Chapter 2
The next morning I woke up to Christian gently coaxing me awake. I stretch and yawn smiling at Christian. He smiles back speaking softly, "Good morning sweetheart, I'm going to help you get dressed and everything this morning." I smile and nod as I start to get out of bed, Christian leads me to the bathroom and sits me on the edge of the tub. Christian gets a rag and washes my face helping me wake up so that I can put my contacts in as he looks at my outfit I picked out and switches the purple corset cover for a green one. After putting my contacts in he starts my make-up; ivory foundation, black eyeliner, green eye shadow, and a dark pink lipstick. After my makeup he does my hair straightening it and pinning it back off my face then he helps me get my corset on. He then leaves so I can finish getting dressed; I look at myself in a full body mirror and smile at my slim body and long legs. I throw my shoes on and head downstairs where the boys are waiting, Pharux comes up to me with a cup of coffee just the way I like it black with a little bit of sugar in it. After my cup of coffee Pharux and I grabbed our book bags and headed out to our cars.
We got to school early so we could get our schedules figured out; we both had one class together, Math. The day went slow my classes I was going to pass with easy A's. I had already applied at the college here in California the one the crew was going to, I applied for a major in Graphic Design and a minor in Mechanics. Pharux was going for a major in Culinary and a minor in Mechanics also, it only made sense since we all raced and took care of our own cars. During my English class I noticed an Asian guy sitting off to the side he seemed to be popular with the girls, from what I had deducted his name was Han and he was a man whore. I sat with Pharux during lunch we talked about class and gave each other the notes from our previous classes we always expanded on the other ones notes, we also analyzed certain people like the teachers to know what we could get away with and what seat the other sat in. We were told that lunch time was club time, Pharux and I decided on checking them out we always liked competitions and speed was our thing.
A few weeks later after class Pharux sends me to the computer store to get him a flash drive and myself an external hard drive. I had noticed that I only had enough with me for an external hard drive, I sighed I'm going to have to steal it I guess. I then saw 2 Asian guys from school buying things. I stand there and listen to the one, I think his name is Virgil, hit on the cashier. Then about 5 minutes later the other guy, I think his name was Ben, and Han come in picking up the same things that Ben and Virgil buy and putting orange stickers on them. I smile to myself as I watch them. They wait for the cashier to switch and they go and act like they are returning the items I walk up behind them and nonchalantly slide the flash drive into Han's back pocket. They start heading out the door I quickly pay for my external hard drive and hurry to catch up to them. "Wait, Han is it?" I call after him. Han turns and looks at me, "Yea?" I stick my hand out and introduce myself, "I'm Lizzy I'm in your English class." He shakes my hand and turns around as I follow them out and grab my flash drive from Han's pocket. "Thanks for helping me steal this." I say as I hurry to my car in the rain leaving him baffled at how he hadn't felt me put it in his pocket. I get home and throw the flash drive at Pharux then he asks, "Where did you get this, Lizzy?" I smile and say, "Free of charge." Pharux sitting there could only say, "Huh?" Then head to my room to do my homework before we left to go to Los Angeles to find the races.
The first month went without any incident of us getting in trouble we thought about joining the Academic Decathlon and proceeded to join. Since Pharux and I were set against each other, which was a bad idea we hit the bells at the same time and answered in unison, we both made the team and baffled the president of the team. Practices were held at his house which ended up as a drinking game which everyone seemed to be drunk but Pharux and I who weren't bothered by the liquor. Virgil, Ben, and Han were there, Virgil tried hitting on me and Pharux got him to back off. I was sitting next to Han who was making out with some chick, until I started laughing for no real reason. I got up for my round of questions then I went to the bathroom when I came out Virgil was trying to get into my pants. Han sees this and gets between me and Virgil telling him to back the fuck off. Han turns around, "Are you ok?" I smile almost shyly, "Yea, I'm fine thanks for getting him away from me." He wraps his arm around my shoulders and leads me back to the couch where we sit laugh and drink. Pharux looks at the time saying, "We need to get going soon Liz. Malachi is going to get mad if were not home soon." I nod and start looking for my shoes. "I'll be out when I find my shoes." I hear Pharux open the front door then close it, "Never mind I'm calling Malachi, we have a big problem." I look up from finding one of my shoes and Han hands me the other one, "You don't mean that he is out there do you?" Pharux nod, I looked at him like I was a deer in the headlights. "Fuck! Didn't I tell you this was going to happen?" Everyone is looking at me funny, "Who the hell are you talking about?" Asks Daric, the president of the club, I hang my head; "He's my ex from back home. He was abusive so I broke up with him he got mad and started beating me even more I have the scars to prove it, he is overly obsessed with me he followed me from Michigan to here." Suddenly I felt arms around my waist I turn my head and see Han, "Guys we have to protect her she is a valuable part of our team." I smile as everyone in the room agrees with Han. I get my shoes on and Han and the others walk me out to Pharux's car, Han's arm still wrapped around my waist. Eric, my ex-boyfriend, walks over to us, "Hey babe, who the hell is this?" I entwine my fingers into Han's and look Eric straight in the eyes, "Why does it matter? It's not like were still together so I don't have to answer to you now do I?" Eric's eyes flash with anger as he tries to grab my arm and rip me away from Han. No sooner did he grab ahold of me did Daric deck him. Eric looked up at Daric and shakes his head, "You're messing with the wrong person." Daric pulled a gun and Eric froze, Han puts me in the car, "I'll see you at school I'll tell you what happened tomorrow." Pharux shifts into reverse and drifts out of Daric's driveway.
