Almost Alice » l.h

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Ross took a step back from the car and looked toward Luke. As Luke continued to walk up to him, Violet frantically pulled her phone out and tried to call someone who I assumed would be her boyfriend or her cousin. While she did that, I continued to watch what was going on between Luke and Ross.

"Why are you here?" Ross asked him.

"Why are you here?" Luke shot back, shoving at his chest. "Why are you bothering my friends?"

"Your little girlfriend is the one who provoked me." he told Luke. "She slapped me."

"She must've had a reason to. I know Alice and she wouldn't hit anyone without needing to." Luke stated, narrowing his eyes at Ross. "What did you do?"

Ross sighed loudly. "Listen, Hemmings, there's two of us and only one of you. I don't think you want to do this."

"Then just leave and we won't have to."

"And I'm assuming you're going to make me leave."

Luke stepped forward so their chests were almost touching. "Of course I will if I have to."

"Back up!" Ross' friend ordered loudly, shoving Luke back hard.

Luke stumbled back and then glared at the burly guy. "Oh, so that's how we're playing."

He walked forward and shoved the guy as hard as he could, knocking him to the ground. He scrambled to get up and started quickly toward Luke again.

"No, no, no, not again." I mumbled, getting out of the car. I remembered Amy telling me about the last fight Luke was in and I didn't want that happening again because of me.

A car rounded the corner and pulled up next to Luke's just as Ross' friend was about to swing at Luke. Ashton quickly got out of the passenger side and jogged over.

"Hey!" Ashton barked, startling the guy and making him pause his punch. "What the hell is going on?!"

Michael and Calum quickly got out of the car as well and ran over to the almost-fight that was happening. Ashton put himself between the guy I still didn't know the name of and Luke. He kept his back to Luke so he could make sure Ross and his friend didn't pull anything.

"What's going on?" Calum quizzed.

Violet got out of the car and and seemed a little more relieved. "Ross followed us home!"

Michael looked at Ross with a furious look on his face. "He what?!"

"Alice fucking slapped me!" Ross tried to defend himself.

"That doesn't excuse being a fucking creep!" Luke shouted at him, easily looking around Ashton.

"Luke." Ashton sighed. "What happened to make her hit you?"

All eyes landed on me. I, for some reason, didn't want to tell anyone about it. I was embarrassed and honestly, still shocked about it. But there was also some weird feeling I couldn't describe when I thought about telling anyone about it.

"He...well, he...he tried to..." I stammered, not knowing at all what to say.

I looked to Violet for help. She just stared back at me, not entirely knowing what happened so she couldn't come to my aid and tell me what to say. I was speechless. Words couldn't come out of my mouth no matter how hard I tried to force them to, all I could think of was what almost happened like it was a movie on repeat in my head.

I started to cry and I felt like an idiot for it. It wasn't like anything seriously happened to me, right? Other people had better reasons to cry than this, right? I shouldn't cry over it, right?