Not Worthy Of Being Called A Friend

"Kelvin, you guys have to hurry to the dorms, Nat and Max are about to fight!" A student yelled as he saw Kelvin, Harry and Matt.

"Max?"

"Max?"

Harry and Kelvin asked in unison, the shocked expression on their faces could not be hidden.

"How is that possible?" Kelvin asked in incredulity as he turned to Harry for an answer.

"We should go and check it out first," Harry replied and ran off. Part of him was overjoyed while the other part was in doubt, Max couldn't be back from the portal and alive. Nevertheless, he ran to the dorms and when he got there, he saw the crowd of students had already gathered around and mumbling hell knows not to themselves.

Harry made his way through the crowd of students until he got to the front, where he saw Max being pushed to the wall by Nat.

"Max!" He called as he rushed over immediately and stopped Nat from punching Max in the face.

"Hey man, you just woke up! Can't you rest a bit?" Harry asked as he held the angry Nat who was struggling to free himself from the grip.

"This trash here almost killed me and you want me to rest?" Nat shot back angrily, wrath was written all him as he stared at Harry. "I have been in bed for how many weeks? almost three weeks! You all never even bothered to find out why I was bedridden. I'll kill him today!" Nat yelled and pushed Harry away.

"Huh? How can that be possible? How did that kid do it?"

"It seems like Nat was taken unawares."

"Even at that, don't you feel Nat is weak, how can he let someone useless beat him up? Does he not feel shame voicing out how he was beaten to bed?"

Nat got angrier just listening to what the students were saying, how could they say he is weak when they did not know what happened actually. He rushed to Max again to attack him but he was stopped by Zheren. He turned abruptly to the unfamiliar boy and stared at him for a while. "And who are you?"

"Who I am doesn't matter. What matters is that I won't stand by and watch you lay your hands on him," Zheren replied still holding Nat's arm.

"He is handsome!"

"Yes, and looks strong as well!"

"Who knows what he is doing with that trashy ugly boy."

The students began to murmur among themselves when they saw Zheren. The girls began to stare seductively at him while the boys could only glare hatefully at him. But all of these didn't matter to him as he had a serious case to tackle.

"And what will you do if I lay my hands on him? Don't tell me you are friends with someone like him, hahaha... Or perhaps, you feel pity for him?" Nat taunted with a disdainful look on his face.

"Nat, stop already! You are just waking up from bed!" Harry said with a hopeless look. Just as he was holding Nat, Kelvin also came together with Matt.

"Good, Kelvin it's good you are here. This trash here attacked me without my knowledge and I must teach him a lesson," Nat said to Kelvin the moment he saw him.

Kelvin turned his gaze to Max then sized him up and down. He was shocked to see that he was fine, with no wounds on his body, just some torn parts of his clothes. "How are you alive?"

"Are you surprised to see me alive?" Max asked. He glared at Kelvin with every once of hatred in him.

"But you are supposed to be dead!" Kelvin insisted, the students around all had a puzzled look on their faces, they didn't know which one to believe.

"And I am alive. You all thought I was gonna die right? Including you!" Max replied pointing at Harry, he was very much disappointed in him. He expected Harry to do something even though it was impossible but he didn't do anything.

"There was nothing I could do about it but I'm sorry," Harry apologised with a sad face. He knew he had wronged him as a friend but he could not do anything.

"Hold on you both!" Nat suddenly said out loud causing all eyes to be turned back at him. "I am the victim here, I am supposed to be apologised to but what is going on? You Harry, how can you stoop so low as to apologise to him? Huh?"

"I don't know how you were able to survive in there but remember I told you that I must teach you a lesson if eventually, you had a hand in Nat's problem. Well, I guess you should get yourself prepared because I won't let you escape. And you Harry, let's see how you'll save his ass again," Kelvin said. He had a grin on his face as he spoke, he had always wanted to teach Max some lessons but Harry kept butting in. Now, that everyone knows that he indeed had a hand in Nat's case, he would be able to satisfy himself in the name of helping his friend.

"There will be no need for that," Nat said to everyone's surprise. "I remembered that you challenged me into a duel right? How about we do it? If you can beat me, I'll..." Nat paused as he thought of a reasonable condition that will sound good to the ears. "Yes! If you were able to beat me, I'll make you the leader of my group...."

"What!"

"Huh!"

"Did he just say he'll make that kid the leader of his group?"

"It's impossible! Don't you get it?"

Nat listened to all that they were saying around him, he could not help but sneer inwardly. He ignored them and then turned to Max who was also surprised. " I hope you don't disappoint me," he said as he smirked and walked away without waiting for any reply.

Kelvin who was still upset glared at Max briefly before turning to leave as well, there was no point wasting a second as it would only get him angrier.

"Max, I am sorry alright? But it'll be best if you forfeit the duel, there is no chance of you winning," Harry said calmly to Max with the hope that he'll listen to him.

"Come, let's go inside," Max said to Zheren and walked to his door.

"Max! Max!" Harry called but Max didn't turn to look at him.

There was no point talking to him, he had nothing to say to him not when he could not give him some encouraging words concerning the duel. He had no reason to conclude the result of the duel without giving him the chance to try his best, it was as if he was looking down on him like the others do.

"I think you should let him be. You have nothing to offer him so you should go meet your friends and leave him alone. Do not worry about him, because I won't allow anything to happen to him," Zheren replied instead and walked away.

"Hey bro, we should go! It's clear that he doesn't need your friendship anymore," Matt said as he patted his brother on the shoulder. Harry let out a sigh and glanced over at Max's room before walking away.