//you and i\\

eight☆

I run out of the restaurant and make sue no one was following me.

I plug in my earbuds to the headphone jack and turn on some classic Micheal Jackson. I start humming to the slight beat of 'Rock With You'. "Hey, girl!" A deep voice yells behind me. I turn around to see if it was me they were talking to. "Give me any money you have, and you won't end up hurt." the man says pointing a gun to my face. I quickly take out my wallet and give him at least 150 dollars in cash which is all of the cash I had on me. In the blink of an eye, a gang wearing black hoods comes up behind the man and one of the members pushed the man. The man turned around and the boy pulled his hoodie down. It's the same guy I keep seeing around the hotel and the guy I saw at the record shop. 'Shorty.'

I'm watching in horror as Shorty and his friends beat the shit out of the man. Shorty punches the man in the face and the mans mouth immediately starts to bleed and he falls to the ground.The man holds his mouth and cries out in agony dropping his gun and holding his mouth. "Give the girl her money back or I'll just go ahead and finish you off right now." He quickly gathers up the money I gave to him and he hands it back to me. I take it and I kick the man in the face. "Next time if I see you around, there won't be a second chance for you." The man chuckles to himself softly and I kick him where it hurts. "FUCK!" the man said moving his hands from his mouth to the center of his pants holding himself crying in pain. I spit on him and put back in my earbuds and walk away. I put my music all the way up just in case any one tries to stop me from walking. I quickly put my money back in my wallet and keep walking but only a bit faster.

I finally reach the hotel and I wave hello to Helda. "Hey dear, what's wrong? You look tired and worn out." I sigh. "I've just have had a really bad day. That's all." Helda raises an eyebrow and walks towards me putting an arm around my shoulder. "Have any boys around here caused any trouble for you?" I shake my head no. "No, I haven't talked to anyone here except you." Helda shifts her eyebrow down. "So if I look at the security cameras from outside of your room from last night I won't see you talking to any gang boys?" I sigh. "Okay, you caught me. I just didn't want to say anything it really wasn't that big of a deal." Helda crosses her arms and looks at me in curiosity and anger. "What did they do?" I gulp. "Well one of the boys, short, sea green eyes. He put a pocket knife to my throat and threatened me for money. But I calmly told him no and told him goodnight." Helda sighs. "Dammit L." I raise an eyebrow. "Nothing. Go head up to your room. They haven't come by yet. If they specially the one you described does anything else to you I'd like to know about. You've had quite a week young child."

I thank her and walk towards the elevator. I press the button for two and hit the button to close the elevator and wait for me to reach the floor I stay on. I sigh as the elevator door opens and I head to my room. I take my key card out of my wallet and I swipe it through the door and open the door to my hotel room and shut the door behind me. I set my backpack down at the dining table and kick off my shoes next to the front door. I sigh and move towards one of my clothing bags and take out a pair of pajamas, and underwear and head towards the bathroom to take a shower.

After my shower I plump onto my bed and open my laptop to start doing research for the extra credit opportunity. I yawn and I continue researching for the Civil War. I feel a ding from next to me so I pick up my phone. "What do you want?" I ask angrily into the microphone of my phone. On the other side of the phone was Tyler. "I know I'm probably the last person you want to talk to but I just wanted to tell you that I fought Zach because of what he was doing and what the was going to let the other players on the team do to you." I hesitate. What did Tyler mean? "What do you mean? Zach wouldn't betray me or any of my friends." He sighs from over the line. "Zach was planning on embarrassing you in front of the whole school. I found out by him talking to the the other football players in the locker room yesterday I just didn't want to tell you. I didn't want to hurt you." I start sniffling and start to cry. "Do you need me to come over?" I wipe my face. "No, I'm fine. Thank you for telling me though, Tyler."

Me and Tyler have been on the phone for at least an hour and he explains in detail on what happened. "But why didn't you meet up with me after school? I waited a few hours and then I left." He sighs. "I'm grounded and suspended." "Oh, I'm sorry." As I'm on the phone, I look at my nails and look up to the front door of my hotel room which is being knocked on. "Becca you good? Your dad usually doesn't knock on your door." "Give me a second Ty." I walk up to the door and look through the peephole to see Helda. I open the door. "Hey!" I say smiling. "Hey, love, just checking in on ya." I smile. "I'm alright. I'm actually headed to bed." "Goodnight Rebecca."

I shut the door and head back to the phone. "So Ty.. I have a lot of explaining to do. But you can not tell anyone. Not even Jenny or Lilian know what I'm about to tell you." "Well then let you tell me in person. I want to be there for you, I don't want to listen to you cry over the phone, I want to hug and hold you." I start shaking and hesitate anxiously. "Okay."