Tripping Over Drum Sets, chapter 5
When we walked out of the shop, we were greeted by two things. The really bright sun burning our eyes, and a really rude girl burning our attitudes.
"Mike!" she screamed. Mike rolled his eyes and looked away. I looked to Tre to fill me in.
"That's Mike's ex-girlfriend. She still thinks that they are going out." he said.
"And she has a thing about Tre." added in Billie Joe. "She hates his guts!" I looked back at the girl who was running towards us.
"Mikie! I missed you so much! Why did you stop calling me?" she asked and she jumped up on Mike. Mike pulled away from her.
"Katy, I told you already. We are over. I'm not going out with you anymore." he said. She just smiled.
"Oh Mike! I know you don't mean that! We were meant to be together forever!" she said as she came in for a hug again. Mike pulled away once again. Then the worst happened. She spotted Tre.
"Oh. I see you brought him with you." she said.
"His name is Tre and yes I brought him! He's one of my best friends!" Mike said almost yelling.
"Well, well, well. We meet again... Tre!" she said walked closer to Tre. I took a step closer to Tre's side. "And I see you have a little slut with you too! Where'd you pick her up from? The street?" I didn't care that she called me a slut. Lots of people did and it didn't make much of a difference. Tre looked to me and I shook my head, implying to ignore her.
This is my friend. Saidi. Saidi, this is Katy." he said almost bitterly. I nodded my head to her. Then she whispered something underneath her breath that none of us could hear.
"Another one to make out with all the time eh?" she said. Just as she said that I had an idea. I went in front of Tre and put my leg around his back and gave him a massive kiss.
"Not only am I making out with him, I'm doing him too! Because he's so hot!" I said as I turned around to give him another kiss and ran my fingers up his chest. She twisted her face up once more and whispered something. Adi, Billie Joe, and Mike were all stunned as I stood there wrapped around Tre making out with him in broad daylight on the street.
"Well, Mike, I'd better go. I have a lot of work to do. See you later!" she called as she started to walk away.
"Yeah and I'm guessing that that work is selling yourself on the street eh?!" Tre said. He seemed really mad that she called me a slut. She spun around.
"Yeah! I'm surprised you could get her," she said pointing to me. "when you're so fat! Tubby!" I stopped kissing Tre and looked at his face. He was hurt. That was the last straw. She was stocking Mike, making fun of me. And now she had just called one of the coolest guys I knew, fat! I watched after her as she briskly walked away with her back turned. I let go of Tre and ran after her. She must have heard me because she spun around. Only to get four knuckles right in the face. She staggered backwards, blood streaming down the front of her face. I swung at her again but missed because she fell to the ground. I jumped on her and started to punch her in the face.
"You whore!" I screamed at her. I was really mad as you could imagine. "How dare you call Tre fat! Or Tubby! You should die right now!" I was still punching her rapidly in the face and stomach. Tre, Mike and Billie Joe quickly recovered from the state of shock they were in. They probably weren't expecting me to attack someone. They saw me as a really nice, laid back person. They all ran, even Adi, towards me and the bloody mess that was on the ground. Tre quickly pulled me off her and held me up. My hair was messed up and I was panting really hard. Katy quickly got up and staggered somewhat to her right. He shirt and pants were covered in blood. She turned around and ran the other direction.
"And don't come back!" I yelled after her. I had blood on my hands and a little on my shirt. Mike, Billie Joe, and Adi turned to look at me.
"I'm glad some one did that to her to be honest." Mike said. Billie Joe and Adi nodded.
"That was awesome!" said Billie Joe. "I've never seen anyone move so quickly!" Adi laughed.
"That was fucking rad!" she said.
"Come one let's go get you cleaned up." said Tre as he helped me walk a little. I must have twisted my ankle on the delivery because it hurt a lot.
"Yeah! You don't want that dirty blood on you for much longer!" added Mike.
We reached the infamous green mustang and Tre helped me in. Adi, Billie Joe, and Mike all sat in the back. When we arrived back at The Bomb Shelter (we nicknamed their house) Mike and Tre helped me into the bathroom.
"Mike! Come 'ere for a sec!" called Billie Joe as I sat down on the lid of the toilet.
"That was awesome kiddo!" he said as he got up and left the bathroom. I didn't see it but he winked at Tre and gave him a thumbs up.
"You didn't have to do that for me. You know that right?" asked Tre. I smiled.
