Samantha's P.O.V
I woke up and realised I had someone's arms wrapped around my waist securely, I tensed until I realised it was Demi, I laid in bed replaying yesterdays events in my head over and over, I realised it wasn't just one big dream. Demi woke up and checked her phone, 6:30 am, I had to be at school by eight so I got out of bed and went through to the bathroom that was attached to my room, I carefully took my,clothes off trying not to catch.any of my, cuts from yesterday. I got into the shower and washed my long brown hair with shampoo and conditioner, before getting out. I didn't cut this morning because I felt happy, knowing I had someone to talk to and that loved me. I got out and made My way back to my room where Demi had layed out a white top with Minnie mouse on and a pair of black jeans, as well as underwear and a pair of black converse. I got dressed, grabbed my phone and bag and made my way downstairs. When I got into the kitchen Demi sat eating a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes, grabbed an apple and joined her at the counter. "morning baby girl" she said cheerfully, "morning Dem", "I added my mum's, my dad's, Dallas', Maddie's and my own phone number into your phone , call or text me if you need me. Do you want a ride to school, I need to go to the shops anyway." I simply nodded and smiled, I went upstairs and was fighting the voices who were shouting at me to purge the apple I had just eaten, I was determine to get better for Demi. I brushed my teeth, the voices still shouting at me but I ignored them. I walked down stairs and Demi told me it was time to go. I grabbed my things and we got into to the car.
We pulled up at the school and Demi hugged me, I never wanted to let go, I felt as though I could trust her which I hadn't felt in a long time. Demi released me From the hug and said "remember that I love you baby girl, and I am always here if you need to talk and get something off your chest. I'll pick you up later." "I love you too Demi" I said quietly and got out of the car, and ran towards Cassidy. Demi pulled away and we walked into school. Cassidy turned to me "I see you finally have twitter, but why is your name Sam Lovato and why did Demi tweet a picture of you two together last night" I just smiled at her and told her "long story short, I live with Demi now, she adopted me" Cassidy hugged me and we walked to history with Mr Briggs. We sat down and Mr Briggs started talking about the first world war, so me and Cassidy were passing notes and we gave each other our phone numbers and then Claire decided to make a comment about Demi's tweet which I hadn't even seen yet, "looks like the fat freak finally has a home, It won't be long before they find out how horrible she actually is and she is back in the orphanage" the whole class laughed apart from Cassidy. I couldn't help but mumble under my breath "at least I have been adopted, your still stuck at the orphanage" but I'm guessing i said it louder than I thought because Claire when a bright shade of red from anger and Cassidy was laughing, Claire got up from her chair, came up to me and slapped Me across the face. I got up, tears in my eyes, grabbed my bag and ran to the toilets. I went into the cubicle and sat on the lid of the toilet and text Demi:
Demi, can you come get me before I do something stupid
After a minute of so she replied:
on my way princess
I looked into the mirror before leaving the bathroom, I could see a nice bruise forming. I went to main reception and told them I don't feel very well and my guardian is coming to collect me.
Demi's P.O.V.
once I had dropped Sam off at school I headed to the mall, because yesterday Sam had told me she played guitar so I was going to buy her one and get it personalized for her. I had just got back home after the mall and put the guitar in Sam's room, when I got a text from Sam:
Demi, can you come get me before I do something stupid
I text back and went to collect her. When I got to the school I saw Sam sat outside on the floor crying she looked up and saw me, got up and ran towards me, she ebraced me into a hug, tears still streaming down her face, her breathing extreamly fast. "baby, match my breathing, in out, in, out" once she calmed down I saw a large hand shaped red mark on her cheek. I would ask her about it later. We got home and she ran upstairs into her room. I followed her and she was curled up on her bed crying, I went up to her and put my arm around her. Once she fully calmed down she told me what had happened and what she would have done if I hadn't collected her. I knew Lizzie something had missed something out, that was that she self harms. we laid on her bed and we both watch a film and I went on twitter while Sam talked to Maddie on her phone. Once the film had finished Sam turned to me, and asked me a very simply question "why me?" I sat and thought for a minute "because you are beautiful, strong, sweet, funny, sensitive and so much more, when Lizzie told me about you, I realized that I wanted to help you. Can I ask you something?" Sam nodded, I took a deep breath and said "why do you do.. Ya know it" quickly glancing to her wrists before looking back at her face. I could see hurt in her eyes when I realised she was probably having some sort of flash backs before tensing. I pulled her into a hug and stroked her back. I looked at her straight in the eye and said "Samantha baby, forget it, just remember I love you, I would never hurt you. Your dad is in jail and he won't be able to hurt you. I promise." She simply replied "I love you too Demi" which was muffled due to the fact she was curled into my chest. I know I could never replace her mother but I love Her like she is my own.
Once Sam had fully calmed down we ordered Chinese which apparently she had never tried and went downstairs to watch Tv until food got here. Food arrived and Sam followed me out to answer the door. I opened the door and there was a tall bulky man stood there with the food in his hand. Sam saw him and ran back through to the kitchen. I payed the man and slammed the door before running after Samantha. She was curled up in a ball under the kitchen table whispering "please don't hurt me... Please don't hurt me.." I put the food on the table before climbing under it, I rubbed circles on Sam's back, "sweety what's wrong?" I asked her, she didn't exactly answer when she replied "i..is h...he still here" "is who still here, baby,tell me" "Clark" "was that the Chinese guy, what's happened" "h..he was friends with my da..Dave" she corrected herself. "what did he do baby, I need you to tell me" "h...he abused me every way Dave did" she broke down again. I pulled her from under the table gently and sat her on the kitchen stool while I put our food on plate, I took them through to the living room and Sam followed. We sat on the sofa and ate while watching Selena on wizards. Sam soon finished a while after me, she didn't have much but she ate it all which was good saying she had hardly eaten anything since I adopted her. I washed up and Sam dried up for me. We finished and we went up to her room and took lots of pictures on our phones before Sam picked up her guitar and started playing Made In The USA, we both sang along, then we recorded it, put it on my YouTube and shared the link on twitter:
@ddlovato: my baby girl is so talented, I'll try and get her to sing with me at my next concert, @SamLovato ~youtube link~
I instantly got lots of replies, most of them supporting my idea of the concert. Sam had clearly seen the tweet and was doing something to get me back. Next thing I knew I had one twitter notification:
@SamLovato mentioned you on a picture she posted.
I looked up and saw her giggling which was nice to see, I clicked on the link and it was a picture of us both, Sam looking really nice and sweet, but on the other hand I looked like a bull dog with its face smushed up a window. It was captioned: revenge is sweet @ddlovato... Love you
I giggled and retweeted it before getting up and tickling her. Sam had fallen asleep next to me and I was just about to drift off as well, when Sam tensed up and started shaking, I woke her up and sang Nightingale to her and she drifted off again, my life is perfect.
