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“So your name is Stiles, is that right ?”
“No, it’s Styles. S T Y L E S, like style but with an s at the end ?”
“Isn’t that what I just said ?” Harry passed a hand through his hair and bit his bottom lip. He didn’t come here to argue. He really needed this job and most importantly, he needed the money. So if the school director wanted to call him Stiles, well then he’ll let him.
“So tell me, why you think you’d be the ideal pick for this position as a school nurse, mr Stiles ?” Harry tried not to cringe at the sound of the name his, hopefully new boss, was giving him.
“Well in all honesty -“
“Excuse me sir, we need you in the cafeteria there’s a fight that’s about to break out.”
This couldn’t be happening at the worse moment, right when he was going to nail the job with the made up speech he had prepared in his car while driving here, a school fight had to break out.
The odds were not in his favour.
“Well excuse me, sir I’ll have to leave you. Make sure to leave your credits on my desk and i’ll see what we can do.” Mr Cowell, the high school principal stood up and left the room, leaving Harry and who he thought was Cowell’s assistant, alone in his office.
“It happens all the time, you know.” Harry kept staring at her. The girl was pretty, he had to admit that and if he was straight he’d probably have gone for her.
But he’s not straight so…
“Also don’t worry about Simon, he’s usually like that with the newbies. But inside he’s a real teddy bear all you have to do is smile and bring him coffee and his favourite donut in the morning and he’ll love you forever.” The girl, whatever her name was, started giggling probably finding the fact that bribing her boss with caffeine and sugar was a laughing matter.
In other circumstances, Harry would have probably shared the laugh with her but now he still didn’t know if had gotten the job he needed so laughing wasn’t on his top priorities right now.
Probably seeing that Harry didn’t find her little rant amusing, the assistant stopped laughing.
“Im Kendall by the way.”
“I’m -“
“Harry, I know. I’m the one who read your resume before handing it to Simon.” As if she was proud of her act she laid a hand on Harry’s shoulder and squeezed it.
Ok, now Harry was uncomfortable. He stared at where her hand was, which in his opinion wasn’t meant to stay on his shoulder that long.
“Well I think I should go. I still have other schools to visit.. If you know what I mean.” Not waiting for an answer he stood up from his chair took his coat and bag and headed for the door.
“Don’t worry, Harry you’ll get the job. I’ll make sure of it.” She ended her comment with a wink and then stood up as well.
Forgetting all signs of politeness, Harry didn’t wait for Kendall to pass the door, but took his chance and left the office as quickly as possible.
Finally outside the office ground, he took a minute to breathe. One side of him wasn’t sure he wanted to be taken by this school because of the principle’s assistant and the principal himself, but his other half reminded him that he needed the money and among all the other schools he was visiting, this school paid the best.
Talking about other schools the meeting took way longer than he had predicted, which is funny because he didn’t do much at all. Harry stared at his watch, if he ran out of the school and broke every driving law he knew he’d be on time at his next job interview.
He’ll have to take the chance. Directing himself next to the nearest exit, he started running in the hall.
“No running in the hallways !”
“Yeah well i’m not a student so I don’t care !” Harry answered back turning around while running to give the, what looked like a teacher, a smirk.
Thinking about it now he really shouldn’t have done that because two seconds later, he felt a big weight slamming against him throwing him onto the school floor.
“Oh my god I am so sorry !” Harry quickly stood up rushing to the student’s side, who had been also thrown on the floor.
“ Did I hurt you ? I did, didn’t ? It’s totally my fault I know that we shouldn’t run in the hallways for this exact re-“
“Can you shut the hell up ?” The student, who was now a rude student in Harry’s book, quickly lifted his hood onto his head. Not quickly enough because Harry had managed to see the bruises on his face. Stopping the boy on his acts, Harry rapidly removed the hood off the boy’s head.
“Woah, I hope I didn’t do that to you did I ?” The boy didn’t answer, he frowned and then casually like if Harry hadn't said anything tried standing up.
But as he moved a flash of something passed through the boys eyes and he hissed in pain clutching his stomach.
Harry frowned, that wasn’t normal. Seeing the worry on Harry’s face the boy quickly stood up, not without wincing still clutching his stomach in pain.
“If you want I can take a look at that. I’m a nurse and I know signs of injuries when I see them. And judging by your face and the way you’re holding your stomach, it looks like you got into a fight and lost.. which cost you, I think.. a broken rib.”
Once again the boy didn’t answer. He painfully took his bag from the floor and proceeded to continue his walk in the hallway.
Harry knew he should just let it go. Turn around and just leave.. let the school deal with it. But there was something about that boy.. He didn’t know what it was but he couldn’t just let him go. Without thinking about it he ran after him.
Without thinking about it he grabbed the boys arm and turned him around.
