Reckless

Cody 13

I was gone fifteen, MAYBE twenty minutes and I come back to Legend standing in the middle of the street, shirtless, fighting some dude..... my first reaction was 'damn, Legend looks good as fuck' but then my next reaction was 'why is he out here fighting'? I slowed to a snail's pace as they moved closer to my car, I'll admit for an older dude he was holding his own but Legend seemed to be toying with him, dipping and dodging each one of the older dude's wild punches (though he did catch Legend a few times). Just as I was parking my car the dude tried to grab Legend who brushed him off easily, smiled, and then went on the attack, the punches Legend threw was precise, each one caught the dude off guard and whenever the man would try to go back on the attack Legend would stun him with another combo. Rú was standing off to the side, watching closely, he was holding a towel to his lip and shaking like he wanted to jump in but some invisible force was holding him back. I quickly got out of the car and moved to the side, hoping and praying that they didn't go anywhere near my new car.... but of course, with my luck, The dude grabbed Legend and they fell on the hood of my car; the man hitting Legend with weak body shots and Legend tagging the dude in the face before I could move over to Rú a car came speeding down the street, Jizzle jumped out with a large gun in his hand.

"JOEL YOU DUMB MUTHAFUCKER!!!!!" I heard Chae yell as she quickly jumped into the driver seat of the car that was still moving. Jizzle ran over to Legend and the man..... I closed my eyes waiting for the gunshot but it never came, taking a chance I peeked over at Legend, and the man, Jizzle was directing the man to his car with the gun pointed at his head. "He is so fuckin stupid, why is Legend fighting Whiteside?" Chae asked and now that I had a good look at the man, I said that he was Jerald Whiteside aka Rú's dad but Chae grew up following politics so she would know.

"I don't know, I pulled up like two minutes ago and they were out here fighting." I said watching Legend check his reflection in the window of my car, he seemed fine but there was always a chance that he wasn't.

"Well, I think you should hang back until I can confirm that he's in his right frame of mind." Chae said walking over to Legend and I rolled my eyes, I really wished she would cut Legend some slack.... it's been months since that incident and she just wouldn't let it go, it happened ONCE and I was starting to regret telling her in the first place.

"She's going to hold on to what happened for the rest of our lives, isn't she?" Legend asked walking over to me. "I'll never stop apologizing for what happened that night, I fucked up but I'm going to continue to try to make it up to you." Legend said kissing the palm of my hand. I swear I hated when he did that shyt; my legs started wobbling, I lost all rational thought, the air in my lungs became helium and I felt like I was about to take flight..... the scary part is he may not even know he was doing it.

"It's umm... it's fine Legend." I said trying to keep my voice from shaking. "Your umm.... your stuff is in the car... let me umm.... I'll go grab it." I said quickly walking away and hoping like hell he didn't notice me tripping over my own feet.

"Thanks." Legend said kissing me on the cheek. "Come on... let's go upstairs, give how hard Jizzle is apologizing to Chae I can only see this ending one way and I don't wanna be anywhere near them when it starts." Legend said shaking his head.

"Okay but you should check on Rú first, he looks pissed." I said glancing over at Rú who was pacing back and forth along the curb. Legend nodded before kissing me again and then walking over to his little brother, since I knew it may be a while I walked into the house and up to Legend's bedroom.

"Tell me about what's going on at your job, I need a distraction." Legend said walking into his room almost two hours later, he seemed tense but I also knew he thoroughly enjoyed my tales from work. "I think when we last left off you were telling me about that white dude who eats his boogers when he thinks no one is looking and has a habit of popping his pimples and collecting the stuff in a small jar." Legend said and my hands instantly shot to my mouth as I fought back the urge to vomit.