"A panic attack triggered it?" I knit my eyebrows at Luke.

It was currently about seven-thirty in the morning and Olivia still hasn't woken up yet. Luke informed me that the doctors and he concluded that it was a panic attack that had caused her to have the seizure. The doctors also said that she really did end up having a concussion and her passing out a few minutes right after hitting her head caused the delay in her waking up.

Luke, Cole, and I barely got an ounce of sleep. Luke and I didn't leave her alone for a second, the both of us were planted on either side of the hospital bed. If we needed to use the bathroom or get food or anything, we'd make sure one of us stayed with her while the other quickly finished doing whatever.

Huda fell asleep on the couch that was pressed against the room's wall after she convinced her parents to leave without her. Jordan had to leave at midnight and Cole and Peter only left for less than an hour to get Olivia a bunch of sweets, gifts, balloons, and a gigantic teddy bear for when she wakes up. They're currently sitting with us in Livi's hospital room.

Luke ran his fingers through his hair and nodded. "Yeah, it's the most logical answer- listen I have to go get this, I'll be right back," Luke said as he gestured towards his ringing phone.

I nodded my head and frowned as I watched him walk out of the room.

I thought to myself, "But what could have triggered the pani-" I stopped talking when a thought crossed my mind.

Fuck.

Tina fucking Collins.

That's the only fucking answer that I have in mind and I'm almost fucking sure of it.

I just know that she said some hurtful shit to Olivia in the bathroom a week ago and it definitely caused her to break down like that. I've seen the way she looks at her and I've fucking seen how terrified Livi gets once she makes eye contact with that disgusting pig.

My temper sparked and rage fucking gripped me as I clenched my fists, thinking about what the bitch must have said or done to literally cause Olivia to end up in a hospital bed.

I put on a scowl on my face and stood up quickly, turning to Cole. "Car keys," I tried my best not to sound like an asshole to him but thoughts of Tina leaving Olivia shaking uncontrollably in the hall like that with tears pouring out of her eyes made fury overcome me.

Cole knit his eyebrows and frowned, pulling his car keys out of his pocket. He handed them to me without questioning and I softened my tone, "I'll be quick, stay with Livi, yeah?"

He nodded his head and I rushed to the door, taking one last look at Olivia's adorable sleeping figure and walking out.

I'm gonna fucking kill her.

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I looked at the car's clock and saw that it was still seven-forty and there were still ten minutes left for the first period to start. I clenched my fists harder against the steering wheel and anger continued to spread through me as I took the turn that takes me to the school's parking lot.

I eyed the parking lot when I entered it and noticed that more than half of the student body was still outside and the way every pair of eyes landed on me driving Cole's Range Rover didn't go unnoticed by me.

I kept searching through the students and resentment instantly clouded my thoughts when I spotted her standing there with a bunch of other girls. Fucking Tina.

I parked the car in the nearest vacant spot and was quick to get out of the car and slam the door behind me. I walked towards her with a deadly glare planted on my face, she looked confused while the other girls around her started fixing their hair when they saw me quickly making my way towards them.

"You fucking bitch," I seethed when I reached her. This was my first time spitting profanities at a woman, but with the rage coursing through my veins right now, I didn't give a flying fuck. I was actually ready to step on her face and slap the living daylights out of her.

The girls around her gasped and everyone around us started to pull out their phones to record, sensing some kind of shit was about to go down. "What did you fucking do to her?!" I yelled at the top of my lungs and stepped closer to her, making her and her friends take a few steps back.

"What?" Tina knit her eyebrows.

"Don't fucking act like you don't know what I'm talking about. Answer the goddamn question or so help me god, I won't fucking hesitate to hurt that disgusting face of yours. What did you do to Olivia yesterday before she passed out?"

Tina's confused facial expression changed and it looked like something clicked in her head. "You didn't hear?"

"Hear fucking what?" I really wanna bash her head against the floor repeatedly.

