Tough Love

Chapter 2

***Stacy’s POV***

Uugghh, I hate being around Cody. Sarah and I were at his house while we were watching a movie. Well I was while Cody and Sarah were talking. I decided to bust out my phone bored as hell. I text Aiden knowing he would reply.

Aiden: Hey :)

Stacy: What up?

Aiden: Chillin with my friends. What about you?

Stacy: At codys house :/ with Sarah

Aiden: Why the :/ ?

Stacy: I don’t like him lol

Aiden: Hahaha neither do I….I have to go my friends are beggin me to hang  with them cuz im hot hahah. Text me later?

Stacy: hahaha Ya :) bye xx

Aiden: Bye xx

I looked up from my phone and found that Stacy and Cody were gone. I looked at the time and I saw it was 10pm already. I went looking for Sarah cuz we had to go home. I walked around his house. I was looking at the pictures that were hung up. It was his mom on the left, him in the middle, and what looked to be his grandmother on the right. I noticed there wasn’t a guy and there weren’t in many pictures. I figured his parent’s must of split up. I got to Cody’s room and I heard a quiet sobbing. “You did this to yourself” I heard Cody yell trying to be quiet. I opened the door as fast I could. I was shocked, my jaw dropped, I didn’t know what was going on. I saw Sarah sitting in the corner crying holding the back of her head and Cody standing in front of her looking back at me. “Lets go” I said angrily at Sarah. Sarah slowly stood up and was heading towards me til Cody held her arm and said she wasn’t going anywhere.  I pulled my phone out and pressed 911 and turned my phone over to show Cody. “Let her go or I call the cops” I said starring him with my game face on. “Please don’t just wait for me” Sarah said. “Let her go now. I will call” I said as I put my thumb on the dial button. He then released her and Sarah ran to me. I held her hand and hurried out his house. We got into my car and I drove as fast as I could. We were both quiet. I didn’t plan on where to go so I just pulled over.

“What the hell did I walk into?” I asked her calmly.

“Nothing” 

“Don’t tell me it’s nothing. Is you’r head ok?”

“Yea its fine it just hurts a bit”

“Sarah im your friend. You can trust me. Remember when you purposely threw away your brothers signed baseball, you told me and I didn’t say anything til this day.”

“Fine I’ll tell you but please don’t tell anyone. Please” she plead looking down.

“I won’t”

“ok, umm, well Cody has a bad temper, but it’s usually my fault. I like him a lot so I put up with it. He’s never tried to kill me. He just hurts me but its no biggie” she said tearing up

“NO BIGGIE!! He hurt my best friend. He laid his hands on you. It’s not right….Show me” I said upset.

“Show you what?”

“Well you just admit he hit you and he is not a scrony little boy. Show me what he’s done”

Sarah pulled up her shirt til it reached below her bra and revealed a big dark bruise. She then licked her thumb and wiped a part of her jaw to show a smaller bruise it didn’t look dark so I figured it was recent. I could see the sad look in her eyes. I pulled her in for a side hug as we both cried. We sat for anther 5 minutes crying. I knew we had to get home or her mom was going to be really mad at us. “Alright I think we need to go” I said wiping my tears away. I pulled into the Baskin Robin drive through and ordered 2 rocky roads. *It was her favorite* I then rushed to her house.

“Sorry were late we lost track of time and got ice cream” Sarah said as if nothing ever happened.  “You could of called, I was worried sick” Mariah, *Sarah mom*  told us. “Dinner’s in the fridge” Mariah said. We made our way to the fridge and saw a plate of spaghetti. We heat it up and shared it.

*Sarah POV*

"Whats the ice pack for?" my mom asked. I panicked and looked at Stacy. "I got hit in the shoulder with a soccer ball today" Stacy said with a smile. "You ok honey?" my mom asked. "Yea i'll be fine" she replied. "Alright you two don't go to bed to late". "Will do so mom" Stacy said to my mom while we ran up the stairs. My mom and Stacy were unbelievably close, i guess she was like my sister. I held the ice pack to my head. I can’t believe I told her. It felt good but what if tells. I know she won’t tell I’m just freaking my self out. We headed upstairs and did our nails. “How long has it been happening” she said as she put another coat of red on her pinky. “Five months ago” I said quietly. “But you guys have been dating for 8 months”. “I know” . “I can’t believe I didn’t notice” she said looking sad. I knew it was wrong what he did but I really liked him. I wonder if I won’t leave him because im scared or because I really like him. I hate him when he hits me but when he’s happy and we hang out he is so nice and cares for me. I know I should break up with him. I thought of how I would many times before. “Let’s watch a movie” I said trying to get my mind off Cody. “Sure, I feel like a comedy”. “K, cool what about The Hangover” I asked it was my favorite comedy.  “Sure” she replied. We ended up falling asleep to the movie.

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hey everyone who read up to this point. thank you. let me know what you think? should i keep writing?