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"Hello to you too." Hunter grinned mischievously at me while sending a jaw dropped in shock, it was bad enough that he caught me sucking face with Patch, but this was defiantly not the time to be exchanging chit chat.

Patch tensed in front of me, every muscle had gone taunt and he looked like he was ready to spring at a moments notice."What are you doing here?" The sound of Patch's voice sent shivers down my spine even though it wasn't directed at me.

Hunter's grin grew wider. "Well I happened to get caught up with Vee in the corridor, she seemed to be in a real hurry to leave, so I offered to take Nora home, but then I couldn't find you or her, so there's only so many places two people could be..."

"That won't be necessary." Patch's voice was filled with venom, however Hunter didn't seem to be intimidated, he just shrugged his shoulders and looked at me, it took me a while to figure out he was waiting for me to respond.

"Uhh, I think I'll just walk, my house isn't that far from the school." I didn't really look forward to hitch hiking my way home, but starting an argument between Patch and Hunter was a lot lower on my list. Unfortunately Hunter wasn't having any of that, "Vee told me the address Nora, it's a four hour walk, and I can't have a girl like you walking alone in the dark, it's dangerous out there."
I silently cursed Vee for putting me into this situation, why couldn't she just text me to tell me what was going on instead of deciding things for
me, either way someone was going to leave the rooftop being very unhappy..

"She isn't going home with you." Patch hissed.

"Oh?" Hunter raised an eyebrow, "I don't think the decision lies with you, let her make her own choices for once."

I glared at Hunter, silently cursing him for making me decide, he caught my eye and raised his eyebrow expectantly.
I sighed knowing that no one was leaving until I made the choice, and I knew another few minutes alone with Patch wouldn't exactly benefit me either, "where are you parked?" I asked Hunter.

Hunters grin only got bigger. "Only one way your going to find out."

I took a couple of steps but was stopped by a tight grip on my wrist.

"You're not going home with him Angel."
"I'll see you tomorrow Patch." I sighed warily.
"I wasn't giving you a choice."
"Don't make this harder than it needs to be." I snapped.
We glared at each other, I felt like averting my gaze but that would be like admitting defeat, it was only when I felt an arm sling around my shoulder that I reluctantly averted it to Hunter and shook my wrist free from Patch's grip while side stepping out of Hunters arm, I rolled my eyes at the testosterone which was clouding the atmosphere.

"Let it go mate." Hunter chuckled at Patch, giving him a heavy clap on the back with his left hand, the normally friendly gesture somehow had a mocking edge to it, I knew I wasn't the only one thinking that after one look in Patch's direction. Patch glared at the offending hand before grabbing Hunter by the collar, his knuckles tightening around the fabric before taking a step closer so that he was one inch away.

"Stay out of this." His voice was deadly calm, speaking the words slowly to give them time to sink in, most people would have surrendered and stepped back, but I couldn't have been more surprised to see Hunter throw his head back and give a light that's what did it. "Alright then." Patch snarled before smashing his fist straight into Hunters face, causing his head to snap back from the impact before Patch released his collar.

Hunter took a step back. "That was a really bad move." He remarked before easing into a circling routine that Patch had already resumed. Hunter lunged first, tackling Patch onto the hard concrete before returning the punch, there was a sickening crack as his fist connected with Patch's face, Patch didn't seem to be too fazed by the hit and didn't waste time by clipping Hunter in the nose and rolling him over until he had the upper hand position and then promptly hammering down a series of blows that would be sure to leave their mark. Hunter grunted as he seemed to recover from the turn of events by snaking out his arm and locking Patch into a headlock while ramming his own fist into Patch's abdomen, they sprang apart when this position hadn't given anyone an advantage. Rolling of the ground and straightening up, Hunter's nose was bleeding heavily and Patch already had signs of a bruise blooming on the left side of his face. Patch grunted as his foot struck out, hitting Hunter on the leg, causing it to give in, Patch didn't waste anytime moving in to shove Hunter against the wall while he had an open opportunity. I had been frozen in shock the whole time, staring silently at the scene that was unfolding itself in front of my eyes. Blinking a couple of times I forced myself to snap out of the stupor, even though I knew that neither of them felt a thing, my heart still twisted at the knowledge that one of their bodies would collapse once it had reached it's limit, and I had no intention of letting it come to that. I screamed for them to stop but neither of them seemed to hear me as they were both to caught up in the fight.

I flinched at the sound of something cracking as the blows that were being exchanged got heavier, Patch had Hunter backed up against the wall as he seemed to have finally gained the advantage position. I forced my limbs to move, since telling them to stop had the same effect as screaming at a wall I knew I had to take action. I waited for Patch's fist to draw back for another hit before leaping into the small gap between them, I held my breath as Patch's fist came hurtling back, flinching as I waited for the hit to come, but it never did. Opening one eye I saw that he had stopped a mere millimeter from my face.

