23
Angelo
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stared back over to Daz and Cathy, finding it easier to watch them being filmed than Kevin. Even if Faye refused to look at me, I preferred to see her with someone who didn’t want to use and abuse her. Kevin was utterly wasted tonight and more of an asshole than usual. I didn’t want him anywhere near her when he was like that, Faye deserved so much better.
I moved over to where Faye was not so long ago to see an empty, gaping space.
“Are you finished?” I asked Daz and Cathy. “Has Faye finished with you already?”
Cathy pulled away from Daz and gave me a knowing smirk. She seemed to think that it was something to lord over me that I’d drunkenly hit on her not so long ago because I was sad. I guess it made her feel sexy and powerful or whatever. It was hard to brush off, but I tried.
“Kevin came over and mauled her, he was all drunk and annoying. I guess they went outside. She better be back soon, though, she can fuck around with him whenever she wants. I want to be filmed!”
I didn’t even bother to answer Cathy, I turned and raced outside at the speed of light. Maybe it was a lover’s moment that I would be interrupting, or maybe it was going to be something more sinister. I had no idea, but I couldn’t leave Faye outside alone with him just in case.
As I raced through the doors a terrified sounding scream grabbed my attention, only confirming what I already feared. It sounded like Faye, it had to be her, there wasn’t anyone else that I could imagine being in such trouble. With my thundering heart racing in my mouth and nerves zapping through my veins, I took off and raced forwards through the horrible darkness of night.
“Oh my God.” I found them quickly, Kevin was too drunk to get too far. “Faye.”
He had fallen away from her, probably due to the volume of the shriek but soon recovered and crashed his body back into hers. He had his hands all over her, touching her despite the fact that she clearly didn’t want it. Faye pushed at him, fighting him off her, but of course she wasn’t strong enough. Her slight, petite frame was nothing compared to his thick muscular body which he worked on every day. It wasn’t a fair fight.
“Oi!” I yelled loudly, watching the scene in front of me get out of hand. “Kevin, stop!”
All of a sudden, a shot of adrenaline tore through my body and everything loosened. I ran towards Kevin with a deep burning rage in the pit of my stomach. How dare he touch her like that, it wasn’t right. Faye was a good girl, one who wasn’t used to louts like him. She didn’t deserve it.
I yanked him off of her with ease and threw him to the ground. We had matching strength but he’d been drinking so it was unbalanced. He hit the ground with a thump and stared up at me in shock.
“What the fuck are you doing, mate?” he growled at me. “You letting jealousy get the better of you? Well, I’m sorry to tell you this, mate, but the prissy bitch picked me over you. She’s about to let me into her pants.” He pushed himself into a standing position and squared up to me. “So you better back the fuck off now and leave us to it, alright? She doesn’t want you and I don’t much like you either.”
I glanced over to Faye who was shuddering and shivering with fear. It wasn’t anywhere near cold enough for her to be rattling and shaking in such a way. This asshole had done that to her.
“Fuck you, Kevin,” I grunted back. “If you can’t see when a girl doesn’t want you then you have problems. You need to get your sorry ass to one of those consent work shops.”
Kevin came at me hard, he hit me with his shoulder and knocked me flying backwards against the hard, cold brick wall, not too far away from where Faye stood. The scraping of the bricks plus the force almost knocked the wind right out of me, but it wasn’t enough to hold me back.
“Stop this now, Kevin, I don’t want to fight you,” I tried my hardest to reason with him. “Let’s just leave this here and you get your sorry ass to bed okay? We can talk about this tomorrow.”
“Argh!” Kevin wasn’t having any of it, he charged at me again so I did the only think that I could to defend myself. I swung my arm back and I shot it forwards to connect with his face as hard as I could. He shot backwards, falling towards the ground, gripping onto his eye the entire time
“Oh my God.” Finally, Faye spoke, but it was only to gasp in shock. “What did you do?”
“I don’t know,” I admitted. “I just… I guess I just lashed out.”
Faye raced back inside, leaving me alone. I stared down at Kevin with a nervous disposition, wondering what the hell I could do next. He curled up into the fetal position and held himself there.
“I’m sorry I hit you, Kevin,” I said slowly. “But the way you treated Faye was wrong. I just… I want to protect her I can’t seem to help myself. I guess I really like her, you know?”
Kevin didn’t reply, he didn’t say anything at all, he just moaned in pain. I felt bad, but what else was I supposed to do? He wasn’t being respectful, then he fought me first.
“Oh my goodness.” Dimitri came flying from the building with Faye not far behind him. “What the hell has happened here? Why are you two fighting?” He tutted as he saw Kevin on the ground. “Angelo, you get out of here, I’ll sort this out, okay? I’ll talk to you about it tomorrow.”
