Only Us | Tom Kaulitz

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✮ NORA'S POV

After a few minutes I managed to calm Sophie down. We both walked upstairs to my bedroom, and cuddled up on my bed. She still was a crying mess, and I tried shushing her as I stroked her soft hair.

Sophie was trembling in my arms, while muttering something about Ryle and how he had a knife in his hands, how he tried to kill her. I tried to stay strong and kept telling myself not to cry. Everytime I closed my eyes, bad scenarios kept running through my head and I couldn't stop them.

"Sophie, please...tell me what happened." I pleaded with a soft voice, and she hugged me tighter. I looked over at Sofi, who was curled up next to Sophie's feet. Sofi couldn't take her eyes off of Sophie. And that made me smile, knowing Sofi wanted to help Sophie. Or at least try to help her, by being near her.

Sophie shook her head but a few seconds later she finally spoke. "I saw Ryle in my apartment."

What?

"What do you mean you saw him in your apartment?" I asked. "What was he doing in your apartment?"

My question made Sophie let out another sob. "H-he...he had a knife...and...and he t-tried to, to touch me." She sobbed out and I froze. I felt myself tearing up, and looked up at the ceiling.

"Nora, I was so scared." My shirt was probably wet from her tears, but I honestly didn't care. I'm happy that she's safe in my arms right now.

"It's okay now, you're safe. I'm here." I said, trying to calm her down.

After a while of muttering things about how 'I'm here' and 'I won't let you go', her crying slowly stopped and she fell asleep.

It really broke my heart seeing her like this.

How could Ryle do this?

I would have never thought that he would try to fucking kill someone. Maybe he didn't want to kill her, maybe he just wanted to scare her. But when Sophie told me that he tried to touch her, I couldn't believe it.

That's not the Ryle I used to know.

Ryle I used to know wouldn't do this. Yes, he used me, tricked me, made me believe that he was really in love with me, but that doesn't mean I don't truly know him.

If he was in Sophie's apartment, with a knife and almost raped her...What is he going to do with me when he sees me again?

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The next morning I woke up early. I tried not to wake up Sophie, as I slowly got off the bed. I looked at her one last time before going downstairs, she was sleeping peacefully, snoring a little.

I tried making breakfast, but mentally cursed myself when the pan with eggs I was making fell on the floor. I think I'm a magician because I don't understand how it was possible.

I hope I didn't wake Sophie up.

But when I heard someone walk down the stairs I closed my eyes and sighed, before turning around and smiling widely.

Sophie walked towards the kitchen but when she saw the pan on the floor, she stopped and placed her palm on her mouth.

"I'm sorry....I tried making breakfast for you, because I wanted to make you happy, but I messed up." I sighed again. When she stared at the floor for a few more seconds I pull my lower lip inside my mouth and hoped that she won't be mad at me.

But she actually laughed. Laughed.

And I laughed with her.

"Nora it's fine, but next time let me know when you want to cook. I don't want you to burn the whole apartment down." She said holding her laugh.

"I'm really sorry." I gave her a little sad smile and she walked towards me, wrapped her arms around me and pulled me into a hug.

"It's okay Nora, don't apologise for such a thing. Besides, now we can make breakfast together." I heard the smile in her voice, and I grinned.

At least my bad cooking skills made her happy.

When we made our breakfast together, we both sat down in the dining room. I placed my phone on the table after texting Atlas. He told me that he will call me later, and that he misses me.

"Are you feeling better?" I asked, and she gave me a glance before taking a glass of orange juice in her hand. I really hope she feels better.

"Just being with you is making me feel better, Nora. Now, let's not talk about me, please. How are you? Yesterday you told me that you talked with Tom." She softly smiled at me before bringing the glass to her lips.

Is she serious?

Even tho she's the one having a hard time, she still asks me how I feel.

I sighed before looking at my plate. "I don't even know how to tell you this..." She looked at me with a raised eyebrow. "Yesterday I was getting ready to leave the flower shop, until Ryle showed up. He wanted to talk-"

"Wait...why?" She asked curiously, and I bit my lower lip, having no idea how to tell her that I saw Ryle more than once, talked to him, and kissed him. Sorry, I didn't kiss him, he kissed me.

"It's a long story....I don't really want to talk about it."

"Nora...please don't hide things from me, I'm your best friend. Was it the first time of talking to him after three years?" She asked, and I closed my eyes for a moment. I couldn't hide it anymore, even tho I really tried.

"No."

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What do you think will happen next?

Honestly, Nora is such a dumb girl. I swear.

By the way thank you so much for almost 11k reads, I'm so grateful ✮

I'll se you in the next chapter,

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