"Yeah, but you're my friend, and I didn't want her dissin' you." I relied. Tre smiled and shut the door. He kneeled down next to me and took my hands.
"You have a lot of her blood on your hands." he said as he wiped it away with a warm soapy face cloth.
"Yeah, I have it on my shirt too. And I think it might have soaked through." I said looking down my shirt. It had soaked through and was caked on my chest.
"You'll have to take a shower. You can have one here. Will you be able to stand on it?" he asked pointing to my left foot.
"I dunno. It hurts a lot. And it's bruised pretty badly." I said lifting my pant leg up to reveal my ankle totally covered in black and blue bruises.
"Holy shit!" Tre said. "It's really swollen too!" It was. Almost twice the size of my other ankle and it was going to get bigger overnight.
"I have to take a shower soon. My chest feels so gross!" I said as I took off my socks and shirt. "Can you take off my pants for me? I can't stand so it will be really hard." I said. I had nothing on my mind of the sexual sort at the time I asked.
"Yeah sure. Do you want me to help you stand in the shower too?" he asked as I unbuttoned my pants and took them off half way.
"Yeah sure." I replied. He took his shirt and pants off and left his boxers on. I took my bra off and left my underwear on. I stood up on my good leg and Tre helped me into the shower. The blood was still caked to my chest and it was getting gross. He turned on the hot water and turned it to the perfect temperature then got in with me. I leaned up against him and took the soap and scrubbed the blood off. I don't know how it happened but Tre ended up helping me wash the blood off my chest. I turned around after it was off and leaned up against him.
"Um... Saidi?" he asked quietly.
"Hmmmm?" I said. I was enjoying being next to him under a small water fall of steamy water, knowing that he cared about me enough to help me wash off in the shower.
"You know the night when I told you that I liked you more then just friends?"
"Mmhmmm." I was snapped back into the shower from day dreaming. I looked up into his eyes. They seemed to gleam with all the steam floating around.
"Well, I wanted to know, if you would go out with me? Like be my girlfriend?" he said. I smiled and blushed a little, even though you couldn't see it with my face being flushed from the heat.
"Yes, Tre, I'll be your girlfriend!" I said forcing back an excited squeal and a scream. It took all I could not to jump up and down, remembering my bad ankle. I reached up and kissed him. He kissed me back, slowly slipping his tongue inside my mouth. He did the rolling thing again! It was great! I wish more guys would have done that. Then, he moved down my neck, just like he did when we first made out on a dare. So I started to lick the outside of his ear again. Every so lightly I ran my tongue down the outside of his ear and stopped at the part where his ear connected with his head, right by his neck. He let out a moan of pleasure. I smiled and moved down his neck. It didn't take long before the was a massive hickey on his neck and one on mine as well. All of a sudden we were interrupted. The water in the shower went cold. We both let out a cry or shock. It was freezing!
Holy Shit fucker!" screamed Tre as he turned the water off. He didn't seem to happy about it and neither was I.
"That was freezing!" I said shaking. I had gotten the full blast of it. Tre grabbed a towel and wrapped it around me and helped me out of the shower.
"I don't think you can walk across the street to your house tonight. And if you want something, you won't be able to get it." he said.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry about me, okay?" I said. Tre hugged me.
"I have to worry about you. You're my girlfriend now. How about, I get someone to run over and get you a set of pajamas and you spend the night here?" he said looking down at me, smiling.
"You really don't have to," I said. He sat me down on the toilet lid again.
"Don't move okay? I'll be right back." he said as he wrapped me up in another towel and left the bathroom. I heard him talking to the guys about me staying the night and then I heard Adi say something and a door close. Tre entered the bathroom once again.
"Adi has gone to get you a set of pajamas. She'll be right back." he said as he kneeled down next to me. I smiled and kissed him on the forehead.
"You don't have to do this for me." I said.
"Yes I do! You're hurt right now and it's kinda because of me being there and that Katy having a thing against me. And besides, you fought for my honor! I have to repay you somehow!" he said.
"You have." I began. "I met you." Tre smiled and blushed a bit. There was a knock at the bathroom door and Tre answered it. Adi came in with a set of flannel pajamas
"These looked the warmest, so I thought you'd like them." she said.
"Thanks Adi." both Tre and I said as Tre took the pajamas Tre helped me put them on, first the pants then the top.
"Thank you Tre." I said as he helped me up.
