Flowers in the Heart Part 2

Chapter 1

"Hey Scott, Fauna kind of likes you," Jenna said, snickering.

"Hey Jenna, it hard to hear yourself over that echo?" Scott said as he caught the football, and then heaved it back to Ronnie.

"Huh?" Jenna asked, puzzled.

"Yeah, your head up your ass like that, I figure there's got to be a hell of a loud echo," Scott said and caught the football again.

"Oh fuck you; you're such an ass hole," Jenna snapped and stomped away.

Scott smiled easily and heaved the ball back to Ronnie.

He knew Fauna liked him; he could hardly miss the doe like eyes she cast his way all the time. But he also knew that Hillary Monroe liked him, Terri Langmeyer liked him, and Tammy Fontenot liked him.

Ronnie smiled cruelly and hurled the football at Jenna's retreating form. The quarterback for St. Thomas Aquinas, he very easily struck her in the back of her blonde head with the missile, knocking her down.

"No!" Scott yelled out, trying to run to catch the football as soon as Ronnie lobbed it.

"God damn, what's wrong with you, huh?" Scott yelled at his friend as he trotted over to Jenna.

"Hey, you okay?" he gently asked just as Jenna began to sob out loud. "Oh, no, no, don't do that; God I hate crying!"

He picked her up into his arms and hugged her tightly to himself but she just wailed louder.

Physically, she wasn't hurt; there was a stinging in the back of her head where the football had struck her, but her feelings were deeply hurt.

"Come on, let's get Sister Lucy to look at your head," Scott gently said and half walked, half carried her toward the school building.

"Why'd he do that?" Jenna sobbed, not really expecting an answer.

"I don't know; he's an ass hole, I guess," Scott admitted.

"I wasn't doing nothing to him," Jenna sobbed.

He walked her to the administration offices of St. Thomas Aquinas and told Miss Ormond that he and Ronnie had been tossing a football back and forth and Jenna had been accidentally hit in the head. Miss Ormond paged for Sister Lucy, the school nurse to come to the office.