I'm Yours, Sirs

Chapter 51 - Ellie

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I'm so sorry for posting so late, I was practicing some things for my culinary class and I was also just very tired from testing and all the other school things. Luckily it's almost over, I hope this chapter can make up for it!

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"I haven't seen you in a while, not after the whole incident at least.." he said, not moving from his spot.

Martin had came around from the counter and pulled me away from Mark as he noticed I didn't move. He kept me behind his back to guard me so I felt somewhat safe. I held onto the back of his shirt as all the flashbacks started playing in my head.

"I'm sure she wants nothing to do with you at the moment, you can lea—" Martin started but was soon interrupted.

"I promise I won't hurt her, I-I swear on my life." Mark said before tilting his head a bit to look at me, "I just want to talk."

I didn't know what to do except hold onto Martin's shirt and wait for him to leave. From the looks of it, he was determined to say until I got to talk to him. Every flashback crashes into my head, all the hitting and bullying he and the other guys had put me through, putting me in constant fear every day I saw them.

"H-How did you know I was here.?" I asked, watching as his face had soften. He looked different from the last time I saw him, like he just started to take care of himself more.

"I was heading to work and I saw that guy from last time in the car, the one that took you after what we tried... doing to you." he muttered the last part shamefully.

I didn't say anything more, I just stared at him. I could feel anger and sadness building up inside of me, I wanted to scream at him for almost putting me through something so tragic with the rest of his friends. I was glad to hear the shame in his voice, I wanted him to know that what he did wasn't right. But I just couldn't put myself to speak out.

"Look Ellie, I really want to apologize for all of that." he continued, my attention being drawn to him, "Can we please talk about it?"

I gave it a thought, what more was there to talk about? He knows what he did was wrong, all I needed was an apology... but maybe there was more that he wanted to say.

"O-Okay.. but Martin stays." I proclaimed, trying to sound as brave as I could but failed miserably.

"That's fine, I don't mind that."

I looked up at Martin as he looked over his shoulder and down at me. I gave him a nod and he stepped out of the way, standing behind me instead just in case. I focused my attention back on Mark who had looked visibly disappointed in himself.

'Good.'

"What m-more is there to say?" I asked softly, knowing that even if I tried to assert some dominance in my voice that it wouldn't work, especially with my stutter.

"For starters, an explanation for my actions," he started, inhaling a breath before speaking again, "I want you to know that I hated everything I did to you, I wanted to stop but I couldn't. There's something about Jason that I never told you."

"W-What would that be then?"

"Jason's father holds my mother in debt, I only joined his stupid group so he would get his father to let go of her debt and we could all just live our lives. I followed him and his group like a dog, asking once in a while if his father would lift my mother out of debt." he explained.