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WANTED
By
Kelly Elliott
Published by Kelly Elliott
Copyright © 2012 by Kelly Elliott
ISBN 978-0-988-7074-0-5
http://authorkellyelliott.blogspot.com/
This book is a work of fiction. Characters, places and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, places, or events is purely coincidental.
Cover photo taken by Rutheah Rodehorst with Blue House Fotos
www.bluehousefotos.com
THANK YOU…..
The first person I have to thank is Arianna Howard. Your input and support meant more to me than you will ever, ever know! Thank you for reading the endless tidbits I sent you and giving me your honest feedback. You are the bestest best friend EVER and Jeff will always be yours! (Insert two girls wearing leotards HERE!)
R.L. Mathewson you are by far one my favorite authors and I admire you so much! You are one very talented woman and I count myself as one lucky bitch to be able to call you my friend. Thank you, for everything!
Molly McAdams you rock! Thank you so much for your support and help and for our weekly lunch dates! You make me laugh my ass off but you still made me ugly cry AND almost break my nook! But I still love ya.
Lynda Ybarra, thank you for answering all my stupid questions and helping me so much! Love ya!
Pat Winn, Ari Howard, Elizabeth Bartell and Susan Sunderlin, thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy lives to read and edit this book! Without your support and help I would still be doing edits!
Rutheah Rodehorst with Blue House Fotos. Your picture truly made me catch my breath the moment I saw it. You are an amazing photographer and a sweetheart of a lady! Thank you so much for letting me share your talent!
Paige and Drew…. Your picture is breathtaking! Thank you so much for allowing me to use it for the cover of my book!
To all the girls on the BDHM board. OMG…..I love you all and would be lost without you girls. I hope you know that! I wish I could list each of you and tell you why I love you. Thank you for your endless support and posts that make me laugh my ass off every day! I love you girls so much! Ka-Chow!
This book is dedicated to my husband Darrin and my daughter Lauren.
If it were not for you Darrin I could never have dreamed up Gunner and Jefferson. Thank you for letting me share a little bit of you with the world. They truly broke the mold with you and everyone is right…… you really are different. Thank you so much for your never ending love and support in everything that I do. Oh and thank you for giving me your star wish!! I love you Darrin so so very much and yes….I really do love you MORE! HA!
Lauren, first let me just publicly say I am sorry for the 1 or 2 or maybe 6ish times I pulled your uniform out of the dirty clothes and sprayed it down with perfume and gave it to you to wear to school. Or the few times you might have gone without dinner while I was wrapped up in Gunner and Ellie. Turkey lunch meat and popcorn was a fun dinner thought wasn’t it?! Just remember all those trips to Dairy Queen when I gave in and took you! I love you Lauren…… always stay true to yourself and follow your dreams.
Mom…. There is not a day goes by that I do not think about you. I miss you………
PROLOGUE
Ellie seven years old…..
I stood crying against the wall. Mommy was acting weird again and it was scaring me. This is how she acts when she drinks the bad stuff that Jefferson calls beer. I just want to run and get away before she sees me again and yells. She said she was going to make me cookies and that we would go to the park to swing on the swings. I was so happy thinking about how much fun we would have.
Mommy had been mad ever since her friend called. She told me we were not going to the park today because she was feeling sad and needed a drink.
“You would not have fun at the park Ellie anyway.” But I knew I would especially because I loved the swings at school. I wish Jefferson was home; my tummy hurts so bad and I’m so hungry.
Then she screamed out my name…. “Ellie!” I jumped and quickly wiped the tears away. If she saw me crying she would just get mad at me again. I walked up to her very slowly.
She was sitting at the kitchen table with her face in her hands. “Y, yes Mommy?” She looked up at me and frowned. I know who she is thinking of when she looks at me that way. She tells me all the time I have his eyes. Jefferson says my eyes are like the blue like the sky.
Mommy has pretty dark brown hair. My hair is much lighter than mommy’s. Jefferson likes to brush my hair and always tells me how pretty I am and that I am a princess. He said some day my prince will come and save me and take me away from this bad place. Mommy never tells me I am pretty, she just tells me I look like my daddy. She hates my daddy.
”Ellie, Ellie, Ellie” she said her Ls really funny, like she was having a hard time saying them.
