North
I swear Victor was a genius. Gabe was an artist to his core and anything that he could get creative with would immediately get his attention. A fuckin' song! Brilliant! I glanced over to try and catch his attention and caught a look pass between Mr. B and ...shit! no. I mean Owen and Sean. Damn it was hard to get used to thinking of them like that. But i knew how they felt. It looked like this may be over before long and I for one couldn't be happier. I seriously needed to hold my Baby. It had been nearly 2 weeks since the mall. Once I had come out of my drug induced stupor and got all caught up I had been livid. I had really needed to hit something and had gone out back to the shed but the punching bag didn't help. Thank god that Silas needed to work it out too. Nothing better than sparring with a Spartan. Shit, he was one tough S.O.B. Of course finding out about Gabe and Sang being taken hadn't been the biggest shock. No that had come when Kota decided to drop his bomb on me and show me his newest dream. I hadn't known how to react, I mean I really could not process what he was showing me. So naturally i had stormed out in silence. Not the wisest choice I admit. Nathan had been the one to come after me and sheepishly admitted he had punched Kota. He told me what Owen had told him just as Kota came out. I had meet his eyes and nodded, letting him know I was okay with this. Now we just needed to get them both back. I turned towards Sang. Victor had found a way to get them to the house but we still needed to get them comfortable around us.
" Hey Baby," The nickname came out automatically and I flinched inside when Gabe looked up from punching his number into Vic's phone and glared at me. Not a good start. Sang glanced between me and Gabe, worrying her bottom lip. Gabe smiled at her and ran a hand over her hair. She relaxed a bit and gave me a tentative smile.
" I'm North" She gave me a confused look.
" North of what?" She asked. Luke burst out laughing and I glared at him since he was too damn far away to smack. When I looked back at Baby I saw the mischevious gleam in her eyes and the small amused smile on her face. I smiled back at her and held up my hands in defeat. I can't believe i just got played. Gabe's sense of humor must be rubbing off on her.
" I'm Sang and this is my boyfriend Gabe." I was tempted to roll my eyes since I knew who he was but didn't. I was really trying not to be my grumpy usual self.
" What's your next class?" Damn. That was lame. I was no good at this shit! She looked down, checking the schedule taped to the front of her notebook.
" History with Mr. Morris." YES!
" Victor and I are in that class too, Why don't you walk with us, Baby?" I mentally smacked myself as soon as the word left my mouth. Gabe glared at me again giving me a look that clearly said 'BACK THE FUCK OFF' . He leaned forward and placed his hand at Sang's neck. He glanced around to see if the teacher was looking our way before gently pulling her toward him and giving her a quick kiss. He took her hand again and turned to me.
" What part of boyfriend did you not understand?" Shit. Okay. This wasn't going as planned. Damn. I really was awful at this. Just give me something to hit, or better yet a car. Cars I understood, this small talk, getting to know you crap not so much.
" Sorry man, didn't mean anything by it." I mumble and turn away to see Silas on my other side smirking at my discomfort. Bastard Spartan.
Silas
Watching North had to be the most entertaining part of the day so far. I don't know what he thought he was doing. All he had really managed to do was piss Gabe off. I smirked when he looked my way and spoke to him in Greek for privacy.
"What was that with Agelle? " North scowled and slumped in his chair, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I was trying to ,you know, make friends" Seriously? That's what he'd been doing?
"I'm pretty sure you failed miserably. Gabe keeps shooting glares at you. " North cursed at me in Greek and I couldn't help but smirk again.
Luke
Class was boring. Instead I let my mind wander. I missed Gabe and Sang. It was a bit weird though seeing Gabe being so protective? possesive? He wasn't usually like that. I wonder if something happened? The bell for lunch finally rang and I was out of my chair like a shot. We had all agreed to meet by the bench again for lunch and I wolfed down a couple pre-packaged snack cakes from my backpack on the way there. No reason to have to endure another one of North's lectures on healthy eating. A couple of the guys were already there and I plopped down next to Kota on the grass.
"What's the plan?" I asked. I wanted to move us forward here, It felt like we were crawling along.
" North and Victor are following them to see where they sit at lunch. I think Mr. B wants to talk to us all once we all get here." I grinned.
" Kota, we're supposed to call him Owen."
" I know Luke, hard to break old habits though." Sean and Owen walked up followed by North and Victor. Mr. B looked around and seeing all of us here sat stiffly on the bench. I think he was very uncomfortable in the shorts and tshirt he was wearing.
" Alright guys, What do we know?" Sean piped up. Kota dug around in his bag and brought out several ziplocked sandwiches and tossed them around.
