Bruise Me Twice (Twice #3)

Chapter 9

                                                                                      Vaughn 

She skipped along the shore as a wave came, gently running over her feet and going back. Her hair was dancing along the wind gracefully, slapping her in the face. I smiled to myself as I locked my arms around her waist and she slid her hands around my neck, leaning onto my chest. I tucked an abandoned strand of hair under her ear, placing an affectionate kiss on her forehead.

But suddenly I felt watched. My expression changed from soft and mellow to hard and serious.

"What?" She asked noticing the change in my face

I turned my head around, skimming the area for any person.

"Brooklyn, get behind me" I commanded

"Why?" She asked now panicked

"Just do it" I said, pulling out my gun which I never left alone

Noticing how serious I was, she shifted behind me

8 men came out from the trees, shaking slightly with their weapons in hand, making a circle around us. We couldn't run, they could catch us and there were too many, Brooklyn could get in danger.

"Lower your weapons gentlemen" I heard a familiar voice saying as they did what he said

I dropped my weapon as well, I knew who it was and moreover I knew that I messed up. I saw the color drain from Brooklyn's face as she saw dad.

"Vaughn" He said with uncommon hostility

"Take her inside" He said gesturing to Brooklyn with distaste in his voice

I wanted them to not lay a hand on her as they pushed her back to the house, but from the place I was in; I had no right.

"Never had I thought of this to happen, never" He said bitterly

I couldn't talk, not with the lump that was rising in the throat blocking me from talking. I was used to being the person in charge, but in this position, I was the dog that was being kicked on the ground.

"I thought I taught you better" He continued

"I never raised you to do this! You went behind my back while mingling with a girl whose family has caused us the biggest problems!" He said, his voice quiet but it was far more deadly that being yelled at, it was the voice of pure disappointment

"You're clouding our name by one of your conquests, are you not taking this seriously, is this all a joke to you" He spat

"D-dad" I managed to stutter

"Get back to London, you're going back home" He said coldly

I went back into the house, where Brooklyn was packing her bags with her eyes covered in tears. I already knew what I had to do.

"We need to talk" I said with a grim look on my face

She didn't say anything, she just stopped her work and looked at me, desperation in her eyes

"Look it was fun, but I never wanted a relationship, not with your kind" I spat

"What's that supposed to mean, my kind?"

"I'm saying I'm done, I never loved you, you're just desperate enough to cave into my wishes" I said "I never meant what I said, I can't smother my name with yours, you're a disgrace to us" I said as my heart tore into pieces.

"You're blind if you ever thought I'd end up with you, I have a better woman waiting back for me at London" I lied with a bitter taste in my tongue

"What?"

"Did you think I'd ever be in a proper relationship, I have a woman, she's everything compared to you" I added onto my painful lie

"So none of it was real!" She yelled "Y-you just did this for fun"

"Basically, don't go crying, please toughen up. You act like your life is so difficult, I don't care about your fucking family" I yelled, my voice draining out hers

I saw the pain flashing in her eyes as a mascara-stained tear leaked from her eyes

"I gave you everything, EVERYTHING VAUGHN and you do this to me" She screamed as her voice cracked "I loved you, I fucking did, with everything I had in me, I guess you're happy now then, this was you're plan all along then, don't bother wasting your time on me then, 'I love you always and forever' right?" She said, repeating what I said at the beach an hour ago, when things were sweet

"I value my family more than some desperate, incompetent girl to waste my time" I spat with venom in my voice

"GO TO HELL VAUGHN" She yelled as she stormed out with half of her things in a single suitcase, leaving the things I bought for her behind

"And take your fucking necklace, that was a lie as well" She yelled as I came to the hallway leading to the living room as she ripped it off and threw it to my face. Tears brimmed in my eyes as I let go of the first and last girl I will ever love, she boarded in the jet and she was gone, never for me to see. I ran back to the bedroom, the necklace still in my hand as I kicked the bedside table and the lamp fell to the ground. I ripped apart whatever I could find, shattering the last glass I could find as it clattered into a million pieces, now resembling my heart. I sunk down to the door, bursting into tears as I held the dove to my forehead.

I never thought I would break down like this, it wasn't just a person from my life gone. It was the girl I loved with every inch of me, losing her was worse than having my heart ripped into a million pieces. I didn't feel physical pain, my limbs are there, I wasn't shot or stabbed. That was all I cared about, physical pain. But that was the Vaughn before he fell in love, the one that would laugh at the mere thought of falling in love. He was long gone. This Vaughn would rather die than let her leave in tears on the plane to London without me, taking the pieces of my shattered heart with her.

Dad sat as far from me as possible. I wanted to scream, cry and break anything I could find, but I couldn't. I was glued to my seat, staring at the ground with my blood-shot eyes, helpless and broken. I remembered when Brooklyn and I sat where I was. She was nestled in my chest, we were happy. Never did I think this would happen. I didn't even know I was still holding onto the dove. It was the only thing of hers I had now.

Going to my apartment was even worse as the memories we had here flooded back to mind, bringing tears to my eyes as I reminded myself it's just a memory. Loneliness filled the cracks that were left in my empty chest, burning me internally.

I clicked on my phone as I got back to my old room at home instead of my apartment, the wallpaper was of her, snuggled in the sheets of my apartment wearing one of my hoodies. A pain stung my chest as I put a hand to check if I wasn't stabbed by a burning knife. For once I wish that I was stabbed. 

author's note : Totally wasn't listening to Trainwreck on repeat and trying to see my screen through my own tears.. anyway i thought of being nice and uploading today instead of tommorow