Changed // l.h ((Stalking sequel))

13

"Well I think I'm falling for you again."

I stare. I just stare at him in disbelief. Ever since our first kiss, ever since we fell out, when he broke my heart. Those are the words I've been wanting to hear. In a different circumstance, yes. But now that I've heard them, my mind is racing on what to do. Forgive and forget, or let go and move on.

Blue eyes stare intently down at me, searching my face for any sort of reaction. But by his face dropping, he senses that I have no idea what to say.

"Hetty, say something." He whispered.

I search his face and finally let out. "Look Luke. I don't know whether I trust you after last time. I don't know if what you're saying is true but-"

"Are you kidding me? I just told you all that and you think I'm playing a fucking game? I've sacrificed everything for you Hetty. Why can't you see that?" He says, in a tone that makes me flinch and he walks past me and over to the desk to take a seat on the chair.

I stood stunned at his sudden burst of attitude and I soon realise that I'm furious at how he spoke to me.

"Well can you really blame me Luke? You're the one who left me and broke my heart and you're wondering why I can't believe you? Do you have any sense at all or do you just use girls?" I crossed my arms over my chest while the toxic words left my mouth.

"Hetty how many times do I have to say sorry? I didn't mean to do that to you! It just sort of, happened..." He trailed off. "Just please forgive me and try to move on." He muttered the last bit making me gasp.

"Move on?!? Move on luke? You are you kidding me right now? You were the first boy I really thought I was falling for? And you completely broke me and made me lose all confidence in myself. You know what, at the party, I seriously considered forgiving you to move on. You know what. I felt like I was falling for you again, but after this, you've just opened my eyes to who you really are." As the words fell from my lips, his facial expressions were changing every sentence. But when I said 'I feel like I was falling for you again' his face changed, his eyes softened and he stood up coming towards me.

All the while, the boys walked in, shocked by my presents.

"Hetty? What are you doing here?" Michael asked while he opened the door and walked past me. Calum looked at me and his faved looked shocked, that's when I realised that I was crying.

"Nothing, I was just leaving." I muttered and turned around, hearing the boys ask luke what happened.

"Hetty, wait." Luke said rushing to grab my arm to pull me back, ignore the questions from the boys.

"No luke! No. We're done, don't follow me. You're a real piece of shit. I wish I never bothered with you." With that I yanked my arm out of his grip. I looked behind him and saw the boys gaping at us in shock. I reached into my pocket and grabbed the necklace he once got me. "Have this back to, give it to your next 'girl'." And I threw it at his chest and stormed out the room.

-

I reached my bedroom, ready to pack to leave this place and go home when I heard someone jogging behind me. I looked round and saw Ashton.

"Listen Ashton, I really don't want to hear it, I just want to pack and get ready to leave." I said wiping the tears from my face, struggling to open my door with my key card as I was shaking.

Ashton didn't say anything. He didn't even make a noise when we got to me. All he did was bring me into his chest by the back of my neck and wrapped his arms around my neck, rubbing my hair. I instantly wrapped my arms around his waist and sobbed into his chest.

"Why is he such a dickhead?" I mumbled into his chest and felt vibrations run through my head as he chuckled. He pulled away and wiped my tears and looked down at me.

"Listen Hetty, I don't know what he exactly said to you to make you cry. But I know him good enough to know that as soon as he said it, he regretted it." He said staring deeply into my eyes. I was about to say something when he shushed me. "No. Don't interrupt, listen to me first. He has strong feelings for you Hetty, really strong ones. When he was with Arzaylea, all he talked about what you to us. He never wanted it to end, but it did. That's in the past now, no going back. But what I do know for sure is that if you walk out of his life, he'll break. And I know that you think it's for the best. Listen to me when I say it's not. I'm usually agreeing with this side of the story but this is different. The connect you have is magical, every friendship, relationship or whatever you want to call this, goes through something like this. It's a test for loyalty. Be loyal and stay, it might hurt now, but it will be worth it in the future.