“Do you know that you will never be wanted? No one will ever love you, just like I have never been loved. No man will ever really want you. You need to know that now. I wish someone would have told me that, fuck it would have saved me a lot of pain.”
Mommy was still talking funny. Did she not want me anymore?
“Mommy, I’m sorry for whatever I did. Please don’t be mad at me. Please want me mommy!” I cried out. She just started to laugh and then she put her head back in her hands and told me to get out of her sight. I had a funny feeling in my chest and my tummy. Why was it so hard for me to breathe? I walked over to the corner in the kitchen and sat down.
When will Jefferson get home? I just want Jefferson……I need Jefferson.
“You will never be wanted by anyone……remember that Ellie darlin’, remember that”……
Nine years later……
Bryce had brought me to my favorite pizza shop for my sixteenth birthday. I was so excited. We’d been dating for four months now and he was just so sweet, he only ever kissed me and never tried to take it further which was so nice. He said he loved how innocent I was.
While we waited on our pizza I excused myself and went to the restroom. I was standing at the sink when a girl with beautiful blonde hair walked in. I recognized her from school. I think she was in eleventh grade like Bryce.
I smiled as she walked up to me but she gave me a sad smile in return.
“Ellie Johnson right?”
“Yes, I’m sorry, I recognize you but I can’t place your name.”
“That’s okay; I wouldn’t really expect you to know who I am Ellie. My name is Denise Watkins.”
Oh, I’ve heard of this girl. Ari said she was easy and that every guy with a working penis had fucked her.
“Ellie, I really like you. I like how sweet and kind you are to everyone. I wish I could be more like you.”
WHAT? Where the hell is this coming from?
“Um, thank you Denise that’s very sweet of you to say that.”
“Ellie, I am going to cut to the chase here. Do you know where Bryce was last night? I only ask because I think you deserve the truth.”
I shook my head yes. I had a very bad feeling about where this was going.
My mother’s words popped into my head.
You will never be wanted by anyone……..
“Yes, he was um, he was at a study group at Melissa’s house last night.”
Denise looked sad. Her eyes filled with tears and she looked away from me.
“No he wasn’t Ellie.”
“How do you know that?”
She lowered her head and I could see the tears falling from her eyes. Oh holy hell.
“I know because he was fucking me in the backseat of his car last night.”
I just stood there….stunned. I couldn’t believe it. No, this was not happening to me. I thought he was different!
Oh my god……I felt like I was going to be sick.
“Why are you telling me this?”
“I didn’t want to tell you but I really like you and you are so innocent and that fucker does not deserve to have you on his arm like some trophy while he is going behind your back and fucking everything with a pussy. I’m sorry Ellie. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I hope that you can forgive me some day.”
I shook my head to clear my thoughts. I looked her right in the eyes and I could see how embarrassed and disgraced she was.
“Thank you Denise for telling me, I really do appreciate it.”
I tried to get composed before I turned and walked out of the bathroom. As I walked back up the table where Bryce was sitting he had the nerve to smile and wink at me. He must have seen Denise come out of the bathroom behind me because his face fell for a second.
I walked right up to him and gave him my best smile.
“Hey Ellie, is something, um wrong?”
“Nope….just realized something though Bryce.”
He looked around as if he was looking for Denise….or maybe he was looking for a way out.
“Ahhh, what’s that Ells?”
I reached down and picked up a piece of pizza and took a bite of it and then looked at his nice white t-shirt and smiled.
“I realized that you are nothing but a cheating bastard!” I slammed the pizza right into his chest and then picked up his root beer and dumped it over his head.
As I walked away from Bryce I made a mental note to have Jefferson kick his ass.
I was never going to date again!
CHAPTER ONE
Ellie ………
Two Years later………
Two days before I was set to graduate and here I stood against my locker in a state of shock. People were walking by and going to class, not knowing the hell I was going through or at least not caring.
Memories of what my mother said to me when I was seven had to come back to me right at that moment.
My whole body started to shake.
Why? I wanted to just scream out as loud as I could WHY?
Maybe my mother was right; no man would ever want me or would ever truly love me. I needed to just give up on them for good.
I just wanted Jefferson, when would he get here? I had to tell him what happened or he will know something is wrong the moment he sees my teary red eyes. Jefferson will know what to do to take away this pain before I have to go home and face my mother. I can never let her know what happened. She will never let me forget this just like she always brings up Bryce. God, I was having a problem getting air in my lungs. I just needed Jefferson.
