~Belle's POV~
So much happened tonight that I couldn’t think straight. I didn’t even want to think about anything. I tried shutting everything out of my mind and going to sleep but every time I closed my eyes, they’d pop right back open.
Sam dozed off towards the end of the movie we watched and Jack tossed and turned for about fifteen minutes until he fell asleep too. I think I had been staring at the ceiling for an hour and a half now so I decided to go outside to get some fresh air
I was laying in between the both of them so I slowly got up and quietly stepped over Sam and went towards the front door. It was pretty dark and I wasn’t really paying attention to my surroundings. The next thing I knew, my knee collided with the coffee table Jack dragged to the side of the living room. The noise was really loud but other than Sam shifting around a little, none of them woke up.
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I stepped out and felt the soothing cool night breeze run through me. I sat down on the steps of Sam’s front porch and looked up at the sky. There was a full moon and it was huge. It looked beautiful. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I tried to escape all of the frightening thoughts that lingered in my mind and then the door open. I didn’t bother to look back at who it was.
About a second later, a shirtless Jack took a seat right next to me. His hair was scattered in all directions and he didn’t seem to be fully awake yet.
“What are you doing out here?” he asked in the deepest voice ever not breaking eye contact with the moon.
“I couldn’t sleep. I just wanted some air,” I quietly replied.
He turned and faced me. He just sat there staring at me as I watched the glowing moon.
“I want you to know that I’m always going to be here. No matter what. No matter what you’re going through, you’re always going to have me right by your side. This thing with your dad, we’ll get through it. I promise. I won’t let him touch you. I won’t let a damn thing happen to you…ever.”
I was now looking straight into his eyes but I couldn’t even see them clearly from the tears that blurred my eyes and streamed down my face. I leaned my head on his shoulder and hugged him sideways.
“I love you, you know that?” I told him as I was sobbing into his shoulder.
He took a slow deep breath, “come on, let’s go inside and sleep.”
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~Jack’s POV~
The next morning I woke up to find Belle’s arms wrapped around my torso and her legs tangled with mine. Sam was still asleep about a foot away from us.
I was going to get up and make some breakfast but I didn’t want to wake up Belle if I started to untangle her from me. So I just laid there glancing at her a couple of times while she was sleeping until I heard Sam moving around.
“What time is it man?” he said in too much of a loud voice.
“Shh, don’t wake her up. It’s like 10:30.” I whispered back.
“That’s not even that early, how come you don’t want her to wake up?”
“She didn’t sleep until about 4 in the morning. I found her sitting on your porch at 3:30 and we talked for a little until I got her back inside.” I answered him again.
“Is she okay?” he asked after a short while.
“Yeah, well not really. I don’t know. She has a lot on her mind. Shit’s tough for her right now but she’s tough too.”
It was quiet for a moment and I realized that Sam still didn’t know what was going on. I told him that she was crying on my porch when I found her that night but I never told him why.
“It’s her dad. He’s drinking a lot again and he hit her the other day. That’s why she was crying at my house.”
“What? Are you serious?” he was just as shocked as me when Belle told me what happened that night.
“I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want her to be mad. But you deserve to know. You were there for her a lot too when he first started doing this.”
Belle was still in deep sleep in my arms so I started telling Sam about her running to my house after he passed out and then showing up at the beach party drunk as hell looking for her the next night.
“Fucking asshole. Jack, you can’t let anything happen to her. You can’t let her out of your sight. She can’t end up like last time,” he took a long pause and closed his eyes, “she almost jumped off that cliff. She was almost gone forever,” he whispered, sadness laced in his voice.
“I’m not gonna let anything happen. He’s not going to fucking get near her.”
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Shortly after Sam and I finished talking, Belle’s eyes fluttered open and she started untangling herself from me. I was a little more calm now and I giggled as she looked up at me with her eyeliner from her right eye slightly smeared across her face
“Did you sleep good?” I asked her.
“Yes I did, thanks to you,” she smiled back. She jumped up and started walking towards the bathroom.
Before she shut the door Sam spoke up,
“Do you guys wanna go get some breakfast at Coney Island?”
“Hell yeah!” she shouted.
Sam and I started laughing once she got in the bathroom. She always gets so excited whenever we go out for breakfast. She loves it.
About 15 minutes later, we were out the door and into my jeep.
“Yayy, I love Coney Island!” Belle shouted on our way there. I could tell that Sam already made her day by suggesting we go and I planned on making it even better. I wanted to get her mind off of everything for an entire day. I was going through some ideas in my head as I parked in front of the restaurant. Today was going to be perfect.
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Hiii. Okay wow it’s been a while. Sorry again. I’ve been so lazy lately and I haven’t been getting any motivation to write. I really wish I got some feedback on this story so I know whether or not to continue writing it. I was thinking of making a twitter acc for this story so you guys will know when I’ll be updating and stuff so please let me know if I should. OH AND BY THE WAY THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR 335 READS!! I know that doesn’t seem like a lot to some people but I’m actually so happy about that. I’d love to get a lot more reads so please please vote and comment. ILY ALL. I hope you don’t hate me for always taking so long!
P.S. I still want to know if you guys know any other good Matt, Cam, or Nash fanfics to read that and if you’re into 5SOS then I really need some good Luke ones too. I’m reading one about him right now called Released and I’m so obsessed with it. You guys should read it.
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Fanfiction(Not a friendship fanfic) Belle is a 17 year old girl with a traumatic past and present. Her father is an alcoholic who has been abusing her months after her mother's death. The only way she ever felt safe was with her bes...
