Chapter 30

Zanders pov
Sam and I walked into the frat house and saw a commotion. I saw Allison taking on like five guys in a fist fight. I could tell they were all drunk. And watching her was amazing. I had no idea she could fight like that. I looked around for Tara and I saw her cheering Allison on. I went over to her and when she noticed me, she looked scared like a kid who got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
“Oh hey Zander!” Tara had the audacity to look regretful.
“I'll talk to you in a bit but for now go with Sam. He is taking you to my house for now.” I say leading her over to Sam.”
“Ok but can we wait, I want to see how the fight ends.”
“Fine but after that we are leaving.” I look back to Allison and I must say she looks great. I can see her skirt has ridden up and it makes me want to cover her but I stay put. I see one guy sitting on the floor holding his bleeding nose. Another guy rushes at her and she punches him in the gut and knees him in the face and he goes down. Now there are only two guys left. By now more and more people are watching and are cheering Allison on. Even Tara is. I give her a look and she looks down. I don't condone fighting at all but from the little I saw the guy deserved it. I saw the exchange between them. I was actually going to step in but then the fight started. Allison fights with alot of skill and soon the other two guys are on the floor moaning in pain. She looks around, I'm assuming she is looking for Tara and when she sees us she gets red all over and comes over to us. I can hear some of the students cheer that she won.
“Tell me you didn't see all of that fight.” Allison says to me.
“No, not all of it but most of it. I didn't know you could fight so well.”
“Oh well um I was taught from an early age to fight and protect myself. And those guys were so sloppy they didn't even know how to punch straight.” She chuckles.
“Well I suggest we go home before anyone else hits on you.” I pulled Allison out the door and toward my car and helped her in. I get in on the driver's side and watch Sam get into his car with Tara.
“Do you want to tell me why you are here at a party?” I ask her.
“Um well I thought it would be fun. And why do you care? It's not like you want to acknowledge our marriage.” Allison looks out the window.
She's right I don't really have the right to care since I told her we should just be friends.
“You're right but I do care about your safety and Tara's which by the way I know she dragged you here so you can't lie and tell me you wanted to come here. I know my sister. But it's sweet of you to lie for her.” I say pulling out onto the highway.
“Well it's so nice to know you care about me. She says sarcastically. “But I'm glad you care about Tara. I know what it's like to have a family that hates you and is cruel to you.” Allison starts crying. I look over at her worried. “Are you drunk?” I ask her.
“ No, I only had two drinks and they were small.” She says .
“Ok you're not drunk so what happened at the party?”
“Well, first off the first guy hit on me and when I told him I wasn't interested, I might have pushed him a little too hard and he was drunk so he stumbled and fell and got mad and that's how the fight started.” She got out, some of her words were slurred now.
“Ok I believe you.” Have you ever drank before?” I ask her.
“No but I don't think I will again. My head feels weird. And my body feels warm.” She said massaging her head. And trying to fan herself.
Oh no I hope her drinks weren't spiked by someone. Thank goodness we are almost home. We get home and Allison is already out puking up some of her stomach's contents. I go to her and pull her hair away from her face. She is just sitting there on the ground holding her head.
“Are you ok to walk?” I ask quietly.
“Yes I'm fine. I don't need your help.” She pushes me away and surprisingly she has a lot of strength. She tries to stand up while wobbly so I just grab her and pick her up bridal style.
“What are you doing? Put me down this instant!” She yells squirming in my arms.
“If you don't stop I'm going to carry you over my shoulder into the house for everyone to see.” I tell her in her ear. She quits moving around and is quiet. I can't help but think how different she is from the drinking. She is definitely very different from normal Allison. We go upstairs and I decide to bring her to my room. If she was roofed I don't want her to go through that alone. We reach my bedroom and Allison immediately starts up again.
“I'm not staying in your room tonight. You're the one that kicked me out before so don't think that just because I'm a little drunk I'm just going to let you do anything. Oh that's right you don't want me but you want every other skinny girl out there. Well guess what? They can have you. I don't need you. I know I'm not good enough, I'm never going to be good enough.”
She breaks down on the bed. Wow there is a lot to unpack there. And I wasn't aware that is what she was feeling. I went to comfort her but she pushed me away.
“No stay away, I'm married and I won't have another man touch me.” Is she not aware it's me?
“Allison, it's me, it's your husband, I'm just trying to comfort you and make sure you're alright.” I say trying to give her a hug.
“No go away, you don't want me so don't confuse me. I like you and all you do is make me think you like me even a small amount and then you rip my heart out by saying that you can't have a relationship with me and that you just want to be friends. But every other skinny bimbo out there is good enough for you to lower yourself to date. No, I won't be made a fool again by caring about you.” She cries and it makes my heart hurt just hearing the pain in her voice.
“Allison I'm sorry I hurt you. It was never my intention to hurt you like this. I didn't know you liked me.” I say facing her on the bed.
“Yeah well, you can take your sorrys and shove it. I have already been hurt too much by people.” She scoffs at me turning away.
“I remember in the car you said you're happy I care about Tara because you know what it's like to have your family hate you. What did you mean by that?” I ask her.
“What do you think? My parents hate me, they always treated me like a personal punching bag but not just for their fists but their words too. Only my brother and younger sister love me. My parents and my two youngest sisters hate me to the core. I have no idea why, all I know is they have always treated me like a servant.” She rambles out.
I'm speechless, how could her own family treat her so horrible? It makes me understand her a little bit better now.
“I'm so sorry they treated you so terribly. I'm sorry your family hates you. It's not right of them to have treated you like that.” I say to her back as she is still facing away from me.
“Yeah well what's done is done. I can't change the past.” She bites out.
“No but I will never treat you like that. I'm sorry again that I have hurt you. But I did it because of my past. I haven't told you the whole truth.” Allison turns toward me again. “My first girlfriend was Amber and I thought I was going to marry her and we were happy, but then she cheated on me with someone close to me so I swore off dating and now I only date for publicity. I never liked any of the girls I dated.” I look into her eyes and they hide pain, heartache and confusion.
“Really? I'm sorry that happened to you. No one deserves to have their heart broken like that. So you never liked Tori?” She whispered hopefully.
“Yes really, thank you but I'm also glad because then I never would have married you.” I tease.