Drake VS. MGK

15

Leah

It was one of those nights. I was tossing and turning again. I knew Colson was really tired so I decided to slip out of bed. I tried to relax and even tried to drink some warm tea, but I just couldn't shake how I was feeling. The nightmares were eating at me again and my anxiety was only getting worse. I finally just decided to get in the car and drive to the pier Colson took me to when had our picnic.

It was so relaxing and peaceful there. I was really hoping to just let everything go there. All of my problems, worry, and doubt.

Colson

When I woke I looked at the clock it was almost 2:30 am. Something didn't feel right. I rolled over and noticed Leah wasn't there. Its crazy because having her lay next to me helps me sleep and anytime she's not there I can tell. Every night before I went to sleep I would hold her in my arms. It was like an instant sleeping pill.

I got up to search for her but she wasn't there. I looked everywhere even outside and that's when I noticed her car was gone. I didn't waste time getting dress. I just threw on my sweats and grabbed a jacket. I drove around for what seemed like forever until I thought of the pier. I could only pray she was there. I parked when I saw her car and I could see her sitting there. 

As I approached her I realized she was crying and shaking. The last time I saw her like that was months ago before we started dating. Something was seriously wrong. Whatever it was she found the need to hide it from me but I wasn't gonna let her do that anymore. 

"Here take my jacket. I don't want you to get cold." I said draping my jacket over her shoulders. 

She didn't say anything. She just sat there almost like I wasn't even there.

"Whatever it is you can talk to me about it. You know that right?" Still silence. 

"Talk to me baby. Is this about Drake? About something he did?"

"Colson why do you love me?"

"What do you mean? I love you because of who you are. Your really down to earth,you have a beautiful soul, you have this energy that just draws me to you, and I will always love you. Is that what this is about?"

"I don't think I can ever tell you."

"Leah why? Whatever it is its obviously eating you a live. Whatever your dealing with you can't face this by yourself. You've been doing it for too long. Let me in. Let me take away your pain."

"I have a really dark past and I'm afraid you won't love me anymore when I tell you."

"Leah look at me. I'm not like Drake. I'm nothing like him. You can talk to me." I said taking her hands into mine.

She sighed and I tried to prepare myself for what came next.

"My mom was a single mother. She did her best to provide for me but things got bad. We needed up living in hotel's and homeless shelters." She spoke and I could tell there was some hesitation at first but then she continued. 

"When I was 5 my mom got married to Jim and at first everything was good. Jim was like the dad I never had. A few years after things went really bad. Jim just.. he changed. It was almost like a switch just flipped. He became really abusive to my mother and then he... He started touching me. For a long time I didn't say anything. My mom kept getting beat and he kept touching me. I never said anything because he said that if anyone found out he'd go to jail and we would lose everything and be in the streets again." 

At this point she was began to start crying again.

"So I just never said anything but one night my mom caught him and she had a gun. They started fighting and my mom told me to run to the neighbors so I did and when I was running I heard the gun go off. When the police came they arrested Jim. He shot my mother and she died."

"Leah I'm so sorry." I said embracing her into my arms. Now the conversation I over heard with her and Drake was all starting to make sense. That's what he meant when he called her broken.

"Yeah you feel sorry for me now but later you'll use it against me to hurt me just like Aubrey!"

"What!?! No, I would never do that. Your not broken. When he said all those things and did all those things to you he was taking advantage of what happened in your past. And he was wrong for that. You were a child."

"Promise me that you still love me. Please!"

"Leah I promise. I love you and I always will. Nothing that you said would ever change that."

For over an hour we just sat there and I held her in my arms til she fell to sleep. I put her in the backseat of my car and made sure her car doors were locked before I left. A little while later we arrived home and I carried her inside and laid her back in bed and cuddled up to her holding her as I drifted off to sleep.