Hate That I Love You

Chapter Thirty Six.

No One’s POV

For Justin the time was passing as slowly as it possibly could, each second filled with the loud sobs appearing from Pia, his eyes trying not to focus on the limp and lifeless bodies behind her.

When time eventually came around that Pia had stopped crying, Justin gave her a few minutes to catch her breath and when she looked up, there was nothing but distraught across her face. His heart broke for her.

He finally managed to get her to stand and walk home, he held her up the whole way home because he knew for a fact that if he let go, her legs would give way and she would fall to the ground. She was weak, no doubt the weakest she’s been for a long time, and he had to be strong for her like always.

Pia was quiet, she didn’t say a word and nor did Justin, the walk home was completely silent, the world around them felt like it was extinct. There was nobody around, nobody around to see the mess that was Pia.

When they finally got home, Justin could see already that the others were all in the living room. It was Ryan who looked up first and ran over to open the door for them, knowing that Justin couldn’t because his arms were too busy holding Pia up.

The cabin fell quiet when Justin and Pia entered, but everyone’s heads turned away from what they were doing to look at them both, and straight away they knew something had happened, something big.

Pia pulled away slightly, and Justin let go of her warily, not wanting to let go. She looked at him with an expression full of worry etched on her face, Justin was just sad. Sad for this life, sad for Pia, just sad.

When Pia turned around to see Jason, it’s like every that happened over the past hours all came back to hit. Hitting her out of consciousness as she fell to the floor, banging her head against the hard flooring of the living room.

“PIA!” Justin shouted, running over to her and falling to the ground beside her “Pia, wake up” He whispered, holding her head in his arms as he quietly began to cry. The others crowded around, not knowing what to do “Shall we call an ambulance?” Tate asked, standing over Justin and Pia “No. They can’t know anything about what’s happened tonight. She’s just fainted, she’ll wake up soon” Jason explained, making Justin look up and frown at him, and this time he was angry, as well as upset, never a good mix with Justin “What did you just say?” Justin seethed, he wanted to stand up, wanted to take Jason by the collar and ram him as hard as possible against the nearest wall and knock the life out of him. But he couldn’t. Not when Pia was lying in his arms unconscious.

“How did you know what happened?” Justin asked again, his voice cracking silently from the crying. Jason ran his hands over his face and sighed loudly “I’ll explain it all, but first. We need to get Pia to bed” He explained, kneeling down the other side of Pia “Don’t go anywhere near her” Justin told him, his voice a lot deeper than usual. Ryan and Chaz had heard this certain voice many of times, and they exactly what would happen if Jason didn’t do as Justin had said.

Justin lifted Pia in his arms and carried her to their bedroom, lying her in the bed and undressing her, dressing her in a baggy shirt of his that Pia loved and always wore. He pulled the sheets over her, and sat on the edge of the bed, just looking at Pia.

“I’m sorry Pia. I should have stopped you. I’m sorry you have to go through things like this, I wish I could take all the pain, all the anger and all the sadness away from you. I hate that you have to go through all of this shit…” Justin was crying again, he had looked away from her and had his head in his hands, unable to look at Pia’s unconscious body any longer.

Justin cried for longer than he expected to, it’s not often he cries. But sometimes it’s get too much and he can’t hold it in any longer, and then it’s like something in him snaps and he cries and can’t stop. Like every bad thing that’s ever happened comes back, and he cries over all of it.