Innocence

Chapter 17: Leave Me Alone

As Klaus walked away with me hanging onto his shoulder, I was crying for help. It was no use...no one would hear my cries and screams...And even if Damon came over to help me, he would get hurt. I wouldn't want him to get hurt. 

"Come on, love. Screaming and crying for help won't do you any good. Your with me, now." Klaus said as he kept walking with me still hanging over his shoulder. I didn't know what to think right now. There was nothing I could do. I was a human, and he was a hybrid. It's not like I can force myself out of his arms. Why was he doing this to me? He told me he loves me, but why would he turn my brother? He wouldn't love me if he did that. 

"...He doesn't love me..." I said quietly to myself, thinking he didn't hear.

"Hmm?" He replied.

"What?" 

"What did you say, Scar?" 

"Nothing..."

"Tell me. I won't get upset." 

"..."

"Come on, come out with it." He said as he still had me over his shoulder.

"...I said that you don't love me." He put me down on the ground and had me face him.

"Why do you think that." He said, starting to get angry with me.

"I think it because I know that it's true." 

"Scarlet, I do love you." Klaus said to me looking into my eyes.

"No you don't. You really don't." I said starting to walk away from him. At this point I was crying my eyes out, and my makeup was all smudged. 

"What makes you think this?" He replied.

"You never listen to my feelings, you turned my brother, you always are mean to all the people I love and care about,  you never make me feel good about myself, and you always yell at me." I said. By the time I got my sentence out, I couldn't breathe anymore. I collapsed my body on the floor and I didn't look up at him. I wasn't planning on ever looking up at him right now. I wish Damon would come to get me now...but I know it's not likely for that to happen. I heard him breathing, and I knew that he was thinking of something to say to me. Maybe it's because he knew that I was right about what I said to him just now. 

"I do love you..." He said.

I just laid there, not moving, crying my tears onto the ground on the sidewalk. Thank god no one was coming around, because if someone was, it would be so embarrassing to me. I couldn't even tell where I was anymore, and it wasn't something that I was willing to think about either.

"Rose, please...Stand up...You're making me feel like a jerk." He said.

"Maybe it's because you are one." I replied angrily, still crying.

"I don't know what to say anymore." He said.

"It's because you know I'm right from what I just said to you." I said, barely able to get the words out of my mouth.

Klaus sighed, and he placed something on the floor, and I heard him run away. Was it safe for me to look up now? I couldn't tell. I just laid on the floor for about another 15 minutes. There was no use in me getting up off of the floor. I didn't have a purpose...What was I doing to myself. Tomorrow is the day that I turn 17, get my license, having my party and all of my family and friends are coming...and I would fail to impress them. Tomorrow night was supposed to be my big night. I should cancel...

=+=Damon's POV=+=

"Stefan, where the hell could she possibly have gone?" I yelled.

"I don't know, Damon...it's Klaus. He could've taken her anywhere. It's not like you have a GPS of where she is every second of every day." Stefan replied.

"This isn't a time to be joking around, Stefan. I'm just going to go out and look for her. Maybe he just let her go at some point. You know she has a certain effect on people." I replied.

"That's the stupidest thing that I've ever heard of Damon. But please, go if you must." He replied.

"I will." I said walking out the door, and got into my car. I then started to drive off to look for Scarlet.

=+=Scarlet's POV=+=

I was still lying on the floor, and it's not like anyone has said anything to me, and maybe it's because I hadn't heard anyone or seen anyone walking by me on the sidewalk. Suddenly, I heard something in the distance, and I sat up. I saw a red car...but I recognized this car...was it Damon? I still sat there, and looking to my right, seeing that Klaus returned my phone to me before he left.I picked up my phone, put it in my bag, and looked at the car. It was pulling over on the side of the road that I was on. I saw Damon walk out of the car, and I was still crying uncontrollably. 

"Scarlet, what happened to you?" He said running up to me, and sitting down next to me. 

"I don't know..." 

"Did he hurt you?"

"No...I mean...I don't think that he hurt me."

"He couldn't have hurt you. There are no marks on your body from what I can see right now." 

"Yeah, I don't think he did." 

"Mhm...but...why are you crying your eye sockets out?"

"Uhm..."

"What? You can tell me."

"He doesn't love me..." I said quietly.

"Why do you think that? I mean, obviously because he's an idiot, but what else?"

"He turned my brother, he was willing to hurt me a few weeks ago, he always got in between Elijah and I, he always did things to hurt my feelings about my family and my friends...he doesn't love me, Damon."

"..."

We just stared at each other in agony. Damon kept trying to look into my eyes, but I kept closing them. I didn't want him to pull anything with me right now, not that he would though...

"Scarlet..."

"I don't know what to do...maybe it's a sign..."

"Maybe what's a sign?"

"Maybe it's a sign that I should be with Elijah again."

"What? No."

"What?"

"If you think that, you need to wait a while before you crawl back to him. The best thing I would do at this point is learn the dances with me, and move on for a while. I'm not just saying this because I want to, it's because I want to make sure that you are ok. Also, for the fact that he won't be coming back to you that quickly. Don't call him."

"Ok. Let's go."

Damon smiled and brought me into his car. "Good. I'm only doing this so you can have the best day tomorrow."

Damon drove back to his place, and I taught him our dances together, and he drove me home at the end of the day. The one thing I was terrified of is finding the Mikaelson family at my party tomorrow...