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“Elle what the fuck! Stop.” Gerard calls out as I started up the steps ignoring him...I just wanted to get out of there… I couldn’t take anymore of his shit… I was only one or two steps up when he came up behind me and grabbed my arm to physically stop me from leaving him again.

But the bag on my shoulder kinda threw me off balance. Or maybe it was my heels. Or maybe it was just my natural clumsiness. I don’t know. All I know is he reached out and grabbed my arm roughly and pulled me back and I lost my balance and fell down the steps.

I landed face down on the floor pretty hard. And I must've been biting my lip subconsciously as I walked out too, cause when I hit the floor I could taste blood. I had cut my lip with my teeth. It wasn’t really that bad, I mean I think it just looked worse then it was cause of how much blood was dripping down my chin.

I mean it all happened so fast too. One second I was on the steps, the next I was face down on the floor by Gerard's feet. And before Gerard could even reach over to help me up I saw Bob out of the corner of me stepping towards him. He mumbled something like ‘fucker’ or I don’t know. My head was kinda pounding from where I hit it, it was hard to focus... I kinda grabbed the side of it rubbing it slightly as I looked up, just in time to see Bob punch Gerard. I mean he hit him hard. With out any hesitation. Just bam. And when the crack echoed out I screamed out so loud in a complete panic. Somehow I managed to jump up off the floor and step in between them, pushing Bob back slightly in the process.

“What the hell are you doing?!” I yelled at him and he just looked at me. Gerard shook his head a little disoriented still. “What the fuck Bob!” I cry out as Mikey came running came down the steps. I guess cause I screamed so loud before…

“Elle what happened? You're bleeding!” Mikey says widening his eyes at me. I wiped the blood from my mouth on the back of my hand as I pushed Gerard over and forced him to sit on the edge of the bed.

“I fell down the steps.” I say with out looking at him. I was too focused on Gerard. He wasn’t bleeding. The side of his face was a little swollen. I sighed a little as I pulled his face against my chest. He was sitting on the edge of the bed and I was standing in front of him hugging him against me.

“That’s bullshit!” Bob yells out and I frown and look over at him. “He fucking knocked you down Elle.” He yells over waving his finger at me and Gerard. Mikey looked at me like he didn’t believe it…

“He didn’t knock me down!” I exclaim and Bob kinda laughed. “It was an accident Bob.” I say lowering my voice a little as I ran my hand through Gerard's hair… I couldn’t see his face cause I still had his head pressed against me, but I felt him sigh a little as I pulled him closer…

“What the fuck Elle!” Bob yells so loudly I cringed a little. “Who the fuck does he think he is treating you like that!” Bob carries on and Gerard kinda pulls back from me and looked over at Bob with that fucking blank look of his I can’t read… “Fucking telling you what to do! That’s bullshit.” Bob continues to grumble…

“Bob stop okay.” I say softly turning towards him… Bob I could read. He was pissed…beyond pissed...

“No! He shouldn’t have fucking touched you.” Bob growls and I looked down as I wiped my lip again.

“He didn’t touch me.” I weakly argue and Bob kinda just widened his eyes at me. “He told me to stop. I should've just stopped. If I stopped like he said, he wouldn’t have grabbed my arm and I wouldn’t have lost my balance and I wouldn't have fallen-” I try to explain which seemed to infuriate Bob more…

“Fuck Elle!” Bob throws his hands up in the air a little. “You wanna fucking leave you can, who the fuck is he to stop you.” Bob tells me and I don’t say anything. I couldn’t even look at him. I just wiped my lip again a little ashamed... I guess he was right…I looked over at Gerard but he wouldn’t look at me. He just had his head hung down, not saying anything. I guess he was thinking about something…

“Okay just wait a minute.” Mikey says trying to keep some kinda order…“You alright Elle?” Mikey says looking me over a little and I nod. “I mean are you hurt or anything?” He asks.