The next morning I was at school early waiting in the parking lot for Han. When he finally pulled in I hugged him before he could close the door to his red 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner. He wraps his arms around my waist and shuts his door. "Daric threatened him and he ran for his car and drove away." Han sighs hugging me tighter. "Thank you for last night." Pharux pulls in and gets out of his car asking Han, "Would you like to come over tonight the guys want to meet the guy that helped protect Lizz." Han shrugs' letting me go from the hug, "Why not, sounds like fun." I smile up at him and add, "Why not bring Daric, Ben, and Virgil; and we'll have a party." Pharux smiles and nods in agreement. We all turn and head inside at lunch I called Malachi and told him what was going on.
Later that day Han followed Pharux and I; home with Daric, Ben, and Virgil in his car. When we got in the house we started our party with beer. I drank one and had enough for now, we weren't going to the races tonight in L.A. Everyone was enjoying themselves drinking and talking. I sat next to Han and made small talk with him then Raul brought out the 2 bottles of Vodka which I clamed one. I surprised everyone as I sat there and drank it straight from the bottle. After I finished the bottle I got up and looked out the front window. "Uh guys, you aren't going to like whose outside." I yell over my shoulder. I watch as Eric starts walking towards the house, I slowly back out of the window and bump into Han who wraps his arms around my waist and whispers into my ear, "I won't let him hurt you I promise." I nod and whisper, "Thank you, Han." I grab a beer and then we hear a knock on the front door. Han and I make our way to the front door I reach out to open it and Han nuzzles my neck making me giggle as I open the door. Eric stands there looking angry, "What the hell is going on here?" I smile a drunk like smile and respond, "It's a party!" I then proceeded to take a swig of my beer which tastes better after vodka. Eric then proceeds to slap me across the face causing me to fall out of Han's arms. I look up at Eric and scream, "What the fucks wrong with you!" He looks down on me, "You fucking whore you don't deserve any of this." Pharux notices I'm on the floor and walks over seeing Eric, Pharux and Han help me up. "Eric you've caused enough trouble now get the fuck off my property." Pharux demands, as I wobble away and grab another bottle of beer going in to Raul's room all I hear is the sound of someone hitting the floor. Then lean against the wall and slowly slide to the floor. I take a drink and look up in the door way seeing Han standing there looking at me. "Are you ok?" Han asks as he enters the room and sits next to me with his beer. I shake my head no as tears start running down my cheeks. Han wraps his arm around me and holds me close, I cling to him as I cry he gently rubs my back trying to calm me down.
After I calm down we sit there in silence and I rest my head on Han's shoulder. "I'm getting kind of tired, I thinking I'm going to bed." I whisper. "I'm going to stay with you tonight I wanna make sure you're ok, I'll take Ben, Virgil, and Daric home then come back." Han responds rubbing my back. I nod and he gets up helping me up, we both walk out of Raul's room. Han sits me on the couch and tells the guys he's taking them home, and they all leave. I sit there waiting it took him about 20 minutes I sat there sipping on a beer the whole time watching Pharux and Christian make out on the couch next to me, then Pharux leads Christian down to his room in the basement and they disappeared. When Han got back he told Malachi he was worried about me and wanted to stay the night, Malachi agrees and walks me to his room and throws me a pair of his pajama pants and one of his t-shirts, he also grabs a second pair of pajama pants for Han. Malachi throws them at Han and leads me to my room so I could change while he told Han something that I couldn't hear through the door it was too muffled to understand. I pop my head out of my room after I get dressed to see Han standing there shirtless in the pajama pants smiling. I let him in and looked through my movies to find something good to watch, when I'm drunk I like falling asleep to movies. I finally decided on a cheesy romance, Pretty in Pink. I pop the movie in and hit play crawling into my soft queen sized bed, Han looks around my room a bit then crawls into bed with me snuggling up to me and watching the movie with me before I feel asleep I swear I heard him whisper, "I never want anything to happen to what we have going on here it's very special, I've never felt this way before."