You Remind Me of Her

Chapter Two

A few weeks had gone by and they were still just hanging out and having fun. Cori was completely used to seeing Bobby around without feeling uncomfortable. They were hanging out after school at a nice park just playing catch and chatting about what has been going on the past couple of days.

There was suddenly a group of guys walking towards them. They had bad news written all over them. Glen was watching very carefully as he noticed that they were looking at Cori. One of them finally found his way towards her.

"Hello there baby, what's your name?"
"Cori."
"Oh, Cori. That's a cute little name to fit that cute little body of yours. I think you and I should go out sometimes and you know…hangout. How does that sound to you baby?"
"Um, no thanks. Thank you anyway though."
"Oh come on baby, don't be like that. The things that I could do to you are some things I bet you haven't even heard of."
"No really, I'm not interested."
"Well, I sort of don't care. Personally I find that I have a little more talent then that ogre of a boyfriend you have over there."
"He's not an ogre. Don't talk about him like that."
"Whatever, come on baby. Let's go have some fun at my place or something."
"No, leave me alone."

Cori continued to protest this guy grabbed her arm. She was getting ready to scream when she saw Glen coming after this guy knocking him to the ground. But Glen may have been a the big guy with the disadvantage for once. He found himself getting knocked down by this guy' other three friends. Glen was on the ground as they started kicking him and punching him. One of them then pulled out a knife. But there were too many witnesses around. Cori was afraid to run and help him thinking that they would hurt her too. She slowly made her way towards him and they just smirked at her and walked away. She looked down at Glen who was bleeding from his forehead and winced in pain as she placed her hand on his side.

"Oh Glen, you are hurt pretty badly. We need to get you to the hospital. I think you might have a cracked rib or something. Who knows if you may have started internal bleeding. I don't want to movie you too much. I'll be right back okay, don't you move at all."

Cori stammered around everywhere and somebody gladly gave her change to use the payphone that was luckily close by. She called the cops and an ambulance and he was shipped off to the nearest hospital. Cori was frantic and fear for his life. He was beat up pretty bad and wasn't sure if he was going to make it. She ran over to her house and grabbed her diary and a pen. Then she headed over to the hospital to see him.

She was sitting in one of the chairs near his bed as he lay there not quite awake yet. She grabbed her diary and pen and started writing down in it which seemed like such a long message. She finally finished about and hour later and then he slowly opened his eyes. She smiled sweetly at him.

"Hey there big guy, you sure took one hell of a beating. How are you feeling?"
"Like crap, I'm just glad that you are okay."
"Oh Jesus Christ Glen are you kidding me? You should be worried about yourself. I'm perfectly fine. I thought I lost you there sweetheart."
"Huh, are you kidding me? I'm not gone yet."

"Thank god, I told your parents what happened and they were a little caught up in something and are trying to make it back. They got caught in traffic. They should be here any minute I'm guessing."

Glen just smiled at her as he listened to the worry in her voice. She then looked at him and wondered why he was staring at her like that.

"What? Did I say something wrong?"
"No, you just look kind of pretty when you are so worried like this."
"Cute? Okay, that's not exactly the word I would have used. But whatever you want to believe silly."

"I don't know what I would do without you Cori."

Cori became speechless by his words until his parents walking in the room interrupted them. They ran to him and were asking him all sorts of questions.

A few more months had gone by and Glen was completely recovered and back on his feet really healthy. Cori was really protective of him all the time and was always at his side making sure that he was okay.

"Cori, I really wanted to thank you for being there for me all the time. I really appreciate it."
"Hey, it's no problem. What are friends for?"

Glen just smiled as his heart melted. But there was a question that he had been meaning to ask her for the past few days and had been having trouble trying to get it out.

"Um Cori?"
"Yes Glen?"
"I kind of wanted to ask you something?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, remember how we agreed on going to prom together if we didn't have anyone else to go with?"
"Oh yeah, I remember that. Did you want to go? It would be do much fun. Plus I really think that after what happened with Bobby a few months back. It has really given me time to think about friends more then boyfriends anyway."
"So you want to go?"
"Yeah, it will be great. Oh my god, that's like this Friday. I totally need to go and buy a dress."
"I need to get a nice tux."
"Well, guess I better get home to see if I can get some money from my mom."
"Me too."

They both continued walking on their way home and went into their houses and got money so they could go get a dress and suit.

---Prom Night---

Glen got in his car and he turned it on. He parked on the street and ran up to Cori's house. He knocked on the door and he was up in her room. She was writing in her diary when she heard the doorbell ring. She ran down the stairs and opened the door. They both practically dropped their jaws at how they looked. They both were amazed.

"You look do beautiful tonight Cori."
"Thank you, and don't you look quite handsome yourself."
"I tried."
"No really Glen, you look great. Let's go though, I am excited and I can't wait to see what it's like."
"I know me too."

They went to the school and walked into the gym to see all the decorations. There was the typical giant punch bowl that was undoubting spiked by one of the low life punks who attended the school. So everyone pretty much avoided it. Glen and Cori walked to the center of the floor and started dancing along with a couple other couples.

The dance was almost over and they were still dancing. Cori looked up at him and smiled. He smiled back and placed some of her hair behind he ears.

"Thanks for being my friend Glen and being there for me. I love you Glen Jacobs."

"…I love you too Cori Simmons. I'll always be there for you."

She then hugged him and rested her head on his chest. They danced until the dance was over. Then he took her home and she ran up to her room as she started writing in her diary.

I know that was a short chapter. But I hope you fellow readers are enjoying my story so far. The next chapter is where it will start kicking off. So please don't give up, it will get better. And Trish is coming, real soon. I promise.