A Broken Dream (A One Direction Fanfiction)

Chapter Five: A Meeting

A bit of language at the end but other than that its pretty good. :)

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Leah's POV

I stayed in the woods a bit longer, admiring the pure innocence. I don't remember being innocent. I wish I could be innocent.

I made my way back to the house as slowly as possible. I picked up a wildflower along the way and tucked it safely behind my ear.

Creeping back through the window, I gracefully fell onto the dark blue carpet. I set my guitar back on its stand and opened my laptop back up to twitter.

12:23 AM it read on the clock in the corner of the screen. Spent a little too much time in the woods, i guess. Screw it, I'm not getting any sleep tonight.

"How did you guys like the performance? So much fun :) fave part of the week by far xx" I typed into twitter. I automatically got dozens of replies, until one caught my eye.

"It was brilliant babe :) xx" it wasn't so much the message, but the sender.

@harry_styles. What. Even.

I frantically hit the keyboard to type in his name.

"@harry_styles thank you so much! That means a lot :)" Before I could comprehend, I found a message in my inbox with the same sender.

"hello! my name is harry:)" For such a beautiful boy, he had no typing skills

"Hi :D I'm Leah. It's nice to meet/talk to you:)"

"Well hello leah:) i believe you are a fan of mine, am i wrong? ;)" I blushed at the bluntness of his question.

"No, Mr. Styles. I am a fan of One Direction. The band you associate yourself with ;)" Oh god, we were already flirting.

"my apologies, miss. Haha xx i understand that you have a skype as well, yes?" I responded quickly and soon enough, I was skyping Harry Edward Styles.

His curls were a bit out if place but fit perfectly on his head. Green eyes shining, smile beaming, dimples... erm... dimply.

"Hello! I'm Harry!" He waved his hand wildly and I bit back a smile.

"Hi, I'm Leah." I waved slightly, then decided against it. Instead, I tucked a stray piece of hair behind my ear. That's when I heard it. The first footstep.

Oh god, he was awake.

"Well I rea-"

"Shhh, I'm sorry, just for a minute. I'm going to put the computer in the closet but please don't hang up! Just wait a minute and be very quiet, please!" I put the laptop on the floor and slid it to the closet. I shut the barred doors and sat down on my bed again.

"Leah!" The glow from the screen was just visible if you stared at the doors and I was thankful for that. My dad came barging in seconds after I pulled the covers over my shoulders.

"Wake up bitch! You need to clean the damn house tomorrow. I'm gonna have company over. And why the hell were you talking? No one wants to talk to you! If you wake me up one more time I swear to god you'll regret ever being born!"

"I already do!" I spat at him as he turned around.

Then it came. I wish I had turned the laptop around. My cheek tingled and I'm sure it turned a vibrant shade of red. Then the door slammed.

"Leah!" I heard Harry's voice from the closet.

"Sh." I quickly snatched the laptop up and slid out the window again.

When I was a safe distance away, I sat down on the grass.

"How much of that did you hear and/or see?" I rested the laptop in front of me and sat crisscrossed.

"All of it. Who was that? And D-did he h-hit you?" I sighed and shook my head slightly.

"That's my dad. Yeah, he hit me, but I'm fine. I deserved it. It's fine."

"You did not deserve that, Leah! He hit you! That is not okay! No good parent should ever touch you like that!" There was anger building in his eyes.

"Please, just drop it Harry. Please?" There were silent tears slipping down my cheeks and his features softened a bit.

No one has ever cared this much about me...

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Really hope you liked this chapter! What's going to happen with Harry and Leah?

It's a crap storm guys. lol.

But if you do know a person being abused or you, yourself, is being abused please seek help. It is okay to get help, I don't want to see you hurt again :c

I love you! Stay beautiful, 

Brittany