No Escape

Chapter 29: You're A Curse

I'm walking up the school steps on the warm, tired, summer day of Thursday.

Later today is the dance.

The dance where Baltar may or may not show up.

The dance where hopefully everything ends.

And the Toomes family can finally stay in the past.

And not come haunt me from out of my dreams.

I fix one of my sleeves of my hoodie even though it's warm out, there are still visible scars I don't want anyone seeing.

I open up my locker and grab my books out.

Why can't I just have a normal high school dance?

I let out a sigh and close my locker shut.

"Hey dude!" Ned surprises me and I flinch. "Sorry."

I turn to face him with guilt on my face.

"No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to" I apologize as we start to do our handshake. "Where is everyone?"

"In the library talking about the dance" Ned informs. "Speaking of it, are you ready?"

I hesitate for a moment.

Am I ready to fight Adriens niece?

Am I ready to bring up my past and practically relive it just with his niece instead of him?

I mean I already fought her before but...now I know the full reason.

She wants revenge.

She wants to kill me.

I'm the one who put her uncle in jail.

I'm the one who took away Lizs dad.

I'm the one who took him away from his wife and sister and even his niece.

Do I deserve this?

I look down at the floor.

Do I deserve this to happen?

"Do I deserve this?" I ask above a whisper.

"What?" Ned questions.

"Do I deserve all of this? I mean I did put her uncle in jail. I took him away from his family" I state.

"Because he tried to kill you. Dude, you had a right to put him in jail! You shouldn't be double guessing it. He chose his life and had to pay for it" Ned protests. I look away from the floor to look at Ned, slowly nodding my head right as the bell rings. "Let's go to class."

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I practically almost fall asleep during English class.

I'm just so tired.

I only got around four hours of sleep.

Which is terrible if I'm going to be fighting Baltar.

Hopefully my adrenaline help keeps me going.

I sit down at the engineer table with Ned, waiting for Flash, Charles and Abe since we are allowed to talk with people during the project.

Mr. Waqok isn't here so we have another sub.

I put my head down on the table, in my hands.

"Are you ok?" Ned asks.

"Mhm" I nod my head.

Ned drops the topic as I accidentally drift off to sleep.

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