"I didn't do shit, Blake. It was Ashton Tuffin,"

What the actual fuck?

"You can even ask Lily and Anna, they were the ones who spotted her first," She gestured towards one of the girls in the crowd that I didn't even notice surrounding us.

The brunette girl nodded her head and gulped, looking terrified of me. She looked young, I'm guessing she's a freshman. I waited for her to start talking.

"I- we w-were walking in the hallway and saw her shaking on the floor after collapsing with Ashton Tuffin running away from h-her. She also screamed w-when he got out of the room that she was laying close t-to,"

Anger curled hot and unstoppable in my fucking gut, like a blazing inferno that wanted to burn me from the inside out. All I saw was red at the moment. I noticed everyone around us avert their gazes to something behind me and I slowly turned around, my muscles tensed when I saw him. My body was shaking with fury at this point.

Ashton motherfucking Tuffin was standing there, holding onto his backpack's straps tightly with a horrified expression on his face. He gulped slowly and I balled my fingers to a fist.

My mind went blank for a few seconds before I suddenly found myself on top of the son of a bitch, throwing punches at his jaw, nose, eyes, and sides over and over and fucking over. A bunch of screams was being let out from around us but I couldn't give less of a shit.

"What the fuck did you do to her?" I yelled as I threw a punch to his nose, hearing a cracking sound follow the contact of my fist and his nose.

Ashton yelled out from the pain and a river of blood started running down his nose. "S-stop P-please."

I just punched harder. "I won't fucking repeat myself; what did you do to her?"

He stayed silent. I punched again. He cried out again.

"I w-was drunk," He tried to defend himself but that made me even angrier and I clenched my jaw, hard.

"And?" I said through gritted teeth.

"I just t-touched her a lit-" That was all I needed to hear.

I grabbed his bloodied collar and then bashed his head against the ground, hard enough to cause a concussion, just like Livi went through. I punched his guts repeatedly, staining his shirt with my bloodied knuckles, and then went back to his face. "You-" I punched hard, "FUCKING-" I punched harder, "DARE-" I threw another punch to his broken nose while he continued to cry out, "TOUCH-" I kneed where I had punched his stomach, "HER" I punch with every single ounce of strength that I had in me.

Adrenaline was coursing through my veins and I was about to bash his head against the ground again before I felt someone pull me away from him from the back, "Blake!" I heard Jordan's voice yell from behind me. "You're gonna kill him."

"That's the fucking point," I push him away.

He held on to me tighter this time and pulled me with all the strength that he had, making me stand up with him. "Don't. You. Fucking. Dare. Pull me away." I hissed at Jordan, causing him to let go of me.

I turned around and stepped closer to Ashton's bloodied figure, I scowled at him and then looked up at everyone around us. "This," I gestured to Ashton's body with my foot. "Is a fucking minimal example of what will happen to every single soul that dares to touch Olivia Davis- or any-fucking-one without fucking consent. Touch one hair from Olivia's head with your filthy hands," I lightly press my foot over Ashton's hand on the floor, keeping it in place. "say one goddamn fucking shitty word to her or about her-" I turn to Tina, who looked frozen in her spot and terrified. Good. "- and you'll fucking pay." I stomp hard on Ashton's hand, earning a cracking sound, and a scream from him.

"DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?" I yell out to everyone.

They stay silent.

"I SAID DO I FUCKING MAKE MYSELF CLEAR, YOU LITTLE SHITS?" They all nod their heads vigorously and I look back down at Ashton. "Fucking good," I grumble before spitting on his face and walking away.

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I ran my shaky fingers through my hair and looked at myself in the hospital bathroom's mirror. I had just finished cleaning my bloodied knuckles and washing my face multiple times to shake the images away.

My heart was accelerating again. Olivia was assaulted, she suffered through a panic attack on her own, she was left alone shaking on the floor, she had a seizure for the first time, I wasn't there with her to help her go through that.

