Trusting Again (5SOS)

Eighteen

BOO!!! I'm baaaack!!!!  I wanted to leave you all hanging so here's the real ending, HA!

It had been almost a whole year since my true love left. I never really got any better, but I learned how to act better. There wasn’t a day that went by without her passing through my thoughts. All of our songs played through my head on repeat 24/7. Her memory would never leave me be.

The boys stopped talking about her or asking if I was alright. They knew I wasn’t, but they never bugged me about it. I never stopped looking for her, but I eventually backed off. Most of my brain told me that she was gone forever. My whole heart told me to keep looking.

I was listening to the playlist I had made up for our first date when I heard the door open. Ashton stuck his head in and knocked on the wall. “Mate, we’ve got a gig in half an hour,” he said timidly. I nodded my head slightly and got up to get ready. My hair was its normal color for once. I hadn’t dyed it since Savannah ran away.

We were playing at the same arena where I met Savannah. It brought back so many memories I almost fell to the floor when they came flooding back through my mind. We got backstage and I heard two people arguing. “I am NOT working this show! I can’t be around those boys!”

“Jay, either you work this show or I’ll have to fire you. Would you really want to lose your job over your petty feelings?” a boy snarled at the girl who had been haunting my dreams.

“No,” she sighed.

“That’s good babe,” he said with a devilish smile. He went to kiss her and she slapped him. I almost laughed.

“I am not your babe!” I hoped that meant she still loved me.

“I don’t remember asking if you were.”

“Hey!” I interrupted as I stomped up to the boy. “She obviously doesn’t like you, so get away from her!” Savannah looked at me with eyes full of terror.

“Who are you?” he laughed. “You have no say in this and neither does she.”

“Of course she has a say! She doesn’t have to date you if she doesn’t want to.”

“Yes, I do,” she whispered as he glared down at her. “Please don’t try to help me again.” I could tell she was scared to death of this boy, but I didn’t know why.

Suddenly, he pulled his fist back and went to punch me. I yelled out as Savannah stepped in front of me. He didn’t even back off as his fist collided with her left eye. Her hands covered her face as she cried out and fell to the ground with me right after her.

I pulled her head into my lap and pushed her hair out of her face. She was out cold and a small line of blood was running down her face from her eyebrow to her lip. I stood up with her in my arms and the boys seemed to understand without me saying anything. I turned back to the boy and glared at him so fiercely he actually looked scared. “I’ll deal with you later,” I growled.

We ran back to Luke’s mom’s car since she had driven us here. “Get in,” she said once she saw Savannah,” we need to get her some help.”

We all loaded up in the car and sat in silence as his mom drove. When we got to the hospital I jumped out of the car before it even stopped and ran to the waiting room. “Oh great, her again,” one of the nurses said as she looked at Savannah.

“What did you just say?” I growled.

“She comes in at least once a month and never tells us how she gets hurt.”

“It’s her no good ‘boyfriend’ beating her until she’s terrified,” I almost yelled. “Now, help her!”

“Of course,” another person said as they took Savannah and placed her on a stretcher. “You know you’ll have to stay in here, right?”

“I figured as much.” I sat down with the boys while Luke’s mom drove back to explain why the concert was going to be cancelled.

I was freaking out when the doctor finally called us up to tell us how Savannah was doing. “She’s going to be alright. She’s a tough girl. A hit like that could have done a lot worse damage, but it only ripped a small piece of skin by her eye.”

“Thank goodness,” I sighed. His eyes got a sad look in them.

“I wasn’t finished. She is in a coma, nothing major, but she will be out for a while.”

“How long will she be out?” Ashton asked for me.

“I honestly couldn’t tell you. It could be anywhere from a day to close to a month before she wakes up, but you can stay with her as long as you wish.”

“Thank you so much,” I said as he walked us back to her room. She was laying in the small bed with a sheet pulled up to her waist and a breathing thing over her mouth. There was a flimsy looking pillow under her head and IVs in her right arm. She looked peaceful, even with a huge purple bruise beginning to show up next to her eye.

I walked up to the side of the bed and fell to my knees with tears in my eyes. I heard Luke usher the other boys out of the room before the door closed. If I hadn’t let her leave none of this would have happened. She would have been safe with me all of this time instead of with that, that, thing that hurt her. I swear when I see him again he’s going to pay for hurting her! I pulled a chair next to her bed and fell asleep with our fingers entwined.

Savannah

All I could see was black. I couldn’t move, but I could hear. I heard him yelling at me like usual and then more voices chimed in with him calling me names and trying to tear me down. Suddenly, my eyes shot open and I saw those eyes I had missed for almost a whole year. “It’s alright babe, I got you now. It was just a bad dream,” he whispered in my ear as he held me in his arms. I broke down and cried into his shoulder. I never thought I would see him again.

“I never thought I’d see you again,” I cried. He held me at arm’s length by my shoulders and looked at me with a questioning glare.

“What do you mean, Jay?”

“I ran away almost a year ag… what did you call me?”

“I called you Jay just like I always do, and you never ran away from me. You’re always too scared of me.” I blinked and Xavier was sitting where Michael had been not a second before.

“No,” I gasped,” Where’s Michael? What did you do to him?!”

“I didn’t do anything, princess. You ran away, remember? He forgot about you just like your parents and everyone else. Can you blame them? You’re a mistake, and who wouldn’t want to forget about a terrible mistake like that.” He laughed and with every second it got louder until I was clawing at my ears to get my head to quit throbbing.

My eyes opened and my sight was instantly filled with those green eyes that had saved me so many times before.

Michael

It had been a week since Savannah went into a coma. I had stayed by her side the whole time and refused to go home with the boys. I was listening to music while I had her hand in mine. Her hand tightened around mine and I jumped up. Her eyes looked like they were trying to open and her head was going from side to side like when she had a nightmare.

“Come on, wake up. I know you can do it, just wake up. Please, for me.” I was almost in tears when her eyes finally opened. I grabbed her in a bear hug and let the tears fall.

“You, you don’t hate me?” she asked weakly.

“Of course not. I haven’t stopped looking for you all of this time, and I’m never letting you go again.”

The hospital staff did one more check up on Savannah before they let us leave. When we got home Savannah and I took very well deserved showers (Separately!!! You dirty minded wierdos like myself). Everyone finally let the whole psychopath story go once Savannah and one of the people from the asylum explained the whole thing. Our lives were back to normal with the added bonus that Savannah finally learned to trust again.