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17. new friends

Nick POV

Fortunately, I was able to stop him before he got completely out of hand. I dragged him with me away from the others that were just leaving for home.
"What's wrong with you? You lost control!", I yelled at him.
"Shut up! That's not true! What's your problem?!", he finally screamed back.
"Clay, please, just-", I tried one more time to get him to see his senses.
"Nick", he smiled at me, "Everything is fine. Calm down."
I just bit the inside of my lip and turned around to go.

Clay didn't follow me. I guess he went home too. I walked over to George who looked at me scared but also angry and tried to crawl away from me.
"George, it's okay, I won't do anything to you, promise", I said, kneeling down to him with a calm voice.
"The guy from earlier said that too", he answered weak, "bevor kicking me into my stomach.
"Look, Clay is-", he cut me off.
"It's fine. I'm used to that"
He sounded so broken, I was so sorry for him.

We both didn't say anything for a few seconds and just looked away from each other.
"Can I", I eventually said", bring you home maybe? I want to help you."
"You're the nice guy, right?", he looked up to me.
I quietly giggled and then reached my hand to him. I grabbed his arms from behind and helped him up.

"Thank you, but I'll be fine."
"Sure?", I asked worried.
"Yeah, just- just make sure that Clay doesn't notice anything", he said through whining.
"What? About what?"
"That you helped me. He won't like that."
"Ouh, you know, he's so stubborn. Sometimes I want to give him a punch", I said while clenching my fist. He gave me a cute giggle and then slowly started to walk while he leaned against the wall.

"You sure you don't need help?", I asked, holding my hands ready to support him in case he fell.
"Thank you, it's fine", he smiled weakly at me.
Then I stopped and watched him make his way home. I was about to turn around and do that too, I heard someone running towards me.

Zak ran from the side to me and when he reached me he pushed me against the wall with my shoulders. "What the fuck man?!", I screamed, frightened.
"What the fuck man yourself!", he yelled.
I gave him a confused look while he pressed me against the wall even harder. "Ouch, bro, that hurts!", I shouted.

"What were you doing here with George, huh?", he eventually said.
Oops.
"You were helping him. What if I tell Clay?"
"Zak, calm down!" I slapped his hands off my shoulders and spread out in front of him. He hit me on the shoulder again before I pushed him away from me.
"You have no idea what's going on right now", I said.
He just gave me a bitch look. God, I hated bitch looks.
"Fuck off", I then just said and walked away.
"Clay won't like what you did!", he yelled after me.

George POV

Finally I made it home. I mean, I already was used to all that, so no reason to be sad or whatever. It was just a stupid phase after all. I can't believe I seriously thought that Clay had changed. Who knows, maybe he just wanted to play and now that's enough for him again. I just tried to forget that he was telling me he liked me and repressed thinking I felt the same way. It was so stupid.

It was Friday, the last day of the weak. On Monday, we would finally go back in our original classes.
"Last day with this class guys!", the teacher said right at the begin of lesson, "I think we have to do something special today, don't you too?"
Something special...oh hell.
"What do you mean with special?", one guy asked without even raising his hand.
"Well, I thought we could play something maybe", she answered, "first of all, you will be divided into groups"
Again....

"This time I'll just count you through and you will then go to the number assigned to you", she meant nicely. Then she counted us through from 1-6, so we would be groups of 4. I got number 4. Clay got number 2, luckily. I went to the place where the teacher said everyone with 4 should go. I was actually really lucky. My group consisted of me, Niki, another girl I didn't know, another boy I didn't know and Nick. Clay got in a group with 2 guys I didn't know and Carson.

"Georgeeeee!", Niki yelled happily while giving me a huge hug.
"Hey Niki", I giggled and hugged back.
I smiled at Nick awkwardly and he gave me a weak smile back.
The girl that I hadn't known had long brown hair and was wearing a short pink skirt and a crop hoodie.
"Hi, I'm Tina", she said, giving me her hand.
"George", I said with a smile and gave her my hand too. The guy I hadn't known was resting his head on the table.
"Karl", he said with a huge yawn.
"I'm Nick", then Nick said.

We had put 2 tables together and sat around them. Niki, Tina and I on one side, Nick and Karl on the other.
"Didn't sleep that much, huh", Nick said while patting Karl's back.
"You could say so, yeah", Karl answered before yawning again.
I sat between Tina and Niki. Niki wrapped her hands around me and gave a big smile.
"I like our teamwork Georgie", she giggled. I gave her a small laugh. "Yeah, me too Niki"
Georgie. Clay had called me like that.

"What do you think will we play?", Tina asked.
"Maybe who can sleep the longest", Karl yawned again. Nick patted his back again while giggling.
"Nick, you and Karl, do you know each other?", I asked.
"No, how did you get to that?", he answered.
"Ouh, nevermind"
He shrugged with his shoulders before leaning back in his chair relaxed.

"So guys, ready to play the game?", the teacher said exited.

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