Promise [{Completed}]

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Song on the side is 'Scars to your Beautiful.'

This is it guys! Thank you for everything, you all mean so much to me!

Enjoy!

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This time, I didn't hear any beeping from a heart monitor or IV. All I hear were voices, unfamiliar ones.

I couldn't open my eyes but I felt everything. The pain coursing through my body, the pain in my heart.

I guess I was wrong, maybe he really wasn't the one for me and I wasn't the one for him.

Here I felt guilty for not saying the 'L' word back to him. I was so stupid to fall for him.

In the beginning I was scared to break his heart, but in the end he broke mine.

It's ironic how that happened, I seriously never even saw it coming. I guess that is the illusion that makes boys. They say words they don't mean, but they do things to hurt you that do mean something.

I finally open my eyes, I see nothing but white.

No, not white like when you die, but a white ceiling.

'Where am I?'

I sit up carefully and slowly but as I try to get up, I feel arms on my back trying to help me up. I look beside me and see Tanner smiling down at me.

"Thanks," I say when I sit more comfortably.

He fixed the pillows so I didn't have to which was really sweet of him to do.

"Are feeling better?" He asks after a long period of silence.

"I'm as good as I'll ever be," I suppress a smile.

"If it makes you feel any better, I beat the crap out of him last night and little bit more when he knocked you down," he chuckles but there was no humor.

"Thanks for everything, I really do owe you," I smile.

"Well, you can repay me by letting me teach you how to be more like me," he shrugs.

"What do you mean?" I frown.

"I want to teach you how to be tough, so people don't push you around. I don't like seeing you like this, I want you to be the girl that everyone is too scared to even talk to," he explains.

"More like you? I don't know," I rub my head.

"Please let me do this, I want to help you," he puts his hand on mine.

I need to change for good that was true, I didn't want more people to walk over me. I will not be a push over, I refuse to be one.

"Alright, teach me how to be better. I want to be the one that people are scared of, not the other way around," I nod.

"Good, we start now," he smirks.

With that, chills run down my back from the excitement.

...

2 months

"It's not too late to change your mind," my dad says in a singsong voice over the phone.

"Dad, I already made my choice, I'll be fine," I shake my head.

I was at the store, looking for a new set of suitcases for me to take. I was already packing for college.

"You know you're going to regret leaving me," he says in his I told you voice.

"Don't worry dad, if I do then I will be sure to come straight back," I chuckle.