Chapter 11

GABRIELA

I was going to go back to class, but I didn't realize I was coming back early. Something inside of me told me I should go to college. I was afraid something had happened to my siblings or to Marcos and the girls. When I enter, I see how people begin to gather in a certain place, an open space and Marcos and the girls were walking near where I had just appeared. 

"I thought you weren't coming back to college." Marcos said, standing next to me. "Yes, I was going to come back, but what happens there?" I asked seeing how people were going to the same place "A fight, why do you ask?" Sara asked and I shrugged. 

"Who will be the ones who peel?" I asked more to myself than to them "I heard about a new guy and the ones who messed with you the other day." 

The size of my eyes increased, because something told me Alex was the one who was involved in all this "What new guy?" I asked turning in Sara's direction. "I don't know, I guess it's Alex. There isn't another new guy that I know of those cares about you that much." 

"Alex what?" I asked, but it didn't take long for me to drop my backpack on the ground and run to where the fight was taking place. I heard how Marcos asked me where he was going, even though he knew where I'm going. 

I don't know why I was going there, I just know for sure, as much as I didn't like him, I didn't want anything to happen to that jerk. It didn't take long for me to arrive and get in the middle of it all. When I saw him, he on the ground, I had no idea what was happening around him, but it didn't take me long to get in front of him so nothing else would happen to him. He had a cut on his eyebrow was bleeding heavily. As soon as they saw me standing there in front of them, they stopped and stared at me. 

"You are going to leave him alone; he has nothing to do with what I did to you." I said seriously, "Well, now it really has to do with him. He came to threaten us and we are going to end what we started." he assured "I won't allow that." I replied "Well, the same thing awaits you as your beloved protector." 

"Then come get me." At that point they began to pounce on me and I used everything I had learned in self-defense classes. It's not I hurt them too much, but I did do something to them more than anything because I didn't want to send them to the hospital. They deserved it for beating him up, I don't want anyone to do that to him, even though I wanted to hit him most of the time I saw him. Little by little they left and we were left alone, me and Alex surrounded by everyone who was looking at us. I turned to look at him and crouched down to look at his wound. 

"I'm dreaming. You can't be here in front of me." he said and I couldn't help but laugh "Yes, I am, but now let's go. I don't want the teachers to come and scold me because of you." 

I helped him up from the ground and took him to the place where Marcos, Sara, Clara and I used to be. When we got there, he sat up and I leaned closer to see how deep his wound was. 

"Am I really not dreaming?" he asked surprised and I denied "No, you're not. I'm here for real. Now be still, I want to see your wound." He stopped moving and talking and that helped me see it was a little deep, but not that deep, Marcos came to join us. 

"What are you doing Gabriella?" Marcos inquired, looking at me as if a second head had grown. "I'm helping him, why?" I asked even though I know what he was really asking "Do you need anything?" he asked "I need you to bring something wet to put on his eyebrow." 

With that, he left in another direction to go get what I asked for and I was left with him alone, again. "Since when do you worry about what happens to me?" I was asking myself that same question, because I had no idea why I went to get him out of there. That was what had drawn me to college and I don't understand why, but I intended to find out. 

"Make no mistake because I don't. I only went to get you out of where you got." I assured him even though I knew it wasn't entirely true "Then thanks for that." He thanked "You're welcome, but I'm not going to take you out of a fight again." I assured him "There will be no more fighting." 

"Now are you going to tell me why you got into this fight?" I asked more out of curiosity than anything else "I wasn't going to let them mess with you. Not after what happened." he answered and I rolled my eyes "You mean what you did to me. That didn't happen to me because I wanted to." I said and he nodded "I know, and I'm really sorry. That shouldn't have happened to you." 

"Neither to me nor to anyone in this world should happen." I blurted out "I know and I'm sorry Gabriela, really. I'm stupid for going along with that game." When the word game came out of his lips, I couldn't help but get angry, because even though I already knew it, it wasn't the same to hear it "Game? Now for you it was a game? 

"I didn't mean that Gabriela." he defended himself, but I moved away from him "Oh, of course that was what you wanted to say, and really, it should be me who gave you that beating, not them." I assured him as he got up "Gabriela listen to me..." 

"I'm not going to do it, asshole. I'm stupid for taking you out of there. I shouldn't have done it." At that moment, he tried to take my arm because I had moved away, I wasn't going to allow him to do that and Marcos, Sara and Clara come to our side. 

"Don't you dare touch me. Get out of me." Marcos drops everything he has in his hand and comes quickly to my side, putting an arm around my hip to prevent me from rushing in to kill him if necessary. 

"But..." he started, but Marcos looked at him "Alex, please don't come near, I won't be able to hold her in case she wants to go after you." He stopped moving and stood in front of us. He and I looking directly into each other's eyes, he with something similar to what I could see when we were together and I was about to kill him as he got closer to me. 

"I have to talk to her Marcos." he insisted, but he denied "Don't do it now." I didn't want to keep seeing the face he was looking at me with, much less having him close, I couldn't stand him and I wanted to leave so I wouldn't have him close. 

"Marcos, let me go." I said to him "I'm not going to let you go, Gabriela, I don't want you to do anything to Alex." he assured "I'm not going to do anything, I want to leave so he won't be around."