- Chapter 2 -

The Bruise

Mercenary's POV

When the teacher started walking down the stairs, a girl on her phone pushed passed him. "I have to go to the restroom." I could hear her say and she walked off without the teacher's permission.

I rolled my eyes at how rude that was of her. I then felt someone's gaze burning at the side of my head.

So I turned to see who it was only to find Jason Scott once again, staring at me. I sat up straight and looked him in the eyes.

"What are you staring at?" I asked him with obvious annoyance laced in my voice. He continued staring and then responded, "How did you get that bruise on your jaw?"

He had completely ignored the fact that I was annoyed. Even though I did not feel like answering the question, it was him, his voice, he asked me which caused me to respond.

"I got into a fight. No worries the other person looks worse." I said to him then turned in my seat to look at the teacher as he was beginning to take roll.

And before Jason could respond in walked in the girl who went to the restroom, but now with short hair. Almost everyone in the classroom began to catcall her.

I ignored everyone, responded here to the teacher when he called out my name, put in my earbuds and drowned out the world. While doing so I read my book until the teacher dismissed us.

Once the teacher said we could leave I grabbed all my stuff and practically ran out of the class.

"HEY YOU GIRL WITH COOL HAIR!" Someone yelled behind me as I left Saturday school detention. I contemplated whether or not to turn around, and then I decided to just do it.

Thanks Nike for the good, but equally overused quote. As I turned I can see the girl who cut her hair short, after going to the restroom for a bit, running towards me.

Once she neared me she smiled. "Hey I just wanted to give you this you left it at your desk," she then handed me my notebook, " By the way my name's Kimberly Hart what about you?"

I quickly put my notebook in my backpack then saw she stretched out her arm to shake my hand.

Grabbing onto her hand I shook it, " My names Mercenary Williams, thanks for bringing my notebook." I told her sincerely.

I looked into her eyes and I could see a bit of confusion in them. "Wait, you name's uh Mercenary?" She asked I quietly sighed and nodded my head.

I then began to turn around to walk away knowing that I didn't want to deal with explaining the reason behind my name. Because not even I could explain it.

"Wait I was gonna say that it's a pretty cool name!" It didn't matter what she said because I continued walking away. "Really now if your words were written in a book I would be able to read your hesitation, goodbye Kimberly."

I continued walking home, but I then heard her boots slapping on the ground while she began to catch up to me. "What no, I was just caught off guard at how unique it is." she stated once she caught up to me.

"Look Kimberly it doesn't matter okay." I told her so she can leave me alone. "Okay my dad's here but how about I give you my number so we can hang out later on today?"

Instead of seeing this as a friendly gesture I saw it as a way to get her off my back. " Okay here." I said as I passed her my phone. She quickly typed in her number and sent a text message to herself.

"Okay I'll text you later." She stated then said a quick goodbye and ran towards where father was yelling for her to hurry up.

I could hear him arguing with her about her cutting her hair, but I ignored it. Turning around to continue the walk to my car, some tapped my shoulder.

"KImberly aren't you supp-" I stopped mid sentence once I turned around seeing Jason Scott and not Kimberly.

He had a huge smile on his face, "I'm not Kimberly." he told me. "Well obviously not." I told him with annoyance, was he trying to be a smartass or what?

As if sensing that it annoyed me he said that his smile instantly was wiped off and replaced with a frown. "Sorry, but I wanted to know who you got into a fight with." He told me while staring at the huge bruise on my jaw.

This caused me to frown, why does he want to know? But instead of asking him just that I said, "That's the thing I don't even know."

I turned around and continued walking he then began to walk next to me. "What do you mean you don't know?" He asked with pure confusion.

I stopped in my tracks and turned to him, "It means exactly what I said. I didn't know the person, but what I did know is that the person was a bully. And that I defended the person he was bullying." I turned again and continued walking.

"Wait he?" "Yes Jason, it was a male." He then grabbed onto my shoulder and stopped me from walking any further, "Okay I wanna keep talking to you, and apart from the fact that you keep walking away from me, my dad's here."

He then proceeded to take out his phone and passed it to me. "So I was wondering if you can give me your number and we can talk later, yeah?" And the fact that he was blushing while saying this compelled me to give him my number.

After I handed his phone back he waved goodbye and turned to run to his dad's truck. I then finally was able to complete the walk to my car, hopped in, and drove off listening to the radio.

Once I arrived inside my house I received a text message.

Kim :

Hey u want to hang out at around 7 if u can?

xo-Kim

Mercenary :

Yeah sure, where? ~M

Kim:

At the edge of the forest by the gold mines

xo - Kim

I stared at my phone for a bit wondering why she would want to meet there. So I thought that if I didn't agree I would never be able to find out, so I quickly responded.

Mercenary :

Okay see you there ~M

Kim :

K bye

Xo - Kim

Seeing that I had a few hours till I had to meet up with Kimberly I set up an alarm to ring at 5:30.

After eating and watching an episode of the show Bones, I fell into dreamless sleep on my couch.

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