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Help me

I'm terrified.

I can't breathe. I look down to see that both boys are holding baseball bats. 

"Oh come on pretty girl just tell us your name" The boy snaps his fingers and the boy to his left lifts his bat up. "I asked you a question, now you answer"

Only one thing crosses my mind and that is running as fast as I can and as far as I can. "HELP ME" I scream as i'm turn and race down the isle trying to find Beau. I get past three isles, and when I turn the corner I run into someone. I scream, thrashing against their grasp.

"Hey, hey love. Whats wrong I heard you scream." He asks worried.

"Whats wrong is that, this pretty girl right here won't tell us her name" says the boy who snapped his fingers.

"If you so much as come near her I will beat you to within an inch of your life and you won't be able to ask anyone what their name is again. Understood" Says Beau,  he steps towards them shielding me with his body, it's like he doubled in size. I can see the look of fear on both boys faces. "I Said, Understood" 

"Yes, we're sorry it won't happen again" Said the boy, he looked like he was about to piss himself. Both boys ran out of the doors in a hurry.

"Are you ok" He asks, turning around putting my face in his hands. I can't speak, nothing comes out. "I'm not going anywhere until you answer me, are you ok". I want to tell him the truth, I want to say no. I am not ok, but I don't I told someone the truth once and they used it to hurt me. I wasn't going to get hurt again, so instead I said, 

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you" I forced a smile onto my face, it felt so unnatural. I wanted to cry, to breakdown and tell him I couldn't handle this, but I couldn't.

"I don't believe you but if you say you are fine I will listen, but know i'm here to talk to. I will never hurt you" Again, it's like he's reading my thoughts. 

"I'm going to go grab the things" I say turning to walk away. I get a few feet away and then realize that i'm too scared to go alone again. "Um, can you come with me please. If thats ok"

"Of course" He says grabbing the cart and walking towards me. We head to the isle once more and I grab my things and turn to leave. We grab a few more items like food, water, Advil, and some other things. I grab new underwear, and some clothes. They mostly just have sweatshirts, which I don't mind it's going to be winter soon I want to be warm. We start to walk home using the cart to bring our stuff home. I'm struggling to keep up because my cramps are too bad, but i'm scared to fall behind. I think Beau senses this, because he turns and says, "Get in the cart"

"What?" I ask confused.

"Get in the cart, you shouldn't have to walk that much, it probably hurts. So i'll push you" He says, i'm looking in his eyes again, searching for the sarcasm. But just like last time there is none, he's serious. I start to walk towards the cart and try to swing my leg over into the cart but the cart is to high and I'm too short. Beau walks to me and puts his hands around my waist and lifts me into the cart. I sit down amongst the things we took. Now that I'm not walking I realized how cold it actually is. I start to shiver, Beau must have noticed because he says, "are you cold?"

"No I'm ok" I lie, shivering even harder now.

"You are not ok" he says taking his sweatshirt off. I give him a look and he says "don't worry about me I'll be fine, you need to keep warm. Oh and I forgot to ask you, how's your head?"

"It's a lot better but it still throbs though, and I really need to like chill" I say.

"Well when we get back we could put on a movie and chill. I'll even make popcorn" He says.

"I would love that" I reply. We keep making our journey back to his house. When we arrive he helps me back out of the cart and we carry the items we got into the house. Beau goes upstairs to change.

When he comes back down he says " I left you something on the bed" I walk upstairs to find a pair of soft black sweatpants on the bed. I can't help but smile, that is exactly what I needed. I then make my way back downstairs

I'm still so glad that he 

Helped me.