You Left | l.h.

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Most of the car ride was filled with Calum and Derek complimenting Lexi and I. As cliche as it sounds, I felt like Cinderella in the moment.

I still couldn't believe that school was almost over and it was the night of prom already. I still hadn't had time to sit and reflect on my life at all.

"We're here." Calum smiled.

Derek opened the door for me, grabbing my hand and helping me out. I actually felt like I was in a movie tonight, a fairytale of my own, but fairytales don't exist.

"You look beautiful." Lexi reassured me once she saw how my face looked after seeing all the pretty girls in the room.

I reminded myself not to feel self conscious, that I was here with Derek and I didn't need to be because no one else mattered.

I began to get overwhelmed with all the people and the lights and the music, and just everything. I felt a little lightheaded already and it was making me nervous.

I wandered off to sit down for a moment and let myself take everything in before prom really got started. I look around, scanning over the room before my eyes landed on him.

I was surprised to see that it looks like he didn't come here with a girl, I wonder why? He surely had plenty to choose from, yet he picked none? I shook off the thought, it was none of my business.

"I'm going to go get us something to drink." Derek said.

Once he returned, he placed a drink in front of me and sat down. He stared at me for a moment before pulling something out of his jacket and I realized it was alcohol.

"Want some"

"No, I'm good." I hesitantly shook my head.

I suddenly became nervous, nothing good ever comes from alcohol. I wasn't going to be the one to try and tell him no though, so I just sat and watched him pour a little of the liquid into the drink in front of him.

I looked over to the door and noticed Luke walking out, part of me wanted to follow after him but that wasn't my job anymore, to check up on him, so I let him be.

"Ready to dance?" Derek smiled, downing the rest of his drink.

I could tell he was already buzzed but I didn't want to let it ruin my night so I agreed, standing up and walking over to the dance floor with him.

The first few songs were random dance songs then things started to slow down and I could tell he was pretty drunk and bored by now so I decided to excuse myself momentarily.

"Where are you going?" Calum stopped me.

"Just not feeling well, I'll be outside."

"Come get me if you need me."

I continued to head outside, walking out the door and going over to the side. I was thankful it wasn't a cold night since all I had was my dress on.

I heard the door open and looked over to see Derek heading towards me. I sighed, just wanting to be alone at the moment.

He went up to me, pushing me against the wall, kissing me, and forcefully shoving his tongue down my throat. I was not at all enjoying it and tried to push him away.

He slid his hand up my thigh, under my dress as I continued to try and fight him off. He wasn't much stronger than me but the hold he had on me left me in a bad position but I finally got him off.

"Oh, fuck off, slùt. If I were your precious Luke you'd be all over me."

"He has nothing to do with this, àsshole. I just don't want your tongue down my throat right now!"

He went to lift his hand up but someone else had already came over and punched him a few times. I screeched and continued to hold my hands over my face as I cried.

Was he really about to hit me? And force me to do things I wasn't comfortable with? That wasn't the Derek I knew, or maybe it was and I was just too blinded by his fake act of kindness.

I felt someone wrap their arms around me and I jumped a little before the person removed my hands and I saw it was just Luke. Had we not been in this situation I would've laughed at how he's still the one saving me.

"Why'd you do that?" I asked

"I'll always care about you eves, let's get you home." He kissed the top of my head.

The car ride was silent and I so desperately wanted to say something but my mine couldn't form anything worth saying until we passed Calum's apartment.

"Luke, why did you pass Calum's?"

"Because I'm taking you home."

I wanted to panic, terrified at what he meant by home, did he mean my mothers?

"I'm taking you to mine because this has always and will always be your home, plus you need comforting tonight."