In A Matter Of Seconds (o2l)

Chapter 8

Sorry for any mistakes, it was a long and emotional chapter.

LAINA'S POV

Do I ask him? Why wouldn't he tell me. Even if I was so happy to see him, he should have told me.

I have a plan. Let's see how long it takes him to tell me. I'll just pretend like nothing's wrong. And then if he tells me I'll see if I can still trust him. But if he doesn't...

"Laina, are you awake?" He said kissing my forehead. Ugh.

"Yeah I'm up. Can you drive me back to the house babe? I want to see everyone." I plead and kiss him.

"Yeah, get in the car I'll be down." He said as he got up to get dressed.

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AT THE O2L HOUSE

"Okay babe I gotta go do a little video for my main channel, I'll text you later." he said and kissed my nose and I walked inside.

"LIA!" I yell and she runs out hugging me.

"Hi, hey, are you okay? Did anything happen?" She says looking me over like I was shot at. understandably I guess.

"Yeah I'm fine." I chuckle.

"Hey Lai Lai, wanna have a best friend day?" Lia says and hugs me tighter.

"Of course Lia." I say and head up to my room to change.

I pick out a gray skater skirt and a skin tight white tank top with red flowers on it. I put on my favorite gray boots and some aviator sunglasses, I grab my black tote bag and head out the door with Lia.

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7 HOURS LATER

Lia and I have had the best day. We went shopping, and we talked about everything. I can't imagine being closer to anyone, even my best friend back home, whom I haven't talked to since I came here.

Lia and I head to the beach at 7:30pm just when the sun was going down.

"Sit with me Laina." Lia motions to a spot next to her in the sand, "I really need to talk to you."

Oh no.

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LIA'S POV

Ugh. How do I bring this up? I guess I just say it.

"When we were at the hospital," my voice starts cracking, I'm about to cry, "the doctor told me to give this to you." Tears flow down my cheeks as I hand Laina the pamphlet for self harm.

"Lia, Lia I'm sorry." she said hugging me and crying.

"He said there were some recent ones, how recent?" I weep out the words.

"Since me and Kian's first fight after he saw me and Sam kiss. I felt awful. Kian was so mad at me. Sam was so aggressive with me. I've been doing it almost every night, except the night that me and Kian cuddled together." I get the words out through tears.

"I did it when I was in high school, too. When all the kids would bully me about my dad cheating on my mom with the teacher, even though he didn't even cheat on her. it's hard it's just so hard Lia." She cries into my shoulder and I cry into her head.

"Please just come to me the next time you think you have to. Fuck support group, come to me, come to your best friend." I tell her.

"From now on it's me and you okay Lia?" she says to me as we get up and head home.

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KIAN'S POV

I need to talk to Lai. She needs to remember what Sam did. I need to tell her how I feel.

But what if she still wants to be with him?

Ugh.

Wait, they're home?

"KI KI!" I hear from downstairs, it's Lai.

"UP HERE LAI." I yell back down to her.

Within seconds she's upstairs. Smiling at me from the door. Me and her need to talk.

"Lai, we need to talk about why we were both in the hospital."

"I think I'm just pushing it out of my mind, I'm trying not to remember." she says rubbing her left hand up and down her right arm.

"It was Sam. He got angry we were accidentally cuddling in our bed." I just immediately break it to her.

"Why wouldn't he tell me that." she said looking down at the ground.

"I think you need to tell him. Ask him. Confront him." I say trying to convince her to hate him.

"Kian you need to talk to him too. Why did he punch you?"

"How did you know he punched me?" I wasn't wearing my bandages so How would she know?

"Ki, I may have remembered a little bit of what happened." she said blushing and biting her lip.

"I'm not mad," I say holding her in my arms, she belongs here, "I just want to know why you wouldn't say anything."

She describes her whole plan, and I convince her to change it and confront him in two days, to give him a chance.

"Thanks Ki Ki, I love you." she says and gets up and walks out. She has no idea how much I love her.

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TWO DAYS LATER

LAINA'S POV

Sam still hasn't told me it was him.

"Sam." I say to him as we sit on the couch together.

"Yes Lai?" he says innocently, ugh.

"Why haven't you told me you bashed my head against the wall yet?"

"How long have you known?"

"Since the night I got home."

"I... I was doing so well with my anger I didn't want to fight."

"SAM WHAT THE FUCK. YOU BASHED MY HEAD IN THE DOOR HINGE AND YOU DECIDE NOT TO TELL ME??"

"Laina please calm down. I was going to tell you."

"You were going to. Sam that's different than if you did. How will I trust you again?"

"Laina haven't I been doing so well the past four days? That's the first time I've been aggressive since we started dating."

Wow. He really didn't notice. "I have to go." I say wiping tears and heading towards the door.

"Lai wait." he says and tightly grabs my wrist.

"Sam I need a couple days. Please please let go." I say in a very small voice with tears in my eyes.

"Okay." He let's go and I run out of his apartment and drive to Connor.

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"Laina what's wrong?" he says hugging me and letting me in.

"It's Sam I just I-" I stop talking when I see Troye and another girl in his apartment.

The girl comes up to me, "hi I'm Bethany. I'm Connor and Troye's friend, are you okay?"

I cry into this random girls lap and divulge everything to her.

"And above all that I have to back to school in two weeks." I chuckle through the tears.

"OMG me too!!" She said and then we found out we are in the same grade going to the same school.

"We are going to be good friends." she says to me with a very heartfelt smile while stroking my hair.

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Oh wow that's was a loaded chapter!!

The next chapter will be just as exciting!! Introducing a new character based off of one of my very best friends, and Trev and Ricky make very important appearances.

Love y'all

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