Why him? - Montgomery De La Cruz

Chapter 49

Ella placed Alexs bag down on the table with a small smile and then she took the seat two seats away from him and Zach helped him into his chair and then Zach sat down in the seat in between them 

"thank you" Alex says to them both and Ella smiles and Zach nods his head

"yeah, no problem man" Zach says

Jess storms into the room in a jumpy attitude "what are you guys doing right now, do you want to ditch with me?" 

"definitely, is everything okay?" Alex asks and stands up and jess gives him a smile 

"yeah totally, i just really need to get out of here" Jessica tells him and then looks between ella and Zach while she waits for them to answer her question.

"Guys, i cannot skip this class" Zach says and Ella was proud of him, after their little chat about his grades earlier she could see that Zach had finally woken back up again and realised how much he had been falling behind lately and how that was going to effect him greatly in the future

"Me neither, sorry guys" Ella says and gives them a sympathetic look  and jess lets out a sigh

"Seriously? Zach, ella we need you!" Jess whines frustratedly

"You need my car" Zach says and this causes ella to laugh softly

"Both!" Jessica says and tries to defend it though all of them new she just really needed his car "look, if we cant have you, can we maybe..."

"okay but only if jess drives" Zach mumbles and pulls his keys out of his pocket and hands them to Jessica 

"Its an automatic, my right foot works" Alex whines and ella just smirks while Zach glares at him and Jessica takes the keys with a grin

"Jess drives" Zach says sternly

"thanks Zachy" Jess grins and ella raises her eyebrows at the nickname, she had never heard Jess call him that in her whole lifetime, only ella had called him that and Zach looked confused to but he didn't say anything and just hands alexs bag to her and then the two of them make their way out of the classroom while Zach and Ella stay back to do there work

"So whats going on there Dempsey?" Ella says with raised eyebrows and Zach looks at her in confusion

"what do you mean?" He asks and furrowed his eyebrows

"between you and Davis" Ella grins but he shakes his head

"Nothing, i couldn't do that to Justin and i don't like her like that anyway, besides i still have my eye on someone else" He mumbles the last part and looks away from her and she felt guilt flow through her body and she wanted to apologise admedietly but she was worried that she would only make it worse or mess up on what she was going to say, and she didn't even know what to say

Zach finally speaks up to break the uncomfortable silence "i put another polaroid in Clays locker this morning, i don't think he has seen it yet"

Ella nods her head and looks down at her desk and begins to fiddle with her fingers "We need to do this Zachy, we have to get justice for Hannah and Jessica and all of the other girls that he has hurt, we need to make Chloe realise what kind of guy he really is"

"i know, Clays good at making a scene, so hopefully this shouldn't take too long" he mumbles back at her and gives her a small smile which she returns an nods her head

Ella and Scott walk down the corridor side by side as they make their way to Montgomerys locker and Scott was looking down at his Biology textbook while Ella was trying her best to explain the differences between phenotypes and genotypes and multiple other different things but it was like all of the things she was saying to him was going in one ear and out the other though she kept trying to help him anyway, she had helped Jeff with his studying as well as the rest of her friends but for some reason Scott reminded her a lot of Jeff than anyone else, she didn't know what it was, maybe it was his fair, kind and excepting nature or just his presence, maybe it was even just the absolute love for baseball.

"okay so th-" Scott starts to restate what she had told him but then suddenly someone turns around the corner and bumps into them and the text book along with the other books in the two jocks hands fell and hit the floor

"shit shit I'm sorry I'm so sorry" Clay said in a panicky voice as he beant down to the ground and quickly rushed to pick up all of the stuff and Scott and Ella leant down too and began to pick up the books as  well

"hey man its cool" Scott says and ella quickly nods her head in agreeance as she looks over at clay and says "hey clay, it isn't a problem don't even worry about it, it was an accident, no big deal"

"sorry" Clay apologies again and hands the books over to scott who kindly accepts them and the two jocks look at the boy in worry

"are you okay?" Scott asks Clay and then clay gives him a confused yet dirty and judgemental look as scotts words ring through his ears and the three of them slowly begin to stand back up again and scott begins to feel uncomfortable under clays glare

"I'm fine, why?" Clay asks accusingly as he looks over at scott

Scott stutters for a moment, not knowing what to say but then finally he points up to his eyebrow, signally that he was talking about the small cut on his eyebrow along with the other bruises on his face and body and then he says "you don't look so good"

"what do you know about it" Clay asks again 

"come on clay, seriously, he was just checking to make sure that you were okay, he is just worried about you" Ella says softly to the boy and goes to place her hand on the side of his arm reasuringly but clay shrugged it off and glared over at scott

"no. i want to know what he knows about it" Clay grumbles out and continues to glare over at scott

Scott eshales loudly in awkwardness before saying "just that you don't look so good. Just look out for yourself" And Ella could tell that scott really meant it. Out of all of the baseball boys, Scott was definitely the nicest though she wouldn't admit that in front of her boyfriend or Zach but she knew that the other two boys definitely had their reasons for being like that and Scott was just able to deal with it a little bit better

Scott and Ella go to walk of but Ella stays back for a moment to whisper something to clay and she makes sure that no body could hear her "Scott is one of the good ones Clay, there is a lot going on that you think you know about but you don't, a lot of the boys have done a lot of fucked up things and you know exactly what i am talking about but listen to me when i tell you this... Scott Reed is one of the most decent guys at our School, Jeff trusted him, and so do I"