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Chapter 4- Day 1: The Past
Later on that day when Punk opened his eyes for the second time, he found himself staring up at the roof of the cave. Slightly groaning, he closed his eyes again and wished that this was all a dream. He wanted the whole plane crash, the dead bodies, and the pain to be made up and that he was back home in his bed. However, there was a small part in him that was happy that he was on that plane because he would have never met AJ.
"Oh shit AJ," he whispered as he sat up to a sharp pain hitting him in the side. Grabbing his ribs, Punk looked around to see if AJ and Charlie were asleep, but they weren't there. Fearing that something had happened to them, he quickly got up and limped over to the opening of the cave.
As he got closer, he was able to hear a child's laughter and a woman's giggle. Looking out from the cave, Punk was able to see that AJ and Charlie were okay and were playing in the shallow end of waterfall. It was the most beautiful sight that he had ever seen.
"Do you like the water Charlie? It's nice and refreshing huh?" AJ asked him as Charlie splashed about in the water.
Walking up behind them, Punk cleared his throat to alert them to his presents. "Hey guys, what are you doing out here?" he then asked as he sat down on a rock near AJ.
AJ looked up at him and smiled, "Good morning to you I think. Charlie here was a bit fussy earlier, so I fed him some of the baby formula in the diaper bag and then brought him out here to play. He certainly is a little fish, because he loves the water."
"I can see that," Punk giggled as Charlie splashed him a little. How are you feeling this morning? Are you still in pain?" he asked her. He remembered how much she was hurting earlier and didn't like to see her in pain.
"I'm a little sore, but I think that the pain has pasted. I was real scared that the pain was going to come back as I slept, but it never did. And you, how are you feeling?" she asked him as she took Charlie out the water and placed him on a blanket before giving him his bottle.
Punk smiled at the natural motherly instincts that AJ had. She would make an excellent mother one day. Walking over to the blanket, he then sat down next to his fellow survivors. "Oh I'm doing okay, just hurting a little bit. When I didn't see you guys in the cave, I freaked out and sat up to quickly and got a shooting pain in my ribs. Not only that, but my knee is aching like crazy," he told her as he rubbed his knee.
Seeing him in discomfort, AJ went to the cave to grab some aspirin and her backpack that she brought on the plane with her. "Here take this," she told him when she got back and handed him some water. She then dug in her bag for a small tube of cream and poured some of it in her hand.
"What is that?" Punk asked her in confusion as he watched her push his shorts up a little bit to apply the cream. When her hands touch is knee, Punk gasped at the coldness of the cream and the tenderness of her touch. AJ's hands were so soft.
"It's a cream for aches and pains," she told him as she gently massaged his knee. "I always carry it with me in case one of my old injuries flared up," she told him with a sad face. She hated when her old injuries ached, because it reminded her of when she was young.
Punk could see that there were some sad memories going on in her head. Gently taking her hand off of his knee, he held it in his hand and rubbed the back of it. "Are you okay AJ? It's just that you look really sad and I don't want to see a beautiful woman like you upset," he told her not wanting to look like a creep.
AJ just looked up at him and blushed, "You think I'm beautiful?" No one not even her ex-boyfriend Zack had ever made her feel beautiful or even told her that she was beautiful before.
"Yes I do believe that you are the most beautiful woman that I have ever seen. That was the first thing that I noticed when I saw you back at the airport. Now are you going to tell me what's wrong? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to," he told her still holding her hand.
"It's umm…thinking about my injuries sort of brought up some old memories that still haunted me today," she told him as a tear fell down her face. AJ couldn't believe that she was going to tell Punk happened to her, but there was something about him that made her want to tell him the truth. "When I was little, my parents died and I was sent to live in an orphanage. Being so little and weak, the other girls there picked on me and beat me up. Finally I had enough of it and ran away when I was 16. From there I found a job at a diner and started to make a living for myself. Anyways, I ended up meeting this guy named Zack Ryder and he was the nicest guy that I had ever met. He was 20 at the time and I was 17, but I didn't care and I ended up moving in with him. Then on our 6th month anniversary, Zack hit me for the first time," AJ told Punk with a sad embarrassed voice.
Punk looked down at AJ in shock. He couldn't believe this beautiful creature in front of him and gone through so much in her lifetime, including having an abusive partner. "What do you mean the first time? You mean that asshole kept on doing it?" he asked trying to keep his temper under control.
