Dangerously in Love

Chapter 4 :

"It's not how it looks like." I heard Teddie saying.
"Chloé.." My mum wanted to start talking but I didn't let her finish.
"Stop just stop." I said silent and ran downstairs as fast as I could. I just wanted to be far away. I just wanted to disappear.

I leaned myself against a big rock at the beach and broke down in tears. I pulled my legs together and hid my face behind my knees. How long will I endure that? The question that stuck in my head while I was crying.

"Are you okay?" I heard a strange deep voice saying.
I looked up to him.
"Yes, I am." I mumbled but it was obvious that I wasn't.
He poked his surfboard in the sand and sat down next to me.
"Sometimes strangers can help you better than people who are close to you." He said.
I wiped away the teardrops from my eyes. I needed to talk to someone, but there wasn't anyone else to turn to. So started to tell him everything.
"It's just that.." I stopped.
"What?.." He whispered.
I looked at him and he looked at me.
"I've been trough hard things. Too many to count right now." Another tear dropped as I started talking.
"Tell me.." He said with a soft pitch.
"I get bullied on school. And.. and my mum hates me and she sleeps with the boy I love. My best friends, at least if they are my best friends, talk about me behind my back. I get used by anyone. People don't accept me. My mum hits me and my dad left us when he found out my mom was pregnant. You know my mum pretends that we'd be the happiest family but no one knows how it really is. I'm just that girl, everyone replaces after a while." I answered.
He gave me a compassionate look. He was near tears, I guess my story touched him.
"You don't need friends like them. Just throw them away. You can be so much better without them and give the bullies the feeling they can't hurt you, they'll stop as soon as they notice, that you're too strong for them. One day you'll find the right one. The one who will hold you tight and goes with you trough good and bad times. Why don't you leave your mum?" He asked.
"It's complicated." I responded.
He was right. Why didn't I just leave my mum?
A hard wind came contrary to us, that his surfboard, which was poked in the sand next to him, fell on his head while he was busy listening to the words I said. I laughed and so did he.
"Are you okay?" I still laughed.
"Well I think so."
The tip of the surfboard was still laying on his head, he still didn't take it off his head, so I did. He was tall and really muscly, that I had to kneel to get the surfboard off his head, after that I put it on the sight.
"How could that happen, I mean, I poked it in the sand massively?" He said while he was laughing.
"I don't know, maybe your surfboard doesn't really like you?" I smiled.
He laughed.
"Thank you for listening to me. It really helped." I said.
"Anytime." He said.
"I have to go now." I stood up.
"Stay strong and keep smiling. Your smile enchants." He said.
I looked down to him and he looked up to me.
"I'll try." I mumbled.
"Don't try it, do it! Promised?" He asked.
"Promised." I responded.
"Goodbye." He said.
"Not goodbye, it kills the hope of meeting again." I smiled and went.