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Chapter 8
POV-EPHRAM (still, lol)
My eyes were squinted shut when I felt a hard smack square in my jaw. I stumbled backwards from the impact and felt my jaw tenderly. I felt blood leaking into my mouth from my now busted lip.
"John, stop it!" I heard Karin yell.
"You stay out of this, Karin!" He yelled back to her.
I attempted to go back to my feet, but was pulled back up and another felt another blow on my face. Karin screamed again at her brother, I figured out, and pulled at him.
"Karin!" I heard someone call as they helped her from the ground.
I felt someone pulling me from the steel grip of Karin's brother and finally saw the red and blue lights. Someone had called the cops on the party! I felt relieved when I saw that I was out of harm's way, finally. I looked and saw Karin's friend, Rachel, pulling Karin in a different direction from me. I stood up and ran in her way.
"Ephram, I'm sorry. I didn't know my brother would be here." Karin apologized.
"It's all right. You're not omniscient, right?" I teased.
She shook her head and said, "Come on, let's go home after you wipe that blood from your mouth." She grinned as she handed me a tissue from her purse.
I nodded and wiped the excessive amount of blood from my face. I hadn't realized that I had bled so much. I winced slightly as I felt Karin dabbing at the source of the blood with a wet cloth.
"Let's go before the cops get to us." Delilah called to us and cranked up her car.
"Alright, hold on. Pull your car over here. And Del, you're gonna have to pull out of here quickly since they're going pretty fast and getting over here quicker than you can drive. Come on Ephram." Karin said and pulled me into Delilah's car in the back seat.
"Where are the other girls?" I asked.
"They got rides with other people. It's a tactic for these parties. If it gets broken up, the rides go with different people, and since I'm the only one that knows where Karin lives, or rather where to drop her off at, she's still riding with me. And also, you're her date, so it'd be pretty bad for her to abandon her date at a party to fend for himself." Delilah said.
"Oh, like you've never done that, Del!" Karin teased her friend.
I grinned as I watched a cop yell after us, telling us not to leave, but Delilah just sped up and drove off without her headlights on. I figured she knew the area well enough to drive since she never missed a beat. We drove for a few minutes until we reached the industrial area again. Karin yawned and slowly laid her head down on my shoulder. I heard her giggle slightly as she did that. We drove the rest of the way in silence, much to my surprise. The only noise was the chug of the engine and an occasional moan from a foghorn in the harbor around us.
POV CHANGE-KARIN
I sighed as we pulled back into the movies and saw a crowd dispersing from the theatre. I figured that it was the Daredevil crowd since it had been an hour and a half since we had left, and the movie was about that long. I sat up and stretched a bit since I had hardly moved at all.
"Thanks for the ride Del. I owe you one." I said to Delilah as I peeked in her window.
"Just send me to the guys, and we'll call it even." Delilah said with a smirk.
"Right. See you on Monday, Del, and give me a buzz tomorrow at you know where about the girls getting back to dorms safely." I said, a serious look on my face.
Delilah nodded and pulled out of the parking lot and left Ephram and I to wait for 'Morton', the driver. I grinned as I thought of all the teasing I would do to him on campus, seeing that I knew him from my school, most surprisingly. I finally remembered that. I felt better after I figured out where I knew the driver from. I grinned as I saw him pulling in the parking lot.
Ephram and I both slipped into the back of the car, sitting a bit closer than we had been before when we were driving to the theatre. I smirk was set upon my face as I laced my fingers around Ephram's slowly. My smirked turned to a look of shock when the driver asked a question.
"What happened? It looks like you got into a fight." The driver didn't know how right he was.
"Ehm.He slipped and fell in the theatre." I lied for our own sake.
The driver nodded skeptically and continued driving back to Ephram's apartment complex. I grinned slightly as I laid my head on Ephram's shoulder again. I closed my eyes and fell into the world between sleep and wake. The next thing I knew, we were pulling into the parking lot to Ephram's condominium complex. When the car stopped, Ephram opened the door and helped my stiff form out of the car.
"You want to come up for a cup of coffee?" Ephram asked me.
"Sure." I said as I looked at my watch.
We slowly went up the stairs to his apartment, talking about small things like what we thought about the party, besides the fact that he was beaten up by my younger brother.
"Yeah, he packs some power in those punches." Ephram said.
"Uh.yeah." I said slowly as we reached the door.
"Well?" I heard his parent's voices ask as we walked into the living room.
"Well what?" Ephram asked.
"Did you like the movie?" His mom asked.
"Yeah, it was all right." Ephram said.
"What about you Karin?" His mom asked me.
"I liked it, although there could've been less fighting scenes in it." I said, touching my cheek softly and shooting a glance at Ephram.
