East-Side Girl

Chapter 4

When I reached the front door I saw Connor there sitting in a chair waiting for me Ben and Jeff too. I took a breath and swung the door open, Connor saw and stood up, his face full of rage and pent up violence. When his voice came out it was loud and angry.

"Where were you it's 2am."

"I was at the lot hanging out with other girls from the neighbourhood, No big deal. At some point I must've fell asleep."

" 'NO Big deal.' It is a big deal." his voice was rising.

"Calm down Connor you're gonna wake up the others." Said Jeff. That's when Connor pushed me, I fell to the floor and hit the wooden table a few feet behind me. I stood up and backed away from Connor.

"Nov-" Connor couldn't finish the sentence before the sound of the screen door being slammed.

"S**t." Ben,Connor and Jeff took off running. Connor started barking orders at Jeff and Ben.

"Jeff go around the building, Ben go to the right ; i'll follow her ." Like that they took off. I went down alleys and zig and zagged in awkward ways till Jeff grabbed me and held me tight and shouted

"Got her." Ben and Connor weren't very far either.

"Nov why'd you run." asked Connor

"You really want to know, You hit me."

"You know I didn't mean to."

"If you didn't mean to then why'd you put your hands on me?" That's when I stood back up and started to walk away from them. I was still nauseous but it got worse. I was on the curb and fell. Connor and Jeff were who I woke up to when I got home. Connor was in between the doorway, Jeff was right next to me.

"What happened?"

"You passed out, that's what happened." replied Jeff and Connor in unison. Connor got pushed out of the doorway and replaced by shiro, he lived in the neighbourhood too, he and his brother Lance are my best friends and yes he's always like this.

"Why the she All laid out."

"She's getting sick out of nowhere."

"I'm fine Connor." I swung my left leg off the bed, then my right leg and stood up.

"I'll be down in a minute Shiro."

"Where you two going."Connor asked Shiro

"Going to go see Mio at the hospital."

"Okay." Connor took Shiro by the arm and gestured toward Jeff as a signal to come with him. Connor wasn't hard to hear seeing as he was always too loud for his own good.

"There's gonna be a fight tonight, I don't want her there at all."

"So."

"Keep her busy all of tonight."

"Will do." When Connor said the last word I got mad,Really mad. I put on a jet black tank with ripped up jeans and my leather jacket that Jeff got me when I turned fourteen. I was coming down the stairs when they all fell silent.

"What." I was still curious, but at the same time I knew why they stopped talking. Last time I went to a fight I got hit worse than now. But it didn't matter I was going, No discussion.

"I'm going to the fight today you can't keep me away from it the rest of my life."

"You're not going, that's that."

"I am and you're not keeping me away from the fight."

"We'll talk about it later."

"Fine." with that I turned and walked to the door and went out and waited for Shiro to come out of the house. I waited for a few minutes and then finally, Shiro came out of the house.