Sorry it's a day late.
Chapter 9
Roxy worked hard all through her shift at BBs and kept a smile on her face all the time she was doing; she was excited for tonight and yesterday with Lee was still fresh on her mind.
"Hey Summers, take your break you've been working hard." Richy told her at lunch time.
"Thanks Richy." she told him and made her way out front to meet with Kristy.
"Hey, you're sure happy today I'm guessing it has something to do with Lee visiting so often lately?" she greeted Roxy.
"Hi Kristy, yes things are so good lately between us and I'm meeting some of his friends at a small get together tonight." Roxy said as she sat down at the table.
"That's great, be sure to have fun and be yourself not the shy girl either." she advised.
"Thanks, I will. How have you been?" Roxy asked in return turning the conversation away from herself so she could catch up with Kristy.
"Not much new with me, but Charlie heard there's a new guy that just got to town last night and he's here looking for someone." she said, Roxy's smile disappeared and a nervous look covered her face.
"Does anyone know his name?" she asked managing to keep her voice steady. 'He can't be here, he just can't be.' her thoughts raced with fear.
"No, don't worry our neighborhood is safe; we all look out for one another." Kristy said but Roxy didn't find that very comforting at the moment.
After her shift ended she went straight home not wanting to take any chances, she was scared with good reason to be if it was him.
Roxy called Lee as soon as she got in, "Hey, how soon could you be over here?"
"Hi Rox, I'm a little busy at the moment helping get ready for the party. What's wrong?" Lee replied his phone in between his ear and his shoulder as he unloaded the cases of beer from Barney's truck but he could hear the urgency of her tone.
"I've found out some news that could be very bad for me and possibly you too, please come get me. I don't want to be alone right now and I'm really scared." She said her voice was shaking now.
"I'll be right there." he said quickly and hung up giving Barney a quick shout, "I'll be right back!" he yelled before jumping on his motorcycle and speeding off for Roxy's house.
Roxy quickly changed from her work clothes to something better for this evening and went to wait in the living room trying to keep calm.
'Why did I think I could run away from him? What will I do if he catches me?' she asked herself mentally but no answers came to her as the doorbell rang making her jump.
Roxy went to the door and checked it; she sighed in relief when she saw Lee standing there and opened the door.
Lee came inside and she threw her arms around him almost immediately and hugged him tightly.
"Are you alright? What's going on?" he asked confused, obviously she was scared but he didn't know why.
"Yeah, lets go I'll explain everything at your friend's place." she replied letting go of him and grabbing her purse.
He did as she said thinking she wasn't safe at her house right now, and drove her to Tool's.
"Roxy Summers meet Barney Ross, a good friend of mine. Barney this is Roxy." Lee introduced them.
"Hi." Roxy greeted.
"Hey, what's going on Lee?" Barney asked confused as to why Roxy was here so early for the party.
"Roxy's got a situation and she didn't feel safe in her own house so I brought her here; she'll explain the problem." Lee replied and turned to Roxy.
"Kristy informed me that there's a new guy in town and he's looking for someone, I believe it's my ex-boyfriend Mike from Jacksonville that's where I moved from to come here. He was so angry when I broke up with him and vowed he'd track me down to make sure I'd never run away from again. So I'm afraid he'll hurt me or worse and he could hurt Lee too." she explained her body was shaking at the memories of him.
"We'll protect you, don't worry sweetheart you'll be safe with us." Lee told her and wrapped an arm around her keeping her close to him.
"He's right, once the rest of the guys get here you'll be completely safe." Barney agreed.
"Good, I trust you guys and thank you." she told them.
Roxy got to meet the rest of the guys and the party got underway with plenty of story telling and laughing.
Everything was great but she just couldn't find it in her to relax and have fun not with the possibility of Mike out there somewhere.
Lee stood off tot the side a little with Barney keeping a close eye on Roxy.
"Do you think he'll find her here?" he asked his leader, not fullying knowing himself.
"It's possible but he'll have to get through all of us before he gets to her." Barney replied.
A couple of hours passed and Lee felt things would be fine until a loud banging sounded at the door and a voice yelled angrily.
"Roxy Summers! I'm going to get you for what you did to me!"
