Adopted by Hamilton

Chapter 55 - I just want to talk

The next day I was in the car with Vanessa, on my way to school.

"Can you get a ride home again? Lin has his He4She interview today, and I, obviously, have work."

"Yeah, I'll ask William."

"Thank you so much!" She said pulling up in front of school.

"Thanks for driving me every morning!" I said getting out of the car.

"Happy to! Have a good day." I went inside, and William ran up to me again.

"Hi!" He said, finally reaching me.

"Why are you meeting me at the door now?"

"Do you really want to know?"

"Yeah." I was a little concerned.

"Just," he sighed, "follow me." He led me to the cafeteria, where he always hung out before school started. As we walked in I saw a large mass of people grouped around someone.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"Luke. He's filling everyone in on what happened Tuesday."

"Wait, the true story, or his version?"

"Which version do you think?" He asked looking at me seriously, I sighed loudly.

"I need to talk to them."

"No. That's not a good idea..." He continued talking but I was already walking over to Luke.

"Luke?" I called from the back of the mass. People moved out of the way for me.

"Hey." He said nodding at me.

"We need to talk. After school. Bring Sam and Nick. Just talk. Nothing more, I need to talk to you guys."

"Anything for you." He said jumping down from the table he was sitting on. "What do you wanna talk about?" He wrapped his arm around me pulling me into him. He whispered in my ear, "come alone."

"Um..." I pulled away a little, "a lot."

"Meet you out front after school."

"Alright, and Luke." I smiled a little, "remember what my dad told you Tuesday."

The day went by quickly, as if the universe was anticipating what was going to happen after school today. Before I knew it I was out in front of the school waiting to talk to the 3 boys who made my life a living hell.

"What's this about?" Nick asked stepping in front of me, I was sitting on a bench.

"I just, I needed to talk to you guys about something."

"Spill." Sam said.

"Yeah. That's what I was wondering, can you guys spill? Just tell me why."

"Why what?" Nick asked.

"Nick tell me why you can't just leave me alone. It's been almost 3 months since I lived with you, I haven't done anything to you, I've tried to stay out of your way, I haven't come clean about what actually happened. I've done everything right, and I feel like I deserve to be left alone."

"Well. The day after you left, you said that you came from an abusive home at a televised press conference." He wasn't wrong, that did happen, I didn't realize at the time, that I could just say no comment.

"Yeah, but I didn't go any further than that. They asked me how it was abusive, and I said I didn't want to say anything, then they asked who was specifically doing it, I said no comment."

"Then a week later you got us suspended. How do you do that without telling someone?"

"I had a black eye. Lin saw it. What was I supposed to say?"