Love is Endless

Outburst

ALL RIGHTS GO TO MARLENE KING

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you. - Sarah Dessen

Chapter 10: Outburst

Alison's POV:

After breakfast we had decided to go shopping, I thought that a shopping spree might help ease my mind a bit. After hitting about six store we went over to this cute little boutique.

Hanna got a cute blue scarf and we walked over to the register to pay. The employee grabbed the scarf without making eye contact and announced the price in a french accent. As Hanna was getting her money out the man raised his head and looked me dead in the eye. It was him.

Cyrus.

Cyrus smirks at me slightly and I freeze. My hands grip the counters for balance, knuckles turning white and my heart was beating rapidly. I took a step back, and then another until I was back against the wall. Emily and the others were starring at me confused. I couldn't breathe.

"Ali, what's wrong?" Emily asks.

Before I could open my mouth, Cyrus ran over towards me and started punching me. I screamed out In pain and collapsed on the floor. Emily's voice was booming in my ears as she tried to get me to listen to her but I only heard the sickening sound of Cyrus laugh every time his fist connected with my face.

I felt myself being placed in someones arms. I open my eyes and see Emily holding me tightly against her.

"Shh, it's okay." Emily cooed as she strokes my face, trying to calm me down.

I look around the store. Cyrus isn't here. An old lady behind the counter is staring at me with wide eyes, as if she'd just whiteness the most horrifying thing in her life.

I had imagined it.

Tears fall freely from my eyes so I burry my head deeper into Emily's chest.

Emily eventually picks me up and carries me out of the store and into some alley by the corner of the street. It was raining slightly.

"Alison what happened?" Spencer asks.

"Yeah, you practically gave that lady a heart attack." Hanna says.

"I, uh- I don't know." I answer nervously.

"Ali, you can tell us." Emily says, standing in front of me.

"It's nothing, it was just a panic attack, remember I got one in school?"

"Just a panic attack?" Spencer says, crossing her arms.

"I'm fine guys, really." I tell them with as much conviction as I can but it's hard to convince someone else when you're not even sure about it.

"I'm going to take Ali back to the hotel." Emily says and grabs my hand.

"You don't have to do that, I don't want to ruin your day." The real season is that I don't want Emily to come with me because then that will lead to more unanswered questions.

"I want to, lets go." Emily and I walk silently away from the girls.

Our walk home is mostly quiet except when Emily pops the 'Are you okay?' question over and over again and each time I just nod my head slightly, like clock work.

We arrive at the hotel and I sink down in one of the chairs while Emily stands with her back against the wall, arms crossed.

"What aren't you telling me?" Emily says, frustrated.