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Chapter 9 Emotional

Adam ran down the streets looking for Kellie. He had to find her before anything bad happened. He slowed down when he heard laughing and whimpering from a near by alley. He turned down the corner and what he saw made him extremely angry.

The two men from the bar had Kellie and were fondling her, obviously playing around before they actually did the deed. She had a bruise forming on her cheek and a busted lip.

Adam walked into the alley and threw the British guy off of Kellie first. "What the hell!" he yelled as he hit the ground.

The American guy looked at Adam a bit fearfully. "Let her go." Adam demanded. The man threw Kellie to the ground roughly. When Kellie was out of the man's arm Adam struck out at him. He gave him the beating of him life before grabbing his neck in a position where he could easily snap it. The British man had ran away, leaving his 'friend' behind to fend for himself.

"C-come on man we were only having a little fun." He said, fear evident in his voice.

'Just one simple move is all it takes. You know you want to.' A little voice in the back of Adam's mind said. Adam reluctantly pulled away and punched the man, he was out cold. Adam turned to look for Kellie and found her on the ground in the corner, knees brought up to her chest. He quickly walked over to her and knelt down beside of her.

"Kellie." He said gently to her.

Tears slipped down her cheeks as she threw herself to him and cried into his shoulder. He wrapped his arms around her protectively and held onto her tightly. "Come on Kel, let's get you home." He said and gentle picked her up like a baby doll as she cried into his shoulder.

When Adam got Kellie inside her apartment she walked over to her couch and gentle sat her down, before setting down beside of her, and once again having Kellie leach onto him. He stroked her hair and held her protectively against him making her feel safe. After twenty minutes or so, Kellie slowly started to calm down enough where she wasn't crying so much, however she never let go of him.

"It's ok your safe now." Adam whispered to her.

Kellie sniffed and wiped at her nose. "Thank you Adam." Kellie choked out.

"For what?" He asked as he continued to hold her.

"Saving me before they could fulfill their intentions." Kellie said and shuddered.

Adam tightened his grip on her. "You don't have to say thank you Kellie." He said and only got a nod from her. "I'm sorry about this morning." He whispered and felt her stiffen. "I never meant to do that. But... I'm sorry Kellie, you know I would never intentionally hurt you." He finished and felt her relax.

Kellie breathed in. "I forgive you." She simply said. No more needed to be said between the two as Adam continued to hold her.

Kellie started to dose off soon afterwards and felt Adam start to let go of her and woke back up. "Adam." She said her voice small but loud at the same time.

Adam stopped, "Yes." He said.

"Please don't leave. Don't leave me alone tonight." She pleaded.

Adam slowly settled down again and stroked her hair. "I won't." He said and felt Kellie relax and start to dose off again.

(The next morning)

The next morning Adam slowly became awake as the sun spilled across his face, making him squint his eyes as he sat up and looked around. 'Where's Kellie?' He thought as he stood up and stretched and yawned. Afterwards Adam walked toward Kellie's bedroom, knocked, and slowly went inside.

He saw Kellie pulling her hair back in a ponytail and dressed in a pair of black jogging pants and a baggy black sweatshirt with a pair of sneakers. A nasty looking bruise marred her cheek and her eye. He suspected she had more bruises, but not visible to the eyes. She looked at him and smiled slightly.

"Kellie are you ok?" He asked, concern showing in his blue eyes.

"I'm fine Adam. Besides bruises no harm was done, no sweat." She said and sat down on her bed placing a pillow in her lap as she played with the bottom of her pillow case. Adam walked over to her and raised her chin up to met her eyes. "Adam don't even say it ok. I know what they were planning to do. But they didn't because you stopped them." Kellie said.

Adam looked away from her and shook his head. "You would've been in that situation if it wasn't for me." Adam said gruffly.

Kellie looked confused. "Adam what do you mean?" She asked.

"You would've have been in that situation if I hadn't had pushed you against the wall, and made you angry with me. I would have been there walking you home, making sure this didn't happened." Adam said, a little anger detectable in his voice.

Kellie looked at Adam sadly and but kindly. "Adam this is not your fault. I don't blame you, and you shouldn't either. This would have happened anyways sooner or later, those guys have been threatening me and crap and I never told you. This would have happened eventually, probably in the day time when they knew you wouldn't be around. But you were around Adam, and you stopped it you saved me." Kellie said her voice soft and kind.

Adam looked at her and brushed a piece of stray hair form her ponytail our of her face, before cupping her face. (on the non bruised side) Kellie leaned into his hand and closed her eyes. "But what if I hadn't been there." He asked.

Kellie snorted. "Then you would have tracked them down and beat the living shit outta of em." She said a bit playfully. Adam sighed and looked at her. Kellie opened her eyes and looked into Adam's. "Adam it really isn't you fault. I'm really fine, because of you." Kellie said as she took his hand into her small one. Adam looked at her before she pulled him into a hug and breathed out. Adam hugged her back gently and smelled the scent of her shampoo. 'She must have taken a shower this morning' He mused to himself. He hugged her a bit harder and she let out a hiss in pain. He immediately let go of her and held her away from him a little bit to get a good look at her. His eyes full of worry.

Kellie smiled at him. "Sore spot." She explained as he touched her face again. Light blue met with dark sapphire blue. Sparks flew, that was for sure, and neither could look away. They were being drawn closer to each other as the intensity grew. There lips were mere inches apart and they grew closer and closer. Adam's lips brushed against Kellie's, and that brought her back to reality. She quickly pulled away from him and got up from her bed.

"Um you know I'm hungry you hungry? I'm hungry." Kellie babbled and quickly left the room to get her something to eat.

Adam watched her leave. 'I almost kissed her.' Was all he could think as he looked after her confused. Yeah he liked her he wasn't going to deny that, but Kellie was like his best friend and obviously, to him, didn't feel the same way back, and he wasn't going to do anything to jeopardize losing that even if he did have to realize he didn't have that kind of chance with her. 'I have to talk to her.' He thought and walked out of the bedroom to find Kellie.

(Moments before in the Kitchen)

Kellie slumped against her refrigerator. 'We almost kissed... Again. But we're just friends, at least I think. I mean yea he's hot and ever thing, but I don't know.' Kellie thought as she bit her lip. She looked back in the direction of where she had left Adam. 'Come on Kellie, your going to have to move on someday.' She told herself. She chewed on her lips, the lips that was getting ready to kiss Adam. She smiled slightly. 'Only one way to find out.' She told herself as she walked back toward where Adam would be.

Just as he was walking out of the room Kellie was getting ready to walk in. "Adam" "Kellie." Was heard at the same time through the apartment. When Kellie saw that Adam was getting ready to say something else she quickly stood on tiptoe and met his lips with hers. It felt as if electricity ran through them, you could practically see the sparks flying through the air. Adam encircled his arms around Kellie and started to kiss her back. It wasn't a long kiss, because Kellie quickly broke away from him and stepped back.

"Oh shit." She said before running out of her apartment.

Well that's not exactly how it was supposed to turn out. But Please review and tell me what you think!!!!!!!!!! So there's something new developing between them now, how fun. Well please review!!!! Byebyes!!!

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