"I said stop." I breathed out, relieved that my face didn't get hammered.
"Move." Patch's voice came out cold. I flinched because I had never heard him use that kind of tone with me, but I refused to give in so I looked him in the eye and shook my head, not trusting my voice to stay steady.
"This isn't your fight." Patch held my gaze. "Move." He repeated.
"No." I said more firmly, backing up closer to Hunter, putting my hands against both sides of the wall. " I'm not going to let you hurt each other." I paused to take a breath and steady myself. "Not over me."
"He had it coming, let me finis-"
"Leave." I cut him off, if I had to choose between them then I was going to choose Hunter, since I was sure no matter what I said to Patch would reach him, he was like a wild panther, no sense of reason could stop him.
"You're choosing him?" His eyes widened in surprise.
"Do you want me to answer that question hypothetically or alphabetically?" I was getting really irritated now. Why was he acting so narrow minded?
"Angel," Patch warned, hurt flashing in his eyes.
No, no, no! I didn't really want to choose anyone. I just hated to see them fighting one another over no good reason. My mouth started moving on it's own accord, and the words were out before I could stop them.
"Just go back to Marcie, I'll go home with Hunter."
"Is that how you want it?"
No.
"I don't have any other choice."

Patch's eyes went black, he took a step forward closing in the distance between me and him, as if it wasn't bad enough that I was already wedged against Hunter. I held my breath dreading for him to come closer, hoping he did.
He opened his mouth, looking torn between decisions before snapping it shut, his expression suddenly went blank, all emotion washing out of his face, the only sign that he did feel something was his hands as they curled themselves into fists so tight that his skin paled.
"Fine. Just don't expect me to act surprised if he does something to hurt you, he is bad news Angel, worse than I could ever be."
Then leaning past me he whispered into Hunters ear, I had to strain to hear him. "Lay a hand on her, and I will rip both of your arms off. This isn't over."

And with that he stepped back as if he had narrowly missed making contact with someone with a contagious disease before striding out of the door, slamming it shut as he went out. My knees gave out from beneath me, if Hunter hadn't been standing behind me then I would have
crashed onto the floor, but his hands shot out, steadying my elbows and keeping me upright.

"Thanks." I muttered.

His eyes softened as his grey eyes raked over me, he stepped from the wall, snaking his arm around my waist to steady me more which was pretty pathetic on my account considering I hadn't been the one in a fight.

"Are you okay? His brows furrowed in concern.

I let out a low laugh, "I should be asking you the same thing," nodding at his nose which had seemed to stop bleeding.

Hunter wrinkled his nose. "Not my best fight I'll have to admit."

I scowled. "Not your most logical one either."

Hunter shrugged. "I'm not the one who dished out the first hit."

"You can't win against Patch." I shook my head sadly. Something in what I said earned me a soft smile.

"Is that a challenge?" he raised a blonde brow.

"Nope," I shook my head sadly, "it's a fact."

This earned a full laugh from Hunter even though I didn't find anything I had said funny. "Nora," he coughed out as he led me out into the parking lot, "nothing is fact until it's proven."

I raised a questioning brow which earned an amused shake from Hunter. The drive home with him was pleasant, we chatted easily whilst exchanging jokes and snide comments, but the drive home seemed to end too quickly because the car soon started slowing down as he eased into the familiar gravel driveway.

"Do you want me to walk you down?"

"I think I can manage." I gave him a wide smile. I felt grateful that he had been there for me today, however I also felt like I had been in a situation very similar to this before. I pulled on the door handle, when I felt Hunters grip on my arm, I cocked my head to the side questionably.

"Say, you wouldn't happen to be free Sunday afternoon by any chance?" Hunter asked, withdrawing his arm.

"I might be."

"Great, I'll pick you up at six, be ready." And with a last wink he sped off before I had a chance to protest.

Sighing I slowly trudged my way up to the farm house, things would be so much easier if I felt the same about Hunter as I felt about Patch. Even though I hadn't known him for very long he seemed to have a far less complicated personality, yet Patch's warning kept on ringing in my head, what did he mean Hunter was worse than he could ever be? Shrugging my shoulders I headed to the kitchen, it was pretty late but mom must be still at work because the house was empty. After a brief survey of the kitchen I found a note on the bench top.

'Going to be home late tonight, casserole is in the fridge.'

After examining the contents of the fridge I decided to stick with an apple as I didn't think my stomach could handle anything else after the stressful day, washing a green apple in the sink I heard the phone ring, I picked it up and had to quickly withdraw it a few centimeters from my ear.

"Babe! You got home alright? I called you like five times already, where were you after school?"
I sighed warily, "I got a lift from Hunter, he told me you left already."
Vee squealed in my ear and demanded for details, after explaining the whole rooftop incident to her I wasn't surprised to find that she was replacing Patch with Hunter.

After a three hour conversation with Vee I had to reluctantly put the phone down to face the biggest challenge of the evening; homework.