I Never Meant to Hurt the Ones Who Cared

four.

It was rather obvious that Bellona wasn't in a very good mood while she drove to school in the morning. She was getting pissed off at the littlest things that went wrong. Her morning wasn't so kind to her as it should have been. It started off with Owen running in her room hyperactive and pulling her awake at 5AM. Then he somehow convinced her to make him dinosaur shaped pancakes, instead of just simple cereal and milk, and accidentally pushed the plate causing it to break and all the pancakes to be ruined. Later on he refused to get into his clothes which just caused a bigger hassle for Bellona. She loved the kid to death but sometimes he was the biggest pain.

She pulled up to a parking spot just a couple blocks away from the school building and started walking. While walking she noticed four rather bulky guys head into the arts building. On a better glance she noticed it was her two teachers, Mr. Baker and Mr. Sanders along with two other guys. One had spoke hair and a pair of sunglasses on even though it was a cloudy day, and the other was rather short and looked normal.

She couldn't help but think about Mr. Baker and how much she liked his class. She was excited for the rest of the semester, he seemed to be a good and fun teacher, but he had to cover the basics the first class. As for Mr. Sanders, she had no idea what to think about him. She thought it was adorable how he got so nervous at the beginning of the class but the odd looks that he was giving her kind of creeped her out.

They definitely weren't your average teachers either. HBC was one of the more prestigious colleges in the Orange County area and it was a shock that they'd let such… dangerous looking men teach. To Bellona, they weren't terrible looking, but she didn't want to admit the opposite either.

When she entered the building she walked towards her first class of the morning, Music Theory. From what she understood from her schedule it was taught by two teachers. When she first read it she chucked a bit about why they would have two teachers teaching a course.

She walked inside the classroom to see it half full and the two other guys walking with Mr. Baker and Sanders standing at the front of the classroom. She took a seat down near the back of the room and pulled out her notebook starting to doodle.

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Brian took a look at the sheet that Johnny threw at him. It was the class roster for the semester. It wasn't big, about thirty students or so but he knew that it would decrease as time passed. He rolled his eyes thinking to himself that if the class got smaller that would mean more interaction between the students and teachers.

It wasn't that he didn't want to teach, it just wasn't his passion. But to be honest, he never really had a true passion other than killing people and what he called "being a badass". He loved playing the guitar, he loved music, but he didn't want a career out of it. He never thought he'd end up in a boring 9 - 5 job for the rest of his life.

When he looked through the list there was one name that stuck out to him from the rest. "Bellona Sullivan". Years ago Jimmy had confided in him that he had met a girl and he knew the was 'the one'. He told Brian that he knew he had to keep their relationship a secret and none of them could ever meet her since it would put her in danger if it was shown she was affiliated with them in any way. He knew that after two years of being in a relationship with her Jimmy eloped with her as well.

He couldn't help but think if that was the girl who he married. It would be safe for them to interact with her now and it made him sad to know that there was a girl out there who was hurting just as much as he did or more.

Brian quickly shook the thought out of his head convincing himself that it wasn't her. "Sullivan" was a common last name and he couldn't go around thinking every girl with that last name was Jimmy's wife.

He just sat there for the remainder of the time before class started while Johnny fucked around on the whiteboard. He kept on drawing dicks everywhere and laughing about it which led Brian to question Johnny's sexuality… even if he had a steady girlfriend.

When the students started filling in he groaned inwardly to himself as Johnny quickly ran all around erasing his artwork. Putting on a fake smile he grabbed the roster and started calling off names.

When he reached Bellona's name he paused for a bit before saying it out loud. He heard a soft "here" over by the back of the classroom. He looked over to see an adorable girl sitting there. She had her legs crossed and looked really shy. As their eyes met Brian couldn't help but notice the sadness that she held in her eyes. As much as her lips and face were contorted into a small smile, he could see there was an emptiness in her eyes.

After he finished calling out all the student's names he took a seat as Johnny started talking about the course.

"So my names Mr. Seward but it's really weird to hear you guys say that, so call me Johnny" He grinned "I'm your teacher for Theory, you also have a second teacher! His name is Mr. Haner. We're going to start today off by seeing what you know about theory. If you have any questions don't hesitate to come ask either me or Mr. Haner!"

All the students scrambled to get the booklet and went back to their seats to start working on the questions. They started off simple, with normal notation and key signature, but they became harder in the end with questions about cadences and such. Bellona did fine up until the questions about augmented chords. She contemplated in her mind wether to ask for help. She didn't want to bother them, but that's what they're there for right? She had an internal battle with her mind wether to go and ask or not.

Finally she got up and walked towards Mr. Haner since Johnny was busy helping another student. His eyes immediately lit up when she walked towards him and he quickly asked her what she needed help with.

"Um, I don't exactly know how to write an augmented chord?" She said softly.

"No problem, I had a lot of trouble too" He laughed "You want to know what an augmented note is. It's like a 'double sharp'. So for example, an augmented F is double F# - which turns it into a G."

"So they couldn't just write a G…" She groaned.

"Nah, they like to fuck with your brain." Brian laughed out which caused Bellona to laugh as well. While he was teaching her about the chord Bellona couldn't help but stare at him and notice how good looking he actually was.
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So this may be a bit of a filler, but I really want to get the back story across before I make anything heated and sexy. Heh.

Anyway sorry I haven't been updating regularly, I'm so stressed out right now. If any of you know I run an online magazine so things have been crazy for that too. I try and keep my identity on here "hidden" but if you want to check it out just send me a message.