Chapter 4: Aftermath

It is now nearly 11 o'clock and I am sitting in my room listening to music on my phone as Danielle and Max wait for mum to get home. On the way home we had told Danielle what had happened at school and when we got to my house she told Max. Max decided he needed to talk to mum about all this.

I personally don't see the point. They can't do anything about it and even if they do Mathew will only get a few days suspension and then he'll be back and angrier then before. Noah had left around 9:30, very reluctantly may I add, because he had to go to bed so he wouldn't be tired in school tomorrow.

I hear a knock on my door and when it opens mum is standing on the other side.

"Hey Sam, is it alright if I come in?" she asks nervously.

"Ya it's fine." I say as I take off my headphones.

She then goes on a rant about how stupid Mathew is and honestly this made me laugh because she has never meet or heard of him before today. After I convince her that I am fine, which took a while, she leaves me to get some rest before school.

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Noah's POV:

I got back to my apartment at around 9:45 after leaving Sam's house. I had my dinner and now I am trying to get to sleep but I can't because Sam is stuck in my head. I have so any questions to ask him, like why is that Mathew fellow so mean to him and why where Jane and Ace standing like his bodyguards on the way into school. Well, I can take a good guess at the bodyguard thing.

When I am near Sam I feel safe for some reason. I don't know why, I have only known him for two days. It confuses me and I want to find out why. He is also kind of cute in a silly adorable way.

With that thought I finally fell asleep. That night when I was asleep, I had a dream that me and Sam were playing hide and seek in the woods and he was able to find me really quickly every-time which was really surprising because I was hiding very, very well up in the trees.

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I'm at school now, standing beside Sam as he gets his books because I will be damned if I leave him alone with that Mathew dude around. Jane and Ace had to go to class early to talk to a teacher about some project thing they are working on for history.

"Hello, earth to Noah." Sam says as he waves his hand in-front of my face.

I snap out of my thoughts when he does that.

"Sorry about that. You got all your books?" I say to him as I turn to properly look at him.

"Ya I got them so we should probably get to class before we are late." He says as he turns to walk to class which we both share.

We didn't get far before none other than Mathew Hunt appears out of nowhere with two people beside him.

"Well hello Sam, Noah. Funny running into you here all alone. Get them boys." Mathew says as his two friends start to make their way over to us.

I push Sam behind me and get into a fighting stance as they get closer to us.

"Noah we need to run now." Sam says to me a the boys get closer to us.

I agree and Sam counts down to one quietly and we turn and run as fast as we can to are class. As we are getting close I see Sam get grabbed and pulled back. I stop running and turn around to see one of the boys with Sam in a headlock.

"Well look at this, Sam in a dangerous position and you not being able to do anything about it. So sad." Mathew taunts as he catches up to us.

A small growl escapes my lips as he finishes his sentence. Mathews face turns into a smirk as he knows he has got me angry.

"LET. HIM. GO. NOW." I shout feeling my anger getting worse and worse as the seconds pass by.

This could be bad. If I get too angry I might use my magic and that would be bad. I need to calm myself down a bit.

"Now, Now Noah what would be the fun in that. I just want to have a bit of fun, that's all." Mathew says as he and his friends laugh.

I try my hardest to suppress some of my anger but it is difficult.

"Let him go now before I hurt you and your friends." I say in a calm, dangerously calm tone.

"No, I don't think I will let him go."

With that I give up on hiding my anger and I rush at him. I try to not use my magic too much so it isn't noticeable. I punch him in the face so hard he goes flying into the lockers five feet away. I guess I used a bit too much force but oh well. It's not like it is impossible to do that without magic.

When I look at him he is unconscious so I move on the friend holding Sam. I run to him so fast he has no time to react and grab the arm holding Sam and squeeze so hard he screams out in pain. With that he lets go and runs away with the other friend.

"Hey Sam, you alright?"

He seems fine but I want to be one hundred percent sure.

"I think so ya. Thank you for that." Sam says quietly.

"It's fine. What are best friends for." I say to him as he looks up at me shocked.

"Best friends?" He says confused but with a happy shine in his eyes.

"Ya best friends. Well I would hope so, I just saved you." I say smiling like an idiot but I don't care.

"Ya. Ya, best friends definitely." As he says this Ms. Drake walks around the corner and sees us standing there and then sees Mathew unconscious on the floor.

She just looks at us and picks up Mathew and turns to carry him to the nurses office. As she turns the corner she shouts back at us to go to the principal's office after school. When she's out of sight we make are way to class, explain why we are late and get on with the rest of the day.