Pill By Pill {Muke}

7 - Can You

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Luke's POV

I groaned as I opened my eyes looking around me I saw the dark hair of Skarlet covering her pale skin as her head laid on my chest. Then there was almost another sound..

There was crying.

"Sk..Skarlet..?" I spoke with a rough voice that was barely heard. Skarlet lifted her head up and I could see the black smeared across her cheeks and staining my shirt.

"Thank goodness.." Skarlet said, I had never seen Skarlet cry before. She was an extremely tough girl, tougher then I was. But then again; I was not very tough.

I looked around us, noticing Skarlet's room surrounding us. Skarlet stood up and ran out of the room without a word and I began to sit up. When I did I began to cough violently and it felt as if someone was ripping my throat apart.

Back in the room came Skarlet with Sammy, Barbie, Axel and Riley.

"Hey Luke." Riley said as he sat down on the edge of the bed. He was not looking at me, instead he stared intensely at the wall. I was usually not Riley's favorite person in the world. But what he said next gave me reason to believe that he does care. "I was scared for you, I'm going to be honest."

"Sorry that happened." Sammy said. "I did what I could to prevent it. I only wanted to protect you."

"W..What happened?" I asked, my voice was still scratchy and weak. They group looked around and exchanged sad looks with one another.

"You mean you don't remember?" Barbie asked as she sat on the side of the bed. I shook my head slowly. "Kody was choking you, until you passed out. We were just lucky that we managed to get him off of you." I shook my head again. "What do you mean no?"

"H-He w-wouldn't.." I mumbled.

"Oh hell.." Riley groaned as Axel slapped his arm. Riley turned to me, shaking his head slowly. "Why wouldn't he? Kody is no angel. You have to know that."

"He-He cares about m-me.." I mumbled.

"No. No he doesn't. He clearly doesn't." Axel scoffed. "He hurt you! You don't hurt someone you care about!"

"We're corrupted his mind with drugs." Karla groaned.

"Okay this really isn't a time for jokes." Skarlet snapped at Karla who put her hands up in defense. Skarlet then turned back to me. Her dark makeup smeared down her pale skin. "Luke, whether or not Kody cares about you, he still hurt you. That's not okay. You have to know that. Hurting you is never okay."

"He-He does-!" I began to choke when I raised my voice to Skarlet. Holding a hand against my burning throat as I continued to hack up spit.

"Luke take a drink." Barbie said, her mother instincts came in as she sat next to me and raised a drink to my lips. Tilting it so only a small amount of water made it past my lips at a time. "There, that feels better, yeah?" I nodded my head slowly. Barbie sat the cup down and gently rubbed my back.

"We just are trying to help you." Karla mumbled from the other side of the room. "Why can't you just believe us?"

"He's in denial." Sammy said and I went wide eyed. "It's not that he doesn't believe us, he just can't believe it. That his Kody would ever hurt him like that. We won't be able to convince him otherwise."

"I-I'm sorry.." I said quietly, my voice shook. Barbie continued to rub my back as she wrapped her other arm around me and laid her head on my shoulder.

"We just care about you a lot Luke." Barbie said as she lifted her head up to me. "We want you to be okay. We don't want anyone hurting our little Lukey."

"I'm not little." I choked out and Barbie smiled.

"Sure you aren't, honey. Sure." I smirked at Barbie as she spoke. I did have a really nice group of friends. I felt like I was obligated to believe every word they were saying. But I just could not find a way to do so. I could not actually believe that this was happening, as much as I wanted to believe it.

"I can't believe it took almost all of us to get Kody off him though." Riley commented to no one in particular. "Good thing that Michael was there too."

Michael..I had almost forgotten about him.

"Wh-What happened to Michael..?" I asked.

"He's downstairs, actually." Skarlet said. "He was cleaning his face last time I checked. Kody was furious with him after you had passed out. They got into quite the brawl."

"It's kind of weird.." Sammy began. "Michael doesn't seem to hate us as much as I thought he would. Even after Riley began smoking."

"Hey I got anxiety about this whole thing." Riley commented.

"Of course when we asked Michael if he wanted one, he said no. But he wasn't exactly..Ashton." Sammy said, ignoring Riley's previous comment. "Do you want us to go downstairs and get him?" I shook my head slowly. By the way everyone was looking at me, I know that I looked like hell. He did not need to see that. Why I was hiding something that he had already practically seen, I have no idea. All I know is that I don't need to see someone's sorrow.

"Why don't you lay down, Luke, and sleep a little?" Barbie suggested. "That would help you to feel better. If you need anything just ask." I nodded. "Alright, scumbags, get out." I smirked slightly at Barbie's behavior and watched her clear out the room. Barbie stopped for a moment as she turned back and looked at me.

"What..?"

Barbie shut the door and came farther in. "This isn't like Kody. I know it as much as you do. He cares about you, he wouldn't just hurt you.. I don't know why he is hurting you through." Barbie let out a sigh and I watched her eyes fill with tears. "That was not our Kody..He isn't like that."

And I could only nod in agreement.

AUTHOR'S NOTIFICATION

I'm back, I think, probably, maybe. Anyways. I do have a lot of chapters written already and I have a little secretary that will type them up for me and ladadeedum. So I am not actually really on, I'm only writing these. Just not writing them formatted for Wattpad. I gots other people doing that. Jk it's one person and we're friends. I just asked her to put them up for me so I could catch up on school work and everything.

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