Hi all! I hope everyone had a great holiday This chapter is pretty short, but it's just a filler to get to where I need to be for the story to really start. I'm sorry if there are any spelling errors and things, I didn't have a chance to proof it before posting. I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to get another chapter up, I'm in college, and the semester's almost over, which means finals and projects are taking over my life…I swear my teachers just assume that I live in a library. I'll do the best I can to get something up in the next couple of weeks, but I'm not going to promise anything. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter, again it's not much, it's just a filler, but it's still something!
Allie awoke the next morning to the sounds of voices. She knew that those voices belonged to her best friends, but she couldn't figure out why they were in her room.
"What are you guys doing? It's like 6 o'clock in the morning, why are you up?" she questioned, turning to face them.
The four exchanged confused glances, before James sat down on his bed next to her. He softly pushed her hair away from her face as he looked into her tired, red and puffy eyes.
"Babe, it's 11:30," he told her with a gentle smile. "You've never slept this late before, we were worried about you."
"Yeah Al, you don't even sleep this late when you're sick," Kendall said, sitting down on the other side of James' bed, being careful not to startle her, not knowing if she was still in the same mood as she was the previous night.
She turned to the clock on the bedside table, he eyes widening in surprise. "Seriously? It's 11:30?" she asked.
Logan nodded. "Yeah Al. If you don't mind me asking," he started, sitting in James' desk chair, "what happened last night?"
Allie's eyes went wide. Did she really want to tell them what had happened? She knew that all four of them would want to rip the guys balls off, but was it really worth it? There was nothing anyone could do anymore, she'd already showered, and her clothes had been put in the wash. She sighed, snuggling deeper into James' chest.
"Noth-nothing," she stuttered, "I just…my mom came home early yesterday."
James pulled her closer to him, wishing that the gut feeling he had yesterday wasn't right. He hated himself because he let her go alone when he knew he shouldn't have. "I knew I shouldn't have let you go alone, I just knew it," he told her softly, kissing the top of her head.
"Why were your clothes all wrinkled and ripped?" Carlos asked with a curious tone in his voice. She was hoping and praying that no one would ask that question, and silently cursed to herself when the person she least thought would ask opened his mouth.
"And don't even think about lying to us Allison, you know we can all see right through you," Kendall said firmly.
She sighed. She didn't want to tell them, but at the same time there was nothing that they would be able to do about it. She wasn't sure who the guy and his friends were, and her clothes had all been washed and she had showered last night. Taking a deep breath, she pulled away from James just a bit, much to his dismay.
"I um, well you see," she began, not exactly knowing how to tell them. She didn't want to just blurt it out, but she also didn't want to beat around the bush because she knew that if she did, she would end up not telling them.
"Allie bear, we can't help you if you don't tell us," Logan spoke softly, trying to encourage her to keep talking, and it was slowly starting to work.
"I got…I was…"
James' eyes grew wide at the four words that came out of his girlfriends' mouth. He was thinking the worst, but was hoping to God that he was wrong. Looking down into her eyes and seeing tears, he saw all he needed to, and immediately he knew that he was right.
"You got raped didn't you?" he asked so quietly that the only person that heard him was Allie. She nodded slightly, not being able to look into his eyes as she buried her face into his chest and once again the tears fell.
James pulled her tighter to his chest, Kendall, Carlos and Logan looking on in confusion. They hadn't been able to hear what James had said to her, but they knew that whatever it was, it pissed him off to no end, the color of his eyes were now a very dark gray.
"What happened?" Carlos questioned, turning back to the couple sitting on the bed. James put his chin atop of Allie's head so that he could see the other three in the room. "She got raped," he mouthed to them, and their eyes all went wide.
"She got WHAT?" they all asked together, each set of eyes growing a darker color as well. All he did was nod, he couldn't even say anything, he knew right now that he had to be calm for Allie; he could blow up later, but right now he just needed to hold her.
"It's okay baby, I promise no one is going to touch you again. I know you don't want to talk about it, but I need to know, do you know who it was?"
James was able to feel her shake her head into his chest. "No, but he wasn't alone," she answered him quietly. He sighed. He knew that there was nothing they could do about it if she didn't know who the assholes were, and they wouldn't be able to get finger prints either because he knew that his mother had washed her clothes already. Her crying became heavier as he pulled her closer to his body if that was even possible.
"It makes so much more sense now," Logan said, "why she flinched and tensed when we touched her…she was scared."
"I'm sorry," she said, pulling her head away from James about five minutes later, wiping the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand. "I didn't mean to, I know you guys would never hurt me but…"
"No Allie, it's okay," Kendall said sitting down beside her. "We understand now, we don't blame you at all."
"Really, it's nothing to be sorry about, it's to be expected, I'd almost be worried if you didn't react that way," Logan told her, gently placing a hand on her shoulder, hoping that she wouldn't pull away. He let out a small sigh of relief when she didn't, but she did flinch slightly.
"We'd never hurt you Allie," Carlos spoke with a smile, "you're our little sister, we're here to protect you."
