Baby, I Loved You First (complete)

Chapter 23: Hurt

I pull out the keys, papers and a license.

"Happy birthday! You passed the driving test!" Louis says and I ran to him for a hug.

"Thank you so much. Come let's go! I want you to be my first passenger!" I say.

"Mind to change your clothes first." Louis says. "Oh, yes I will." I smile.

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Driving with my brother! Going here, there, and everywhere.

Until we reach back home since Louis needs to rest.

"Lou, I'll be going to the university to pick up Tom in surprise. Is that okay?" I ask him. "Okay, don't drive to fast! Take care of yourself. Call if you need me." Louis says.

I called Tom and told him to wait for me at the football stadium near the parking lots.

*Tom's POV*

Half eleven when Ava called me up to tell me to wait for her at the stadium. So, I did. I walked towards the bleachers to sit down and saw someone playing football down. It's Zayn. What a night.

I walked towards him and he passes the ball to me.

"Tom." Zayn looks at me. "Hello, Zayn." I smile to him. "Late night and you're still here? I'm waiting for Niall." He says. "Just waiting for Ava to pick me up." I say. "Ava? So you let a girl pick you up?" He says, I got a little bit irritated.

"No. She asked me to wait for her." I answer and kick the ball to him. "Can I request something?" I ask him. "What?" He looks at me. "Stay away from Ava." Direct to the point, I tell him to.

"What? Why?" He asks me. "She has been shouting your name last night. I don't want her to go crazy again." I say. "I can't. She's...my best friend." Zayn says. "If you won't stay away, I'll take her away." I say. "What's your problem? Are you getting jealous?" He asks me, a little bit of temper now.

"I can give Ava the love she needs more than you can. And remember, I loved her first." Zayn says and walks away.

As the words sink in me, I wouldn't allow any man to get Ava.

"Just stay away from her!" I pull his shirt and punched him down to the ground. "Set Ava free and let her f^cking choose!" Zayn says and punches me back. "How was the feeling of seeing us together, Zayn? Were you jealous?!" I tease him while my lips starts to bleed. "But how was your feeling when you saw Ava kissing me back? Huh?!" He gives me one big punch right at the cheek.

*Ava's POV*

A noise is coming from the stadium so I ran to it and hide at the side, I sneak in and heard, "Ava is only mine!"

I looked closely and saw two guys punching.

I clasp my hands to my mouth and cried as I see Zayn and Tom.

"STOP! STOP!" I ran to them. "NO! TOM! NO! STOP THAT!" from his front, I pushed him away from Zayn but he puts me away at his back.

"GUYS! STOP FIGHTING! F^CK! F^CK YOU BOTH! STOP THAT!" I try to stop them but nothing happens.

I burst into tears while catching my breath now. I stand aside and pulled Tom's arm.

"TOM! STOP IT NOW, PLEASE." I say and push him away while buckets of tears flow down from my face. "HE IS PISSING ME OFF!" Tom says. "HE WAS FIRST!" Zayn adds.

"TOM STOP!" I threw my arms around him to stop him from punching Zayn.

"Do stop..." I say as I continue to sob.

"You get your hands off my girl!" Tom shouts. "Tom calm the f^ck down..." I look straight to his eyes and I see the anger in his.

"Don't mess up with me next time. Mark this day." Zayn says while my face is buried into Tom's body.

"Don't...do that again." I say as I catch my breath while crying. "I'm sorry." Tom whispers to me and hugs me back.

I don't want any of them to get hurt. Tom has advantage more than Zayn, but even though, I don't want anyone to hurt Zayn. Even Louis shouldn't hurt him.

As soon as we get home, in my house, we walked towards the front door.

"Ow..." I hear Tom behind my back. I looked at him and he was touching his lips. "Are you fine?" I asked him. "I'm good." He nods. "Seriously?" I walked towards him and hold his hand, I looked at it and it's filled with blood.

"You're good with this? Stop lying." I pull him inside and we both went up to my room.

He sits down and I take the medicine kit from the bathroom outside.

It tied my hair up and started to heal his bruises.

"Don't fight with Zayn again." I say. "I just don't want him to come with you." Tom says. "Are you getting jealous?" I ask him. "Who doesn't?" Tom answers. "Just don't fight with him." I tell him.

"You don't want me to get hurt? Or you don't want HIM to get hurt?" Tom asks me and I suddenly got nervous.

"Of course, I don't want you to get hurt." I reason out without hesitating. "But what if he---" "Shhh!" I cover his mouth. "Can you be quiet even just for a minute? I'm busy." I say and he shuts up.

"See what you had." I say to him while putting ice on his bruise. "Ow, that hurts." "If you didn't get into any trouble, you wouldn't feel this. Oh, Tom." I scold him.

"You're not gonna show up to your mom with those bruises tonight." I tell him. "No..." He shakes his head. "I won't." He says. "Good." I stand up leaving him and the ice bag I told him to put it on his bruise on his face.

"Are you going to sleep now?" He asks me. "Maybe. But I slept a while ago." I say. "Take a rest. Lie down." I tell him.

"Aren't you gonna lie down with me?" He asks me and lies on the bed. "I'll follow soon. I'll take a shower." I say and went in the bathroom.

After taking a shower and drying my hair up. Tom's sleeping with the ice pack on his forehead.

I sat beside him and moved the ice pack all over his bruises.

"Thank you so much." Tom opens his eyes and looks at me. "I know you still like Zayn but you still prefer to save me..." Tom says. "I...I...I'm really here to save you." I say.

It's to save you both.

"Thank you." Tom holds the back of my neck and pushes his lips to mine.

What can I do... I've fallen for him.

I lie down beside him and he cuddles me.

"I don't wanna get out of this bed." He says with his eyes closed and his arms around me. "I always want to hug you and hug you and hug you." Tom says, his lips close to my ear. "Forget the past and live with me in the present until the future." Tom says. "What do you mean?" I ask him. "Forget whoever hurt you and I'll heal those wounds." Tom says, I looked at him and his eyes are still closed.

Whoever hurt me. I thought of Zayn. Is this what he means...

"I know you thought of one person, that football player." Tom says and I remain silent, listening to him. "Just stay with me. I won't let you go. I won't let anyone to take you away from me. I won't let anyone to hurt you." Tom says. "Tom..." I turn to him. "This is how much I love you." He pushes me to his chest with a tight hug that really comforts me.

I feel so bad for myself that I didn't notice him before, he's truly, madly, deeply in love.

"You've been so kind to me, I don't know how to repay you." I say. "Just love me back." He says and kisses my the side of my forehead.

"I'll forget the football player...I'll forget Zayn." I'll try, Tom. I will try.