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“Ray please don’t say anything.” I told him frantically as he slowly pulled over.

“What?” He kinda laughed.

“I mean what if Gerard didn’t go to the police?” I tell him and he smiled.

“Elle, come on.” He says like that was the most ridiculous thing he’d ever heard.

“I'm serious Ray. What if he didn’t.” I tell him and I can see him thinking about it for a second. “Just don’t say anything unless they do.” I tell him and he shook his head a little as he rolled down his window.

“Just shush Elle.” He tells me as he turns to the face the cop who was now standing next to the car. I bit my lip a little nervously, still not sure what he was gonna do. Before Ray could even get a word in the cop barks out-

“License and registration.” The voice sounded awfully familiar… It couldn’t be…I look over and fuck… it was him… the same cop from yesterday…

“Damn are you like the only cop in this town or what?!” I blurt out and Ray gives me a look like he can’t believe I just said that.

“So nice to see you again Miss Waller.” The cop says sighing my name, dragging it out slowly like it pained him to say it…

“I'm just saying, he works too hard.” I tell Ray who just shook his head at me like shut up already as he handed him his papers.

“Sir-“ Ray tries to say and the cop just holds his hand up to the window.

“You know why I stopped you?” He asks. "That was some pretty reckless driving you were doing there son." He says to Ray and Ray kinda nods a little.

“Yeah but-“ Ray tries to explain but the cop took a step back.

“Just sit tight a minute.” He tells him and Ray frowned but didn’t reply. The cop was heading back to his car to run Rays info I guess… He didn’t ask me for mine, which was good cause I didn’t have any ID, but then again he knew who I was so he didn’t really need it…

“You're so gonna get a ticket.” I tell Ray trying not to smile.

“What?” He kinda laughed back.

“I know that cop.” I tell him.

“Yeah obviously.” He smirks.

“He's a real hard ass.” I try to explain to Ray. I mean maybe if it was Petes dad I might’ve been able to bat my eyelashes at him and ‘talk’ my way out it, but not with this guy… Ray shifted in his seat a little. I saw him checking his mirrors, watching the cop, who was just sitting in his patrol car talking on that walkie-talkie thing… I felt bad. Rays never gotten a ticket before in his life… Not ever. He never breaks the rules… This was all my fault…

“Elle, when he comes back-” He starts to say rubbing his forehead a little.

“Just let it go.” I tell him and he makes a face at me. “No seriously Ray, he knows who I am and he didn’t say anything.” I insist. “Obviously Gerard didn’t go to the police.” I tell him and he frowns.

“That doesn’t make sense though.” He says and I shrug.

“Maybe they're still locked in the garage.” I try to reason and then I get this horrible feeling wash over me…”Oh God Ray what if they're dead!” I cry out in a sudden panic. I mean the last thing I remember was Mr Samuel pulling me out of the garage…What if Gerard and Frankie were trapped inside?

“Just calm down, they're not dead.” Ray says reaching over and squeezing my leg roughly. “I told you Gee called and left a bunch of messages, he can’t do that if he's dead.” He says calmly checking his mirrors again and I sigh a little relieved… …

“Okay.” I tell him softly.

“You gonna be okay.” He says squeezing my leg once more and I tensed up…

“Mm-hmm.” I reply although I wasn’t sure I really believed it…

“What the hell is taking him so long?” Ray grumbled to himself. I glanced over and the cop seemed to just be sitting there doing nothing now… I shrugged slightly and then shut my eyes to try to steady myself back down…

So many thoughts were swirling through my head… But atleast I knew Gerard was okay… Ray was right about that… He had to be okay to have called him, Frankie too… Fuck. Why do I always jump to the worst possible conclusion?

I was so glad to have Ray here. He's always so logical and he's almost always right about everything. I could still feel his hand resting on my leg and I opened my eyes and placed my hand on top of his on top of my leg.

