always you || eli moskowitz

02

It's night now, and my dad is supposed to get back home soon.

"Hey, you hungry?" My dad asks me as he walks into the apartment, right on que.

"Very." I say and I get my shoes on. We both walk outside and get into his car, which to be honest I think he loves more then me. We ride to the corner store in silence as we do most nights.

"Do you wanna come inside with me?" He asks me as he opens his car door.

"No, I'll wait here." I say to him as he gets out. He mutters an 'okay' and walks into the store. I go on my phone to pass the time my dads in the store.

I look up a couple minutes later when I hear a car that's blasting music park near me. I see that it's a group of guy that go to my school. I look back at my phone, not wanting to make eye contact with any of them. Out of the corner of my eye I see them go into the store, which lets me relax.

All of a sudden the group of guys from my school come out of the store yelling at Miguel. Shit. What happened? They push him into the grass, making him fall over. They start talking to him and even though I can't hear them well, I know it's not good. In fear of them beating him up or something, I get out of the car. But I'm not going to walk over there unless I know something bad is happening.

"Pepto Bismol? Oh shit he has fricken diarhea." Kyler says, and the rest of the group starts to laugh.

"We should call him 'Rhea." One of the boys calls out, causing the rest of them to laugh once again.

"Give it back dude. It's for my grandma." Miguel says, and they start making fun of him once again. This time, I walk over there.

"Just give him the damn Pepto Bismol, what's the big deal?" I ask as calmly as possible.

"Oh who we got here?" Kyler says looking at me as I walk over to Miguel. I don't answer him, but he still stares at me.

"I'll give it to him in exchange for something else sweet cheeks." He says, winking at me. I look at him in disgust.

"Oh piss off." I say, angry.

"Ok then." He says to us. Then he uncaps the bottle and pours the pink liquid over our heads. He throws the bottle at Miguel and starts to walk away.

"Asshole." Miguel mutters, making Kyler turn back around.

"What'd you say 'Rhea?" Kyler asks, walking over to Miguel.

"I didn't say anything." Miguel says, stuttering a bit. Without warning, Kyler punches him in the stomach, making Miguel fall to the ground. When Miguel gets up, the rest of his friends push Miguel into my dads car.

"What the hell?!" I yell, and I use all my strength push Kyler to the ground as well.

"Hey!" My dad yells, finally walking out from the store. "Watch the car man."

"Who's this dude?" Kyler asks no one in particular.

"Just leave them alone." My dad says, motioning to us.

"What?" Kyler asks. I walk over to Miguel as Dad and the guys start to argue.

"Are you all right?" I ask Miguel who nods in response.

When I look back over to my dad, I see Kyler pushing him away. My dad then kicks Kyler across the face, making him fall to the ground. How the hell did he get his leg all the way up to Kyler's face?

All of the boys in Kyler's group start to come at him, but he fights them all off.

"Holy shit how did you-" Miguel begins to ask my dad something, but Kyler gets back up and throws Dad back onto the ground and starts punching him.

Dad pushes him off of him, and back to the ground.

"Is that all you got ladies?" He yells at them. They all go back in, trying to beat him up, but it doesn't work. All of the sudden, I hear sirens.

"Dad! Cut it out the cops are here!" I try and yell at him, but it's too late.

"Hey! Get off the kids." The police says as he runs up to my dad.

Miguel and I both run up to the scene forming in front of us, but the police pepper spray him and put him in cuffs.

"Are your guy's parents here?" The cop asks us.

"No, we walked here so we can just walk back." I say and the cop nods at us, letting us go.

As soon as we get out of ear shot of the cops, Miguel started talking to me.

"How the hell did your dad do that?" He asks me. I look at him and shrug my shoulders, not knowing the answer.

"By the way, thanks for sticking up for me back there, even though know you have Pepto Bismol in your hair." He says, making us both laugh.

"No problem." I say with a smile, and with that, we walk back to our apartment complex in the dark.