A Duck Dynasty Story: Love Sparks ON HOLD

Chapter Nine

Elle’s P.O.V

In this very moment all I wanted to do was run. More than anything I wanted to run away from him, my past. My past was something that I was glad to get away from. I wasn’t proud of the person I used to be in New York. Sure I might have been popular and everyone thought I lived a perfect life, but I learned quickly that popularity came at a price. I was far from living a picture perfect life and I was the only one who could ever see that.

 I sighed thinking of all the memories I left behind only a month ago, don’t get me wrong I was all for forgetting, but my past was a part of me. It would be something I would always have to have the burden of carrying. Right now my chances of escaping weren’t looking very good, but I wasn’t going to go down without a fight.

Before Aiden could walk any closer, I made a run for it. I knew it wouldn’t be much longer until he caught up to me, but the least I could do was try.

Five minutes later I was still running at full speed, but was slowly starting to run out of breath. I was so tempted to throw a glance over my shoulder to see where Aiden was. If I did, he might catch up. I couldn’t let that happen. After several seconds, I gave into my temptation and spun around only to see Aiden nowhere in sight.

I slowly smiled to myself before turning back around only to see Aiden right in front of me. My small smile quickly vanished from my face only to be replaced with fear. He smirked in my defeat making me feel as if I were diminishing in size. Aiden knew my weakness and he would do anything in his power to take advantage of it.

I looked up from the ground to see Aiden take one step closer. We were now standing face to face. All of those feelings from last year were now starting to come up again. I could feel my face flush at the thought that he was able to hear my rugged breathing.

He carefully placed a finger on my mouth to silence me and tucked a fly away behind my ear. I badly wanted to take a step back, to get away from him, but he was always one step ahead.

At first I thought about screaming, maybe that’ll get someone’s attention.  I swear as strange as it sounds the two of us must have psychic telepathy...or why else would he take out a roll of duct tape to silence me?

I started fidgeting, trying to get out of his grasp, but as hard as I tried, I couldn’t. Aiden wouldn’t let me budge. Instead he wrapped the piece of duct tape he tore off of the roll around my mouth.  At this point, only a miracle would be able to set me free. 

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Cole’s P.O.V

I felt a tap on my shoulder, only to see a shy looking Elle. She was so breathtakingly beautiful, I wanted to kiss her. I took her hand, locking her fingers into mine. I pulled her in, until our bodies were on the verge of touching.

 Right as I was going to put my lips on hers, I heard a hiss directed at the two of us. I looked around only to see John Luke. John Luke, what was he doing here? I broke away and started to rub my eyes to see more clearly.

Just as I broke away from her, John Luke brushed me aside and took ahold of Elle’s hand. No, no, no. This can’t be happening! He jerked her body towards him and then leaned in for a kiss.

I couldn’t take this anymore. I was NOT going to stand aside and be a pushover for much longer! I needed to learn how to take initiative for once in my life. I marched over to where the two of them were standing preparing myself for what I’d have to do.

Suddenly, I felt drowsiness start to overcome me. I felt my head start to pound the moment a moan escaped my lips. I thought I was going to fall over any second due to how dizzy I was until my eyes fluttered open.

I took a brief moment to take in my surroundings. Something was clearly wrong with this picture. I was wearing a hospital gown, in a hospital bed, with a heart monitor at my very side.

What had happened? Obviously it wasn’t good, laying in a hospital bed was a dead giveaway. . I looked around yet again to see an excited Mia jumping up and down at the sight of me. God I hope mom didn’t give her too much candy, we all know what a mistake that would be..

Next I know she started screaming. “Look mommy, Cole’s awake, he’s awake!!!”, she said pointing a finger in my direction. I saw my mom jolt straight up in her seat as she rapidly rushed to my side.

Relief came over her as tears began to drip down her face. “Mom”, I croaked. I didn’t want her to worry about me, she had more important things to do. Besides it’s not as if I was about to die or something! Was I? I didn’t have a clue. All I knew for sure was that I didn’t want to see my mom go through that kind of pain.

“Ow!”, I yelped feeling a sharp object prodding my side. I looked to my right side of the hospital bed to see a shiny bracelet sparkling down at me. I brushed my hand along the sheets trying to muster what little strength I had to pick up the bracelet. Yup, that’s how weak I was right now.

As I stared down at it, I noticed an inscription engraved on the inside. “To my best friend, Elle. Love you! ♥” 

I nearly started to choke at the sight of Elle’s name. So she was here? She came to visit me? 

I heard a sharp, loud sound coming from the heart monitor next to me. I tilted my head to see the squiggly lines go in an up and down motion. My thoughts led me to wander about Elle and yet again I heard the heart monitor begin to sound off in alarm. No wonder the heart monitor made an alarming noise again, I was thinking about Elle.

I blushed at the thought of the freaking heart monitor being able to detect when I thought about Elle. I wasn’t able to hide my feelings for her, was I? I guess I was just a hopeless romantic minus the romantic part. Basically saying that I, Cole Robertson was hopeless. 

I heard a knock at the door leading for mom to open the door. It was Reed. Maybe he’ll be able to explain everything that happened because I was confused as hell. Last thing I remembered was getting into the car with Blake...

BLAKE. How could I forget?! He was with me too! God I was such an awful friend! I needed to find out how he was. He’s been my best friend for as long as I could remember.

I wasn’t the type of emotional guy to have random breakdowns and let my true feelings come to surface. No, that didn’t describe me at all.  I was the type of guy who didn’t let his feelings show. Normally, I was calm and collected. Today I was going to make an exception though. Today was the day that I would finally show my true colors.

I felt a small tear start to drop down the side of my face. As soon as felt it, I was ashamed, no not ashamed, but embarrassed. Robertson men weren’t supposed to cry. Robertson men did anything, but cry.

I stared in front of my hospital bed to see a worried Reed. I didn’t want to let him down too. Just like I did to everyone else. Since when did I deserve a life as great as mine had been? The answer was quite simple, I hadn’t.

By this point, Reed had now started to take notice of the bracelet in my clutch. He now started to look…amused? Reed knew something that I didn’t know, and I could guarantee him that I would find out.   

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