"No problem. I think we're gonna watch some TV before we go to bed." he said as he opened then door and picked me up like you see the prince pick up the princess in the fairy tales.
He placed my on the couch next to Billie Joe and sat down beside me. Billie Joe and Adi were flicking madly through the channels trying to find something to watch. Mike was in the kitchen making some popcorn for us.
"What are we watching?" Tre asked. Billie Joe and Adi were still flicking through the channels.
"I dunno! There's nothing on!" cried Billie Joe slamming the remote on the table. Adi laughed at him and Mike came in with the popcorn.
"Ooh! How about that new terror flick on the movie channel!" he suggested.
"We don't have that channel," reminded Tre. Mike's face sunk.
"Well that blows the big cock!" he said. Adi and I let out a burst of laugher.
"Well just pick a channel or I'm going to bed." said Tre, watching me yawn through fits of laughter. Billie Joe ended up picking a comedy show that was pretty much a waste of time.
There's nothing else on." he said as he shrugged as he pulled Adi in closer and kissed her on the head.
"How about that music channel!" said Mike as he shoveled pop corn into his mouth.
"Yeah! Let's see if you guys are on!" agreed Adi.
"We don't have any videos out yet." said Billie Joe. Tre yawned while nodding.
"Well, I'm beat. I'm gonna go off to bed now. You coming Saidi?" he asked. I nodded and tried to get up. "Oh no you don't!" cried Tre.
"What?" I asked. "Oh yeah." I added remembering my ankle. Tre picked me up and brought me to his room.
"Welcome to my room." he said as he put me on his bed. He had the same room as me.
"Did you know that since we met, you've put me to bed twice? And I've only lived here for 2 days?" I informed him.
"Yeah I was just thinking about that." he said as he took his pants and shirt off, leaving him in his boxers. He shut the door and climbed into bed next to me. I curled up next to him and he put his arms around me.
"Tre?" I said as I snuggled my head into his neck and chest.
"Yes?"
I love you." I said. I know we had only known each other for 2 days but it felt real.
"I love you too." he said. "You know what?"
"What?"
"Not only have I put you to bed all the nights you've been here, I've never once heard you swear."
"I try not to." I laughed. He chuckled as well. He closed his eyes and gave me a kiss on the forehead. I tilted my head back and kissed him back on the lips.
"Good night." I whispered as I too closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
"Mike!" she screamed. Mike rolled his eyes and looked away. I looked to Tre to fill me in.
"That's Mike's ex-girlfriend. She still thinks that they are going out." he said.
"And she has a thing about Tre." added in Billie Joe. "She hates his guts!" I looked back at the girl who was running towards us.
"Mikie! I missed you so much! Why did you stop calling me?" she asked and she jumped up on Mike. Mike pulled away from her.
"Katy, I told you already. We are over. I'm not going out with you anymore." he said. She just smiled.
"Oh Mike! I know you don't mean that! We were meant to be together forever!" she said as she came in for a hug again. Mike pulled away once again. Then the worst happened. She spotted Tre.
"Oh. I see you brought him with you." she said.
"His name is Tre and yes I brought him! He's one of my best friends!" Mike said almost yelling.
"Well, well, well. We meet again... Tre!" she said walked closer to Tre. I took a step closer to Tre's side. "And I see you have a little slut with you too! Where'd you pick her up from? The street?" I didn't care that she called me a slut. Lots of people did and it didn't make much of a difference. Tre looked to me and I shook my head, implying to ignore her.
This is my friend. Saidi. Saidi, this is Katy." he said almost bitterly. I nodded my head to her. Then she whispered something underneath her breath that none of us could hear.
"Another one to make out with all the time eh?" she said. Just as she said that I had an idea. I went in front of Tre and put my leg around his back and gave him a massive kiss.
"Not only am I making out with him, I'm doing him too! Because he's so hot!" I said as I turned around to give him another kiss and ran my fingers up his chest. She twisted her face up once more and whispered something. Adi, Billie Joe, and Mike were all stunned as I stood there wrapped around Tre making out with him in broad daylight on the street.
"Well, Mike, I'd better go. I have a lot of work to do. See you later!" she called as she started to walk away.
"Yeah and I'm guessing that that work is selling yourself on the street eh?!" Tre said. He seemed really mad that she called me a slut. She spun around.
