The Boarding School

-18-

I scream out loud, waking up from a nightmare. Arianna wakes, and looks at me in concern. I also woke up a few other girls, they were all staring at me.
"Sorry, just a nightmare" I say. They all nod and go back to sleep. I pull out my cell phone, 5:12am. I moan and lay back down, pulling my blankets up to my neck. Arianna stands up and tip-toes up to me and sits on my bed.
"You okay?" She says quietly. I nod. She nods back, then pats my shoulder, and returning to her bed. I go back to sleep.
A few days have passed, I got in a couple fights, been accused for killing Cassidy a couple times, tried calling Dad a few times, but almost every time, he said the same thing, 'stay there a bit longer, you're okay' I'm kinda getting tired of hearing that; I just want to go home. I still want to go home, it has only gotten harder to stay here.
Arianna and I were outside when a girl walks up to us.
"Whats wrong with you? Why the hell do you fight so much?" She snaps, standing there with her arms crossed, she looks at me with the evil-eye.
"What? Why are you asking me that?" I ask. She grouches and crosses her arms tighter.
"Strange things have been happening since you got here, I don't like it" She grouches.
"That's your problem, not mine" I say calmly.
"Don't be so rude to me" she snips. I sigh and roll my eyes.
"I'm not being rude, now stop bothering me" I say seriously.
"Tell me the truth. Why are you so mad all the time" She commands.
"None of your damn business" I say, getting ticked off.
"Tell me!" She hisses. I stand up, growling.
"Maddie..." Arianna says, trying to warn me.
"I don't have to tell you a thing" I growl. To my surprise, this girl was the one who did the first punch, dislocating my jaw. I scream and drop to the ground. Crying and gently holding my face.
"If you tell anyone that I did this, you're freaking dead" She snarls and runs away. I'm still kneeling on the ground, crying my eyes out, holding my jaw as the pain kills. I whine and cry, then try to push it back into place. I scream my head off, as the pain shoots up my face. My jaw still in the wrong spot, starting to bruise the whole side of my face. I continue to cry and scream. Arianna just stands there in horror, having a panic attack. Ms Perison comes outside and hears me screaming continuously, she runs over and gasps at the view of my face. I continue to scream and cry my head off, my tears soaking my cheeks, I keep screaming, starting to damage my vocal cords, hurting my throat.
"Maddie, Maddie! Come here, stop screaming for a second!" She shouts. I continue to cry and yell out, my eyes going red and stinging. She puts her hands on my shoulders and helps me stand up. I still cry, My jaw still shoved to the right. Arianna just watches. I start screaming again. She starts walking me back towards the school. I cry more.
"It's gonna be okay" Ms Perison whispers. I cry more. Arianna follows us inside. Ms Perison opens the front door and I slowly walk in. A couple girls walk past and gasp when they see me, then running away.
I sigh, but keep crying. Ms Perison scurries into her office and grabs her purse and comes back into the foyer.
A teacher walks in, then stops, just staring at my face.
"Ms Quinn, I have to take Maddie to the hospital, please take care of things till I get back" Ms Perison says quickly. The teacher nods and walks away.
"Come with us too, please, Arianna" Ms Perison says. She nods and follows us outside and we get into Ms Perison's car. I try calming down, but I continue to cry and whimper. Ms Perison just looks at me in concern and starts driving faster. I start closing my eyes, the pain so severe. We finally make it to the hospital. Ms Perison helps me get out of the car. We enter the E.R. The nurse jumps when she sees me.
"Come come, you need medical assistance right away!" She says and brings me into a hospital room and sits me down on a bed. Arianna and Ms Perison take a seat in the chairs beside me. The nurse hurries into the hallway.
"Arianna, do you know how this happened?" Ms Perison asks Arianna. I look at her with worried eyes. She hesitates and shrugs.
"Maddie, just nod if the answer is yes, did a girl at school do this to you?" She asks. I slowly nod my head, my eyes still very teary and the pain is still horrible.
"Who?" She asks. I shrug, just as a doctor walks into the room. He was quite calm when he saw me, almost like he was used to seeing stuff like this. He walks over to me, putting rubber gloves on his hands. He walks over and gently puts his hand against my jaw. I flinch as I feel more pain.
"This is pretty bad, how did this happen?" The doctor asks strictly, looking at Arianna, making her feel intimidated.
"She... she was punched" Arianna says quietly. He nods and looks at my face again.
"Hold on, take a very deep breath" The doctor says. It makes me nervous, but I take a deep inhale, feeling the air enter my lungs. He looks at me, then pushes very hard on my jaw, pushing it back into place. I scream at the top of my lungs, the loudest scream I have ever done. This was the worst pain I have ever felt in my whole life. I scream, everyone covers their ears. I cry lots more. Ms Perison stares at me in concern, looking into my crying eyes. The doctor just looks at me. I screamed so loud, I hurt my trachea and I cannot speak. I cry some more.
"I think I got it back in the right spot. We should get some X-rays" He says. I nod and follow him into a room with x-rays. He makes me lay down on a table and carefully puts some holders on my head so I won't move. He takes the x-rays, then returns me to the room I was in before. I sit back down on the bed and leaves the room.
"Maddie, I have called your father. He is on his way here" She informs. I nod and cry again. The doctor comes back with the x-ray sheets.
"It's pretty bad, but it should heal in a few weeks. She has pieces of her jaw broken off, but that should heal" He says. He opens my mouth, putting some metal brace over my teeth, and a brace over my head, supporting my chin. I whine. Arianna giggles from the brace on my face. I sigh.
Dad suddenly walks into the room.
"Daddy!" I say in excitement, running up to him and hugging him tight.
"Honey what happened to you?!" Dad says in concern, still hugging me, rubbing his hand down my long hair.
"I...." I squeak, then remember I lost my voice.
"How did this happen?" Dad says sternly to Ms Perison and Arianna.
"She was attacked at school" Arianna says quietly. I start crying once again, dad pulls me in closer, hugging me tighter. I sniffle and wipe my nose off with my sleeve.
"She's coming home with me. I will stop at the school so I can grab her stuff, then we're going home" Dad says hoarsely. Ms Perison frowns, then nods. The doctor walks over to dad and I.
"No solid food for two weeks, and go to a couple check-ups to make sure it's healing correctly. It should be healed in about a month. Don't take the support out of her teeth and don't take the brace off her head till the month is over, or when a doctor tells you to.
"Okay. Thanks" Dad says. "Ms Perison, I think its best Maddie never goes back to your school. Her getting hurt like this, by the other students, how could you even let this happen? Its disgraceful. I wish I realized before that she didn't belong there. Good day to you, Ms Perison" Dad says roughly, and walks out of the room, holding my hand and leading me out. We walk out to the car. I slump into the passenger seat. Dad gets in and starts driving.
"Honey, I'm so sorry. I didn't want any of this to happen. I know you said you were getting in fights, having issues with the other girls, and wanting to go home, but I never listened, and I'm sorry" Dad says, full of guilt. I just grump and stare out the window. Dad drives back to the school. I lead him into the school and into the bedrooms. I pack up my things and stuff it all into my suitcase. Dad picks it up and we come back out to the car. Dad puts my stuff in the back, then helping me into the front passenger seat, and then getting in and turns on the ignition.
"Let's get away from here" Dad says in a deep tone, then starts driving. We start driving down the very long driveway of the school. I see headlights in the distance, speeding towards us. The car then pulls out right In front of us. I force out a scream.
"BEEEEP! SCREECH! CRASH!"