AJ just shook her head, "Yeah he did unfortunately. Every time he hit me, Zack always did the 'I'm sorry, I'll never do it again' thing and I stupidly believed him. As time went on, the hits stopped and the broken bones began. When he would hit him and I fell to the floor, Zack would kick me in the ribs or stomp on my hands to where my fingers and wrists were broken multiple times. That's why I carry this cream with me. When my wrist acts up, I just put it on."
"Did you every try to leave him? I'm sure that you must of hated getting hit," Punk said as he rubbed her fingers and wrists that looked like they healed pretty well.
"I tried multiple times to leave him, but Zack always found a way to find me. I guess this time I really left him and now I'll never get the chance to live a free life," AJ said as she started to cry again.
Punk immediately took her into his arms and held her tight as he whispered into her ear, "Everything is going to be okay AJ, I promise. I will find a way to get us out of here and you can live that free life away from Zack that you wanted okay?"
AJ nodded into his chest and when she looked up at him, she could see deep into his mesmerizing green eyes and saw nothing but care for her. On the other side, Punk looked into AJ's brown eyes and saw a vulnerability that he wanted to protect keep safe forever. Without them realizing it, the two survivors moved closer and closer to each other. However just as their lips were about to meet, a loud clap of thunder came from overhead causing Charlie to start crying.
Quickly breaking apart, AJ picked up Charlie and started to rock him back and forth while Punk helped them up and back into the cave before the rain started. Once they were inside, Punk made a quick fire and went to sit next to AJ and Charlie on their makeshift bed before wrapping all three of them in a blanket.
"You know you're really good at this whole baby watching thing," Punk smiled as he watched AJ rock Charlie back to sleep.
"I know right, I'm really surprised too. I never saw myself in a situation where I would be taking care of a baby," AJ smiled as Charlie gripped her finger in his tiny hand. "What are you Punk? Have you ever found yourself wanting to settle down and want a family?"
Punk just looked down and sighed, "Yeah at times I do, but I know that it might never happen considering my own history of having a bad family." He then looked at AJ who had a confused look on her face, so he decided to explain himself further. "Well like I told you earlier, I came from a family that was filled with smoking and drinking and just like you, I left home. I just didn't feel loved there. Anyways, after wandering the streets I eventually found myself getting in trouble with the law and spent some time in jail. While I was there, I ran into this guy named Randy Orton who was my cellmate. We got to talking and we found out that we had a lot in common and watched each other's backs while we were incarcerated. Once we both got out, Randy took me to Portland where I joined his gang."
AJ just looked at him with a shocked face, "You…you…you were in a gang?" Normally people in gangs were bad people, but Punk was so gentle and nice with her Charlie. It just didn't make sense.
"Yeah I was and it was the worst decision that I ever made. See the gang that I joined is called Evolution and they are bad people especially the leader named Hunter. He has a reputation of scaring people even me. He always had just doing drug and gun runs back and forth over the boarders and other things of that nature. It was always great money, but I always felt guilty afterwards. Well one day Hunter had me and a couple of other guys in the gang go to an exchange with another gang when it all went wrong. The guys in the other gang decided that they wanted the drugs and money for themselves, so they killed everyone that was there in my gang, but me. I somehow made it out alive and told Hunter what happened. He unfortunately didn't buy it and was convinced that I took the drugs and money for myself. In the end he ended up having Randy put a hit out on my, but I got wind of it and ran to the airport where I bought ticket. The rest is history you can say," he told her with a shameful look on his face.
"I…I…I don't know what to say really," AJ mumbled as she took everything in. "I mean not to sound mean or anything, but you look like a gang member sort of guy with all your tattoos and attitude, but at the same in the couple of hours that I have known you, you are not that guy at all. In fact I think that you are a real charming nice guy."
Punk blushed at her comment, "Well I don't know about that, but thank you AJ. What does AJ stand for by the way?"
"It stands for April Jeanette, but no one has called me that in years," she told him. In fact she hadn't told a lot of people what her initials stood for, because she hated it.
Punk on the other hand loved her name and thought that it fit her perfectly, "Well April, I really think you should go by your first name because I think that it fits a beautiful woman like you."
AJ blushed and rested her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes. Even though the situation wasn't the ideal situation, she was glad that she had Punk here to lean on and hopefully something good could come out of this bad situation.
Well there you have it folks, another chapter is in the bag. I'm glad that AJ and Punk were able to open up about their pasts to each other and that they had accepted what had happened to each other. Also, I think some feelings are starting to build up and I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing. Please let me know what you thought about the chapter!
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