Little Miss Perfect and Little Miss I Don't Care

Ch.5

Layne's POV:
After school

After detention I waited for Echo to arrive before I got in her car. Now that I think about it Echo has been picking on me less.

Anyways once we get to her house we immediately get started on the project. We actually finished it early so now we won't have anything to do.

I decided to stay at her house for dinner I know I'll probably regret it when I get home. After dinner I went back to Echo's house and we decided to get to know each other.

I don't know what happened but I suddenly got courage and decided to kiss her. She started to kiss back but stopped shortly after and slapped me across the face.

"Get out" Echo told me

"But-"

"I SAID GET OUT" she said in tears I quickly grabbed my things and ran out the door.

When I got home I was in big trouble.

"Why weren't you here. The house is messy and you didn't make us dinner"

"I'm sorry" my dad punched me in the stomach and started to punch my face.

"GO TO YOUR ROOM AND NO EATING FOR A WEEK" my father screamed at me.

I ran up to my room crying. I couldn't take it anymore. I ran into my bedroom and started to cut myself. One cut after another.

I made sure my bathroom door was locked before continuing. Suddenly there was a soft knock at the door.

"Can I come in?" What was Echo doing here. I quickly while my tears before rolling down my sleeves and putting the blade in the sink.

I unlocked the door. I'm pretty sure my face is bruised up from my dad.

"What are you doing here?" I asked her.

"My mom told me to come over here and apologize. Your mom let me in." She said with her head down

When she looked up she started to scan my face her eyes widened at what I looked like

"Layne what happened?" She asked. Her voice was just over a whisper.

I didn't reply. She looked back over to me tears welling up in her eyes.

"Layne can you please tell me what's going on?" She asked and I shook my head no.
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Echo's POV:

When she opened the door I apologized to her with my head down, embarrassed.

But when I looked back up at her I noticed her face was all bruised up and her lip was bleeding.

I asked her what happened but she wasn't ready to tell me yet I guess

She wiped my tears from my face. I didn't even know why I was crying but how could such a beautiful girl go through something to cause those marks on her beautiful face.

I helped clean and bandage her wounds and I hugged her. While my love language is physical touch, I'm not a really touchy person only people I'm very close and comfortable with can touch me.

She smelled like Vanilla. I liked the smell.

"Do you want to come back over to my house?" I asked her. She nodded her head so we went over to my house which is about a 10 minute drive.

"Where do you think you're going?" Her dad asked

"I'm going to Echo's house" she replied.

"If you step one foot out the house I'm taking your door away." He told his daughter

She walked outside anyways and I followed her.

What if her dad did something to her?