⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️
Mentions of rape
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Willow Bearman, London, 5:30 am, Friday, 31st May
I spent all night awake. At some point he moved a bit, but not much. At least he's resting.
I see a shadow in the door and a doctor comes in. "Hi, sorry." He whispers, Paul is sleeping very deeply so he doesn't even move. "I'm doctor Taylor, I'll be with you until his discharged. When he wakes up please press that button it will call me and from there we'll probably be able to tell when he'll be discharged. If he's still sleeping at 9 am, please wake him up, we have some questions and he might remember something."
I thank him and he gets out. When he closes the door I feel Paul's grip on my waist tightening. He moves a bit and turns to face the ceiling, he rubs his eyes in a 'childish' way and then looks at me. He's eyes are pretty when he wakes up.
"Morning sleeping beauty." I say getting a groan in response. He gets up and goes to a door in the room, which I think is the bathroom. While he's there I press the button and wait.
"Hi miss Bearman, you called?" Doctor Taylor says.
"Yes, Paul's in the bathroom, he'll be out in any minute." I say, said and done, he came out right after I said it.
"Hi Paul. I'm Doctor Gil Taylor, I need you to lay there again." He says. "I'm going to take some blood. But this needle is a bit bigger than usual. You might want Miss Willow to hold your hand or just hold onto the bedsheet."
He takes my hand. Fuck! When the doctor said it was bigger I thought it was just a little bit. He makes a faint sound. Shit, it must hurt so much. Taking from the strength he held my hand it must've hurt like a bitch.
"Sorry Paul. We needed to do this, to know if the drug is completely out of your system. This might be hard to hear, but we think you might have been assaulted. We need you to try and remember anything from the party you went."
"I don't think I remember much." He says playing with my fingers. "We arrived at the bar at 10 pm. We started drinking, I was with Ollie and Dino, we were the only people who drank. I picked up my second beer, which was all I drank, and after a bit I started feeling a bit dizzy. Which isn't normal, I can handle more usually. But I just thought it was because I was tired. The last thing I remember is a woman talking to me and soon after I passed out. I remember waking up in a room, my whole body was aching, and getting out of there to find my friends, I checked my phone and it was about 2 am."
"Well, we'll work with that. Thank you Paul. Press the button if you remember or need anything. Any detail you remember helps a lot Paul. Remember that." The doctor says and leaves the room.
"I'm sorry." I whisper.
"What for?" He says.
"This whole situation." I tell him holding his hand a bit tighter. "It's awful."
"You don't have to be sorry." He says, fiddling with my fingers.
"This week was supposed to be fun." I say hiding my face on his shoulder. "If you don't feel like going to watch the comp I don't mind at all."
"And it will be, it has been." He hugs me. "It's awful that this shit happened, but it's your and Sofia's time to shine and I'd love to be there to watch you."
"Fine." I say hugging him closer. "We're all here for you, remember that."
"Yeah, thanks Willy." He says and I move again to lean against the bed, he lays his head on my chest and I play with his golden hair. "You know. You can count on me with anything. After the whole Tyler situation I realized I haven't been the greatest of friends to you."
"What do you mean?" I ask, still playing with his hair.
"I haven't been there for you lately," He says. "I was to focused on my career to hang out with you."
"But that's totally ok Paulito." I say. "All of you are, specially you after being dropped by Mercedes."
"Ouch." He says. "But still, I still feel kinda guilty for not being there for you."
"Well, why don't we forget that and just be here for each other from now on?" I ask.
"Pinky promise?" He asks sitting up and holding his pinky up.
"Pinky promise." I interlock our fingers and he hugs me, I hug back. The whole pinky promise thing might seem childish, but in our friend group it was always important, no one can break a pinky promise.
"What time do you have to go?" He asks sitting in his spot drinking a cup of water.
"After lunch. I'll go home to pick up my make up bag, that's probably weighting a ton because I'm in every single routine, and then we'll rehearse until 4 and at that time the competition starts. It only ends at midnight, I think." I say.
"Then I'll be there." He says. "What do you want to do until then?"
"I brought uno, let's play." I say picking it from my bag.
"Prepare to lose Beargirl!" He says.
"You competitive asshole." I say separating the cards.
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Sofia Rodriguez, London, 12:40 pm, 31st May
"Thank you for coming Arvid." I tell him, hugging him. "You helped us up a lot, isn't that right Isa?"
The little girl only nods. "Of course, I'm here if you ever need anything."
"Yeah, thank you really." I say walking him to the door of my apartment, my parents are at work, Isa didn't go to school today because she had a bit of a fever, that thankfully went away now.
"No prob Sofs." He says. "Good luck for the competition."
"Thank you!" I tell him. He smiles, God I love that smile. He's about to leave when he suddenly stops.
"Actually, I have to tell you something." He says, I frown and wait for a continuation. "Sofs, you're an incredible human being. Like, you're great, you're nice and you care for the ones you love. Since the day that we met I knew that you would be an amazing friend. But I never thought that I would want you to be anything more than that and...Holy shit, this is too sappy."
"Shut up." I put my arms around his neck and kiss him. OH. MY. GOD. I'm kissing him. He kisses back.
"OH MY GOD. Arvid and Sofia in a tree. K-I-S-S..." Isabella says, no screams making us let go of each other.
"Cállate pendeja." I say but I'm smiling.
"Goodbye girls." He says hugging Isa and then me and he gives me a peck. I close the door behind him.
"You're cute." She says.
"Thank you pequeña." I say and kiss the top of her head. "I'm leaving, mamá and papá will pick you up at 3:30 ok?"
"Ok. Te quiero." She says.
"Tanbién te quiero." I say and leave the house.
Willow is going to lose her shit when I tell her this.
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