Habits

10

Cory's POV

I'm finally coming home, drug free might I add. I was so desperate to text or call Lea but I didn't have my phone yet, my mom has it.

Right now, I'm being driven back to Vancouver where my mom will be waiting for me at the stop. She said Lea doesn't have her car anymore and couldn't come.

I wonder why that is.

"5 minutes away from next stop." The driver announces.

This is my stop. I got all my things together when I saw my mom waiting on a bench outside.

"Cory!!" She came over and hugged me tight.

"I missed you mom!" I say kissing the top of her head.

"Well come on then, let's go home." She grabs my hand as I grab my duffle bag.

On the car ride home, we talked about rehab and what went on while I was away. All I could really think about was Lea. I love my mom but I need to see her.

"Don't worry honey, I won't keep you home. You can see Lea." She says happily.

"Really? You'd be okay with that?"

"Yeah, you love her and I would probably want the same thing if I was in your shoes."

As soon as we got home, I grabbed my car keys and drove to Lea's house.

She was sitting on the front porch with her chin propped up by her hand. She just as beautiful as I left her.

When I stepped out of the car, her face lit up.

"CORY!!!!!!!!"

She started sprinting to me and completely jumped in my arms. I felt her legs wrap around my waist along with warm kisses flooding onto my neck.

"I missed you too!" I say kissing her back. "You have no idea how hard my life can be when your not around." I saw little tears starting to fill her eyes.

Not the happy kind, which put me on edge.

"Lea...tell me what's wrong."

She grabs my hand and walks me inside to her room.

I sit on her bed quite casually while she paces around the room.

"I need to tell you something that I tried to tell you on the phone but I couldn't because I was so scared."

"You can tell me anything." I say pulling her onto the bed so she can calm down.

"After you left, I met this guy Dean. I didn't like him or anything, I just thought we could be friends. So one day my car broke down, he said he could fix it and I thought it'd be good to save myself a trip from the mechanics. Well...when he came over, he kissed me."

I stop her from talking and stand up, putting my hands though my hair.

"Lea...." I say almost crying.

"Cory let me finish, please." She grabs my hand and looks me in the eyes.

"I didn't kiss him back, I told him to leave which he did."

"Why couldn't you just tell me on the phone?" I'm about to leave when she says something that stops.

"I'm not clean anymore!!! I cut because I didn't tell you and I know I should've. Dean saw my cuts...and he told everybody. Dianna and I got into an actual fight and I'm grounded for life." She starts bawling her eyes out.

She's been clean for 2 years, this really shows me she didn't cheat and that this was serious.

I walk over to her and sit back on the bed to hold her.

"The whole school hates me and everybody thinks I cheated on you with Dean and I didn't!"

"Hey, hey, hey, I believe you. That's all that matters, okay? Screw everybody at school for thinking that."

I push stray hairs away from her eyes so that I'm looking into them.

"My dad hates me..." She whispers.

"And I love you." I whisper back.

I start looking at her sweater sleeves and push one of them up to reveal new cuts that I've never seen on her before. Her face is covered in guilt.

"It's okay." I say carefully.

I held her arm up to my face and kissed each one, old and new.

She smiles and holds my cheek, looking at me. We continue to look at her when she gives me a different look. A look that I know all to well.

The I want to kiss you so bad look.

And I wanted to kiss her so bad to.

My lips connect with hers and aggressively kiss her. I feel her hand grip to my back and dig into my shirt. Eventually, she rips my shirt off and I do the same to her.

I'm shirtless, she's in her bra, the situation is great. I start to kiss her neck as her warm hands travel up and down my chest and back.

"You have no idea how much I missed you. Missed you so damn much..." She mumbles in between each kiss.

"You think I didn't?" I laugh into her ear.

She looks down farther than my chest, to my jeans. In the process of unbuttoning them I hear a bone chilling noise.

The creak noise of her door opens which makes the hairs on my neck stand up.

Lea let out a gasp, but was still holding onto me.

I was to petrified to even turn my head because I knew what was happening.

I feel the grip of a hand clasp around the back of my neck, not Lea's hand.

I'm thrown to the floor. Finally, I build up the courage to look in front of me.

It was Lea's dad and he wasn't to thrilled to see me.

"YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO TAKE YOUR CLOTHES AND GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!" I've never seen or heard somebody so angry.

I don't really blame him though, if some guy was trying to bang my daughter, I'd be pissed too.

I hear Lea saying something, but I can't piece the words together.

Without any other thoughts, I grab my clothes and exit the house right before he gets to 10.