Does he really care?

The Package

"What's that supposed to mean?" I question.

"He did it again, I am so drained," She replies while putting her head on her knees.

I pull her head up gently with my hand forcing her to look at me.

"What did he do?" I asked her.

She just stares at me like I'm not speaking English.

"Dakota you can tell me," I reassured her nodding my head. 

<Dakotas POV>

After Luke says I could tell him anything I feel a tear run down my cheek, I feel him gently wipe it off and I knew this was my opportunity to be selfish and finally let someone carry some of the weight I had been carrying.

"Luke if I tell you, you need to promise you won't tell anyone...ever," I say.

"I promise I won't tell a single living soul about whatever you are about to tell me," He says in a serious tone.

I spill. I tell him everything from when I ran off to the beach and he found me the other day up until right now.

His jaw drops.

"I-I had no idea Dakota, I'm so sorry," he tells me.

"Your dad is gone for a month. huh," He confirms.

"Yup," I say while looking around the room.

"You know what that means," he says with a smirk on his face.

"No, what?" I question.

"We are having a month-long sleepover," he replies smiling while looking down at me.

I give him an uneasy look, I'm worried that somehow my dad would find out and kill me.

"Why?" I question.

"Because I'm not leaving you alone in this house knowing what you are capable of,"  He says with confidence.

'He's only trying to be nice give it a chance Dakota' I think to myself

"I-i guess w-we could," I responded dully.

"C'mon it'll be fun," Luke says while helping me up.

<Lukes POV>

I tell Dakota that I'll be staying with her for the month, maybe I'd be able to make her feel a little better. She seems uneasy but it's probably because of her dad.

"Hey, let's watch something on Netflix," I suggest.

"Alright sounds good to me," She responds.

'Yes, I'm finally going somewhere!' I exclaim in my head.

She gets up from the ground and gets her laptop and sits on the bed. She motions for me to come over and lay next to her. I gladly go next to her and we choose to binge-watch family guy on Netflix.

"Do you wanna watch a scary movie," I propose.

"Eh, I'm not really into scary movies," she replies.

"Aye c'mon I'll be right here to protect you," I respond wrapping my arm around her.

After going back a forth a little she finally agrees to watch one. 

We decide to watch The Exorcist, after the movie ends I notice Dakota is fast asleep. I slowly get off the bed, tuck her in and kiss her forehead, and leave the room.

I walk out of her room and down the stairs, I clear some space on the couch and try to fall asleep.

<Dakotas POV>

I fall asleep during the movie, and sometime during the night, I get a nightmare.

My dad has been possessed by a demon. I'm hiding in my closet hoping he won't find me. I hear him walk into my room and he's climbing on the walls and up to the ceiling dripping black liquid from his mouth. He drops from the ceiling and rips the closet doors off the wall, and pulls me out. I'm screaming

"Help!"

"Let go of me!"

<Lukes POV>

It's 2:30 am and I wake up to Dakota screaming.

"Oh shit," I mutter.

I dash up the stairs and into her room to see what's going on. She must be having a nightmare, she's moving and shaking violently in her bed begging whatever she's dreaming about to stop and to let her go. I run over to her bedside and try to wake her up.

"Dakota" I whisper

"DAKota" I say a little bit louder

"DAKOTA" I yell and shake her awake.

She shoots up from her bed and instantly starts crying. I jump in the bed with her and hug her until she calms down, I lay down and she follows my movements. She lays her head on my shoulder and I gently play with her hair. After a while, she finally relaxes and I decide just to stay with her for the night. I cover us both up with her blanket and wrap my arm around her waist, and fall right asleep.

I wake up to the sun shining right through the window. I look over to see Dakota peacefully sleeping right next to me snuggled up against my chest.

'I am extremely comfortable right now' I say in my head.

I decide I'm not gonna move. I put my nose right up to her head and I can smell the coconut shampoo she uses. We lay like this for about 20 minutes until she woke up.

"Well good morning sleepyhead," I say.

"Good morning," she says squinting from the sun that's blaring in her eyes.

We get off the bed and Dakota is still half asleep but is quickly interrupted by the doorbell. She gets up and dashes to the front door. I follow her to the door to see it's just a package with a piece of binder paper on it.

<Dakota POV>

I hear the doorbell and run downstairs with Luke closely behind me. I open the front door and see a package and a note attached, addressed to me.

The note reads:

Listen up depressed slut, I know you have been sleeping with my boyfriend, Luke. He doesn't like you at all not even as a friend. He thinks you are a disgusting depressed piece of garbage, he's just using you so he can get in your pants and use your body. I wouldn't blame him no one will ever love you, you should honestly just kill yourself. Oh, yea that's right you've already tried what stopped you? Everyone would be so much better off if you weren't here. Luke and I can finally tell everyone we are dating. He's only sticking around you because he feels bad. Here I gave you a little package to help you start off. Have fun. :)) Sincerely Isabella.

I walk over to the counter and Luke sits right across from me but he can't see the letter or what's inside the package. I grab a knife and open the box, I am shocked.

There is a rope with printed-out, looks like Isabella typed it herself,  directions on how to 'hang yourself'

There are about 3 bottles of Ibuprofen

Two bottles of Aspirin

Multiple razors

5 condoms with a note attached 'for Luke, 2 for you guys, and 3 for me and him'

and lastly at the bottom of the box 'Have Fun' is written in sharpie.

My mouth drops open.

"Hey who's that from?" Luke asks me

I don't respond.

"Hellll-ooooo Dakota," he says playfully

I still don't respond, mainly in shock from what I was looking at.

He grabs the note and box and starts looking at it. 

What's Luke's reaction going to be when he reads the note and sees the letter?