heedless by romanshome

drunk

The pale blue walls that surrounded Athena drew in on her.Back laid flatly against her mattress, hooded eyes staring blankly at the foot of her bed—she feltalone. Isolated. Just as she had promised, she returned home after getting medication for her wrist.

A small—white cast had been wrapped around the fractured bone, and due to her father being anArab, he absolutely freaked out when he saw what had happened to her. She had told him the samelie that she had uttered to Slughorn and Malfoy, and told him that she wanted to rest in her home.Every couple hours, he would deliver food to her. She pretended to sleep—not wanting to speak toanyone right now and spark a conversation. He would rub his head and kiss the top of her head,and then shut her bedroom door with a click. But what he didn't know was that she was indeedwide awake, curled into her side, sinking her teeth into her lower lip to suppress the cries thatthreatened to leave her lips. Silent tears rolled down her cheeks.Break was supposed to end in about two days, and she did not want to attend school once again.

She had only been home for about a week now, and although she missed her family—she couldn'tface anyone right now. She couldn't pretend to be okay when she was slowly withering awayinside. Seeing people chatter around her as their daily lives carried on—didn't make sense to her.Because she felt like her entire life had just been snatched by the one person she always spent timewith. The one person she gave everything to.He was her first everything.But her mind wasn't stuck on his silver, smoke-filled eyes. They were focused on the feeling of hisfather's fingers weaving through her hair, promising to make her feel better—just like he alwaysmanaged to do. The way his touch felt on the flesh of her thighs as he tried to find a cure to theending of her pain. The way his eyes would glint whenever he looked at her, brows lightlyfurrowed as if he was trying to figure her out. He always saved her. And the way her name tumbledfrom his perfect pink lips, voice silky and hoarse, made a butterfly flap its wings of pure infatuationinto the corner of her chest. Right beside her heart.

And she wanted him. More than anything.But she was too weary to compete with Dakota. Her daughter had snatched her first love's figureeight out of her grasp—so who's to say that her mother won't do the same to Mr. Malfoy? Hesounded quite convincing when he admitted that he wanted no one other than Athena, but shecouldn't bring herself to trust him. She couldn't trust anyone. She believed that everyone secretlyloathed her on the inside, and that he would too drop her as soon as he grew worn out on herpresence.She hadn't been texting her friends back. Pushing them away. Any type of social interaction madeher feel nauseous.Her phone had rang. She didn't flinch, keeping her position on the bed, until it rang again.Someone had been calling her. She let the tone play out before it began once again, repeating thecycle. After about four more rings, she twisted her mouth to the side before letting out anaggravated sigh—and snatched the small, black device off the table. But when her eyes met thecontact name on the screen, her heart shattered.Turning the phone off, it was still in her palm as it began ringing another time. Her browsfurrowed. Was he okay? She shouldn't even care if he was hurt. He broke her wrist, convinced herthat she was entirely nothing without him, and cheated on her more times than she probably evenknew. And the horrific thing about the matter is that he showed no compassion towards her.So when she swiped her thumb over the screen, she mentally called herself an idiot.She held it up to her ear, hand shaking, as her eyes turned watery. Her bottom lip trembled. "What—do you—want?"There was a heavy breath that sounded through the other line. Her eyes narrowed as she heard aslur of words in the background. "Tee Tee! I—miss you babe. You looked so pretty at the party,"his wobbly voice was cut off with a hiccup before he smacked his lips, his voice breathy anduneven. "I can't see you. Where....are you?"