I was playing my guitar before i heard Hailey coming up the staris bringing a smile to my once she opened the door. Her long brown hair was perfectly straightened wearing a pair of my sweats i left at her house and a black shirt. "Hey I thought I'd bring you this." she says handing me a picture of us from a week ago, We both had spaghetti all over our faces after getting into a food fight after waking up from Greg coming home with His girlfriend Crissy. I looked down at her cheeky smile she had across her face while I kissed her cheek. I looked up at her and smiled I wish I could live that day over again it was perfect. Now I had to get ready to go to X-factor, My bags were packed and Greg was bringing me to bootcamp next week. I wanted to spend as much time with her as I could. I loved her she didn't know that but it didn't phase me. She was mine all mine, I just don't know what may happen with Brian while I'm gone what if he....he comes and takes her away. I shook the thought from my mind, Greg said he'd look after her while i was gone. I looked up into her sparkling gray eyes, she hated them but they were beautiful. I stood up and kissed her lightly moving the hair from her face as she looked up at me. Oh my god her eyes I couldnt take it they were so beautiful. Why was she so perfect and i'm just.....a small lad with crooked teeth and a fucked up family. "Niall I-" I leaned down and kissed her before she could finish, I wanted to be the one to say it first. I leaned back and carressed her cheek "I love you." I said it I couldn't take it back but i didn't want to I loved her and i'd do anything for her. Our relationship moved fast but I didn't care. We haved shared our first times of different things together, no-one else has touched her or loved her or been with her the way i have and the same way with her. "I love you too." she choked out behind her watering eyes. My thumb lightly brushed a small tear from her cheek and wrapped her into a hug, I never wanted to let go but I had to. She nestled her head into my necks and cried quietly into my shirt, i didn't mind I loved having her warm body so close to mine. My luck to have her love amazed me, I always see the way she's stared at by other guys and she could easily have them but she chose me. "Niall, you can't go." she weeped into my shoulder "Babe..." I said before she dropped to the floor. I rubbed circles around her back holding her close to me cooing calming things into her ears. "You'll always have me with you, Don't worry Greg will be here." I say as she weeped into my shoulder "But i don't want Greg!.......I want you...I know I was the one who urged you to go but I didn't realize I would love you as much as I love you now" She said raising her voice before calming back down and sobbing. "Hailey.." I didn't know what to say. "No, Niall look just go I'm being foolish." She says wiping her eyes and sniffling. "No you have the right...I'll visit you from bootcamp everyday I don't care what they say." I say firmly "But what if you get cought and you....get kicked off because of me! you can't do that just for me!" She says, I don't understand women first she wants me to stay now she doesn't want me to see her? I don't understand.....wait......oh i get it. "You're on your period arn't you?" I say smiling. "Um....what?...we are not discussing my menstral cycle." She says getting red and calming down getting off the subject of the X-factor. "Do you have any cramps?" I ask trying to sooth her the best I can. "Niall please..." she whined for me stop reddening talking about this sort of thing. "Are you in any pain I can get you something?" I ask just trying to get her to cave and tell me. "alright i would actually love something warm to put on my stomach and maybe an Ibprofun." She says looking into my eyes shyly. I stood up and walked downstairs and searched through the cabinets and came back upstairs. I handed her some water and the little blue pills, she swalled them and looked at me "What?" I asked thinking I forgot something. "Something warm for my stomach." she says laughing, atleast she was happier and not yelling at me anymore. "As a metter of fact I did." I picked her up set her on the bed, turned on the TV and lifted up her shirt enough for her stomach to show. I layed my weirdly over-sized hands across her stomach. She placed her hands over mine and smiled. I layed down keeping my hands over her stomch and hers across them "You know I could see us in this same position just a different house, and rings on our fingers, and you having a bit of a bogger stomach." I say, She looked over at me and smiled "Maybe if you keep me around long enough." She says watching spongebob catching jellyfish. "I don't see that happening, I' ll love you till' the end you're my princess." I say turning to face her carressing her cheek. "I love you too you're my prince." She says kissing me lightly "One day you'll be my queen." I say kissing her back lightly. She fluttered her eyes shut mumbling a few things in her sleep while I watched over her. I heard her phone beep so I looked over and checked it. I thought this was over? why couldn't he just leave us alone?! His name still flashed on the screen. I was frozen thinking of the disgusting he's sent to Hailey, the things he tried to do to her, I mustered up enough strength to open the message I read it and searched around scared it read 'I've always loved SpongeBob maybe I could come in and wacth as well' the words were imprinted into my mind, somewhere he could see us and the thought scared me. I stood up and walked down the steps trying hard not to let them creek. I went into the kitchen into the closet to grab my brothers old baseball bat from when he used to play. I could still remember sitting on the benches with my mum watching him hit the ball so far and me and my mum just cheering, I kind of missed being so close to my mum. I havn't seen her in about a month. I focused back on Brian and walked outside, it was dark so I grabbed a flashlight before heading out. I looked in the back in a tree easy to climb into, but nothing. I looked in the back garden where Greg had grown tomatoes, watermelon, cucumbers and a few other vegtables and fruits. I still had no luck finding him I was ready to give up until I heard a deep throaty chuckle come from behind me. "You know It isn't very nice to snoop through your girlfriends phone." he says as if it's normal for him to be there. I brush off his snotty retort and cut to