Back To You

12

L E X I
G O N Z A L E S

Hearing a knocking sound come from my window I pause my movie and climb out of bed. Reece sits on the other side of my window with bruises and cuts all over his face. Pulling up my window I stare at his face.

"What the hell did you do?" I ask him.

"I visited a good friend of mine" he says.

"Get inside" I move away from the window to allow him to climb through, he stands in front of me I bring my hand up to the side of his face and run my thumb over the bruise on his cheekbone. Releasing a long sigh I walk passed him and into my bathroom and he slowly follows me. "Sit" I say pointing to the toilet.

I pick up a small towel from a basket next to my skin, turning on the tap I soak one part of the towel and bring it over to Reece's forehead where he's bleeding from.

"Cute hoodie" he smirks looking me up and down.

"Thank you, it's borrowed. So who's this friend of yours?" I ask him tilting his head back.

"Aiden Kingston" that name sounds familiar.

"What happened to result in you looking like this?" I stand in between his legs as I slowly move the cloth down to his eyebrow.

"I was with Ki when I started getting theses messages" Reece pulls his phone out from his pocket and brings up some messages, turning the phone screen in my direction.

An uncomfortable feeling fills my stomach when I scroll through paparazzi pictures of me not wearing much, mainly because it was when I was on holiday and only really wore bikinis.

I scroll down more to see messages from Aiden saying what he would do to me and also other disturbing and disgusting things.

"Was this all just today?" I ask perching on Reece's knee, I feel his hand on back and I lean into his touch without realising.

"Yeah, but there are some even worse ones that he sent" he takes his phone from my hand before I have the chance to scroll and see what he's said about me "I drove over along to where he was and we had a very friendly fight"

"Where is he now?"

"In a parking lot around a hour away with possible broken bones, Leo brought a baseball bat and used Aiden and his friends as a piñata"

Looking back up at Reece he brings his hand up to the side of my face and pushes my dark hair behind my shoulders. "Do you think he'll still try to bother you after what you did?" I turn my thumb over his jaw which has a bruise on it.

"Probably, we're playing his soccer team later in the year but that's not for a long time"

"Your new soccer buddy talked me today" I say and Reece rolls his eyes "He has a lot of confidence for today being his first day" i add.

"I don't like him" of course he doesn't.

"You don't like anyone" I remind him.

"I like you"

"Well everyone likes me, especially Ashton. He's very friendly" a smile appears on my lips as Reece gets more annoyed. Oh my god. Is he jealous? "Are you jealous?"

"No"

"Mhm sure"

"I'm not jealous"

"So if I said yes to going out with him, what would you do?" I ask.

"Rip his head off- wait he's asked you already?!"

"Like I said he has a lot of confidence" i remind him and he rolls his eyes yet again.

"You're cute when your jealous" I tell him leaning closer and running my thumb over his busted bottom lip, Reece's hand on my back lowers. My gaze locks with his as I lower the towel off of his face. Reece gazes flicks between my eyes and my lips.

We both haven't spoken about what happened on Sunday, and I don't think we ever will. Thankfully.

"Lexi!" I hear my Dads voice from outside my bathroom door, I jump off of Reece and slip out of my bathroom without him seeing Reece in the bathroom "are you okay?" He asks me raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms.

"Yep" I nod.

"Really" he narrows his eyes "your acting suspicious".

"I'm perfectly fine" I shrug "anyways I'm going to bed now so good night" I say and my Dad slowly turns around and walks out my bedroom.

Shutting my bathroom door behind me "I better be your favourite person after wasting my time doing this" I throw the bloody towel in the sink "I'm going to bed"

Falling onto my bed I let out a groan and quickly slip under my covers, Loki sleeps peacefully next to me it's good we didn't disturb him.

I shuffle back in my bed to give Reece some space, he lies down and I lie my head on his chest. His arms wrap around me and he rests his hand on my back and draws circles.

"Do you want me to leave?" Reece asks.

"Not yet, just stay for a little bit" I mumble and I feel a kiss on the top of my head making me smile like a stupid person but luckily he can't see that.

AUTHORS NOTES

short chapter xx

Hope you all liked it x

Bye Bye

-Nat 💙