The Day Their Lives Changed

Chapter 4 (Derek)

I was sitting at my desk when I hear a knock on my door.

"Come in," I say looking up from my laptop, Bruce, my third in command walks in with a hard face. "What," I say look at him, "we caught someone trying to cheat," He said standing in front of my desk looking at me, no one tries to steal money from me, they know that if they did they would be signing the death certificate. "Find him and how much money he owes and get it back, and do whatever it takes," I say looking back at my laptop, Bruce nods his head then leaves. When Bruse leaves I see Brett come in with a smile on his face. 

"What is it Brett," I say looking at him confused. He gets to my desk and sits in the chair that is in front of my desk. "What?" I ask him again and he just starts laughing. After a few minutes of laughing, he says "She a feisty one," I look at him confused, who is he talking about, I ask myself. When he sees the look on my face he says "Sarah, she bit and tripped Luke and then ran," He said smiling, this caused me to smile, "at least she won't be like all lose other girls, that just do as they're told." I said looking at Brett, he nodded his head.  "And she's not scared to fight back," Brett said looking at me. 

"So, what did Bruce want?" Brett said looking at me with a serious face. "Someone is winning money by cheating at the table," I said looking at my laptop and typing in the document, I can see Bretts amused look from the corner of my eye. We have cameras everywhere, so we can get these types of guys, when it happens, but we dont take them out of the game, no we let them get all the money that they want and then we track them down and tell them that we need our money back, and if they dont give it back they dont even want to know what is gonna happen. 

"So, back to before, hows Luke?" I say closing my laptop and looking at Brett with a smile on my face when Brett sees this he laughs, "He's okay other than the fact that he has to get stitches in his hand," he says laughing, this causes me to chuckle, "really, that bad," I say getting up from my desk and walking to the door. "Yep, she has one hell of a jaw," Brett said behind me. We walk to the front of the building and to my car, "so, are you and Luke gonna come over today?" I say getting in my car, Brett nods his head. I drive to go and pick up Soph from school.

I get there and I see her waiting outside by the playground. I get out and start to walk towards her when she sees me she gets excited, I can see her jumping up and down from where I am. "Hey, how was school?" I ask picking her up and starting to walk towards my car. "It was fun, I met this boy, named Jimmy, he offered to play with me." She says looking at me with a huge smile, "Hey, I told you no boyfriends until you turn 30," I say getting into the driver's seat and driving home, I see he glaring at me from the back seat. Ever since our parents died I've become, something like her father, I've been really protective of her ever since our parents died, she is all I have left, and I want to make sure she is safe. 

"He's not my boyfriend," she says to me when I get her out of her car seat. "ok, but remember what I just said," I tell her while we walk into the house, she nods at me and runs into her room. I go into my office and get out paperwork that I didn't finish at work. I must have been in there for a couple of hours because I heard a little knock on my door and I knew that it was Soph, she came in and rubbed her eyes and said that she was going to bed, so I took her to her bedroom and tucked her in and laid down with her until she fell asleep. 

When I got back downstairs I heard a knock at my door, I opened it and Brett, Meredith, Brett's wife, and Luke were standing there, I let them in and they went to the living room. "So, how did it go?" I said looking at Luke, I saw Brett try to hold back a laugh, from the corner of my eye. Luke glared at me and lifted up his hand so I could see that it was bandaged. "She bit me, and I had to get stitches, how do you think it went?" I could hear Brett laugh, Meredith smacked Brett's arm lightly. "Ok, so what happened after?" I asked looking back at Luke, "She got in her car and drove away." He said glaring at Brett then looked back at me. I turned to Brett while I said "Where does she live," all Brett did was shrug his shoulders this told me that he didn't know, "Find out," I said to Brett and Luke and they both nodded. 

We ate something and then they left, I went up to my room and I went into the shower, I got out and put a towel around my waist, I looked into the mirror and saw the scar and remembered how I got it. I got dressed in my boxers and went and laid down, I fell asleep thinking about Sarah.

I woke up and tried to get up, but a sharp pain in my side caused me to sit back down, "what the hell, where am I?" I say looking around and my eyes stop on a shadow in the corner of the building. "Whos there?" I say trying to get up again, "No dont do that," I hear someone say in a little voice and I look at the shadow that has moved closer, I was able to see her face, she had a big bruise on the side of her face, I guess she got hit by something, "Who are you?" I say to her, "Why would I tell you that when I dont even know who you are?" she said looking at me confused, she got me there. "Ok, anyway, where am I?" I ask looking around. "In my shed," she said, I looked at her and I saw that she was holding something. "Whats that?" I say nodding towards what she was holding. "Oh, it's food for you," she said giving me the food. I took it and started to eat it. "So, how did you get shot?" She asked me sitting down next to me, "Did you patch me up?" I ask looking at her, she nodded her head. "Thanks," I say taking a bite out of the sandwich she gave me. "Well I think you need your rest, and I have to go before anyone comes looking for me," she says getting up and I hand her the plate. "You're not going to tell anyone?" I ask her confused why she wouldn't tell anyone. "Well you hid in a shed when you could of went to a hospital, so you obviously  dont want anyone to know where or you can't afford to go to one, but telling by your clothes, and the fact that you just shaved, it's the first one," She said looking at me up and down. I can't believe it, she got all that just from looking at me, "she's something else," I whisper to myself. I feel myself grow tired and I start to close my eyes while she closes the door and leaves.