Sunday Candy

So screwed

The first thing I see as I walk in the lobby is bright silver head women holding her head in her hands.

I walk up to her slowly, "Mew?" The concerned look on her face immediately disappears once she saw me.

"Where have you been? I almost lost my mind" She grips me tightly in a hug. She steps back taking a look at me.

"I lost track of time. I was busy, I'm sorry" She shook her head bringing me into another hug.

"You didn't answer calls or respond to texts. What was so important?"

"I was at the library and honestly just lost track of time." She nods listening to my words but slowly stopped looking at my neck. Her hand reaches up slowly touching to what I believe to be a bruise of a hand.

"Who did this to you?" She pulls me to the side and asks me angrily.

"Nobody worth worrying about" I hold my bruised wrist which was a bad move because now she stares at that too.

Mew steps away putting her hand over her mouth.

"Mare?" Her voice cracks.

"Mew please don't worry about this. I've got it handled" I hold her hand reassuring her.

"I can't even imagine how Tobin is going to react when she sees you" Mew rubs her forehead. We start walking towards the elevator to go up to our rooms.

"What do you mean?" I press the number 4

"She went crazy when you didn't come back. I've never seen that side of her. Not even Alex or Kelley were as crazy. Press was probably the closest to Tobin. It took so long to calm her down."

"Did it now?" I wink totally ignoring the Tobin thing.

"You're avoiding the important stuff"

"Noooo. I just don't want to think about it right now." She was right. Tobin has been a little more concerned with me than usual.

The elevator door opens before she can reply. I grab my keycard from my back pocket and nervously walk to my room.

She grabs my arms pulling me back.

"M, I swear to god if I ever find out who did this to you, best believe I will beat the hell out of them." She tells me firmly.

I say one last thing before entering my room. "Thank you"

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"She's here" I walk in hearing the the warming voice of Kelley. I step in closing the door behind me. Slowly, I begin walking to my bed not really making eye contact with any of them.

I quickly change my mind and instead speed walk to the bathroom hoping they didn't see any of my bruises. I shut the door behind me making sure to lock it.

"Holy shit. Those are massive" I poke my neck gently.

"M, I swear to god if you don't come out right now and talk to us, so help me god I will knock down this door" Kelley bangs on the other side.

"Give me a sec" I poke it again laughing this time. I can't believe that fucking asshat did this. I'm actually fuming right now. The finger prints were extremely visible and very easy to point out. It was definitely hard to say that I wasn't choked.

"Mare! Get your speedy ass out here!" Now that was Alex. She wasn't the one to curse so maybe I should stop looking at my neck and walk out there.

And as I say I walk out looking at them, "Fuck"

I was expecting a lecture or maybe a few yells but instead I got bombarded with a huge hug from Alex and Kelley.

I noticed Tobin didn't stand up nor did she even look my way. She just had her hands together under her head looking very upset.

"I swear if you ever do something like that again, I will never let anyone get you coffee" Alex cries standing back. I look at Kelley waiting for some crazy remark.

She didn't even say anything. All she did was the same thing as Mew. Stare at my neck. Honestly even if it was only two people today doing this, I'm already sick of it.

"Kells?" She shakes her head tears brimming her eyes. She continues to stay silent.

Soon Alex begins to do the same. Now both of my best friends are crying because of some stupid asshat and his cruel violence.

All I can do right now is glance towards Tobin to see her not only holding back her tears but crying angrily.

She stands up with her hands in tight fists. She angrily kicks the bed and walks over to punch the bathroom door.

"Tobin stop" I walk towards her with my hand out. The other two begin to stop crying and they stand back watching the scene in front of them.

She shakes her punching the door again. Thankfully she didn't hit too hard where it would create a dent on the door or hurt herself.

"Can you guys just give us a minute?" Tobin says under her breath. I look behind me seeing that they grabbed each others hand and walked out. I'm pretty sure they're going to Kells room.

She puts her forehead against the wall and just stands there. She doesn't move to look at me. She's not saying anything and it's worrying me. I'm expecting to get yelled at from what Mewis said earlier.

"Tobin?" I begin walking towards her.

She turns her head looking at me with sad eyes.

"I-I can't even explain to you how I felt when you went awoll. The emotions that went through me I can't even explain" I nod walking closer to her.

"I knew something was wrong. Since you've been back. I knew. And I still let you go out there by yourself without any idea who you were going to see" She begins again. This time she pulls my arms slowly and holds me between the wall and her.

Her hot forehead was placed against mine.

"If I went with you, you wouldn't be so hurt right now" A tear slips out of my eye unwillingly.

She constantly glances towards my lips. Tobin has never done this. I have never done this.

She slowly lowers herself towards me but does nothing yet.

"I could've prevented this" She says one last time.

She lowers her head one last time and kisses my cheek ever so slowly. Part of me believes it's for the fact that I'm actually standing in front of her and not due to the fact that she probably had every negative thought running through her head. 

I lift my hand up wiping away the small tears that are surrounding her eyes.

"It's not your fault. Please don't ever blame yourself for my mistake" She shakes her head placing her hands on the wall and putting her head between the crook of my neck.

I can't lie, it was a bit painful due to my bruises.

We stand there for a while.

But something very unexpected happens. She kissed the base of my neck freezing me in my place.

There were tingles in the base of my stomach that I haven't felt in a long time.

Slowly, she made her way up and stops at my jaw.

"You made me feel something that I haven't felt in so long. I went crazy today" She looks up and by now I'm pretty sure my cheeks are beat red and filled with tears.

"Tobin please" I say not sure what exactly I'm begging for.

She brings her lips extremely close to mine but not letting them touch.

"Not now" She kisses my forehead and backs away from me slowly.

I wipe one of my stray tears and nod.

"I have to go" She says not making eye contact.

My heart beats extremely fast as she begins to walk, "Goodnight Tobin" She looks back before exiting and stares at me with watery eyes and nods. She closes the door softly after her and just leaves me in a room alone in my thoughts.

"Oh fuck"