" Mom wanted to be sure we had something edible. She'd heard the food here is awful. " I snatched one and dug in, debating whether or not to bring up Gabe's behavior.
" Didn't his reaction to North seem odd?" Silas beat me to it.
" I agree Mr. Kor.." Sean smacked Mr. B's arm. Hell, any of us tried that and we'd be doing hours.Mr. B cleared his throat.
" ahem, Silas. It was a bit strange for him. Anyone else? Anyone have anything we can use? Kota? Luke? You had English with then this morning. Did you learn anything?" Kota and I looked at each other and shrugged.
" Not really Owen. We talked to them a bit but nothing we didn't already know." Mr. B sighed at my response.
" We need more gentlemen. I have a feeling it wont be easy to get their memories back. We have no idea how to do it after all. I am hoping we can encourage them away from this 'Father' first and then work on their memories but we need information to do that." I spotted the guy from this morning, Mike, and jumped up.
" How about we work the gossip mill? That should be good for something. Come on Nate, Let's go talk to that guy from this morning. " Nathan hoped up and we made our way over to the group Mike was with.
" Hey" I gave them all a wave and a goofy grin, time to work my charm! " I'm Luke and this is my brother Nate. "
" Hey, I'm Mike, that's Jer and Karen." He pointed to the other two with him on the grass. Nathan and I plopped down by them and Nathan nodded his head at where Gabe and Sang where eating at one of the benches.
" So, What's with them?" Mike looked to where Nathan had nodded and gave us a puzzled look.
" Gabriel and Sang? Not sure what you mean. Why?" Nathan and I both looked at where Gabe and Sang where, then at each other.
" Um, We're just curious. they're in a couple of our classes." I rubbed the back of my neck nervously. Karen laughed.
" Seriously? If either of you are thinking you can break them up and go for one of them yourself forget it. Many people in this school have tried. When they started here last year they were already a couple. A lot of people assumed that it was a fake relationship to hide the fact that Gabriel was gay. I swear for the first month they were here they were bombarded by people trying to break them up. Every time someone made a play for one of them, Sang would just cling tighter. She's pretty shy and wouldn't talk to anyone for a long time. " Holy cow! This gal was a font of information.
" So, what happened?" Nathan asked her. This time Jer answered.
" A couple of the brainless from the football team cornered Gabriel one day near the gym and started beating him around for being gay. They were threating him with a knife when Sang saw them. It was beautiful, she flew at those morons and jumped on one guy's back and started beating on it and yelling at him. He threw her off though and a couple of the others held her while the one guy went back to beating on Gabriel. He plunged the knife in Gabriel's leg and then all hell broke loose. Books, Backpacks, paper, pencils...everything went flying around and those guys were suddenly being bombarded with it all. Mike saw them about the time all hell broke loose and he and I ran in to check on them. We helped Sang get him to the hospital since he was in pretty bad shape. He was there a couple days and she never left his side." Shit! He'd needed us and we hadn't been there.
" I overheard a couple of the nurses talking when i went to visit and she wouldn't even leave his bed." Karen spoke up. " I guess it was supposed to be a no- no or something but they felt bad for him because his dad just kind of dismissed it after the intial call so they let her stay. " Our faces must have reflected the shock we felt because Mike chuckled.
" Yeah, that was pretty much everyone's reaction. Most of us got it after that though, There was no breaking them up. A couple people still tried but everyone has just accepted it at this point. Besides Gabriel is awesome and Sang is really sweet."
" So what was with the proposal this morning then?" Thanks Nathan, I wanted to know that too.
" Bit of a running joke with them, and Mike still has a crush on Sang" Mike slugged Jer in the arm.
" I do not!" He protested. Jer gave him a yeah, right look and Mike grinned sheepishly. " Okay maybe a little one but can you blame me? She's gorgeous! but let's face it after his stunt at the end of last year no one is going to hold a candle to him for her. " I could Nathan's fists clenching and figured we had better get out of there before he decked Mike.
"The singing thing?"
" yeah, but he didn't just sing to her. He wrote the song and everything. Stopped lunch dead when he started singing. Even the workers stopped to listen. He was incredible." Nathan looked about to combust so I decided we needed to leave, thankfully the bell rang. Nathan and I said goodbye and took off for class. I pulled out my phone and sent off a text to Mr.B.
Luke: Found out some stuff, Not sure how useful.
Mr. B: Good work Mr. Taylor. Any information is helpful.
I tucked away my phone and thought over what we had found out. A year?! They'd gone back a whole year. If that was just one incident what else had they been through?