"Hey toots." I roll my eyes and turn around. "What Oscar? I Don't have time for your bull right now." He just laughs, a menacing sound.  "I don't care." A shiver runs down my back.

"Go away. Leave me alone." He slowly approaches me and I back up into the alleyway behind me. "I am really in the mood for some fun right now, how about you?"

"So am I Lauren, why don't you give us a little fun?" Morris comes out. They get closer and Oscar grabs me. I do the first thing I think of, and knee him in the nuts. He groans and Morris grabs me roughly.

"You're gonna pay for that." he growls. He pins my arms behind my back and I cry out as a fisty rams itself into my stomach, over and over.

Oscar pulls out a knife and rams it into my shoulder. "Aaaah!" I scream, white hot pain flashing through my shoulder.

His fists ram into every inch of my body. I start to lose consciousness. They laugh as my blood pools and smears the ground beneath me. The last thing I see before I black out is their backs as they leave me in the alley.

Crutchy's POV

"Where is Lauren, She should be back by now." I worry, limping back and forth. I can't help but wonder. "Jack. please help me find her." Jack nods, a frown creasing his brow. "I agree. She might be in trouble, lets go find her."

We leave the lodging house just as the sun is setting. We walk for a while, and see the Delancey boys laughing and...covered in blood. "What did you do to her?!?!?!" I yell at them. They just grin and say, "Sorry, gimp, looks like you're back to being single." "No!" I yell and throw myself at them. Screw the leg.

I hit and punch and so do they, until Jack pulls me off of them. "Crutchie, we need to find Lauren." I pull myself away from them, a fierce glare on my face.

We continue in the direction they came from, until we come upon an alleyway where groans could be heard.

We went in and saw Lauren on the ground covered in blood. "Lauren!"

Lauren's POV

"Lauren!" I open my eyes and squint. Its Crutchy and Jack. "Hey Crutchy. I kind of need help." he kind of did this laugh sob thing and Jack picks me up. I groan in agony, and Jack examines my wound.

"Oh man, Crutchy its bad. We really gotta go."

Crutchy's POV

"Oh man, Crutchy its bad. We really gotta go." I hear those words and take off towards the losdging house. I am going to save my girlfriend no matter what it takes.

We run/hobble as fast as we can to get back to the house and we lay her on the nearest bed. All the boys gather around with worried expressions on their faces.

"What happened!?" Mush asks as we immediately get working on patching her up. "Delanceys." I respond.

We sew her up and make her comfortable. All we can do now is wait.

Lauren's POV

"Ugh!" I groan and sit up. I am in the lodging house. Crutchy's head is in my lap. He looks so tired. "Hey Crutchy." He starts up, looking around wildly.

"hey, baby, how are you doing?" I smile. "Better, though it still feels like crap." he chuckles softly. "I can tell."

He starts to cry. "Oh, Lauren, I thought I was going to lose you without ever saying that...That.." I Grin. "What?" "That I love you."

I gasp. "I love you too." I lean in and he meets me halfway for a kiss.

"OOOOOHHHHH" We hear. Jack and the rest of the boys laugh as they watch us. I smile and keep on kissing my sweet beautiful boyfriend.