Don't Let Go

Chapter 7 - Buried in memories

She was just fifteen when she got her first boyfriend. His name was Louis and he was the typical school's quarterback. Since Christian was nineteen at the time, he wasn't attending the school at the same time Hannah was, but he was always outside leaning on his car, waiting for her to get out so he could drive her home. She wasn't happy with the situation but it was better than having to walk thirty minutes to reach home. So she just stuck with him.

Louis started gaining some interest in Hannah, but not because she was the cheerleader or anything. In fact, she was the exact opposite. She only had one friend and it was because her chemistry teacher made her stay with someone for a group project. Beside that friend, Hannah was always alone. Christian was the only person she hung out with outside school because he refused to let her go out with someone else that wouldn't be able to protect her if needed.

She wasn't happy with that situation either but when he wasn't moody, he was a good guy to hang out with and Hannah was lucky to have caught him in his best moods.

When Louis asked Hannah to go on a date with her, she was reluctant at first but then considered what could go wrong and the only thing that came to her mind was Christian. She said she would go on a date with Louis and he took her to the movies that night. When she told Christian that she was going out with a guy from school, he flipped. Christian's first word was: no and then the following ones were: over my dead body. She answered him with: we can work on that and he glared at her. Arianna was the one who helped Hannah convince Christian to let her go. And when that didn't go, they locked him on his bedroom while she ran out the house to meet Louis.

Louis and Hannah dated for two months, everything was going great. They were in an official relationship and the whole school knew about it. Christian was angry all the time and he was always making sure she was alright on the date; he followed her, hidden, so she wouldn't know he was there or she'd flip on him.

But when one day, she went to Louis' house to surprise him. She went up the stairs to his bedroom, because the front door was unlocked and when she opened the door to his room, she gasped and the tears started prickling her eyes. Louis got out of bed and the other girl stood up as well, wrapping one of the sheets around her body.

(Louis) "This is not what-"

Hannah didn't let him finish, she was running out the door and surprisingly she wasn't making her way to her own house.

When that happened, Christian was in the living room watching some cartoon that was on the television. He wasn't worried because he thought Hannah was studying in her bedroom, on her house. But when she burst through the door, Arianna was in the kitchen and came to the hall to see what was happening, she went straight to the living room to look for Christian. He frowned when he noticed the tears on Hannah's eyes and how hard she was sobbing. Although she didn't give him a chance to react. She just sat on his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck, burying her face on her arms, crying.

(Christian) "Anna, what happened?" – he caressed her hair.

She didn't answer him. Arianna was at the doorway, looking at them and then Roberto got inside with some of the mob guys. Christian didn't want anyone to see her like that, so he put his arm beneath the back of her knees and another around her torso, lifting her up. He carried her to his bedroom and shut the door with his foot. He sat on the bed, still holding her and rested his back against the headboard.

(Christian) "I hate seeing you like this. Tell me what happened." – he begged softly.

She lifted her head and wiped her tears with one hand, while the other arm was still wrapped around his neck.