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Chapter 7: Love at First Sight

It was a pretty sad attempt. Aiden quickly lashed out with a paralyzing chop to the elbow. Tom dropped his arm in pain when he tried to move it again to retaliate. Aiden pondered continuing but he decided to keep it at self defense. Tom had another thing in mind. With fury fueling his attacks he swung his off hand stronger than his first attack. Laughing to himself he sidestepped with ease. Frustration was bending Tom into a monster. Amazingly enough nobody had even noticed the fight. That was until Tom tried to tackle Aiden to the ground and instead ran into Katie. She fell to the ground and Tom, who was now berserk to the point that he may kill someone continued to swing at her. Now Aiden was infuriated. He brought down his heel on the back of Tom's neck, paralyzing his entire body. Now with both Katie and Tom unconscious on the floor teachers and police moved Aiden away from Tom's limp figure. He didn't struggle so he could prove his case of defense. Soon Katie regained consciousness but Tom's neck bone was damaged by the powerful kick and was carried out in a stretcher. After Katie was all bandaged and both Aiden and Jed gave their views of the fight they sat down on a metal bench to wait out the rest of the class period.

"I hope I didn't hurt him that bad, how are you doing Katie." Aiden said with a bit of exhaustion in his voice.

"Better then he feels I suppose, but it was enough to knock me out." She said, holding an icepack to a particularly brutal wound to her forehead.

"I'm sorry I didn't do anything…" Jed said, there was a lot of sorrow in his voice.

"It's ok. It wasn't anything Aiden couldn't handle." Katie said with a smile. It amazed Aiden that she could be so optimistic with all that pain.

"Yea Aiden, where'd you learn to fight like that?" Jed asked. "You only hit him twice and both times you disabled him."

"Instincts I suppose, it's like second nature to me."

"Still can't believe it…" Jed said as he shook his head.

"By the way Aiden, I'm gonna get a ride home wanna come stay for a bit?" Katie asked.

"Sure, how about you Jed?"

"I'm the driver." He said with a smile.

Jed's car pretty good for a highschooler (cough TOYOTA CARINA cough). The back seat was a little tight but Aiden insisted on sitting back there to minimize Katie's pain. The drive was pretty short. When they reached Katie's house Jed said,

"Thanks you for using Jed's taxi service, that will be $200"

"See ya tomorrow Jed." Katie said laughing as she and Aiden exited the car.

Jed muttered something about gas and drove off. Aiden followed Katie somewhat tentatively towards the door. What would her parents think if she brought some random boy who became one of her best friends within a day? He knew his parents wouldn't care if he wasn't home until midnight, as long as he was there for breakfast, one of the most sacred traditions of his home.

"My parents won't be home for a bit so make yourself comfortable."

He chose a seat on her couch. The room was nicely decorated; the walls were green with a brown carpet that gave it an earthy look.

"You want something to drink?" Katie called to him from the kitchen.

"Umm, any soda is fine thanks."

Katie reentered the room with a cola in each hand. She handed him one and took a seat next to him.

"I just want to thank you again for what you did back there…" She said with a slight blush.

"Is she coming on to me?" Aiden wondered to himself.

"Like I said before, it was the least I could do."

Aiden wasn't sure how to feel. He never believed in love at first sight but this may be an exception. His thoughts were cut off by Katie's mother entering the house.

"Hello Katie…Who is this?" She said. She looked almost exactly like her daughter. The only difference was her brown eyes and shorter hair.

"I'm Aiden Marks, nice to meet you Mrs. Miller." He said, extending his hand.

"Please, call me Margaret." She said as she shook his hand.

She left to her room for what Aiden supposed was to change into more casual clothes.

"So…" Aiden said, "What are we goin to do?"

"Well, we could start be saying what happened at school today before they call her."

"What happened then?" Katie's mother said as she entered the room in a white t-shirt and jeans.

"Well there was a fight…" Aiden started.

As if those words had given her vision, Katie's mother realized the wounds on her daughter.

"Oh dear, are you ok?" She said, caressing her daughter.

"Yes, thanks to Aiden." She said with a smile.

"It was nothing really…" Aiden said shyly. He was now the one that was blushing.

Mrs. Miller realized what was going on between her daughter and the newcomer. Katie began retelling the story of what happened with Aiden filling the parts where she was unconscious. When the story was finished Aiden received a call on his phone.

"Hello?" Aiden said.

"Where are you?" The voice of his mother said.

"At a friend's house."

"Well could you get home? We are about to eat."

"Alright, see you in a little bit."

"Bye hon."

Aiden closed the phone and put it back in his pocket.

"Mrs. Miller, could you give me a ride home?"

"Sure, but I told you to call me Margaret, where do you live?"

"Elm Avenue."

Mrs. Miller nodded and led Aiden to the car. He memorized the way back so he could come and go when he needed to.

A/N: Now we get to the romance category of my story :). I do plan more for the future but remember Skye? I wonder what's going to happen next…