Crushed Beats *PAUSED/REWRITING*

Chapter 5

Slight Mention of abuse?⚠️

"H-hah! Yeah I'm fine." I say trying not to ruin the mood. I looked at all of them. I sigh. They all knew. "Y/n..?" Cherry said looking a little disappointed. "Why didn't you tell me this when it was happening?" "Cherry it's Okay! I-it's not happening anymore!" Stuttering I try not to make eye contact with Pico. He was very concerned, and I mean what I said. So I just got up.

But, he obviously pulled me back down. "Hey stop!" I said pulling back. "Please tell us what's going on Y/n, but only if your comfortable." Keith said looking at me. "F-fine..maybe another day?" I smiled awkwardly. Cherry nodded. I changed the subject and we talked.
It was getting late so we decided to go to sleep, me and Pico slept in the pile, Cherry and Keith slept in her bedroom. I don't know why, but I felt safer sleeping with Pico. It caused me to go to sleep faster than ever.

I woke up to feel a tight grasp around my waist, I turn my head and it's Pico! "Oh my god! Cherry please help me! Please please! Cherry!" I yelled out. Cherry came running in here, almost falling. "What?! What happened?!" She looked down at me. "Oh. Come on it can't be that bad. Just wake him up!" She said she tried to wake up Pico. He didn't wake up, but I got out of his grasp. I felt a slight pain around where he was holding me. " ow...Okay...what for breakfast?" I say getting up and walking to the kitchen. "Pancakes!!" Keith flips a pancake in the air. Me and Cherry both clap, quite impressed. Obviously cause I couldn't do it. Soon after Pico wakes up.

We all eat and talk and talk for a while. "Hey, since we have nothing to do how about we all go to the park?" I say. Everyone one agreed, accept Pico.
We went anyway it's not like he had a choice.

Me and Keith ran to the swings. "I bet I could go higher than you!" I shout testing him. We both started swinging. I kick-started myself off the ground. This technique has always helped. I mean, how could you not know it? Sadly, Keith couldn't do it- he was WAY to short to kick himself off the ground.

-Pico POV-

I watched Keith and Y/n swing. They looked like they're very close friends even though they haven't known each-other for long. "Cherry" "yeah?" "How..How so you not get jealous?" Cherry looked at me, "What do you mean by that?" She asked. "I mean like, whenever Y/n and Keith are with each other, don't you ever feel left out or something?" "Of course not! I trust Y/n. I'm pretty sure they would never do that, besides me and Keith are always with each other." She said. "And I forgot to ask, have you been taking medications? You seemed very aggressive lately." Oh right. "I've been forgetting to take them lately. I've got to stop doing that. It's a really bad habit" I said rubbing the back of my neck.

-Y/n POV-

The challenge was a tie, I was taller than Keith so I could swing high, Keith was smaller and lighter than me, so he could also go high. We decided to run around, 'Cause why not? It was so much fun! Until Kieth tripped and rolled into a ditch. I was the only one with him so, I had to get him out. It was quite hard because he was short, so I had to put my upper half of my body into the ditch. Luckily I didn't fall in, because...well then I would have heck of a lot of bad luck. We ran back to the others, only to find Pico. "Where's Cherry?" I say. Pico points behind him, to Cherry petting a couple's dog. We all go over to Cherry, who's obviously having the time of her life.

She waved goodbye to the couple, then to their dog. "Hey guys! I was wondering were you were. Now, I think we should go to the mall. No questions!" She says gesturing us to her car.

We all get in and she drives us to the mall. I'm thinking this is gonna be very normal for us to go to the mall this often. We get out the car and made our way to the entrance. The mall scent hit my nose, I have no idea how to explain it but it smelled nice. We walked in and decided to go to the food court. I wasn't really hungry..So, I just went to get desserts. I ordered a cookie sandwich, with icing in the middle along with a churro and iced coffee. Then I go to meet everyone. I look over. "Omg! No way!" I say, "Is that Hot Topic?!" I glanced at Cherry. "Wanna go?!" She says also Excited. We run over to Hot Topic. And explore the place.

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We come out of hot topic after a while talking and laughing. We see the others and walk over to them. "You guys were in there forever!" Keith says whining "One hour, forty six minutes and 18 seconds." Pico says looking up. "Who the Hell counts time?!" Cherry says as confused as I was. I shrugged. They got up and we headed to a store the boys wanted to go to. Me and Cherry waited outside the store. They surprisingly weren't in there for a while, but they came out with everything they needed. We walked around the mall. Cherry and Keith went inside a jewelry store, so it was just me and Pico. "How about we go somewhere?" He said looking around. "Sure!" I chirped. I was pretty happy me and Pico were making progress.
I followed Pico around the mall while we were looking at stuff. He had longer legs and plus he was hella tall, but I wasn't short, I was actually quite tall. I was surprised I had to speed walk to keep up with his pace.

Writer: sorry this took long everyone school had just started back up for me since I was sick, and I need to get caught up on a whole bunch of things.