All for Love (Jelena)

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve

[Justin's POV]

My eyes snap open when I hear a loud thump coming from down the hallway. I look next to me in the bed to see Selena sound asleep with her head buried in my chest. I stroke her hair and kiss the top of her head before I slowly untangle our bodies and climb out of bed. Selena stirs a little but remains asleep.

I tip toe to my bedroom door and quietly walk out, closing the door softly behind me. I scratch the back of my head as I walk down to the end of the hallway until I reach Caroline's room. I knock on her door before I open the bedroom door.

I find Caroline sitting on the floor with her knees brought up to her chest and her face in the palms of her hands. Soft sobs were heard and I knew immediately something was wrong.

I check the hallway to make sure no one else was up and close the bedroom door. I make my way over to Caroline and kneel down next to her.

"Hey," I say, placing my hand on her knee which makes her head pick up and her puffy red eyes meet with mine. "What's wrong?"

Caroline sniffles. "N-nothing." she lies.

"Caroline, don't pull that bullshit with me." I say sternly. "Now tell me what's wrong, and don't lie."

She takes her thumb and wipes the tears under her eyes as she breaks eye contact with me. "I-I'm in trouble, Justin. Big trouble." she says.

I furrow my eyebrows together. "What do you mean?" I ask, confused.

"There's this guy," Caroline starts off. "Over the past year he's been harassing me nonstop. He keeps threatening to hurt my family and me if I don't do what he orders me to do. He'll send text messages on what he wants me to do, and the night I got arrested was when I was doing what he wanted me to do something for him which was rob a bank." She looks up at me as more tears begin to build in the corner of her eyes. "I thought since I got arrested that he'd lose contact with me and I wouldn't hear from him again. But he found me, Justin. I-I'm scared."

"How did he find you?" I ask, trying to wrap my head around this whole thing.

"I don't know! I heard the phone start ringing downstairs and everyone was asleep, so I decided to go down and answer it. And when I picked the phone up it was him." Caroline lets out a sob as she takes the back of her hand to wipe away the falling tears down her cheeks. "H-he knows where I am and threatened to come and get me. He threatened to kill me if he finds me. He–" She trails off as she begins sobbing, her hand covering her mouth in an attempt to muffle her loud sobs.

"Caroline, look at me." I say, brushing a lock of her hair out of her face as her watery eyes lock with mine. "Whoever this bastard is, he's not going to lay a finger on you or even think about hurting you. He'll have to go through me first, okay?"

Caroline nods her head. I move myself to where I'm now sitting next to Caroline's side on the floor and put my arm around her. I bring her into my side and let her lay her head on my shoulder. She scoots closer to me and clutches a handful of my t-shirt in her hand. My hand rubs up and down her back as she sobs into the fabric of my shirt.

"It's okay," I say, resting my head against hers in a gesture to try and somehow comfort her. "You're safe with me."

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I wake up later to the sound of something shuffling around in the room. My eyes slowly flutter open and to find Caroline in only a towel in front of me. Her hair was hanging over one side of her shoulder with it dripping wet, indicating she had just gotten out of the shower.