Make it to me.

Part 6

Micah POV

After school I headed over to my team on the field and was having some banter with some of the guys when I decided to ask

"What's the deal with the Aubree Andrews?"

My friend Ricky chuckled

"The one thing you need to know about the Andrews girls is to stay away from them"

Of course this fueled my curiosity even more.

"Why?"

"Welp Aubree is a nice girl as long as you stay on her good side or she was anyway, that is until Eli over there decided to screw that up. She's cool. Plus she's coaches favorite, loves that girl."

First I looked over at my teammate Eli I had talked to him a few times here and there, then I turned to stare at coach who was at the top of the bleachers talking to someone.

Had Eli dated her? And why did coach care about her? Oh God was she related to him too? How did they know each other?

I snapped out of it when Ricky shoved my shoulder

"Penny for your thoughts"

I just laughed and decided to let it go, for the time being anyway.

The next day i was walking to class when I saw Eli leaning into Aubree, I guess that was still an ongoing thing.

That was until I looked close enough and saw that she looked very uncomfortable.

The kind of look your friend gives you at the club when they went you to help a creep go away.

The complete opposite of what she had always shown me.

I walked towards them and patted Eli's shoulder

"Hey man what's up"

He turned around and nodded his head at me, I was taller than him so I towered over them both.
I wanted to know what was happening

"What's going on?"

"Nothing bro just here chatting it up with my lady"

At this Aubree scoffed and tried walking away, Eli grabbed her arm and pulled her back causing her to stumble and drop some of her books.

She got really mad and bent over to grab them, Eli tried to do the same at the same time and they bumped heads.

She cursed at him and grabbed her things, when he put a hand on her shoulder she flinched and his whole demeanor changed.

"What the fuck Bree, again?"

Aubrees eyes shot to me in a panic and I just stood there confused.

He tried to pull her towards him and she pulled away.
When he reached for her again I stopped him

"Cmon man she doesn't want to be grabbed right now"

I had two sisters whom I was extremely over protective of and I thought about them when trying to help Aubree.

He looked over at me and then over at her, he seemed to think about saying something but turned around abruptly and walked away.

I looked over at Aubree who for once in her life looked nervous and out of place.

Instead of asking any questions I smiled at her

"Don't we have a class to get to?"

She nodded at me without a word and started walking with me towards English.

When we walked in she went over to her seat and I debated on whether to join her there or not.

I decided she needed space and walked over to Chloe who was looking expectedly at me.

It was amusing to see her want to ask so many questions so I put her out of her misery and spoke up

"She was having a problem with Eli in the hall I decided to step in"

Her eyes widened in surprise and she looked extremely mad.

I felt a bit uncomfortable, it was as though she was jealous I protected her cousin?

I didn't like it. Chloe and I were only friends.

What came out of her mouth instead was more surprising

"What the fuck did that piece of shit do to her, did he touch her!? I swear I'll kill him"

I was filled with both relief and respect.

Chloe wasn't jealous she was being protective over her cousin.

Aubree seemed to hate her and here she was ready to go to war.

I smiled at her and shook my head explaining the whole story.

When I was done she looked really sad

"I wish she would let me help."

And with that our conversation was over.

Aubree POV

After my run in with Eli and Micah I felt mentally exhausted, sometimes it was too much.

Having to deal with how bad things were at home, coming to school and seeing Eli, having him man handle me and having Micah come help.

I wasn't sure how I felt about it, I felt grateful but suspicious of his actions.

The way Eli had said "again?" Had me terrified, I was scared he was going to start spouting off my business in front of Micah.

I had walked to class in comfortable silence with him and appreciated that he decided not to sit next to me and pry questions out.

I sat there in class staring into space and realizing that Eli still felt protective and mad over me when he realized what was on my shoulder.

I missed that, not him specifically but having someone else be mad and protective over me.

I looked over at Micah who was staring down at his desk wondering what he could be thinking.