"Ephram, what happened to your face? It looks like you were in the movie fights as well." His dad said.
"Oh, I just tripped, that's all. Karin and I wanted to get some coffee. Is there any Irish Crème left?" Ephram said, going along with the lie I had planted earlier.
"Yeah. It's in the coffee pot." His mom said after inspecting his cut lip.
A grin set upon my face as I walked with Ephram into the kitchen.
POV CHANGE-DOC BROWN
"I don't believe he fell, what about you, Julia?" I said to my wife.
"Well, we have no proof, right? So what's the use of trying to find out what we can't?" She said and kissed my cheek.
"I guess you're right." I said.
POV CHANGE-EPHRAM
"Pretty smooth, Ephram." Karin said to me with a grin.
"What?" I asked as I pulled two coffee mugs out of the cupboard and poured some coffee into them.
"Back in there with your parents and the party." She replied and sat down at the bar.
"Oh, well, I've gotten pretty good into the habit of lying to them occasionally. So it's pretty easy." I said and set the cup in front of Karin with the cream and sugar.
"Ahh.I was pretty good at it too before my parents were killed. Then I discovered I couldn't lie to my uncle and I kind of lost the talent, but it comes in handy when I need it." Karin said, a grin on her face.
"Yeah, it's not easy to hide stuff from Charles. I've tried, and he found out easily." I said, my face turned a light shade of pink, but soon subsided.
Karin grinned as she sipped her coffee with a look of experience in drinking coffee. I grinned and sipped my coffee as well. The sweet taste of the Irish Crème coffee seared through my insides as it went through me.
(A/N: that's one of my formal English perspectives, sorry..I'm really mean sometimes with my way of writing, so excuse any more possible formal English, I use that the most. :-\)
POV CHANGE-KARIN
I don't know how long we were sitting there drinking coffee until my cell phone ran. I reached in my purse and pulled my phone out.
"Hello?" I said into it.
"Hey, Karin." I heard a familiar voice say.
"Oh, hi Todd. Has John gotten home yet?" I asked; not sounding at all too thrilled.
"No, I was just calling you about that." Todd said.
"Oh. Well, he was at a party earlier." I said, but trailed off.
"Hold on, Karin, I have a beep on the other line." Todd said and switched lines.
"Is anything wrong, Karin?" Ephram asked.
"I don't know." I said, awaiting Todd to come back and tell me some news.
"Karin?" I heard Todd's worried voice saying.
"What's wrong?" I said quickly.
"You need to get home right now. Todd's in the hospital and I don't want to be alone anymore." Todd said quickly.
When I didn't say anything, Ephram asked me, "Karin, is everything all right?"
"I-I have to go, Ephram." I said, an emotionless gaze on my face.
"Karin, our uncle just called and said-"
"John's in the hospital, I know. Todd just phoned me about it." I said, a tear crawling down my cheek slowly.
"Ephram, you come with us. I'm going to drive here there." Doc Brown said.
POV CHANGE-EPHRAM
I looked at Karin as a tear fell off her cheek.
"Let's go. Come on, Ephram." My dad said to me and pulled me out of the door.
I looked at Karin and saw her wiping at her eyes gently. I walked up to her and carefully slipped my arm around her shoulders. She slowly put her head on my shoulder and we walked down the stairs toward my dad's car. The door was already open for us to sit in the back. Karin slid into the back and I followed suit. She sniffled a moment, then stopped crying.
"Doc Brown, we need to stop by my house because Todd is there by himself. You know where it is, right?" Karin said.
"Yes, I do, now that I think of it." My dad said and drove off in the direction of Karin's house.
Karin softly put her head on my shoulder again as we drove down Main Street quickly. I took her hand up in mind and squeezed it reassuringly. She hiccuped slightly as she took deep breaths to calm herself down. I suddenly felt the urge to kiss her then, to try to make things better. I looked down at her. Her eyes were closed, but they opened and she looked up at me.
I mouthed the words, 'I'm sorry' to her slowly. She shook her head, as if saying 'don't be'. I nodded and squeezed her hand again. I swallowed hard as we turned to what I guess was her house. A small child was standing outside of it. He had dark red hair, and very light skin. My dad stopped in front of the trailer and rolled down his window.
"Todd! Come on!" Karin yelled through the window in the front.
Todd opened the door to the backseat and slid in. He put a comforting hand on his sister's shoulder. She turned to him and showed a face of pain to him, or what I thought it was. He nodded and sat against the car door. We rode the rest of the way in silence.
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Okay, sorry people for the long lag on update, but my parents just got back from Hawaii today..and I got some souvenirs! Joy...but anyhoo.ehm...oh yeah, dum dun dum! What's gonna happen to John? What happened to him? You'll find out in the next chapter when I write it..muhahahaha!!
