My brothers best friend

Chapter 6

Calum got home 10 minutes later and came galloping into the house.

I had just been sat at the kitchen table crying, all the memories of ashton and all the pain had just managed to escape my mind, but now it was back.

He came running up to me and I stood up, ran to him and hugged him tightly. I cried on his shoulder and he rubbed my back repeating comforting words to me.

After a few minutes I pulled away.

"Calum I'm so scared, what if he's going to hurt me again, what if he comes back and try's to ruin our lives" the tears came again and calum out his hand on my shoulder and forced me to look at him.

"Taylor, I would never ever let that happen ok" he looked right into my eyes. I nodded slightly. I heard a noise and a shuffle coming from the kitchen doorway.

I looked past Calum's shoulder and saw luke standing in the doorway.

He stared directly at me, my face covered with tear stains and makeup all over the place. His expression didn't change though, just a plain blank, unreadable face.

I was angry now. Why the hell was he here? He'd been getting high and pissing about a few hours ago, why was he suddenly at my house.

Calum spun round to see what I was staring at.

"Luke what the hell man, I told you to wait in the car" there was a trace of desperation in his voice.

"Yeah I know bro, I just urm..." He trailed off and though for a minute. "I needed to use the bathroom"

He looked back at me and my anger rose, calum looked back at me too. I looked from calum to luke and back again. I swear to god I could see a smirk on Luke's face, his eyes were red and bloodshot And he had a god damn smirk on his face.

Calum was looking at me apologetically. I looked at him and have him the evils, tears still flowing from my eyes. I pushed him out the way and barged past luke, running into the bathroom and locking the door.

I was crying like hell now, if used a whole box of tissues and managed to remove all my makeup with tears.

I'd heard some loud convosations coming from downstairs but I didn't quite catch them.

Minutes later someone was knocking on the locked bathroom door.

"Taylor open the door." it was calum.

"Taylor please, I'm sorry, open the door."

I sniffed but didn't answer. I didn't even want to see calum right now. He knew I was scared out of my mind with ashton, he knew I needed him and he came to be there for me, with luke.

Had he been hanging out with luke? If he had, had he been getting high and smoking with luke?

"Taylor open the freakin door, I'm sorry ok. You called so quick and asked me to come, I came didn't i? You just called whilst me and luke were in the middle of something so he had to come too." I heard him try to shoulder barge the door.

"In the middle of what calum?" Sniff. "Getting high on drugs with luke" sniff.

"What? No! Do you think if actually take the damn stuff? No! I know luke had been doing it today but we were just at the movies, there was no point in dropping him home when you needed me so quickly." He was getting defensive now. He tried shoulder barging the door again and I gave up.

I put my tissues in the bin, took a deep breath and unlocked the door.

"Taylor I swear. I wouldn't go near it. He's gone by the way."

"It's to late calum, the whole point is he was here" I tried to walk past him into our room but he stopped me.

"I texted ashton." He looked down at me and loosened his grip on my shoulder.

"You did what?!" My voice came out super high pitch and I don't know but inside, I felt wierd.

"I texted him for you, I said that if he tried to get to you one more time I would definitely ring the police. And then I blocked the number."

"Thankyou" I whispered, looking at the ground.

He handed me my phone and then pulled me into a hug and after a few minutes silence he spoke up.

"I'm here for you Taylor. Always am, always will be. Nothing is ever going to hurt you. You can trust me with anything and I know you would never keep anything from me."

Little did he know.