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"I said stop! Get out of here or I'll tell dad and you're all getting expelled!"
He was laying on the ground, breathless after being beaten up by the most popular guys in school, part of the rugby team. She tried to stop them with her screams but they didn't listen to her and of course she couldn't get physically involved in that fight. She was being complimented a bit too much, as always, by the leader of the team and he was starting to touch her. Even when she told him to stop he didn't and that's when the guy that now had his cheekbone swollen and was bleeding decided to step in, dropping his cigarette on the ground. His cocky attitude immediately annoyed the player who already had some small arguments with the loner. Harsh words became pushes and pushes became punches, they ended up on the ground, fighting as hard as they both could. At some point it seemed like the one who ended up being the loser was winning, however, the quarterbacks decided to defend their friend. She was able to put an end to everything right when the whole team was about to join the other three friends.
After her threat they all left between snorts as they tried to calm each other down, saying that being expelled for such a loser wasn't worth it.
She immediately kneeled down next to him, she caressed his swollen hand as he stared at the clouds.
"Daniel"
He looked at her, then back at the sky.
"You know me? How do you even know my name?"
"I know everybody in this school"
She said proudly, then started to worry about him again.
He wasn’t part of those rich players and not even part of the nerds, he was always with a few of his friends, smoking out of school, leaning to his old car. He was always ready to do some bullshit and risk it all. A few girls in school loved what seemed like his fake character and tried to flirt with him constantly, however he rejected a few of them and passed them to his friends, he only took the ones he actually wanted.
"Daniel, come on, get up"
He whined.
"It hurts"
"Come on, big boy"
She helped him get up, even if he was growling out of pain.
She took his left hand, then they both reached the back of the school, sneaking in from one of the doors and stealing a torch from the janitor's closet: the sun was already down and they couldn't see anything.
"Isn't the school closed? We're not allowed to-"
"I'm the principal's daughter, I can do whatever I want"
He stared at their hands, then chuckled.
He suddenly hissed out of pain and she immediately turned to him, looking at him with big eyes.
"Hold on a bit more, will you?"
She was so close to his face he thought he was about to faint, a smile grew naturally on his face.
"Of course I will"
They reached the nursery with small breaks, it was on the other side of the school and he was hurting too much, however they made it there. She made him sit on a chair, then started to gather everything that seemed necessary to take care of him. He just looked at her a bit confused, if it wasn't for her he was ready to make everything fix itself with time, however she insisted she needed to take care of him.
She bent down a bit and came closer to his face, he licked his lips, then she started to gently pat with some cotton balls and rubbing alcohol the wounds on his face. He felt somehow embarrassed at first, so he looked away, then he remembered he needed to act tough and started to look at her. Her focused expression and her knitted eyebrows made her look so beautiful. His eyes switched for half of a second to her chest, partially exposed because of the v-cut of her cheerleader uniform. He immediately looked back at her eyes.
"You better not do that again if you don't want another bruise"
He let out a small laugh, then he put his hands up, giving up and faking being scared of her threat.
"Sorry, sorry"
She applied patches where he needed them.
"Come on, not the dinosaurs ones"
"Oh, so you want the hello kitty ones?"
He rolled his eyes and laughed, she stared at his smile for a few seconds, then shook her head coming back to real life.
"Take off your shirt"
"Oh, so you like it risky huh? In a public place?"
She showed him her punch, he just laughed again.
"I'm fine, there's no need to check"
"I saw them punching you in your stomach"
"Yeah, but I'm fine, I swear"
She gently grabbed his shirt and started to lift it up from the bottom, he closed his eyes and felt a shiver running down his spine when her cold fingertips touched his hot skin. As she was applying some cream for a big bruise on the side of his stomach she stared at his torso, her eyes got stuck in his tattoos.
"You can have it as soon as I'll feel better "
He smirked, she sighed out loud, then took some ice packs as he fixed his shirt.
"How's your hand?"
He somehow moved every finger and was able to open and close it, even if that took ages. She placed one of the ice packs there, then pressed softly one of them against his cheekbone, sitting on one of his thighs.
"If your dad finds out I'm the reason you snuck inside the school at night he's going to kill me"
"Just because you argue with him every day, break tons of school supplies and burnt down his car?"
They both laughed. He realized she knew more about him than he expected. They spend some time in silence as he slowly caressed her exposed back with the tip of his fingers.
"You should've never done that..."
"What? Fighting against the richest and most popular people in school just to defend my enemy's daughter?"
"You're so stupid..."
She chuckled, he just looked at her and stared at her facial features.
"You're my hero though"
"Oh yeah? You think so?"
She nodded, taking his hand again.
"Then you're my angel, even though I hope you won't have to take care of me like this again"
"I'll be always ready to take care of you"
"Then I'll get injured every day"
They both blushed, even if it wasn't that visible for him because of the purplish marks and the patches. A bad boy not so bad boy.
"We should go, right?"
They both got up then got out of school.
"Let me drop you off"
"If my dad sees you, you're dead"
"That's right"
He chuckled.
"So?"
"So what?"
"You won't go on a date with me?"
She immediately laughed and tried to cover her flushed face, luckily for her it was already night and with his swollen cheekbone he would've never notice that.
"No way"
"Well I deserve a reward for all of this"
He pointed at his bruises.
"Don't I?"
"I already took care of them"
"That's not a reward"
She rolled her eyes.
"Come on, give me a kiss"
He pointed at his cheek and bent down to reach her height, she gave up and decided to do as he said.
As she got closer and closer he turned his head and kissed her on the lips, then he put his non-injured hand on her waist.
"Daniel!"
He smiled like a baby, even if his cheeks hurt. She turned her back to him and folded her arms. He turned her by her waist, she looked at his lips, took his face gently between her hands and pecked his lips again.