Chapter 18: The past is the past!?

“Hey Dominic, I’m in the student council room with Sarah, are you on your way with Claire? Did she ask about anything strange, like my background? I know I should tell her. Too late to hide it… Yeah. I guess ‘they’ didn’t help me. Yeah… my wife… So? Did you say anything to her about my parents?”

Sarah laughs from behind me.

“A trash’s parents would be interesting. They must be Super Trash”

“Yeah, you ma~y want to hurry here… a sma~ll issue may need dealing with.”

I stand up and look straight into Sarah’s eyes.

“What did you call my parents?”

“Su~pe~r Tra~sh!” Sarah steps closer to me and says that right in front of my face.

“Okay. I will give you one last chance. Take that back, or I will hurt you. I am not afraid to beat you just because you are a girl you know. I’ve had my fair share of detentions and expulsions, do you think a small nobody like you could get me expelled from the school where I have the founder supporting me?”

“Do you think I feel threatened Trash? You are trash and your parents are worse than Trash, they are Super Tash!”

I grab her shirt collar and pull her so close that our faces are almost touching.

“You said you would be an ally. First you try to sow seeds of jealousy within Claire, and now you not only insult me, you insult my family.”

“You don’t have the balls to do anything to me, Trash.”

“Oh yeah!? We will see about that! You might want to close that mouth of yours though!” I smile at her.

Her eyes go wide in fear. She realises my grip got tighter on her shirt collar and her face is full of regret.

I lift her up off the ground by her shirt collar, the fabric was stretching to its limit. I tense my arm and spin my body slightly. I slam her into the ground, then pin her to the ground.

She coughs loudly as all the air leaves her lungs from the impact.

“Say that again! I dare you to, bitch!” I start to pick her up off the ground, “I want you to insult my parents again and say I’ll do nothing! Do it!”

“Logan, stop now!” Dominic’s shout helps me regain composure, “Logan, why are you acting like this? I thought you’ve gotten better than that?”

I drop Sarah and frown. What was I doing? I am horrible…

Sarah falls to the ground, gasping for air, tears at the corners of her eyes.

Yep! Horrible human being number one right here!

Come one! Come all! Come and see the worst human being alive! He will do anything when he loses control.

“L-Logan…” Claire looks at me. She lowers her head and runs out of the room.

“Claire… sorry…” I lower my head and was about to sit on the ground when Dominic punches me in the face.

“I hit you for two reasons. First, for what you did to Sarah, and second because you aren’t chasing after her yet.”

He’s right! I have to go now!

*Dominic POV*

Ah… what a guy. Always doing what he likes, then leaves the mess for someone else to clean up.

“So… what idiotic thing did you do this time Sarah?”

“I… I was seeing how far I could tease him… but… I insulted his parents… and… and he…”

“I see. It makes a lot of sense now. Logan is at fault yes, but there is something I have to tell you about Logan. You see…….”

*Logan POV*

Where could she have gone to? Okay. I learned from last time not to sprint full out from the start… wait. I can use my resources this time.

Time to call in the big guns right away. I pull out my phone and go to the contact for the Old Man. After a few seconds the line connects.

“Hey Old Man, I need a favour. I know you can contact the person monitoring the school cameras and I know that they will also know what Claire looks like. Bring him on the line.”

“Okay, I want to know why, but it seems to be urgent. I will want an explanation, kay?”

“Yeah, yeah, whatever, I need to find Claire as soon as possible. The faster the better.”

“Okay. He’s on the line.”

“Whatcha need this time boss?” I hear the voice of a lazy guard.

“Use the software and find my daughter… the code is currently 1964.” The Old Man talks in a serious tone.

“On it.” On the guards end, I can hear the flipping of switches. “Okay, scan complete. She is currently hiding in a classroom 12-C. She is sitting in the middle of the floor. Next step boss?”

“Stop monitoring that camera immediately. Thanks for your hard work.”

“If that’s all, I’ll talk to ya later boss.” The guard hangs up and it is just me and the Old Man again.

“So you know where she is now. Go to her. This is about your family situation right? I already know it all, but haven’t told her because I know she will be fine, even if you somehow lose control like you normally do when things happen.”

“Thanks, Old Man. I owe you big time. I’ll talk about this later. I now know where she is, I have to go!” Without waiting for his response I hang up and start to run as fast as I can to get to Claire.

*Claire POV*

What was Logan doing!?

Why was he so angry? Will he do that to me if I say the wrong thing? I’m scared… I just ran without hearing him out though…

Maybe I should go find him and apologize… I jumped to conclusions again. I always do that in stressful situations.

I’m sorry Logan.

“I hope he forgives me.” I start to talk to myself out loud, hoping to calm my nerves.

“Why do you need to be forgiven? I’m the one that lost control.”

*Logan POV*

“I made you see an awful side of me Claire… but I can explain.” Claire suddenly runs up and hugs me. She has tears rolling down her cheeks. I wipe the tears from her eyes and start to talk.

“Why are you crying? I’m the one that did something horrible you know.”