Jefferson is my older brother by three years. He has been the only person in my life to be there for me. He was going to the University of Texas and studying Architectural Engineering. He worked his ass off in school to get perfect grades and of course he kicked ass on the football field as well. He received a scholarship to play football at the University of Texas. He could have gone anywhere, but he stayed in Austin to help take care of my mother and me.
He would not leave me all alone to deal with her. He is all I have in this world.
My father left when I was three. He came back to see us only once after he left. It was right after Jefferson got his scholarship to UT. He showed up on our door step acting like a proud father. I thought Jefferson was going to beat the shit out of him. He only stayed long enough to give Jefferson and me part of an inheritance from a grandmother neither of us remembered. He also caused our mother to go into another drunken fest and lose another job.
Jefferson made me put the money away for college and he bought his truck and paid off what was owed on our mother’s house. My mother is nothing but a drunk who half the time does not even know she has two kids. I’m nothing but a reminder of the man who left her alone and unwanted. She would tell me how much I looked like him when I was younger. Her hatred for him drives her to drink away her problems, or at least she attempts to drink them away.
Jefferson is another reminder of our father but my mother pretty much just ignores him more than she does me. As long as he puts money in her account each month for her alcohol she is happy. Jefferson has worked since he was fourteen to help keep food on our table. I stopped counting how many jobs my mother has had in the last ten years. Sometimes she would be gone for days at a time which was fine by us. How Jefferson managed to work, study and get to football practice all the while taking care of his baby sister I will never know.
I love my brother so much for all that he does, even for our mom. Jefferson is the only person in my life who has been there for me.
I only needed two people in my life…….. Jefferson and Ryan……. Well shit……at least up until thirty minutes ago I thought the only two people I needed in my life were Jefferson and Ryan. Ryan has been my boyfriend for the last eight months; pretty much all of my senior year has been spent with him…….. what a fucking waste.
I guess I should say he was my boyfriend. That fucker! My body started to shake again as the image came back into my mind. I felt the tears threaten to come again. No! I was not going to cry over him anymore.
I had gotten a text message from Ryan asking me to meet him in the auditorium during sixth period. I was an office monitor and it was not uncommon for me to meet him during sixth period before he left campus for the day. I could have sworn he told me he was leaving right after fifth.
Today something was different and I knew it the moment I walked through the door of the auditorium. I heard moans coming from behind the stage. I slowly walked up and found Ryan behind the stage having sex with Jessica Harris. I thought I was going to throw up. I stood there like an idiot watching them for probably a good minute before my brain started to work again.
I finally was able to turn myself away from one of the worst moments in my life only to walk into a prop for the stupid Wizard of Oz play the drama class was putting on tonight. It made a loud crash as it hit the floor and I turned just in time to see Ryan look up at me with a stunned look on his face and to see Jessica give me the most evil smile I had ever seen. I mean really…that bitch could throw daggers at her mother while singing a Disney song. At that moment I knew this was all her doing, she set it up for me to be here and see this.
I turned and jumped over the prop to run out the door. All I knew was that I could hardly breathe and I really needed to get out of there and fast. I heard the bastard calling out for me.
“Let me explain! Ellie! PLEASE let me explain!” he kept yelling out. Really…how could he possible explain why he was having sex with the one girl in school who hated my guts?
Ever since Ryan asked me to the fall dance Jessica has made it her mission in life to hate me and take Ryan away. With her perfect blonde hair, blue eyes and daddy’s money, she wanted for nothing and got almost everything she wanted. I guess she accomplished her mission of take Ryan from me.
After I spent the last twenty minutes in the girl’s bathroom ugly crying with my best friend Arianna standing outside the bathroom stall begging me to tell her what was wrong, I was ready to go beat the shit out of Jessica Fucking Harris.
I was finally able to somewhat speak to Ari once the sobs settled a bit.
“Ohhh, my gawd, Ari that fucker….that no good for nothing”…..and there it was…another round of endless sobs.
“Please Ellie, you are really scaring me. Please tell me who and what the hell you are talking about before I scale this fucking door and beat it out of you.” Ari screamed over my loud cries.
“It’s ….it’s Ryan. I saw him having sex with….with….Je…Jess…Jessi….”
I can’t breathe……OH MY GOD! Why?
