Strangers

Three

There she was sound asleep in his arms being carried back to her dorm.

He didn't know how to feel about this.

How hadn't he known she'd be attending the same collage as him?

He had been watching her all night the girl in the neon pink dress but yet never had he realised it was her, his rhyme.

Was he doing the right thing? Or should he have left her with that boy?

His heart had skipped beats when he had heard her mutter his name under intoxication,

In a way it gave him hope, hope that although she was drunk she really did want him, need him.

All the anger he felt towards her washed away as he glanced down at her snuggled into his neck.

It had been two years and he had worked up a resentment towards her but it all slipped away in those few seconds.

He reached her dorm opening it up and walking in setting her on which he had assumed was her bed.

She shifted but stayed asleep.

He took a look around her side of the room her things still in boxes but pictures already in their places.

His jaw clenched looking at the picture on her bedside her and tk, the boy she had chose in the end and always would.

He tore his eyes away from the picture feeling the anger boil inside of him again.

A string of Polaroids stuck upon her wall and he cracked a smile.

She was hugged close to her younger sister in one of them both girls covered in whipped cream.

A boy he hadn't seen before stood besides her in another one, she wore a green top, sunglasses on her head and he wore a black nike tee smiling wide.

Sam edged closer reading the writing scribbled on the Polaroid

'Jonah beck & rhyme matthews
Cabo 2k19'

He let out a laugh remembering rhyme going on and on about travelling to cabo one summer and it looks like she had.

A group photo sat next to it consisting of rhyme, tk, zoe, luca, kate, cassie and ace he frowned knowing he should've been there but wasn't.

The next Polaroid stopped his heart.

There he stood besides her hugging her from behind planting a kiss on her cheek playfully.

He reached out tracing the words written across it

'Sam & rhyme
2017 <3'

This photo was taken a few months before everything happened and he couldn't help but frown looking at it.

How could two people so close go from that to being practically nothing to each other? Strangers?

He questioned himself and snapped out of his trance when rhyme fidgeted in her sleep.

"No" she mumbled "get away from me tk" she thrashed a little and sam wanted nothing more than to reach out a hug her but he couldn't.

"I don't love you" she muttered "sam i want sam" his heart broke hearing her cry his name in her sleep.

She still had them, the nightmares from that night with tk.

The ones that sam had only found out about from his sister,

She had explained to him that rhyme would often cry and scream in her sleep for him.

He hadn't believed his sister but now seeing it actually happening frightened him.

So he reached out brushing her hair away from her forehead and she relaxed he leaned forward gently planting a kiss on her forehead.

"Im right here bub" he mumbled

And before he allowed himself to climb into bed besides her, he left the room in a flash knowing there was a high chance she would remember nothing and they would remain strangers.

{don't read into the jonah beck part i just wanted to add asher he's just a friend she met on vacation 😂<3}