The After Series Chapter 6 by Teal-Becky102285

A/N: Hey guys, Teal's back again, and feeling, crafty today. Maybe I'll do my homework, then again, maybe not lol. Becky did a great job on chapter 5, as she usually does, and were great full for the reviews everyone's been giving us, were so happy you guys like the story, so without further waiting, and the fact that Joey just might rear her ugly and bruised face, again, here's chapter 6.

Chapter 6: Talks and a Massage.

The next day, Summer left around 12:30 for her first day at her new job at Storm Chargers. Joey had decided to sleep in, and Larissa was busy on her computer. Around one, Joey rose from her bed and decided to go talk to Larissa. She went to her friend's room and knocked on the door. "Come in." Came Larissa's voice. Joey entered the room.

"Hey." She said softly as she sat down on Larissa's bed. Larissa turned in her chair to face her.

"How are you feeling?" She asked. "A little sore." Joey said with a smile. "But, as always, I'll survive." She said. Larissa sighed.

"Is that what you call what you've been doing for the past few months?" Larissa asked. "Surviving?" Joey looked down.

"No." She said softly. "It's not." She looked up at Larissa. "Listen, I'm sorry. You were right last night. I should set some example or something." "Like you said, I don't need an example." Larissa said. "But, I do need a friend who will talk to me instead of using local boys as punching bags."

"Again, you're right. And I'm sorry I haven't been doing that a lot lately." Joey took a deep breath. "I've been to busy trying not to react to all that's been happening, and that just causes me to react in different, less sane ways." "Less sane? Joe I don't think you were ever 'sane'." Larissa joked. Joey smiled. "Yeah, you're probably right, but that's ok." Joey smiled. "So what are we doing today?" Larissa quirred. Joey shrugged. "Figured, we'd go bugg Summer at her new job, make sure she doesn't get fired." Joey kidded. Larissa smiled. "Ok, let me finish up here, give me an hour and we'll go." Larissa told her. Joey nodded and got up off the bed and wandered towards the door. "Hey Joey!" Larissa called out. Joey turned around and looked at her. "Yeah?" She asked. Larissa smiled. "Thanks for, well just thanks." Larissa said. "Hey, I should be thanking you. See ya in a bit." And with that Joey padded off down the stairs towards the kitchen, smiling.

Larissa smiled as Joey walked out of her room. She knew this talk didn't mean Joey was suddenly going to stop being the way she was, but Larissa was greatful Joey acknowledged that her actions might hurt others (others then the ones she beats up) and that Joey was at least trying to make it up to Larissa.

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Summer was happy her first day at work seemed to be going well. She gave a friendly smile as she finished ringing up a customer's purchase and handed them their bag.

"Thanks for shopping at Storm Chargers." She said as the customer left. Hunter smiled and walked up to Summer. You know," he said, leaning on the counter. "You don't have to say that." He smirked, finding her need to be friendly kind of cute. Summer gave a small laugh.

"Well, it never hurts to be friendly to the customers." She said. The door of the store opened. Summer looked over to see a dark skinned boy in red walk in. He looked like he had been in a fight. Hunter looked over. "Hey man." He greeted the boy. The boy walked over. He looked at Summer.

"So, this must be Kelly's newest slave." He smiled. Hunter laughed.

"Shane, this is Summer, Summer, this is Shane." Hunter said, introducing them. Summer extended her hand to Shane.

"I prefer employee." She laughed as she shook Shane's hand. "Hey, whatever floats your boat." Shane joked. Summer laughed. Her laugh was music to Hunter's ears. He smiled gently at Summer and walked back into the stock room to get some more boxes. The bell clanged loudly, signaling that new customers arrived. Summer peered around Shane's body and recognized her friend's immedality. "Larissa! Joey! What are you guys doing here? I though I was going to meet you at the beach after I finished work?" Summer smiled. "We decided to show early." Larissa said. "That's great. Hey, where are my manners, Larissa, Joey, this is Shane, a friend of Hunter and Dustin's, Shane, the shorter girl is Larissa Lekika, and the other Joey Sanchez, my best friends." Summer said. Shane swung around, giving him the old Clarke charm, when he noticed that the taller of the two was the girl he'd fought yesterday. "YOU!" The both cried at the same time, causing nearby customers to give them strange looks.