I felt way better knowing Ashton's beaten into a pulp but I still won't be able to breathe properly until Olivia wakes up. What if no one had seen her in the deserted hallway? How far did Ashton go?

Did he...

NO!

No, no, no, NO.

He couldn't have.

My heart ached so badly for Livi. No one has to fucking go through that.

I just wanted to see her open her eyes. Her beautiful hazel doe eyes.

I need to see her.

What if something happened to her while I was beating Ashton up?

What if the doctor's informed them about some kind of new condition that they diagnosed her with and she'll eventua-

She won't leave.

She won't leave me.

She won-

FUCK. I need to see her.

I flung the bathroom door open and quickly rushed towards room 203. I entered the room and found Cole pacing around, Luke standing near Olivia's bed while looking down at his phone almost worriedly, Peter sitting on the chair next to the bed, also looking down at his phone with a frown, and Huda still asleep on the couch.

Everyone except Huda shot their heads towards me once I entered the room and Luke's face relaxed while Cole looked like he wanted to kill me. "Where the hell were you?" Cole asked and walked towards me.

"Is it true?" Luke asked me.

"What?"

"Did you beat the shit out of Ashton?" Cole asked before looking down at my fists and frowning. "You did." He answered his own question.

"Fuck yes, I did. Why?"

"We're the ones who are supposed to be asking that question." Luke stepped forward. "Why did you attack him?"

I stared at them with an intense gaze before looking back at Olivia on the bed. "He caused it," I grit my teeth and gazed at Livi.

"What?" They both sounded confused.

"He fucking caused the panic attack, the seizure, everything." I didn't remove my eyes from Olivia and walked towards her.

"What do you mean 'he caused it'? How?"

"He fucking came to school drunk, took her to an empty classroom, and assaulted her..."

Luke had blown the door open and was out of the room the second he heard the last word, his face was fuming. Cole and Peter stared at me with unreadable expressions. I heard a gasp from behind me and turned around, realizing that Huda had woken up.

"H-he what?" Cole's nostrils flared and he clenched his fists at his side. Peter quickly stood up from his spot.

"He sexually assaulted her, Cole."

Cole's breathing became very shallow and he quickly turned around and made a move to leave the room but Peter was quick to hold him back, "Cole, you saw the video, Blake already beat him up badly and was close to killing him. Luke left, let him handle the res-"

"Let go of me, Peter," Cole said almost too calmly.

Peter frowned, he looked angry by the news too but was clearly holding it in. "Col-"

"I SAID FUCKING LET GO OF ME!" Cole suddenly yelled, a vein bulging out of his head. Peter let him go.

Cole didn't give us a second look before he flung the door open and rushed out of the room. I stood in my place, not making a move to stop him, while Peter was quick to follow him. Let Cole murder Ashton for all I care.

I heard a sniffle come from the other side of the room and once again remembered that Huda was here. I looked at her and noticed the tears pouring out of her eyes while she pursed her lips, she was trying her best to keep her sobs in.

I frowned and walked over to where she was sitting on the couch, "Are you okay, Huda?"

She sniffled again and nodded her head weakly, "I'm s-sorry I-" Her voice broke before she stood up and walked out of the room, following Peter and Cole.

I sighed and ran my fingers through my hair for the millionth time. I turned around and walked towards Livi again. Taking a seat on the chair beside her bed and moving it closer to her.

I stared at her face and brought my hand to the side of her face, resting my palm against it and brushing my thumb over her adorable, smooth, and full cheek. It hurt me too much seeing her like this.

You already grew attached.

I don't give a fuck.

I ran my fingers through her soft blonde hair and kissed her nose, feeling my eyelids get heavy because of my lack of sleep in the past seventeen hours.

I gently rested my head against Livi's stomach, my nose instantly getting hit by her gardenia scent, and interlocked my hand with hers, feeling two tears slip my eyes before closing them. I once again, found myself falling asleep close to the girl I lost my heart to.

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