It was 2am; the hard road and gravel stung my feet every time I would take a leap, my lungs were heavy, and the cramp in my stomach was making me feel weak. My eyes were stinging from the intense crying. I could see the place I knew I would be safe at by now, so I pushed even harder to run as fast as I could. I finally reached his house, his mum's car wasn't there and you can't see his bedroom from the street, I didn't even know if he was home, but I didn't know where else to go.
I ran up the twisting concrete stairs skipping every second one, when I reached the front door I banged as loud as I could, "JACK!" I yelled his name at the top of my lungs, (which were still tired from running) until I could hear loud, fast footsteps on the wooden floor. Jack opened the sliding glass door and pulled me inside by swinging both of his arms around me. He could tell that something was wrong. I rested my head on his chest and continued to sob.
"What's going on beautiful?" He said, while clutching me closely to his chest firmly with one hand, while holding his other hand on the back of my head.
"He did it again Jack"
He released me from his grip and placed both of his hands on my face trying to lift it up into the light; I struggled and forced against his touch, but eventually lifted my head and looked into his eyes. He could see that my eye was swollen, I tried to make it look like I was licking my lips to try and hide the gash on the right side of my mouth, but Jack was no stranger to Todd doing this to me, he caught me out.
"That fucking idiot! I'm going to kill him!! You are 16 years old and you don’t deserve this" He yelled, and went to walk out of the door.
"No Jack! Please, stay with me" I said, now sobbing even louder. "Please"
He walked back in the door and looked at me holding my hands tightly in his, "Madi, you're my best friend, I can't let your ‘boyfriend’ treat you this way".
“I know, but right now I just need you here, please”.
“Do you love him Madi?”
“I... I don’t know” I looked at the floor and my eyes began to flicker over the stained wood patterning.
“Tell me the truth, do you really love him?”
I waited a while before I gave him a truthful answer, “No”. I started to cry again, and the room went silent, he pulled me towards him once again and held on to me even tighter.
“Then you need to leave him, or this is going to keep happening to you” he handed me his phone with Todd’s number already dialled. “Ring him, you know what you need to do” he kissed me on the forehead and went into the kitchen.
On the fourth ring Todd answered the phone.
“Hello?”
“It’s over Todd!” I yelled through the phone with a vicious tone in my voice.
“You can’t leave me! We aren’t over until I say we’re over!” I could picture the rage on his face.
“I’m sick of being pushed around by you! And I’m really sick of you physically hurting me! We are done Todd” I hung up and walked into the kitchen. Jack was waiting patiently on the kitchen bench for me.
“You did the right thing beautiful” He said, looking at me with his hands held together in his lap.
“I know” I replied, managing a little smirk, just thinking to myself that I’m finally free of Todd.
“Jack...”
“Yeah?”
“I... I kind of have nowhere to stay...”
“You will always have a place to stay, you’ll stay with me.”
He jumped down off the kitchen bench and grabbed onto my hand, and I followed him upstairs to his bedroom.
“Do you need anything? Something to eat, a drink, clothes, anything?
“Well... I could do with a shirt to sleep in”
“No problem” he left his room and returned with a black oversized shirt. “Is this okay?”
“Absolutely” I said smiling.
“Well, if you want, you can sleep in my bed and I’ll go out into the lounge room and sleep”
“No, please stay with me”
He smiled at me and we both crawled into his king sized bed.
“I’m really tired” I said yawning
“It’s okay; you’ve had a rough day, get some sleep”
He faced the other way, but I rolled over towards him, grabbed his arm and rolled him back over to face me, sliding under his arm so that he was cuddling me. I felt safe with him.
“Goodnight Jack”
“Goodnight Madi, sweet dreams princess” He kissed me on the forehead again, only this time it was longer.
~A/N~
This is the first 'story' that i have ever written and put on wattpad, so please don't judge or hate! If you don't like it don't read it c: xx
