Beauty and A Beating

Chapter 7

Izzy POV

Watching as he was falling back, I reached forward and grabbed him by the shirt, although he was heavy, I managed to pull him back on the ledge. The momentum sent him flying into me.

We both fell back down on the roof, which was a good 5 foot drop from the ledge.

Justin landed on me, his hand blocking the back of my head from the concrete. I looked up at him, his nose almost touching mine and for once I saw his sensitive side.

I looked away awkwardly as he got up and leaned against the wall. I could tell he was in complete shock because of what had happened, I mean if I almost fell off a building to my death I would be in shock too.

"Do you need anything?" I finally say after a while of silence.

He didn't say anything, he just walked over to me and pulled me in for a hug, it was actually really strange. I could feel his heart pounding through his shirt and his arms shaking as he hugged me.

"Are you okay?" I asked quietly as his arms continued to envelop me. But he didn't answer, I guess he just needed physical affection more than anything right now.

I heard the roof door shoot open, spinning around I saw Asher. He had a puzzled look on his face, but he shook it off anyway.

"We need to go." He said sternly.

"Go where?" I asked turning around, letting Justin stay behind me.

"A meeting." He turned around and walked out. Justin followed, dragging me along like I was his slave.

As we got to the end of the stairs, he pulled me out of the door and brought me to his room.

"Look, I don't want to do this, but I have to." He said knitting his eyebrows together.

I looked at him puzzled and then I saw him pull handcuffs out or a drawer, I looked at him with such anger, but he wouldn't look me in the eyes. Taking my arm, he clipped one hand cuff to my wrist, and the other one to the bar of the bed so I could I least lay down.

"I'm sorry." He tried to hug me, but I turned away.

He walked out, and I laid down on the bed. My thoughts were flourishing through my mind, I was definitely annoyed and angry. I just saved him from plumetting off of a building, he doesn't say thank you and then he handcuffs me to the bed? Great way of thanking me.

Justin's POV

I almost killed myself. I've thought about doing it before, but I didn't know it was that real. When I felt myself drift off the roof, it felt my heart came out of my mouth. I couldn't find the words to thank Izzy, she probably hates me for handcuffing her, but I have to. I don't trust her alone.

Asher started up the car and everyone piled in the back, he sped out of the driveway.

"Where are we going?" Za asked form the back seat.

"Carlos called a meeting, we're gonna discuss things." Asher gripped the steering wheel angrily.

No one talked the whole ride, mostly just stared out the window. I had a really bad feeling about this.

Pulling up to an abandoned warehouse, we saw Carlos and his guys leaning against their cars smoking. All of us narrowed our eyes as we passed them.

Getting out of the car, we all lined up behind Asher.

"You're late." Carlos spoke with his cigarette between his lips, letting the ash fall off.

"Complications." Asher retorted, folding his arms across his chest.