Does he really care?

Tired

She's badly beaten, and not sure what to do I grab her and run to my car not caring I'm skipping half the school day. I settle her into the car and start driving, I drive to my house and race Dakota up to my room. I lay her on my bed and see her clothes are torn up and bloody, I rush to find a pair of shorts and an old t-shirt of mine that she can wear. Taking a deep breath I start to take her clothes off and put a clean pair on, I notice she has bruises everywhere from head to toe. I clean up her cuts and bandage the smaller ones, wrap the larger cuts, and lay down next to her waiting until she wakes up.

<Dakotas POV>

I wake up in Luke's bed, trying to move around I feel a sharp pain in my side. I cry loudly in pain as I try to reduce the pain but it just isn't going away, Luke bolts up from right next to me.

"What's wrong?" He questions

I point down to my side indicating I'm in a lot of pain.

He gets up and goes over to his bathroom bringing out two pain pills over to my side with a glass of water. I down the pills and Luke lays right back down next to me drawing shapes on my side with his finger. Soon enough I fell back asleep laying right next to Luke, I wasn't sure why I was so tired but I took the opportunity to get some sleep.

I woke up again at around 7:30 pm all I do is sit up in the bed, I instantly felt pain in my side again but I fought it I just sat on the end of the bed. I stood up trying to keep my balance, I started to make my way down the stairs where I found Luke in the kitchen, ignoring him I went and sat on the couch and stared at the wall that was decorated with family photos.

I don't realize Luke is approaching me until I felt a dip in the couch.

"Hey, whatcha looking at," He asks giving me a sympathetic look.

I open my mouth but no words come out just tears start coming out of my face.

He turns his head and realizes I'm looking at a picture of his whole family together.

He pulls me closer to his chest, "Do you miss your family."

I nod.

"Hey you'll always be a part of this family, let's get you some food, then we can go chill upstairs."

"Ok thank you," I say.

"Oh god, I missed your voice so much," Luke says leading me over to the kitchen and pulling out a pizza he had made for dinner. After me and him ate Luke got a call from his parents saying his sister was camping with a friend for a week and that his parents were on a business trip. We head upstairs and lay on Luke's bed, we are facing each other I'm trying my hardest not to fall asleep but my eyes are feeling heavy.

"Hey why don't you just sleep baby girl," Luke says.

"I feel like I've slept too much today," I tell him.

"Hey it's ok if you are tired you should sleep babe," He chuckles.

"I am really tired but I feel bad you're all by yourself while I'm sleeping," I whine.

"Hey don't worry about me babe I enjoy just being right next to you I'll eventually fall asleep right by your side too," He tells me.

I wrap my arms around his waist and he gently does the same as well as going back to rubbing shapes on my badly bruised side, I fall into a deep sleep. But once again I have a nightmare.

~Dakotas nightmare~

I walk into history class and see Luke making out with Isabella.

"He sure had you fooled, you thought he loved you." Isabella spat at me.

Instead of taking my normal seat next to him, I sit in the back corner on the opposite side of the classroom. Once the class is finished I walk into the hallway but I'm soon pulled into the old locker rooms by Luke. He slams me into a locker.

"Worthless piece of garbage" He spits as he punches me.

"Depressed slut" He spits again as he throws another punch at me.

"Just go die." He screams slapping me harder.

I then see my dad's face on Luke's body, I scream and tears are pouring down my face.

"Dakota wake up!"

"Dakota wake up!"

~End of dream~

Luke shakes me until I am completely aware it was just a dream. I bolt up in the bed and quickly I am greeted by a sharp pain in my side.

"Shoot," I mutter under my breath.

"What happened," Luke says lazily still half asleep.

Once Luke realized I had been crying he sat up and sat closer to me.

"Did you have a nightmare baby," He asks messing up his hair and rubbing my back.

"Yeah," I exhaled.

"Wanna tell me about it."

I tell Luke all about my dream and his face just goes blank. While I waited for his reaction I lay down, and he followed my actions before turning to look at me.

"I really like you and I will never hurt you or scare you and if I do or anyone else does then you tell me and I'll make it all better." He reassures me.

"Luke I'm tired of these nightmares, I'm tired of waking you up I think I should go back home."

Luke goes stiff and looks at me. "Dakota I love helping you and I'm not letting you go back home until your father is calm and you feel comfortable going home."

I smile up at Luke and go back to bed not having more bad dreams.



-Guys sorry about not posting for a few days I've just been really busy but I'm back to posting so don't worry.-