“I just saw Ryan fucking Jessica Harris behind the stage!” I screamed out with such a force even I was waiting for someone to come in and see what the hell was going on in the girl’s bathroom down in C hall.
For a few minutes I thought Ari had left me in my misery alone. I was alone, sitting in the girl’s bathroom crying over some jerk, crying all alone.
I would always end up alone.
How stupid was I to think that Ryan would wait to be with me until I was ready. I just never felt like Ryan was ‘the one’ I was saving myself for. We had barley even kissed and he never tried to go further. My mother told me the first and last time she met Ryan that I was only arm candy for him.
I am always going to be alone. I shook my head…. that is not true….. I had Jefferson. I would always have Jefferson.
“Holy hells bells…..Jesus, Mary and Joseph… that dirty rotten son of a bitch cock sucking mother fucker! I am going to cut his balls off and…”
God I loved this girl. Arianna had been my best friend since we were ten. She was beautiful, funny and smart as hell. She was graduating as Valedictorian of our class. She was the same height as me, 5’5 and we both weighed around 120. It made it nice since I loved to borrow her clothes.
She had beautiful medium brown hair that fell just below her shoulders. She had hauntingly beautiful green eyes. Her only downfall….she didn’t know when to stop talking. The girl could rattle on all day if you let her.
“Ari please, if anyone is going to cut his balls off it sure as shit is going to be me not you. But thank you for the love.” I said as I walked out of the stall more composed than I really should have been.
Somehow in the last sixty seconds it hit me. I was not meant to be happy or find love. Just like my mother told me when I was younger.
I will never be wanted.
Not by anyone, let alone by one of the most popular boys in the senior class. What a fool I had been. Argh, I just needed my brother to get here. He would take me away from this disaster, just like he always has.
Once Ari made sure I was okay she hightailed it out of the bathroom before the bell rang to let Mrs. Johnson know I was not feeling well. She was planning on telling our science teacher I was having terrible cramps and was in the girl’s bathroom.
She was right in a way…I was in terrible pain but it had nothing to do with cramps. It was my heart breaking and nothing more. Mrs. Johnson would not care. It was the last day for seniors anyway and all we were doing was playing stupid ass games.
I had sent Jefferson a text message right when I walked into the bathroom and locked myself behind the stall, asking if he could come and pick me up early. Ari had seen me running from the auditorium and came after me. I had managed to avoid Ryan by hiding out on the other end of the school for the last few minutes. I was silently hoping he just left school once he could not find me. It was now between classes and I was just praying my phone would chirp with ‘I’m here honey’ and I could just get the hell out of dodge and into the safety of Jefferson’s truck. If I can manage that and not see Ryan, I should be okay.
“Ells….please let me talk to you.”
FUCK a duck….yep… it was true……..my life will never go like I wish for it to. Holy hell!
“Go away R..Ryan”. Oh hells bells keep it together Ellie, keep it together. DO NOT cry in front of him!
“Please Ells, I made a terrible mistake. Jessica was saying all this shit about how she heard you telling Ari you had no plans of getting closer to me and how you were going to break up with me before summer…and…well shit! Ellie I just was not thinking straight honey. I’ve been trying to be patient with you Ellie but for fucks sake all we ever do is kiss and well…I just broke. A guy has needs and well um…. She just broke me Ellie with her bullshit and I had a small moment of weakness. I promise you it will never happen again. I promise. I. Will. NEVER betray you again Ellie. I promise you honey. Let’s just forget about this okay? Move on, we can move on right Ellie?”
Oh my god, I think I just threw up in my mouth. A guy has needs? Is he insane! He had a SMALL moment of weakness? You have got to be fucking kidding me! Did he really just say that?
I got the courage from somewhere deep inside and turned to face him.
“You have got to be kidding me right? THAT is your reason for fucking Jessica? Because I was hoping you were going to at least make it worth my while Ryan.” I managed to spit that all out even with the tears I was holding back and the anger that was growing.
“Make what worth your while? Ellie I will do anything!” Ryan pleaded.
At that moment I summoned all the deep down empowering woman bullshit Ari’s mother is always preaching to us. “Girls, you are stronger than you know…. If you don’t like being treated like a doormat then get the fuck off the floor…. oh and my all time favorite…’If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun’. That one was a quote by Katharine Hepburn. Ari’s mother adored Katharine Hepburn and I swear she has made us watch every one of her movies.