"Yeah! I'm surprised you could get her," she said pointing to me. "when you're so fat! Tubby!" I stopped kissing Tre and looked at his face. He was hurt. That was the last straw. She was stocking Mike, making fun of me. And now she had just called one of the coolest guys I knew, fat! I watched after her as she briskly walked away with her back turned. I let go of Tre and ran after her. She must have heard me because she spun around. Only to get four knuckles right in the face. She staggered backwards, blood streaming down the front of her face. I swung at her again but missed because she fell to the ground. I jumped on her and started to punch her in the face.
"You whore!" I screamed at her. I was really mad as you could imagine. "How dare you call Tre fat! Or Tubby! You should die right now!" I was still punching her rapidly in the face and stomach. Tre, Mike and Billie Joe quickly recovered from the state of shock they were in. They probably weren't expecting me to attack someone. They saw me as a really nice, laid back person. They all ran, even Adi, towards me and the bloody mess that was on the ground. Tre quickly pulled me off her and held me up. My hair was messed up and I was panting really hard. Katy quickly got up and staggered somewhat to her right. He shirt and pants were covered in blood. She turned around and ran the other direction.
"And don't come back!" I yelled after her. I had blood on my hands and a little on my shirt. Mike, Billie Joe, and Adi turned to look at me.
"I'm glad some one did that to her to be honest." Mike said. Billie Joe and Adi nodded.
"That was awesome!" said Billie Joe. "I've never seen anyone move so quickly!" Adi laughed.
"That was fucking rad!" she said.
"Come one let's go get you cleaned up." said Tre as he helped me walk a little. I must have twisted my ankle on the delivery because it hurt a lot.
"Yeah! You don't want that dirty blood on you for much longer!" added Mike.
We reached the infamous green mustang and Tre helped me in. Adi, Billie Joe, and Mike all sat in the back. When we arrived back at The Bomb Shelter (we nicknamed their house) Mike and Tre helped me into the bathroom.
"Mike! Come 'ere for a sec!" called Billie Joe as I sat down on the lid of the toilet.
"That was awesome kiddo!" he said as he got up and left the bathroom. I didn't see it but he winked at Tre and gave him a thumbs up.
"You didn't have to do that for me. You know that right?" asked Tre. I smiled.
"Yeah, but you're my friend, and I didn't want her dissin' you." I relied. Tre smiled and shut the door. He kneeled down next to me and took my hands.
"You have a lot of her blood on your hands." he said as he wiped it away with a warm soapy face cloth.
"Yeah, I have it on my shirt too. And I think it might have soaked through." I said looking down my shirt. It had soaked through and was caked on my chest.
"You'll have to take a shower. You can have one here. Will you be able to stand on it?" he asked pointing to my left foot.
"I dunno. It hurts a lot. And it's bruised pretty badly." I said lifting my pant leg up to reveal my ankle totally covered in black and blue bruises.
"Holy shit!" Tre said. "It's really swollen too!" It was. Almost twice the size of my other ankle and it was going to get bigger overnight.
"I have to take a shower soon. My chest feels so gross!" I said as I took off my socks and shirt. "Can you take off my pants for me? I can't stand so it will be really hard." I said. I had nothing on my mind of the sexual sort at the time I asked.
"Yeah sure. Do you want me to help you stand in the shower too?" he asked as I unbuttoned my pants and took them off half way.
"Yeah sure." I replied. He took his shirt and pants off and left his boxers on. I took my bra off and left my underwear on. I stood up on my good leg and Tre helped me into the shower. The blood was still caked to my chest and it was getting gross. He turned on the hot water and turned it to the perfect temperature then got in with me. I leaned up against him and took the soap and scrubbed the blood off. I don't know how it happened but Tre ended up helping me wash the blood off my chest. I turned around after it was off and leaned up against him.
"Um... Saidi?" he asked quietly.
"Hmmmm?" I said. I was enjoying being next to him under a small water fall of steamy water, knowing that he cared about me enough to help me wash off in the shower.
"You know the night when I told you that I liked you more then just friends?"
"Mmhmmm." I was snapped back into the shower from day dreaming. I looked up into his eyes. They seemed to gleam with all the steam floating around.
"Well, I wanted to know, if you would go out with me? Like be my girlfriend?" he said. I smiled and blushed a little, even though you couldn't see it with my face being flushed from the heat.
