My Chemical Romance

Chapter 6

When we were inside I went straight to the bathroom and found the first aid kit.  I brought it out and sat next to Jay on the couch.  I grabbed his hand and wiped the blood off of it and put some Neosporin on it, being as gentle as i could be.  Link was walking through the room, looking at the pictures of me and Frank and a few of my old friends. I had few in high school and didn’t manage to keep in contact with many after graduation. As I treated the cuts on his knuckles, I noticed his lip was bleeding at the corner. I wiped the small streak of blood from his lip where the creep must have gotten in one good shot. He cringed a bit and I pulled my had back

“Sorry.  Jeez Jay, you lip I swelling in the corner.  He must’ve had a ring on.” We were silent for a moment as I gently dabbed his lip. “Thanks Jay.” He smiled and said

“Any time Yankee.” And he rubbed his thumb over my cheek, as if to lightly wipe something off.  I laughed at him and his dumb nickname for me.  I moved my hand away from his lip, and back to his knuckles that were reddening. “Your hands are really small,” he said to me.  I lifted my hands to examine them closer.

“They are not!” He held up his hand and I put mine to his. He had a good knuckle on me. “Yours are just huge.” He laughed and said

“Link, come here.  She has baby hands.”  Link turned around and came over to compare hands. Of course his were huge too and they both started to laugh at me. That’s when Jay’s phone started to ring. He answered it and started talking to Kurt. He told him to come to the apartment but didn’t bother telling him why the coffee shop we were in was a mess.

When Kurt walked in ten minutes later he saw me throwing out the bloody paper towels and Jay laying on the couch with the corner of his lip swollen and his knuckles cut open.

“What the hell happened to you?!” before Jay could respond, Link did.

“He saved his girlfriend from a pervert at the coffee shop.”

“Girlfriend?” Jay, Kurt and I said at the same time.  Jay sat up on the couch and bolted at Link when he said

“Oh my bad, I meant Eva.  Same thing.” Link ran into the bathroom and locked himself in.

“Come out you chicken shit!” Kurt was laughing really hard and he sat down on the couch.

“Don’t break the door!” I yelled.

“So what happened to you?” Kurt asked as he looked at me.  Jay gave him the real story and Link quietly sneaked out of the bathroom when his back was turned.  He slowly moved across the wall, easing his way to the kitchen. Kurt eyed him for a moment but quickly looked back at Jay.  When we all thought Jay hadn’t noticed, he made a b line for Link who sprinted into the kitchen. I didn't watch them after that because I was too afraid that I would see my pathetic kitchen torn apart by two numbskulls playing a game of tap out.  I heard Link scream “Uncle! Dammit I said Uncle! Let go Jason!” I started to laugh as I walked toward Kurt who was also laughing.  I sat down on the couch next to him and I asked

“Get everything taken care of?” he nodded and turned around so that his back rested against the worn out couch I bought with Frank at a garage sale. He leaned his head back as he closed his eyes and let out a long yawn. “Coffee?”I asked him, but somewhat knew the response since he’s addicted to it like crack.

“God yes.” I got up and went into the kitchen where Jay and Link were sitting on the floor, backs leaned against the cupboards. They both looked up at me with innocent smiles that made me even more suspicious that they broke something. Link was rubbing the back of his neck, but still managed to sneak out a smile.

“Can’t take a joke.” Without breaking eye contact with me, Jay punched Link in the arm.

“Don’t do that! Your fingers are gonna start bleeding again! Can you guys move so I can make coffee?” Jay and Link both got up, but Link was the only one who went into the living room.