Hell Has No Fury

“John what…what is she talking about?” Ellie asked him with fear and tears in her eyes.

John just stood frozen for a moment but it felt like a life time. He wanted this to be a nightmare but knew it wasn’t. He could see Dorothea standing on his right just watching everything happening with this smug look on her face. He so wanted to turn around and just smack that look off of her face but he was brought up to never hit a woman. But he so wanted to make an exception to this rule.

He was finally able to blurt something out to Ellie. “Ellie I can explain.” He told her shaking.

“Tell me what John.” She asked him as the tears were rolling down her cheeks.

“I…I…” was all he was able to get out when Dorothea interrupted him again.

“Oh for crying out loud spill it John. He cheated on you Darling. He cheated on you with me. Because he still cares for me and will always care for me. We made love in the back seat of my car. He couldn’t wait for you to get your shit together.” She told Ellie but she couldn’t finish as John cut her off.

“DOROTHEA!! Shut The Fuck Up! I warned you if you said anything to anybody,” John yelled.

“You’d do what Bongiovi? Yeah that’s what I thought. Nothing because if your precious little girlfriend found out she’d leave you. ‘Dorothea looking at Ellie now’ so now what are you going to do Sweetie stay with him? I doubt it. Little Miss Virgin will now go find herself another Knight in shining Armor and fuck him over.” She said to anybody who would hear her out.

Ellie just stood there and heard everybody out. Looking at Dorothea, “Why? Why would you say these things? Do you really hate John that much?” she asked her.

“Oh Honey it’s not that I hate him it’s that I love him. Love him more than you’ll ever know.” She told her with such a straight face that it scared John.

Looking at John, Ellie asked him, “So did you? Did you sleep with her John?” as she was shaking now.

“Ellie can we go backstage where it’s more private please?” he asked her as he went to take her arm but she pushed him away.

“No, no I don’t think so just answer the question please. Did you sleep with her or not.” She wanted to know.

Looking around and swallowing hard he really didn’t want to answer this question but he knew he had to. He didn’t want to lie to her and if he did he knew Dorothea would pull a hissy fit right then and there and possibly have witnesses to back her up.

“Yes Ellie I did but I was drunk out of my mind and I know I shouldn’t use that as an excuse but I was so, I really don’t remember much so if you and I could just talk about this…” his was babbling Ellie just started to cry even harder as Dorothea was smiling from ear to ear. John saw this and was getting angry so he went to comfort Ellie when she took a step away from him. That just about killed him. “Ellie please I know if we can just talk we can work this out.” He told her.

Looking at him, “No I can’t even look at you right now. Everything you ever told me you just threw away. Am I a joke to you? Another notch? This whole nice act of yours how long did it take you to get it down pat huh? Oh God Michael was so right about you. You know I am dumb and naive. I’ve got to get out of here.” She told him and she turned and started to head towards to the front door.

It felt like someone had punched John in the gut. He ran to her just before she got the door and stopped her. “Baby wait please, I Love You.” He told her. She just looked at him then down at the floor, open the door and left. That’s when John slapped the door and turned around and stared at Dorothea. He started back towards the stage but Jim stopped him.

“Hey there John can I talk to you a second?” he asked him.                                                            

They walked over to Jim’s office, “Yeah Jim what’s up?” John asked him still visibly upset.

“I hate to do this to you guys but you have the last set to do and I need you guys to do it. You going to be able too?” Jim asked him.

“Yeah sure my life’s over with so I got nothing better to do.” John told him and went to tell the guys. He walked past Dotty with a death stare that sent a cold chill down her spine. Now all she had to do was convince John that she was the one that was right for him. As the guys went back on stage Dorothea went to make a phone call.

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Ellie was so upset as she was driving back to the house. She was still crying and she just couldn’t help it. The boy she had fallen in love with had cheated on her with his ex the tramp. Well it looks like it was two strikes for her she really hated to see what would the guy that would be her third. She was coming to an intersection and she had the right of way but this car came out of nowhere and she had to swerve to avoid being hit and ended up on the embankment. Luckily there was a policeman and he radioed in the car that drove her off the road as he went to see if she was alright.

                He got out of his cruiser and walked over to her and knocked on the window which startled her a little. He made the hand signal to unroll the window and she did, “License and registration Please.” She gave him what he asked for and he walked back to his vehicle and looked everything up then walked back to her. “Hi my name is Officer Daniel Green are you ok?” he asked her.

