A Dream Of Flying

Chapter 9

[Selena's POV]

I went to my place while Zac was still sleeping. It was 11 am and I had to go before my mom would wake up. She must be hungover as usual. I was surprised to not see Kol waiting for me there. I snuck into my house seeing my mom deeply asleep on the couch. I shook my head but it wasn't surprising. It just feels worse everytime it happens. 

|two days later|

It's strange, Kol hasn't been harassing me or anything. He hasn't showed up at school or at my work. I thought things were really going to go down when he came to my house to play cards with my brother and some of his other friends. He left me alone the whole night. Jake has been extra strange too, he hasn't been hitting me and has offered to give me a ride but I denied because I didn't want to be near him or his friends. What the hell is going on? I'm going to try to shake the feeling off, maybe I just scared Kol away because of how hard I hit him the other day when he almost raped me in the alley.

I was doing my homework when Jake knocked on my door. I turned around to see him standing in the doorway.

''What?'' I asked as he stood there awkwardly staring at me.

''I'm going to get some pizza, do you want one?'' he asked with his arms folded as he was leaning at my door.

''Uhm. No thanks, I ate with Elena before,'' I said looking at him confused, normally he would just let me starve.

''Are you sure?''

Suddenly I stood up. ''What is going on with you Jake? Normally if I would even beg you for pizza you would hit me. Now your offering me one, and I'm denying it. You've been super nice to me, WHY?'' I raised my voice at him, expecting him to snap and hit me like he normally would.

''I'm sorry, I've been a terrible brother. I know that. I do drugs, I drink I do parties, I even heard Kol rape you that night and didn't do anything about it. I let you handle mom all on your own and work for her, I even take your money to buy drugs or beer. It's just the other night, some guy came and almost beat the shit out of Kol. When he told me about how he attacked you something just woke up inside of me.''

''So why do you still hang around him?'' I snapped.

''I don't know..and I don't expect for you to forgive me ever. Just want you to know I'm not going to be the bad brother anymore. I'm gonna try as I can to be the good one, the brother you wanted and needed,'' he said and was about to walk away but turned around to face me. ''And I'm not going to hang aroud with Kol anymore. I'm going to quit drugs, stop drinking and everything related to that...'' he said and left. I sat down on my bed slowly trying to process what just happened.

I knocked on Zac's hotelroom door, waiting for him to answer which he finally did after a moment. ''Selena, hi. You left so suddenly the other morning.''

''Yeah, I'm sorry.'' I looked down at the floor but then back at him. ''I wanted to thank you, I know you almost beat the crap out of Kol and I'm very thankful for that. Don't worry it won't get out..but thanks to you he's stopped harassing me.'' He smiled and for a while I got lost in his deep blue eyes, but then shook my head leaning towards him. I kissed him on the cheek. ''Thanks so much,'' I said and quickly left the hotel.