Let Yourself Fall // sequel to My Ethan Karpathy

Chapter 1.

*febuary, 2016*

ETHANS POV:

'I watch as Paisley is thrown to the ground and continuously beaten until the blood drips from her nose, mouth and head. I watch as she screams and begs them to stop, but they don't. I watch her drag her head up as to look at me, I see her now messy hair, her face covered in blood, her eyes full of hurt and sadness. This is the last image I see of her until one final kick is given to her head, everything goes black and I scream'

"Ethan!?" I hear someone yell, shaking me awake.

I look up to see Paisley, her face perfect and not broken and bloody like I saw moments ago. The only imperfection I can find is the faint bruise on the top of her eye where she bashed into the doorframe last night. I've been getting these dreams a lot lately, I'm so paranoid that my whole world could be taken away from me in one single night. The dreams and images haunt my mind 24/7 and I don't know where they're coming from.

"Just another bad dream." I pant.

"What was it this time?" She asks, laying down next to me. I hold her close to my chest, hugging her to buy some time making up a bad dream. I don't want her to know I've been getting these dreams.

"Oh, I got lost in a forest and a pack of wolves were chasing after me." I lie.

"Oh, Etho, why do you think you keep getting these?"

"I don't know." I answer, truthfully this time.

"Well, we have school tomorrow, and Grace is coming down today. So we need to get up now, Chris will be here in ten." Paisley says, walking over to my chair where I dropped my clothes last night and moving them to my laundry basket.

I just stay in bed and watch her, just to convince myself that nothing's happened to her. But then she reaches up to open my curtains and the edge of her top lifts up. I can only just see the faint white lines of scars that Bailey caused, and I realise that something actually has happened to her. But not anymore, Bailey's gone. I see the ring on her left hand sparkle in the sunlight and I can't help but feel a warm fuzzy happiness deep down inside me.

"Cmon, get up or no kisses." Paisley teases. I groan but don't move. She sighs, comes over and rips the covers off of me. I reach to pull them back but she holds them out of my reach. Since I was sleeping shirtless, I form a plan to get the covers back.

"I know you want to stare, but I'm getting cold." I tease.

Paisley just rolls her eyes but drops the covers. I win. She walks over to the door but turns around to face me one more time.

"Just don't complain to me when Chris shows up and your still in bed." she says before disappearing down the hallway.

I lay there for a couple more minutes but decide I should probably do what she tells me to. I drag myself out of bed and to the shower. I only take a couple of minutes, then get out, get dressed, brush my hair and head down the stairs to the lounge room. I can't find Paisley, but I hear voices coming from the nursery. I find Chris and Paisley in there playing with Jack and Rachael. They are now fourteeen months old and are probably the cutest things I've seen in my life.

"Pailey," Rachael tries to say, reaching her arms out as a sign for Paisley to pick her up. She can't quite say her 'S's' yet but she's doing really well.

(A/N: I probably have the stages for the babies all wrong, so sorry.)

"Look who's up!" Chris says excitedly when he sees me.

"Finally." Paisley says sassily, picking up Rachael and placing her in the play corner. She makes sure the child gate is locked and we walk out the room.

"When's Grace getting here?" I ask.

"Any minute," Chris says, just as the doorbell rings. "Or now."

We run to the door and open it to reveal a smiling grace, I swear that girl is always smiling. She runs inside past Paisley and I then jumps into Chris' waiting arms. He spins her round and round, both of them grinning from ear to ear.

"Be careful, don't knock anything over!" holly calls, walking past.

"I'm just going to the shop, there's ingredients to make pizza there if you want. Jack and Rachael are asleep." She adds, walking out into the sunshine and closing the door behind her.

We walk into the kitchen and begin to cut up various ingredients we want on our pizza, then pile everything on and put it in the oven. When the oven goes off, we slide the cheese covered pizza onto a plate and just stuff our stomachs full with it. The rest of the day went by in a blur, we walked down to the park where we bumped into Meghan, Paisley's new best friend. At school, it's Chris, Meghan, Paisley and I. Paisley and I had to do two months worth of school over the first, second and third school holidays. We've finished now and are both back up to date with our studies. Paisley is also working with model co here since we moved just for that company. We stayed at the park for the whole day until Grace had to go home. Chris also had to go out with his parents tonight so we were left with Paisley, Meghan and I. Meghan wasn't allowed to come over for a sleepover so Paisley and I walked home by ourselves. We are laying on the floor in my room with Jack and Rachael when Paisley asks a question that shocks me. I don't know why, but it does.

"Do you want to have children with me one day?" She asks out of the blue.

"Do you?" I ask her.

"Probably, but do you want kids?" She asks.

"Well, with you I'd do anything." I tell her.

"Okay," she Smiles, reaching out and touching my cheek with tears in her eyes. "I love you."

"I love you too, why are you crying?" I reply.

"I don't even know." she laughs.

"Tears of happiness?"

"I think so." she replies.

We put Jack and Rachael back into their cot and head upstairs to bed. I close my eyes as the whirlwind of nightmares stirs up inside my head again.