The Chim Factor

Chapter 12

Cheryl's POV

Me and Kimba have been together for just less than a week by now and I must say it's been the best few days of my life.

Just spending time with her without any interruptions.

We were currently in Kimba's car on the way to the hotel in Manchester that we are staying in for the auditions tomorrow. There's only one day of auditions so we are staying over tonight and tomorrow night.

The producers at X Factor had booked us two separate rooms but somehow I don't think they were both gonna be slept in.

We were told they were close to each other so it should be easily enough to sneak into.

We had to pretend that we weren't together in front of people here, we had spoke the other night no decided that for now it would be better if it was just us too.

We didn't want people to get involved and ruin things really and the more people from the X Factor that knew the more chance of fans and journalists finding out.

It was gonna be hard because normally at these auditions I with Kimba a lot and whenever I see her I want to hug or kiss her but I can't do that.

People did know that I lived with her though so we could get away with arriving at the hotel and leaving together and hopefully the odd hug every now and then.

This is also the first auditions since everyone had found out what Jean had been doing to me.

All of my fans had been sending me constant messages on twitter asking what happened and if I was ok, so a few days ago through my management I sent out a statement revealing what happened but telling them I was now fine.

The police had also been in contact with me, apparently the morning Jean had walked out of our house he had flown back to France.

Due to the cream that Kimba has been putting on my bruises every morning and every night they are almost gone, they are faint now but still hurt if I touch them.

I hadn't left Kimba's house the whole time I was there because I was scared of what the paps or people would say, or whenever paps are around they crowd me and I was scared of one of them bumping into me and making my bruises hurt, so I stayed inside.

Before leaving the house this morning, Kimba promised me that if there were any paps lurking around she would protect me which made me feel safer.

I was also slightly worried about what people would say but I don't think there's a high chance of the contestants saying anything about it.

Simon, Mel B and Louis had come round to Kimba's house the same day I had realised the statement just to see how I was.

I was happy that I didn't need to go in to the hotel now and tell them because they already knew, I should be able to put it behind me now, and hopefully not talk about it again.

"Cheryl?"

Kimba's voice pulled me from my thoughts and made me jump slightly.

"Yeah?"

"You ok? You dazed off there for a bit." She placed her hand over my knee so I took her hand in mine. I instantly felt comforted when I was having some sort of contact with her. She was driving but she seemed to be able to do it with one hand.

"I'm fine, just thinking."

"You wanna talk about it?"

"No. It's not important."

"Ok, well I was just gonna tell you that we are round the corner from the hotel and Simon texted me, apparently there's paps outside."

I felt my body tense up slightly and she must have felt it from my hand.