sex partners // louis

Chapter 35

When we finally make it upstairs, everyone looks at us like we're crazy. "Uh, guys? It's like 4 in the afternoon." Elyse says, making Samantha giggle. "God, you laugh so much!" "Harry shut up." she snaps, making Niall laugh. "She to-old you!"

"Yeah, sorry. We had some stuff." I say, shoving my face full of popcorn. The power finally turned back on about an hour ago. At least that's what Liam said. Which is amazing, because I'm not freezing anymore. "It's nice to not be wearing my winter coat indoors." I say, receiving a smile from Samantha. "So, guys? We have a bit of a problem." "Problem?" "Yeah. My little sister is being sent home early." "From where?" "She's been at a rehab place because she's hurt herself, and she's coming home tomorrow. I have to pick her up." Oh my god. Is she making a joke because she knows or is she for real? "She's going to have to sleep in her bedroom. Which is downstairs." "Okay?" "So you won't be able to do what y'all were doin last night." Samantha says, giggling again. "Shouldn't be a problem." I say. "Really? I'm irresistible." Louis says, smirking. "How old is she?" I ask. "Twelve." Well fuck. She's not kidding when she says we won't be able to do anything. Oh well. I think Louis's kinda done with me, anyway.

*the next day*

L O U I S

Elyse should be home really soon. She went to get her sister, and Abby is scared to meet her. I think it's because she's scared it will be awkward, but I think it's going to be good for her. After what happened yesterday morning, I want her to see someone else that is struggling but making it through alive. I can't live without her.

"So you didn't tell me this why?" Abby asks Liam. "Because it's not a big deal. Why the fuck are you freaking out?" Abby grabs her arm, right where some of her darkest scars are. But nobody notices but me. She has long sleeves on. "Abby? C'mere." I pull her into the kitchen. "Why are you acting like this?" I ask her. She avoids looking into my eyes. "What if she's a trigger?" "Don't be ridiculous. She's been there for a year, Elyse said so." "So? She could have like really bad scars or something. I need you to watch me, Louis. If I try to get alone stop me." Damn. That place really did help. She's never asked me to do that before. Im glad she is know. I agree, then we go out to meet Elyse's sister as they pull into the driveway.

"Damn! It's freezing!" Abby curses, grabbing my arm as she almost slips on the sidewalk. Elyse gets out of the drivers seat, and a short, chubby-ish girl gets out on the other side. Brown hair, black coat, jeans. Eh. "Hi, I'm Abby." Abby introduces herself, shaking her hand. "I'm Nona." Interesting name. "I like your name." Abby says, making Nona smile. "Lets go inside, it's freezing." I tell them, and we go inside. "Hello everyone, this is Noni." They all shake hands and make introductions, and I see Abby looking at her arms as she takes her coat off. Holy fuck. Her arms are covered in scars. Quite like how Abby's are now. Except Noni doesn't seem to care about hers quite like Abby does.

We eat a dinner of soup, then everyone heads to bed. But Abby tells me to go down without her. "No, you said not to let you for this." "Do it. I need to check on Noni, she's acting too happy." "Why is happiness a good thing?" "Sh, just go." But I don't. I stand in the stairwell and can hear Abby go sit by her on the couch.

"So, rehab?" she asks. "Yeah." "I just got out too. Right before we came here." "For what? I mean, why'd you go?" I'm assuming Abby's pulling her sleeves up. She should be pulling her pant legs up, too. And her shirt. "Self harm. Suicide attempt. What about you?" "Cutting and burning. I was addicted to pain killers." "No good. It ruins your life, doesn't it?" "Mhm. Can you go to bed now?"
"Why?" "I want to watch some tv." "No you don't. Noni, I know that look. You're happy." "What's wrong with happy?" "You've decided what you're going to do if I go down into that basement." "What?" "You heard me." "No! I'm happy because my boyfriend wants to see me tomorrow." Abby whispers something I can't hear. "I'm not lying to you. Now leave me alone before you accuse me of anything else."

About a minute later I walk down with Abby. "I told you to come down." "I said no." She sighs and we get into the bed. But she lays awake for a while. As do I. It's hard for me to sleep until I know she's content. Once she drifts off, I do too.

A B B Y

"Nona? Open the door, sis." Elyse knocks again on the bathroom door. I get up and go into the hall. "Something wrong?" I ask. Elyse shakes her head. "No, she just won't open the door. She turned the water off a while ago, so she should be out by now you'd think." I don't think anything about it and go upstairs to eat some cereal. But when Elyse is still banging on the door 20 minutes later, I drop my spoon and bolt down the stairs, tripping on the third one and slipping down the last 10. "Move!" I yell, running and slamming my body into the door, breaking the hinge. I fall onto the ground, and when I look up- i see what I fucking feared. "Noni?" Then Elyse sees it, too. Noni's body is laying in the tub full of bloody water, upside down, floating. Oh my god. Oh my god. "I'm such an idiot!" I scream, laying down on the floor and bawling. Not to mention that Elyse has fallen on the ground, and.i don't even know what she's doing. Louis runs in and stops immediately. "CALL AN AMBULANCE!" he screams, then goes to the tub and flips her body over. He drops her back in and falls onto his ass. "Oh my god." "I c-coul-couldve fucking prevented this.." I whisper, shaking. I'm kind of envious that Nona is where I wanted to be a while ago. We sit there, Elyse hugging me, and faces start showing up outside the door. An ambulance tells us she's dead, and they take her. Where, I don't know. Oh, god. This is my fault.