My Sweet Carolina-Harry Styles Fanfiction

Chapter 2 - Resolving the Issue

Throughout my whole exam I couldn't keep my mind off of the night before. All I could do was try to think of a way out. I wish that I could just tell Justin how I felt and that things aren't going to work out but I don't think that things would end well if I decided to take that route. I was so lost, these past few months have been full of the same thing happening over and over again. The drinking, late night visits, arguments...hitting. I try to forget about it and move on but like I said before it's too much to just forget about now.

"Okay guys thats it, your grades will be posted in a few days. Enjoy your summer." My English Professor announces and the whole class dismisses. I walk my exam up to my Professor and give him a small smile to be polite. "Thank you. Have a good summer Chloe." I wave "You too Mr. Harley." 

As I walk out of class and head towards my dorm I think about visiting my grams. Its been a while since I've seen her and I really need somebody to talk to about everything thats been going on.

Right after walking into my dorm I decide to pack a bag in case I end up staying overnight. I quickly look around the room to make sure I'm not missing anything important and then I leave. Now the problem is finding a bus at this time. I turn on my phone to see that it is 11:00 am and I remember that on the bus schedule I received at the beginning of the semester that one comes around 11:30 am. Crap! I'm going to have to rush if I'm gonna make it across town in time.

-A few moments later-

I check my phone for possibly the 10th time on my way here '11:29'. Thank god, I just made it. Just as I reach the bus stop the bus pulls up, I get on and take a seat. 

I really wish I had a car it would make everything so much easier. I've had my license for a while now but I just haven't saved up enough money yet to actually buy a car. School takes up so much of my time that it's hard to get a job that coordinates with my hours. The only time I'm  able to work is during the summer because I have all the time in the world. But before I know it I will be done with college and have a job that I love.

The bus comes to a halt, I look out the window and see that this bus stop is down the street from my grandmothers house, this will have to do. I get off the bus and head for my grandmothers house which doesn't take long at all. Before I know it I'm on her front steps knocking on the old wooden door.

"Chloe!" She wraps her arms around me and gives me a hug. "Hi grams. I've missed you." She smiles. "I've missed you too honey. Come in, come in." She opens the door more so I can enter. "Do you want anything to drink?.. Oh you must be starving the ride over here is awful." I smile. "I'm okay grams. I still haven't saved up enough money to get a car so I took the bus." 

"I can help you out?" I shake my head. "I need to do this by myself, I don't want to just take money from you." 

"You won't just be taking it. I'm giving it to you." 

"I actually need to talk to you about something." For a moment I had forgotten about everything going on. Being around my grandmother always makes me happier and lightens the mood. We were standing in the hallway between her kitchen and living room, she lived in a smaller house since it was just her.

"Whats wrong?..Come sit down." We walk over to the living room and take a seat on her couch. "A lot has been going on lately and I just don't know what to do. You're the only person I can talk  to about it." She frowns and starts to gently rub my back. "Go ahead. You can tell me."

"Well you now how I've been dating that boy Justin?" She nods her head and continues to listen. "Well just a few months ago he started going out to parties and getting drunk, more than he had before... I didn't know what to do but it concerned me, he just isn't himself when he's drunk. But one night I had told him that he should ease up on the drinking and that it wasn't good for him to get drunk all the time.." I feel my eyes sting but I try my best no to cry.

"He got aggravated with me and just smacked me. I was so shocked that I just sat there and waited for him to leave. When he finally left I decided that it was my fault, I shouldn't have made a big deal out of it. But then it happened again, again,and again..." 

"He continued to hit you?" I nod my head. "I've been trying to ignore it all and push it aside like it's no big deal but when it happened again last night I knew that I couldn't take one more hit from him. That was it... But I'm just so lost I don't know what to actually do about it. I just know I can't be around him anymore."

My grandmother sat there and I could tell she was still processing everything I had just told her. "I know it's a lot grams but I really need advice...and I know you are the best at giving it."

"What do you think is the best option for you?" she says still trying to exactly figure out what I had just told her. "I honestly don't know. Like I said I know I need to get away from him but I don't know how. If I tell him that I don't want to be in a relationship anymore he is going to get mad...I really need your help."

She rubs her forehead with the palms of her hands. "You need to leave him." 

"Yea I kn-" She interrupts me. "Not just the relationship. This town. You need to get away from here and start over." 

"I..I..I can't just leave. I have school and you're here. How could I possibly be okay without you? You're always there for me." She takes both of my hands and wraps them in her own. "You are strong enough to do this on your own, you have to be. You can't live in an abusive relationship your whole life with no way out..You need to swim before you drown." 

"Where would I go, what would I do?.." She rubs my hand with her thumb. "Look at me." I turn my head towards her. "It all seems scary now and I'm sure it feels like everything is crashing down on you but you can do this... Go to California." 

"California?! That's so far."

"Honey.. you need space, you need this change. California is the perfect place to find who you truly are and accomplish everything you want to accomplish. Don't just do this for yourself do it for me..All I ever wanted for you was to be happy and I've seen that these past few years you have been everything but happy."

"But I don't have much money, I don't have a car..this is impossible"

"I'm going to help you..and I'm not asking. I'm helping. Nothing is impossible, once you put your mind to it you will find that it is very difficult but possible."

I know it all seems crazy, trust me I knew sitting there that it was crazy. But she was right I needed a change and I needed to find myself. This was the one way to do it, to get away from my chaotic life and just figure things out. Leaving her house that day I carried those words with me "You need to swim before you drown". Those were words I would never forget....

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