Cracks in the glass -Bryles

Chapter 5. Alone

Myles POV
"Well then what for?" I asked her, not bothering to hide my confused expression. If anything she needed therapy for, it would obviously be the fact that she was raped, right?
Briar lifts her head to look up at me. She slowly runs her small hand down her sleeve.
I'm confused.
"I'm sorry" is all she says, she looks down ashamed.
I'm still confused.
"Briar what do you mean?"
Still confused.
She looks up at me with those gorgeous green eyes and it finally clicked. She looked so broken.
Not so confused.
I gently rolled up her sleeve to discover deep small cuts along her wrists. My mind was blown, how did I not see this? How!? I'm so stupid. This is all my fault. I should have seen that Devon was acting different towards Bri! I should've seen how deep her sadness grew! What's wrong with me?
"Bri...." I trailed off. "Briar I'm so sorry"
"What for M? This is all me, I know it's stupid and I should have never done it, but I just felt so... alone".
"I should have noticed, I should have done something more than shrug it off whenever you said you were fine. I should o-"
"Myles" briar says cutting me off. She placed her hand on my cheek and wipes away tears I didn't even realise were there.
"This is not your fault at all. Do not blame yourself. I'm the one who was alone and should have asked for help"
"I should have known... I love you" I said
She lent up and kissed me on the lips, her hand still on my cheek. It was magical.
"I love you too" she said when we pulled away.
I smiled down at her and wiped away the remaining tears.
A few minutes later the doctor came in.
"Ah briar you're awake, you've probably guessed by now that your baby didn't survive all the complications, I'm sorry" the doctor said standing at the foot of the bed. Briar just rested her head on my shoulder and nodded. "The good news is that you can go home today, but your friend Trevor I think his name was, said that you're a dancer on tour?"
"Yes that's right" briar said quietly.
"I'm afraid that you can't dance for 2 weeks, that will give you time to rest properly and then you should be fine" the doctor said with a smile at the end.
"Really? That soon?" Said briar.
"Yep, just take it easy" the doctor said coming over and stroking briar on the shoulder.
"Listen Briar, I know how it feels to lose a child, I once had a miscarriage myself, I just wanted to let you know that for the duration of your time here that you can always talk to me" she said with a sympathetic look.
"Thanks" briar replied with a small smile.
"I'm Meredith" the doctor said putting her hand out for briar to shake it. Briar shook Meredith's hand and then turned her attention to me. "This is Myles, my boyfriend" briar said turning towards me smiling.
"Nice to meet you Myles"
"And you" I smiled.
"I'm sorry for your loss too, it's hard on the fathers as well, it took my husband, Derek, a while to get over it" she said with a sad look. I just froze, what was I meant to say? I wasn't the father to this baby. There was an awkward silence.
"Myles wasn't the father? Meredith asked confused.
"Um... not exac-" Briar mumbled before I cut in.
"Yeah I was" I replied taking Briars hand to show her I was okay with lying about it. I could tell she didn't want to get into all the Devon stuff again.
"Oh okay, I'll leave you two alone, you will be discharged in an hour, should I let the rest of your friends in? They've been dying to see you" Meredith said walking towards the door. I looked at Bri and she was nodding. Meredith smiled and left.
Within two minutes everyone was crowded around the bed.
Trevor, Brittany, Lamar, Vic, Isaac, Taveeta, Isaiah, Jordan, Shelby, Shane and Sarah were all here.
Everyone was chatting and smiling and making sure Briar was okay when I got a text message. I pulled my arm away from Bri for a moment (not that she even noticed) and got my phone from my jacket pocket. Wtf?
'Hey man, Jordan told me about Bri, she okay?" -Devon.

A/n sorry I haven't updated in a while, I had no idea what to write :(