Meriliya Sanchez (Ongoing Editing)

Chapter 39

*Mitchell's POV*

I find myself staring at the ceiling thinking of so many ways as to why Edward has been hurting her so much. She's been miserable the past two weeks. Crying almost everyday and all she does is find some way to get back to him again when actually speaking he doesn't even bother. 

My question is, why does she have to still go through all this hurt when all he does is keep hurting her? Guess that's what love is? She loves him so much. It's crazy how she can still love him so deeply even after all what he has done to her. 

When she kissed me today I kept telling myself that she's at her vulnerable stages and she needs affection but deep down I felt a little tingle inside of me. It was like her lips fit perfectly in mine. Hers were soft on mine. But all of that went away when she pulled away. It broke me to keep saying that it's alright and to tell her to forget what happened when I felt something I've never felt before. 

It was as if I was longing for her for my whole life and I've finally found her but she's with someone else. I don't even know what exactly I'm feeling. But what I do know is that I'm starting to fall for her more than I've ever before. Of course I am. I have been for a while but I didn't want myself to believe it because she was already falling for Edward at the time and I didn't want her to be confused. 

When I look over at her, she's sound asleep. She looks so peaceful in her sleep but I notice a frown covering her lips. I want to kiss that frown away from her. I want her to be happy. I want to see her smile and giggle at the silliest things. I want to hear her laugh. I want to see her song so passionately, see her perform on stage. I love when she is being herself when she's on stage. And how she carries herself. Oh and how I love seeing her in jumpsuits! How she is with my mum and especially Ellie. 

I slowly get up and grab my phone and car keys from the table and walk out the door, locking it behind me. I get in the car and start the car and drive. I pass by so many houses and streets but there's just one place I want to go to right now. 

When I pulled up to the driveway I noticed the porch lights on but the house looked dark. I sighed but still walked to the front door and rang the bell. 

"Ashley. Hi." I said awkwardly. I was expecting him to open the door. 

"Hi. How can I help you?" She asked, looking tired.

"I'm sorry to bother you but where's Edward?" I cut to the chase. 

"He's at some club." She sighs. "Is Liya ok?" She asks, worried. 

"Not really." I answer and she nods sadly. 

"I'm so pissed at him! Liya deserves so much better." She goes about saying a few things and I feel for her. "She was like a little sister to me" she said at last and I gave her a small smile. 

"She is a wonderful person." I agree with her. "Would you know which club he'd be at?" 

"Probably the closest one here" she says and I thank her and drive to the closest club in the area. All I could hear was the loud music bursting out of the speakers and the unpleasant smell of the different drinks that's been served invading my senses, making me blink my eyes a bit. 

I search through the oddly less crowd for him but he's not to be seen around. I checked around the tables and still there was no sign of him. I turn the other way trying to go further to look for him knocking a waitress. 

"Oh, I'm sorry" I say quickly and look down at my wine stained shirt. She giggles and walks away to some table while I make my way to the restroom. When I find the restroom in a corner I regret even coming here. Edward is practically snogging over some girl. The said girl was Darcie. Yes, the Darcie from school.

"What the hell, Edward!" I make myself known and I hear Darcie gasp and the look on Edward's face is pure shock and shame. "What on earth are you doing?" I question him, looking at both of them. 

"Mitchell- bro- I-"

"How would Liya feel if she saw this?" I ask him and see the look on his face. I wonder how many times he has hooked up with people behind her back. "How could you?" 

"Mitchell-"

"Save it" I snapped and left the restroom forgetting about the stain. 

When I got to my car I let out a deep sigh I didn't know I was holding. I don't even know what to do now that I've seen Edward cheat on Liya. This is all so confusing though. Wny would he want to cheat on her? As much as I want to tell her about what I've seen I don't want to because that's just going to hurt her even more and I don't want to see her hurt more than she already is. She deserves to know though. 

When I drive back to the dorm room, Meriliya is seated on the bed with the bed sheet wrapped around her small frame that has a big puddle stained. She's been crying. 

"Mitch. Where have you been?" She rushes to me almost tripping on the sheet but I was quick to catch her. 

"I just had to go out" I tell her looking straight at her gorgeous pair of eyes. How is she going to take it when she gets to know? "Go back to sleep, love" I encourage her and she sighs looking relieved. I helped her in bed, tucking her in. I slept on the blanket on the floor next to the bed when she fell asleep. 

"No! No, please! Please!" I jolted up and got up quickly and knelt down to her side of the bed. 

"Hey, hey, hey. It's alright. It was just a nightmare. You're ok" I ran my hand through her hair that soon calmed her down. Her breathing was back to normal and I watched as her eyes were closing slowly and finally she was asleep. When I crawled back to bed I felt a tug on my hand. I turned around to find her small palm holding my wrist. 

"Mitch," she whispered. 

"Yeah" 

"Can you- can you maybe, sleep with me?" She hesitated but she sounded so desperate. When I look at her she's already looking at my face for an answer.