Broken (A Zach Bryan Fan Fiction)

Chapter 10

ZACH'S POV

I stormed in through my dad's front door, still angry as could be. My dad looked up at me from the recliner he was sitting on in the living room.

"Woah, Zach" he started "what is going on?"

"She's a liar" I spat.

He looked confused but started speaking "why don't you start from the beginning and tell me what's going on?"

I began to recount the events that let up to this. I told my dad how she had told me early on that she had moved away from her father because they had grown apart and then I continued on to tell him what happened today. About the text I read and how she lied to my face about it, and it seemed like a hell of a lot more than just "grown apart". I continued to rage on until my father interrupted me.

"Zach" he shouted "what the hell is wrong with you?"

"What do you mean, what is wrong with me?" I asked bewildered.

"She moves to town out of the blue on her own, she looked as if she had been through some sort of abuse and skirts around the subject of her family" he starts.

"Yeah, and?" I asked not clueing in.

"You're an idiot" he states "It sounds like she was abused by her father and was trying to get away from him Zach..."

"Oh, shit..." then it all hit me.

She froze when she saw his name, about how she never wanted to talk about her own family.

"I need to make sure she's okay, I just left her there" I said in a panic before racing back out the front door.

BRYNN'S POV

He left, and slammed the door behind him, leaving me all alone to deal with this mess.

I shouldn't have lied to him, what did I do? I just ruined the one good thing I had going for me. And my father, how, how did he get out? Can he really find me? I'm in the middle of nowhere.

Before I knew it I was gasping for air, I can't do this. I can't live like this anymore, I want to be free, I want my mom back. 

I stumbled from the living room to the bathroom blinded by my tears. I ripped open the bathroom door and tore apart my vanity finding everything and anything I could. I pulled my razor from the shower and smashed it off the counter, the cheap plastic exploded all over the bathroom. I picked up the shiny razor blades and set them aside. I continued to dig through the vanity until I found a bottle of prescription pills. I grabbed a glass of water from the kitchen and walked back to the bathroom locking the door behind me.

"This is it mom, I'm coming for you" I whispered.

I grabbed the razor blade off of the counter, my hands were shaking. I took one last look at my pathetic self in the mirror before pressing the blade into my skin. I winced in pain but continued creating more cuts, droplets of blood started to fall to the floor. It was then that I heard my apartment door open and heard Zach calling my name. Shit I thought to myself. By now my entire body was trembling, I could hear Zach frantically calling my name, I needed to finish this before I put him through anything else. 

"Open the door Brynn" he pleaded.

I kept quiet, trying to get the lid off of the bottle.

"Brynn, I'm not kidding, open the damn door" he said while aggressively trying to open the door.

I heard his footsteps receding and figured that he had given up.

I finally managed to pull the lid off of the pill bottle, as I shook out the contents of the bottle into my hand the bathroom door swung open. Zach grabbed my hand before I could bring it to my mouth and he scattered the pills all over the floor.

"No!" I screamed, frantically trying to pick up the loose pills.

Zach's strong arms wrapped around me, and I tried to wriggle free from his grasp. Without a word he scooped me up in his arms and carried me out to the living room. He set me down and walked back to the bathroom.

"Please" I begged "please go away, please let me finish this"

He sat there without saying a word, but his eyes were filled with pain and tears that were threatening to escape.

I tried to pull my arms away, but he gently pulled them back towards him to examine them. The cuts were mostly superficial, he cleaned them up and began to bandage them. I continued to try pulling away but I wasn't successful, he was too strong.

I was sitting on the couch and he was kneeling on the floor in front of me, I couldn't help, but stare at my hands. He gently placed a finger beneath my chin and slowly raised my head to look him in the eyes. I collapsed into his arms in a puddle of tears, he stroked my hair and held me tight both of our tears falling freely to the floor. 

Once we both collected ourselves, I looked up at him and said "Why? Why couldn't you let me just die?"

He looked shocked by the words that had just come out of my mouth.

"I like you Brynn" he started "I like you too much to let anything happen to you"

My heart started beating extremely fast, what did he mean by that?

He leaned forward and placed a sweet kiss on my forehead.

"I need you to tell me what's going on" he stated simply.

I nodded and he stood up from where he was kneeling on the floor and sat down on the couch next to me.

~whisperingspring