For some reason my hands started to shake when I was punching in his message to Ellie. What the hell? I mean, I got a little bit excited at the idea of finally getting to meet Ellie face to face but come on? Maybe it was just my shoulder acting up. I hurt it during spring training and now I carry a bottle of Advil in my pocket everywhere I go.
Yeah, surely that was it! I mean come on, it is just Ellie, Jeff’s sister, for Christ sake. She had been over to our place a few times but Jeff always made sure I was never home when she was over. From what I can remember she looked like she was cute and I could tell she had a rocking body. I have seen her from afar plenty of times. She was really into yoga and even got Jeff hooked on it for a little while. Bastard kept trying to get me to go to some Yoga place downtown. Fuck that. The Yoga shit coach makes us do is enough for me thank you very much.
We had been sitting out in the parking lot for a few minutes and no Ellie. Jeff sent her another message but nothing.
“SHIT! I have a bad feeling. ” Jeff said as he strained his neck to watch a side entrance for his sister.
“Come on, let’s just go in and see what is taking her so long. ” Jeff said as he jumped out of his truck.
“Dude, do you think this is a good idea going into a high school? I mean don’t you have to do the whole check in shit so you don’t freak people out?” I said as I practically ran to keep up with him.
“Nah, I know where her locker is. They never keep this side door locked. I sometimes bring Ellie stuff to eat during her off period. ”
It must have been between classes because kids were fucking everywhere. Holy fuck you couldn’t give me a million bucks to go back to high school. Just walking down the hall gave me memories I wanted to just push back down, way…. way…. far down.
I noticed Jeff tense up next to me and I looked down the hall to see what he was looking at.
“What the fuck?” Jeff whispered. I followed his eyes.
What the hell? My stomach did a total dive when I looked and saw a girl standing with her side facing towards us. I knew in an instant…. this was Ellie.
“Ellie what the hell is going on? I got your text honey, WHAT is going on?” I barely heard Jeff say to his sister. Ellie turned to look at Jeff and my breath caught in my throat when I saw her. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever laid my eyes on. Her beautiful blue eyes were red and bloodshot and she had a dazed and confused look on her face. I looked down and saw her holding her hand and it appeared to be hurt. I immediately balled my hands into fists. The anger that built up inside me knowing someone had hurt her shocked the shit out of me.
“What the fuck did you do to my sister you asshole? I will KILL you if you have hurt her!” Is all I heard before I tore my eyes away from Ellie. Jeff had some douche bag kid pinned up against the lockers. I have seen Jeff mad but I have never seen him loss his temper like this.
Just then Ellie walked up and tried to pull Jeff off of the kid but she jumped back and let out a cry like she was in pain. No way was she going to get anymore hurt. I walked up and placed my hands on her shoulder to get her out of the way. The moment my hands made contac
t with her body I felt a jolt go from my finger tips to my toes.
What the fuck was that?
“Stand back here Ellie so you don’t get hurt sweetheart. ” I said as I brought her a few feet away from where Jeff was going insane on some high school kid. Ellie turned and looked up at me. Her eyes widened in surprise. My god she had the most beautiful blue eyes. Her hair was a beautiful light brown and was wavy and just past her shoulders a few inches. All I wanted to do was run my hands through her hair. I could not even form the next words in my head.
By the way she was looking back at me, she felt the same way. She was staring at me like I was trying to take her soul. I felt her shudder under my touch and I let out a small laugh. She narrowed her eyes at me and looked over my shoulder at the commotion going on behind me.
There was some guy now yelling at Jefferson. I needed to get him out of here before we both got our asses put in jail.
I gave Ellie a reassuring squeeze, smiled down at her and then turned my attention onto Jeff.
“Jeff, take it easy man. Calm the hell down dude; he’s not worth going to jail for!” I said to Jeff in a calm voice. I knew he was upset and I needed to bring him down.
“I’m going to kill that fucker if he hurt her in anyway Gunner, I. Will. kill. him!” Jeff shouted as he looked over at the douche bag.
Just then I heard another girl shout out; “OH FUCK…. . ELLS! Jeff! We need to get Ellie to the hospital like RIGHT NOW!”
I looked over and saw Ellie’s hand swelling pretty quickly. The anger that started to build up inside me once again scared the shit out of me. I had not had this much anger since my senior year of high school where I took it out on a few guys by way of fighting. This fucker did something to hurt Ellie and all I wanted to do was smash his head on the floor.
“Dude listen to me, your sister is hurt. We need to get her to the doctor right now. Don’t worry about this fuck wad Jeff. We can take care of him later” I said to Jeff as I looked over at the mother fucker who hurt Ellie somehow. I wanted to kill him right there.
“I will be back for you bastard. ” Jeff hissed through gritted teeth. I pulled on Jeff’s arm to get him moving, “Let’s go Jeff. ”
Jeff and Ellie and the other girl started to make their way out of the school and to Jeff’s truck. I had seen that we passed the cafeteria on the way in so I ran in and quickly bought a bottle of water and asked the lady for a small bag of ice for Ellie. By the time I got back outside I was jogging back to Jeff’s truck. I heard Jeff and the other girl bickering about something. I thought I heard Jeff call her Arianna at one point.
Once Ellie was in the back seat I reached in and gave her the ice.
“Thank you ah, um, Gunner. ” Ellie barely got out her words. Damn it she must be in a lot of pain. Poor girl can barely talk.
“No problem Ellie. Try to keep it up above your heart sweetheart and here take these Advil. ” I said as I handed her the water and a few Advil from my pocket stash and tried to give her a reassuring smile. My god she was beautiful. Her friend leaned over and told her to breathe.