Chapter Two

Struggle

     "So what are we going to do today?" Paige Michaels asks Miranda. Miranda sits back in her and puts her feet in the dashboard. She thinks hard about the perfect place for her and Paige to hang out together, It was after all their two month aniversery.

 

     "Um How about we go to the Cave?" She says as last. The Cave was a place the girls found when they were about twelve, it was a cave hidden in the woods near the only beach in town.

 

     "Ok perfect!" Paige says. She takes the next exit and heads toward the beach. Miranda turns up the music and moves her head in time with the beat, Yawning she stops and rests her head. After the dream last night she only got maybe an hour of sleep before it claimed her again. She closes her eyes and yawns again. "Mandy take  nap I'll wake you up when we get to the beach." Paige tells her. Miranda nods and puts her seat down as far as it can go. She falls asleep listening to the twang of some country singer.

 

     Paige slows down as the ttraffic light comes into view. She stops and waits to the light to turn green. SHe looks over at ther sleeping girlfriend and smiles. Paige had known she was Bisexual since she was thirteen, Miranda had confessed to her that she was as well when Paige finally told her. They didnt go out right away because Paige had had a boyfriend she really cared about. BUt he broke up with her when he found out she was Bi. By then Paige was fourteen and Miranda had lost her parents. MIranda had said that she wasn't ready for a relationship then. BUt two months agao Miranda had finally asked Paige out and she couldn't have said yes fast enough. The light turns green and Paige speeds away toward the beach.

 

     "Wake up Mandy." Miranda wake up to Paige shaking her.

    

     "I'm up I'm up." She murmmers. She gets out of the car and squints in the bright August sun.

 

     "Here" Paige hands her her sunglasses. She takes them and puts them on smiling at her girlfriend in thanks. The girls head to the woods and Miranda puts her arms around Paige's waist. She was so lucky to have a best firned and girlfriend liek Paige. She had been there for her when she lost her parents, she had been so paitent and kind when Miranda told her she wasnt ready for a relastionship. But she didnt have to wait long before the desire to be with Paige over powered her. Suddenly she feels Paige tense, she looks at her ans sees her staring stright ahead. MIranda follows her gaze and clenches her jaw.

 

     "Hey Freaks whats up?" Nick rogers yells and jogs over to the girls. Nick was Paige's ex boyfriend. He has been so pisses when he found about Paige's sexuality that he had beaten the s**t out of her. Paige was terrified of him and he knew it. He reaches them and Paige steps back.Miranda was mad that Nick loved to Torment Paige.

 

     "What the F**k do you want?" She snaps

    

     "Hey! don't talk to me like that!" He yells "Anyway I just wanted to talk to Paige for a minute.... Alone." He continues. Paige gasps in fear and Miranda takes her hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze.

 

     "Get lost Nick, there is no way in Hell you're talking to her." She says. Nick turns and smacks her in the face.

 

     "What did I say about talking to me like that?" He growls. Miranda touches her face and glares at him. She Lunches at Nick trying to punch him but Paige hold her back.

 

     "Miranda, no don't, he's not worth getting in trouble over." She whispers. Miranda looks at Paige than at Nick then back at Paige. Giving Nick one finally Glare she Storms off toward the car.

 

     Miranda puits the ice pack on the injured side of her face. The whole ride home was silent, only broken by her telling Paige to drop her off at home. She was still Pissed at her for holding her back. She wanted to punch Nick so hard in the face that he would never want to harm Paige again. The front door opens and Miranda gets off the couch to see who it is. Matt puts his keys down and sees Miranda

 

     "What happened to you? are you ok?" he asks with concern going over to her.

 

     "Yeah I'm fine, it's nothig don't worry about it." she says trying to keep the anger out of her voice.

   

     "Miranda tell me what happened." Matt orders. Sighing Miranda takes the ice pack off showing her brother her cheek, the swelling already starting to fade.

 

     " Paige and I ran into Nick and he slapped me thats all."

 

     "Nick Rogers? Where is he?" Matt yells snatching his keys off the table.

 

     "No dont bother Matt, like Paige told me, He isn't worth it." She says heading to the stairs to her room.

 

     She gets on her laptop and waits for it to boot up before going onto her Hotmail account. She chesk her messages and sees that she has three from Nick and one from Paige. Miranda deletes the ones from Nick wihout so much as a glance at their contents and quickly opens the one from Paige. it read

 

"Hey baby, Listen I'm so sorry about earlier.

I just didnt want you to get hurt more.

Nick is stronger then he looks trust me,

Please Mandy don't go looking for him, He's dangerous.

I love you,

Paige"

 

 Miranda sighs, She suddenly understood why Paige held her back. She was afraid that Nick would do the same thing to Miranda that he did to Paige. She hits the reply button and writes back.

 

"Paige its not you that needs to say sorry its me.

I understand that you were just trying to protect me.

I guess I was just so stunned that he slapped me I turned it into anger.

I love you too

Miranda"

 

She hits the send button when it sends she shuts down her laptop and heads back downstairs. Going into the living room she sees matt watching Tv. He looks up from his TV show and she goes over to sit next to him. He puts his arm around her shoulders and they watch the program together.

 

 

Author's Note

again Apologies for the grammer mistakes.