Faye grabbed onto me and dragged me away from the scene. I wasn’t sure that I wanted to go, but at least I wasn’t leaving Kevin alone. Dimitri would know what to do, he always did.
“Thank you so much for saving me,” Faye gushed once we were far enough away from the scene of the crime. “That was scary, Kevin is so strong, I didn’t know what was going to happen to me.”
“Oh that’s okay, I wouldn’t leave you like that. I still want to protect you.”
Faye took the direction towards her dorm room and I followed her close behind. There wasn’t a chance in hell that I would leave her on her own now. Whether she hated me or not, I wanted to keep her safe. It was dark, and as we’d already seen, dangerous. I couldn’t risk her at all.
“That’s very kind of you…” Faye sounded unsure as she spoke. “I’m sure your girlfriend must be very proud of you. To have someone who… who stands up for honor and that.”
“Huh? Girlfriend? What on Earth are you talking about? I don’t have a girlfriend?”
“It’s okay, I do know about her.” She tried to sound carefree but I got the sense that there was some real pain behind her words. What did that mean? “Kevin told me. Sierra, right?”
“Oh no, Sierra is just a friend,” I reassured her right away. “I know that probably sounds crazy, especially since she was holding my hand the other day but she was just helping me out.”
“I saw you with her, hugging,” she continued, completely ignoring me. “On Wednesday. She didn’t look like much of a friend then. You don’t have to lie to me. It’s okay, I understand.”
“On Wednesday? I wasn’t with Sierra on Wednesday.” I racked my brain, trying to work out what she could have possibly seen. “My sister, Maddie, came to visit on Wednesday. Oh and she had my cousin with her!” All of a sudden it came flooding back. “Yeah Polly is getting married in six months and she wanted to come and tell me all about it. She wanted to invite me. That must be who you saw me with. I hugged her just before she left. Maddie was near us but talking to Simon.”
“Your cousin?” Faye gave me a disbelieving look. “Are you serious?”
I grabbed out my cell phone and flicked through the pictures until I found her. “This is Polly.” Realization flooded her face which proved to me that this was who she saw. Thank God, I’d almost forgotten that they even came to visit it was for such a short time. It was just typical that Faye saw us and got the wrong idea. It was bloody ridiculous. “And this is Sierra.”
“Oh! She’s the girl that Iain has a thing for. I thought they were hooking up…”
“I hope they are,” I laughed. “I know that Sierra really likes him so that’s good!”
Faye turned just as we reached the outside of her building and she stared up at me. “So, you really don’t have a girlfriend? You haven’t been hooking up with Sierra since we were together.”
“I haven’t been hooking up with anyone.” I was so glad that I could say that and be honest. “Have you? Kevin’s been suggesting that all sorts of things have been happening…”
“Come on, I think you can tell that nothing happened.” She bit down on her bottom lip before speaking out once more. “Only that dumb ass kiss which I only did to make you jealous.”
Even though I sort of knew this could be the case, it felt good to hear her say it. I was so glad that she didn’t want anything to do with Kevin, especially now. Although I still didn’t know where that left us. She could still not want me, it wasn’t a case of one or the other.
“Sorry for all the game playing,” Faye continued. “I never meant for it to be like that between me and you. I hope you can tell that I’m not experienced enough in the romance department for love games. I didn’t ever want to hurt you, I was just hurting myself and I thought all sorts of things.”
“I get it,” I replied sadly. “I didn’t ever want to hurt you, either. I liked you… I like you, more than I have done anyone else before and I guess that sent me a little crazy.” When Faye didn’t reply I realized that too much had happened for us to ever get things back to how they were. It was a shame, but what could I do? “It’s been good to know you anyway, Faye. I’m sorry that there’s so much water under the bridge. Of course I wish things could be different, but I completely get it.”
Faye smiled at me serenely, then she took a step closer to me. I offered her my cheek, waiting for a sweet, chaste goodbye kiss, but I didn’t get that. She grabbed my cheeks and pulled my face in to hers. Then she gave me the most gorgeous, loving kiss I’d ever had. It took my breath away.
“I’m not done with you yet,” she murmured to me. “And I don’t think you are with me, either. You’re single, I’m single… why not give us a go?”
“Are you serious?” I asked her in shock. “You really want to?”
“Of course I do. The question is, do you?”
I almost laughed. “That’s the craziest question ever. I’ve wanted to from the start. You’re the one who’s been resisting me.”
Faye grabbed me and she kissed me hard. “Well, I’m not resisting you anymore, so let’s see what happens, shall we?”
I liked the sound of that, I liked it a whole lot!