This also caused Dustin, Blake and Hunter to come over. "What's going on?" Hunter asked. Joey and Shane didn't seem to notice, as the two got in a glaring match. Summer looked at Larissa, who shrugged.

"What the heck are you doing here?" Shane said through gritted teeth.

"I didn't know this place was off limits." Joey replied in a icy tone. "So, Shane, is it? Wow, you strike me more as a 'Doofus'." "Well, 'Joey' is it? I never knew Lucifer's demon child had a name." Shane shot back.

"I'm guessing these two met." Dustin said.

"Freaky." Blake commented.

"Let me guess, this is the guy you fought yesterday?" Larissa said with a sigh. Joey looked at Shane, seeing his black eye. She smirked and walked over to him. "Aw, did I do that?" She asked in a mockingly concerned voice. She went to touch his eye. Shane swatted her hand away. Joey laughed. Hunter, Blake and Dustin looked at Shane.

"Uh, I don't know what light you were in at the time, but she doesn't look like 'big thugs mugging a little old lady'." Blake said, an amused look on his face. Him, Dustin and Hunter burst out laughing. Joey glared at them. "What's so funny?" Joey said. "What, can't believe a girl can beat a guy up? Well, keep laughing and I'll show you."

The guys backed away slowly. "Uh we don't want to be hurt. Please don't hurt us." Blake said. Just then Kelly came walking around the corner, and found Joey glaring daggers at her "employees". "Hey! What's going on here? You." She said pointing at Joey. "If your going to fight someone, it's not going to be on my property. Now be nice to them, or leave." Kelly hissed. Angry that someone would try to pick a fight with one, or more of her employees. "Fine." Joey huffed. I can see when I'm not wanted here. Larissa lets go. Summer; see you at home, if you don't want to hang out with your "new Friends." Later!" Joey said, as she snatched Larissa's wrist and stormed out of Storm Chargers. Kelly looked at Summer evilly. "You know who she is?" She asked. Summer nodded. "Um ya. She's one of my best friends." Summer replied. Kelly nodded. "Tell her to either clean up her act, or she's not welcome on Storm Charger property ever again." And with that Kelly marched back into the stock room.

Summer sighed. "And today was going so well." She muttered. Shane turned and saw his three friends staring at him. "Don't even think about laughing." He warned. "It's not like you three where rushing to step up to her." "Well, yeah, cause, she's scary." Dustin said. "Very." Blake nodded. Hunter turned to Summer. "How are you friends with someone so...Frightening?" He asked. Summer glared at him a bit, angry he'd talk about her best friend like that. Hunter saw the look he got and his eyes widened a bit. "Joey's a great person. Maybe she's just a good judge of characters, she see's assholes right away." She said lowly. "I'm going to take a break." She said to them all as she stalked away from the three of them and headed to the break room. Hunter sighed.

"Nice guys, very nice." Hunter said, walking back to the break room. There he found Summer staring out the back window, with her legs pulled up to her chest. "Hey just ignore them. They don't know what there talking about anyways." Hunter told her. Summer sighed. Hunter slowly, but gently dropped his hands onto her shoulders and began to massage her tension away. At first she tensed, but then she just let his hands remove all the tension that had collected in her back the last few days. She was at the point of almost falling asleep, when Hunter moved his hands. "Better?" He asked. Summer nodded. "Much thanks. How did you know that I need a massage?" She asked. Hunter shrugged. "I see a pretty girl in distress, I figure I may as well work my magic on her and give her a nice massage." Hunter winked. Summer rolled her eyes. "Yah, and the next thing I'll know, you'll be using some cheap pick-up line for me to go out on a date with you." She joked. Hunter sobered. "Did it hurt?" He asked. Summer stared at him. "Did what hurt?" She asked. "When you fell from Heaven?"

Summer laughed. "Funny." She said. Hunter smiled. "Glad I could make you laugh." He said. He sat down next to her. "I'm sorry if I seemed kind of un-nice about your friend." He said. Summer shook her head. "It's OK." She said. "I guess I get a little protective at times. Well, all three of us are. I mean, we're like a family. And no one, I mean no one, messes with my family." "I'd pity the person who'd do that and have to face your wrath." Hunter smiled. Summer laughed. "Don't make fun of me." "I'm not." Hunter said. "Anyway, I know what you mean. Blake's my brother, and the others, are like a family to me, if someone hurt them, well, let's just say it wouldn't be pretty."