Really? My Best Friend?

Chapter 17

Dean: I'm gonna knock that piece of shit into the other side of tomorrow. He won't know what'll have hit him until it's too late. I am not letting him get away with this. I could have stopped this. It's my fault. If I had been normal with her she probably wouldn't have drunk. She wouldn't be in the state she is now, she would be able to talk to me. I shouldn't have let that blonde bimbo take me away from her when I knew she was in a state about something.

I knew he was too much for her, I knew he was a total idiot and I didn't do anything to stop it. I could have stopped it, I stayed sober to be here for her and yet I still let her down.

And now I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do. She fell asleep on me, after quite a while of crying and so I've dressed her back into her dress not that I wanted to put her back in that dress because it's covered with his germs.

Even the thought of him touching her has me disgusted. The thought that he done stuff to her when she's not even done it with any guy before, how the hell is she supposed to even trust another guy after that? I wouldn't that's for sure.

What am I supposed to do now though? I need to take her home and probably tell Liam. Lola went to find him and still hasn't come back. Bradley, I think is the guy that was in here earlier is Louis's twin brother- and I think was with Lola most of the night- and he looked proper disgusted with his brother. I don't know who wouldn't be disgusted with him after that though.

And we'll have to tell the police but I know Sophie and I know that she's not up for that. Well, I think she's strong enough for anything but I think she's gonna hit rock bottom now. She'll think she can't deal with it, she'll think she's not strong enough when she is. She's not gonna trust anyone after this. I can't deal with this. I can't sit by and watch her go through this. It's not gonna be pretty and I don't want to see her go through this. I don't want to see her hurt at much as she will be. It's gonna hurt me a hell of a lot to even see her like this so it's gonna be unimaginable what it's gonna do to her.

I'm pulled out of my thoughts when Lola and the boy, Bradley, come back through the door. They have Liam held up between them, his arms around their shoulders.

Lola's face literally breaks when she sees Sophie, as if her heart is breaking down for her. If she feels anything like me then it will be.

"You ready Dean?" Lola asks from Liam's side in a whisper, she looks afraid to wake Sophie up. I can see she needs to sleep but I don't want to wake her, if I wake her it means she'll have to face what happened. She'll panic, she might not even want me by her side, she might hate me because I wasn't there for her. She might just hate me because I'm a guy and she won't trust another guy again. I need her to trust me, she's my best friend and I'm certainly not going to lose her because of that piece of scum.

"Yeah, do we wake her or not? I'm not ready to lose her..." I mumble looking at Lola trying not to show how broken I feel.

"You won't lose her Dean, no matter what he done to her. You take Liam with Bradley an I'll take Sophie." She smiles sadly eyeing the pair of us.

"Are you sure?" I ask looking at her and then down at Sophie.

"Yeah, we'll have to wait until she's not drunk to go to the police though." She says glancing at Bradley to see if he's going to say anything, it's not like he can stop us but it's his twin after all, I know Liam won't hold back when he finds out.

"Yeah, let's just get her back and see what happens in the morning." I say standing up and putting Sophie on the bed in hope that Lola can wake her, I don't want to be the one that does it in case she does freak out this soon.

"Yeah..." Lola mumbles walking across to me and Sophie. I walk over to Liam turning my head to see Sophie where Lola is waking her up. Her face turns to pure panic but she calms down quickly, that is until, when she come to the door and hears the music. We all walk down the stairs, me and Bradley holding Liam's weight between us and with Sophie with Jess.

"Dean," I hear Lola shout at me over the pumping music from behind me.

"Yeah?" I ask stopping on the stairs with the two boys and turning my head to see.

It kills me to see my best friend standing against the wall looking at the mass of people and hearing the loud music as if it's too loud and too claustrophobic for her. She's cowering against the wall with silent tears streaming down her face.

"She wants you..." she shouts again leaving Sophie's side which makes her automatically pull herself in as much as she can to make herself shirk and be smaller, as if trying to make herself not be seen.

I let Lola take my place before I slowly make my way over to Sophie. As soon as I'm next to her she throws her arms round my neck and buries her face into my neck and keeps it there and whispers, "I like you Dean." I hold her as tight as I can for comfort for her and myself. There's no point in me taking what she's saying seriously even if I want to believe it so I try to ignore it. When I pull away I lift her into my arms and carry her down the stairs where we all jump into the next taxi that comes, Sophie lies her head on my shoulder and lets herself fall to sleep and I let my head lean on hers glad for the extra time of her being even remotely normal because I know as soon as the alcohol is out of her system there is no way that she will be normal.