Deal

Life Saver

Even though it hurt to think about Edward, he still kept popping up in my mind all day. Especially his expression when I told him I did not want him. And how he believed it so easily, like he had never believed that I did love him. What Dylan had done to me already hurt him enough, and I knew what I said hurt him even further. I felt so bad and wanted to be in Edward’s arms again, telling him that I loved him. But I could not. I should not do that. I should just keep him away from me.
I just acted like a person without a soul all day. Then it was finally the time when school was over. I thought of yesterday, and what had happened the same time yesterday. I shivered, and my breath caught in my throat. I coughed.
Chloe was sitting at my desk using her phone, and she immediately turned around to look at me. My eyes started to water, and she came over to give me a hug.
“Everything will turn out okay,” she hugged me, “I’ll go downstairs to get some water for you.”
A while later, she came back and knocked on the door before coming in. But then I froze when I saw that it was not Chloe. It was Edward.
“What – what are you doing here?” I stuttered, clutching on my blanket. Seeing his face made me want to hug him so desperately. He looked like he had been crying.
“(Yn),” he slowly approached me, and sat down on the end of my bed, “Chloe has told me everything.”
“What did she tell you?” I demanded, a bit annoyed. I knew she wanted to help, but how could she? I did not want to put Edward in danger! “So you’re the one she’s been texting all day?”
He nodded. I sighed. I should have known.
“You’re so stupid (Yn),” he said, “You’re too selfless. You shouldn’t have done that, you know I will love you no matter what, I love you for who you are, and nothing else matters. I know what I’m doing; you don’t have to worry about me, you don’t have to put me before yourself and hurt yourself. It hurts me to know that you’re keeping everything to yourself and suffering alone!”
Silent tears rolled down my cheeks. I did not think I could hold in anymore. His speech was too much, and his face, full of hurt and love, was not helping. I just threw my arms around his neck and cried into his chest. Everything I had been holding in this afternoon all rushed out and flowed with my tears.
Edward wrapped his arms around me and stroked my back gently. I shook uncontrollably, and he rocked me back and forth on his laps.
At last I calmed down and looked up at him, “Sorry for ruining your shirt,”
He chuckled slightly, wiping away my remaining tears, “So many things are happening and all you care is my shirt?”
I smiled weakly, and he leaned down slowly and our lips touched. We shared a long and romantic kiss.
Edward pecked my lips one last time before asking, “Do you love me?”
“Of course I do; didn’t you say Chloe told you everything?”
“I still want to have it confirmed,”
“I love you, forever and ever,”
“I can’t imagine a life without you; I love you too,” he smiled and kissed me again.
“So what should we do now?” Edward asked softly.
“Just pretended that it has never happened,” I whispered, “As long as you’re okay I can forget about it. I don’t want to put you in danger, Edward.”
“Don’t be silly (Yn),” he cradled my face in his hand, stroking my cheekbone with his thumb, “We can get him before he gets me. If we do it now, before he gets suspicious. He didn’t suspect anything today, so it’s still safe.”
I tried to protest, because I did not want to risk even one single hair of him. He was too precious. But he silenced me with a kiss.
“I promise everything will be okay. Just listen to me (Yn),” Edward locked his eyes with me. I stared into his forest green eyes, and nodded finally.
“Come on, let’s go downstairs, Chloe told me you haven’t eaten much since yesterday, and you shouldn’t be locking yourself up in your room,” Edward pulled me up, and we walked down the stairs, hand in hand. We found Chloe in the living room staring at the TV blankly and she turned around to look at us when she heard our footsteps. She smiled immediately when she saw that everything seemed okay.
“Chloe,” I told her, “You’d better make it up to me. Why did you have to do that? I trusted you!”
She just laughed, knowing that I was only joking, “Okay okay, I’ll make it up to you by baking you a cake!”
“If that’s the case, forget about it,” once she tried to bake a cake and almost set the house on fire!
Edward made me eat something, and we all waited for my parents to come back. I leaned on Edward on the sofa and kept playing with his hand, as I was very nervous about telling my parents about this.
Finally my parents were back, and they seemed shocked to see me like this. They thought Edward and I had a huge row and we were not talking.
“Mum, Dad,” I mumbled, and looked up at Edward, asking for help. I did not know how to begin.
Edward gave me a small smile and flipped his hair, and then began, “Mr. and Mrs. (your last name), we have something very important and serious to discuss with you,”
I caught Chloe shaking her head, and I knew what she was thinking about, as I was also thinking about the same thing. Edward sounded like he was trying to tell them that I was pregnant! I bet everyone would think the same as this was the most likely thing to have happened right now.
They both froze, and looked at the two of us. Then Dad suddenly yelled, making me jump, “Are you trying to say that (Yn) is pregnant?”
Edward quickly shook his head and said, “No! It’s not!”
They stared at us, and relaxed a bit, “Then what is it?” Dad asked, sitting down on the sofa opposite to us with Mum.
Edward composed himself and began to tell them everything, starting off with telling them about Dylan and what he had tried to do before, and using this topic he told them about what happened to me. I was so glad that Edward was here; I would not know how to tell them. Mum looked like she was about to faint when she learned what happened to me.
Finally everything was told, including the part where Dylan threatened me. Everyone stayed silent.
“We have to tell the police,” Dad said, patting Mum on the back as she had difficulty breathing; she was stunned, “We’ll drive to the police station now.” He added.
Edward and Chloe went up to my room with me, and Chloe helped fix me up in the bathroom while Edward waited on my bed. I threw on a T-shirt and skinny jeans, teamed with a pair of Converse.
Then we walked down the stairs and went out the door, and all the while Edward and my fingers were interlocked. We went to Dad’s car, and that was when a force from the side pulled me away from Edward. It happened so fast that I did not even know what was happening. Our hands were no longer linked and the next moment I was held against someone’s chest, something cold against my head.
My parents, Chloe and Edward looked at me, shell-shocked and frozen. I realized the cold thing was a gun, and I tried to break away, heart pounding fast.
“Stop struggling or I’ll shoot you!” the person said, and it was a very familiar voice. It reminded me of all the unpleasant things that had happened, and the reason of why we were going to the police station.
It was Dylan.
I began to shake; having such close contact with him already scared me to death, and he was even holding a gun against my head!
“Get away from her!” Edward shouted, panicking. Chloe went pale and she was shaking. Dad had his arms around Mum, supporting her.
“What do you want? I reckon you’re Dylan?” Dad said, trying to be calm.
“Yes and I just want you to stop what you’re doing,” Dylan said, then looked at Edward, as I felt his head turned above my head, “YOU. You ruined my everything, you’re always in my path, and I could tell that you have learned about what had happened already from the way you kept avoiding me weirdly. But looks like you did fail a bit, seeing that your girlfriend’s virginity is mine.”
Edward shook with anger, and balled his fist. He stepped closer to us, and Chloe quickly pulled him back, yelling, “Don’t! He’ll kill her!”
Dylan laughed, “That girl there is right. Step closer and I’ll shoot her!”
“Kid, you can’t escape,” Dad said, “The police will find you.”
“No, they won’t! I’m leaving and you just have to let me escape! So back off and I’ll take her with me until I’ve escaped successfully and she can go!”
“Keep your dirty hands off her, you jerk!” Edward yelled.
I noticed Chloe was standing a bit behind the others now, hiding behind them, and I could see that she was trying to call the police.
“Like you can sto—” Dylan began to laugh, but to my horror he had noticed Chloe, “B*tch what are you doing there?”
Chloe raised her hands in fright and her phone slipped to the floor.
“Did you just call the police?” Dylan boomed.
“No!” Chloe shook her head furiously.
“But you’re using your phone?”
“I didn’t call them you realized just in time!” Chloe said, on the edge of tears.
Edward was studying Dylan carefully, and he could see that Dylan was now distracted. He tried to come closer, and Dylan was shouting at Chloe, “I don’t believe you how dare you do that I’m going to kill her!”
Edward saw that he was about to shoot me, and quickly dove towards us. He knocked us onto the floor, and a gun shot was heard. I panicked, scared that it had hit someone. Edward pressed Dylan onto the floor and made me roll away from them, and I just half lied on the floor beside them, shocked. Edward was fighting with Dylan on the floor, pressing his gun down, and managed to threw it away, and Dad was running towards the two of them.
But before Dad could reach them, Dylan managed to take out a knife and when he was about to stab Edward, I recovered from my shock and reached out to stop his arm.
Then a stabbing pain was felt on my wrist. Dylan failed to stab Edward, but sliced my wrist. I held my wrist and blood began to pool out, and now Dad was helping Edward to control Dylan.
Chloe and Mum rushed to my side, and Chloe picked up her phone again to call the police.
Dad managed to control Dylan alone, so Edward crawled to me and tore a piece of cloth from his T-shirt to help stop the bleeding. He held me in his arms, and all the blood loss was making me dizzy.
“(Yn),” Edward, choked, as he saw that I was starting to pass out, “Stay awake! The ambulance is coming!”
Chloe and Mum had tears streaming down their faces, and I felt a tear on my cheek. It was Edward’s.
“Now it’s fair,” I whispered sleepily, “You saved me once, and now it’s my turn.”
“Stop talking and just stay awake!” Edward began to cry. He kissed me on the lips forcefully and I closed my eyes, enjoying the moment. Feeling his lips made the pain almost unnoticeable.
“(Yn)? (Yn)!” I heard him shout as my eyes were closed. I heard Chloe and Mum sobbing furiously beside us.
I opened my eyes weakly, and breathed, “I love you,”
“I love you too and if you love me then don’t sleep!” Edward pleaded.
I smiled at his words, and then fell into a deep sleep.

