Sweetheart Boulevard

Chapter 4

"Dad?" Noelle whispered to herself.

"What's wrong Elle? Who's that?" asked Ray, worrying about what was happening.

"So, it's true, eh? What I'm hearing about my daughter." the drunken man approached  Noelle.

"Dad? What are you talking about?" the girl questioned, recognizing her father, Mason.

"People talk, you know? The boys at the office told me." Mason struggled to say as he  got closer to his daughter.

"Mister, I'm sorry to interfere, but I think you should calm down." Ray intervened as  the man tried to grab Noelle by her arm.

"Don't you dare talk to me! Get away from my daughter! You're an abomination! I  don't want to ever see you next to my daughter ever again!"

"Mister, please-" 

"Ray, it's fine, I got this." Noelle abruptly interrupted Ray from trying to make her  father leave.

"What are you doing there? Why are you home? You don't show up for months on  end and now you come here after God knows how many drinks and try to act all holy! It is none  of your business what I am doing these days or who I am with! You've lost that privilege when  you left me all alone after mom died!" the once lost little lamb exploded, saying everything she  had been wishing to tell her father.

"Elle, please, calm down. He's not worth it." 

"Elle? You're calling her Elle? You have no right to call her that. That's how her mother  used to call her." Mason commented, losing balance and tripping down the stairs.

The drunk  man had fallen off the porch and hit his head on the rocks leading up to the house. The rocks  were slowly turning red, as the man had cracked his head open and was starting to bleed out.  Noelle and Ray were in shock. Noelle's eyes were starting to tear up as she approached her  unconscious father.

"Call an ambulance!" she shouted as she checked for a pulse. "Ray! Call an ambulance  right now, please! I can't lose him too!" Noelle screamed desperately.

Who thought, after all  the pain this man caused her, she would worry so much about him? 7Ray picked up the phone and called for an ambulance, just as Noelle asked. In a few  minutes, they could already hear the loud siren of the ambulance and three paramedics rushed  to help the bleeding man. Everything happened so fast. They got Mason up in the back of the  ambulance and Noelle joined them without a doubt. The two girls glanced at each other one last  time before they closed the doors and drove off, leaving Ray standing on Noelle's porch, still  in shock and not fully comprehending what just happened.  That was the last time the two girls had seen each other.

To this day, Ray wonders where  Noelle disappeared and what happened to her. Where is she? Does she still draw? Did her father  stop drinking? How is her anxiety? Did she drop out of college? Does she have a job? But one  question was above all others: does she still love her? Ray, the blue-eyed mystery, still hopes  for her Noelle to return one day, but nevertheless, no matter what would happen, they would  still always have their boulevard, their sweetheart boulevard.