Chapter 9: Is this a flashback!?

“Salutations people. I shall introduce myself as Saunderson Scott, son of Alexander Scott. I have captured enemy of many! Ryan! After many nights of waiting, our time hath arrived! So I declare!”

Our enemy hath finally walked into the trap my faithful subordinates carefully located.

“Where am I? Do you know who I am!? Once I leave I will have my father find and kill you!”

“That is, if you have the capabilities to leave. So I declare.”

“Who are you!? What have I done to deserve this!?”

“Thou better ask oneself, what have thyself not done? So I inquire.”

“What are you talking about? Also, talk like a normal person!”

“To me. It is thou that talks abnormally. So I declare.”

“Ugh! Untie me right now! If you value your life or your family’s, you should let me go!”

It seems that Ryan is trying to struggle. This shall be interesting.

“Ke ke ke ke.” I see, this is as fun as teacher said it was.

*Logan POV*

So, this situation is a little awkward.

“Mr. Redwood, you should stop moving so much, it will only make your stomach more upset. It is pretty clear that you have food poisoning. To remedy that, you just need to rest and let your body work to expel whatever it was that you ate.” The nurse sitting in the chair at a nearby desk was talking to me while I lay half naked on the bed.

Why am I half naked? I don’t know either to be honest. I woke up and BAM! My clothes were gone.

“Ah, well… you say I need to rest, but it makes me uncomfortable to be wearing almost nothing you know.”

“Is that so? Shall I give you sleeping medicine then?”

“Can I just go back to my room?”

“Before that, I’d like to know the cause of the food poisoning so we can put an end to it.”

“Umm… it is quite complicate-“

“Logan are you okay!?”

“I’m… fine. Just a little 24 hour bug…”

“He has food poisoning.”

The nurse, rather ungracefully tells Claire the truth.

“Oh no! How did you get food poisoning Logan?”

“So this is why you were going to say it was complicated. Well, sorry Mr. Redwood, but I found the cause of your food poisoning. May I ask your name miss?”

“Claire… Redwood…” Her head lowers as she blushes.

Is she still embarrassed!?

“Siblings… no wait, I was told something about this… Oh yeah! You are those two that got married! I was told that if you two came in here, I was to leave, and lock the door on my way out! Ha ha ha!”

What kinds of things go on behind the scenes at this school!?

“However,” The nurse clears her throat, “That doesn’t change the fact that it was something Mr. Redwood ate during lunch that has caused him so much grief.”

You said it!

Claire starts to think back, wait… is it really that hard to think back just over an hour!?

“Lunch… Lunch… all he had during lunch was my-“

She realizes it almost as slowly as a dense main character.

“No way! I did this to him!? I was told that the ingredients were fresh!”

“Well sorry to burst your bubble, some of those ingredients probably needed to be cooked. Hence why Mr. Redwood is now unable to sit up properly. This might be the worst case of food poisoning I’ve seen since becoming a high school nurse…” The nurse trails off unnecessarily.

“Is he going to be okay!?”

“I don’t know…”

“Logan!”

Claire practically jumps on top of me to hug me.

“Claire. I’ll be fine. This nurse just likes to toy with people.” I glare at her, “I just need to rest for a little while and I should be ready to go.”

“B-But it’s my f-fault!” Claire starts to cry slightly.

“Please don’t worry. I have been through much worse. This to me is the same as a light bruise would be to you. It’ll be gone before you even know it.” I wipe the tears from her eyes, “There’s no need to cry, I just need some rest. Don’t worry ‘bout it. ‘Kay?”

Claire nods as she sits up and stays on the side of the bed.

“I trust you.”

“Thank you Claire. I’m kind of tired, so I’m just going to sleep for a bit.” I see the nurse trying to leave, “Before you leave Ms. Nurse, isn’t there something else you should be doing?”

“Oh, yes. Thank you for reminding me. I left some sleeping pills that should kick in quite quickly on my desk. They will help you stay asleep once you manage to go to sleep, but they will not put you to sleep.”