I opened my eyes to see that I was in a bright white room. I let my eyes adjust to the bright light, and looked to my side. A blond boy sleeping on his arms which were resting on my bed, looking like an angel.
I reached out a weak arm to tap him, “Edward,” I croaked.
Edward’s head immediately snapped up, “(Yn)?”
His eyes widened as he saw that I was awake. He quickly called for the doctor and when we were alone again after the checkups, he told me about everything when we were waiting for my parents and Chloe to come from home.
Dylan was sent to prison, and I had been out cold for three days. Edward had never left my side. People from school had sent a lot of presents to me, and they were all over the room.
“I love you,” Edward said, and kissed my nose, “Thank you for saving me.”
“You’re the one who saved me,” I smiled, “You reacted in time to stop him!”
“Anyway, I’m so glad that you’re okay now, I was so scared when I saw you passed out; I was planning on how to kill myself! I don’t think I can really live without you,”
“Don’t think about that!” I said, “Don’t you dare to kill yourself! I love you and I can’t bear that idea!”
“Everything is okay now; don’t worry,” he stroked my face.

I recovered quickly, and our relationship was better than ever, our bond so strong that no one could come between us; our parents all approved of our relationship, as we were particularly each other’s life saver. Chloe went home finally, and the next day she sent me a picture of her and Harry kissing.
I showed Edward the photo, and he kissed me. As he did that he took out his phone to take a picture and sent it to Chloe.
“I love you (Yn),” he whispered against my lips.
“I love you too Edward,” I grinned.
Everything was basically perfect now.