Chapter 8
POV-EPHRAM (still, lol)
My eyes were squinted shut when I felt a hard smack square in my jaw. I stumbled backwards from the impact and felt my jaw tenderly. I felt blood leaking into my mouth from my now busted lip.
"John, stop it!" I heard Karin yell.
"You stay out of this, Karin!" He yelled back to her.
I attempted to go back to my feet, but was pulled back up and another felt another blow on my face. Karin screamed again at her brother, I figured out, and pulled at him.
"Karin!" I heard someone call as they helped her from the ground.
I felt someone pulling me from the steel grip of Karin's brother and finally saw the red and blue lights. Someone had called the cops on the party! I felt relieved when I saw that I was out of harm's way, finally. I looked and saw Karin's friend, Rachel, pulling Karin in a different direction from me. I stood up and ran in her way.
"Ephram, I'm sorry. I didn't know my brother would be here." Karin apologized.
"It's all right. You're not omniscient, right?" I teased.
She shook her head and said, "Come on, let's go home after you wipe that blood from your mouth." She grinned as she handed me a tissue from her purse.
I nodded and wiped the excessive amount of blood from my face. I hadn't realized that I had bled so much. I winced slightly as I felt Karin dabbing at the source of the blood with a wet cloth.
"Let's go before the cops get to us." Delilah called to us and cranked up her car.
"Alright, hold on. Pull your car over here. And Del, you're gonna have to pull out of here quickly since they're going pretty fast and getting over here quicker than you can drive. Come on Ephram." Karin said and pulled me into Delilah's car in the back seat.
"Where are the other girls?" I asked.
"They got rides with other people. It's a tactic for these parties. If it gets broken up, the rides go with different people, and since I'm the only one that knows where Karin lives, or rather where to drop her off at, she's still riding with me. And also, you're her date, so it'd be pretty bad for her to abandon her date at a party to fend for himself." Delilah said.
"Oh, like you've never done that, Del!" Karin teased her friend.
I grinned as I watched a cop yell after us, telling us not to leave, but Delilah just sped up and drove off without her headlights on. I figured she knew the area well enough to drive since she never missed a beat. We drove for a few minutes until we reached the industrial area again. Karin yawned and slowly laid her head down on my shoulder. I heard her giggle slightly as she did that. We drove the rest of the way in silence, much to my surprise. The only noise was the chug of the engine and an occasional moan from a foghorn in the harbor around us.
POV CHANGE-KARIN
I sighed as we pulled back into the movies and saw a crowd dispersing from the theatre. I figured that it was the Daredevil crowd since it had been an hour and a half since we had left, and the movie was about that long. I sat up and stretched a bit since I had hardly moved at all.
"Thanks for the ride Del. I owe you one." I said to Delilah as I peeked in her window.
"Just send me to the guys, and we'll call it even." Delilah said with a smirk.
"Right. See you on Monday, Del, and give me a buzz tomorrow at you know where about the girls getting back to dorms safely." I said, a serious look on my face.
Delilah nodded and pulled out of the parking lot and left Ephram and I to wait for 'Morton', the driver. I grinned as I thought of all the teasing I would do to him on campus, seeing that I knew him from my school, most surprisingly. I finally remembered that. I felt better after I figured out where I knew the driver from. I grinned as I saw him pulling in the parking lot.
Ephram and I both slipped into the back of the car, sitting a bit closer than we had been before when we were driving to the theatre. I smirk was set upon my face as I laced my fingers around Ephram's slowly. My smirked turned to a look of shock when the driver asked a question.
"What happened? It looks like you got into a fight." The driver didn't know how right he was.
"Ehm.He slipped and fell in the theatre." I lied for our own sake.
The driver nodded skeptically and continued driving back to Ephram's apartment complex. I grinned slightly as I laid my head on Ephram's shoulder again. I closed my eyes and fell into the world between sleep and wake. The next thing I knew, we were pulling into the parking lot to Ephram's condominium complex. When the car stopped, Ephram opened the door and helped my stiff form out of the car.
"You want to come up for a cup of coffee?" Ephram asked me.
"Sure." I said as I looked at my watch.
We slowly went up the stairs to his apartment, talking about small things like what we thought about the party, besides the fact that he was beaten up by my younger brother.
"Yeah, he packs some power in those punches." Ephram said.
"Uh.yeah." I said slowly as we reached the door.
"Well?" I heard his parent's voices ask as we walked into the living room.
"Well what?" Ephram asked.
"Did you like the movie?" His mom asked.
"Yeah, it was all right." Ephram said.
"What about you Karin?" His mom asked me.
"I liked it, although there could've been less fighting scenes in it." I said, touching my cheek softly and shooting a glance at Ephram.