Yep! Once I had all that empowering shit boiled up in my small 5’5 118 pound body, I balled my fist up and hit that mother fucker as hard as I could in the face. Okay, I am not going to lie and say it did not hurt. It hurt like a son of a bitch and I’m pretty sure I let out a scream of shear pain once I made contact with his jaw but….to see Ryan’s head snap back and everyone stop and stare. Jesus it was worth it!
Even if I did think I just broke my hand. SHIT!
“For making that worth my while you asshole, SHIT!” I yelled at Ryan. For just one second I felt so good, until I felt my hand start to throb harder.
Ohhh shit……
“Ellie what the hell is going on?!” It was Jefferson. I was pulled out of the daze I was in as I stood there and looked at my ever increasing swollen hand.
“I got your text honey, WHAT is going on?”
Jefferson looked at me then down to my hand and then over to Ryan who was now nursing his jaw and it must have all clicked in that moment. Jefferson had Ryan pinned up against the lockers in two seconds flat.
“What the fuck did you do to my sister you asshole? I will KILL you if you have hurt her!” Jefferson hissed between his teeth.
I walked over and tried to grab Jefferson off Ryan before he hurt him or worse, got in trouble for beating the shit out of a high school student. I forgot about my hand and I lurched back in pain and let out a small gasp when I grabbed at his shirt. Just then I felt warm strong hands on my shoulders and my whole body started to tingle and feel warm inside.
What the hell?!? What was going on?
“Stand back here Ellie so you don’t get hurt sweetheart.” I looked up and was looking into the most beautiful blue eyes I had ever seen. I had never seen a guy as good looking as the guy who was standing in front of me. He must have been at least 6’2 230 pounds. I know this because Jefferson was 6’ 1 and 220 pounds.
My eyes traveled up and down his body quickly. Holy shit this guy was built! I always thought my brother Jefferson was the most handsome man I’d ever seen. Jefferson had light brown hair and emerald green eyes. He worked out every day for as long as I could remember. He said it was his way to release his stress. We could not go anywhere ever without every girl tripping over herself to get his attention. The thing I love most about my brother is that he is clueless to all of it. Just take my brother to the lake and have him take off his shirt and BAM…girls everywhere. He had a beautiful body and had part of his chest and upper arms covered in ink. He had a Texas flag tattoo on his upper left arm and a tribal tattoo on his right chest and shoulder that went down a little ways onto his back. He and few friends went last summer and got tribal tattoos.
But this guy standing in front of me was breathtaking…….I could not tear my eyes away from him…..
I heard a small laugh escape from his beautiful mouth and noticed he was still holding onto my shoulders. I snapped out of yet another daze.
He smiled down at me and at that moment everything sounded muffled. I barely heard Jefferson yelling at Ryan, or Mr. Watson screaming and asking Jefferson why he was on campus and to let Ryan go. I only saw the most magnificent smile looking down at me. My whole body felt weak and I had to really think about breathing. I managed to look around him to see what was going on with Jefferson.
He gave my shoulders a small squeeze and a moment later he turned and grabbed Jefferson off of Ryan.
“Jeff, take it easy man. Calm the hell down dude; he’s not worth going to jail for!” He said in a soft and calm voice.
Yep, I had never heard a voice so sweet in my life. Can your body physically melt from a voice? What the hell was going on with me?
“I’m going to kill that fucker if he hurt her in anyway Gunner, I.Will.Kill.Him!” Jefferson shouted as he looked at Ryan.
So, this was Gunner huh? My brothers best friend from college. Jefferson talked about Gunner all the time but I had yet to meet him. I had seen him plenty of times on the football field though. They played football together for UT and were both majoring in Architectural Engineering.
Gunner let out a laugh that moved through my whole body like a warm blanket. What was happening to me??? I just stood there staring, I could not move. What was it about this guy that had my insides just melting? I mean I just saw my boyfriend screwing someone else and I was NEVER…let me repeat myself…I was NEVER going to fall in love again. All men were pure scum. Evil bastards that just wanted to get one thing from you. SEX. Let them know you are a virgin and I guess they will invest months of their lives to say that they took that away from you.
