He saved me

Chapter 12

Nevaeh'sPOV

It was as if everything around me was mute. All I could hear was my thoughts. I'll definitely get a bad beating for not coming home last night. I was finally healed from the previous beatings and the past week has been the best of my life, without him around, I could live without fearing he'd hurt me. What if chase found out. He'd surely tell the police and I'd be sent away.

"Nevaeh! Nevaeh!" I felt myself being shaken. "Huh" I looked over to see chase shaking me with a concerned look on his face. "Are you okay?" I smiled at this. "I'm fine. Just daydreaming" I smiled reassuringly.

I got out of the car and walked towards my house "I'll be back" I said to chase. He nodded and kept looking ahead. I had a plan to get in without my uncle noticing I was back. I always left my window unlocked in case I wanted to sneak in and out for my fights. There was a tree beside my bedroom window which helped my climb up and down from my window. I gave myself a run up and sprinted towards the tree branch. I jumped up and my hand caught onto the tree. I pulled myself up with ease and climbed higher towards my window.

I pushed open the window and climbed in, careful not to make a sound. I retrieved my gym bag from my wardrobe and took out a wad of cash. There was atleast 10, ooo dollars in the stack and I took out 1,000. You never know with that sienna one. With the size of her wardrobe, I'd say she shops a lot.

I put the remainder of the cash back Into the back and stuffed in into the wardrobe, hiding it in a secret compartment where my father wouldn't be able to find it. As I got up to leave, I accidentally kicked the side of my bed making a loud bang noise. "Nevaeh! Is that you, you worthless bitch. Why wasn't my dinner made when I got home last night? Oh yeah, because you weren't here!" I could hear his angry steps coming up the stairs. I ran and locked my door so he couldn't get in. "Open the door, you whore. I know your in there! Come out so I can beat you till the carpets are stained with your blood!" He shouted banging on my bedroom door. I quickly rushed over to the window and jumped out. I hopped out of the tree as fast as I could and ran towards chases car.

"Hey, you ready to go" I say breathless. He gave me a weary look before glancing back at my house. "Yeah" he said and drove off. I leaned back in the seat and let my thoughts consume my mind. That was a close call. I just know I'm as good as dead when I go home on Monday. I feel a hand over mine and look down, to see chase's larger hand squeezing mine. I look over to see him looking straight ahead. I smile at his way of trying to comfort me. And It was working. It gave me a sudden sense of calmness. I squeeze his hand back and lean back into my seat. He kept his hand in mine the whole ride and it was nice.

When we arrived chase got out of the car and opened the door for me. I thanked him and hopped out. As I was about to walk towards to entrance to the mall I was pulled back by my hand. I looked over at chase expectantly. "Fine?" He asked me. "I'm okay" I replied, and it was the truth. I wasn't going to let what happened earlier ruin my mood. This week has been eye opening and thrilling and I wouldn't regret any of it, even if that meant getting hit a few times by my drunken uncle.

He squeezed my hand and intertwined our fingers. We walked hand in hand to the mall. We met up with the others, at the food court. "Hey guys, took you guys awhile" sienna said. She looked down at our hands then looked back up wiggling her eyebrows at me. I looked away blushing. "Yeah, sorry about that. I had to go get some money from my house." I stated. "That's okay, you guys were only 15 minutes late" Carter said smiling at me. I smiled back.

I was suddenly up in the air, being spun around by Asher. "Ash put me down" I said giggling. He put me down, grabbed my hand, and ran towards a build a bear store. I looked around in amazement.

Me and Asher ran around the store looking at all of the different bears. "Ya'll are More excited than all the five year olds in here combined" sienna said rolling her eyes. "Yeah, well five year olds are scary and have no souls" Asher said with a duh tone. He linked arms with me, as we skipped over to another aisle of bears. "Ooohhhhh, I'm getting this one" I said picking up a brown teddy. I got it stuffed with a little heart to go inside. I've decided to call him Mr. Grumpy. If you know you know. I got some clothes for him and went to pay.