Why him? - Montgomery De La Cruz

Chapter 45

Ella Emblen and Scott Reed both walked into the cafeteria side by side with grins on their faces as they laughed about the conversation they had just had together in their last class which was maths, the two of them couldn't be bothered to do the work that day so they had basically just talked about a bunch of different thing, ella trusted Scott with her life and they had gotten even closer than before over the last few months and she saw him as her best friend and she knew that he didn't agree with any of the stupid stuff that the baseball  team did and that just made her like him even more. During their math lesson she had told the boy about what had happened at the pool earlier between her, Zach and Alex and while Scott tried his best to hide it, he was fuming. 

Scott felt incredibly bad for Alex but that still didn't give Alex a right to talk to the girl in the way that he did. Ella could tell Scott stuff that she couldn't tell Monty, not because she didn't trust him, because of course she did, she trusted Montgomery more than anyone else in the whole world, but she could tell Scott about other things because she knew he would be able to control it and himself better, for example right now.

Ella and Scott begin to walk between the tables that were occupied with students eating their lunches and as Scott looked around he finally spotted Alex and Jessica sitting together at a table talking and Scott took it in himself to glare daggers at they boy and jess and Alex looked at him with questioning yet worried looks on their faces. Scott raised his hand in the air and formed his hand into a gun and he pointed it at Alex and moved down his thumb to make it look like he was shooting the gun. Alex looked at the boy uncomfortably before quickly looking back down at the table 

Ella didn't notice what Scott had done because she was to busy looking over at Montgomery who had a smile on his face as he grinned towards her and his best friend and waited for them to get to the table. They continue walking and as soon as they get to the table Montgomery slides over to make enough room for the pair to sit down at there table. Ella sits next to Montgomery and then Scott sits down next to her

"what were you two talking about" Montgomery questions in general curiosity and throws his arm around the girl and pulls her into him and places a kiss on the side of her head before pulling away 

"Just random stuff" The girl replies and places her bag on her lap and begins to pull some lunch out of it for her to eat and then looks across as Zach with a grin on her face "Jesus Z, do you need anymore fruit loops?"

Ella grins as she spots 4 empty fruit loops cups in front of Zach and he had another one in his hand that he was eating 

"Im hungry Els," He pouts but she just smiles at him 

"Gotta keep enough energy to be the best basketball player" Ella says with a smile and then unwraps her Nutella sandwich and takes a bite out of it one half and notices Montgomery staring at the other so she slides one half over to him which he happily takes and begins eating it

"Thank Australia for their holy spreads" Montgomery says with his mouth full of food which makes ella get a disgusted look on her face but she grin anyways and laughs, happy to see him happy

Montgomery looks over around the room and notices how Alex was staring over at their table "Your boy keeps looking at you Zach. Does he need his diaper changed?" He asked with a grin and a small chuckle and ella elbowed him in the arm while Bryce and Scott chuckled too but ella and Zach didn't 

"shut up Monty" they both tell the boy and ella lets out a sigh before leaning into Montgomery and he gave her a soft smile but he noticed Zach staring at Ella which made him want to get under zachs skin "what, arent you going to go and take care of him? you know its normal for nurses to fall for their patients"

"Fuck off! i don't even like him okay" Zach says and he looks down in guilt as he notices the look that ella was giving him, she knew he cared for the boy and she couldn't see why he wouldn't admit it 

"Right. its just your mum who makes you carry his books and wipe his ass" Bryce says with a laugh and they don't notice the looks that they were getting from Jessica from across the room

"No the ass he does for pleasure" Montgomery laughs and ella lets out a scoff

"Hes a really nice kid and he is just going through some shit at the moment" Ella tells the and rolls her eyes 

"come on babe, he treated you like shit before the freak decided to shoot himself in the head and he is still treating you like shit, i heard about what happened in the pool, one of the guys were there and heard the whole thing" Montgomery says to her and she just looks down at her hands and begins to play with her fingers so he takes one of her hands in his own and brings it up to his lips and places a small kiss on her delicate skin before intertwining their fingers and pacing their locked hands on the table 

And Ella watched as Zach looked down at the table in guilt and she knew something was going on that she didn't know about. Zach wasn't like this, so ella made it her own personal mission to find out what was really troubling the boy