Can You Save Me? { Sam Pottorff }

Chapter 64 ~ precious little princess

Marley's P.O.V.

I hold her in my arms as she tries to come back. She is now just hiccuping every few seconds and I can tell its irritating her, because she keeps clawing at her throat.

"Fuck." She reaches out for her phone, picks it up, and throws it again but a lot weaker than the last.

"I don't know what to do." She cries. It hurts to see her this way. "Marley, I just.." She jumps up, grabs her phone and starts stomping on it before I can do anything. I wrap my arms around her and push her away from it.

"What is it? Why are you like this?" I look down at her phone. It was cracked after she threw it the first time. It's shattered now..

"It makes me so mad." She falls to her knees, with me still trying to hold her. I take the opportunity to grab her phone to see if it's salvageable. It turns on, but I'm not sure I want to see what she saw. "I'm overreacting." She pulls me back to the floor. We both lay on our sides facing each other. "But Marley.. What the hell. I.. They're making it seem like I'm.. like you.. I don't know.." She covers her face and moves away, but then moves twice as much closer. "I'm sorry."

She keeps apologizing, but for what? What could be so bad? I've been with her day and night and she hasn't done anything.

I decide to look at whatever it was that she saw. I unlock it and try to see through the cracks. I stare at it long enough to understand what it is, but it doesn't make any sense.

"Someone took this of us?" I question the obvious. "But.. we didn't even do anything." I read the caption and see the next picture.

someone needs to get her priorities straight

Attached is a picture of her and I in my car when she was trying to comfort me. The other picture is one of her hugging Sam, only minutes before. The picture of us.. it makes it look like we're doing something else, but we weren't..

It makes sense now. Sort of.

"Hey, it's okay.." I hold her close to me, setting her phone aside. I can say that now that I know what it's about.

"Is it really? That's one person, well I don't even know! Wait until more people see that. I can't handle it."

"You don't have to.. I know it isn't easy to ignore, but I promise that you- we will get through this. Together forever, remember?"

"Together forever." She whispers.

It takes a while to convince her to come back to Jeremy's room. She refuses until she got cleaned up. She says she already looks bad without her red eyes, so now she looks worse and doesn't want to be seen. But her and I both know that her best shot of feeling better right now is by being with friends and the people that can make her think less, because I know she can't forget.

"Thank you." She clears her throat and repeats her words until they're clear.

"You still look perfect and beautiful." I assure her as I guide her back to the room.

When we walk back into the room, reluctantly they don't put too much pressure on her to tell them what happened. She lays on the bed curled up in a way like she's trying to disappear. I wish I could help, but I don't know how to fix this.

Her phone begins to ring from my pocket and they all turn to me, except her. I point at James to keep an eye on her while I go handle it. I can hardly see what the screen says, but the letter S tells me all I need to know.

"What do you want, Sam?" I ask, already feeling a little irritated." Why are you calling her?"

"This is between her and I, Marley. Stay out of it." He doesn't sound at all like himself.