Chapter 10: Ice skating, Ex, and memories

We wake up the next morning and get ready for the day. We hit a little restaurant for breakfast. After that we went back to Lucy's house where no one was up yet.

We go inside and I decide to cook for everyone. "Are you sure you know how to cook?"

"With my family we had fend for yourself nights. We were either too tired or forgot to make dinner for the whole family and we had to cook for ourselves."

"That really doesn't answer my question." She says. I lift up my mask and kiss her.

"Yes. I can cook." She smiles and I start to make breakfast. By the time I cook the bacon, which was last, Hailey walks down the steps and comes in the kitchen. She looks around and sees the all the food on the table. Scrambled eggs, Waffles, Pancakes, sausage, toast, crepes, and lastly bacon.

"Wow!" She says amazed. "Did you guys cook all of this?"

"Mostly Jordan did. I helped a little but not much." Lucy says.

Hailey looks at me in amazement just as I bring off the last of the bacon. "I didn't know you could cook!"

"Neither did your sister." I put down the rest of the bacon just as everyone else comes in to the kitchen. They all look at the food with their mouths open. "Enjoy." I say as I grab a strip of bacon. Everyone sits down and starts to dig in. I sit down with Lucy as everyone enjoys the food. We eat together when suddenly Linda speaks up.

"So which of you made the food?"

"That would be Jordan mom." Says Lucy. Everyone stops and looks at me.

"Where did you learn to cook like this?"

I shrug. "I usually have to make my own food so I learned by trial and error."

"So you learned to cook like this all on your own?" asked Ellie.

"Yeah." Everyone just stares in shock at me. "Food's getting cold." I point out and everyone goes back to eating.

After everyone was finished eating we decided to go out and Ice skate as a group. Hailey was zooming around while Linda and her husband, Steve, were skating around with each other. Drake and Ellie decided not to go and stayed at the house. I just finished putting on my skates when Lucy wobbles over to me. I chuckle a bit while she just frowns at me.

"Shut up! I was never really good at Ice skating." She says pouting. I just chuckle and pat her head.

"Come on. I'll help you out." I take her hand and we head out on the ice. She stumbles a bit but I manage to hold her up. We skate around a bit with her stumbling on some parts but finally she gets use to it. "There you go. You're getting the hang of it."

"Yeah I a- AAHHH!" She falls and I try not to laugh. I skate over to her and help her up.

"Hey you had it going for a good bit."

"How are you so good at this?"

"Every year me and my family would go skating. I guess I just got used to it."

"I see. You and your family must have been rich!"

"Nope. We were living paycheck to paycheck believe it or not. We had to save up just to do fun things like go to the movies."

"I see." We skate around some more with Lucy slowly getting better and better at it. "Do you miss them?"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you miss your family?"

I get a little depressed at that statement. "Every day."

We stay quiet for a while until she speaks up. "So have any idea what you want for Christmas?"

"I already have you. Isn't that enough?"

"Awww. You sweet talker." She says and leans into me.

"The real question is what do you want?"

She thinks for a bit and shrugs. "Don't know. I really don't want anything."

"Well I think I got something you might like."

"Oh and what's that?"

"I can't tell you or show you till we head back to beacon."

"Aww you mean you already bought me a gift?"

"Well I bought it for me while you guys visited your families but I think you would like it."

"I see. Well I can't wait to see it." She says and falls down again. I just smile and help her up.

We get to Lucy's house when a guy walks up to us.

"Lucy! I didn't know you were back in town."

"Oh no." she says as her face pales.

"You alright?"

"Y-Yeah. Just fine. Let's just get inside."

"Aw don't ignore me baby." Said the man again. I turn around and a guy with brown spiky hair and light blue eyes was standing there. He was around my height at 6'0" and was more muscular than me.

I look at Lucy. "Friend of yours?"

"He's my ex." She says a bit scared.

"Who you calling ex? We don't break up unless I say we break up!"

"He's one of those guys." I say.

"No we broke up before I left town."

"What was that bitch?" He reaches for her and I grab the guy's wrist. "Stay out of this you masked freak." I squeeze down on his wrist and he gets it. "Oh? So you don't want me to touch her?" I stare at him and he just laughs. "What? Too good to talk to me?" I growl in response to him. He pulls back and I let go of his wrist. He starts to turn away but quickly turns back and punches me in the gut. I double over but quickly recover and tackle him to the ground. I pull my arm back to punch but Lucy stops me.

"Jordan Don't!" I stop mid punch and look at her. "His father owns a big company. If you hurt him his father will send people after you." I look back at the guy on the ground who's smirking.

"Let him." I punch the guy in the face multiple times, pick him up, and toss him into the street.

