Afraid • l.h

Chapter 40 • "How could you?"

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Tilly's POV

As I get further up the stairs and tear my eyes away from Luke I notice Ashton holding the side of his face. He hit him?!

"Are you okay?" I say walking straight over to Ashton.

"Yeah. He just punched me." Ashton replies as I run my hand over the bruise and cut.

"Who's the whore now?" Luke mumbles but I chose to ignore him.

"How could you?" I turn to Luke nothing his hands were clenched at the side of him.

"I took my fist and hit him in the face." He slurs.

"Are you drunk?" I ask in disbelief.

"What do you care?" He snaps.

"Just because I broke up with you it does not mean I don't care. And for your information your mum is at my house. Crying."

"I'm glad you broke up with me."

"Luke." Ashton says shooting his head up.

"I never loved you anyway." He continues while managing to make eye contact with me. Each word hurting me more and more as they replay in my mind.

"Luke!" Ashton says louder taking a step towards him.

"I just wanted to use you." He says and I feel a tear drop down my face.

"Don't listen to him. His either drunk or high." Ashton turns to me but nothing can break my stare at Luke.

"You need to go home tonight your mum is worrying." Ashton tells Luke and then heads towards the stairs grabbing my wrist and I follow closely behind.

As soon as I am in the car my few tears turn into sobs and I can't control it.

"He doesn't mean it Tilly." Ashton attempts to persuade me but nothing can do that. This was the real Luke.

"People usually speak the truth when they're drunk." I manage in between crying.

"He is just hurt from your break up and that was his way of hurting you back." He says softly.

"Well it certainly worked." I say continuing to cry.

By the time we arrive at my drive way I have composed myself as much as possible.

"I'm heading straight upstairs. Can you tell my mum I'm tired and I will see her in the morning?" I ask Ashton and he nods as I unlock the door.

I catch a glimpse of my mum and Luke's mum sitting on the sofa still as I run past. I stop at the first floor to hear Ashton tell my mother what I asked him to and he does. He also tells Liz that Luke will be home tonight but he leaves out how we found him and I'm sure she wouldn't want to know anyway. The words of Luke come back into my mind and I run up to my bedroom, shut the door and collapse on my bed letting the tears flood my sheets.

Luke's POV

I can't believe they found me or even tried to find me. Of course I didn't mean one word I said to Tilly, I may be drunk but at the moment I can still remember what I said to here. I wanted her to be as hurt as I was.

Not long after they left I do head home because it scared me that my mum was worrying. My head was pounding and so I find some tablets and drink a gallon of water before passing out on my kitchen floor.

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The cold beneath me makes me shiver and I try to sit up. Never again will I get drunk like that. My head hurts like crazy this morning and I can't even remember last night or the two nights before that. Somehow I ended up on the kitchen floor.
I open my eyes just enough to be able to read the time on the clock. 1 o'clock! And it's a school day. I've missed three days now and I can't possibly miss another. Neither my mum or dad was in and so at least the house would be quiet.