Something Better || Daniel Seavey

Chapter 20: Scars left behind

Laurie's POV:

I start to worry and I frown. I knew it wasn't good enough.

I stand there waiting for someone to say something.

"Wow. There are no words to describe how well you can sing." Corbyn starts off by saying.

I lift my head up. What?

"Laurie this song is amazing. You have an incredible voice." Jack says.

I smile wide.

"Dude we should collab." Zach states. I giggle.

"Wow you're beautiful AND you sing like an angel. I see a big future in front of you." Jonah says winking at me. I can see from the corner of my eye Daniel getting a bit unconfortable and jealous. I just smile.

"Thank you guys. You don't know how much that means to me." I hug them all.

"Why don't we go to starbucks now? We then can come back here a watch the sunset from the balcony." I suggest.

They laugh and nod. "Nice pun you did there." Jack says as we walk out. I laugh. "I guess I'm not that bad making puns."

I close the front door and see that all the boys are already in the elevator and it closes. All the boys except for Daniel.

"I told you you were amazing." He tells me. I smile. "You are too."

We wait for the elevator to come back up and just stand there in silence.

The ride down in the elevator is silent as well.

We go out and see the boys waiting for us outside.

We start walking towards the nearest Starbucks, me behind the group of boys.

Corbyn starts walking next to me. "Um Laurie?" He calls me. "Yeah?" I reply.

"Can I ask you something?" He asks.

"You just did." I state.

He rolls his eyes. "Another question."

"Go ahead." I tell him as we seperate a bit from the group.

"I can see Daniel and you were really close before. What happened? And what exactly were you to him?" He asks.

Wow I did not expect him to ask me that but anyway. I sigh.

A/N: this is just a fanfiction I'm sorry if I offend some of you. If you get triggered easily I suggest to skip this part.

"A couple years ago at school I dated a boy two years older than me. He was the typical boy that seemed sweet and good in public. But when we were alone he completely changed. I was fifteen at that time and he was seventeen. He abused me and threatened me." I start off. "I would go to school with nasty scars and bruises just like this one." I say as I show him a cut I have on my arm and a mark left from a bruise I have on my knee. "I didn't have much friends, some of them noticed and started to worry. Same as my family. I was scared to tell the truth so I just lied." I feel my tears fall down my cheeks.

"One day I decided to break up with him. That didn't end well. He beat me up. I had to go to the hospital with two broken ribs, a black eye and a bloody nose. I'm the kind of girl that isn't very good making new friends so I was lonely and depressed and insecure. I had trust issues." I continue.

"Then one day I was walking out of my house going to the mall and meet up with my brother. I felt like someone was following me and it was my ex-boyfriend with his friends." I take a deep breath.

"I was abused once again and they beat me up. Thankfully it wasn't that bad if it wasn't because a police officer was walking around the corner and saw what happened." More tears fell.

"That boy was expelled from my school few days later, I had a severe depression." I wipe my tears.

A/N: I guess the triggering part finished.

"Then at school I started music. I met Daniel during music class. There I got closer to Daniel and we became bestfriends. I opened up to him about my life and what happened and I've never told so much about myself more than to Daniel. I don't think anyone in this world knows me better than he does. I also developped feelings towards him. He then went to participate in American Idol and we lost contact. When he came back we didn't talk or anything. The last time we talked he confessed his feelings to me but I didn't feel the same. And now here we are." I sigh. And feel more tears coming down. It still hurts.

Corbyn stayed silent. "I'm so sorry for what happened to you. You didn't deserve that." He says.

"Don't be sorry. It's not your fault." I smile and wipe the last tears off my eyes.

We hug. "If you want to tell me anything I'm all ears." He hugs me again. "Thank you Corbs."

We walk back to the group and they noticed I cried.

"Laurie are you okay?" Zach asks concerned.

"Yeah I'm fine. Don't worry." I smile showing them I'm fine.

Daniel looks at me hurt. Corbyn walks next to me.

"You're okay?" He asks.

"Yeah I'm good. Now they are just scars left behind." I say sternly. I notice Daniel listening to us.

I then realise that Daniel heard my whole conversation with Corbyn. He wasn't that far away with the group.

I sigh. Why did it have to turn out like this?

A/N: what do you think about this chapter? I don't really know what to think about it