Roses and Violets

Chapter 4:

*warning this chapter maybe touchy to some people*

Brooke:

I woke up with a splitting head ache. I looked down and I was in sweat pants and a long sleeve shirt. I pulled up my sleeves due to being hot and noticed that my burn marks had been covered with gauze.

It's true in the worst of my depression I started burning myself, just to be sure I could still feel. I pulled my sleeves back down and threw the covers off my legs as I walked to the bathroom.

I ended up throwing up but that's what I get for spending the night downing shots last night. I walked back to the bed and sat there. I looked at my phone, it was 1 in the afternoon.

There was a faint knock at the door. I figured it was just Paisley telling me she was going out with Michael again. She gave up trying to get me to talk to her after the first day of locking myself in here.

"Come in." I said and the door opened but instead of seeing Paisley I saw Harry standing there with a can of ginger ale.

"Sis, are you okay? I saw Luke carrying you inside last night. Why did he have to carry you inside? Did you get drunk?" He asked sitting on the bed and handing me the ginger ale.

"Thanks bud and yeah I'm fine, like you said I got drunk." I said smiling at him. For the first time I gave someone a real smile.

"Good, I was scared you were hurt." I smiled at him. He's only know about me for a few days and he already cares about me this much.

"Hey buddy, why don't you go watch a movie with the guys down stairs?" Calum asked as he stood at the door.

Calum and I had grown pretty close like he was my best friend out of the 4 of them, we just kinda bonded from the day I got here like we have inside jokes already and I've only been here 5 days.

"Okay, feel better sis." Harry said giving me a kiss on the cheek and running off and down stairs.

"What's up?" I asked as Calum shut the door leaving it open a crack and walking over to the bed.

"What's going on? You won't tell Paisley, you won't tell Ashton. You need to tell someone and I'm the only other person you trust enough to tell besides Anne." He said.

I cracked I couldn't keep holding this in. "You're right, but I don't think it's right to only tell you and make you keep a secret, I might as well tell everyone." I said fighting back tears.

"You sure?" Calum asked pulling me into a hug.

"Yeah." I said as I calmed down a little bit.

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"Alright you're all probably wondering why I have you all sitting in the living room while Lauren distracts Harry. The reason, I'm ready to talk." I started.

"The reason I've been hiding in Paisley and I's room is because I found out 4 days ago that my parents passed away in a boating accident." I said pausing to take a deep breath.

"As of right now they are trying to find me a place to live." I said pausing.

"Well sweetheart, you're always welcome here." Mom said.

"Thanks mom. I'll call them later and tell them I found a place." I said smiling at her.

"The other thing you guys are probably wondering about is who Trey is." I said pausing and the guys all nodded.

"Trey is my ex-boyfriend. He wasn't the best guy, he hung out in the wrong crowd and did bad things but, he was different around me, or so I thought." I said pausing to breath and calm down.

"One night he got drunk and high and showed up at my house at about 2 in the morning. He tried to rape me. He tied me up, slapped me, called me by some other girl's name, and called me some very unpleasant names as well. My dad ended up tackling him off me and wrestling him to the floor but he eventually left willingly. We have a restraining order against him but the look he gave me when he was leaving the court room didn't give me the feeling he was gonna listen." I said my breath a bit shaky as I was about to cry.

"Hey hey hey calm down. You have us now we'll protect you." Ashton said pulling me into a hug.

"Yeah." Luke said hugging me as well.

"She's my best friend which means I protect her the most!" Calum said hugging me.

"Eh, might as well join the hug." Mikey said.

"She Was My Best Friend First!" Paisley said pushing threw the guys to hug me. I just laughed. I finally had a somewhat family and I liked it.

Later on we were all sitting watching tv when I went to get something to eat. I wanted popcorn but I couldn't reach the shelf... Being short sucks. I was about to grab a chair when an arm reach up and grabbed the popcorn and handed it to me.

"Thanks" I said turning around blushing.

"No problem, love." Luke said as he filled his glass with water.

"So you carried me in the house last night?" I asked as I put the popcorn in the microwave.

"Yeah, how'd you know?" He asked.

"Harry told me." I said looking down.

"Oh. Yeah the guys didn't want to take the chance of being thrown up on." He said with a slight laugh.

I just blushed, what was it with this kid. It's not like I like him, I mean yeah he's cute but that's it. I barely know him I can't like him.

"I'm glad you're okay, you had us all scared to death. Please never feel like you can't talk to any of us, we're all here for you." Luke said pulling me into a hug.

I hugged him back relaxing into his arms. Why did I trust him so easily? The microwave beeped and we pulled away. I grabbed the bag and we went back to everyone else to finish watching our show.