The Worst & Best Thing | Joe Sugg

Bruised Knuckles, Bruised Heart

Joe's POV
I woke up on the couch in the living room. My head pounding, my knuckles aching. I look around as the sunlight creeps through the windows. I bring my hand to my temple slowly massaging it, as if it would help.

Jack comes in with a trash bag putting some plastic cups in it.

"You're awake." he says noticing me.

"Yeah." i say slowly extending my fingers whilst examining the dried up blood and bruises covering my knuckles. "Fuck." i groan in pain.

"Yeah, you might wanna take this." Jack says handing me a sack of cold peas.

He sits next to me, studying my face. "Do you remember?" his words come out shaky. I clench my jaw still not making eye contact with him. "Yeah. Some of it. I know i punched some random guy."

"Oh you punched him alright. Several times."

I look at him. "Emma's mad, isn't she?"

He nods his head and i let out a huge sigh. "Fuck!" i yell out practically startling Jack. "I have to speak to her I have to tell her-" i say standing up but Jack cuts me off by standing up in front of me, putting his hand on my chest to stop me.

"She doesn't wanna see you.."

"Jack. She has to hear what i have to say. Come on, it'll be fine." I say shrugging him off of me.

"No, Joe!" he protests gripping my upper arm.

"She doesn't want to see you." he says more demandingly. "Why are you being like this?" i question furrowing my eyebrows.

"I was there. I saw what you did to him. To her.." he says the last two words in a wince tone. "What do you mean.." I say very confused. "You pushed her pretty hard. Her shoulder is bruised, You scared her. She was so.." he looks for the right words.

"Traumatized."

Last night rushes through my mind. Everything that happened. She hates me. She hates me. I know she hates me.

I wasn't myself, i was someone so different. I hurt her. The one person i never wanted to hurt. How could i do this?! She makes me go wild. She makes me do the craziest thing, this isn't healthy. Just the sight of her with some other guy makes me violent.

"Cody, no one can know." Jack and I turn our direction to Violet and Cody walking in.

They stop in their tracks when they see Jack and I. Violet is looking straight at Jack, and the look on her face is as if she got caught hiding a dead body. Cody immediately walks upstairs.

"Jack." she says.

I look at Jack and his jaw is clenched. He looks like he might cry? Why does he look so..

Oh.

That explains why Cody and Vi were nowhere to be seen last night.

Jack swallows hard and he darts for the front door. "Jack, wait!" she pleads going after him.

Violet's POV
"Jack, wait!" i follow him out the door.

"How could you do this?" he swings his body around, facing me. I can't believe the look on his face, i've never seen him this hurt.

Cody and I went to get more wood and ended up making out and touching and feeling and it lead to.. you know.

"Jack. We aren't together. This is what we always do. We're constantly using each other, then using other people and hurting each other."

"I know. That's why I thought this time was different because.. Because you told me you loved me, Violet! You fucking told me you loved me." his voice rising and tears building up but i know he wont cry.

Tears form in my eyes as well, because it's true.

"I know." I swallow trying to hold back the tears from coming back. "I do love you. And you didn't say it back. It made me mad, you hurt me when you didn't say anything."

"So you go and sleep with one of my friends?!" he yells.

I don't say anything. My silence claiming what he just asked was true.  His jaw clenches and he looks at the floor, then sniffles. "Have fun telling Emma what you were doing when she needed you, then."

I furrow my eyebrows. "What?"

Why would Emma need me? Did something happen? Jack walks pass me back in the house.

I stand there trying to put together what he just said, then make my way up to Emma's room.