Looking up at him she told him, “I’m fine just really shook up but thank you.”           

“Well if you don’t mind me saying you don’t look fine. You look like you’ve been crying. Did something happen that you need to report and are afraid too?” he asked her with concern.

Smiling, “No nothing like that. My boyfriend and I well, we just broke up that’s all.” She told him sadly.

“Oh okay well I saw what happened and that it was the other car’s fault. You had the right of way. Once we pick them up we’ll give you a call and we can have you exchange insurance info if there’s any damage to the vehicle or any personal injury.” He explained to her.

“Well I don’t feel like that I’m hurt.” She told him.

“Well you might not now but you might in a few days so if you do make sure you explain to the doctor what happened and have him make notes to give to the insurance company alright. Why don’t I escort you home and I’ll explain to your parents what happen okay.” He told her.

“Actually I’m staying with my cousins I’m only here in New Jersey for a short while.” She told him.

“Really? Well I’m off this Tuesday how about we go out for lunch you can tell me all about it?” he ask her.

“Um really?” she said not believing what she was hearing.

“Well it says here that your seventeen right? I’m twenty-one I just got out of the Academy eight months ago so and it’s just lunch and it looks like you could use a friend that’s all.” Daniel told her smiling.

Daniel escorted her home and Marsha and Mike were still up. They nearly had a heart attack when she walked in with him and they told them what had happened with the car and what a good driver she was to be able to handle it the way she did. They wanted to ask her about John and when she didn’t bring him up of course Mike did. She just looked at the three of them and tried really hard not to cry. She took a deep breath and said that they had broken up because he wasn’t faithful while she was home. Michael yelped Bongiovi you Bastard and Daniel asked if that was John Bongiovi who played in bands. When Ellie told him yes he told them that he knew him in school. John was four years younger than he was and remembers that John was this cocky kid, never taking off his sun glasses in class, coming in late for some of his classes, having a bevy of beauties around him at times and getting in with the wrong crowd.

“Yeah he was a quiet kid but also thought his shit didn’t stink.” Daniel told them.  Daniel also asked them if it was alright if he took Ellie out Tuesday for lunch. Michael answered right away and told Daniel that it would be fine. Ellie and Marsha just looked at them a bit shocked but Ellie didn’t want to seem rude so she told him that would be fine again. But right now all she wanted to do was go into her room and cry. Daniel said goodbye and left and Marsha and Michael started in on her on what happened but she just started to cry as the tears started to flow now. She told them that she couldn’t talk right now and that maybe tomorrow but in the meantime if HE should call that she was not available for him EVER!

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Sunday morning came and Ellie wouldn’t come out of her room. Michael was wearing out the carpet in the living room and Marsha told him to calm down. She tried to explain to him that a young girl’s first real love is hard when it’s over. That Ellie needs to handle this in her own way and that they just need to be there for her when she needs them. And to especially not take it out on John only because it’s young puppy love and try to remember when he was that age and he had to break up with his first girlfriend. Well that seem to shut him up. He didn’t like it but he backed down and went into the kitchen to refill his coffee cup. Marsha didn’t like it either and wanted to go in there also but knew she had to back off also so she followed her husband.

Ellie wanted to die. She didn’t sleep all night. All she did was think of John and hear Dorothea’s voice say those horrible words over and over. Missed period, made love with me in the back seat, she couldn’t get those words out of her head. She was sick to her stomach and her head was killing her. But worse her heart was hurting her the most. Finally she heard a knock on the door which she dreaded. But she knew sometime it was going to happen. “Come in.”

Marsha came in with a tray of food. “Hi Honey I’m not going to stay or even ask you anything but I do want you to try and eat something. So please promise me that you will okay? I’ll just leave it over here on the table here and when you feel up to it try and get something in your stomach.” She told her cousin.  She looked over at her and just saw that she was wrapped up in the blankets with them up to her face. She gave her a little smile and left.

Michael walked up to her and asked, “So did she say anything to you?”

“No not a word.” She told him sadly. This went on for the rest of the day.

