Heartstruck

The next morning I woke up early, I was unable to sleep most the night due to the incident. Would he tell anyone? Why did I do it? Am I going crazy, I swear I felt something that day? I wondered.

I crawled out the tent and stretched my arms as the sun peeked over a hill. I looked around seeing Margo and Timothee already out and sitting infront of the remains of what was a campfire. Everyone else seemed to be asleep except Leo who was sitting near the lake, although I was tempted to go to him I couldn't bare face him, so I forced myself over to the two other siblings.

"Morning guys." I said

"Hey."

"Morning." They responded

"Want a cup of coffee?" Timothee asked

"No, I'm fine, thanks." I said

I sat on a chair and picked up a piece of toast and spread nutella on it.

"Do you know if Leo's alright?" Margo asked

"No, why?" I questioned, instantly I got scared.

"He hasn't talked to either of us and we don't want to disturb him, you are closer to him than us right?" Timothee asked

"Umm, yes I guess.." I answered

"Would you mind going to ask him if he's alright?"
I waited for a moment but decided it'd be less suspicious if I went.

"Yeah, ok." I stood up and walked towards Leo, settling myself next to him.

"I was...Margo, Timothee and I were wondering if you're ok." I stated

"What did you do that for?"he asked

I felt sadness overwhelm me.

"Last night?" I beckoned, there was no response so I continued, "I was just confused, also the alchool and I was just overwhelmed with emotions."

"Why are you lying?" he demanded

"I'm not I swear-"

"Don't play stupid with me, why would you hurt my sister like that?!"

"I didn't want to, and nothing happened between you and me anywa-"

"Shut up!" he shouted, I looked around us to see if anyone else heard but no one did, "I love her and I will always protect her, yet as soon as you two get together, you go behind her back and try to...to... do something with me."

I felt myself begin to cry, my breathing became shaky.

"I do like her though, I swear I just-" my sentence was cut short, not because of him talking but a searing pain hitting my chest. Leo swung his fist at me, impaling me in my chest and winding me. I fell to the ground and gasped for air, my nails dug into the dirt. Then in a moment of anger, passion and sadness I got to my knees and pushed Leo aside. He was much taller than me and stronger than me, if he wanted to he could beat me up within minutes so the fact i was even able to push him shocked me, but that feeling ended quickly. He, grabbed my shoulders with his hands and shook me crazily, he lifted one hand and slapped my cheek leaving a red mark behind, sadness overtook me and I stumbled over again in weakness, Leo pushed me -my back was against the ground- and put himself above me, I whimpered underneath his weight, his face was red with anger and his eyes bloodshot and filled with tears.

"Why, why, why!" he screamed at me slamming me up and down on the ground.

I lifted my arm up weakly onto his face moving the hair from his eyes, I smiled sadly at him as one of his tears fell onto my forehead. He collapsed down onto me, weeping.

He was a Jock, a cool kid, I had never seen him cry like this, or to be honest, I've never seen him cry.

I placed my hand on the back of his head which was nestled into my shoulder, I felt a mixture of his tears and saliva dampen my t-shirt. I stroked his hair, trying to calm him down.

"Shh shh.." I calmly whispered into his ear, "It's alright, we'll be fine."

Leo lifted his head up and looked me in the eyes and then past my head, instantly his eyes widened and he jumped off me and started running till he was hiding behind a tree. I sat up and looked behind me and saw Amy coming out of our tent. I quickly stood up and hid behind the tree too. Leo's body was so close to mine, I could feel him breathing down my neck, his hand skimmed past mine. I tilted my head up at his, he smiled sweetly at me and lifted his hand to my bruised cheek. I winced as he began to caress it.

"I'm so sorry." that's all he said, that's all he needed to say

A tear slipped from my eye onto my cheek and on his hand, I snuggled my head into his palm as he began to approach me. He lifted my chin up so that his lips were milimeters apart from mine.

"You have, something on your lip." he said

He placed his thumb in my mouth, he moved it around slightly as I began opening my mouth, slowly he pulled it out and wiped his finger across my upper lip.

"What was it?"

"Nutella." he smiled

Without hesitation, he pushed me up against the tree, he lifted me ever so slightly, so I was half on my tip-toes, half being held by him. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders as he held my waist, he pushed his face against mine, our toungs collided and our lips merged, I felt nothing but him, I wanted nothing but him, I needed nothing but him. However, although this moment was pure bliss, he pulled away faster than I would've liked.

"Was it not good?" I asked, immediately regretting it

"No, no oh god no. It was...amazing. I loved it." he looked at me with love (or was it lust) in his eyes.

"It's just wrong, Amy could see us, let's just go join everyone and then.." he trailled off

"And then.." i beckoned

"And then we can follow up later." He put me down gently then made his way back to the camp.

Follow up? Is that it? Just 'follow up'? I got out from behind the tree then walked to the camp and sat next to Amy, taking her into a warm embrace. I was left with my thoughts, who would I choose, the girl I'm destined to be with, or the boy I'm cursed with?