Bastards……
I looked at Gunner again. There was something about him. I was shocked by my immediate intense feelings for him especially after what had just happened. I looked his body up and down as I licked my lips after my mouth went dry in an instant. I tried to tear my eyes away from him but couldn't. He was built just a bit bigger than Jefferson. He had brown hair that had that perfect messy look only a guy this hot could pull off. I looked up to his eyes…. holy shit…those beautiful blue eyes. I could see myself getting so lost in those eyes. I dragged my eyes down away from his face and they went right to his large muscular chest. He had a tattoo, YUM. I could see part of it on his arm, just sticking out from under his tight white tee shirt. You could almost see his black tribal tattoo under his shirt if you looked hard enough and I sure as hell was looking hard. It appeared to start on his chest and moved up his shoulder and back down onto his arm. What I wouldn’t do to get a peek of that and run my fingers along…….
OKAY! Wait….. Hold the fucking fort Ellie! Good god what am I doing? I had to shake my head to clear my thoughts. I was practically undressing my brother’s best friend in my mind.
No! I will never let myself be hurt again by another man. My mother was right; no one would ever want me and Ryan was proof of that. I was never going to let another man into my life to hurt me ever again.
Just then I was brought back to the real world by Ari asking me to let her see my hand. When she got there I have no clue.
“OH FUCK….. ELLS! Jeff! We need to get Ellie to the hospital like RIGHT NOW!” Ari was screaming trying to get Jefferson’s attention.
“Dude listen to me, your sister is hurt. We need to get her to the doctor. Don’t worry about this fuck wad Jeff. We can take care of him later” Gunner said as he gave Ryan a look that oozed out hate and disgust. If I had not known better I would have thought he wanted to kill Ryan more than Jefferson did.
Jefferson’s body relaxed in an instant. I have never seen anyone calm my brother down that fast. Jefferson walked over to Ryan and leaned in close enough so that Mr. Watson did not hear but I sure as hell heard it.
“I will be back for you bastard.”Jefferson hissed.
“Let’s go Jeff” Gunner said as he guided Jefferson away from what Ari was now calling ‘the crime scene’.
We started to walk down the hall to go outside when Ari started her famous rattling ways.
“They are for sure not going to let you walk now Ells…oh my god, what the hell were you thinking hitting him and doing it right here in school in FRONT of everyone?? I mean I know you are third in the class but they might not let you walk!!! I can’t be up there giving a speech knowing my best friend is not going to be walking with me on the same stage! Have I not taught you a damn thing?! I mean, you needed to wait…..”
“Arianna! Please, shut the fuck up will you?” Jefferson shouted.
Even though my hand was so swollen and hurt like hell, I had to giggle. Jefferson and Ari had a love/hate relationship. Ari loved Jefferson and Jefferson seemed to hate Ari. It was not always like that though.
When I was ten years old Ari became my best friend in school after she moved from Dallas to Austin. Jefferson was thirteen and used play with us and tease the shit out of Ari. Then something changed when we were in ninth grade and he was a senior. He would barely look at Ari. He never wanted to be around her and that made life a bit difficult for me. I know he cares for her like a sister though. When Brad Roberts bragged that he was going to take Ari out to her parent’s lake house one weekend and take her virginity, Jefferson found out about it and beat the shit out of Brad. Ari of course took that has a sign of his undying love for her.
I took it as he was protecting his little sister’s best friend because Jefferson just does things like that. That is why I needed him so much and would be lost without him.
Ari and Jefferson continued to bicker back and forth all the way out to Jefferson’s truck, I just tuned them out because my hand was hurting so much otherwise I would have been annoyed with their bickering.
Jefferson helped me up into the back seat of his Ford F250 . Gunner ran up behind him and handed me a bag full of ice. HUH? Where and when did he get that?
“Thank you ah, um, Gunner.” I stuttered out.
Jesus what was wrong with me? I could not even talk right. Why did he give me such weird feelings? Just when I thought it could not get any worse he smiled at me.
Fuck me….those beautiful sky blue eyes and perfect white straight teeth to round out the most beautiful smile I have ever seen.
“No problem Ellie. Try to keep it up above your heart sweetheart and here, take these Advil.” He handed me Advil and water.
Gulp, I could not even speak. Ari leaned over and whispered in my ear, “Breathe Ells, Breathe.” I sucked in a long breath and managed to thank him for the ice, bottle water and Advil.
“Hey, I’m Ari by the way, Ellie’s best friend.” Ari said.