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John had woken up off and on during the night. He’d been having nightmares all night. The latest was of him in bed with Ellie he was making love to her. He was the happiest he had ever been. He could actually feel her, smell her, and he thought even taste her. She telling him how much she loved him and they started kissing passionately and when they parted Dorothea told him that he was her everything. He just looked at her shocked. He threw her off of him and screamed for Ellie. That’s when he sat up in a cold sweat and breathing hard. But that’s wasn’t the only thing that was hard. He looked down, “Shit!” Having visualized Ellie’s silky white body and being able to feel her he had the biggest hard on in a long time. Maybe fixating on Dorothea will bring it back to normal he thought. Yeah right. He couldn’t get Ellie out of his mind.

After taking care of himself and seeing the time he decided to get up and go downstairs. When he got to the kitchen his parents were having their coffee so he walked over to the coffee pot and poured himself a cup. His parents looked at him and noticed that there was something wrong and of course Carol just had to ask.

“Johnny are you alright?’ she asked concerned.  

Not really wanting to talk he answered as he started to walk towards the den, “Yeah I’m fine Mom.”

“Hold on right there young man. Something is wrong I can tell. What is it?” she wanted to know.

“John please come sit down. I know Mom can be a little intrusive but there is something wrong isn’t there?” John Sr. asked him.

Still standing, “Yeah there is but I really don’t want to talk about it right now okay?” he told them a little abrupt.

“Did something happen last night that we should know about because there was a police vehicle over at the Levine’s last night. Did something happen to Ellie?” Carol asked him.

“WHAT? Is she okay?” John asked panicked.

“We don’t know we thought we’d ask you.” She asked him upset.

“No I don’t know anything about that Mom. We broke up last night thanks to Dorothea.” He finally said and sat down next to his father. “Nobody came over here and asked for me?” he asked them.

“No they didn’t should they have John?” his father asked him.

“Oh God I don’t know. I mean I didn’t touch her or anything. And it was nothing to call the cops about. So why were they here?” he asked them.

“Well the only way you’ll find out is to ask them.” John told his son.

“Well I would but she’s not talking to me.” He told them.                                                        

“Son what happened last night?” John asked him.

So John told his folks what happened and how Dorothea came to the show and told Ellie what had happened when Ellie was away and how he got drunk and somehow slept with her and didn’t really remember but he never ever got that drunk in his life before because he had to drive home so he didn’t get it. Plus he would never ever do that to Ellie especially with Dorothea. They listen to him and something ran thru John Sr. like a hot poker. He looked over at his wife and he just knew she knew something about this. He saw the anguish in his son and now he was sorry he ever let his wife go thru with anything like this. His was just about to tell him when Carol spoke up.

“Well dear maybe it’s for the best. I’m sure she going home in a few months and it will be hard for the two of you to carry on this relationship won’t it? I mean she’s very close to her family as you are with us right?” she asked him.

“Well yeah she is.” He said.

“So how are you two going to see each other then? I mean is she going to stay here in New Jersey with the Levine’s? Or are you going to Massachusetts’s and if you do where are you going to stay? Because I highly doubt her parents are going to let her live with you.” Carol told him as she tried not to smile.

“Well no I guess not.” He said as he was thinking this all out.

John Sr. was just giving his wife a death stare as she was just giving him one back. She knew they were going to probably have a fight later. “Oh and by the way Dear the manager of Kinney Shoe’s called a Ken Johnson and he wants you to call him tomorrow  he wants to interview you for a position there isn’t that wonderful?” she told him.

John just sat there and stared at her. “Really Mom? You guys said if my music takes off I didn’t have too.” He said.

“John you really haven’t gotten paid have you? So you need to take this job Son. So if they do offer it to you, you need to take it as agreed.” John Sr. reminded him.

“Yes Dad. Can I go now?” John wanted to know.

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Tuesday came by a lot quicker than Ellie thought it would. She really didn’t want to go out for lunch but Daniel was so nice to her the night of the accident that she wanted to say thank you. He was right on time and she was wearing a cute sun dress. They went to the pizza joint that John had taken her to but seeing it was around noon time she thought it was safe to go there. When they got there Dave Rashbaum was there because he was seeing a few of his friends before he was going off to college in a few weeks. He nearly swallowed his tongue when Ellie walked in with Daniel only because he knew who Daniel was. Ellie and Daniel grabbed a booth and made themselves comfortable. Dave excused himself and went to the phone booth and called his buddy.

John was just hanging around the house doing nothing as he was going to start his new job tomorrow at Kinney Shoes. He was just so happy about it. He was watching one of the Marx Brother’s movies on t.v. when the phone rang. He got up and answered it. “Hello?”

“John? Oh man you’ve got to get down here and fast!” David almost yelled into the phone.