“I mean it. If you don’t want my help, I get it.. you don’t know me so why the hell would you listen to me but.. get some help before it gets bad. But my offer is still on.. I’m a nurse I could help you. My stuff is in the car.”
Not surprisingly the boy did not answer and kept avoiding all eye contact. He tried to release his arm from Harry’s grip but Harry meant business, no way was he letting this injured boy run away. He wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if he did.
“I’ll have to report you to the principle if you don’t want to listen to me.. Maybe you’ll listen to him.”
All of a sudden the boy finally looked at Harry. There it was, the factor that had made Harry stay and chase the boy down. There it was, that look in the boy’s eyes… Those eyes that seemed so bright and warm once a day, were now dark and voided of any kind of light in them.
“Don’t tell the principle. I’ll come with you.” So he speaks. Harry released a breath he didn’t know he had been holding.
“Ok, follow me then.” Harry eyed the boy suspiciously at any moment the teenager could decide to ditch him and run for the nearest exist.
Weirdly enough he didn’t. Soon after that they reached Harry’s car. Quickly opening his trunk he took his emergency bag that he carried with him everywhere.
He looked at the boy standing next to him. He had lifted his hood back on and his head was facing the floor. But every few seconds he would look up and look at his surroundings..
“I’m not going hurt you, boy. I’m only here to help. When I’m done, you’re free to go.” As he had predicted the boy didn’t answer.
“Here, let me take a look at your face.” The boy eyed him suspiciously. Harry chuckled, teenagers.. he thought.
“I won’t hurt you promise.” He saw the boy hesitate for a second and then finally giving in, he took his hood off.
Seeing the boy’s face in the sunlight he could now see how pretty the teenager boy was. His tanned skin matched perfectly with his raven hair and dark eyes. And those lips.. they were just asking to be kissed… Yeah, the boy was gorgeous.
Harry shook his head a little. The boy was a teenager.. he couldn’t think about a teenager that way. Especially if he wanted to work with them.
“Ok so yeah you should get stitches on your.. your lips two or three should be fine.. it’s nothing major. And then for your eye… well you’ll have a black eye for a couple of days. When you go to the hospital…” Harry stopped when he saw the boy frown.
“You’re going to the hospital there’s no question about it ! You probably have a few broken ribs. You’ll have to get that checked out. Talking about broken ribs… let me see I’ll see if it’s important or not.”
Seeing that the boy didn’t move at all, Harry rolled his eyes.
“I’m not going to rape you… it’s all good. If I wanted to I’d done it by now. Now lift up your shirt like that I can see what we’re dealing with !”
The boy rolled his eyes, which for some reason made Harry smirk. Slowly, the boy lifted up his shirt making it possible to see were the pain was. And just like he thought, the part were the ribs are placed was marked with purplish swollen skin. Harry hissed..
“Yeah you’re going to have to check that out.. Can I touch and see ?” He whispered softly. The boy just nodded.
Carefully, making sure he wasn’t hurting the teenage boy Harry approached his hand to the boy’s skin. Not noticing it, but when he finally laid his fingers on the boys body, they both inhaled deeply, both holding their breathe.. and for a slight moment the world stopped moving around them.
“Does it hurt when I do this ?” The boy shook his head
“And this ?” Once again the boy shook his head.
“And this?” Harry whispered one last time. Finally the boy backed away hissing.
Harry bit his lip. “I’m sorry I didn’t mean to hurt you.. But yeah, I think you broke at least one rib. Let me wrap you up like that you can take it to the hospital. Because you are going to the hospital.” Harry ended noticing that the boy still frowned at the world hospital.
He quickly took what he needed from his car behind him and proceeded on wrapping the boy’s stomach with bandages. Being close to the teenage boy made Harry, for some reason, uncomfortable.. Not in a bad way. He just had never encountered anyone like the young boy before.
“Did you hear that ?” Oh, so he speaks again.
Harry stopped what he was doing and listened. He was met with the sound of kids getting into their cars and nothing more.
“No, why did you hear something ?” The boy frowned and shook his head.
“No it’s just I thought.. never mind.” The boy quickly removed himself from Harry’s personal space and adjusted his hoodie on his body. He quickly took his bag from the floor and turned around directing himself to the deeper part of the parking lot.
“You could say thank you ! It’s not like I just saved your life or anything.” Harry shouted at the disappearing figure.
The boy didn’t even turn around but just kept walking. Harry huffed.
“Teenagers…” He gathered his stuff and climbed into his car. He looked at his watch.
If he passed all the red lights in town he’ll probably be able to make it to the third job interview he had planned for today.
Just as he was backing away from his parking place a white Bentley rapidly passed next to him.
Harry frowned. He didn’t think anyone rich enough to own a Bentley would be in this part of town. Not paying it more attention he drove off.
He had a job interview to get to.