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

Avalon

I called Matt my boyfriend earlier, just to see how it sounded, and I loved the sound of it. Was I ready for that yet? I think, I'm not quite sure, he said we were taking it at my pace though. I was sitting in his room with him right now, it was late, I wasn't sure if he was awake or not.

"Matt?" I whispered.

"Hm?" He hummed in response.

"Are you fully awake?" I asked.

"Yeah," He sat up to look at me.

"I'm sorry I called you my boyfriend earlier, I know I wanted to go slow." I replied.

"Why are you sorry? I liked the way it sounded." He smiled at me.

"Oh, well, okay." I smiled back.

"I really like you, and if you just needed to get the feel of calling me that, even if you didn't mean it, that's okay." He replied.

"Thanks Matt," I smiled and laid down with my head in his lap.

"Nooooo," He playfully whined and pulled me up next to him and wrapped his arm around me.

We laid together, my head on his chest, scrolling on his for you page for about two hours before we fell asleep. I had a nightmare, more like serious flashback while sleeping, when my dad actually threw something at me once, and it shattered and cut my arm up bad. I was stayed with Alahna for two weeks after that happened. I quickly awoke in fear and started crying. Matt woke up right after and held me in his arms.

"Shh, you're okay, I'm here, you just had a nightmare." Matt cooed, stroking my hair.

I just cried in his arms, I had no other reaction, I just felt like I needed to cry. I was afraid, not of Matt, not of myself, but to ever go back home. I needed to attempt to find a stable own place to stay, I was 18, I could hopefully find somewhere quick. I felt like I was invading the Sturniolo's house now, even though they were being so sweet to me. I needed to try to find somewhere stable. I was still crying in Matt arms and he just held me.

"You're okay princess I promise, everything is alright." He held me close to him.

I finally calmed don after about an hour, and we went back to sleep. He held me close to him while we slept, I felt safe, which is a feeling I was longing for. When we woke up in the morning we drove to school, just like any other day, but during classes I was very distracted, I was researching, I was figuring out how to find my own apartment, because I was tired of living in fear. I wanted a decently normal life finally. Finally after not paying attention in Math at all because I was too busy staring at Matt, school was over. When I walked to my locker, Matt came up and hugged me from behind.

"Hi," I leaned into him.

"Hello," He spoke soft.

"So, are you uh, busy later?" I asked.

"No, why?" 

"Well. I decided last night, through my breakdown, I'm going to look for an apartment. I make enough money to pay for my own rent and provide for myself, and I'm tired of living in constant fear of the time I'm going to have to go back to my fathers." I spoke quickly.

"That's huge, I'm super proud of you, that's a big decision, I'd be happy to come help you look, so would Nick and Chris if you want them to come too, I do have one question though," He had a huge smile on his face, he was actually happy for me.

"I'd love if they came too, but what's the question?" 

"What about your brother?" He asked.

"He texted me the other day saying that our grandparents are going to fight for custody of him, so he isn't around our dad, because he's fucking insane." I sighed.

"Oh, are you okay? I mean with that?" 

"Yeah, I want him safe, that's all that matters." I smiled.

"Alright, but yeah, we can go right now, to look, do you have addresses?" He asked.

"Yeah,"

"Where are we going?" Chris walked up with Nick.

"I'm going to find myself an apartment, because I need to take control of my life finally." I smiled.

"OH SICK YOUR OWN PLACE THAT WE COULD HANG OUT AT!" Nick grinned.

I laughed at him and we went to the car to start hunting. We went to four of the five different places I had written down and none of them were working out, either it was in a bad area that I didn't trust, or it was molded. There was one place left though, and conveniently 10 minutes away from the triplets house, 5 minutes away from Alahna's, and 10 minutes away from Nate. When the realtor opened the apartment door it was perfect. Two bedrooms, washer and dryer, affordable, spacious, it was perfect. 

"I'll take it, when's the quickest I can move in? I can put a down payment for at least 6 months right now." I said to the man.

"You're very determined, I respect that, this saturday, come get your keys, let's go fill out paperwork." The man smiled at me.

I started to tear up, the triplets cheered and we all walked down to get paperwork signed. When we got down there, just to make sure, the man checked my credit score, he gave a pleasing smile.

"A perfect credit score, and you are only 18, this is outstanding." He praised.

"All on my own sir, I'm a hard worker." I smiled.

"I'm glad to have a tenet like you, please, let me know if you won't be able to pay on time or anything, we can work something out, you seem like you know what you're doing though." He gave me a laugh.

"Thank you so much sir, I'll see you on Saturday." I handed him back the clipboard with a big smile.

"See you on Saturday, Miss Smith." He gave me a nod.

When we walked out of the office to the car, I started to cry tears of joy.

"Oh honey," Nick gave me a big hug, and the other two joined in the hug.

"I'm finally free," I weeped.

"I'm so proud of you," Matt spoke.

We went for celebratory ice cream. We celebrated finally being able to feel safe, not be afraid of living anymore, I finally am able to officially start my new life and falling in love with Matt is the first thing that's happening in it.

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AVA SUBTLEY ADMITS SHES FALLING IN LOVE WITH MATT HOW DO WE FEEL WITH THAT?!? I really hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, I'm finally getting back into uploading a lot, I was hella busy over the weekend, I'm so sorry, but yeah, anyway

I love you guys sm <333

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