But, I lover her.

Chapter Two: The one with the Altercation

Time passes unbelievably fast. It's now been  two months  since Zoe started school here and we've become insanely  close friends. We have two out of four classes together plus lunch so we get to spend a lot of time together. Its  3;05 on tuesday and i'm heading home when a jeep pulls up next to me. Its Wesley " Talk to your brother yet? A? I still don't have my dough." He says, I put my hands on his open window and lean my head in " I'm not your gofer. You know where he lives."  Wesley huffs unhappily, turns off the ignition and gets out of his jeep, as he rounds the car he says " Look you little bitch. If you don't get Jesse to give me my cash, we're gonna have trouble. and you don't want trouble." I blanch, jesus. he's never threatened me before. " Back the fuck off." I hear someone say, before I can think of a retort. Its Zoe " You want your money? I'm pretty sure you're more than capable of getting it yourself, or are you stupid?" Zoe says bravel,  god damn  " Excuse the fuck outta me?!" He bellows coming closer, his hands into fisits " She didint mean it Wes." I say, trying to calm him " I'll talk to Jesse, Okay?" I reason with him " No, NO I meant it." Zoe says, stepping closer to Wesley " you think you can get yourself into this and then get someone else to fix it for you? "  I glance between Wesley and Zoe unsure what to do, she so does not know what she's getting herself into   " Bitch."  Wes says, angrily "  Who the fuck do you think you are?" HE questions and Zoe smiles "I'm a daughter of a US Marshal, sweety, and I really do not think you wanna mess with me."  Zoe enouces ever word forcefully and I gape at her shocked, sweat is beating down my forehead and i'm very nervous.  Wesley says nothing and retreats back to his jeep and starts the engine, before he drives away he yells " fuck you both and your brother. I'll get my own goddamn money." Zoe giggles, surprisingly girly and I huff a sigh of relief. " Jesus. what where you thinking?" I yell at her, suddenly very mad " I was trying to help!" Zoe says, shocked at my anger " Well don't!" I say frustrated " I could have handled that!" Zoe takes my elbow and turns me so i'm facing her fully. we're standing right infront of the main entrance of the school " calm down A. Why are you so angry? I was just trying to help!" Zoe says, her green eyes look teary and I feel bad. " Look, I'm sorry. thank you for trying  to help. I gotta go." I say all in a rush and I grab my bike from its place on the bike rack and I peddle the ten blocks home. 

I live on main street, in a three bed two bath beautiful  brick house with my Mother Josie and My Brother Jesse. I had a Dad, Henry but he passed away when I was fourteen. when I got home I parked my bike in the garage and headed inside to deal with my dumbass brother " JESSE." I yelled as I slammed the door " Don't slam the door Autumn." my mother chastised  from the kitchen" What's wrong?" She asked as she comes to greet me in the living room,  noticing the anger in my face " I hate Jesse and he's an ASS." I purposefully yelled " Autumn. " My mother groaned " Whats with all the yelling?" My brother complained, as he came up from the basement  "out.side." I chewed out each word and pointed with my thumb towards the door " yeesh, okay." Jesse said annoyed, my mother gave me a look that said be nice  and I grimaced  

" Get Wesley off my damn back." I say before we're fully outside and on the lawn. " And the money? get it to him." My brother sighs and shrugs his shoulders  "what he do?" I tell him about what happened at school and he says " Just ignore him A, he wont do fuck all." I come face to face with Jesse and shove him and he almost falls on his ass " I DON'T KNOW THAT! and now Zoe got him pissed at her! so fucking fix it, you dumbass! god didnt dad dying teach you anything? you give the money back!"  Jesse looks sad and I feel sad. I hated having to bring dad up but somebody had to bring jesse back to reality " You're right. I'll get him the money." I nod and head towards the house, feeling bone tired " and A?" Jesse adds I turn and face him, he looks like my tough older brother once more. " you outta know, I wont let anything happen to you or your friend." 

Zoe texts me after dinner: "I'm sorry." I read it twice before repiling. I'm laying in bed trying to read the next two chapters for english 

I reply: Its alright.  ten minutes later Zoe face times me, and i hesitate to answer. Its not so much i'm mad at her. its that i'm scared of what will happen to her if she gets too involved . "Hey" I say. It looks like Zoe is also laying in bed. her walls are painted a salmon colour and there is a rocky horror picture show poster behind her " That was a great show" I comment,  pointing to the poster "I seen it with my mom last year, on broadway."  Zoe smiles and I can't help but smile back. " So." she starts but i interrupt her before she can go on " The thing with Wesley is. He can be a dangerous guy and my brother and him have this thing  and I just wish you hadn't of stepped in. Because I would hate for anything to happen to you." I say in a rush I lean back into my head board and sigh " you just don't know the particulars and you're still so new to school." I went on " when I came out and saw how angry and how agitated he looked, I felt worried for you. I thought he may punch you." Zoe said " He may have." I replied " but just please don't. If i need help i'll ask." Zoe huffed, she looked annoyed " so what? If you're getting beat up I can't step in until your yelling my name? okay! cool." Zoe joked sarcastically. I laughed, " okay, you can step in then." I Said. Zoe laughed and said " Okay, so are you angry with me still?" I sighed, of course I Wasn't. how I could I be when she looked at me with those eyes of hers? god.  " Girl please. " After a few more minuets of mindless chatter I told Zoe I'd pick her up tomorrow for school ( it was my day with the car my family shared) and we said goodbye.