The other three nodded in agreement with their Latino best friend. "We're sorry we weren't there for you last night Allie, but we promise, you're never going to be alone again," James said, kissing her forehead gently, hugging her tighter.
"I love you guys," she told them with a very small smile.
"We love you too."
"I wish I knew who these assholes were, I'd rip them limb from limb," James said in frustration, as he paced the living room in Kendall's house. Allie was upstairs helping Katie with her social studies project, and the boys were supposed to be working on their own homework, but instead, they were talking about what happened the night before.
"We'd help you James, don't you worry about that," Carlos agreed. "They wouldn't even know what the fuck hit them."
The boys laughed. Carlos wasn't the one to curse, the other three were, and when he did, they couldn't help but to find it funny.
"She just, her mom's a bitch, her dad died when she was twelve, why does she have to be the one that all of this shit is happening to? No one should have to go through things like this," James sighed, sitting down.
The other three boys nodded in agreement. "I still just, it's so hard to believe that something like this happened to our sweet and innocent little Allie," Kendall voiced, putting his math textbook on the coffee table in front of him.
Given the circumstances, James new he shouldn't, but he couldn't help but smirk at Kendall's words. "Oh trust me; she's not so sweet and innocent."
"Really James, those are things that we don't need to know, keep those thoughts to yourself man," Carlos said, shaking his head, trying to get rid of the images in his brain that James had just imprinted.
"Sorry, I couldn't help it," he smirked again.
"But going back, if I ever find out who did this to her, I would definitely end up in jail for murder," Kendall stated firmly through his gritted teeth, his hands turning in to fists.
"We'd be right there in that cell next to you, no doubt about that," Logan agreed.
"Alright, I can't, I can't talk about this anymore. Kendall, do you think they're done with Katie's project? I want to help her with her history paper."
Kendall shook his head, pulling his math book back into his lap. "How the hell am I supposed to know? Go up and ask."
"How the hell am I supposed to know? Go up and ask," he mocked, shaking his head as he made his way to the stairs.
"Shut the hell up James!" Kendall called after him.
Walking up the stairs and taking a quick left, he could hear his girlfriend and best friends little sister laughing, and immediately a smile appeared on his face. He leaned against the frame of Katie's open bedroom door, arms crossed over his chest, a smile gracing his lips, going unnoticed for a good two minutes.
"And what are you two laughing about?" he asked smirking, making his presence known.
Allie and Katie turned to him, smiles on their faces. "Oh, just how stupid the four of you boys can be," his girlfriend replied, standing up and walking over to him, and placing a kiss on his cheek.
"Yeah, sometimes I wonder how you guys haven't ended up with more broken bones than you have," Katie laughed.
Shooting the ten year old a look, he shook his head. "Hey, between the four of us, there have only been two broken bones, I'd say that's pretty damn good. Considering one of those times wasn't even my fault…it was Jenny Tinkler's!" he exclaimed, holding up his right arm to show the scar.
Before either of the girls could respond to his comment, they heard the doorbell ring downstairs. "Who's that?" Katie wondered out loud.
"We ordered pizza. That's actually one of the reasons why I came up here, to let you two know that dinner was going to be here soon."
In the blink of an eye, Katie was out of her room and racing down the stairs.
James couldn't help but laugh at her as he turned his attention back to Allie. "She must be hungry."
Allie nodded, but he could tell there was something bothering her.
"What's the matter baby?"
"I'm just, still shaken up from yesterday," she answered quietly, hanging her head in embarrassment.
"Oh Allie," he said, pulling her into his arms, leaning against the wall in the hallway. "There's nothing for you to be embarrassed about sweetie. I'd be worried if you weren't still shaken up. But you don't have to worry, Kendall, Carlos, Logan and I, we're not going to let anything happen to you, I promise," he spoke, kissing her temple in affection.
They stayed in that position for at least five minutes before they heard Logan shout up the stairs. "If you two want food, I suggest you get your asses down here before Carlos eats it all!"
"We'd better go," James said, standing up, "you need to eat something."
Allie nodded, taking the hand that he offered her and let him lead her down the stairs. Stopping about halfway down, James turned back to look at her. "I promise Allie, I won't let anything else happen to you. You're not going anywhere without either me, Kendall, Carlos, or Logan. I'm not taking any more chances. If something else happened to you…" he trailed off, placing a hand on her cheek. "I don't even want to think about it."
"I know Jay, I trust you guys."
"Good timing, I thought you two weren't going to get any food," Kendall laughed as they entered the kitchen and James reached for two paper plates, handing one to Allie and keeping one for himself.
"So, who's up for a movie?"
I know that it was really short, but I'm trying to get to the good part, the whole reason for the story, but I have to get to the right chapter first, and I'm hoping that it's going to happen in the next one. Things are going to start getting intense, so I hope you like it! Again, I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes and things like that, I wanted to get this up tonight and I didn't have a chance to proof it. Anyways, I hope you liked it! Lemme know!
