Something Wicked This Way Comes

Elsie groaned, throwing on her stupid black dress. She wanted to leave, escape but she had to go to this stupid party. She had to act like the perfect little girl everyone thought her to be.

Yeah, right..

"Elsie, get down here! People are arriving."

Her feet felt like lead as she wound down the long staircase. Carson smiled at her and pulled her in a long hug while Allison just glared. Her sister took the one guy she had been interested in and for that she was forever angry.

"I'm sorry our parents suck so much, Els." Carson whispered in her ear. She nodded, swallowing hard.

The groups of the "high society" came filing in the room, greeting the family. She knew this party would be filled with hours upon hours of annoying chatter. God, how she wished Andy could be here to make her laugh. To make her smile.

Shit! Was she in love?

Was this really happening? With someone that it could never work out with?

"Elsie could you at least try to enjoy yourself?" Hallie asked, sipping on her champagne.

"Fuck off." Elsie growled.

"We will not have that kind of language, young lady." Hallie shook her head.

"Whatever." Elsie grumbled, walking away from her family. She sighed, getting a Jack and Coke from the bar. Her parents let her drink what she wanted if she did it responsibly and damn did she need a drink now.

"I like a girl who can hold her alcohol." Elsie turned around and noticed a tall boy with long black hair. She couldn't help but think that this guy looked like Andy. Or at least had as many tattoos. "I'm CC."

"Uh- Elsie." She said, shaking his outstretched hand.

"Believe me, I know. I'm here to keep an eye on you or something for Andy." CC said, watching as her eyes sparkled at the name of his best friend.

"How did you get in here?" She asked.

"Ah, your old man lets any guy in besides yours so your sister can find someone." CC shrugged. Elsie cringed.

Besides hers..

"Oh I see." She sighed, sadly.

"If I were you, I would go out to the barn in the woods in an hour." CC winked. Elsie's breath sucked in and a small pit of happiness formed in her stomach.

"Thank you." She smiled. "So you're his friend?"

"Yeah me and a few other dudes have known Andy since he was a kid. He's young but damn is he tough." CC shook his head.

"Yeah, I've noticed." Elsie giggled.

"But not when he talks about you." CC laughed. "He's like a puppy when it comes to you, all lovesick." Elsie's chest tightened at the word and she smiled. God, she loved him. More than anything she'd ever loved. He was everything to her.

"I'm sure he's not that bad." She chuckled, taking a long sip of her drink.

"Yeah, he is." CC said, smiling a bit. "But we're happy for him. I just hope you guys can figure something out."

"Me too." She nodded. He offered her an arm which she gratefully took, hoping maybe this would get her father off her back.

They spent the next hour talking and laughing until the party moved outside giving Elsie the perfect chance to escape.

She ran as fast as she could to the barn shielded by the woods, smiling as wide as possible as she saw movement from inside. She creeped inside her heart filling with happiness as she caught sight of Andy standing by the window.

"Els.." He whispered, pulling her into his strong arms. She buried her face into his neck and breathed in his warm scent. "Are you okay? No one hurt you right?"

"I'm alright." She mumbled. "Much better now." She smiled, leaning back to place a firm kiss against his mouth.

"Me too." He smiled, pulling back from the kiss but he frowned as her own smile faltered.

"Andy, I need to tell you something." She said, brushing his hair back.

"What? I do too and it's really important." He grinned, leaning in for another kiss but she pushed him back. He frowned. "Baby.."

"Andy, my uncle Milton is dead." She said, her hands on his thin shoulders. His eyes grew sad but she saw a twinge of anger behind them.

"W-what? How?" He asked, his head cocking to the side.

"He was murdered. No one knows who did it or how it was done but he's gone and.." She shook her head, tears falling down her cheeks. "Andy, they think it was you. They're almost positive it was you! If they find anything then they're going to seize you!" She sobbed as he pulled her into his chest.

"They- they think I did it?" He whispered, "W-why?"

"Because of your father.." She mumbled, her face burying in his neck.

"E-Elsie please..you have to know that I didn't do this." He said, his arms tight around her body.

"I know, believe me I know but my dad won't listen!" She shook her head.

"It's okay." She let out another cry and looked down. He tilted her chin up. "Hey, we're going to be okay. They're not going to find anything and we'll find a way to convince your parents that I'm not the trash they think I am."

"I know." She nodded, wiping away her tears. "What were you going to tell me?"

"Nothing bad." He chuckled a bit. "It's just, I don't know.."

"Tell me!" She pleaded, running her hands across the Cincinnati Reds jersey he wore.

