Away

Chapter12

-CERULEANS POV-

I pull him into another hug, tighter than before.

So that's how he got here. But if she's dead, why does he stay?

He pulls back after a little while. He clears his throat and stands up.

"Well, I'll leave you two to your ice cream and everything. Cerulean?"

He has almost walked out the door.

"Yes, Niall?"

"D-don't end up like Emie. Okay? Please."

"Of course not Niall," I assure him, getting comfortable with Louis' arm around my waist and him rubbing his face into my neck.

"Thank you." He sets the keys on the floor and walks out.

*

I eat the entire salad and most of the burger. As I set down the remainder, I tell Louis, "I am so full I am going to explode and you'll have to scrape my innards off the walls."

"Well, that's gruesome," he chuckles.

He wraps his other arm around the front of me and I can feel the muscles in his arm stretch. It feels so good. Amazing. Just to have him touching my body makes me feel a fiery feeling in my insides.

He kisses my temple and I want to kiss him back. I do. I have before. But I don't know if I'm supposed to, or how long the kiss should be, or anything.

And Erin once told me not to go too far with any guy. Since before Kyle.

Since Chet.

Chet was one of Erin's coworkers and always had an excuse to be at the house. It only took me two meetings to find that reason.

He wanted me.

He almost took me once.

He was seven or eight years older than me and so much stronger.

I was ten and afraid. I was screaming, even though I knew no one would hear me. Not even the one person I was so sure would always protect me.

He was my guardian angel and had proven himself countless times, saving me and himself.

I was sobbing as he tried to strip me, while I was doing everything I could to get away. I couldn't get away. I was stuck.

Screaming, sobbing, and stuck. And ten.

I was so positive no one would hear me. But there was an instinct in me that told me I had to keep trying.

That instinct in me was right.

Less than two minutes later, the house shook with the door slam.

"PARSONS!" Erin shouted coming upstairs. My guardian angel was here to save me once again.

When Erin burst into the room, I was using all of my strength to pull out of Chet's grip. My pants were lying on the floor with my shirt and my bra after almost an hour. He was trying to get my underwear off.

Chet froze at the sight of Erin and I saw the handle was broken. He'd broken the doorknob with his hands. He didn't need a key. His little sister was in here, and he was going to protect her.

Chet let go of me immediately. I fell on the rug, my body shaking from my sobs.

Erin punched him so hard he fell onto the ground. His face was bleeding and his nose wasn't centered right. With one punch.

"Go. Just leave." Erin was irate. More so then he'd ever been. He wasn't scared, like when our father showed up. He was angry.

Chet pulled himself up, and with blood dripping everywhere, stumbled out and drove far from our house.

Erin watched out the window for Chet's car to leave and be gone- for good.

As soon as the car was out of the sight, Erin dropped to his knees and held my tired, weak frame to his chest.

Then the weirdest thing happened: he started crying and telling me how sorry he was.

I stopped crying. No matter how stupid I was then, I knew that one of us had to be strong for the other. He had just used his strength to save me. It was time for me to be strong.

I wiped my face off and did the same to his. "Erin?"

"Yea, Blue?"

I smiled at his nickname for me. I always loved it. "What was he trying to do to me? I mean, I know that he was trying to do that with him, but why me? Why some little girl?"

Erin took a deep breath. "You're a virgin. Some guys just want to see how it feels to be with a virgin. He's one of them." He rubbed his hands over his face.

"Blue? I need you to promise me something." Our matching eyes met and I guess they didn't phase me as they seemed to to other people. Probably because those eyes had been there my entire life, loving and protecting me.

I nodded. "Anything, Erin."

"You won't give yourself to a guy until you are positive he's the one."

"Of course, Erin."

He kissed my forehead and gestured to my purple bed.

"Get some sleep, Blue. I'll protect you."

'I knew that,' is the last memory I have of that night.