Something For The Pain

A few days have gone by now and Ellie still hasn’t heard from John. She had convinced herself that he was just busy and that maybe he had gotten that day job that his parents wanted him to get to so that could be the reason why he hasn’t been able to call again. Didn’t matter anyway she had been busy too. She had gotten her license and then her family had thrown her a seventeenth birthday party. Her parents always went big for their children on birthdays and Christmas. Just something that their Dad never had as a child so he always makes sure his children gets. The best thing was the weekend was starting tomorrow and they were going over her Aunts and Uncles to see them and they were having another party for her but all she cared about was seeing her Uncle Chick who was Mom’s younger brother and who grew up with her. Grandma and him lived with them up until he moved out to get his own place after Grandma had passed away. By this time Mom and Dad already had Me and Joe and Chickie was on the way. He was her favorite Uncle and they had just had a baby, Tommy. The five of them swore they weren’t going to do what their cousins did to them growing up. They were going to treat Tommy like a little brother.

Ellie was having a great time being home when Sunday came around and then Mom and Dad were up and her siblings were getting up one by one. The party was a blast and they all had fun but what Ellie didn’t tell anyone was that her head was starting to hurt. She had gotten her period that day and by the afternoon the headache was slowly creeping in. She took her meds before they left but by the time they had gotten home she felt like she wanted to die. She made up some excuse that she was really tired and wanted to go to bed so by noon time when her Mom realized that she wasn’t up yet Cecelia knew something was up. She told her husband and he agreed for her to go check on her so she did.

Cecelia walked into her bedroom and sat on her bed. “Sweetheart wake up. Are you all right?” she asked her daughter. Ellie rolled over and Cecelia could tell right away that she was having an attack as she was pale as a ghost. “Oh Honey how bad is it?” she asked her.

Ellie looked up at her Mom, “Bad Mommy I feel like I want to throw up too.” She told her in pain.

“Ok let me go tell Daddy and we’ll have Joey take care of the kids.” Cecelia told her.

Ellie really didn’t want to spend any of her time at the hospital during her stay but she really didn’t have any say in it right now. She needed a shot and fast. So her parents got the kids set up so they could get Ellie to the hospital. Unfortunately they had to wait for quite a while before someone came out from the ER to see her but Paul was getting pissed and he wanted her doctor to look at her and didn’t care that it was a Sunday. So he demanded that he get his ass in there as soon as possible or he was going to the press and pulling the plug on this whole thing. He felt that his daughter was gone for four months and what was she showing for all her troubles. Nothing! Well that got the doctor moving and Ellie got her shot and an hour later she was going home with her parents. The doctor wanted to do a few more test but Paul wouldn’t have it. He felt she was thru enough for one night and that they would speak in the morning when he was less upset.

Meanwhile as she was at the hospital John had called to see how everything was going and he had gotten Chick that had answered the phone. “Hello?” Chick asked.

“Um yes is Ellie there please.” John asked.

“No she had to go to the hospital with our parents.” Chickie told him.

Nervous now he asked him, “Why? Is she ok?”

“No she got one of her bad headaches and Mommy and Daddy had to take her for a shot.” Chickie told him.

“A shot? She’s that bad?” John asked her brother.

“Yep whose’s this? Is this her boyfriend she talks about?” Chickie asked him.

“She talks about me?” John wanted to know.

“Yeah she does, well kinda of. You’re the boy she met and likes so you’re her boyfriend right?” Chickie asked him again.

“Yeah, yeah I am. Who is this?” he asked.

“I’m Chickie.” He said.                                            

“Well Chickie can you do me a really big favor?” John asked him.

“Yeah ok what?” Chick asked him.

“Give your sister a message for me that I called and that I’ll call her tomorrow around noon time ok?” John asked him.

“Ok.” Chick told him and hung up.

John just looked at the phone and smiled as the younger boy just hung up the phone on him. He also hoped that he would give Ellie his message and that she would be around when he called her tomorrow. He really needed to hear her voice again. This whole thing with Dorothea was weighing on him badly. Dorothea just kept on calling the house wanting to talk to him and he still wasn’t ready to talk to her. He couldn’t believe that he cheated on Ellie with her of all people. The more he thought about it the more it made him sick. Sick in so many ways because he really thought he could hold out until she got back. Because he loved her and not Dorothea. He really couldn’t understand what made him do what he did. Or why his Mother was trying to get him to talk to her. She didn’t know what had happen but was pushing him to find out why she was calling so much and what was her problem. He told her that she was just playing games with him and not to bother with her but Carol was being a pest about it so he told her that he would think about it and to leave him alone. Carol just smiled to herself as she had walked away.

