The Match ( Daniel Sturridge fan fic )

Chapter 15: Girl in the photo...

Daniels P.O.V.

Being with Hannah is so calming. I know this will sound cliche but she makes me want to try my hardest to be a better me.

I finally arrived back at my house. I opened the front door, walked in and shut it putting my keys on the desk below the mirror next to the door. I jogged up the stairs to my room and I slumped myself backwards onto my bed feeling a bit worn out from my very eventfull day with Hannah.
I slid my phone out of my pocket and started to go through my timeline on Instagran. I saw pictures of myself and Han on our date a while back that I am still pretty annoid about but I cant lie, some of them were cute...

I came across a certain picture of a woman. She had on red high heels that im sure were impossible to walk in. She had a really tight dress on that stopped just below the top of her thigh and her hair was pushed to the side. Her face was covered in makeup that had streak marks in it... she looked like she had been crying. She was facing sideways where I could only see a good half of her face. She looked so familiar.
A man that was a lot taller than her had his hand around her arm really tight. I could clearly see it was tight from the imprint of his fingers on previous places on that same arm...
I had evidently been looking at this picture for so long because my eyes started to get a bit blury looking at the screen. I looked away and looked back.
It's almost like me looking away helped me to gather my thoughts and memory because when I looked back at the picture, I almost felt like I could no longer breathe.
The air had been knocked out of my lungs and I was in pure shock.
The girl that I so preciously cared for...

The girl that I spotted in the Stadium...

The innocent girl I went on a date with...

The girl that I wanted to ask to be my girlfriend officially.

Hannah was that girl in the photo

As I layed back thinking of what I had just seen, I fell asleep to the sound of Nothing.

Hannahs P.O.V

Isn't it so sad that one mistake that you made a few years ago can haunt you for the rest of your life...

*flash back*

I was 18 when I started dating Cameron, at first he was so nice to me, made me feel like I was the most beautiful girl in the world until a couple of months down the line, one day I came over to his house and made dinner for us both. He came in from being out with his friends and sat down in his usual chair in front of the TV. I went over to greet him, give him a hug and a kiss. I went back into the kitchen, put his food on a tray and brought it out to him. I placed it down on a stool in front of him. I went back into the kitchen to wash up the dishes. I heard some fumbling about from the living room followed by shouting. This made me jump and cut myself on the knife that I was cleaning.
I ran out to see what the commotion was. The food I gave him on the tray was on the wooden floor,  Cameron was standing up breathing deeply. He turned, looked at me and said " what kind of crap is this" his eyes were ablaze when he said this. " are you trying to get rid if me huh ? Are you trying to kill me huh, answer me !" I couldn't believe the words that were coming out of his mouth, why would I be trying to kill him, I love him. I then hasend towards him to gently put my hand on his shoulder and re-asure him that I would never do such a thing but before I could even open my mouth, I was on the floor with a stinging Left cheek. He then knelt down, pulled my hair up so that I was looking into his eyes and said " dont you ever try to get rid of me, I love you and you can never leave me do you understand" at this point I was in floods of tears from the pain that was throbbing in my left cheek and the deep cut on my hand that had blood dripping from it. With that he let go of my hair, stood up, walked to the front door and before he was about to open it to walk out, he turned and said "clean this mess up"

A couple of weeks had passed and the abuse was getting worse. I had welts on my legs, hand prints (bruises) on my arms and my lip was busted from him hitting me in my face the night before.
"Hannah, pick up your stupid feet, come on we're gonna be late to the party you stupid cow."
We were going to one of his celebrity friends parties. Austin is a singer and was having a party for his album launch. As we pulled up outside, we saw loads of cameras. There were paps everywhere. Austin managed to see Cameron through the crowds of people and jogged on over to us. Of course the paparazzi followed him. When he finally got to us, he embraced Cameron into a hug, I tried to turn to the side away from the cameras but Camerons hand became like a vice on me, he squeezed my arm so hard that he made the outline of where his hand was on my arm go purple. I quickly turned back around and mustered up my best smile because the cameras were clicking ever so frequently.
Cameron wrapped his arm around my waist for the cameras and acted like he was being affectionate towards me by putting his head into the side of my neck when really his grip on my waist tightend on me and he whispered "dont you dare mess this up or I'll have to hurt you. I dont want to do that because I love you".
I simply nodded and complied with what he said because after all, its not like I could run away. I had no safe haven.  My parents kicked me out because I disobeyed them and chose to date cameron. And that is the biggest and worst mistake that I could have ever made.

* Flash back over *
I literally felt like I relived that whole time period in an hour. I had been on my knees for a whole hour staring into the distance and recalling the memory in my mind. What will Daniel think of me now, why does this have to happen to me now. Im finally moving forward with my life and this haunting picture has to find me on the internet. Maybe I should just end things with Daniel now before he does so I will still have my integrity.
I have enjoyed my life so much lately with Daniel but I dont think that happiness is willing to give me a second chance.

This hurts so much because I think that I may already be in love with him...

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Hiiiii guuuuys, im sorry I've been away for like ever. So much has happend in my life lately, changing of Jobs, new sister in law yada yada yada. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter, please leave comments and etc and I promise to do better with writing 😉😌