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The Rise
Chapter 2

Chapter 2

It’s been a week since the confrontation between Danny and Willow. For some reason, Willow is acting like it never happened. I couldn’t stop thinking about the whole situation. What happened between Danny, Willow, and Summer?

“Hey, are you okay sweetheart? You haven’t touched your food.” Mom said, worried.

“I’m fine, just thinking about school,” I said, trying to avoid any further questioning from her.

“I’m not that hungry, right now, I’m gonna head to bed, goodnight,” I said with a yawn

“Okay, honey, goodnight.” Mom said

I went to bed and tried to go to sleep but I’m still thinking about what Danny said “I will be back.'' What the hell does he mean by that? The next day Connor and I walked to school together as per usual. Once we arrived we see Willow, Danny was there too harassing her with his buddies.

“Hey get away from her!'' Connor and I shouted.

“Make me,” Danny said, mocking us.

Connor ran at Danny but got stopped by Danny’s friends.

“You're not going anywhere,” one of them said to Connor.

They start to swing at Connor and he fell to the ground.

“No!” I yelled and started running at them. I tackled one of them off of Connor and started punching him. The other guy pulled me off him and started beating me up. I can hear Willow in the background begging them to stop it. I thought I was going to die right then and there. Suddenly I heard a voice

“Hey, pick on someone your own size!”

Some guy started running at Danny’s friends and started beating them up. He was throwing punches left and right, blocking their punches with ease. Danny’s friends got some hits on him but they didn't stand a chance against this guy. They started running away like little bitches. Blood is dripping down my face, I go and check up on Connor.

“Hey, you okay?” I said breathlessly.

Connor didn’t answer. Willow came to see if we were okay.

“He’s out cold,'' the guy that helped us said.

“Who the fuck are you?” I asked still dazed.

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“The name’s Jason.”

A teacher came out and asked us what happened, I explained everything to her. We went to the nurse and we were all sent home because of the fight. Except for Connor, he had to go to the hospital. I was laying in bed hurting everywhere, I hoped everyone was okay. Mom called me on the phone.

“Are you okay? I am heading home right now” she said worriedly.

“No Mom, it’s fine, I’m alright, just go back to work don’t worry about me,” I said consoling her.

“Okay, you’re still in trouble for getting into a fight.” She hung up the phone and I fell asleep. I woke up later with a massive headache. I didn’t have to go to school because of how much pain I was in, and since I was suspended. I called Connor to check on him. “Hey, are you feeling?”

“I’m fine, just bored out of my mind. There’s nothing to do here,” Connor said.

"Don't worry, you'll be out of there in no time, right? I'll talk to you later, you should get some rest," he said then hung up.

I went to the living room to watch T.V. I turned on the T.V. and the news came on.

“Breaking news, police have caught the man suspected of hacking into bank servers.”

I flipped through the channels to see if there was anything else to watch. I was interrupted by the doorbell ringing. “Hang on, I’m coming!" I yelled.

I opened the door and saw Jason on my doorstep "How the hell do you know where I live?" I asked baffled. How do people keep finding my house? Why do they keep showing up unannounced?

"Willow told me where you lived and I wanted to see if you were alright, after the fight and all," he said.

"Would you like to come inside?" I asked

"Sure, why not," Jason said.

He came inside, we sat down and got to know one another. Jason is a transfer student, he’s 6’4, used to be a boxer, at his old school, he was on the football team, he moved here because his parents got divorced.

"Why did you help my friend and I?" I asked

"I felt like I needed to, usually I don’t interfere with other people’s business, but you guys were getting your asses kicked,” Jason said.

"Well, if you didn’t step in as you did I would be in worse shape than I’m already in," I said thankfully. After our conversation we hung out for a little while, then he went home.

After about a week Connor got out of the hospital. I went over to his house to make sure he was actually okay. Willow and Jason were there too. After the fight, we all became good friends. From that point on we would always hang out together. A couple of days passed, and we were at school, sitting at the lunch table and just talking when we overheard something from the TV in the lunchroom.

“Breaking News Ronan, the man who was convicted of hacking into bank servers, has escaped prison and hacked into a government satellite, please seek shelter as soon as possible, he emitted some type of radiation and some of the satellites are crashing into the earth's atmosphere we will continue to report information as we receive it.”

All hell breaks loose in the cafeteria.

“Calm down, it's okay everyone, head to the band room!” A teacher yelled authoritatively.

The band room was in the basement of the school. So it was the best place for us to be during this scary event. Jason didn’t seem worried at all while the rest of us were scared out of our minds. We all sat down and huddled together in this tiny room. There was screaming and loud noises outside, I thought I was truly going to die this time. The teachers continued to try to calm us down when suddenly there was a huge explosion and everything went dark.