Ex Best Friends with the Bad Boy

8 - Lizzy

Willow's POV

I wake up snuggled into a warm body, I can feel my soft bed sheets gently pushed against my body and my warm blanket wrapped around me. This was all normal, however the person in my bed was unusual. Now that I thought back to it how had I gotten to my bed? I swear I was at the beach with Lukus after just telling him pretty much my whole life story. Oh... I lift my head up and see Lukus laying asleep, a serious look on his face that suggests he's stressed. 

"Lukus." I whisper, checking that he's asleep. When there's no reply I carefully remove myself from Lukus' grasp and climb out of bed. I didn't have any lectures today, so I decided I'd take a shower and make a coffee. I had one week to myself before James would come to claim me. 

I climb in my shower, making sure to be quiet and not wake up the sleeping Lukus who I heard softly snore. I wash my hair and my body with my strawberry smelling body wash and shampoo. I stay under the safety of the warm water until my skin starts to wrinkle then I shut off the water. I had collected my clothes before I went in the shower. Since I didn't have to continue my nerdy act today I dressed how I would much prefer. I picked out my fishnet tights, blacked ripped jeans, a black top and a red leather jacket. I let my hair air dry and just brushed out the knots.

Once I was dressed I go downstairs, once I notice my mother isn't in her usual place on the sofa and there isn't new litter of bear cans and empty wine bottles  my heart clenches and I'm reminded that my mother isn't here. She's been taken by James and his followers that I didn't know he had. It's my fault. Of course it was my fault. I remove my eyes from the unusually empty front room and go to the kitchen. I flick the kettle on and wait for it to boil, my mind flickering between everything that's happened through the past few days. I know at some point I'll have to fight this oh so threatening guy that Oliver decided I have to fight, I have a week to get the boys to stay away from me in order to get James to release my mother, I still have my fights that Carl arranges, I also have to pay the rent on the house along with all the other bills and I have to tutor Oliver somehow without James finding out and deciding to kill my mother. I sigh and grip my head as it fills with pain from all the thoughts rushing through my head. 

"I thought I heard someone down here." Lukus smiles sadly at me, I just nod and start making some coffee. 

"Want a coffee?" I ask, he smiles at me and nods. I smile and pour the water into one of the cups I had in my cupboard. The cupboards held hundreds of mugs and cups from when my father was still alive and we were social butterflies. We'll my parents were anyway. I only really had Oliver and I liked it that way. He brought safety that nobody else could match. Even my father struggled to comfort me in the ways Oliver did. I shake my head removing my thoughts of Oliver, I hated how often I still thought of him. He was always there in the back of my mind like a shadow hovering over me. 

"You okay Will?" Lukus asks, his head tilting slightly to the side. I smile at the small act. 

"I'm fine Luke." I smile to sell my lie but the frown that finds it's way onto his face shows he doesn't believe me. 

"Will, don't bottle up your emotions. It's not good." He frowns. "Not about what James did, it won't end well." 

"What would you know about how I'm feeling or how this will end?" I ask softly, placing his cup of steaming coffee in front of him. 

"My sister was raped." Lukus mumbles, his voice is full of sadness, he speaks so quietly I almost don't hear him. 

"What happened to her?" I ask softly, he looks up at me with big sad eyes. 

"She killed herself." He replied. I want to ask him to continue and explain but I don't want to force him to tell me something so painful to him. He gave me time to give him my story I want to do the same to him. We stay in silence for a while, until eventually he sighs. "Her name was Elizabeth, everyone called her Lizzy for short, she was only 16 when it happened. She had started dating the bad boy of the town. Everyone knew he was bad news and trouble followed him where ever he went, the only thing keeping him out of jail was his super rich and powerful parents. I warned her to say away from him, I told her he would only break her heart, but my warning only pushed them together." Lukus paused and I placed my hand on his, he gave me a small smile and continued. "About a month into their relationship, I get a call from Lizzy. She was crying and could barely breathe. She sent me her location and I went to find her, I was 15 at the time and couldn't drive yet but I stole my dad's car to find her, my some gift from God I didn't crash and managed to find where she was. She climbed into the car and told me everything. I took her straight to the police station where she made a statement, I was arrested for stealing my dads car, my dad of course bailed me out and after he found out about what happened to Lizzy forgave me. The court case lasted about 2 years, he of course got away with it because of his parents and their money. He only got 6 months community service. Lizzy pretended to be okay with it but about a month later I came home from school, Lizzy had just finished her GCSE's therefore didn't have to go to school, so I thought nothing of not seeing her all day. When I got home I went straight to her room, since what happened I knew she hated being alone, when I opened her door I found a letter. Her suicide letter, she wrote how much she loved us but she couldn't stay in the world anymore. That the world was sick and cruel and that she couldn't live with how she felt anymore. She said she loved our family and she would see us in another life. I rushed to the bathroom and found her cold body laying in the bathtub. A few months later we moved, my father had started drinking, my mother left, then I met Ollie and told him everything. Once I had officially joined the gang and he had taken over as leader we framed the guy for a murder, we made sure the evidence was concrete and there was no way for him to get off. He is now in prison for life and since we know people on the inside his life is made a living hell. I thought I would feel better knowing he's in prison, I know Lizzy wouldn't want me to kill him, death is too easy. But it still doesn't bring Lizzy back. My big sister is gone. My mother left. My father's an alcoholic and there's no way to fix my broken family."