, Justin's fist collided with the metal side of the desk.

"Ahh! That fucking hurt you damn pussy." He was cradling his hand against his chest as he glared at me.

"Good. It was no fucking picnic for me when my head hit that earlier so it's only fair that you hit it too." I was pissed and I wasn't about to take this attack without fighting back.

There was one problem, though. Justin was in a rage and would likely fight like an animal right now. I was far too rational to let myself become like that but that didn't necessarily put me at an advantage. He would be willing to do anything to hurt me.

As I thought about that, I watched Justin throw a desk toward me. I hadn't even seen him grab the damn thing. I think my reaction time was still a little slow because of the blow to my head.

I moved out of the way of the desk, mostly. It clipped me in my shoulder as I moved to the side. I felt pain begin to sear through my arm before the desk crashed into the whiteboard. Damn, that fucking hurt.

"OCEAN!" Makai had likely heard the crashing sound on the other side of the door.

"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON OUT HERE?" I heard an angry female voice that sounded like the German teacher, Mrs. Victoria.

I didn't have the chance to listen to what was going on out there, Justin was already throwing another desk at me. Was it just my imagination or was he stronger than I expected him to be? Was it just the adrenaline? I knew that could make it easier for him to throw the desks, but he was sending them flying at me, hard, with just one hand. Then again, they weren't exactly that heavy, since they were single person desks.

I was trying my best to avoid them as they flew one after the other. I avoided the second and third desks but the fourth one caught me on my side, and I fell to the floor with a loud cry of pain.

"Shit!"

"OCEAN!" I heard Makai call out again. How long have I been alone in here with Justin? It couldn't have been very long at all, but it felt like it was taking a long time to dodge all of these desks.

"Just where you should be, you fucking fairy. On your knees. I bet that is your favorite place to be, especially when you blow that bastard, Kai."

"What the hell do you want from me, Justin?" I yelled at him as I struggled to breathe, that desk had actually caught me more on my chest than on my stomach and it was clear that I had, at least, bruised a rib.

"To ruin your life like you ruined mine." He growled the words at me as he stalked closer to me.

"How do you get that I ruined your life? You did all of this, I never did anything to you, you fucking dumbass."

OK, maybe I should lay off the insults. I was still in a lot of pain and that just made Justin angrier. That anger was clear in the way that he sent his fist slamming into the side of my head again. Dammit, that ringing in my ears was back again.

I needed to stop him, to tackle him or something. I just needed to find the right time for that, the right opportunity.

"If you hadn't been the top swimmer, that position would have been mine. If you hadn't hooked up with Kai things would be different all around. Everything just went to shit because of your stupidity. You're so fucking stupid!" Justin was breathing heavily as he forced the words past his clenched teeth.

I saw him drawing back for another punch. He was going to hit my head again, but this was my chance. I sprung forward, with Justin this close to me it wasn't difficult for me to hit him right in his stomach when I leapt at him.

I tackled him to the floor, doing my best to pin him down. However, with Justin in a rage, he was able to call on his adrenaline for strength and I was having trouble holding him down. That, and he intentionally hit me in the side that the desk had hit, and that flare of pain caused my grip to slacken just a little.

Before I knew what was going on, Justin had flipped us over and he was pinning me down instead.

"Look at you, you fucking fairy. I bet you're fantasizing about sucking my dick right now, aren't you?"

"Not at all, you fucking moron." I spat the words into his face but he didn't seem fazed by it at all.

"Yeah, you are, I can see it in your eyes. You're a fucking freak."

Justin was getting closer and closer to me with every word that he was saying. His face was just centimeters away from mine and I was afraid that he was about to press his lips against mine. I so didn't want him to kiss me right now. That would just make me sick.

"I know what it is you want. I can see it. I can sense it. You're so fucking easy to read." He was still coming closer with every word. I could smell his breath and see every pore on his face. This was closer to Justin than I had ever been.. Please, don't let him kiss me.