Lulu's pov.

"Who the f**k do you think you, beating up my cousin? Who the hell do you f***ing think you are?!" Oh my God, what am I doing?! Am I trying to get myself killed?!
The three guys looked stunned to silence. But I was on a role.
"I'm at this school for one day, one f***'in day, and already Mikey is getting beaten up! I'll have you know my dad was a Chicago cop and he'll do what ever it takes to protect his nephew!" I was pissed, and those boys could tell.
"Oh, w-were really sorry. We- we didn't - we thought he was someone else" said who I assumed was the "leader."
"If you don't have any further business here, leave! And if I see you so much as approach Mikey or Ray again, you'll have me to go through!"
They turned and quickly walked away. As soon as they got far enough away, we all rushed over to Mikey, still on the ground. Gee kneeled and held him in is lap. Mikey had started to sob.
"Oh Mikey, my sweet little Mikey! Why? You don't deserve this! Its all my fault!" Gee was shaking as he stroked his brothers head.
"Gee, stop! You didn't do this to him! Stop being so hard on yourself!" Frank had his arms around Gee, trying to calm him.
Ray was also on the ground, looking at me like "Who the hell are you?" Frank noticed and introduced me.
"Ray, this is Lulu. Gee met her this morning. She listens to our music and knows who we are. She moved at the beginning of summer."
Ray seemed to relax and smiled a little.
"Hi."
"Hi."
"You're not really their cousin- are you?"
"No, I totally made that up. It just seemed that I might seem more intimidating if I was family. And my dad's not a cop either. It just seemed smart to add that in."
"Well, you sure are a genius for thinking all that up."
"Thanks Ray!" I was really starting to have a sense of belonging in this group.
Gee had calmed Mikey down quite a bit and had him sitting up. "Thank you Lulu. I'm sure there would've been a fight if you hadn't been here." Mikey gave me a grateful look that wasn't quite a smile.
"There's no need to thank me. I felt that it was necessary. I want to be friends with you guys. And friends stick up for each other."
All the guys, minus Mikey smiled at me. "Of course you're our friend. We're happy to have you in our group." Gee was clearly the group leader and was trying his. "Ah, Mikey, I don't think you should go back into school like this." His lip was still bleeding and his eye was slowly turning purple.
"But Gee, I can't ditch. You knowMom will freak out! Oh god, what should we do?!” Mikey was about to have a full blown panic attack.
“Mikey, you’re going to be fine. Does anyone have any ideas on what we can do?” Gee sounded calm, but you could tell he was on the edge of panic. You could see it in his eyes.
“I have an idea.” The four boys looked at me hopefully. “We still have 50 minutes left for lunch. I only live a few a few blocks away and I brought my bike. My parents are at work, so I could take Mikey to my house and fix him up. He can ride on my pegs.”
Gee’s eyes relaxed. “Okay. Mikey, can you stand?”
“Yeah, I think so.” We all got up and helped Mikey to his feet. He winced a little, but was otherwise stood up fine. I went to my bike and walked it over.
I looked at Mikey and asked “Do you trust me?”
He didn’t even hesitate. “Yes, absolutely.”
“Alright. Hold onto me and tell me if you need me to stop. I don’t want you to fall off.”
“Okay.”
Gee came over to us before we started for my house. “Take care of him for me. And please be careful.”
“Don’t worry Gee. I’ll take good care of him.”
“We’ll be waiting out here. See ya!”
“See ya!”
Mikey got on and I took off towards my house.
We got to my house in less than 5 min. Mikey didn’t have any problems and stayed on the whole time. When we were out front, Mikes got off and I put my bike in back.
“Well, here we are!”
"Wow, Gee and I only live two blocks away."
"Cool! Come on in." I held the door open for Mikey as he walked in. I led him to the kitchen. I patted the counter and grabbed an ice pack from the freezer. "Sit up here and put this on your ankle. I'll be right back."
I left Mikey sitting on the counter and went into the bathroom. I grabbed some towels, antiseptic wipes, Band-Aids and make up. I went back into the kitchen to tend to the wounded.
"Mikey, did they hit you anywhere else besides your face?"
He lifted up the front of his shirt to reveal quite a few cuts and bruises.
"Oh my god! You poor baby!" I grabbed a towel and ran it under some warm water. I cleaned off his cuts and put on some band aids. Mikey pulled his shirt down.
I sat on the counter next to Mikey while holding a clean towel. "Hold still. I need to clean off your face. It might sting a bit." Mikes held still as I wiped the blood from around his mouth. Next I took a wipe to his face which caused him to wince. "I'm sorry! I only have a little left."
"How do I look?" Mikey asked when I was done.
"Eh, better. Do you mind if I put some makeup on you?"
"Nah, it's cool."
"Okay. Your eye is really purple, so sorry if this hurts." I carefully put some concealer and powder around his eye. I added some eye liner to both to even out the look. I tried being gentle and Mikey seemed okay.
"Done! Awe, Mikey, you look so beautiful!" He really did look quite stunning.
"Thanks." Mikey gave me a small smile and blushed.
"You hungry?" I asked. "I can make you something."
"Nah, I'm good."
"Okay, if you say so." I looked at the clock and saw that we still had 20 min. left until lunch ended. "You ready to go back, or do you want to stay here a bit?"
"Can we stay here a little longer? I don't know if I'm ready to go back." Mikey's eyes were wide and he looked scared at the prospect of going back. I walked over to him and hugged him gently.
"You don't have to go back yet if you don't want to."
A few tears fell from his eyes. "I don't want to go back at all."
"Hey, it's okay. If you really don't want to go back, you don't have to. We can work this out."
"But I can't go home and I can't just ditch. They'll call my mom."
"I know I shouldn't do this, but you can stay here for the rest of the day and I can write a note to your teacher that you weren't feeling well during lunch and I took you home. But I'd have to forage your mom's signature. Are you okay with that?"
Mikey nodded and gave me the first genuine smile that I've gotten from him. "Yeah. Thank you so much. No one has ever gone to this much trouble for me."
"People should because you are just so sweet."
I took Mikey's hand and led him to my attic room.
"Wow, it's so pink!" Mikey giggled a little at my color choice for my room.
"Oh, shut up! I am only a girl!" I pouted as I searched for a piece of paper to write the note on.
My room was painted light pink except for one wall that was painted charcoal gray. I had quite an elaborate silver headboard on my bed and a brushed chrome chandelier on the ceiling. The rug was also gray and extra fluffy.
I found a piece of paper on my desk and did my best cursive writing explaining how Mikey was having "flu like symptoms" and "needed to go home right away." Mikey had a piece of paper with his mom's signature on it that I copied down.
"Man, that looks really good!" Mikey sounded very impressed as he examined the paper.
"I try my best! So you can chill in here. Feel free to watch TV or have something to eat. Jus don't mess with my laptop!"
"Okay. Thanks again" Mikey said as he flopped onto my bed and snuggled down.
I took a quick picture of him to show the guys what he looked like. "You're so cute, Mikey!" He laughed as I walked down the stairs. "Bye! See you soon!"
"Bye!"
I walked out the door got on bike and rode back to school the second time that day.

Notes

Another chapter done!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FLUFF YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
So sorry! I have to write an essay and was trying to type this at the same time without my mom seeing. NOT AN EASY TASK I TELL YOU, NOT AN EASY TASK!!!!
Ieroween was awesome!!!! I want as a killjoy! I hope you all had a safe and fun Ieroween as well!
On a sad note, I'm slowly losing my voice and have been reduced to mouthing all of my favorite songs instead of rocking out to them ;~;
How are all of you?! I love hearing from you all! please comment for more!