Cause I Can Love You More Than This.

Chapter 17

Taylor's POV.

I felt a cool breeze flow over me and shivered. I was alone in bed and the window was opened in the middle of a snow storm at like four in the morning. I unwantingly opened my eyes and saw that Lou was gone. Where is he?

I closed the window and grabbed a sweatshirt. I threw it on and started searching for Lou. I checked the living room and he wasn't there. I checked the kitchen and he wasn't there. I checked the bathroom and it was empty. Where could he be?

I started to get worried as I walked toward the patio door. It was more like a balcony with patio furniture with sliding glass doors connecting to our kitchen. I loved going out there and just watching the clouds from the grass or sitting and having some tea in a comfy chair.

I slipped my shoes on and slid outside. I could hardly see in the snow but eventually found Lou pacing around, knee-deep in snow.

I approached him and he looked at me with tear-filled eyes.

"What are you doing out here TayTay? Your gonna catch a cold. Go inside where it's warm," he said.

"Not until you do. What's wrong?" I asked.

"Why would you think something is wrong?" he asked and more tears fell down his face and I just brushed them away with my thumb.

"Because there is. Just tell me. You've seen me cry millions of times and I've seen you cry before so why won't you just tell me why?" I asked.

He sighed and he looked like he wanted to sob.

"Lou, please tell me," I begged.

He closed his eyes and looked down at his feet, then back up at me, about to ball.

"M-my m-mum and s-sisters w-were in a c-car cr-crash. I-I don't know if th-they're ok-k or n-not, " he said.

"Oh my god, Lou I'm so sorry," I said and hugged him.

He began to break down on my shoulder and my legs began to freeze. I started shivering and so did he.

He wiped away his tears and motioned that he wanted to go back into the house. I tried to walk but was too deep in snow. When I tried I nearly fell, making me feel like a penguin. Lou gave a small smile and picked me up, carrying me inside.

My legs felt kinda numb until we were back inside. Lou set me down on the couch and sat beside me, obviously wanting to cry. I scooted closer to him and held him tight, wanting to cry as well. We both have lost someone, but to possible lose five people in one day is just awful. Yes he's all I have and I watched my family die, he lost more then me. I have to put him first.

He just cried for a solid ten minutes and I let some silent tears fall consistently until I knew he had stopped crying. I blinked back the rest of mine and was about to wipe away the last few when he pulled out of the hug and saw them.

"Why are you crying?" he asked confused.

"It's just, we both have lost a lot and it's hard. You may have just lost the most important people in your life, well some of them and your all I have left. I just don't understand why we have to lose it all. It's j-just h-hard," I said, beginning to stutter just a little, wiping away my few tears.

"Well I don't know for sure if they are ok or not. The car crashed not to long ago and because of where it was, it seems like they were coming here," he said.

"Where did they crash?" I asked.

"About two streets over from your old work. Why?" he asked.

I froze. Sarah set up a fake traffic stop o the street he's talking about when my friend Molly quit about five months ago and her husband lost his brothers the day she quit. Could she have done it again?

"Taylor what's wrong?" he asked nervously.

I tilted my head back and whispered I myself, "She's done it again".

"Who's done what again Tay?" he asked.

"Sarah. She set up a fake traffic stop there once and my old co-worker lost her husbands brothers when she quit. It's was that very place where they crashed. I think she's done it again," I said, literally beginning to tremble.

"That's sick. Taylor, are you ok? Your literally trembling," he said worried.

I just nodded. I was not ok at all. That's also the place my parents died. We were driving and my father and I were arguing and then he slid and we got hit and started flipping and fell into a lake that was like 20ft deep. How was I supposed to tell Louis that my parents died at the same place his sisters and mum may have as well?

"Taylor you look like you've seen a ghost and your trembling. What's wrong?" he asked and started wiping away the few tears that had slipped out that I had no clue about.

I didn't respond, but at that very moment, everything went black.

Louis' POV

I wiped away Taylor's tears and then, she fainted. She started slipping off the couch and I caught her. I picked her up and carried her to bed. I set her down and covered her with blankets and tried to wake her from the "slumber" she was in.

"Taylor, if you can hear me wake up sweetie," I said nervously and hopeful.

I felt my phone vibrate and felt nervous. I looked at the message that the doctor sent me.

Dr. Helena: Your family is ok. They were discharged about ten minutes ago. The car just slipped and they hit a pole. No one was too seriously hurt. Just some soreness but the scene is being investigated.

Me: thank u so much ma'am.

That's terrific. My family is alive.

Taylor slowly opened her eyes and they were filled with tears. She looked like she wanted to break down. That's how I must have looked a little while ago.

"Tay, you ok?" I asked.

She was starting to cry and I pulled her into my arms. "Shhh.... what's wrong sweetie?" I asked, becoming even more worried.

She looked up at me with one of the saddest looks I had ever seen on her face. It made me want to tear up but I forced it back.

She forced herself to calm down enough to talk.

"The place where your sisters and mum crashes, is where my family got in the car crash and my parents died," she managed to say before crying into my chest.

I just held her tight in my arms and let her cry. Her parents died at the spot where my family crashed and got out nearly injury free. I could just hear the sobs she let out and knew that they were just right from her heart. My family was lucky to be alive. She can never get her's back.

"Taylor, I-I'm so sorry," I said.

"Don't be. You still have your family. At least you have someone to talk to and someone who cares for you aside from me. Your all I have Lou. Not that I don't like it but it's just not what I thought my life would he like at almost 18," she said.

I can't believe she just said that. I shouldn't be sorry because I'm all she has. That's not gonna stop me from being sorry.

"Wanna go back to bed?" I asked.

"But wait is your family ok?" she asked.

"I got a text after you fainted. Everyone is ok and they left the hospital," I told her.

She smiled. "That's great Lou," she said and kissed me.

I smiled and we crawled into the blankets. I fell asleep holding her in my arms as she did the same.