after an accidental fight club idea was brought up, your best friends, pj and josie, and an acquaintance of theirs, hazel, were on the bleachers discussing the possibility of it really happening. despite being friends with them, you were a cheerleader, so you were a few bleacher rows away with isabel and brittany at the moment. pj admits that they lied about going to juvie to hazel. “why would you lie to me?” she mumbles.

they decide to actually create the club because maybe it’d make the girls they like think they’re cool.

when they get their first few members, pj and josie continue their juvie lie. it spreads, and the group goes larger. isabel and brittany joined the group, so you followed. you secretly had eyes for hazel but you’d never admit it. you were happy it got you closer to her.

one night, the group decides to egg jeff (isabel’s ex boyfriend)’s house because he cheated on her with mrs. callahan. (hazel saw it happen in her own damn house).

it was supposed to be a casual egging. but being the absolute nerd hazel is, she built a small bomb. and placed it under his car. she accidentally set the timer to 15 seconds and they didn’t drive away in time to not be seen.

“we’ll be fine, no one knows it was us.” pj tells the group. until the next morning at school, jeff’s best friend, tim, walks up to you, pj, and josie at your lockers and confronts you. “your little club is done.” he said.

emergency fight club meeting in the gym! you’re all discussing the possibility of the club being shut down. pj reassures the group that they will be fine, hazel speaks up and it turns into a fight. she walks out crying, you follow her.

the next day, there’s a pep rally. hazel is sitting near the top of the bleachers, you didn’t know she’d be sitting away from the others so you were sitting with pj and josie near the bottom. (oh yeah, josie and isabel happened to get together last night.)

tim is on the mic, talking to the crowd. he brings up the club, and calls down hazel, as one of the founding members of the group, to fight the best boxer at school.

shit.

“i thought i was fighting pj..?” she mutters, glancing at the group, then to you, then back at the boxer. they start to fight, hazel’s doing surprisingly well—then she gets knocked on her fucking ass, blood spilling from her lips.

the group reacts just a bit, you panic, obviously, seconds from getting up and rushing over to her. isabel grabs your shoulder. “don’t. she’s good. if you go up there, you’ll get hurt too.” you take a breath.

tim starts talking again. then you hear him call out the girls for lying about juvie and only starting the group to fuck cheerleaders.

you knew hazel didn’t lie about juvie, as she never said she went there, but the second part hit you like a truck.

before you could even react to that, the boxer abruptly lands a hard kick to her head. blood is all over her, bruises on her face. god fucking damn it.

you’re the first one up, practically flying to the gym floor. you’re on your knees, panicked, trying to make sure she’s okay. isabel is just standing there, looking to make sure she’s okay, before she turns around to look at josie, standing a few feet away with pj. “is that true..?”

“you’re pathetic, josie.” she says through tears before walking out. the rest of the group is helping you help hazel up, she has tears dripping from her eyes but she’s not making a sound, she’s barely all there.

later, the group, besides pj and josie, are all in hazel’s house, watching a movie, you’re on the couch with hazel’s head in your lap, stroking her hair but zoned out, thinking.

you know it’d be selfish to ask her about what tim said at a time like this, but you also knew that if it was true and she had the same idea about the club as pj and josie, that’d be selfish too.

you snap out of your thoughts when you hear a quiet whine beneath you, you blink your eyes and look down, seeing that her eye was starting to open, the other one had been bruised shut. she’s looking up at you with a mix of pain and affection.