Accidental Love

Chapter 9

Liam's POV

Today has been such a weird day. Mostly because of the way Charlotte has been acting around me lately.

Every time I would try to talk to her today, all she would do is just say 'hi' and walk away, or we would have just a little conversation, but when we talked she would always turn her head to the side as if she was hiding something and then walked away again.

Did I do something wrong to make her act this way? I hope I didn't or else I would feel like shit.

I was currently walking to lunch. I wanted to find Charlotte and ask her what's been bugging her or bring her down. I needed to know so I could fix this.

As soon as I walked through the cafeteria doors, I found Charlotte sitting alone just playing with her food.

Charlotte's POV

This entire day, Iv'e been trying to avoid Liam and anybody else that tries to talk to me. I just feel like the make up that covers up by bruise is still not enough. I feel like when people look at me, their actually starring at me. Looking at my bruise. I can't take that, so I avoided people. Even Madison.

I was just sitting alone at a lunch table playing with my food. I wasn't hungry, scenes of last night just kept replaying in my head. I shivered at everything, I couldn't eat at all.

"Char." I heard a voice behind me. I didn't bother looking behind me to see who it is because the sound of his voice made me already know.

"Hi." I said as barely a whisper.

"Char, what's going on? You've been avoiding me all day. Did I do something wrong? What's bothering you?" He asked. 

"N-nothing Liam. I"m just really stressed. But can't you see that I don't really wanna talk right now? I wanna be alone! Having company around me just makes thing worst. So please. Leave me alone." I snapped. I didn't mean to say it so harshly, but I was just so annoyed.

As I turned around, someone holding a cup of water in there hands tripped over someone's foot making the glass of water spill all of my face.

It just then occurred to me that I was wearing cover up.

Shit. Everyone is gonna see my bruise!

"Oh my gosh Charlotte I'm so sorry! Someone tripped me and I-"

"Just forget it! It's fine!" I interrupted him. Grabbing my bag, I ran to the bathroom.

When I got there I looked in the mirror and saw the bruise was almost fully visible.

I looked through my bag and couldn't find my makeup! Damn, I left it at home! And I still had three more classes to get through. I didn't really know what to do. So, that only left me with one option.

Crying.

I slid my back down the wall and started crying, it was then that I noticed I started to sob. I realized I've been letting all of these tears hold me back. I was finally letting out all my emotions and it felt good.

Liam's POV

 Why did she run off so fast? It was just water. I thought she would laugh to be honest, but I wanted to go find her and make sure she was ok.

I passed by all the girl's restrooms, until one stood out the most. Inside, I could hear someone crying really hard. Was that Charlotte?

I knocked on the door, "Charlotte, is that you in there?" 

She sniffed, "Yeah Li. Please, don't worry about me. I'm fine. Just go back to lunch, I'll be ok."

"No, I'm not leaving knowing you're just sitting here crying on the bathroom floor. I'm coming in." Okay, don't question me. I honestly don't care if it's a girl's bathroom, my best friend needed me.

As I walked in, my heart sunk. She was in the corner with her knees pulled up to her chest, her arms were wrapped around her legs, and her head so hidden in her arms.

"Don't look at me. I don't want you to see me like this." She mumbled.

"Char, I've seen you cry before, so why are you hiding? Please look at me." I pleaded. She took one big sigh and slowly lifted her head up out of her arms. On her right cheek I noticed there was a bruise there.

"Oh my god, Char what happened?" I rushed over to her gently touching her cheek causing her to jump a little bit at the feeling.

 She started shaking her head, "Li it was horrible. It keeps replaying in my head and...It causing me to break down."

"Char. Tell me what happened. Please." I pleaded, sitting next to her.

She shifted in her spot so she could be facing me and sat with her legs crossed. She took a deep breathe before speaking.

"Okay, so you know how my mom would drink whenever she was depressed?" she asked.

I nodded my head signaling for her to continue.

"Well last night I came home around 8:00, and when I walked in there was bottles everywhere. My mom was totally drunk out of her mind, so I told her how much she disrespected the family,and then she, she..um.. slapped me." She said the last part as barely a whisper but I still managed to hear her.

Wow. I was totally shocked. Her own mother slapped her. That's terrible. It's breaks your heart when you hear that you best friend got slapped by her own mother. It's terrible.

"Char. I'm so sorry. You don't deserve any hate from your mum, if anything you deserve everything that's good in the world because of all the things you've accomplished. You're beautiful, smart, funny, helpful, caring, and so many other things, and if you need anything I'm always gonna be here for you when your parents aren't. Just don't hide from me next time something similar to this situation happens. I want to be able to help you get through your problems and make you happy. Everything will be okay Char, everything will be okay."

Charlotte hugged from the side still shedding a little bit of tears. But I'm pretty sure they were tears of happiness.

"Thank you so much Li. I feel slightly better now. And you're right, I shouldn't hide from you. Next time I'll go to you because hearing your little speech to me, I know you can make me feel better. So thank you." She said still hugging me from the side.

"No problem Charlotte. I'm always here for you. Now, we should get out of here before someone girl comes in here or else their gonna think I'm retarded." I said standing up now.

I offered Charlotte my hand. She just chuckled and stood up accepting my offer.

"Hey Li. Wanna ditch today?" She ask.

"What? Why? What do you want to do?" I asked.

"Come on, we only have like, three mores classes. That's not much. We can just go for a walk in the park and get ice cream like we used to! It will be fun. Please Liam. You have to loosen up a little bit." She said nudging me with her elbow.

I sighed, " Fine. Only this one day. I don't wanna get in trouble." I said probably sounding like a wimp.

Char rolled her eyes before running out the entrance of the school.

Well looks like were ditching.

And, I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy it.

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Hey guys:)

Thanks for all the reads and votes, and comments. I absolutely love you<3

Sorry if it took me so long to update. Stupid school is holding me back.

I just came back from a school dance. It was very fun! Except when some dude started grinding on me...it was awkward and I was just like, "Uh yeah dude. Yeah can you not do that..thanks." And he stopped. So GO ME!

Okay, well love you guys:)

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-Delilah <3 :)