John had to get ready to get to The Fast Lane and meet up with the guys so he ran upstairs to grab his stuff and then ran out the door. It didn’t take him long to get there where he and Jack went over the set list for tonight’s gig. John didn’t want to make wave’s as of yet so he let go a couple of the song’s that Jack had put down for tonight’s performance but he felt in the next few weeks he still felt the same way he was going to speak up to see that he had to sing these songs. Joe came over and had asked how things were coming and Jack told him that everything was good and that John was a great fit to the band. Joe was relieved to hear this only because all he was hearing in the last few weeks was how Jack was moaning about how their keyboard player was making mistakes at doing the singing and trying to play at the same time. They had set everything up and were getting ready to play when John had spotted at one of the tables Dotty and her girlfriends.

That’s all he needed tonight he thought. So he walked over to Joe and asked him, “Joe question for you. See those girls over there?” John pointed out to him.

“Oh yeah they’re really cute. You have a thing for one of them?” he asked him smirking.

“Oh God no! What if I tell you that they have fake I.D.’s and that one of them is only here to make my life miserable?” John told him pissed off.

“Ok let me get this straight, one of them has it out for? Or she has the hot’s for you which is it Bongiovi because I really don’t see a down side in this. Just fuck her brains out then dump her.” He told him.

“I’ve already done that and she still won’t go away. Look I have this really great girlfriend and that one with the long brown hair and the half shirt well she’s my ex and just won’t fucking go away can you just do something?” he asked him almost begging.

“Now I get it you don’t want the other one to know about her fine but look John she has a fake I.D. right? She got in with it and so did her friends. Now you you’re her age I take it?” he asked him as John shooked his head yes. “Just great then well I can’t do a damn thing then because she knows you’re under age and that I hired you. Which means if I throw her out she can call the cops on me and not only get you arrested but me closed down. And possibly thrown in jail too. So I’m not gonna risk it. And neither are you so keep your mouth shut or your outta here got that!” as he read John the riot act.

“Yeah I got it.” John said back to him not to happy.

“Good now get that little ass of your’s up on that stage and do your thing got it!” Jim told him and went back to do what he was doing which was hitting on a few of the easier class of women in the place.

John wasn’t too happy with him at the moment but he wasn’t going to show it to the other guys either afraid he would get the same reaction. He went on just as planned and he rocked it despite not being crazy about the set list. As they were ready for their break he ran to the men’s room and when he came back sitting at the table by the exit sign was Dorothea.

“Hey John looks like you got your stalker waiting for you.” Jack said to him.

“It’s not his stalker Jack it’s his ex Dorothea. Oh wait a minute she would be your stalker then wouldn’t she?” Tommy started to laugh.

“Oh you guys are just a laugh a minute aren’t you?” John shot back not happy.

Dorothea saw them and started waving for him to come to her and sit with her. John just looked at the guys and with his left hand behind him gave them the finger as he walked over to her.

“Hey Dotty what are you doing here?” he asked her not happy.

“Well I came to see you silly come and sit with me and have a drink.” she told him smiling a little evilly.

Against his better judgement he sat down across form her. He didn’t want to sit next to her or near her. “Ok Dotty what do you want?” he asked annoyed.

“What’s wrong with you? I came here to see you perform again which by the way you were awesome. I just want to talk with you that’s all.” She said to him.

“I told you I don’t want to talk about it Dotty and I want you to keep your big mouth shut about it also do you understand me.” He told her out right.

“Wait just a minute. What the hell does that mean John? You want to keep what happened between us like it never happened?” she asked shocked.

“You catch on fast Dotty; Yes I want you to forget that ever happened. I never meant that to happen and I never meant to hurt you either but you know I’m involved with Ellie and that I care for her very much. So you have to promise me that you won’t say anything to anyone what happened between us and especially to Ellie you got that.” He said excitedly.

