Elite S1 - Ander

~Chapter 17~

When I reached the place Samuel had told me they'd be, some people stared at me. Probably because I was still in my school uniform. I felt uneasy until I spotted Samuel and walked towards him.
"Hey!" He said as soon as he saw me. He was talking with Christian.
"Hi" I said with a soft smile and hugged him.
"Wow, Iréne! I never thought you'd deign to join us, some poor kids..." Christian exclaimed with a teasing smile.
I showed him my middle finger "hello to you too"
He seemed like he was about to keep on teasing me, but Nano came out of nowhere and interrupted us.
He frowned when he saw me, but he nodded his head to greet me.
"I want to talk to you" he said, looking at Christian.
Christian followed Nano a few steps away, so I was left with Samuel.
"Are you ok?" He asked me, reminding me of my problems. And his.
"I'm good. But you're probably not. Have you talked to anyone about all this? About how you feel about this whole thing with Marina?"
"I don't need to. I'm fine. It happened when we weren't together. And we aren't together now, so it doesn't matter."
"Samu. I know it matters. You still care about her. You still love her."
"Can we not talk about it? At least not here?" He seemed a bit irritated.
"Ok.. sorry. But we will talk about it at some point." I looked around and I spotted Carla. "What is Carla doing here?" I asked confused.
"Christian brought her." His previous irritation was gone.
"Samu. She's asking many questions and that idiot won't just grab her and leave." Nano once again interrupted us. Samu seemed worried.
The idiot was probably Christian. Nano and he both seemed angry. They must have had an intense conversation then..
"Who's asking questions? About what?" I asked. They looked at me as if they'd just realized I was still there.
"Carla.." Samuel answered hesitantly.. "it's nothing" he added when I kept looking at him waiting for more.
I had a suspicion. But I didn't quite want to believe it. So many things that clicked together. Nano leaving his house in all black that day, Carla staring at Marina and me...
"Is she asking about the rob-"
"Asshole!" Guzman's angry voice didn't let me finish my sentence.
He was walking towards us, with Polo and Ander on his heels.
"You may fool your brother, but you can't fool me." Guzman was really really angry.
Nano stepped in front of us.
"First you steal from me, and then you get my sister pregnant."
Guzman was looking at Nano. So he was talking to him. So.... so Nano and Marina..
I didn't get to finish my thought, because Guzman was now holding a baseball bat and was about to hit Nano with it.
"NO!" I screamed but it was too late.
In a matter of seconds a fight started.
I was just sitting there stunned looking at the scenes evolving in front of me.
Polo was punching Christian and Carla was trying to stop him.
Samuel... Samuel was the one hitting Nano now...
Ander was on the ground.
Guzman yelled at him and Polo to run.
Ander glanced at me once before he started running.
A large group of men was now after him. No no no. That was bad.
I ran after them.
"Iréne wait!" Carla screamed. She grabbed me by the arm "stay here. You'll only get beaten up too." She looked concerned about me, but at that moment I just couldn't care about anything but Ander.
"I have to find Ander" I got free of her hold and started running again, towards the direction they'd gone.
I was running like crazy. I thought I'd lost them, but then I heard metal groaning and when I walked towards that sound, I saw the group getting into a small storage space.
And then the punches started.
I ran to them.
What I saw when I was standing just outside of that place, made my guts turn.
"STOP! STOP PLEASE!" I yelled. They were beating Ander. He was managing a few punches himself but... they'd beat him to death..
I tried to get between them but I couldn't.
One of them grabbed me and they all stopped and looked at me. Ander was on the ground, his face bloody, trying to get up. I was silently crying, while trying get free of the man who was holding me.
Another one, dark haired, walked towards me and then asked Ander, "Is that your bitch?" He had a wicked grin on his face. He turned to me again. "I saw you before. You were hanging with us, but your defending these scumbags?"
"Leave him alone! Please! Please let us go!" I begged.
The dark haired man got closer to me.
"Don't you dare touch her." Ander managed to say. His voice was weak, and he was still struggling to get up.
"Oh this should be fun" he said, and touched my breast.
I screamed and started kicking in the air while the other one was holding me.
Ander jumped at the dark haired man and managed one punch, before the whole gang started beating him up again, while I was being held in place, screaming and crying.
When they were finished it seemed like it'd been hours.
The one holding me threw me down and then they all left.
Ander was unconscious. Shit shit shit.
Shit.
I crawled towards him and started shaking him.
"Ander! Ander, wake up. Please please wake up" I was still crying. "Please don't do this to me. ANDER!" No. He had to wake up. He had to. I couldn't live if he didn't.
"Iréne..." he suddenly said, I barely managed to hear it.
"Oh thank god you're awake..." I felt a huge relieve, even though he was still a mess.
"What happened?" I heard someone saying, and when I turned, I saw Omar standing behind us.
"He-he... they beat him up. So-some assholes.." my voice was trembling.
"I saw them leaving... and then I heard you... and I certainly didn't expect to see that.." Omar kneeled next to me.

Omar helped me patch up Ander. At the whole while Ander was trying to talk to me, but I didn't let him. I knew what he wanted to say.
Of course I almost died when I saw him like that, but helping him didn't mean anything had changed between us.
I let him go home when I was assured he was okay. His face would be that dark shade of purple for a few days, but at least he was alive.

When I got to my home, I could finally think of everything that had happened, of everything that I had learned that day.

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