“No Mikey I'm fine.” I tell him and he nods a little. “It was just an accident. Not a big deal.” I say and I can see Bob kinda smirk again. “I fall all the time.” I tell him and Bob shook his head a little disgusted. “It was no different then any other time…just an accident- accidents happen.” I add and Mikey nods in agreement. Bob just kinda smirked at both of us…

“Yeah like how I'm gonna accidentally kill Gerard.” Bob says lunging towards Gerard once again…

I grabbed onto Bobs arm and tried to pull him back… But I guess Gerard wasn’t about to be ‘ambushed’ again cause he stood up abruptly and moved towards Bob aggressively…I screamed out for Mikey to stop him. He hesitantly grabbed Gerard's arm and pulled him back muttering something I couldn’t understand…

“What the fuck is wrong with you two!” I cry out and before either one of them could answer me a voice called out from the top of the stairs.

“Anybody home…?” Fuck. It was Mrs. Way… I guess she came home early or something cause judging by the looks on Mikey and Gerard’s faces, they weren’t expecting her…

“Uh yeah we’re down here.” Mikey calls out his voice cracking a little as he let go of Gerard and I let go of Bob... It was silent for a moment. The tension was unbearable... It felt like we were all collectively holding our breath waiting for her to answer but she didn’t...Instead the sounds of footsteps filled the air…Fuck. She was coming downstairs…I didn’t dare look at her.
“What's going on down here?” I hear her say and I could see Gerard sigh a little out of the corner of my eye.

“Nothing ma.” He tells her scuffing his boot against the floor.

“Oh.” She says kinda like she didn’t believe him.

“We were just messing around.” He tells her and I can see Bob and Mikey nodding along. I kinda felt her looking at me.

“Yeah, you know how guys are.” I shrug as I look up at her. Well she got one look at my lip and her face dropped.

“Elle! My gosh! What happened to your face?” She gasps and I instinctively cover my mouth with my hand but she stepped towards me and pushed my hand down and angled my chin up so she could get a better look.

“Its fine Mrs. Way. Really.” I tell her and she frowned. I mean its not like you could put a band aid on it or anything…

“You didn’t get in the middle of their roughhousing did you?” She said shooting them all a pretty nasty look.

“Oh uh no. I um, tripped coming down the stairs.” I tell her and she frowned a little. “I'm okay though. Really.” I insist to her.

“You staying for dinner Elle?” She says as she lets go of my face.

“Yeah she is.” Gerard says before I could even answer. I kinda looked at him like what the hell? I mean after everything that happened? Is he kidding me? Donna nodded in approval and then turned to Bob.

“How about you Bob?” She says and Gerard went to say something but I cut him off this time.

“Yeah Bobs gonna stay too.” I say loudly and Gerard kinda smiled at me. Bob looked at me like no he wasn’t, but I kept nodding at him until he sighed in defeat. I don’t think Donna noticed…

“Okay then, why don’t you all get washed up.” She says looking Gerard over a bit. He was still a little tousled from his run in with Bob. “It’ll be ready soon.” She says and he nods.

“Yeah all right ma.” He tells her as she leaves…

No one said anything until it sounded like she was at the top of the steps… Then it sounded like she shut the door… Gerard went to say something but I stopped him.

“No don’t say a word Gerard.” I tell him shutting my eyes a little. I couldn’t look at him. I couldn’t look at Bob. I was just so disgusted with both of them… “Just listen to me. Both of you okay?” I say opening my eyes up and looking at both of them. “I can’t have this.” I say and Gerard kinda smiled. “No I'm serious. I can’t.” I tell them waving my arms at them both. “You guys need to like kiss and make up or something.”

“I'm not kissing him again Elle, you can forget about it.” Gerard says smirking at me.

“What!?” Mikey cries out. “When did you guy’s ever kiss!” Mikey says widening his eyes at them.

“Not now Mikey!” I hiss over at him.

“Its not fair no one ever tells me shit!” He kinda whines and I roll my eyes at him.

“Mikey go upstairs.” Gerard says roughly and Mikey crossed his arms on his chest defiantly... “I'm serious get the fuck out of here, this doesn’t concern you.” Gerard tells him harshly and Mikey sighed a little.