This is what Dotty wanted and now she had him where she wanted him. “Really John you think that low of me. Well first of all it’s too late my girlfriend’s already know about what happened between us that night. I guess I thought that we were back together seeing that we had made love that night and you told me that you loved me. Well I guess I’m the fool. So she’s going to find when she gets back the little virgin. Of course I can stop it if you just tell her that you just want to call the whole thing off with her and that you decided that you had made a mistake and that you decided that you want me back. I’ll just let you break it off with her or I’ll do it for you. You decide.” She explained to him as he was seeing red.

“You fucking Bitch! There’s no way I’m getting back with you. Even if you tell her I’m not getting back with you. You know I can start so many rumors about you but my parents didn’t raise me that way Baby.” He spat at her.

“Boy you’re so different when you’re drunk you know that. Does she know that? Does she know what’s she getting into? Maybe I should have a little heart to heart with her.” She told him as she laugh.

“You go near her and it will be the last thing you do you got that!” he said as he grabbed her arm.

“Tsk, tsk Johnny Boy you better let go of me we’re drawing a crowd.” She told him happily. John let her go but he wasn’t happy.

“You know Dotty one of these days you’re going to go up against the wrong guy and you’ll be sorry.” He told her. Just then Tommy yelled for him that they’re break was over and he needed to get ready for their next set. “Don't be here when I get off the stage you got that.” He told her as he left. She sat there for a few minutes and tried to figure out how she was going to explain to Mrs. B. that she blew it.

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Ellie had gotten back with her parents from the hospital a few hours later and was in no mood for anything. She felt like she had been hit by a truck. All she wanted to do was to go to bed. Beth and Sean were watching t.v. with Chickie when they walked in. They were used to her going so they knew to leave her alone when she got home. Paul and Cecelia wonder where Joe was. They asked Chickie and he told them he was down stairs. Luckily Ellie slept thru the night and had woken up around noon time the next day. When she came downstairs Mom was sitting at the kitchen table.

“Hey Sweetheart how are you feeling today?” she asked her daughter.

“Like a mac truck hit me that’s how.” She told her Mom. “Can I have some tea please?”

“Sure, would you like me to make you your eggs?” Cecelia asked her.

“Please?” she said as only her Mom could make her.

“Oh Sarah call I told her what happened and that you wouldn’t be up to anything today and that you would call her later is that ok?” her Mom asked her.

“That’s fine Mom. Um did anyone else call?” she asked her.

“No not that I know.” Her Mom smiled.

“Oh ok.” She said disappointed.

“Were you hoping that a certain boy was going to call you?” her Mom asked.

Making a face at her, “Stop Mom, what do you think. I know he said there might be lapses when he calls me but still you know my heart jumps even when he doesn’t call me.” She told her even thou she knew it sounded sad.

“Honey it’s ok to feel this way about him. But just do me a favor and try not to get too involved into him only because you’re not going to be there long enough to start a real relationship with him. You’ll be coming home probably sooner now than later if your Father has anything to say about it only because he feels that the clinic isn’t helping you any and he wants you home.” She told her daughter.

“Really? I thought that you and Daddy really wanted this for me?” she told her Mom.

“Well we did but we feel that they’re not keeping their end of the bargain. They have a lot to prove right now and until they do in the coming months your Father will pull you and fast.” She told her.

Just then Chickie came in the kitchen wanting to know if they could go swimming. “Mom Beth and Sean want to go swimming to so can they go with me or do they need to wait for you?” he asked antsy.

“I’ll go put my bathing suit on and I’ll be right out ok?” she told him.

“Good because they are driving me nuts.” He told her. “El are you coming out too?” he asked her.

“No Chick the sun will hurt my eyes if I go out right now but thanks.” She told him.

“Oh ok, oh by the way your boyfriend called last night said he was going to call you sometime around now so he’ll be calling I guess. Come on Mom!” Chick told her as she sat there ready to pounce on him for not saying anything last night.

“He WHAT! Why didn’t you tell me he called last night!” she yelled at him.

“Well I forgot plus you went to bed and you don’t like anybody bothering you when you don’t feel good.” He told her.

“Fine! But next time Chick if he calls it’s ok to bother me.” She told him.

“Girls!” he said and left.

It wasn’t that much longer about fifteen minutes when the phone rang and Ellie screamed she got it. As her dad just walked in himself and was about to answer the phone. He just looked at her like she lost her mind.

“Hello?” she said hoping to hear his voice on the other end.

“Well hello to you to beautiful.” He said back to her.

“John? Hi how are you?” she asked him.

“Shouldn’t I be asking you that?” he asked her concerned.

