The Dove And The Grenade.

Chapter 16: S.C.A.V.A.

Hey guys, I don't know what the fuck Wattpad is doing but it's making me pissed off. So I have to repost the last few updates from TDATG.
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Matty was woken up by the sound of small crying amongst the silence. At first he didn't know what it was, but then he realized that Eliese wasn't in the bed next to him. Matty's head ached from the hangover. His eyes sizzled painfully when the light reached them. He lifted his head off of the pillow and dizzily looked around the room for Eliese but she was nowhere to be seen. It must've been a quarter past nine in the morning, luckily they have the day off before they play their final show tomorrow.

Matty sighed heavily when he realized it was Eliese whom was crying in the bathroom. 'She's seriously out of it. Maybe she needs to go see a Doctor when we get home.' Matty thought tiredly. Matty wanted to go back to sleep but he knew that he wasn't going to let his girlfriend cry alone without comforting her. He rolled out of bed, dizzily standing on his feet before staggering towards the bathroom. The bathroom door was only closed enough to shield Eliese. Matty tapped his knuckles against the door lightly.

"Eliese, are you okay?" He asked in a raspy voice. He got no reply, only soft crying. Matty knocked the door aside to find Eliese sitting on the floor in the bathroom, she was in the fetal position with her arms locked around her legs tightly. She cried softly into her lap and rocked back and forth. Matty's gut fell when he saw an unopened box of pregnancy tests on the floor next to her. His heart sank to the bottom of a sea of reeling thoughts. His world froze in front of his very eyes.

When Eliese came back from the store she went into the bathroom and stared at the box longingly. She couldn't bring herself to do the tests. 'What if they're positive?' She kept asking herself, that triggered a chain reaction of the memory of her attack, that fuels a venomous rage within her belly, that builds her fearlessness, then she brings herself to pick up the box to do the test but then she starts wondering if she is pregnant, then she questions if the baby is Andrew's or Matty's, and then she is brought back to the memory of her attack. It was a vicious cycle. It caused Eliese to break down into hysterical tears on the bathroom floor.

Matty was unsure of what to do. He's never been in this position before. 'What do I do? Do I hug her and tell her everything's going to be alright? Do I build her up to actually do the test? Or do we just ignore this whole thing?' Matty thought, biting his lower lip with his hands on his hips. He couldn't just let her sit there hysterically crying with a box of pregnancy tests sitting on the floor beside her. He wanted to know why she bought them if she says she's not pregnant. And why is she crying like this?

Matty hiked up the pant legs of his shorts and squatted down on the floor beside her. He gently placed his hand on her shoulder, making her jump in surprise. Eliese's red and puffy eyes found his gaze. She bit her bottom lip and almost jumped into his arms. She buried her head into his chest and sobbed sadly. Matty didn't know how to handle the situation. But he followed a gut instinct and wrapped his arms around her tightly.

"I'm scared, Matty. I am so scared." Eliese panted heavily into his chest with her eyes tightly shut. Matty furrowed his eyebrows confusedly, pulling her away from him with his hands cupping her face gently. Eliese managed to open her eyes and look up at him tearfully.