"Ephram, what happened to your face? It looks like you were in the movie fights as well." His dad said.
"Oh, I just tripped, that's all. Karin and I wanted to get some coffee. Is there any Irish Crème left?" Ephram said, going along with the lie I had planted earlier.
"Yeah. It's in the coffee pot." His mom said after inspecting his cut lip.
A grin set upon my face as I walked with Ephram into the kitchen.
POV CHANGE-DOC BROWN
"I don't believe he fell, what about you, Julia?" I said to my wife.
"Well, we have no proof, right? So what's the use of trying to find out what we can't?" She said and kissed my cheek.
"I guess you're right." I said.
POV CHANGE-EPHRAM
"Pretty smooth, Ephram." Karin said to me with a grin.
"What?" I asked as I pulled two coffee mugs out of the cupboard and poured some coffee into them.
"Back in there with your parents and the party." She replied and sat down at the bar.
"Oh, well, I've gotten pretty good into the habit of lying to them occasionally. So it's pretty easy." I said and set the cup in front of Karin with the cream and sugar.
"Ahh.I was pretty good at it too before my parents were killed. Then I discovered I couldn't lie to my uncle and I kind of lost the talent, but it comes in handy when I need it." Karin said, a grin on her face.
"Yeah, it's not easy to hide stuff from Charles. I've tried, and he found out easily." I said, my face turned a light shade of pink, but soon subsided.
Karin grinned as she sipped her coffee with a look of experience in drinking coffee. I grinned and sipped my coffee as well. The sweet taste of the Irish Crème coffee seared through my insides as it went through me.
(A/N: that's one of my formal English perspectives, sorry..I'm really mean sometimes with my way of writing, so excuse any more possible formal English, I use that the most. :-\)
POV CHANGE-KARIN
I don't know how long we were sitting there drinking coffee until my cell phone ran. I reached in my purse and pulled my phone out.
"Hello?" I said into it.
"Hey, Karin." I heard a familiar voice say.
"Oh, hi Todd. Has John gotten home yet?" I asked; not sounding at all too thrilled.
"No, I was just calling you about that." Todd said.
"Oh. Well, he was at a party earlier." I said, but trailed off.
"Hold on, Karin, I have a beep on the other line." Todd said and switched lines.
"Is anything wrong, Karin?" Ephram asked.
"I don't know." I said, awaiting Todd to come back and tell me some news.
"Karin?" I heard Todd's worried voice saying.
"What's wrong?" I said quickly.
"You need to get home right now. Todd's in the hospital and I don't want to be alone anymore." Todd said quickly.
When I didn't say anything, Ephram asked me, "Karin, is everything all right?"
"I-I have to go, Ephram." I said, an emotionless gaze on my face.
"Karin, our uncle just called and said-"
"John's in the hospital, I know. Todd just phoned me about it." I said, a tear crawling down my cheek slowly.
"Ephram, you come with us. I'm going to drive here there." Doc Brown said.
POV CHANGE-EPHRAM
I looked at Karin as a tear fell off her cheek.
"Let's go. Come on, Ephram." My dad said to me and pulled me out of the door.
I looked at Karin and saw her wiping at her eyes gently. I walked up to her and carefully slipped my arm around her shoulders. She slowly put her head on my shoulder and we walked down the stairs toward my dad's car. The door was already open for us to sit in the back. Karin slid into the back and I followed suit. She sniffled a moment, then stopped crying.
"Doc Brown, we need to stop by my house because Todd is there by himself. You know where it is, right?" Karin said.
"Yes, I do, now that I think of it." My dad said and drove off in the direction of Karin's house.
Karin softly put her head on my shoulder again as we drove down Main Street quickly. I took her hand up in mind and squeezed it reassuringly. She hiccuped slightly as she took deep breaths to calm herself down. I suddenly felt the urge to kiss her then, to try to make things better. I looked down at her. Her eyes were closed, but they opened and she looked up at me.
I mouthed the words, 'I'm sorry' to her slowly. She shook her head, as if saying 'don't be'. I nodded and squeezed her hand again. I swallowed hard as we turned to what I guess was her house. A small child was standing outside of it. He had dark red hair, and very light skin. My dad stopped in front of the trailer and rolled down his window.
"Todd! Come on!" Karin yelled through the window in the front.
Todd opened the door to the backseat and slid in. He put a comforting hand on his sister's shoulder. She turned to him and showed a face of pain to him, or what I thought it was. He nodded and sat against the car door. We rode the rest of the way in silence.
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Okay, sorry people for the long lag on update, but my parents just got back from Hawaii today..and I got some souvenirs! Joy...but anyhoo.ehm...oh yeah, dum dun dum! What's gonna happen to John? What happened to him? You'll find out in the next chapter when I write it..muhahahaha!!