“Oh yeah so you know about that huh?” she said. “My brother finally told me that you called me. Sorry but it wasn’t until this morning thou.” She told him.

“Yeah well I guess I’m glad that he just told you. When we were talking he just hung up on me so I’m lucky you even got my message.” He said chuckling. “So how are you really?” he asked wanting to know.

“Well like I told my Mom I feel like I got hit by a truck. But better thanks. So how are you?” she wanted to know.

“Missing you. I didn’t get a chance to tell but I got that gig with that band. The Rest I’m their new lead singer. It’s lead by a guy named Jack Ponti and I can’t wait for you to hear us and they’re having an underage night in a couple of weeks so you’ll be able to come and hear me sing that is if you want to.” He said to her hoping that she would want to go.

“Well of course I want to go why wouldn’t I. I’ll talk to Mom and Dad so they’ll talk to Marsha and Mike so they’ll let me go ok. That way there won’t be any trouble of me going.” She told happily.

“Great Babe I can’t wait til you get back here you know? It’s only been a little over a week and I can’t believe how much I miss you. I can’t believe that I’m actually telling you this I’m usually not this needy when it comes to the opposite sex.” He told her.

She thought for a moment then asked him, “Is that bad then?” she wanted to know.

“Well yeah it actually is especially where I’m trying to get where I want to go.” He told her.

“And where’s that John?” she wanted to know even thou she had a feeling and that she thought he could handle both.

“Fame and to get the hell out of here. I have to make the right connections Babe I just have to and once I do that there won’t be anything that you’ll ever have to want again I promise.” He told her from his heart.

“You know if you or anyone else told me that about six months ago I wouldn’t have believed you. But now I do with all my heart.” She told him. He just smiled as he sat there listening to her but if she ever knew what happened between him and Dorothea he knew that she wouldn’t be with him anymore.

“I know if anyone told me the same thing well you know. So did you like your gifts? I think I forgot to ask you.” He asked her having a feeling of what she got.

“Yeah I did. I showed everyone what you got me. Of course they all teased me.” She told him giggling.

“How come?” he asked her curious.

“Really? Because you knew right off to get me something Elvis and we only known each other for a few months my family thought that was hysterical. They thought I would be shyer around you because you’re a boy and you would need a crowbar to get info out of me.” She told him again giggling.

“Really? You’re that bad huh? Then why were you more belligerent with me then?” he wanted to know.

“I don’t know I was the same way with Herbie. I just feel if I am then I guess you guys will back off.” She said quietly and not really wanting to tell him. 

“Hey did I hit a sensitive subject?” he asked her.

“I just don’t want to talk about it over the phone ok? You asked me what I got for my birthday and yes I got some Elvis things. Records and t-shirts oh and my parents got me a key chain of him and a guitar too with keys to the house and cars.” She told him.

“That’s great Babe. Maybe if you’re a good little girl I’ll even let you drive my car.” He told her.

“A good little girl? Oh you just wait til I get back pal!” she told him when her Mom walked into the kitchen. “Hey we have to cool it ok my Mom just walked in.” she told him.

“What we’re not talking dirty.” He told her.

“Yeah I know but it’s close enough I think and she‘s not used to me having a boyfriend in the first place you know.” She told him.

“Are you ashamed of me?” he asked her confused.

“Of course not where did that come from?” she asked him confused herself.

“You! You basically just said it Ellie.” He told her really annoyed.

“Look my Mom is really old fashioned and I’ve been housed bound since forever so don’t start but I told her about us and she’s getting used to the idea about you and me and when I told her all about you and how you treat me she really liked that. But she hasn’t heard us talking and really seen us together so when she does I know she’ll fall in love with you but you’ll have to respect my parents and go slowly so they’ll get used to the idea that the one they never thought would ever get off that couch and get a life would ok?” she explained to him straight out.

He listened to her and how she meant every word she said. No one ever said anything like that to him before and meant it. “I’m sorry Ellie I shouldn’t of doubt you. It’s just that no one’s ever well ever cared about me like you do that’s all.” He told her.

“I understand John I feel the same way. Well my family has but never someone like you. You know I love you right?” she asked him hopeful.

“Baby you know I do I love you more everyday and I can’t wait til you get back. Never doubt that.” He told her with every being in his body. Now he had to do everything in his power to make sure that she would never know what happened that night.