“Who the hell is this?” John wanted to know.

“It’s me David and I’m at the pizzeria and you’ll never guest who’s here?” he rambled on.

“Who and why should I care?” John wanted to know.

“Well you should because it’s Ellie and Daniel Green, Officer Daniel Green!” David told him.

“What? What’s she doing with him?” John wanted to know.

“Well it looks like they’re having lunch I guess but they’re also sitting awfully close if you ask me.” David told him.

“I’ll be right down!” John told him.

“So you told me that you were going to tell me what happened Saturday night.” Daniel asked her.

Chuckling, “Yeah I did didn’t I. Let’s see in a nutshell Girl liked boy, boy cheated on girl with his ex, got caught, and I duped him simple.” She told him.

“It’s never that simple. It looks like that you were crazy for him. Am I right?” he asked her.

“Maybe. He seemed very nice and treated me the same. I just didn’t count on his bitch of an ex that’s all.” She told him.

“Let me guess she didn’t want him until he got someone else is that it?” he asked her.

“Yeah something like that.” She said smiling. “That and she really never got over him I guess.”

“What was his excuse? They always have an excuse.” He said.

“Oh this is a good one that he was so drunk that he doesn’t even remember sleeping with her. Or something like that. I mean I’ve never seen him drink a lot myself only because he knows he has to drive but I was gone I had to go home for two weeks so maybe that’s why he did it because we never you know did anything and she and him have so…” she told him.

“His ex is Dorothea Hurley right?” he asked her. She told him yes. “Yeah I knew her sister she isn’t to stable either. She could be off too like Colleen. You know Colleen spiked someone’s drink back in the day I wonder?” he said.

“What do you mean? You think Dorothea could have spiked John’s beer?” she asked him.

“Well she could of but without the container we’ll never know or John’s blood test of that night. But I wouldn’t have put it past her. I’m just glad she didn’t do anything to you.” Daniel told her.

Ellie and Daniel talked some more as they ate and while they were doing that John slipped in without being seen. He went over to where Dave and his friends were sitting and he could see them clear as day.

“What the hell! That was God Damn fast!” John said angrily.

“Yeah no shit right?” Dave said. “So what are you going to do?”

“What the hell do you want me to do? He a fucking cop!” John exclaimed.

“Yeah but you can go over there and say Hi at least and make it look like it doesn’t bother you.” Dave told him.

“Did you know the night of the breakup he somehow took her home?” John told him.

“What? How the hell did that happen? She left by herself didn’t she?” David asked him.

“Yeah she did. I know what the hell happen between The Fast Lane and home.” John said.

“So then go over and ask.” Dave told him.

John did what David told him to so he walked over like he was going over to the juke box and accidentally saw them.

“Oh Hi I didn’t know you were here.” John said to her as she saw him walking up to them.

“Hi John. Oh this is oh do I introduce you as Officer or just Daniel?” she asked him.

“It’s okay John knows who I am. Hey John how you doing?” he asked the young man.

“Fine just fine. So Ellie I see you wasted no time.” He blurted out straight faced.

“Excuse me?” she asked him.

“What John is so eloquently saying is he thought you would wait some time before you would start dating Ellie.” Daniel explained to her.

“Oh really? You have the nerve to judge me after what you did! How dare you!” she shot back at him.

But before a fight could break out Daniel stepped in. “Okay before anything starts and it’s not like she owes you an explanation or anything but I just wanted to take her out to lunch that’s all.” He told him.

“Okay then why the hell did you take her home Saturday night?” John wanted to know.

“That’s none of your business.” Ellie told him.

“Yes it is. I was responsible for you that night and a cop takes you home? Why?” John demanded to know.

Daniel put up his hand so he could talk, “It’s ok she got into a little accident and I was there to help her out that’s all.” He told John.

John’s eye bugged out of his sockets. “Accident! Are you okay? Was it because of what happened?”  he wanted to know.

“No it wasn’t because of what happened. Some jerk ran me off the road and Daniel was there to call it in and help me home. Because I’m seventeen he just wanted to see me home and to make sure I was alright. And this is for me to say thank you now is there anything else I need to tell you?” she asked angrily.

“NO! I’m sorry I disturbed you!” John told them.

“John wait.”  Daniel said to him.

John stopped and turned around. “Yeah what.” He said tiredly.

“We have something that you might want to hear.” he told him.