Light Me Up Again

chapter 13

Arlo

After my shower, I go down to find everyone looking at Elliot, his thrown the outdoor table and chairs around the backyard and his shaking luci out of anger. I run outside to get him off my girl and end up fighting with him.

We take the fight out to the beach, landing a few hits on each other. Luci jumps between us, trying to stop the fight when Elliot tries to hit me again, and Luci punches him in the nose.

Luci instructed me to go inside and sent colin after me. I don't know where she has gone, I just wish she was with me. Lily is in her room crying, worried about her brother, and im staring at myself in the mirror, cleaning up my bloody face. "I'm ok, colin, im a doctor, remember?" I say to him, letting him know to go see how his fiancé is. She needed him more than I did. I clean up and have a shower to raise myself of elliots blood.

I sit on Luci's bed, waiting for her to show up. It's been 45 minutes. Suddenly, I hear the door open, and I look over to her. "Where were you?" I say in a deep voice "Elliots" she says, standing her ground. My blood begins to boil at the sound of his name, I jump to my feet, and I wrap my hands on her arms, not knowing my strength. I squeeze a little too hard. "Why the hell did you go to him instead of looking after me?"

She looks at me with attitude and raises an eyebrow, I knew at this moment I was about to hear it. "If you do not let go of me, I will make sure you never have kids, if you understand what Im saying."

I knew full well what she meant. I looked down at my hands and pulled them away, leaving them in the air to show as a sign of peace. Instant regret flooded my body, and all I wanted to do was pull her into my chest and apologise 100 times over.

I've never laid my hands on a woman, but it's just something about Elliot that pisses me off. "I'm not a punching bag, first Elliot now you, who do think you are laying your hands on me? Is this what my life with you will look like? When you're angry, you're just going to grab me or hurt me." I want to scream out to her. No, it won't be; it will be beautiful. But im still and unable to talk.

"I was just at Elliot's saying goodbye because anna gave him an ultimatum, and I am not going to stand in the way of someone's relationship. I once again for the 2nd time in my life have to say goodbye to a friend of many years, so I'm sorry your ego is bruised and you didn't have me there to stroke it, but I have my own personal issues to deal with".

I didn't think of my ego, I thought about her, once she told me I knew this was killing her, and I knew deep down I would never have with her what Elliot does.

She strips naked in front of me and walks into the shower. Man, she has a rocking body, and she done that to spite me. I open the shower door and step in, I still have my clothes on and look down at Luci as the warm water falls over my hair and soaks my body.

"What are you doing in here with your clothes on? Are you crazy?" she says while she tries to look up to me. I grab her face between my hands, and I run my thumbs along her cheeks, "I love you, Luci. I've never laid my hands on any woman, and I regret putting mine on you. I am so sorry I hurt you, I know that whatever you have with him, me and you will never have and it makes me mad, because I want you and I want to make you happy and give you the life that you deserve". Luci begins to undress me from my wet clothes and showers me.

We lay in bed cuddled until she fell asleep. Tonight was tough for all of us both mentally and physically. I whisper, "We are going to have a holiday; I think we need it." I kiss her on the head and fall to sleep.