Te Adore (Book One)

Chapter Four

I didn't expect to see him again, he rarely comes over at night anyways he's too busy getting drunk which pisses me off. I hate when people are drunk, but back to what I was saying he walked in and B-lined for Darry who was in the kitchen. He had to catch his breath almost running into darry. Darry helped stabilize him, I crept over to the wall outside the kitchen to eavesdrop. "Two take a breath what's wrong." Darry said as Two collected his wits."Dallas and Curly are getting into it with a couple socs at the park...if we don't get down there now we could be looking at a rumble." He said, turning to walk out the door. "Cmon Soda lets go." Darry said turning off the stove and following Two out the door Soda got up and Steve followed him, "stay here Cat, wait for me to get back." Steve said walking out the door. I couldn't let Steve go out there without me knowing what was happening. I walked towards the door and went to leave. "Cat you can't leave." Pony said from behind me. "Pone I can hold my own, and I don't like how this sounds." I said, grabbing the door. "Please don't say anything if I'm not back by the time they are." I said turning back at him. "I can't promise anything Catherine...what if...what if you get hurt." He said I slipped out the door making sure it didn't creak or slam. "I won't." I said walking down the stairs. I could see the shine of Two's leather jacket in the distance I sped up my pace to keep up. They had almost gotten out of my sight when they all stopped, I heard yelling and could hear Darry trying to calm everyone down. A soc walked up to Darry and put his hand out ready to shake it, Darry put his hand out and turned to look at Soda smiling before he could turn back he caught a fist to the jaw. Darry stumbled backwards and a fight broke out, so much for stopping a rumble from starting Steve jumped on some Soc and after that I lost sight of who was who. My stomach was twisting. I hate fighting. It reminds me of home and I distance myself as much as possible from that. I crept behind a tree that was closer to the fight. I pushed farther from the tree to get a better advantage point. Two was fending off a Soc when he turned to look up. I forgot I was visible till Two looked me dead in the eyes. He whispered something before getting a fist to the gut. He dropped on his knee trying to catch his breath, he looked up at me and turned around going back into the fight. Steve was pummeling a Soc the same Soc that punched Darry, there was so much blood I couldn't tell whose was whose I wanted so badly to run over there and rip Steve off of that Soc, Steve has so much pent up anger from today stuff he's afraid to show around me. Two looked over at Steve there was a Soc behind Steve, I didn't see anything other than a shining reflection before Two tackled the Soc, everybody stopped and looked at them. Steve pulled Two off of the Soc and I saw him signal Darry everybody crowded around them and they pulled Two off to the side, the Soc got up and was getting yelled at by some other Soc I couldn't make out the faces in the dark, Soda walked up to the Soc and slapped him. "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING BRINGING BLADES INTO THIS!" He yelled loud enough to wake up the whole neighborhood. Wait...blades, my heart sank. Darry pulled Soda away from the Soc before another fight broke out. I couldn't wait any longer seeing two slumped over against a tree, I don't know why but I bolted over across the parking lot to the park. Steve saw me and ran in front stopping me before I could get over to Two. "Catherine what the hell are you doing here!" He held my shoulders as I tried to squirm out of his grasp. "CATHERINE GO HOME!" He yelled forcing me to face him, his face was busted and bloody but that didn't matter...he had never screamed at me let alone yelled at me, I could feel tears in my eyes and one slowly falling down my cheek. I looked him dead in the eyes "don't touch me." I ripped my arms away from him and pushed past making sure my shoulder at least knocked into him. I ran over to Dallas and Two, Two was slumped over and bloodied all over. Dallas stood up and walked away and I ran over to Two. His eyes were closed and he felt cold, "Two...Two." I said, shaking him between calls. "KEITH!" I yelled, placing pressure on the wound. He lazily opened his eyes looking at me, "Catherine?" He said in a quiet voice. I lifted one hand up to his cheek keeping the other on the wound. "We're gonna get help Two." I said "don't worry about me Kitten, I'll be fi-." He cut off passing out again. "two...Two...TWO." He refused to wake up, Darry and Dally ran over Picking him up as Soda pried me away from Two. I'd never felt this connection before...I see him everyday and yet I still feel like I can't go on without him. I bawled into Sodas shirt as we sat on the cold grass. "He's gonna be ok Cat." Soda said holding me tighter I couldn't stop crying, the socs had long since cleared the area so they couldn't be liable for this. I looked up Steve was standing with his hands in his pockets, he looked down at me and walked off. After a couple minutes Soda stood me up and walked both of me back to the Curtis house. When we got there Two was on the couch Darry was prepping to stitch his side up and everybody else was nervously talking in the background, Dally was talking with Pony and Johnny, he had his head in his hands and he slowly dropped it to the table. I looked back over at Two and dropped down next to him on the couch. "What do I need to do?" I said frantically holding the towel down that was covering the wound. "Use the alcohol and just in case put an arm over him so the alcohol or needle doesn't make him jump, we don't need to hurt him any worse." He said prepping the needle. I grabbed two's hand and moved my arm across his chest keeping hold of the towel. Darry began stitching and Two flinched and I held him down seeing him in this state made more tears well in my eyes. Darry finished after a few minutes. I kept hold of Twos hand and kneeled next to him, even as Johnny and Dallas and others went home I stayed...I felt something again, the butterflies.