Meeting The Lads

Chapter 29

*at the park*

"So this is it? it's a building..." I question.

"It's.... Just wait..." He trails off and steps into the heated building.

The smell of the steamy building of fun reminded me of my old boyfriend I had. His name was Jeff, he was so perfect and he took me to an indoor park like this. He took a lot of his old girlfriends to these places actually. His personality was so authentic and I could never get out of my gaze that wandered to his beautiful blue eyes. But he did something I could never forgive him for, my eyes nearly get full of tears just thinking about what he did. Horrible. My daydreams get interrupted by Harry.

"Hey, give them ur damn wrist sky." he whispers.

"God... is this love or hate?" I smirk as I glare at his calling face.

"Come here, the signs over here... do you have to go to the restroom?' he asks and i nod my head walking towards the restrrom for ladies. The smell of the bathroom was pleasing to my picky nose from the lit candle in the corner. After I did my buisness i bump into a tall figure.

"oh, sorry... my fault!" she says. I finally make out a clear face and tell her that it was okay... 'hey, why are you so nervous?' I ask the shaking, pale faced girl.

"I just, I just need to take a quick breather. Please." she spits out and slams her behind on the chair in the corner by the table with the candle on it, i think she might have a panic attack.

"hey hey talk to me please, here" I say holding her shaking hand.

"Im with my boyfriend here, and I, I can't take it anymore he totally lied to me about everything and he doesnt know that i know, but i cant go out there like this, i look like hell and im starting to cry, you can leave if you want." she said with tears streaming down her face.

"No. I would never leave you like this." I tell her.

"By the way, the names Alexandria, you can call me Alex." she says in between sniffles.

I'm not sure as to what's happening right now, I don't know what's going on either but I was dying to find out why this helpless girl is failing to smile right in front of me.

"Alex. I'll be right back. I promise, don't leave here." she nods and I escape the restroom that's presented as a sauna to me and inhale a breeze of strong cologne and look behind me.

NO.

All of the memories flash through my head.

The Dates.

The parties.

The big mistake.

The tall muscular man standing by the girls bathroom is someone I thought I'd never run into again.

How many people come to London the same time I do? It's no coincidence I feel stalked.

Jeff.

He's probably with the high school summer trip.

My shaking legs manage to walk towards Jeff.

"Are you here with Alexandria?" I slightly ask him.

"Skylar. why are you here? you said you'd never talk to me. I never said sorry to you why are you bothering to even speak to me? what's your excuse why are you even he-" I cut him off because I can't even take it.

"No. This isn't about me! This is about that helpless girl in the bathroom. God knows WHAT YOU DID TO HER. Jeff just leave! You are such a terrible person and you will never ever get better. you just like ruining girls' lives an I'm so done with you. I've been do-"

Darkness.

No, it's Pain

It kills.

It burns.

I feel dead.

My eyes are closed and I can't seem to feel my body anywhere at all. My left eye and side of my face hurts.

My eyes flutter open within seconds and I can't see anything. Where am I? I look around the room and try to speak but nothing comes out. I hear Someone crying in a faint distance.

I'm in a hospital bed. How did I get like this? I look through the glass window and see a blurry scene of Harry and a doctor talking.

HARRY. He's crying. I need him.

Now.

We make sudden eye contact and he bursts through the door without warning to the doctor.

"Skylar!" he cries and runs to the side of the bed. he hugs me tight, not hurting anywhere and I try to grab on to his waist.

"Where's Ebony? what happened? My mom can't know I'm like this Harry." I plead to him and he looks up at me.

"Ebony and Liam are on their way." the tears growing from his face have basically stopped but I've never seen him more worried.

"Why am I even here?" I almost squint to look at Harry, my eye is so close to being closed shut.

"Jeff. That bitch totally beat you. I was too late to fucking save you and it's all my fault I'm so sorry this happened to you, I just. I didn't know sky. I'm so terrible." The tears come back and he struggles to fight them off.

"It's not your fault Harry, it's not. please don't stress about this, about me. I'll be fine...Oh my god Harry!"

"What? what?! are you okay?!"

"Yeah yeah... Alex. where is she? I need to see her, she needs me Harry."

"What are you talking about?" he questions me.

"Alex. Alexandria, Harry she was with Jeff. She.... she was crying in the bathroom there and I helped her and she needs me and I promised her that I would go back." I'm nervous as hell right now. I need break promises.

"Well, honey I'm gonna need you to not worry about that. anyone that was with him went home, Jeff's going to prison." the smirk on this face is faint but visible then does out after two seconds.

"Hey skylar?" he looks down at the ground. I don't really answer or nod, I just let him speak and I close my eyes and listen.

"I'm so sorry. For everything, not being there for you at all times, making you cry, being so terrible to you. I never really knew what I had until it was almost gone and you're the most important person in my life. I'm sorry if I'm mean to you, I'm such a douchebag but I'm trying to recover from it. You mean so much to me and I always take the easy way out. Which is just being mean and a jerk to you and I regret it so much. Not saving you from him was the biggest thing I want to take back. If only I knew what was happening I could've saved you. I'm so lucky that my hit was counted as self defense. Nobody even knows what happened before the ambulance came, yeah I might've knocked him out also. no one cared for him though. I'm not expecting you to forgive my terrible soul, just to give me a chance to make you happy." he sighs and I can hear him start crying.

I smile at his words, he cares so much for me and he's actually telling me finally. He can be the biggest jerk sometimes but I would never regret meeting him.

His hand crawls on top of mine and he lays his head on my stomach and rests his body right next to mine.

He kisses the side of my jaw and rests his head on my chest. We both drift off to sleep together. I mouth 'I love you' but he doesn't notice.

Who knows how lucky I really was?.