Sheo's Story

Chapter Twenty-Six

Shai's POV:

'I know you're with Theo James, I know everything about you.'

How could he possibly know? Me and Theo haven't told the public, and only our closest friends know. Unless he's just making an educated guess. I can't reply, I have to tell Theo, and I have to tell him soon. The feeling in my stomach hurts and I know I'm scared, I'm scared to tell Theo about my past and I'm also scared what Mark will do. He doesn't just make threats, he carries them out. I'm seeing Theo in two hours, so I have until to work out what I'm going to say to him.

I've been pacing my room for about an hour, and I still can't control the shaking in my hands, I sit on the couch and start to really think about it. Bringing tears to my eyes, I'm trying with all my strength to hold them back, but the second I give up I'm in floods of tears wondering what the hell I'm going to do. Mark is dangerous.

I'm woken up by loud, strong knocking on my door. It must be Theo, I open the door and hug him. Nothing feels better than his arms holding my close to him. It makes me feel safe. "Why have you been crying?" He asks as worry fills his eyes, he must've been able to tell as I still have red, bloodshot eyes, after all that time I still don't know how to explain, so I just hand over my phone, on the conversation between me and Mark. Theo gently puts my phone down and pulls me into another hug, I can't read his reaction, but I wasn't expecting this. "We're going to have to talk about it Shai, and be 100% honest with each other." I can already tell this is going to be a tough inquisition, but he's right. Theo needs to know what Mark is capable of, maybe we can get something arranged, like security.

"Who is Mark, to start off with?" He begins, sounding kind. As if he's talking to a 5 year old.

"He's my ex," I want to explain more but the words just won't come out.

"Why does he think you're his? Shai, you've got to tell me everything, we need to get to the bottom of this."

"He was the ex who cheated on me, I was oblivious to how relationships were meant to work, and he controlled me and made me believe that all sorts of things were correct, they weren't I was in such a terrible relationship. One night, I ran away with all my things, and I've never seen him again. He'll text me every now and again reminding me different things, but now he knows about us. I don't know how but he does, and I've not been with anyone else since him. He's dangerous Theo, I'm scared." I only just about get all the words out before I break down into another pool of tears. I can't believe how weak I'm being, I'm supposed to be strong and not let things bother me, but I just can't. This is too much. I look up at Theo who just looks angry, I can't see any other emotion apart from anger.

"Where does he live?" Theo demands.

"Why?"

"Shailene I want an answer not a question, where does he live?" I've never heard his tone like this before. I'm not going to lie, it unnerves me.

"Theo, I'm letting you get hurt, no." With this Theo stands up slamming his hands down on the table making me jump, and my eyes fill again. I need my loving, caring Theo, not him. This continues for about another ten minutes until I'm genuinely scared, I give Theo the address, and before I can say anything he's out the door slamming it behind him. All I can do is cry, I can't be alone right now. I think I'll call Zoë I'm pretty sure she's either in this hotel or very near by.

Theo's POV:

I didn't mean to scare Shai, I didn't, but who on earth thinks they have the slightest right to treat her like that? If you have Shailene, you treasure her, you treat her like the princess she is. You don't abuse that privilege, you don't take advantage of her innocence, you treasure it. The tears fill in my eyes as I think about how I left her. I'm not exactly treasuring her now am I? I've left her scared and upset, but this needs to be done. Somebody needs to show that man he does not own my girlfriend, not at all. Nobody does. I didn't even tell her I loved her. The tears fill my eyes and my vision becomes blurry causing the cars ahead to become blobs. The next thing I see is a car come straight towards me, shit. I try to swerve but nothing works quick enough. The last thing I see is the car hit my mine in a straight on collision. Everything is black.