•Hold onto Me•

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I heard a 'beep pause beep pause beep' it was my heart monitor, I moved my head to face the window that goes into the hallway, oh dear god I'm in the hospital. Those bastards put me in the hospital. A sudden heat of anger came over me. I haven't made a sound I see James in the chair next to my bed his head is down, he might be asleep. What is he doing there, and damn he's cute when he sleeps, if only he didn't open his trap. I see my brother in the hallway talking to the nurse. He is uniform so that means he is still up from his night shift last night, he wasn't doing a very good job. I mean look at me. I have swollen a swollen cheek bone on the left side, where my cheek is cracked from the second punch, the back of my head was stitched up, and my ankle was in a brace. Okay so I did the ankle thing to my self. My stomach was black and blue, I was in so much pain. He looks over at me, sees I'm awake practically fell into the room, "Paige.. who the hell did this?" James jumped awake. "Josh, I fell at the party a couple of times, I was drinking and walked home, I blacked out, and must've passed out on the street, I'm so sorry for doing this to you!" My words were vomiting out of my mouth. I look at James with pleading eyes. He walks out of the room, well thanks for backing me up. My face went red, I didn't want my brother to think he can't trust me, but I don't want him to kill anyone either! Josh looks at me, "I swear you better not be lying." I looked down, "I'm not." He looks at me, he felt guilty, like I wouldn't have gone had it not been for him taking the night shift. It just drives me crazy every time I messed up and he found a way to blame himself for it. Josh is the closest thing I have to a father, I love him, but I can't handle the amount of guilt he gets from me, "I'm sorry this happened to you, I wish you would've called me, I could've come and got you." He looked down, I got defensive, "Damn it Josh, not everything is your damn fault. It happened get over it!" I was cold he looked up, he's staring right into my hazel eyes so hard he could probably see the goldish color circle around my iris, "Get some rest I'll see if we can't get out of here, I know you hate hospitals." When he walking out in came: Amy, Mel, Gabe, Ben, and Ethan all holding together fake smiles and nodding at Josh.

Ethan closed the door behind them. Gabe steps forward, "Paige, we kicked their asses they could all be on the side of the road too right now for all we know, but two of them got away, I promise we will get them too I'm so sorry we let you walk home. I didn't see you leave I knew you shouldn't have been by yourself those scumbags-." He cut himself off upset about what had happened to me, he just shook his head. I look at James who was looking down guilty, he saw me walk home and didn't stop me. I didn't want him to, but I felt his guilt cause that was shitty. I looked at Amy who's starting to cry. Oh no please don't, I can't handle her crying. I speak up my voice horsed, "You guys, it's over thank you all for being so great, but I'm fine, really!" I went to sit up the pain in my stomach was so severe I cried out, now Mel was tearing up. "I'm sorry.. I didn't mean to cause problems. I guess that's just something I do. Thank you guys for being here, but I just need to go home." I took a long pause damn I'm sore, "Don't fight them, it'll be okay and I'll be okay I don't want them to have another reason to retaliate."
My eyes were pleading everyone of the boys looked at James as if he would have the final say. James said calmly looking deeply into my eyes, "Relax I'll go see what taking so long with your discharge papers so can go. I don't know if it was the drugs I was on but seeing him look at me the way he did, I was so attracted to him I wanted him to bring me into a huge hug, just hold me. We will all go to your house and make sure it's all okay there." My heart started to race, stupid machine beeped so everyone noticed, "Do you think they are going to be there? How would they know where I live?" I'm panicking. James touched my arm by my wrist, it sent chills down and and up my whole body. His voice was proud, "Don't worry we got you, don't you trust us? I mean look at us," None of them had a mark on their face, those boys didn't even get a chance to touch them, "We aren't going to let anything else happen to you, you're one of us now. You proved that when you back us up." James was focused on 'anything else,' I could tell because one I had seen that look many times, and he zoned out for a second shaking his head ever so slightly, I picked up on it. He knew he could've avoided this, had he not let me walk home alone like his gut said. I looked around the room, "Yes I do, I trust everyone of you." That made me sick.

On my way home I road with Josh in his cop car. Everyone else followed behind us in James and Gabes trucks. James drove an old beat up navy Ford pick up truck. James drove the same one in red. Both engines were so loud. Has anyone heard of a muffler in this town? We were pulling up to my house, my heart sank, it was so small and I know it wasn't clean neither one of us had been home to clean it. The car was put in park, and before I even touched the handle to my door, it was open. It was Gabe and Ethan they looked so concerned as they helped me out of the car, a tear slipped down my cheek, I have been in worse pain before, but my stomach was so touchy and my head won't stop spinning. I think when I collapsed on the pavement that's what hurt the worst, and why I was so sore. James and Ben were in the house already scoping the place out, when we heard a roaring engine.

It was them, oh my god. Josh was in the house, I don't want him to know I lied. I squeezed Gabe and Ethan's hands as hard as I could, my whole body tensed up, not because they hurt me, but because I couldn't defend myself. I needed to be able to hold my own it's my only way to survive. They beeped the horn and waved, they looked like hell. They were hollering, "THATS WHAT YOU GET BITCH! WE KNOW WHERE IT HURTS BOYS!" I didn't know what that meant, but I think they were just trying to get a rise out of the boys, but the boys just looked at me and carried me into the house. How dare they! I was shaking, I was pissed, how did they figure out where I lived?Gabe spoke softly to me, "One of us can stay down the street tonight, we won't let them touch you. Just ignore what they are saying they are a bunch of jackasses. They aren't going to touch a hair on your head, I promise." But I had heard a promise similar before and it wasn't up to them. I nodded and they sat me on the couch. I knocked out the second I hit the sofa.

When I woke up I was surprised to see Ethan sitting at the end of the couch, with my feet draped across his legs. He was resting his head on his hand. He looked tired, I didn't even know what time it was. I look out the window, shit it's dark already!? Ethan looks at me with a smile, gosh he has a really nice smile.. he leans over to give me some water and my pills. I refused my pills, I have a thing about pain meds, I think it makes you stronger to deal with the pain yourself, helps you make a decision to push yourself to never let it happen again. "Ethan?" I said softly, he looked at me waiting, "Why does James hate me so much?" He laughed, hard. "James most definitely doesn't hate you," he took a second trying not to say too much, "It's hard for him to let people in, a lot of people have walked in and out of his life. But with you, you are a hard chick to read, sometimes you seem crazy distant, then you are literally beating the shit out of a guy for one of us. You proved yourself Paige. You always had respect from us all, you just gained a lot with James." He looked down and shook his head, "I mean do you know how bad ass you were, when you took that double team off Ben?" He then paused making a decision to say what he was thinking, "You know why we were fighting?" I shook my head, "Because we heard about what Dan did to you, when he cornered you at the party. I've never seen James so mad, he just started to hit him, so we all jumped in. We were all mad, but we didn't know about it when we fought. That's why we were slacking a little bit. They never win fights with us they amp up their number of guys every time we fight." Hearing that guys name instead of just referring to him as the biggest, Dan, sent shivers down my spine. "His name is Dan?" Ethan lowered his head and nodded, looking at his hands. "What a bastard." I was angry.. " Do you mind if I lay in your lap?" He moved my feet off so I could lay down, and I fell into a deep sleep, a comfortable sleep, a safe sleep.