the point "What the fuck do you want, why are you here.?" I spat at him, all i wanted more than anything in the world was for him was to leave. "Oh come on we both know why I'm here." he says becoming annoyed of my various question. "Well you can't have her she's mine I-I-." He cuts me off before I even have a chance to finish. "I don't care i you love her." he says mockingly. "Get the fuck out of here before I call the police." I say lifting the bat into my other hand. "Oh what are you going to do hit me?" He says waving his hands. "Yeah, if you don't get the fuck out of here. now." I say firmly, if Hailey came out here and saw him she'd be tramatized, her kidnapper whom almost became her rapist is now stalking her. "I don't think so not without the girl." He says pointing up at my bedroom window. I was getting pissed, I took the bat and full heartedly swung the bat to hit his calf making his knees buckle. "You're damn lucky or I'd-" I cut him off before he could finish another of his hallow threats. "What? are you gunna hit me?" i say shaking my hands mocking his remark he made earlier. He stood up barley able to and limped off to his car, I memorized the plate in case of any needed info. for the police. Once i got inside I wrote down the plae number and went back upstairs. She was still sound asleep, I settled back down onto the bed shuffling a bit wrapping my arms around her nestling my head into the crook of her neck. "Niall.....wha-what are you doing?" She sleepily complained "Nothing love just go back to sleep shhhh...." I cooed into her ear feeling her shift in my grasp she sensed something was wrong, before she opened her eyes I did the only thing I knew always worked on her "white lips plae face breathing in snowflakes, burnt lung sour taste. Light's gone days end struggling to pay rent. Long nights strange men. And they say she in the class A-team stuck in her daydream..." She calmed and settled back before falling asleep again. "Goodnight, I love you so much." I whisper before kissing her forehead and laying down and getting a chance to rest and fall asleep.
*****
I was woken up by her rustling around in my grasp. How did she always manage to wake before me? I guess I'm just a heavy sleeper. She was really persistant on getting up. jeez what was the rush? What was so important that ment she HAD to get up? she kept wringling as I kept a firm grip around her waist. I never meant to hold her so tight but I did it anyway in my sleep. Images of Brian taking her away forced me to hold tighter, the risk of losing her scared me. She began blowing on my stomach making me clench my stomach from the cool air. "I knew you were awake you little faker!" she yelled from under the covers. I couldn't help but smirk at her. I opened my eyes finally forced to get up. "I have to go to the bathroom." she says shyly. really? she forced me to get up for that? I looked at her a little suprised. "what?" she says curiously she obviously didn't understand she could have just asked me to ley go. "you made me get up for that?" I says a bit annoyed "yeah but don't you um....have any....." oohhhhhhhhhhhhh now I understood why she woke me. she needed tampons. I chuckled she didn't have to he embaressed my mum used to make me walk down to the store to buy them for her. "Oh just go into Greg's room and ask he keeps some in his room for his girlfriend Crissy." I say rubbing my eyes. When I opened them she was looking at me like I was fucking nuts. "Niall I am not going to go ask your brother for....those." she said shyly, it kimd of amazed me that out of is two she was the one un-comfortable to talk about this sort of thing. I stood up and grabbed her hand leading her down to Greg's room. I opened his door to see him sitting on his bed playing a familiar tune he used to play to me when I was younger. Whenever my parents would fight we would sit in my room while he played his guitar untill I Fell asleep.I focused back on him "Look my girlfriend here needs tampons you got any?" I asked, I heard Hailey mumble something about me being an ass before she walked off back to my room. "yeah under the sink in my bathroom." he said pointing a finger to the bathroom acrossed the room. I walked over to the bathroom and took out the small box and walked back to my room. "Here" I handed her the box and she jumped up quickly and ran to the bathroom. She came out not making any eye contact with me at all. "Why are you so insecure?" I ask, it never made sense to me how someone so beautiful and so wanted by so many guys coud still have so many insecurities. she shrugged her shoulders "I had problems with my family growing up." she began, I could tell she was going to end up crying so I embraced her pulling her petite body close to mine feeling her cold skin against my warmth was amazing, it.....it was perfect. "I had and uncle......who would come up to my room during parties or family events, wheneber he was at my house pretty much. He would...use me for my body. He stopped when I was 12 once my father died. He probably knew I was fucked up enough that if he continued to use me the way he did if eventually snap....I eventually let all the thoughts and memories get to me a year ago....." she looked down at her wrist, I saw a gew faint lines lighter than the rest of her skin raised a little higher. my mouth was agape. I had no words she had a few tears trailing down her cheek. I kissed them away and took her wrist into my hands and rubbed the lines with my thumbs. I felt the lines under my thumbs, I traced each line one by one feeling the pain she felt with each cut. why didn't I notice the lines before? "Hailey....why didn't you tell me before? I had a lump in my throat, I could feel tears brimming in my eyes noticing more cuts higher up her arms. "The way you fliped out on Brian that one say in the lunch room.....I didn't think you could handle it." I could feel the tears in my eyes fall. My sadness turned into anger, I stood up from the bed and paved back and forth tears streaming down my cheeks. People like her uncle were the reason I lash out on people like Brian. I felt anger overcome me I didn't know what to don't, I heard Hailey's phone beep, I looked down and saw Brian's name flash on the screen. Hailey looked up at me and knew my exact next moves. She jumped from the bed following me as a I ran down the stairs, grabbing my keys and geting into my car slamming the door, I was determined to get to that grimy blue trailer and kill him.