“B-but you never make faces like that, and I got scared and panicked. Why would you do that though… she looked really hurt.”

“I lost control of myself. I really should apologize when we go back, but first I want you to know something very important about me.”

Claire nods slowly and sits down with me in the empty classroom. The bell chimes to signal the end of lunch, but I ignore it. Skipping a class right now is probably the best option for now. I’ll apologize to the teachers later.

“What is it Logan?”

“I don’t know who my original parents are.” Claire’s expression gets even more depressed. “I get overly defensive and tend to snap at anyone and everything that insults my parents. It usually ends up in similar situations to what you saw.”

Claire snuggles up close to me.

“The people you know as my parents are the people that adopted me when I was three years old. They used me as an escape route for their crimes. However, they have never done anything to put them in jail for more than a day or two.”

“That’s…” Claire starts to tear up.

“The past is the past,” I wipe the tears from her eyes, “Now is now. We struggle to survive and make the most of it, some people are lucky enough to be able to coast by in life. Me? I am extremely lucky you know. I got to marry you, an extremely beautiful woman, I have met a lot of amazing people around too. So if I have anyone to thank, the first on the list might just be the people that raised me. They sucked at being good parents, but hey, everyone has some flaw or another.”

Claire nods slowly and sits with me for a long time. Silence floating in the room. After a while, Claire breaks the silence.

“Hey Logan.” Claire moves away slightly.

“Yeah?” I look into her eyes. She has a look filled with determination.

“You have told me so much about your past… but I…” Claire starts to trail off. I hug her gently.

“There is no need to tell me anything you don’t want to Claire. I told you because of the situation, and if you don’t want to tell me about your past right now, it can wait. We have a long time to be together.”

Claire gently hugs me back and nuzzles her head against my chest.

“No. I am ready to tell you Logan… just keep holding me while I talk… okay?”

“Of course I can Claire. Something as small as that is nothing. I would do almost anything for you, whether it be something as simple as this, or if you wanted me to run away with you. Nothing could stop me.” In my arms, Claire jumps as I say that I would run away with her. She takes a deep breath, and starts her story.

“A long, long time ago, when I was much younger… maybe four or five… I was kidnapped. It was an organization that was just starting up, and were kidnapping random people. I was unfortunate enough to be caught in one of their traps aimed towards smaller children. It was an amusement park and I was with a servant of the household, a trusted butler that had been working for my dad long before I was born. It was an amazing trip until the butler started taking random paths that twist and turned all over the place. I later found out he did that to lose the guards following us. The man then put a bag over my head and picked me up entering a door on the back of a building. I heard them on a call with father demanding a large sum of cash, or they would kill me and rape me… to this day I am scared to think of what else could have happened… plus I was so young so I didn’t really understand the situation too well at the time. Well… long story short, the men that kidnapped me were sent to prison for life and I was safe and unharmed. However… it hasn’t only happened once. Even with more strict security I have been kidnapped. But I was never harmed in any way during any of the kidnappings... but it became hard for me to trust people... always tested them to make sure that they were decent people… and… I even tested you… I’m sorry…” I can tell that Claire had started to cry again.

“Don’t worry about it. I am confident I can pass you puny tests!” I try and lighten the mood with a small joke.

Claire laughs at my joke slightly. Her mood clearly lightening as she moved to kiss me, and I gladly accept.

“I know more about my wife now, and you know more about me. So… what do we do now? We already skipped class.”

“Umm…” Claire pulls out her phone and makes a phone call, “Yeah, we’re done.” She puts away her phone and holds up 3 fingers. She slowly lowers them one at a time and as soon as she lowers the last finger Dominic, Amy and Sarah come into the empty classroom.

“Why?” I look at all of them and notice that Sarah has her head down and does not look at my face.

I really did something bad. I have to do something. I let go of Claire and walk towards Sarah. Amy was about to stop me, but Dominic held out his arm to stop her. I really owe Dominic a lot…

I stand in front of Sarah and bend at the waist going all the way until my torso was parallel with the ground.

“I’m sorry for what I did! I lost control and it is totally my fault! I will do anything within my power to make it up to you.” I throw my pride out the window and whole heartedly apologize for my wrong doings.

“Umm… I’m… sorry too… I didn’t know… umm… I hope you forgive me…” Sarah was speaking really quietly and had a scared tone to her voice.

“Demand one thing of me!” I shout to remove any apprehension I had, “One thing, right now! I will do it!” I slowly start to look up and Dominic nods as I look at him, Amy just shakes her head. I don’t see Claire’s expression, as she is standing behind me.

“Then…” Sarah looks at me and makes a sad expression, “Go on a date with me… you pay for everything.”

“Huh!?” my eyes go wide in shock.

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Hello everyone!

I'm sorry about not posting yesterday. Turns out, it was family day, and so, I spent time with my family.

Anyways, I would have posted another chapter as an apology, but... I don't have it written. Oh well. I hope you enjoyed the chapter nonetheless.

Have a great day/night!