He gets up and glares at me. "You'll pay for that." He growls. I just spread my arms out in an 'oh well' gesture. He runs off and I look back at Lucy.

"Are you insane!? Nothing can stop his family! He's untouchable!"

"Not everything is untouchable."

"His family is."

"Wait till you see my trump card. Now what's the name of the company?"

"Darkson inc." she says reluctantly.

"Don't worry. I think I know someone who could help."

"You sure he can help?"

"I'm positive. Now let's go inside." We open the door and see Ellie and Drake on the couch watching TV. "Hey." They look at me and Ellie smiles.

"Hey Jordan. Hey Lucy. Have fun Ice skating?"

"I had to help Lucy out but yeah." Lucy elbows my arm playfully.

"I see. Speaking of. Thanks for breakfast this morning."

"No prob." I go over and sit on the other couch and Lucy lays on my lap. "So what are you watching."

"Don't know. We've been watching random things on TV."

I shrug and look down at Lucy who looks a little concerned. "You alright?" That got her brother and Ellie to look at her.

"What's wrong sis? Did he do something to you?" asked Drake, glaring at me.

"It's not that Drake." She sighs looks at the ground. "He hit Danny."

Drake's eyes go wide and he glares at me. "What the hell!? Why would you hit someone who could make you disappear?!"

"No one is untouchable. I told you that Lucy." She mumbles something and I poke her cheek. "How about I make that call now? Would that put you at ease a bit?"

"It would a little."

I pull out my scroll and dial the number of one of my acquaintances. He picks up on the second ring. "Jordan! What can I do for you buddy?"

I type in the little chat box, "Need info on Darkson inc. The dirtier the better."

"Whoa! Why do you want info on them?"

"My girlfriend's ex is the CEO's son."

He laughs. "That can't be it. What else happened?"

"I beat the shit out of him for attempting to hurt her."

His smile vanishes. "Damn bro. A bit harsh don't you think?"

"No. He called her a bitch and is controlling. It wasn't enough if you ask me."

"Damn. His son is a real piece of work. Okay. I'll look into them. Just be careful Jordan. I've heard what happens to people who attack his son."

"You know me."

"Exactly!"

I roll my eyes at that. "See ya Kurt." I hang up and Look at Lucy. "Better?"

She smiles at that. "Yeah. Better."

"Good. You're better when you're happy." She snuggles into me and I hear Ellie.

"AWWW. Why don't you ever complement me like that?"

"I… I don't know… You're just a smooth motherfucker aren't you Jordan?" says Drake.

"I am when I want to be. And even when I'm not, I'm still smooth."

"I never figured out one thing about you Jordan." Says Ellie with a confused look on her face.

"And that is?"

"The whole time you've been here you've had bandages on your arms. Why?"

"I… Don't want to talk about it." Lucy looks at the ground saddened.

"I won't push if you don't want to talk." She says.

"But I will! So why do you wear them?" says Drake with a smirk on his face.

"I don't want to talk about it." I say a bit more aggravated.

"Then take them OFF!" He says as he jumps at me with his arm outstretched. I try to dive out of the way but forgot about Lucy and we both tumbled to the floor. We groan and I get off her only for her brother to grab the gauze on my right arm. I try to pull away but due to the wear and tear of wearing it all day and night it rips exposing my arm. I hear Ellie gasp at my arm that looked like it was burned and the burn divots were the size of rivets all up my arm. I turn around and punch Drake right in the face while he stares at my arm shocked. I took one step but felt something grab my wrist. I turn around and see Lucy staring at me and shaking her head. I calm down a bit and sigh. I look back to Drake and glare.

"Get a good look. I cover these up so I don't remember what happened. So Lucy doesn't have to remember what happened. After all. I almost died from these wounds once. I doubt I'll be as lucky next time." With that I turn around and head upstairs with Lucy.

I find some spare Gauze in my bag and re-wrap my arm. After I'm done I see Lucy looking down and shaking a bit. I walk over and put my hand on hers.

"Hey. It's alright. I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere." She looks up at me and I see tears in her eyes. I take off my mask and put it down on the nightstand. "I'm not gonna go anywhere. I'll always be there with you."

She sniffles and nods. "I know. But remembering what they did to you." I stop her by kissing her. She stiffens up but eases into the kiss more and more, as if I was gonna leave and never come back. She wraps her arms around me and I feel a tear fall down her face. I pull away and look at her.

"Don't worry. I won't leave." She nods and we get in the bed. She snuggles up close to me and I wrap my arms around her as if I'm protecting her from the world. Little did I know. I was.

Hey People! I had nothing to say when I started this so now. Here I Am! Hope you enjoyed the little filler episode along with some more plot twists. That's right. PLOT TWISTS! Let me know if you liked it or not. I love to hear from you guys. Until next time. Stack out.