Stronger

Chapter 5: ''I'll protect you''

** HARRY’S POV**

I can't stand seeing her hurt, but telling her everytihng would only make it worse. She was my girl and I didn’t want anything bad to happen to her. I hug her as she hides her face in my chest. I feel her warm breathing in my neck as she tries looking into my face. All I could see were her watery blue eyes that always catch my attention. Before thinking anymore, there was nothing I could think of but kissing her. I just had to. I had to feel the taste of her lips I’ve been missing for too long. As I touch her lips, she takes me by surprise, by not pushing me away from her. Instead she strokes through my curly hair, only for me left to intensly holding her. Our kiss felt like hours, like days, but in fact it was only a few seconds. She pulls her face away before I can go on, she looks me in the eyes and said ‘’I’ve missed you Harry’’, this one definitely took me by surprise and I can't help but smile as I said ‘’I’ve missed you too baby.’’ She then burried her head into my neck and we just sit there, hugging for what felt like hours. After a while she says ‘’what went wrong Harry? Please explain’’… I remain sillent for a moment, deciding wheter to tell her the truth or not.. ‘’I don’t think I- I don’t think I should tell you right now’’, I say. She then struggled out of my grip and stood up. ‘’I’m sorry, but what did you say?’’ ‘’I can’t tell you right now, I’m sorry’’, she didn’t hesitate as she turned around and walked towards the door. ‘’W-w-ait, where are you going? You can’t just go’’, ‘’I think it’s better if I leave’’, she says as she nears the door. I am frozen for a second as I watch her walk away, I am thinking of what would happen if I chased her and what would happen if I would let her walk, I think for a second and I realise I had to chase her. I make a quick run and I see she didn’t even leave the hall yet. ‘’Brooke, please wait’’ I scream. ‘’I’m willing to explain, but it’s for the best if I don’t right now, please don’t go, don’t leave me..’’ she turns around and walks towards me, ‘’Leave you? You mean like.. you mean like you left me? Is that what you mean? Cause I’m certainly willing to do the same to you, but I wonder if it would even hurt you, like it hurted me.’’ At those words I freeze again, they hurt and I didn’t expect her to say them like that. Her eyes were cold and she really didn’t look bothered at all. ‘’No, please don’t Brooke, please’’, I reply, almost beggin’, ‘’just give me a chance’’, I quickly say. She stares at me for a moment and I can see her eyes starting to water again. I can feel what she's feeling, she's afraid. I can clearly tell. ‘’Okay’’, she quietly says as she walks towards my wooden door once again with me following her.

**BROOKES' POV**

‘’Explain what you want to explain’’, I say to Harry after I walk into his living room. I'm standing there with my arms crossed over each other, waiting for Harry to make up an answer. ‘’This is taking way too long..’’ I quietly say, which he must’ve heard, because he says ‘’I-I don’t know what to say..’’ ‘’I can only say one thing and that is that I am sorry. Brooke, I truly am sorry, but I-I don’t know if I can explain it to you, cause if you knew it would be even harder.. Just please, don’t go, I want you to stay and I want you to forgive me..’’ He says. ‘’Forgive you? Harry, how can I forgive you if you can’t even tell me the reason for your behaviour? You just left me, when I needed you Harry and how can you possibly say it would be even harder? Like this wasn’t hard enough already. Just tell me, why you left and I’ll stay.’’ ‘’I can’t’’, Harry replies and with him saying that I turn around and walk towards the door, again, how cliché I think. ‘’Brooke wait’’, I turn around and say ‘’I’m not ready to waste a chance on you again, bye Harry, I can’t believe I actually thought you’d explain and tell me the truth, I can’t believe I even slightly thought we would work out again.’’ I turn around again and as I near the door I hear Harry shout ‘’they threathend me.’’ I suddenly freeze and I can't believe what he is saying. ‘’Who threathened you’’ I say as I turn my face towards his. ‘’They’re back Brooke..’’, he quietly says as I can hear him quietly tearing up. ‘’B-but, why? How do you mean they’re back? They can’t be? Can they? Harry?’’, ‘’they told me they’d hurt you if I kept seeing you, I had no choice, I’m sorry. They told I couldn’t contact you nor could my friends, I’m sorry, I had to protect you Brooke’’ he says as he looks down. I'm still frozen in my spot. because I just can't believe what he just said. Was this for real? Where they really back? I'm afraid and Harry could tell, cause he walks towards me and hugs me tightly. ‘’We’ll get through this together, I’ll protect you’’, he says as I burry my face in his chest. ‘’I promise you’’ he whispers.