Young Love

Chapter ten

JOE's Pov
It's been two weeks since Liam's public announcement in front of the whole school. I still couldn't believe that he did that, but honestly it has been the best two weeks off my life I haven't been this happy for a very long time, and it's all because of Liam Freeman, I never thought I'd ever say that.
Liam has been staying over ever since I was realized from the hospital, I understand he is concerned about my safety, but ever since that night my dad hasn't touched a drop of alcohol. I guess he remembers what happened and what he did.
"Babe!" I heard Liam shout from the bathroom.
"Yeah?" I shouted back.
"Come here," Liam requested.
I got up from my desk and walked to the bathroom, as I arrived at the bathroom I slowly opened the door, and what I saw next took me by surprise.
I was faced with a freshly showered Liam standing in a small towel just big enough to cover his waist. However I noticed something in the middle off the towel, I smiled to myself as I felt my pants becoming tight. I knew he had noticed me too.
"Come here you," Liam said shyly, as he grabbed my arm and pulled me to him.
I leaned into close the gap between us, just as I was about to kiss the love of my life, suddenly, the ground started to shake violently, I stopped and look at Liam with a horrified look.
"What the h-," before I could continue Liam was pulling me out of the bathroom and towards my bed. Once at the edge of the bed, he knelt down pulling me with him, crawling under it.
"Earthquake!" we heard my dad shout at the top off his lungs.
"We are covered," I shouted back.
I looked over to Liam, I saw his eyes starting to fill with tears, I put my arm around him, I could feel him trembling, I pulled him close and whispered.
"Everything is going to be okay."
Suddenly there was a loud bang, that made us both jump. I peeked my head out from under the bed and saw that my TV had fallen off the stand.
"Its okay, it was just the TV falling," I told Liam.
The lights are flickering like mad now, the shaking getting worse, with more things beginning to fall over. A sudden loud bang came from above us, Liam jumped so badly he hit his head on the furiously shaking floor, so hard that he got knocked out and cut his forehead just above his eyebrow.
"Liam, babe!" I shouted as I shook him.
Liam came round 30 seconds late.
"W-what h-happened?" he stumbled.
"Its okay, you're okay. You just hit your head," I told him as I gently kissed his cheek.
After about 10 minutes the shaking stopped. We both crawled out from under my bed, the state of my room was unbearable, all my things had fallen and broken, we slowly got up off the floor and walked to the bedroom door.
"DAD!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, but there was no response.
I shouted once more but nothing. I looked over to Liam with a frightened look.
"You go down and I will look up here," he said as he placed a slight kiss on my head.
"He is going to be okay, I promise," he continued before walking off.
20 minutes have passed and I still can't find my dad, I have looked everywhere. Liam came down the stairs and shook his head at me, as to say he hasn't found him. Just I was about to give up I realised I hadn't checked the basement.
I ran over to the basement door and swung it open, I ran down the stairs with Liam closely behind, as I reached the bottom of the staircase I stood in silence with water shooting out of the water pipe above me, it had erupted from the shocking force. I could hear a slight groan coming from the side of me, my eyes shot across the room until they locked on my dad, he was trapped under the dryer that had fallen off the washer.
We ran over to him and pulled the dryer off him, it was heavy, I felt pain shooting from my fingers as I held a death grip on the corners, my teeth clenching as we inched it off of him. He sighed with relief as he got up out of the pool of water that was quickly deeping.
"Dad, are you okay?" I asked as I wrapped my arms around him.
"I'm okay. Are you and Liam okay?" he replied as he put his arms around me in return.
I pulled out of the hug and turned to Liam.
"Yeah, we are okay, just like I promised."
Once Mark was free, they headed back to the basement stairs, and began to make their way back up to the house, taking each step at a time helping Mark.

Joes pov
Once we made it back up the stairs, that's when it finally hit us exactly how much damage the earthquake had coursed to the house, everything that was on the tables and shelves, some was broken on the floor. It looked like we had just been robbed.
I looked over to Liam i saw his head was still bleeding from the bang earlier on,
"Dad, Am just going to help Liam clean his head" I spoke breaking the silence as i walked over to Liam,
"Okay son i'm going to start cleaning up" mark replied as he picked up an old wedding photo

Me and Liam walked toward the bathroom, stopping in the kitchen to get the first aid kit on the way. Once we got to the bathroom, i told Liam to take a seat on the toilet whilst getting a wet cloth to wipe the blood away.
"Thanks babe" Liam spoke as he flinched in pain from the stinging of the cut
I just smiled slightly as i finished wiping the blood away
"I Love You" Liam continued to say
"I love you too" i replied leaning in to kiss his fragile forehead

Once we had finished cleaning up Liam we headed back out to my dad, who was in the living room finishing picking up all the objects that had fallen, and began to help him.

After what seemed like days the house was finally back to liveable state, my dad went off to work and me and Liam spent the rest of the day recovering from shock in each others arms.

I slowly looked up to Liam, i was going to say something to him but i got so lost in his eyes i completely forgot what it was, and in that very same moment of time that i forgot what i was saying i realised that i am completely inevitably in love. And for the very first time in a very long time i can say i'm Okay and truly mean it after many years of lying to myself and everybody around me. I get a little bit stronger everyday.

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