[every chapter in Kylie's pov]
The song of someone playing a guitar woke my sleep. I opened my eyes to see the boy playing guitar. I looked around my surroundings. I was in his house, in his room, in his bed.
The boy sat in a chair, still playing his guitar. His bed is comfy. I may only think that because I don't have one, though.
I turned to my side, and realized how much my body aches from my last beating. The guitar stopped playing and the boy glanced at me.
"Hey" he smiled.
"H-hi" I stuttered. I don't usually talk unless I'm begging for my father to stop beating me.
"Are you ok?" He asks as he sits on the bed. Am I ok? I'll say yes anyways.
"Yeah"
"Do you remember what happened?" he softly asks.
Remember? Of course I remember. My father was beating me because he ran out of beer. I had to run into the street to get away from him.
"What? Beats you?" he questions. Whoops I said that out loud.
"My father, he-" I started but he cut me off with a hug.
The boy pulled away after a minute. "I'm reed" he smiles.
"Kylie" I say. He nods at me.
"Well Kylie, you look really tired. I'll let you sleep" he kisses my cheek and leaves the room.
He was kind of cute. I mean those eyes of his.. I wish I could stare into them all day. I buried my face into a pillow and went to sleep again.
"Blake stop shooting me with your nerf gun!" Reed yelled. I flinched at the volume of his voice. I look and see reed towering over a short brown haired boy, who I'm guessing is Blake.
Reed looked over to me. "Its fun, though" Blake laughed. Reed came over to me. "I'm sorry if I woke you up" he apologizes softly. I nod shyly.
I sat up and my body started to hurt. I winced at the pain. "You can still rest. Rest as long as you want. You were seriously hurt and you're going to hurt yourself if you don't keep resting"
Blake tried to shoot reed with his nerf gun, but ended up hitting me in the face.
"Blake!" reed scolded. Reed took Blake's gun away and put it up higher than he can reach. "Apologize to Kylie" reed orders Blake.
Blake sighs and walks over saying "sorry" and walks out of the room.
Reed turns to me. "I'm really sorry about him" he says in a soft tone.
"Its fine" i smile.
My stomach growls at me. "Are you hungry?" he asks. "I haven't eaten for 5 days" I say.
"5 days?!" His jaw dropped.
I pushed myself to the edge of the bed. "You don't have to get up, you know" reed offers. "I want to" I say.
Reed helps me stand up. As soon as I put my weight on my feet, I felt dizzy. Reed notices and sits me back down.
I sighed. "At least I tried" I muttered quietly.
"It's alright, you're still hurt from yesterday" he sat beside me and rubbed my back.
"Reed can you take a break from looking at that girl for one second?" Blake asks from the doorway.
Reeds cheeks turn pink. "I'll be right back" he says to me and leaves with Blake.
I wait for reed to come back. "NO WHY IN OUR ROOM?!" Blake yells. Oh.. I think they're discussing me..
"Blake stop it, she needs to be safe!" I hear reeds voice.
"She can be safe in the living room!" Blake complains.
"Blake she's not going to rest well on the couch. She needs a bed" I hear a women scold him.
"And stop being so rude to her" reed adds.
"Reed why do you even like her, she's nothing compared to other girls!" Blake argued.
I never heard reeds response, if he even gave one.
I'm such a bother to them. Reed comes back in the room. "Hey" he says.
I stare at the floor. "You heard?" He says more as a statement. I nod.
"Look.. Don't listen to Blake. He doesn't know what he's talking about" reed apologizes.
I keep my stare at the floor. "You're so beautiful, Kylie"
"You don't have to lie" I say
"I'm not lying. You're truly the most beautiful person I've met"
"But.." I say uneasily. "Look at my face. Do you see how bruised and beat it is? How is that anything close to beautiful?"
"You're beautiful in many ways, though. You may not see it, but I do. Besides, you're so strong."
"I can't even stand up right now. How is that strong?"
"You've survived this long of being beaten. You're still alive, and that means you're so strong and I'm proud of you for being so strong"
"Still alive? Physically, I've been beaten so much its easier just to die. Mentally, I'm drained. Emotionally, I'm a wreck. I may be still alive, but I've tried to change that many times but they all fail"
He pulls me into a tight hug. I let my tears escape and I cry on his shoulder. "Shhh" he comforts me. About 10 minutes later, I pulled away and wiped my eyes. "are you ok now" he asks and I nod.
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Hi so I've done many reed fanfics and I haven't posted on any of them for at least 2 months. What I've been doing is improving my writing and yeah. I'm not sure if I'll continue any of my old ones. I decided I'm just going to leave them all up for people to read (even though they aren't finished).
I may continue His Secret Life. I also may continue Living on Love Until the End. The only thing with that story, is I may change the previous chapters so I can make an ending bc I really don't feel like continuing it in a lot of chapters. Idk I'll let you know next time I update it.
But anyways new story. This one will be better than all my others, I promise. My writing improved. I've read Beaten over many times I tbh I actually hate the way I wrote back then but I'm better at writing now.
