Please stop

20. Family of monsters.

I quickly walk out of Declan's room, finally feeling like I can breathe again. His words keep replaying in my head and I can't stop the blush from forming on my cheeks. I walk out of the house and take a deep breathe of the cool fresh air as I walk down the driveway and continue down the road. I stop at a park and call Liam. He picks up and sounds tired.

"Hey baby." He says.

"Can you pick me up?" I ask nervously.

'Yeah, send me your location." He says sighing.

We hang up and I send him my location. I sit on one of the benches and scroll on my phone as I wait. When he shows up, he honks and I rush over to his car. When I'm inside he pulls me into a kiss and when we pull apart, he starts his questioning.

"I thought you stayed at your house?" He asks suspiciously.

"I did." I say with a small smile.

"You're on the other side of town." He states.

"Oh yeah, me and my dad came to the park but I wanted to see you so I just decided to have you come pick me up." I lie.

"Okay, Baby."

I tell him about how the dinner with my parents went and he seems truly happy for me. Im glad he's in a good mood but sometimes it just makes things worse, it confuses me. It gives me hope even though I know that I shouldn't have any. It's been over a year and nothing has changed. Then my phone dings and I look down. It's an Unknown number.

Unkown; hey it's Declan.

I stare at the text, confused. How did he get my number and why is he texting me? I quickly swipe and delete the text before Liam has a chance to see it.

When we get to his house, we go upstairs into his room and I change into one of his t-shirts. I don't bother putting pants on as I lay down next to Liam on his bed. He's scrolling through his phone and I look at the screen with him. I see a notification pop up but he swipes it away quickly before I have a chance to see who it was from. My stomach knots as I get a bad feeling from how quick he was. Im tempted to ask him about it but I really don't want to start an argument so I just decide to attempt to ignore the bad feeling. I lay my head on his chest, wrapping my leg around his waist as his hand rests on my lower back. I close my eyes and lay there taking in the feeling of his warmth and comfort. Eventually I fall asleep.

When I wake up I groggily open my eyes and look at Liam who has also fallen asleep. I softly get off of the bed and throw on a pair of shorts before walking out of his room and going downstairs into the kitchen. I see Finn but I ignore him as I open the fridge, I can tell he's been drinking.

"Hey Cam." He slurs.

"Hi." I say coldly. Still looking in the fridge, hoping that he will just leave me alone.

"Is Liam asleep?" He asks, still walking closer to me. I get a bad gut feeling and I close the fridge backing up from him.

"Yeah..." I say quietly.

"You're so sexy." He says, caging me against the wall.

"Finn leave me alone." I say loudly. My breathing getting heavier in fear.

!!!TRIGGER WARNING SEXUAL ASSAULT ATTEMPT!!!

He leans down and tries to kiss me, I turn my head and yell loudly for Liam. Finn puts his hand around my throat and squeezes so hard that it makes me choke. I try to fight against him but there's no use, all I see in his eyes is pure rage. I finally hear running down the stairs and Liam pulls Finn off of me and yells at him, I gasp for air and slide down the wall crying. I hear his parent run out and Jennifer quickly walks over to me and hugs me as David breaks up the boys.

"What the hell happened?!" Jennifer yells, rubbing my back.

"Finn was fucking choking her!!" Liam yells, clearly livid.

I stay in Jennifers arms, sobbing as they all argue about what happened. When everything calms down I stand up and Liam comes up to me and holds me.

"I want to go home." I mumble to Liam.

"Okay baby, we'll go." He says grabbing his keys.

When we get in the car, he hands me a pair of sweatpants to throw on and then I look in the passenger mirror and see red hand marks around my neck. It makes me sick just looking at them. David really did ruin his sons but all I know is I will never step foot in that house again.