The Bitch Wars 2

Chapter 10 - Please

I sat there in the darkness, everyone hated me. I didn't deserve them. Tonight I lost it. Tears ran down my face, my cold face. I could feel my makeup screaming down my face, like ink. I wanted to crawl into a hole and slowly die, I didn't want anyone to find me. I wanted someone to come up to me and just kill me, right here and right now. I hated everyone but most of all I hated myself, it was my fault for everything. I was crying uncontrollably. I curled up by the bench and continued to cry. Watching the cars pass by. After several minutes a black BMW pulled up and a tall dark haired boy stepped out, Logan. He ran towards me and pulled me towards him, he hugged me tightly, as if he was trying to keep me safe from someone, myself. "I'm am so sorry I called you, I know I barely know you but I had no one else to call no one else picked up." I said in between sobs. "shhh its okay." he said as he he hugged me tightly. My head rested against his chest, I could feel his steady heartbeat. 

"I'll take you  home okay?" He said as he picked me up and gently put me in his backseat. "no..no please I don't want to go home." I didn't want to explain my whole at home situation to him. He looked back at me, "well, I'd be more than fine with you crashing at my place." he said as he restarted the car. I half smiled and tried to hold in my tears. "thank you." I said while whipping my eyes on my coat. "when we get to my place, you're going to tell me all about what happened okay?" I nodded. I didn't want him to tell him, but at the same time I needed him to be there for me. 

We drove for about twenty minutes, he lived in an apartment right next to Upenn, with several other guys as roommates. We pulled up to his apartment and when into the car park and parked. I felt hungover and weak. Logan scooped me out of the car and carried me into the elevator and into the eleventh floor where he lived. "A few of my mates are still at home, but they won't bother you." He said in his slight australian accent. 

He opened the door, the smell of beer and popcorn hit me, "oooh who do you have here Logan?" Said one of the guys, he had bright blonde hair  and was also lean. He put me down and I looked around the room, I felt like a child amongst grownups. "This is Aria, we met at the hospital, she was having a bad day so stay out of it." He said. 

"you can sleep in my room for the night okay?" he said as he opened his bedroom door. Even though I had just met him I felt incredibly safe around him. 

He tucked me in and then sat right next to me, "so Aria, I'm guessing you're not always this troubled but tell me, what went wrong?" he said in a soft and mellow voice.

I began to explain to him about Alison, my family, A, the car crash, Hanna and all of the other things that made me lose it. 

Surprisingly, Logan was an amazing listener. "its sweet how, how much you care about your brother, with girls like Hanna, he's going to have to learn the hard way." He said, for a eighteen or nineteen year old guy he was an incredible listener. "Alison? as in Alison Dilaurentis? I knew her brother!" "he was a nice guy." He added. I was confused, "was?" 

"you see, after his sister death, his family went off the deep end and so did he." Logan was right.

"I can't believe what you've gone through, for a sixteen year old, that's not normal."  Logan said as he pushed a lock of hair out of my face. I only left one thing out, I didn't tell him about Ezra or the baby. I smiled. "Thank you for being there for me." I said as I hugged him. "So Aria, because I practically saved you, when are you giving me that first date you owe me." He said, half joking. I smiled. He sunk down onto the bed comfortably and kissed me, I kissed him back. For the first time a guy was there for me, let me sleep in his bed without doing anything further. 

I was finally getting a little bit more sober, until the hungover finally hit me around three in the morning.  Logan let go of me, tucked me in and let my sleep in his bed, he left to go hang out with his buddies in the living room, I was still half asleep but I could hear their conversations for a while. 

"seriously Logan, who is the chick you just brought home?" said one of them. 

"She's Aria, she goes to Rosewood high." He said nothing more.

"wow dude, you going  for younger chicks haha, what about Correy?" 

"Courtney, and I are over remember? she cheated on me."

Just before I fell into a deep sleep, my phone buzzed. My sleepy hands pulled my bag off the floor and dug out my phone and read the text, from A. 

WOW! what an exciting party! so much happened, a whole lot of love, especially with Hanna boy, that girl knows how to sneak around with her new boy, Arias Brother. Whoops we can't forget about Aria, who seemed to run out of the party and into the arms or a stranger, a college boy, he seems to perfect doesn't he? well, he's hiding something to! Anyways, Wonder how Ezra's going to react, maybe he already knows.

- Kisses,

-  A