Saved (a Hayes Grier fanfic)

Texts from Brandt and Tattoos

* The body on the left is Beth's and the one on the right is Ali's. Just imagine them with blonde hair and belly rings *

Beth's POV
As I saw all the boys stare at me I grew embarrassed. I turned to walk away but was stopped and spun around by Ali grabbing my wrist. I winced in pain from the cuts.

"Let's go" cameron said. And all the boys followed.

"You look pretty Ali" Taylor said

"Thank you" she giggled

"You too beth" Shawn said to me

I just smiled and looked at the ground. People don't need to lie to me. I know I'm the farthest thing from pretty.

As we walked out if the elevator I felt something drip on my leg. I realized my wrist was bleeding from when Ali grabbed me.

"Ummm Ali?" I called

"Yeah Beth?" She said pushing the door open to the pool.

"I need you.... now."

She walked over and I used my head to motion to my wrist trying not to make a scene and let all the boys know I cut.

Her eyes slightly widened and she put her arm around my waist and speed-walked me to the bathroom.

"Where are you guys going?!" Aaron yelled

Ali just put one finger up and said " one sec we will be back in a minute "

She took me to the bathroom and put toilet paper on the open cuts until they stopped bleeding.

"Wait here" she said walking out the door

Within minutes she returned with a first aid kit from the lady at the front desk. She wrapped my wrist and put athletic tape over it so it was water proof.

We returned to the pool where all the boys we having a backflip competition.

"Where did you guys go?" Carter asked.

"To the bathroom" I said casually.

"Beth, what happened to your arm?" Hayes asked, he looked genuinely concerned

"Oh um nothing." I replied confidently. Trying not to sound guilty or unsure.

The boys gave Ali and I a questioning look.

"Just and accident. " Ali said putting the towels down on the chair.

Taylor jumped out of the pool and threw Ali over his shoulder

"Put me down" she giggled and Taylor jumped in with him on her shoulder.

"I hate you" she said when they surfaced.

"No you don't" he smirked.

Just then my phone dinged.

Brandt: hey Beth, I'm sorry you know I still love you. I can't live without you

I brought my hand to my dropped jaw.

"Is that your boyfriend?" Hayes asked from behind me while motioning to my phone.

"Umm n-no" I said shaking my head while re-reading and studying the text. I walked to the edge of the pool and Ali swam up to me, and I showed her the text. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

" I everything ok?" Johnson asked us

"Um ya everything's fine" I smiled

Ali is the only one who knows what happened between me and Brandt. He was my first boyfriend and my first love. We fell in love last summer and it was the best summer of my life.

When freshman year started, Brandt started hanging around in the "wrong crowd" and of course I followed him. One night Brandt convinced me to sneak out with him. We went to this boys house who's name I cant remember. We were in this juniors basement which was filled with much older kids and I was making out with Brandt. Then the junior handed Brandt a blunt and he started smoking it without questioning anything. Then he gave it to me and I then made the awful decision to do it too. I loved getting high. It was great until Brandt started to get abusive. If I didn't go somewhere with him, he would slap me. If I was hanging out with Ali instead of him, he would kick me and call me a worthless bitch. At first he only got abusive when he was high, but then it started to become a regular thing. I would be afraid of him but I still loved him. He was my first love. We would talk about our futures and I was certain he would be apart of mine. But then he crossed the line. We were having a make out session in his room and things got heated and he put his hand up my shirt I pulled it away and continued to kiss him. He tried again and I pulled away. I told him to stop and he looked furious and slapped me. I held my cheek and looked at the ground. "I-I'm sorry Brandt, I can't, I don't want to do that until marriage" I said. He stood up and kicked my shin. I fell to the floor of his room and he continued to kick me. The only thing I remembered was throwing up blood and him leaving. I woke up hours later and realized he was gone. So I texted Ali. She rode her horse over Brandt's house to come get me. She took me home and made me break up with Brandt.

She took care of me and that's when I started cutting. I soon heard that l Brandt had been cheating on me and I felt better now that he wasn't in my life.

It's been months since I talked to Brandt and I'm not sure why he decided to text me now.

It just proves how good of a friend Ali is. She has been making sure I don't smoke weed anymore and I know she does what she can to help me stop cutting.

I texted Brandt back.

Me: Brandt, please leave me alone

Brandt: Beth you know I've changed. And you know how sorry I am for what I did

Me: I know you are. I've just been doing really good lately and I can't have you back in my life yet.

I lied. My life's never been this bad. I cut my thighs way more than I used to. I haven't smoke in a few weeks but when I was, it was almost every day. I've never hated myself as much as I do now.

Then I felt a hand snake around my waist. I looked up to see Hayes smiling. He took my phone and put it down on the table.

" Let's go in the hot tub" he said

"Ok"

We got in and he sat across from me. I hadn't sat down yet and I saw him starring at my hip. My tattoo. I know, she's fifteen how TF does she have a tattoo. But I got one when I was hanging around the bad kids that pressured me to smoke, the kids who said they were my friends but ended up only wanting my money for weed.

Quickly sat down so he couldn't see it. I prayed to god he wouldn't ask about it. I don't regret the tattoo. I love it I think it's pretty and it is special to me. (A/N- I will post a picture of her tattoo next chapter) I just don't want to be judged because if it.

I looked up to see Hayes starring at me

"What?" I asked with a chuckle.

"Your just so beautiful" he said while still starring at me.

I felt myself blush and I looked down

"I'm not but thank you"

"Why do you say that? You one if the most gorgeous girls I've ever seen"

I gave a small smile and looked back at Ali who was now flirting with Gilinsky.

Hayes pulled me from my thoughts when I heard him say " do you have boyfriend Beth?"

"No" I looked him in the eye, " do you have a girlfriend?"

"Um ya."

I'm pretty sure I just heard my heart just shattered into one million pieces.