"Yes, Tre, I'll be your girlfriend!" I said forcing back an excited squeal and a scream. It took all I could not to jump up and down, remembering my bad ankle. I reached up and kissed him. He kissed me back, slowly slipping his tongue inside my mouth. He did the rolling thing again! It was great! I wish more guys would have done that. Then, he moved down my neck, just like he did when we first made out on a dare. So I started to lick the outside of his ear again. Every so lightly I ran my tongue down the outside of his ear and stopped at the part where his ear connected with his head, right by his neck. He let out a moan of pleasure. I smiled and moved down his neck. It didn't take long before the was a massive hickey on his neck and one on mine as well. All of a sudden we were interrupted. The water in the shower went cold. We both let out a cry or shock. It was freezing!
Holy Shit fucker!" screamed Tre as he turned the water off. He didn't seem to happy about it and neither was I.
"That was freezing!" I said shaking. I had gotten the full blast of it. Tre grabbed a towel and wrapped it around me and helped me out of the shower.
"I don't think you can walk across the street to your house tonight. And if you want something, you won't be able to get it." he said.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry about me, okay?" I said. Tre hugged me.
"I have to worry about you. You're my girlfriend now. How about, I get someone to run over and get you a set of pajamas and you spend the night here?" he said looking down at me, smiling.
"You really don't have to," I said. He sat me down on the toilet lid again.
"Don't move okay? I'll be right back." he said as he wrapped me up in another towel and left the bathroom. I heard him talking to the guys about me staying the night and then I heard Adi say something and a door close. Tre entered the bathroom once again.
"Adi has gone to get you a set of pajamas. She'll be right back." he said as he kneeled down next to me. I smiled and kissed him on the forehead.
"You don't have to do this for me." I said.
"Yes I do! You're hurt right now and it's kinda because of me being there and that Katy having a thing against me. And besides, you fought for my honor! I have to repay you somehow!" he said.
"You have." I began. "I met you." Tre smiled and blushed a bit. There was a knock at the bathroom door and Tre answered it. Adi came in with a set of flannel pajamas
"These looked the warmest, so I thought you'd like them." she said.
"Thanks Adi." both Tre and I said as Tre took the pajamas Tre helped me put them on, first the pants then the top.
"Thank you Tre." I said as he helped me up.
"No problem. I think we're gonna watch some TV before we go to bed." he said as he opened then door and picked me up like you see the prince pick up the princess in the fairy tales.
He placed my on the couch next to Billie Joe and sat down beside me. Billie Joe and Adi were flicking madly through the channels trying to find something to watch. Mike was in the kitchen making some popcorn for us.
"What are we watching?" Tre asked. Billie Joe and Adi were still flicking through the channels.
"I dunno! There's nothing on!" cried Billie Joe slamming the remote on the table. Adi laughed at him and Mike came in with the popcorn.
"Ooh! How about that new terror flick on the movie channel!" he suggested.
"We don't have that channel," reminded Tre. Mike's face sunk.
"Well that blows the big cock!" he said. Adi and I let out a burst of laugher.
"Well just pick a channel or I'm going to bed." said Tre, watching me yawn through fits of laughter. Billie Joe ended up picking a comedy show that was pretty much a waste of time.
There's nothing else on." he said as he shrugged as he pulled Adi in closer and kissed her on the head.
"How about that music channel!" said Mike as he shoveled pop corn into his mouth.
"Yeah! Let's see if you guys are on!" agreed Adi.
"We don't have any videos out yet." said Billie Joe. Tre yawned while nodding.
"Well, I'm beat. I'm gonna go off to bed now. You coming Saidi?" he asked. I nodded and tried to get up. "Oh no you don't!" cried Tre.
"What?" I asked. "Oh yeah." I added remembering my ankle. Tre picked me up and brought me to his room.
"Welcome to my room." he said as he put me on his bed. He had the same room as me.
"Did you know that since we met, you've put me to bed twice? And I've only lived here for 2 days?" I informed him.
"Yeah I was just thinking about that." he said as he took his pants and shirt off, leaving him in his boxers. He shut the door and climbed into bed next to me. I curled up next to him and he put his arms around me.
"Tre?" I said as I snuggled my head into his neck and chest.
"Yes?"
I love you." I said. I know we had only known each other for 2 days but it felt real.
"I love you too." he said. "You know what?"
"What?"
"Not only have I put you to bed all the nights you've been here, I've never once heard you swear."
"I try not to." I laughed. He chuckled as well. He closed his eyes and gave me a kiss on the forehead. I tilted my head back and kissed him back on the lips.
"Good night." I whispered as I too closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
