What is Mine

Chapter 18

"It's hard to explain this to people because no one knows... Not even Emily or Riley." She said.

I saw a tear roll down her soft, pale cheek.

"Mollie...." I say with sympathy.

I place my hand on her cheek and wipe her tears away with my thumb.

"You have to seriously promise me that you will not tell anyone, none of your buddies, my friends, no one." She said sniffling a little.

"I promise you." I say back.

She took a deep breath and closed her eyes.

"I-In my past, I had lots of problems in my family and it got to the point where I couldn't take it anymore and I needed something to get rid of my pain and so I tried,"

She hesitated for a minute, like she was disgusted with herself.

"Cutting myself... I focused on the pain of my thighs that I didn't feel the pain from everything else around me." She said.

She immediately started bawling her eyes out.

I noticed a tear fall from my eyes and land in my hand.

"When was this?" Is all I got from my mouth.

"I was 14 when that happened, but I did "it" until I was 17." She said.

"Where?" I say.

I'm an idiot, why did I ask that?!

She then pulled her pants down enough to wear I could see them.

Her thighs were covered in them from about 5 inches above the knee up towards her waist.

I look at them with sorrow... It's like I could see her past just by looking at little lines across her thighs.

She looked at me and picked my chin up with her finger.

I looked at her with my bloodshot eyes and I noticed her bright blue eyes looking dead at me.

"Sadly, that's not all..." She said.

She pulled her pants back up and lifted her shirt just showing her stomach.

There weren't as many cuts on her stomach as her thighs but still...

Again, I stare into space looking at her stomach.

"You probably are embarrassed of me now, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have tried to sh-

"You are still beautiful to me. I still love you just as much as you did before you told me this. Nothing has changed, except that I now know you a little more. Mollie, I really, really don't know how to explain to you... I love-

Mollie's soft lips crashed into mine...