Chapter 9:
"Kendall would you put me down? I can walk on my own." I snapped jamming my elbow into his ribs. He just laughed and shook his head.
"You're not aloud to walk until that freakishly huge cut on your leg is healed up." He said. I glared at him.
"And you refused to use the wheel chair or crutches, so you set yourself up for this." Logan said as he put the wheel chair on my front porch.
"You could use these as awesome weapons!" Carlos said waving the crutches around. Kendall and James ducked as Carlos almost hit them in the head.
"Carlos put those down before you kill us." James said opening the front door and walking into my house with the rest of us. Kyle and Wesley ran over to the door to greet me.
"Elle you're home!" Wesley said happily.
"We're so glad you're okay!" Kyle said. Wesley nodded in agreement.
"Kendall put me down on the couch." I told him. He listened and sat next to me. Kyle and Wesley ran over and hugged me.
"Thank God you're home!" Leigh exclaimed as she walked out of the kitchen with Layla and Jason in her arms. "I am SO sick of babysitting!" I rolled my eyes.
"Nice to see you too Leigh." I said sarcastically.
"You looked like you were about to come back to life as a zombie when you were in the hospital." She said. "It was creepy." I gave her a funny look. "Okay, mom and Darin are out to dinner with pretty boy's mom and someone else I don't know or care who, and Ray Jay and Chris are at the movies I think. I'm leaving now that you're home. I'll be back before mom and Darin." she said heading to the door. Logan and Carlos blocked her door way.
"Yeah I don't think so princess." I snapped. She glared at me. "You can't leave. I can't walk without tearing the stitches out of my leg and I have a cast on one arm and stitches on my other shoulder. I can't take care of the kids. You have to." Leigh gave me a nasty look and flipped me off.
"You know all of this could've been avoided if you had never dated Chris and weren't such a slut." She snapped.
"What could've been avoided? Me getting in an accident and you having to step up and take some responsibility?" She shook her head.
"I know you're not stupid Elle, you know just as well as I do that Chris hit your car." She said. "He said he wanted to walk back to the house from the game and then he showed up almost and hour later and his forehead was all cut up and bruised like he smashed his head off a steering wheel. He said he slipped on the damn ice and everyone believed him because they've never seen him threaten you or hurt you, but I have and I heard what he said before you guys left." I glared at her and stood up, walking over to her despite the pain in my leg. I grabbed the back of her shirt and dragged her toward the stairs.
"Elle just leave her and come sit down." Kendall said getting up from the couch following me.
"Stay out of this Kendall!" I snapped as I walked up to the top of the stairs and pushed Leigh against the wall. "Look. I don't know how, but you know about Chris. They don't know, mom doesn't know, Darin doesn't know, neither does Ray Jay. No one knows and I want to keep it that way so keep your damn mouth shut!" Leigh rolled her eye and pulled away from my grip.
"Whatever you say." She said as she walked back down the stairs. "Might wanna go make sure your girlfriend's okay." I heard her snap at Kendall. I rolled my eyes, walked into room and sat down on my bed, tenderly rubbing my leg. Kendall walked in a minute later and sat down next to me.
"So, you gonna explain what that's all about?" He asked after sitting for a minute. I shook my head.
"It's not really anyone's business. Leigh shouldn't have brought it up." I said. Kendall sighed.
"Elle, those guys down there care about you. So you can either tell me now, or you're gonna have to deal with them annoying you about it constantly." He said.
"What part of it's not any of your business do you not understand? It has absolutely NOTHING to do with you guys. Why do you care about this so much anyways?" I snapped.
"It does have something to do with us because it has to do with you! And I care about this so much because I care about you! A lot! Why else would I spend every damn day for a month in a hospital, doing nothing but sitting and waiting! Elle they care about you and I care about you. Carlos was freaking out constantly while you were in the hospital, James stopped worrying about his hair completely, Logan threw himself majorly into his school work, and I sat at the hospital next to you waiting for you to wake up. I couldn't sleep or eat, I skipped hockey practices and class just to come here because I needed to know that you were okay. All we want to do is help you with whatever that jackass did." I sat there not saying a word. I had no idea what to say.
"You skipped hockey?" I said in disbelief. He nodded. "Wow." I didn't speak for a minute as I tried to think of what to say. "Look Kendall, what happened between me and Chris, I'm not ready to talk about. I'll probably tell you guys eventually, but I can't right now." He nodded in understanding.
"I can live with that." He said gently putting his arm around my shoulder and pulling me close to him. I didn't resist him like I usually would. I just caved in and hugged him as we laid back on my bed.
"Good." I said with a smile. "'Cause you're gonna have to." He just shook his head and smiled at me. "What?" I asked.
"Nothing." He said pushing stray hairs off my face.
"You know you got a nice smile." I commented. He laughed.
"So you're aloud to compliment me, but I can't compliment you?" He said. I smiled and nodded.
"Pretty much." I said with a smirk. Kendall rolled his eyes and moved onto his side.
"You know that's not fair right?" I nodded with a big grin on my face.
"I don't like playing fair, it's boring." I said simply.
"What's wrong with boring?" Kendall asked. I shrugged.
"It's predictable, everything happens how you think it's going to, there's no surprise." I said.
"So you like things to be unpredictable and unexpected?" He said. I nodded and a moment later he leaned forward and pressed his lips to mine softly. I froze in shock but found myself kissing him back almost immediately. He tangled his hand in my hair and pulled me closer. We both pulled away and sat up however when we heard a girly shriek in my doorway. Kendall's eyes widened as James glared at him.
"I hope you're ready to run half a mile through a giant crowd of people in your underwear." James said before dramatically leaving my room. I looked at Kendall with a confused expression.
"What was that about?" I snapped.
"James has dibs on you." Kendall sighed. "And because I kissed you, I now have to run half a mile in my underwear through a crowded public area."
"That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" I snapped. "And that's not the only thing I was talking about! Why did you kiss me!" I shouted at him.
"I.. I don't know! Is it a bad thing?" I glared at him.
"Yes!" I shouted. "You can't just randomly kiss me! I don't know if that's what you're used to but I'm not a slut, I'm not easy, and I don't enjoy guys randomly kissing me, or calling dibs on me or any of that bullshit!"
"Elle I don't think you're a slut or easy, believe me that's not even close to the reason why I kissed you!" Kendall said.
"Well do you wanna explain to me why you did it then? Did you think it would be funny to see how I would react? Or that maybe if you kissed me I'd spill my guts and tell you why hate Chris so much? Or are you just a stupid, impulsive boy who doesn't know his boundaries!"
"Elle that's not why–" I glared at him and cut him off.
"Kendall just go back downstairs." I snapped.
"But–"
"Go!" I shouted. "I need to think." Kendall sighed and shook his head.
"Alright." He said as he stood up and left the room. I laid back on my bed covering my face with my pillow as I screamed into it.