The Runaway 2 - N.H.

[74] DVD

Calum's POV

Braeden and Scarlette went out to lunch, as Bee leaves in a few days and she'll be too busy getting ready to leave to have much more time to say goodbye.

Michael came back to the apartment too, Dan and Kyle were annoying him so he chose to come here instead, that is until Braeden comes back.

"They'll be a few hours, why don't we watch a movie or something?" Niall asks and we all nod, too tired to do anything else.

"They're there," Michael mumbles and points to a cabinet. Niall gets up and begins to look through them.

"Mikey, where do you sleep?" Louis asks and it occurs to me this is only a two bedroom apartment.

"Well this is a fold out couch," he begins and pats the small couch he's sitting on, "so either here or in Braeden's bed... With her," he mumbles and looks at Niall. He stops looking through the videos for a split second but resumes again. He mustn't have known that.

"What's this?" Niall asks and holds up a familiar looking DVD with '2012' written messily across it.

"That's the birthday DVD we made for her!" Luke shouts and grabs the DVD from Niall's hands. "You guys will love this!" He puts it into the DVD player and clicks play. A video of Braeden sitting on her bed begins to play.

"What're you doing?" She giggles and eyes the camera down.

"Just capturing your beauty one video at a time," I reply in the video. My voice sounds strange and as I mumble that I love her, you see the camera lean down and it is obvious that I kiss her. "I love you," you hear my voice whisper again before the next video plays.

"Beeeeeee!" Ashton's voice whines in the tape.

The camera pans out onto Braeden lying on the floor drooling. The four of us erupt in laughter from the memory.

"She was on heavy pain killers after her knee operation," I explain as Louis and Niall smile.

"Leave her alone, guys," my voice says and I come into view on the tape, picking her up and carrying her back to her bed.

The next video begins and it starts with Braeden and I kissing, her straddling my waist on my bed. With her hands were wrapped up in my hair and mine gripping her body in any way possible.

A door creaks and Ashton runs in and jumps on the bed.

"Hola, ladies," he says and wiggles his eyebrows before the three of them burst into laughter, while Braeden buries her face in my neck from embarrassment.

"Get the fuck out," I yell at them smiling. I never could stay angry at them. The DVD freezes on the shot of me pointing out the door.

"Must've gotten scratched," Luke mumbles under his breath and ejects the DVD after a few seconds of staring at the TV. There were so many more videos on there that I wish I could relive.

"Can't believe she kept it... Or even took it with her when she left Sydney." I mumble and we all fall silent for a moment.

"You guys were so cute," Louis says and laughs lightly. "Five best friends."

"Yeah, sometimes," Luke mumbles and we all smile, missing those few years we all had together.

"Was she the same as she is now? Or has she change a lot?" Niall asks and I think about it for a really long time.

"Some things are the same, like the way she deals with things. She's never been good with confrontation or bad situations, she's always had to find a way out of them... Like running away. She runs away a lot." I tell him and he contemplates what I've said before I continue. "But she's so different. Not just her appearance, the way she speaks, the way sh-she looks at us. That's changed more than anything..." I trail off looking at the other three boys who took care of Braeden for those two years.

"She still loves you though man," Luke says and pokes Louis' leg. Louis grins a bit and nods.

"D-Did she tell you three she liked her brother or?" He only asks them, because he knows I knew exactly who he was.

"Yeah, she said that she liked him but he didn't like her. She never talked much about why though, she said you two had a falling out or something." Luke confirms and Louis nods sadly.

"I've always loved her," he mumbles under his breath.

The door opens and giggles erupt through the small apartment.

"No, that was not my fault!" Braeden yells and they laugh hysterically.

"Yes it was! You basically pushed me into him!" Scarlette yells and I can't help but smile at how happy they are around each other.

They walk in to the lounge room we are all sitting in and they nod their heads at us. Braeden looks at Michael and her face falls. But it's not anger that sweeps across her face, its sadness.

"I'm sorry," she says breathlessly and Michael jump to his feet to grab her before she begins to fall. She collapsed in his arms and holds him tight to her. There's a few moments of silence before she sniffles, indicating how hard she's already crying.

"I'm so sorry," she says and I hear the pain in her voice. The unbearable pain she's always going through.

"Hey, hey it's okay. It's okay," he mumbles into her hair and holds her close. I'm glad she's had him lately, someone to hold her close. "I'm sorry too, Bee."