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"Where have you been for so long, Dom?"

"Looking for you, Matthew."

"Looks like we finally found each other."

"Just in time too."

The sun rises to settle on top of the sparkling blue ocean water as the waves gently lap against the yellow sand below where Dominic and I sit on the boardwalk with hands intertwined and heartbeats in sync. My head has finally stopped hurting after feeling like I have been swimming in an ocean, like the one below me, for years with no help and no one there to save me. The voices have died down to whimpers, the figures have completely disappeared, and the touches on my skin have been reduced to only goosebumps.

I feel has if Dominic has been the one I have been looking for and needing to fix what I had broken in myself. He has changed everything that has ever hurt me and made me a more loveable and happy person, someone that I thought I'd never seen again in myself. Dominic seems to be changing too. He is more open with Chris and me, affectionate towards me with handholds and light kisses on my cheeks, and there is always a smile on his thin lips whenever I'm around.

"We should go now, yeah?" Dom questioned as the sun finally peaked over the watery horizon and his face was lit up by the soft rays of sunlight. I removed my legs from underneath me and stood up from the bench with Dominic's hand still pressed firmly in mine. We walked away from the boardwalk and into the residential streets towards my home. "Can we talk about something, Matt?"

"Yes, of course." I slowed down our walking speed and moved closer to Dom so we could talk more privately among the two of us. With our footsteps syncopated and my hand still placed inside Dominic's, I waited for the blonde haired boy to speak what he had on his mind. "What did you want to talk about? Is it about therapy?" I tried to help the grey eyed boy talk but he kept silent as we continued walking down the sidewalk.

"Matthew?!" I looked away from Dom's sunken face and gazed across the street to my mum standing in the front lawn of our home with two people in white uniforms and stern looks striking their faces. Letting go of the hand in mine, I stepped across the asphalt to mother but stopped at the edge of the curb as soon as I saw the lettering stitched on the crisp shirts of the man and woman in front of me. "They're here to help, honey. Please go with them."

Here it comes again. The things that I thought I had fixed are back to ruin more of what little I have left inside of me. The voices return first in a fiery rage as they consume my mind and flood out every other noise. Then the jolts on my skin add to the mass as my limbs burn and hurt in pain. The figures start to appear as soon as I feel the pinches on my pale pigmented skin and they seem to be the ones speaking and touching me but I see no one moving to help me fight off the things that haunt me.

"No!" I call out as the uniformed man takes my arm in his callused hands and I rip it out of his embrace. My mum takes a step back as the woman now comes over and takes my other arm in her cold touch and I move away from the psychiatric EMT's. "I don't want this! Not again!" The man and woman force themselves onto me as I feel my arms pinned above my head and I'm laid on the grass with my face smothered by the green.

"Please, Matt, don't fight with them," my mother pleads with me as I kick my legs into the air and move my arm to elbow the uniformed women in the chest as she kneels by my side with a syringe in her hands. "Don't hurt him, please. I just don't want to see you hurting anymore, sweets." I stop flailing my limbs around as I feel a needle pressed into my inner forearm and my wrists released from the man's grip.

Removing my head from the grass, I look to see Dominic standing by my mothers side with his hands in his back pockets and a concerned look on his face. Mum has her hands by her mouth and tears rolling down her cheeks as I'm picked up from the lawn and lead to the car that was pulled up on the side of the road. Before I am placed into the car I reach out my hand to get to Dom and say something to him but my whole body is numb as I feel my mind bringing back all the suppressed feelings and memories.

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