No more cutting [emo/goth boy x reader]

Chapter 2: The Promise

I ran to the stairs in the front of the school and dropped my bag crying. About 10 minutes later I felt a pair of strong arms wrap around my waist from behind me making me flinch but I didn't move. I knew it was Brandon. I didn't care. He began to stroke my hair telling me it was ok.

I turned around standing up.

"No...it isn't. WHY DID YOU DO THAT YOU JUST MADE IT WORSE!?" I broke saying that and burried my face in my hands.

He hugged me whispering.

"I couldn't just stand there and do nothing. People like that deserve to be put in their place." he sighed.

He then moved his arms to pick me up bridal style and sit down with me in his lap my faced in his neck crying. As I sat there in his lap crying I began to question myself. What was i doing? Didn't I just meet this guy like 10 minutes ago? I shrugged it off. At least he had the heart to help me out when no one else did. As he embraced me I felt something I hadn't felt since my father was around. I felt loved.

"Are you okay now" he asked as he gently kissed my head making me blush.

"Y-yeah I-I'm fine"I replied.

He looked deep into my eyes wiping my tears away with his thumb and kissed my forehead again. My mind began to drift to my razor underneth my bed. When I get home I was going to cut there wasn't a question about that. As he got up putting me down his hand brushed past my arm making me wince in pain as he unintentionally touched my cuts. I looked up to him trying not to show him the pain in my face his expression darkened once he saw it.

"Whats wrong Y/n" he said looking at my arm and back to my eyes making me look away.

"Oh its nothing. I'm fine"I had said those words many times before. They were meaningless now

"Let me see your arm" he said reaching for it but I pulled away.

"No... please don't" I pleaded.

"Y/n please tell me whats wrong. What's wrong with your arm?" he glanced at it again worry written all over his face.

I didn't want to tell him but now there was no way out of it. What would he think of me after he saw the cuts? I hesitantly looked up at him a pained expression in his eyes. I slowly lifted my left arm and gave it to him. He gently grabbed it and pulled my black sleeve up to reveal my bruised, cut, and scarred arm. He looked back up at my face, his having some trace of sympathy.

"Y/n....why did you do this to yourself?" his eyes searched my face for an answer my eyes glassy.

"I-I'm sorry.....I deserved-" before I could finish he cut me off .

"No. No one deserves this. I don't care who they are or what they did. Let me see the other arm."he looks at me with a face I couldn't read anymore.

I lifted my arm pulling the sleeve of my shirt up and gave it to him to examen the cuts. My gaze began to drift downward finding the ground more interesting than him. I felt something soft touch them and looked up to see him kissing every cut ever so gently. I blushed as he finished one arm moving on to the next. Once he was completely done he looked me in the eyes making me look downward.

"Y/n, please look at me." he put a hand to my cheek guiding my gaze to his. "Please don't do this to yourself anymore. If anything happens to you where you want to cut more please, tell me. I can't stand to see you hurt yourself like this. Promise me"

"...I-I promise" I said quietly.

We stood in silence for a while until he said.

"Will you please tell me why you do it? I'm not trying to be nosy but talking about it will most likely make you feel better."

I thought about it for a while and took a deep breathe sat down and told him...everything.

After I told him I was crying again. He pulled me close to him holding me. I gripped his shirt crying into his shoulder.

"Y/n please don't cry sadness doesn't look good on you. I bet a smile would though.~" he said smiling. "Come on please smile~!"

He started to tickle me and I couldn't help it. I started giggling.

"There we go~." he said in victory.

I giggled and blushed now realizing I was in his lap. So I stood up from embarrassment.

He smiled blushing with me and said, "Y/n, can I tell you something?"

I nodded.

"I think I love you"