Authors Note: All characters in this story are eighteen years of age or older. This story builds on situations and characters developed in chapter 1. It is suggested you read chapter 1 before continuing with this submission.
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Trina treated me much better at school, smiling at me in the hallways and even sitting next to me in physics class. Over the next two weeks I helped her with her homework five more times, each time the homework session turning into a hot sex session. In those sessions she taught me a lot, but as all good things have to come to an end, Jimmy zeroed in on me.
It was a dark stairwell, well after dinner hour, after getting back from a track meet. I had to run up to my locker and pick up a book I forgot. I was heading back down the stairs when Jimmy and two of his linemen friends found me half way between the first and second floors.
"Hey Jackass!" Jimmy growled at me, grabbing me by an arm and pinning me to the wall with his other arm across my neck. "What's this shit I hear about you being at my girl's house?"
"I...uh..." I started to stumble, trying to figure out what the hell to say to keep me from getting creamed.
"Yeah, that's what I thought. That's MY girl! I don't want to see your skinny ugly ass around her, EVER!" He shouted at me.
"Uh. Yeah." I groaned, barely able to breath as he pressed his arm harder across my neck.
"I don't care if it was homework. If I find out you touched her, even with a little finger, I'm gonna pound you into the ground so far that you'll need a god damn ladder to get back to the surface!"
"JIMMY!" a female voice called from down the stairs. "JIMMY MORGAN! Let him go! NOW!" Shelly Mason, another of the cheerleaders shouted from the bottom of the stairs. "Let him go NOW or so help me I'll tell the coach. You know how he feels about fighting!"
Jimmy pushed off the wall hard, well, actually off my neck, driving his arm into my neck hard before releasing me. "You remember what I said. I don't want to see you anywhere near her! GET IT!"
"Yeah. Got it." I answered hoarsely, rubbing my neck.
Jimmy walked down the stairs and past Shelly, turning to glare at me again before walking down the hall. Shelly walked up as I sagged to the floor on the stair case landing, quite sure that I had just avoided a painful and untimely death.
"You okay?" she asked as she stepped next to me and knelt down.
"Yeah." I answered quietly, feeling a bit embarrassed at the situation, and getting rescued by a girl on top of it all.
She helped me to my feet and wrapped an arm around my waist to steady me. "You better find a better place to do Trina, or he'll break you in half." She whispered.
"Huh? What do you mean?" I asked defensively, suddenly afraid of who exactly knew what she and I did instead of studying.
"Honey. It's okay. I know. But he's gonna be watching and you might not be so lucky next time." She said quietly.
"You know? I mean. That Trina and I..."
"Yeah. I know. I was surprised, but I guess if she wants to."
"I better say something to her." I said nervously. "I don't want her to think I'd ducking her or anything."
"But you're ducking her because her boyfriend threatened to stuff you under the sod? I don't blame you. I'll talk to her." She said as we stepped off the last step. "For now. GO home. I'll talk to her. I promise."
"Okay. Thanks." I mumbled. "Hey, one question." I asked her as she slipped from next to me to start walking away.
"Yeah?"
"Why? I mean I'm not popular or anything. Why stick up to him for me?"
She waked the few steps back toward me and leaned close. She whispered in my ear. "I was in gym class, wasn't I?" She gave me a kiss on the cheek and then turned to walk away with a smile on her face.
I wasn't exactly sure what that meant, but I didn't waste much more time getting to the parking lot and getting out of Dodge. I didn't have a fancy car, only a sixty-six F-85 four door. But it got me around. I pulled out of the lot and saw Shelly walking along the sidewalk headed away from school. I pulled over and honked at her.
She walked over to the car and opened the passenger door. "Yeah?"
"You want a ride? I mean it's the least I can do." I said to her as she leaned down and stuck her head in the door.
"Sure. If you don't mind." She said with a smile, getting into the passenger side and pulling the door closed.
"Where to?" I said as we pulled away from the curb.
"Down on Teagarden," she said with a smile.
"Consider it done." I said as I turned onto Ironwood and headed south. "By the way. Thanks."
"For what?"
"For stopping him."