He instantly went to pull his hand back, almost apologetically, like he was sorry he was touching me, but I squeezed his hand tightly like it was okay. I liked him touching me. It was comforting in a way… Not like Mr. Samuel…



“Ray!” I cry out anxiously and he looks over at me. “Do you think that Mr.S-” I start to say and then I stop myself. My eyes had welled up with tears and I could feel my bottom lip trembling now.

“What's the matter Elle?” He says softly and I shook my head a little. I was having second thoughts telling him… Telling him what I don’t even know… But I can’t tell Gerard. He’d freak… Bob too… And Lia would probably say that I was a slut and I was asking for it… I should've pushed his hand off of me the second he touched me, but I didn’t…I just let him… And now he's gonna think I liked it… That I want him to do again…

‘Oh God.’ I sighed to myself.

“Did something happen with Mr. Samuel.” Ray says and I hung my head forward and shrugged a little. “Elle?” He says squeezing my leg once more to try to get me to respond to him.

“No.” I tell him weakly and when I look over he's frowning. “I mean I don’t know.” I add and he just looked at me. “He kinda did something but it was nothing.” I try to tell him and he took a deep breath…

“Nothing.” He repeats back and I shrug.

“Really Ray. You know how worked up I get over nothing. I do it all the time.” I say trying to change the subject.

“Well then just tell me what he did, if it’s not a big deal and it’s really nothing then you can just tell me.” He says and I frown at his logic. I mean it’s impossible to argue with him. He has an answer for everything…

“Really Ray.” I sigh a little. He just stared at me insistently. He wasn’t gonna let it go.

“He shouldn’t have even brought you to his house.” He says and I shake my head no.

“He didn’t want me to get in trouble.” I tell him and he laughed.

“That’s bullshit Elle. He shouldn’t have even been there.” He tells me and I sighed a little frustratedly. He was kinda right and I knew it… The whole thing was just giving me a really sick feeling… “So now tell me what he was doing.” He says and I look at him a little confused.

“What do you mean?” I ask. I certainly didn’t know what Mr Samuel was doing at my house before.

“You said he kinda did something before, so what was it?” He asks and I shook my head a little. Fuck Ray’s gonna blow this all out of proportion… I can see it now…

“He wasn’t doing anything more then you are now.” I tell him and he widened his eyes at me.

“Me?” He kinda gasped.

“Yeah he was just trying to make me feel better.” I tell him softly as I looked down, running my fingers along his hand that was still on my leg… I knew what I was telling him was bullshit. I knew it wasn’t all entirely true. I mean Rays hand felt comforting… Mr. S’s hand didn’t… Ray kinda looked over at his hand then at my face then back at his hand.

“Did he touch you?” He asks and I didn’t answer. “I mean like this.” He says patting my leg lightly and I shrugged.

“Wasn’t exactly like that.” I say weakly.

“Like how then?” He says and I shrug once more.

“I dunno.” I shrugged again. “Maybe higher.” I say softly and Ray shifted his hand like half an inch up.

“Like that?” He offers and I make a face at him.

“Like higher.” I say my voice so low it was barely a whisper. Ray kinda made a face and slid his hand up higher, right along the hem of my skirt.

“Like this.” He says and I bit my lip a little and don’t answer him. “More?” He says cautiously and I sorta nodded, I couldn’t even look at him… I reached over, took his hand, and pulled it up to about where Mr. Samuel had his hands, but only his on top of my skirt. “Elle.” Ray kinda said with what sounded to me like a disappointed tone to his voice…

“But under my skirt.” I say and before he could answer me back there was a sharp rapping on the window… the cop was back. Ray started to roll his window back down but the cop reached over and opened up his door.

“I'm gonna ask you to step out.” He tells Ray and Ray looked a little surprised but reached to undo his buckle. “Both of you.” The cop says and I frown as I open my door too. “Put your hands on the hood.” He tells Ray so Ray does.

“For what?” I ask totally stunned. I mean we weren't doing anything wrong. I mean Ray was driving like a madman but that’s not something you get pulled out of the car and arrested for.

“You know there's a missing persons report filed on you, Miss Waller.” He says looking over at me as he slaps a pair of handcuffs onto poor Ray…