Don't Be Cruel

Chapter 6

Richie opened his eyes and looked around, no Evie, just him and Jon.He sat up, Jon was watching the TV. So Richie thought he would go up to Evie's room, quietly he sneaked up the stairs and walked down the hallway to Evie's room.

She spread out under the covers and nuzzled the pillow, finding some extra warmth. She turned to her clock only to find she had slept for four hours. Turning over she groaned and buried her face in the pillow. Her toned arms pulled up the covers and long legs stretched out.  She now decided this was a good time to go and have a swim, to wash away the fatigue, that still lingered inside of her. She got up and stretched her back, she walked over to the door.

"Richie, what are you doing here, I  thought you were sleeping"

"So did I"

"Well I'm gonna swim, wanna come?"

"Sure thing"

They walked down the hall together, hand in hand, they walked down the stairs. Jon was preparing dinner - pasta to be specific, in the kitchen. Richie turned  on the TV, MTV came on, Livin' On a Prayer played. "Anything but watching ourselves, please" Richie pleaded. " Okay, I'll change it". She changed the channel and it was on Funhouse (okay so maybe not the best show from the 80's but it's all I know, I wasn't around then). Evie nuzzled Richie, basking in his warmth.

"Dinner's ready" Jon shouted from the kitchen.

They rushed into the kitchen, eagerly awaiting their dinner.

They each got handed their dinner.

"For me and Evie it is pasta " he said as he put it in on the table.

"And for Richie I have scrambled egg" he told him.

"Rich, did you take aspirin?" Evie asked

"What would happen if I did?"

" Well, aspirin thins your blood, after an extraction the body needs to clot, if the blood is thinned then the body cannot clot, therefore it ends up bleeding, like this afternoon. Which I had to sort out, Richie "

" Richie did take aspirin, before he went to sleep"

"You could of had a little bit of common sense, huh, anyway lets get back to eating, and Rich take it easy"

They carried on eating their dinners until it was gone, Richie got up and went to sleep on the sofa. Evie sat there and sighed, couldn't Richie of used a little wit. Anyhow she got up and went into her swimming pool, she took off her normal clothes and put on her swimwear. She jumped in and started swimming, she swam one length, then just swam even more, her anger spurring her on. How could he be this stupid?. But she felt guilty for it some how, she should of told him. She was so exhausted; she needed a break. Now she had been in their for half an hour, and had swam a mile, it was now okay to jump in and treat herself. She jumped in and went down to the bottom of the pool, shooting back up to the top again, with a big enough splash. Once she had done that she went back to her lengths, she was an expert at swimming, had been since she was a child. Exercise is addictive; like a drug.

She had been in there for two hours, three hundred lengths, she felt like she was going to fall apart.

"How long is she going to be in there? " Richie asked

"I'll go look" Jon told Richie 
He walked into the swimming pool room, she was there swimming.

She carried on swimming, tears staining her cheeks.

Jon shouted her name, telling her to come out.

"Evie, come out, or I'll get you myself"

"Watch me, Kidd " she muttered under her breath.

Jon dived in, he swam over to her, she swam away carrying on with her swim, like he wasn't around.

He struggled to keep up with her. Finally he caught up to her, and wrapped his arms around her so she couldn't get away.

"You know I was a  lifeguard once, and you're a brilliant swimmer"

"Richie told me that compliment, wanna do some swimming with me "

"You've been in here long enough, time to get out"

"How long has it been "

"Nearly three hours"

"Where did that time go"

She jumped up, out of the pool and wrapped a towel around her, Jon on the other hand clambered on the steps and got out that way.

She fluffed her hair and went up to a spare room to get dressed.