When He Saved Me

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I was startled awake at the sound of a knock. Jules comes bouncing in. "Hey babe you're finally awake." She smiles. I smile at her. "Umm good morning what's up?" 

"Well it's technically good afternoon but anyways umm Nicky told me not to come in here and bother you but I just wanted to come in and let you know we're all going down to my families beach house this weekend and you're so invited and me and the girls are going shopping today for outfits for it so are you down?" 

"Oh my god yes, I'm so down!" I smiled I'm so excited I can't wait to hangout with them. 

I don't know the last time I've been able to just go out and have fun with girl friends. Back home when I lived with my parents I wasn't really allowed to do much and Cade never allowed me to go out or anything. 

"Let me just get dressed real fast." I jump out of bed and start looking through my duffel bag for something somewhat appropriate to go shopping but also something that would cover up my bruises. 

Jules leaves me to get changed and tells me to meet her out in the living room when I'm ready. I don't have a lot of really cute clothes in my bag because I packed in a hurry and I never really wore anything else except sweats around Cade because anything else would either show off the bruises or cause him to make a comment on my body. 

I find a sweatshirt and a pair of jeans and decide that'll do and throw them on really quickly and slip on my white sneakers.

I then throw my hair up into a claw clip and apply some makeup on my face and I'm ready to go. I head down the stairs and see the whole crew waiting for me in the living room I smile at everyone and hesitantly make my way to the couch to sit next to Jules who is sitting on Ethan's lap. 

I can feel Asher and Jake staring at me but I avoid looking at them. I lean over to whisper to Jules, "are the boys coming with us?" 

Jules leans over to whisper back but then Ethan leans down and whispers, "what are we whispering about?" I laugh and Jules pushes his head away and rolls her eyes and says to me "no they're going to their own stores but they might meet up with us after for dinner." 

I breathe a sigh of relief I don't think I could handle spending the day with Jake and Asher looking at me all concerned. 

Nicky and Noah soon join us and we all make our way to different cars. All the girls hop into Nicky's white suv and all the boys hop into Noah's black suv and we wave goodbye. 

Jules cranks up the radio blaring some 2000's pop music and starts scream singing along I laugh at her. Brooke starts yelling at her to change it and she finally changes it to Taylor swift and we all start singing along. 

We pull into the parking lot of the mall and make a game plan on which stores we're going to hit up first. We all walk into pacsun upon jules request. 

I just follow them around I've never really been able to shop and buy what I like so I have no idea what I'm doing. I do have a lot of money though I was left an inheritance by my parents I guess they felt guilty or had nobody else to give it to but I never got around to spending it because I was scared Cade would find out I had it and would take it all. 

I walked up and down the store and picked up a couple things I thought might look good on me. The girls have arms full of clothing and turn around to see I picked up 2 things a sundress and a long sleeve top. 

"Girl is that all you're gonna try on I saw that tiny duffel bag you had so I knoww you need clothes?" Jules asks Brooke elbows her "Jules." She scolds. 

"It's okay" I laugh "to be honest I have no idea what I'm doing I've never really shopped for myself before." I said feeling kind of embarrassed to admit it. 

"Oh my god girl we are going to pop your fucking Cherry we're going to have the best time!" Jules squeals and grabs my arm. 

Nicky smiles at me and takes my other arm and says, "we have a couple of rules when it comes to shopping, clothes are meant to fit you not the other way around, find clothes that make you feel good they are for you not for anybody else, and find your color palette which you are 100% a summer meaning we gotta find you bright colors because you're going to look so hot." 

The girls go through the store picking things out for me and throwing them in the growing pile in my arms. Once my arms are full we all hit the fitting rooms. I try on a couple of sundresses, a few bikinis, some denim shorts, and a few different crop tops that I can mix and match. I love all of it and decide to buy it all I can't wait to wear it when my bruises fade. 

We hit up a few more stores and I buy a ton more things and then we stop at Victoria secret. We're all giggling and picking hot as fuck lingerie sets for each other to try on. 

My arms are full of lacy panty and bra sets and a couple hot lacy body suits and we all head to the fitting rooms I try on the sets and look at myself in the mirror. All I see are bruises and scars I don't even recognize myself anymore I bite back the tears and close my eyes and whisper to myself "the bruises do not define you." 

I open my eyes and look at myself again still seeing the same thing I groan and a silent tear slips out. I decide to buy all of it just to make the girls happy. 

I come out of the fitting room with my arms full and start to make my way to the register when I see the other girls talking to the boys. 

Oh great I say to myself. Me and Asher make eye contact and he looks down at everything I'm holding and then smirks my cheeks immediately turn bright red and I basically run to the register to checkout as fast as I can so we can leave. 

I hear Jake yelling at the girls. "Why the fuck would you bring my little sister here she doesn't need any of this crap." Brook steps right in front of him. "First of all you can stop the yelling try and yell at us again and I'll flatten you in 2 seconds. Second of all your sister is 20 years old she's a big girl she can decide for herself what she does and doesn't need besides she's hot af she needs some hot lingerie to match that bod." 

Brooke turns around and winks at me and I laugh. Jake just shakes his head but backs down. I clear my throat suddenly feeling awkward that my brother knows I bought lingerie but you know what he can get over it. "Alright well that was hot but I'm hungry so can we go get lunch now." Ethan asked. Jules punches his arm "oww what was that for." "Read the room Ethan."

We all make our way to the food court. The guys immediately head over to the burger stand and me and the girls make a beeline to chick fil a. I order a Cobb salad and a diet lemonade. After we all get our food we find a table and all sit down. After dinner we all head back to the cars to go back home.