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Falling
ever going to get my phone I might as well just go. I walk over. The whole group goes silent. Derik, the big cocky one, smiles at me.
"Hey Lucy" Derik says as he sprays his axe in my face. I give . He walks up to me and puts his arms around my waist and pulls me into him. I try to pull away and he just holds me tighter. So I knee him in the place where guys really shouldn’t be kneed in. Too bad for him he shouldn’t have touched me.
"Don’t ever touch me again you freak. There are enough witnesses here that I could charge you with sexual assault. And my boyfriend will hurt you more than what I just did." I sign. I look to Seth for him to translate. He does. The group of boys move away from my locker.
"I am so sorry. I don’t even know why I hang out with them sometimes" Seth says
" Whatever" I sign. I open my locker then grab my phone and walk away. I so hope that he doesn’t fallow me.
"Hey! Wait up" Ug he’s going to follow. I don’t stop; actually I go a little faster. Unfortunately he catches up. "So what are you doing tonight? I thought that we could start getting you caught up. " I stop walking.
"Look, I told you before I am not putting any extra work into this. I’m not your friend, I wont ever be. So please just leave me alone. We only need to talk when need be." I sign. This kid is making me exhausted. I don’t know how to get rid of him.
"Ok then, I guess I could just let Derik and then do whatever they want next time cause I wont be there to stop them" Seth says. I search his face seeing if he is telling me the truth. He smiles at me, not a haha joking smile but a knowing smile like he knows that that is exactly opposite what I want.
"So you are telling me that you are going to be able to just sit there and watch them beat me up?" I sign. Oh yeah I got him. The smile disappears from him face.
"I guess im just saying..." Seth starts. He doesnt know what he was going to say cause i caught him on his bluff. Now what are you going to do Mr. Smarty pants. "Ok lets make a deal" oh man another deal/compramize, my favorite. "I will be there for you if you can learn your stuff. You dont have to be perfect at it but i just want you to try. Deal" Seth sticks out his hand. I might as well. He'll never leave me alone if i dont.
"Alright" i sign. I could have said no cause i know that he still would have been there for me to keep his goons away but i have nothing else to do so why not.

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