Only you (A ThatcherJoe/ Youtuber fanfic)

Chapter 28

Charlotte's POV:

We made our way to the appointment after Brandon's and dropping my things off at the hotel. I was not looking forward to this at all.

"Thanks guys. Honestly you have done so much and gone out of your way to help me with this and I couldn't thank you enough. I couldn't do it without you."

"Of course hon, we'd help any of our friends if they needed our help, you're so incredible and you have your life ahead of you, we're happy to be be apart of that." Tan held me tight and Jim smiled towards me and nodded.

"How am I going to do this? I don't have a job, I'm nineteen having a baby and i'm doing this alone."

"You're not alone, i'm sure we can pull a few strings to help you with a job and you have us, not just me and Jim, but Caspar, Alfie and Zoe, Marcus and maybe even... Joe?"

"I can't forgive Joe and I don't think he'd ever forgive me and how will Zoe react when she finds out it's Joe's and he doesn't know?"

"I'm sure he will, and I'm sure she will too, she will be so happy you're having a baby that I don't think she will find out or mind."

"Tan does she know?" I heard Jim ask Tan and she shook her head.

"Know what?..."

"I miscarried, I was so upset, we both were. We didn't appreciate what we had until it was gone, and it was the biggest mistake of my life. Please, to be on the safe side, don't make the same mistake? Cherish every moment. Don't think about the what ifs, but the beautiful baby that you carry."

"I'm so sorry, do the others know?"

"Only Marcus, he was there when I began to bleed, he knew about the pregnancy because of this and then what followed. We just don't want you to make the mistake we did."

"Can I ask when this was?"

"Last year, not even our families knew yet, no one knew so please?..."

"Of course." Tan was now silently sobbing and Jim held her tight.

"If you don't want to... you know, you can go and i'll catch up with yo-"

"Of course not, it's in the past and you need us. You asked us and we agreed so we're not leaving you, if you need us, we're here for you no matter what lies in our past."

"Thank you, you are so amazing and so strong, you truly are incredible." I held them tight and I heard Tan giggle.

****

"So Charlotte, you are... 13 weeks along. Did you have any idea?"

"No, 13 weeks? Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, sometimes the tests can be off by a few days or so but it's correct. I'll just go grab your ultrasound picture."

"Ok thank you."

"13 weeks? Wow congrats. Doesn't that mean... it's not Joe's?" Tan asked.

"Yep, and I don't like the idea of it being who's it really is."

"Why's that?"

"I moved to London to escape someone, someone who caused me hell. I barely escaped alive."

"What do you mean?"

"Can we talk about it later?"

"Of course."

***

"Okay, so what I was saying before, there was this guy, I'd known him since I was around 12, I'd moved away from Brighton, from having Alfie with me through everything. We moved to Leeds and then I got really close with this guy, as I grew older and closer to him, we began to date. We did the unspeakable but then I grew away from him-"

"You knew Alfie when you were young? Why didn't he talk about this?"

"We never kept in touch, we only remembered each other once I moved in with him and Cas."

"Ok."
"So, I grew away from him, tried to break up with him, did everything I could, changed my number, moved in with my nan for a year, but nothing worked, he still found me. I tried to kill myself a few times, but every time I had, he stopped me, he saved me but I didn't want him to. He later kidnapped me and held me hostage in his house. He said he couldn't live without me, he needed me and couldn't let me go. He'd never let me out of this small room, he would come home drunk and angry and he-he-he'd... r-ap-pe m-e."

"It's okay, take your time. We're here." Jim and Tan comforted me and I sobbed into their shoulders.

"I got away a few days before moving when he was passed out and hit his head. I got in his pocket without him even flinching and ran until I reached home, I explained everything and my parents understood that I needed to leave. Through it all, I was severely depressed, scars littering my body and bruises and cuts from his abusive outbursts. I tried to kill myself again after I escaped and my parents thought it'd be best to leave, so I moved in with Caspar. He was the reason I crashed a week after I moved to London and after me and Joe broke up, he found me and raped me again, that's why I moved to Chicago with Brandon"

I saw a tear roll down Tan's cheek and Jim seemed pretty shaken and scared too.
"I'm so sorry Charlotte, it must have been so hard., you could have told us."

"He was arrested a few days later and this is why I don't think I can keep this baby, I just can't live with a baby from a life I'm trying to forget, that's why I can't forgive Joe and I don't trust many people any more, that's why i'm so thankful to have you guys."

"We will support you in your decision Charlotte, no matter what it is."

"Thank you, I'm going to call Caspar."

"Ok."

A/N Sorry this is a little... shit, I just wanted to get something up but this is all I could think to write.

Laura x