Anastasia's POV:
I froze. "Guys...." I said with a crack in my voice. I hopped out of the pool and ran into the house. I could hear Shawn calling my name but I stayed in the house.
Shawn came into the house and saw me in the kitchen. I was shaking and crying. "S-Shawn..." I stuttered. A tear slipped down Shawn's cheek. He wrapped me up in a tight hug and kissed my forehead. I felt..... Safe and loved. "Anastasia, you are way to beautiful to be hurting your self you hear me?" Shawn asked. I nodded into his bare chest. "I'm so sorry Shawn." I cried. "It's okay baby." Shawn said rubbing my back. Baby? Okay. "Give me your arm." He said looking down at my forearm. I held it up to him. Shawn kissed all of my cuts. "Thank you Shawn." I said quietly.
"You'er welcome." Shawn whispered back. "Anastasia, if someone ever hurts you come to me. If someone ever says something hurtful to you, tell me. Because I will protect you. I promise." Shawn said looking into my eyes with care.
"Okay?" He asked holding my hands. "Okay." I smiled. "Okay, do you want to tell everyone else what's going on?" Shawn asked softly. "Yeah, can you bring them inside?" I asked. Shawn nodded and went outside to get everyone inside. Everyone walked inside and we all sat down in the living room.
"Okay guys. I'm going to tell you something that I don't usually tell people." I said with a shaky sigh.
"It started in the 4th grade when I started getting bullied. I don't know why everyone bullied me. I was nice to people, I never hurt anyone. First it was verbal abuse, when I got older, when I was around twelve, the physical abuse started. I would get punched, slapped, rocks thrown at me, I would get hit with plastic jumping rope. The girls name was Samantha. Samantha would punch me and talk down to me. And I let it happen. So did everyone else. Everyone saw it. No one did anything to help me. Then a boy who lived down the street from me in Chicago would bully me too. Physical, verbally and semi-sexually, The guys name was Brad. He would come over and break into my house and beat me. Then one time I told him to stop. He beat me ever harder and then he told me to do sexual things that I didn't want to do with him. He made me do things that I never wanted to do." I said crying everyone looked shocked
"Then I moved when I was 14 to a different part of Chicago. That's when the bullying got really bad. People would tell me to kill myself, they would tell me I'm worthless, that no one wanted me alive. And I believed them. So I started cutting. One time I blacked out due to the loss of blood. I developed anxiety and depression. I have gotten better. I still do have slight depression and anxiety. But I'm good. I'm a lot better. I'm alive and breathing." I trailed off.
I looked up to see tears in everyone's eyes. "Anastasia we are so sorry." Leah said crying. "There is no need to be. I'm okay." I told her getting up and sitting next to her with a smile. I hugged her and smiled harder. "But thank you guys." I said going around hugging everyone.
"Okay guys. I'm sorry for the sob story. But I don't want to dwell on that anymore. I honestly just want to have a good time, can we please go back outside and swim?" I asked.
"LETS PARTY" Ian yelled. We all laughed and ran to the pool.
I went inside and grabbed glow sticks to throw into the pool since it is dark out. I went back outside and threw the glow sticks in the pool. It looked so amazing.
I swam over to Shawn and hugged him. "Thank you Shawn." I whispered in his ear. "You'er welcome Anastasia, I'll be here anytime you need me." Shawn said kissing my forehead again. I smiled and splashed Shawn.
"It's on now." Shawn said grabbing me and carrying me out of the pool. "Shawn put me down!" I laughed and hit his back. "Nope!" He yelled back and threw me into the water. I came above water catching my breath. "Shawn oh my god! Warn me next time!" I said a tad mad but it's okay. "I'm sorry." Shawn apologized.
"Guys I'm getting cold can we go inside please?" Laur asked. "Yeah come on guys I'm freezing." I said hopping out of the pool and wrapping a tall around my body.
We went inside and the girl went in a room I change. "Shit guys." I said forgetting about me bringing clothes. "What?" Laur and Leah asked concerned. "I forgot my clothes at my house and I don't want to go over there because I'm lazy." I laughed. "I gotcha boo." Laur said snapping her fingers. Laur gave me a pair of yoga leggings, and a tie-dyed shirt. I put them on and showed Leah and Laur. "Ya know what, keep it. You look good." Laur said giving me a thumbs up. I thanked her and walked down stairs with everyone. We all decided to watch a movie. "Which movie are we watching?" I asked hyper and jumped on the coach. "We are watching The Conjuring." Shawn said jumping on the coach with me. "Alright come n five year olds get down from the couch." Leah said laughing. We all sat on the couch except for Brian and Ian. They were on the floor.
In the middle of the movie I started to get cold. I started to get goosebumps and my nose started to get red. "Anastasia are you cold?" Shawn whispered to me. "Yeah I actually am." I giggled. "Here." Shawn said taking off his maroon obey hoodie and giving it to me. I put the hoodie on and felt warmer. The hoodie smelled just like him. It smelled so good.
I started to get sleepy. I felt my eyelids getting heavy and I fell asleep in Shawn's arms.
A/N: Hey guys! I hope that you guys liked this chapter! Don't forget to vote! I love you guys!
~Ana