"I just feel stupid because it's so early in the relationship." He said, sitting down on a bale of hay and pulling her on his lap.

"Just say it and I'll tell you if it's really stupid." She smirked. His eyes stayed locked on her's and she felt a little self conscious.

"You're so beautiful.." He whispered, touching her lips. She giggled.

"Was that it?" She asked. He just laughed and shook his head.

"No, that's not it." He said as she leaned back into his warm chest.

"What is it then!?" She exclaimed. Andy calculated every thing he was about to say. It was
going to be impossible to get it all out but he would do it.

"Elsie, I remember when I was a junior in high school and I watched you walk past me in the hallway the first time. You were this scared little freshman and I wanted so badly to comfort you and help you out but my friends made fun of all the freshman. Not you though. I never let that happen, I fell for you right then and I watched you for years. Anytime I'd see you I got shy and this summer I knew you had graduated and I had told myself I was going to talk to you." He paused to smile to himself. "But then I got this job to help my sister and Dan said I couldn't so I just tried to let it go until you fell off that horse and all of my feelings came back. I spent months working up the courage to finally ask you out and when I did I was the happiest man on earth. Not even your parents could tear me down and I knew that they wouldn't approve. I just have to tell you that.." He shook his head. "I'm in love with you Elsie. So entirely and completely in love with you that it hurts to breath sometimes. You're perfect to me and nothing could beat the way I feel when you're with me. I love you, like any other man loves his woman but even more. You're my girl, my soulmate and I can't let you go. Ever."

Elsie stifled a huge sob as she listened to his eloquent speech. His words mended her tired broken heart and she loved every moment of him saying them. She cried, clutching onto his chest as he held her to him.

"I-I love y-you so much, Andy." She stuttered, feeling him kiss her forehead.

"I love you too, princess." He said, pulling her tighter to him. She loved him calling her that and secretly wished that's all he would call her. She just loved everything he said.

"Thank you. I really needed that." She smiled up at him, kissing the underside of his jaw. She laid silent, her breathing matching up with his. She felt him duck down and begin to kiss her neck softly. She moaned as he found her sweet spot and began sucking, making her writhe like never before. "Andy.."

"Elsie, let's make love." He whispered. "Please.." She closed her eyes at the incredible feeling and maybe it was the Jack and Coke running through her or maybe it was love but something possessed her to nod her head.

He lifted her up in his strong arms and laid her slim body on the hay. He kissed her neck over and over while she just ran her fingers through his lucious hair.

"I'm going to take you to heaven, okay? I just need you to trust me." He said, pulling back and looking down at her.

"I do." She said, taking him and pulling him down to her mouth. He let his hand drift up to touch her breast and she moaned as he kneaded and massaged such a sensitive area.

"I love you so much." He mumbled against her warm skin. "Like more than physically possible." She moaned at his words as he began kissing all the way down to her collar bone and sliding her dress off her body.

He took in the new sight licking his lips as she let her bra fall off her body. "Dear god." He said.
"I'm obsessed with the boss's daughter." She giggled as his hands reached out to touch her and he moved to kiss her neck more and more.

The foreplay went on and on until eventually they became one with each other in the most intimate way possible. She loved the way he wrapped her body in all the love he could.

She could feel his breath down her neck. The way his hands carefully massaged her skin. How his gravelly voice whispered her name. He was truly beautiful, and all her's.

Her heart knocked wildly like that of an untamed stallion as he sucked on the skin behind her ear. They were doing it. After months of wanting and waiting, now they were doing the one thing that would bond them forever.

The one thing that would make him fall for her, and he had.

Between the kisses he was softly planting on her neck, he whispered "Elsie, I will love you until the end of time.." They both released, letting everything go.

That's when they heard the screams.

They were silent at first, only a small twinge in the background but Elsie pulled away from their kiss. "What was that?" She asked, watching as Andy pulled out of her smiling

"I don't know, it doesn't matter." He said, trying to pull her back in but she resisted.

There it was again. More piercing screams into the night, this time loud and long. Someone screaming help.

"Andy, I'm scared." She said, clutching to him. He seemed to have been shaken as well so he slipped his shirt back on her body and stood up. "Please don't leave me!" She said, grabbing his hand again. He kissed her forehead and pulled back.

"Someone could be hurt baby." He said, putting his pants and underwear back on.

"Let me come with you. Andy, I'm scared. There is a murderer on the loose.." She said, trying to grab him again.

"I'm just going outside, honey. You're fine." He said, kissing her forehead once more and squeezing her hand.

She watched as he walked outside, with fear in her gut.

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