“Whatever.” He grumbles as he went up the stairs. “Just remember mom’s home.” He says a little annoyed and then he was gone…

“So.” I say folding my arms on my chest and looking over at Bob and Gerard.

“So- what?” Gerard asks.

“Are you guys gonna kiss?” I ask and they both laugh. I don’t. I was serious.

“Fuck no Elle.” Bob says shaking his head a little at me.

“Well then do whatever it is that guys do cause I'm not gonna put up with this. I can’t” I say waving my finger at both of them and Bob kinda made a face at me. Gerard was giving me that blank stare I've come to despise… “Either you two work it out or I can’t have anything to do with either one of you anymore.” I tell them.

“Come on now Elle.” Gerard says like he didn’t believe me.

“No I'm serious. I can’t have any more conflict in my life…” I tell them as I take a step backwards. “And I'm not gonna be forced in the middle…I wont choose between you.” I say and Gerard took a step forward towards me. “No.” I tell him holding my hand up at him. “You guys just better fucking settle this some how.” I tell him and I unintentionally bite my lip and it starts to bleed again. “Aw fuck.” I mumble wiping it again.

“Elle let me get you something.” Gerard says but I shake my head no.

“No I'm just gonna go up and see if your mom needs any help with dinner.” I tell him stepping back again. He stepped forward like he was gonna come up too… “You stay here.” I tell them both and Gerard frowns. “Do what ever it is that… I don’t even know…” I said my voice trailing off in disgust as I made my way up the steps…

I mean what the fuck! It’s bad enough that Gerard and Lia don’t get along. I mean that’s partly why I’ve hardly spent any time with her lately…Maybe that’s why now that I need her she's not there for me…But Bob…Bob is my bestest friend. I'm not gonna lose him too, I just love him way too much. I don’t know how Gerard doesn’t see that he was just looking out for me, that’s all…like how he always asks him to…

But Bob had to know he over reacted… I mean its not like Gerard meant to hurt me… But Lia's the same way. I mean if Lia was here she probably would’ve slapped him. But that’s different. She's a girl. It’s not really the same as Bob hitting him. And I don’t know why Bob even felt the need to step in. I mean I can take care of myself… to some extent…

The whole thing was just making my head hurt…I guess the whole thing was plastered on my face cause as soon as I walked into the kitchen Mrs. Way asked me if I was all right.

“Uh yeah I'm fine.” I tell her and she nodded but I knew she didn’t believe me. “I just wanted to see if you needed any help.” I ask.

“Well sure.” She says and she slides the cutting board over to me. “Why don’t you chop this up for the salad.” She tells me so I pick up the knife and start chopping the cucumber up silently…

“You know I didn’t even realize you were here Elle.” Mrs. Way says breaking the silence.

“Oh.” I reply.

“I um didn’t see your truck out front.” She says and I nod a little.

“Yeah its not here, I kind of got a flat.” I tell her and she frowned a little.

“And Gerard didn’t…?” She says a little confused I guess, as to why he didn’t take care of it.

“No it was early this morning.” I tell her and she nodded a little. “And I um didn’t tell him.” I add.

“Well why not?” She says a little surprised.

“I don’t know. I thought I could take care of it myself.” I tell her.

“Oh and did you?” She asks. I guess trying to keep the conversation going.

“Um no.” I reply keeping my head down… I didn’t want to look up at her. I just grabbed the next thing on the tray and started chopping it… “I mean I called a repair shop place but it didn’t go so well…” I told her, my voice trailed off a little.

“What happened?” She asks and I shrug and glance up at her. She was giving me a look like she wasn’t gonna let it go until I told her… fuck. Why did I even say anything?

“I don’t know. First the guy called me sweety and then he said something like I should just have my boyfriend fix it.” I tell her and I can feel my eyes welling up with tears. “I'm sorry.” I tell her wiping my tears on my sleeve. “Chopping onions always make me cry.” I tell her as I continued to chop with my head down…

“Yeah me too Elle.” She says as she reaches over and puts her hand comfortingly on my back. “But that’s a radish dear…”