Chapter 169 - Makai – My Ocean Is Hurt

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Makai

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"Ocean, are you OK?" That was stupid of me to ask, he was obviously not OK.

"Just really sore right now." He whispered softly as he answered, like it hurt to speak.

"I want answers, right now." The principal was furious. I saw him looking between the injured Ocean and the raging Justin.

"I will tell you, as much as I know." Ryan walked up to him and began to explain the beginning.

"I heard that part from you already, Ryan. I want to know what else happened."

"From what I gathered, Justin tackled Ocean into this room, locked the door, and proceeded to assault him. When we managed to get inside, he had Ocean pinned to the ground and was forcing a kiss on him."

At that, everyone in the room, aside from Ocean, looked at Justin. I saw that the assailant in this case blushed crimson.

"I..I wasn't kissing him." He refused that part of the accusation.

"Then that wasn't your lips that were pressed against him?" The male teacher crossed his arms in front of his chest and glared at Justin from his position right next to him. I could see that this teacher was pissed off at Justin and what he had done.

"I will handle the questioning for now, Mr. Garret. Please just make sure that the boy doesn't leave the classroom. Mike, please go and call for the police." The principal was giving out orders.

"Should I call an ambulance as well?" The janitor asked before he left the room. "That boy looks like he needs one. There is blood everywhere."

"Yes, please have them send an ambulance as well." The principal answered as he walked over towards Ocean.

The closer that the principal got to Ocean the more tense he seemed to get. For some reason he was afraid of what was going to happen next. Ocean even grabbed my hand and held it loosely. Was he not capable of holding it tight right now? That made me worry even more.

"Ocean, can you please tell me what happened, in your own words. I want to hear it first." Mr. Daniels knelt beside Ocean, opposite of me, and looked at him. I could see that his eyes were lingering on the bruises and the swelling around his face as well as the blood that I could see was still flowing.

"It's just like they said." Ocean's voice was sounding weaker than usual. Maybe this was because of the pain or maybe it was from something else entirely, I just didn't know which one. "Justin tackled me into this room, where I hit my head. From there he punched me, threw those desks at me, and pinned me to the ground."

"Did he kiss you as I was told?" I don't know why the principal needed to know that. What the hell?

"Yes, he did." Ocean sounded resigned and answered softly.

"Then this isn't just a simple assault case, it's a sexual assault case."

"Wait a minute!" Justin yelled across the classroom. "I did not sexually assault him at all."

"Did you not pin him to the floor and forcibly kiss him? That, young man, is sexual assault." The teacher, Mr. Garret, snapped at Justin in a voice that was even yet somehow brimming with anger.

"Mr. Garret is correct, Mr. Jeffries. You forced yourself onto another person. It doesn't matter that you were both male students, it's a sexual assault case through and through. And I hope that this goes without saying, but you are hereby expelled."

The moment that those words were out of Mr. Daniel's mouth, I heard the sound of the sirens in the distance. There sounded like there were two or three of them at least.

"Mrs. Victoria." The principal called out and the female teacher from earlier stepped away from the door. I hadn't even known that she was in there. "Please go back to your room and radio the office. I want the entire school to go to the gymnasium. We are going into lockdown mode as is customary with police presence in the building."

"B..but Mr. Daniels, the suspect is already apprehended. Is that truly necessary?" Mrs. Victoria seemed confused.

"I do not want poor Ocean to become a spectacle to the rest of the student body. I am sure that he would much rather not have them see him like this." The principal was showing a lot more consideration than I originally thought he would. I guess he was a better guy than I originally thought he was.

"Oh. Yes sir, that makes sense. I will go right now." At that, she left the room.

The PA system came to life, ordering the entire school to the gym so that they would be away from the police and ambulance that were due to arrive any second now. The noise outside in the hallways was barely muffled when the door was shut and Mike, the janitor, stood guard on the outside.

"This is bullshit." Justin kept saying over and over again. I think that he was just pissed off that the principal hadn't asked for his side of the story, but with so many witnesses and the injuries clearly revealing what had happened, there was no need. Or maybe he was going to ask him for his side when Ocean wasn't around.

Not long after the noise in the hall died down, the door to the classroom opened again to let a couple of men dressed in uniforms in. They were very clearly police officers. Ocean wasn't looking at them that much, but Justin paled the moment that he saw them. The fucking asshole should have thought about the repercussions before he attacked Ocean.

"OK, can someone explain what happened here?" The officer in the lead asked when he looked around the room, assessing the damage. I know that he was taking in the cracked whiteboard, the desks that were bent and strewn about, the blood that had splattered all around Ocean who was laying there, obviously in pain, and finally Justin who was looking pissed and scared.

Between the principal, Mr. Garret and Ryan managed to get the whole story. They would need to talk to Ocean as well, but they started with just the three of them. While that officer listened to the stories and wrote down what had happened, the other officer walked around the room, writing down what he saw and noting things that would be listed as evidence.

Before the story was done being retold, three people in paramedic uniforms came running into the room with a gurney. They took one look around and immediately saw Ocean laying on the floor so that was where they went without being told who needed the help.

"What's his name?" A female paramedic asked me as she sat a bag next to Ocean's head.

"H..his name is Ocean." I stuttered a little. It was a little nerve wracking to know that my boyfriend needed to be tended to like this.

"Ocean, can you hear me buddy?" She asked him as she opened his eyes more than they already had been. The other two paramedics moved me out of the way, forcing me from his side so I could only watch on from afar. 

"Yessh." Ocean answered her but didn't sound much like himself.

"Can you tell me what day it is?" She asked him, and tell me your name."

"Issh moonday. My neem is Osshen." Well, he knew what he was saying, he just couldn't say it properly. If someone didn't know the situation, they would think that Ocean was drunk. He wasn't drunk though, and that meant that my Ocean was hurt really badly.

"Ocean, can you open your eyes for me and tell me how many fingers I'm holding up?" The woman was still talking to Ocean while the other two were putting a blood pressure cuff onto his arm and a monitor on his finger. All of this happened while the woman held two fingers in front of Ocean's face. "Come on, buddy, tell me how many fingers you see."

"Shicks." That was slurred but I was pretty sure that Ocean had just said six, which was definitely not right."

"He was more lucid earlier." I felt the panic rising inside of me. "He didn't slur when he was talking just five minutes ago."

"We need to get him to the hospital, now." The woman didn't look at me, she just spoke while doing her job with the other three.

"How bad is it?" Mr. Daniels asked as the paramedics started to move Ocean to the stretcher.

"He has a concussion, at the very least." She answered him while using a pair of small scissors to cut Ocean's shirt open.

"And from the look of this some severe bruising with some possible broken ribs." The man that was working with her said in an even voice.

"We're taking him in now. Is there someone that will ride with him?" The woman asked the principal but I answered before he could.

"I am riding with him."

"Makai, son, I don't think that is a good idea."

"I do." I almost growled at him. "He is my boyfriend, and I am not letting him go without me." That put an end to the discussion. I was able follow him and the paramedics out of the room. As I did, I got the satisfaction of watching the lead cop put the cuffs onto Justin's wrists. That was a good sight to see.. I would enjoy telling Ocean about it later.