Him . Luke Hemmings

Chapter Thirteen

Isla's POV

"My head hurts," I cried into Crystal's arms and she rubbed down my back soothingly.

"Everything will be ok Isla, I promise you," She said kissing my forehead slowly but I shook my head against her and wrapped up in my quilts.

"Nothing will be ok with him here, you don't understand Crystal," I whined and she sighed sitting me up with her as she stroked my arm now.

"Then help me understand," 

"Please don't, you can't leave me now Ethan," I said gripping onto his arm tightly and he rose an eyebrow at me.

"You expect me to stay?" He said with a scoff and I sat down on the stairs crying.

"You're just going to leave me? Let me deal with this on my own? I'd understand if I was a quick fuck but I'm your girlfriend for Christ sake," I said and he crouched down to my level.

"I'll stay but as soon as you have the baby I'm gone," He said bitterly and I held my head in my hands. 

A couple weeks later I lost the baby due to the amount of stress I was under, with Ethan cheating on me and hardly ever being there when I needed him and him constantly reminding me that I was lucky he was still there it wasn't a good environment . I had a miscarriage and instead of him showing me some mercy he asked for a fuck and when I said no he packed his bags. 

I bumped into him a month or so later after I had finally gotten over him but he persuaded me to get back with him because he has me wrapped around his little finger. It ended in a similar way, him manipulating my feelings into believing him and a girl fucking was ok but me looking at another guy made me the bad person in this relationship. He threatened to leave me and because I was so young and he was older than me I thought that's how relationships worked. Bella helped me out of it, she was a great friend and told me that was abuse. She helped pick up the pieces and when I was finally ok we planned this trip.

"Fucking hell Isla," Crystal said holding me close to her as I cried. She handed me a few tissues which I gladly accepted before I sat up for some water.

"Why is he even here?" I complained before Crystal's eyes met with mine in realisation. 

"Bella,"

There was a knock on the door and Crystal told them to come in. I wasn't' disappointed when Luke stood there with a tight smile on his lips.

"Can I speak to Isla?" He said sheepishly and Crystal looked over to me, I nodded quickly at her and she got up and left whispering something to Luke making his eyes go wide.

"What did she say?" I said with a wet laugh and he smiled at me sitting next to where my legs were.

"She threatened to kill me if I made you cry," He said taking my hand in his and running his fingers through mine. This caused me to giggle but I soon stopped asking him why he wanted to talk to me.

"I wanted to talk about last night," I groaned at this and shoved my face into the pillow sitting next to me but he hauled me up to sit closer to him.

"Who was he?" He asked and I pursed my lips at him looking up into his eyes and recalling everything I had previously told Crystal.

"Fucking hell Isla," I smiled at this leaning back against the pillows again.

"That's what Crystal said,"

"Why the fuck is he here? And if I knew who he was last night I would have knocked him out,"

"Ok Luke," I said rolling my eyes before sitting up again and holding my arms out so that he'd lift me onto his lap. "Me and Crystal think it's Bella, she said something about it yesterday," I shrugged and he ran his hand over my cheek slowly.

"I'm so sorry your best friend is a bitch," He said and I shook my head at him with a smile. "So about last night, do you have panic attacks often?" He said stroking my hair as I rested against him and I shook my head.

"I've only ever had two other than last night, thank you for that by the way it was really sweet how you helped me, I do have one question though,"

"Shoot,"

"Why were you such a twat yesterday?" I said with a slight laugh and he sucked in a sharp breath.

"You uh said something in your sleep,"

"So it wasn't that I didn't have sex with you?"

"God no I'm not that disgusting,"

"Then why did you make it seem like that was the reason?"

"I wanted to hurt you," 

"Why? What ever I said couldn't have been that bad right?" 

He whispered what I had told him the night before and my eyes widened.

"I uh, I can explain that,"

"You can explain why you lied to me? Why you lied to all of us?"

"Ok so I have a lot to explain but you should've spoken to me about it in the morning instead of being a twat,"

"Ok maybe I could have handled it a little differently but you still lied to me and it freaked me out because I like you so much and I found out it wasn't a lie,"

"You know that's not true, will you let me explain now?"

"Fine, go ahead,"