Choked Love (book 1) || A Tainted Love Book || Matt Sturniolo Fanfiction

Matthew

(TW conversations about abuse)

I kept thinking about seeing Ava crying on Sunday, the past 3 days at school she hasn't been herself and I felt really bad for her. I don't know why I did, but I guess that's what comes with being friends, is you start caring about the person more. We were in math class right now and I had gone and sat behind her today instead in my normal spot in the back of the class.

"Hey, are you okay?" I asked her.

"Why?" She sounded kind of upset.

"I was just wondering, you seem sad." 

"I'll be fine," She smiled at me and then turned around.

I just let it go, I didn't want to fight with her on it if she really was sad, I would feel bad for making her even more upset. The dismissal bell finally rang and I saw her walk out the doors and she started walking towards her house. I just ignored it and then went to go put everything in my locker to go. I met up with Nick and Chris and we drove home. I immediately went into my room to start on my homework so I didn't need to do it later. I first did math because it was the easiest and then moved onto English. I heard someone knock at my door and put my text book down.

"Come in!" I called out.

"Hey, can I talk to you about something?" My mom walked in.

"Uh, yeah sure." I motioned for her to sit down on the bed.

"Was Avalon at school today?" She asked.

"Uhm, yeah, why?"

"I was just wondering, did you talk to her at all?" 

"Not really," I was confused on why she was asking me about her.

"Oh, alright, I'll go ask Nick too, just in case." She smiled and stood up.

I sighed and took a deep breath, "Hey mom...is she okay?"

"She will be," She gave me a sympathetic smile.

I don't know why I asked if she was going to be okay, I didn't care that damn much, but something about my mom telling me Ava was going to be okay was reassuring to me. I turned back to my text book and started working again. I then started to hear talking from the kitchen so I put my ear up to the door.

"I'm really worried about her Jim, I don't trust her father." I heard my mom say.

What?

"I know, I don't know what we can do though, I don't want to pressure her into talking to you or me for that matter about anything because I want her to be comfortable with us." My dad spoke.

"I know, it's just, I don't want her to get hurt. She means so much to the boys, and to me for that matter, she's so a daughter I never got to have." 

"I know, and I know that all the boys care about her especially Matt, no matter how hard he tries to hide it." My dad sighed.

My dad was wrong, I didn't care about her as much as everyone says I do, like, I don't understand why people are saying that I do, because I don't. I still had no idea what they were talking about though, what about Avalon's dad, what was he doing? I shook the thoughts from my head and went back to my school. I moved onto my history text book and started taking notes on the pages we were told to do. About 4 hours passed and I was finally done with all of my homework, and I flopped on my bed. I picked up my phone and saw that it was about 10:00 pm. I realized I hadn't eaten dinner yet so I quietly went out into the kitchen because I knew my parents were definitely asleep. I opened the fridge and got out some left over pizza from last night and put it in the microwave for a couple of seconds. I took my pizza out of the microwave and looked out the kitchen window to see it was pouring down rain outside.

"Well damn," I laughed to myself and ate my pizza in silence while I sat on the counter. 

A few minutes later I heard a quiet knock at the door. I cocked an eyebrow and got off the counter to go look to see who it was. When I got down there I looked out the side window and I saw someone drenching wet standing there. I opened the door and it revealed a crying Ava, drenched from the rain, by the looks of it, she walked here. She looked into my eyes and I just pulled her into a hug, which caused her to cry harder.

"It's okay, I got you, you're okay." I tried to calm her down.

He arms slowly wrapped around me, her hugging me back, as she cried into my chest. Alright, I felt really bad for her, even though I only had a hunch about what happened, I still didn't know, but she was upset, she couldn't stop crying. I reached my arm up behind her and turned the hall light. I brought my arm back down and wrapped it back around her, causing me to look down at her arm. I watched a bruise form before my eyes, it was a bad one, it looked really painful. 

"What happened?" I softly asked.

She just shook her head no. She didn't want to explain to me, so I just brought her into the living room and then went into my parents room quietly.

"Hey, uh, mom?" I softly shook her awake. 

"HM, oh, hi, are you okay?" She woke right up.

"Uh yea, uhm, Avalon is here." I sighed.

"Shit." She sat right up and hit my dad awake, "Jim wake up."

"I'M AWAKE, i'm up." He shot up. 

"Ava is here," She sighed.

They both went out into the living room and I just watched from a distance. They both sat down next to her and tried to calm her down, she was really upset, and I felt horrible. I noticed another bruise on her leg. She was wearing shorts and a tank top, it was freezing outside. Nick walked out of his room half asleep, because he probably noticed all the lights were on. 

"What's going o- why is Ava here?" He asked, now wide awake.

"I don't know," I was very mousey. 

"Fuck," Nick sighed.

He stood next to me, and mom realized he had come out. 

"Oh, Nick, you're awake, do you have any clothes for Ava to change into?" She asked.

"Yeah, let me go get some." He smiled at her.

"She has bruises on her," I heard my dad say. 

"He only gave me one, the one on my leg is from me climbing out my window." Avalon softly spoke.

"How did you get it," My mom asked.

"He grabbed my arm, trying to face me towards him." She sniffed.

My mom pulled her into another comforting hug, causing her to start crying again. Nick walked back out and put the clothes next to mom. I started piecing it together in my head. I finally realized her dad was abusive, how couldn't I have noticed sooner? Why did I have so much sympathy for her in this moment, I have hated this girl my whole life, and now I automatically care so much about her, as a friend. My dad came over to Nick and I, standing between us.

"She might be staying here for a little bit," My dads words echoed in my brain.

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HELLO EVERYONE!!! I hope you enjoyed the chapter!!! I told you guys it was going to get more interesting, the fact that this is sill just plot building up the friend ship is hopefully hinting that when the big bomb drops it'll be BIG, I really hope you guys liked it <333

much love <333

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