Ride (A Union J Fanfic)

Part 3

JJ's POV: "Here we are." Josh knocked on our hotel room door. It sounds crazy, us four only having one room, to then be joined by a young female. However, the room was large, elaborate and more than enough room for maybe even eight, so one more wouldn't hurt anyone. She needed somewhere to go, she just couldn't stay out on those streets. What would happen if it rained? Surely she'd freeze. But she was safe with us now.

 "Come in." George answered the door, and was surprised to also see Cherry's face. "What's she doing here?"

"I said we'd take her in mate, she has nowhere to go."

"You mean...you live on the streets?" George's mouth gapes open. "Oh my god, you poor thing." He says quietly, pulling her into a warm embrace.

"She can stay, right?" I ask, praying they say yes.

"Of course." He leads her inside and we follow. "I'm George by the way, Cherry, and that's Jaymi over there."

"So it's George, Jaymi, JJ and Josh, right?"

"That's right." I smile at her. She smiled back, but something about her smile didn't look right. It almost looked broken, if that makes sense. I knew straightaway we had a very troubled young girl staying with us.

Cherry's POV: Despite George hugging me earlier, JJ was still the one I felt the most comfortable around of the four. I'd got to know him the most. But even though that's apparent, I felt safe around all of them. I felt safe with them. I've been with men in the past but never had that with them. So I'd hoped this time, it would be different.

"Are you alright?" JJ asked me, looking concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine." I nodded.

"You're not though, are you?" He got physically closer to me at that point, not invasively, but just enough.

"Can I talk to you alone?" 

"If you're okay with that." JJ took my hand and went into the bathroom with me.

JJ's POV: "What's hurting you so much?" I took a small strand of hair from her face, and put it behind her ear. She took a deep breath, and looked up at me, deep into my eyes.

"I'm scared you'll leave me, JJ." A tear spilled out from down her face. "I don't know, there's just something 'bout you four guys. I've known you for what, a day? And I already feel like I can trust you with my life. I've known other guys before and felt the same way, but they've always..." I wiped the tears from her cheeks. "They never stayed. They always just went away and left me here."

"I'm not going to leave you, Cherry." I told her with a sincere, mature tone to my voice. "How many men have you known?"

"I 'dunno, probably close to mmm...sixteen?" she shrugged, trying to pull herself together.

"Wow, that's a lot. And how old are you?"

"...sixteen." My heart stopped. Cherry wasn't even an adult yet. Sure, she was legal for sex, but only just. Something was telling me she'd be doing the things she did for a whole lot longer.

"What did you do with these men?

"Everything you can think of. But when I was with them, I remember being at the happiest point in my life, y'know? When I was in the cold, dark winter of my life, the memories with those men were my only summer. I felt free with them. But then they'd leave me, and the darkness would cloud over me again."

"Well..." I trailed off, not knowing what to say to that amazing poetic sort of recount. "You'll have an amazing experience while we're here, I can assure you that." I grinned and gave her a massive hug, her body proper pressed against mine. It was a pretty tight one, considering we hadn't known each other that long. But sometimes, I guess it doesn't matter.

a/n soooooo JJ's getting closer to Cherry eh? any predictions for what you think will happen next (tbf I don't actually know myself)

hope you enjoyed this! I'm gonna ask for 4-5 votes before I upload the next part, I need to know if people actually enjoy reading this! see you in the next update x