Save the Day

I can’t stand it any longer. The thought of those two assholes touching Amy made me sick to my stomach. At the same time, although I am pretty tough so are they, and there are two of them. I know I have to think quickly while I still have the element of surprise. Suddenly, I see a small wooden bat. It looks like it was made for a small child, but I figured I could use it as a make-shift riot club, and it was certainly better than nothing. I grab it, charge in and smack one of the twins in the back of the head. It wasn’t a terribly hard swing but it did the job. They stopped, backed away from Amy and looked at me, then at the club.

“Hey Matt,” they said in a very easy voice, “we were just having some fun. You could join us.”

“Get the fuck away from her!” I yelled, raising the club up again.

They took another couple of steps back, and said, “Okay, take it easy.”

I continued yelling furiously, “If I see either of you handling her again, I swear to God I will beat the living shit out of you!”

“We get the idea,” Todd said. “Yeah, we’ll go and we won’t come near her again,” Tim chimed in, rubbing the back of his head.

The twins left and I bent over to help Amy up.

She threw her arms around me tight, sobbing softly into my shoulder. “It’s okay,” I reassured her, “they’re gone now.”

Still in my arms, she looked up at me and said with a grin on her face, “My hero, let’s go back to the room and I’ll give you a hero’s reward.”