The nurse walks out of the room and I hear the door lock behind her. Of course, the room can be opened from the inside in order to leave, if someone feels the need to do so.

“Claire. If possible, could you help me take those pills the nurse talked about?”

Claire nods without saying anything. She grabs the pills and the glass of water that was placed next to them. She walks over to me and helps me sit up. My arms are quite heavy right now so moving them is a challenge and a half.

After helping me take the pills Claire lays me down on the bed.

“C-Can I lay beside you?”

“The bed is kinda small and, whether you believe it or not, I am sick, so it wouldn’t be too great of an idea.”

“I-I don’t mind…” Her head drops down.

I sigh as I smile at her.

“Well, even if I say no, I can’t really stop you right now. I’m actually really tired between staying up late at night and the various school activities. I think it was about time I get some rest.”

“Staying up late at night?”

I start to blush slightly.

“W-well at night, you wear clothes that make my heart beat really fast… Also, when you fall asleep you latch on to me and it makes me even more nervous… you know what I mean?”

Claire starts to look sad again.

“It’s my fault you’re tired… I’m sorry”

“No, no. That’s not what I was trying to say… actually. I’m going to stop talking. I think I’ll just sleep and let you do what you do.”

Claire leans in and kisses me.

She runs to the sink and washes out her mouth.

“Gross!”

“I told you I was sick.”

Claire laughs slightly as she lays beside me in the sick room bed.

“Night Claire.”

“Goodnight Logan.”

I close my eyes and start to drift off into sleep.

…

So umm… how do I explain this?

I’m like an observer to a scene right now.

I’m here, but can’t interact with anything, but it is definitely a scene I remember. I think it is safe to call this a flashback… I think.

*Past Logan POV*

Hmm. So if that doesn’t have a square root… maybe I can just use a different formula.

At least the weather is nice today.

Ah, how long until school is over?

Wait, it’s only lunch!?

Well I guess that makes sense, I am sitting outside. What is the day today?

Wednesday? No… I think I wanted the number… the 30th? I think it’s May…

Doesn’t really matter.

When does lunch end. I want to go home and sit in my room.

My parents might be late coming home again. What should I have for dinner?

Pasta?

No. I hate it. Maybe I should make something later so I can have mom and dad eat it too.

I’ll make hamburgers then. I know how to use the grill.

Wait, what did we have for food again?

I might have to go to the store.

*Smack*

“Uuuggghhh” I unintentionally let out a groan of pain.

It seems I have been hit in the face with a soccer ball.

“Sorry! We didn’t mean to hi- Oh wait. It’s just HIM.” The kid turns back to his friends, “We’re okay guys! Logan stopped the ball from rolling down the hill.”

Ah, these kids again.

Who are they?

I don’t really care about them, now what was I doing?

Ah yes, what will I make my parents for dinner?

*Present Logan POV*

Ah, this is embarrassing. It seems like I even got a bloody nose back then too.

This is painful. Why am I being shown my past? It hurts you know.

I was always alone and no one would ever really talk to me, and when they did it was always like that.

It took until Junior high school for people to start talking to me, and even then I didn’t really know how to cope with it, so I always ran away from people.

I had made friends online when I was quite young, and after a year in Junior high school, it turned out, we happened to go to the same school. That was Dominic. I don’t really talk to anyone else from that group anymore.

Ah, so nostalgic.

Well, it was a rough past, but I got through it and now I can smile happily and say, “Yeah, I am happy.”

If I was given the choice to live a better childhood, or live the same one.

I think I would have to choose the same choices I did back then.

So what if I was made fun of for several years for it. I have never once regretted a choice I made.

I may say, “Ah, what a horrible decision!”

But I will never regret it. It seemed I was going to have my first regrets at the start of this school year, but it turned into the best decisions of my life.

Well, I can’t really say why I fell in love with Claire so fast, but if I had to give my best bet. It would be because I felt the need to be close to at least one person…

I really wonder what Claire’s past was like?

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