Uniform

Getting To Know You

We get to Eli's house and it's a beautiful 2 story house. He unlocks the door and the inside of the house is very welcoming and homely. "Please take your shoes off, my parents are on vacation but I don't want them to bitch about the house being dirty because I wore shoes in the house while they were gonna." He says exasperated, like he's said this a million times before. I slip off my shoes and leave them next to the door on an empty shoe rack. "My room is upstairs we can start on the project once we get in my room." He says beginning to walk upstairs, I silently follow him upstairs. I see him open the first door on the left as soon as he gets upstairs and follow him straight in. It's clean, everything has a place, and nothing is out of place. He starts to undo his tie and take off his jacket. He opens his dresser pulls out a plain red t-shirt and a pair of black shorts and hands it to me. "Here you can wear this, I hate how itchy these damn uniforms are so I know you must hate it as well." He says continuing to get undressed. "It's ok, I'll keep my uniform on." He stops undressing and looks directly into my eyes. "Are you hiding bruises?" He says to me in a serious tone which I had never heard him use. I look down at the clothes in my hand and shake my head. He walks over to me and gives me a soft hug. "Please, take the uniform off I wanna see them and know who the hell I need to send to hospital." I nod my head and softly cry into his chest. I wipe my eyes "I'll put it on, thank you." He continues to take off his uniform, I turn in the other direction so he can't see me changing. I take off my jacket first, then I start to undo my tie. I slowly start to unbutton my shirt and before I shrug it off I look over my shoulder to see if Eli is looking. He wasn't, but I saw him take off his dress shirt and he had pecs, and a six-pack. I blush and turn back around quickly shrugging off my dress shirt and putting the red t-shirt on. I unbutton my slacks and look over my shoulder to see if Eli is looking, I see him in a plain blue t-shirt and red shorts sitting on his bed watching me. I immediately start to blush and he gives me a cheeky wink. "Don't be shy I bet you have a cute bum." He says cheekily making me blush more turning my whole face red. "Please don't look," I say sheepishly waiting for him to cover his eyes or turn away. He covers his eyes and I shrug off my slacks and quickly put the black shorts on. I turn around and see him peeking through his fingers. "I asked you not to look," I say angrily and he drops his hands into his lap and has a shocked look on his face. "I-I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you." He says shamefully. "What did you see?" I ask hoping he hasn't figured out that I'm a girl. "I saw that you're wearing a thong, you don't have to be embarrassed I own a few myself." He says with some confusion in his voice. I can tell he doesn't suspect anything so I leave it alone.

"Come sit with me." He says while patting the space on the bed next to him. I walk over to the bed and sit down and he looks me up and down seeing all the bruises on my arms and legs and lastly the one on my face. "Do you have bruises everywhere on your body?" He says concerned but I can see the anger in his eyes. I nodded shamefully. "Who did this?" He said through clenched teeth. "These 3 guys: Hunter, Ollie, and Rory. I don't know what year they are or their last names so it probably doesn't help much but I can describe them."

"You don't need to describe them, I know exactly who they are. I'm gonna kick all their asses the next time I see them." He says with his fists clenched in a tight ball. "How do you know them?"

"Unfortunately, Hunter is my ex. I used to hang out with him and his friends, he cheated on me so I dumped him. Ever since he and his friends have been real assholes." I was completely shocked, I couldn't believe that Hunter dated Eli in the first place, especially after what happened in the bathroom today. I just sat there with my mouth open like an idiot not knowing how to respond to this new information. "Are you sure we're talking about the same person? I mean the Hunter I'm talking about literally called me a 'faggot' today." It was now Elijah's turn to be shocked. "Is that what happened to your face today?" I then told him what Hunter did to me in the bathroom and he got up angrily from his bed and started pacing around his room. "FUCKING BASTARD!!" He screamed causing me to flinch a little. I didn't think he would be upset over me telling him about being bullied, does that mean he cares about me or is it just to get revenge since Hunter is his ex? "I'm sorry for shouting." He says bringing me out of my train of thought. He then quickly walks back over to the bed and sits next to me. He puts his hand under my chin for the second time today and turns my head to look directly into his eyes. "I'm going to protect you from now on Sage." His blue eyes burning with intensity and determination and all I wish I could do is lean forward and kiss him. He lets go of my chin and gives me a light smile. "Let's start on the project now." I nod in agreement.