It's Not All Roses

Chapter 10

*Trigger warning, Sexual assault*

I'm walking blindly down the street, because of the tears that keep coming. I wasn't going to drink but that Amber girl was verbally attacking Kiya.

My phone keeps blowing up in my hand, call after call, text after text. If it wasn't such an expensive device I would have broke it already. I'm just not prepared for them to judge me, like if they say it's my fault, well then I'm just screwed.

"Mae!" I hear someone scream.

I keep walking, faster and faster down the dark street. I hear foot steps running behind me. "Mae please!" Kiya yells. She finally grabs me by the arm and pulls me into a hug. Kiya always smells like Vanilla and weed, it's a good smell.

I just hug her back, sobbing into her shirt. She rubs my back and walks me over to the curb so we can sit. "Do you maybe want to come back to my place and talk about it?" She asks me.

I can't form words, so I just nod.

"Okay. Let me call Hero, just so he can tell everyone that you're okay."

Again, I just nod.

Kiya gets out her phone and Hero answers almost immediately. "Hey. I found her. No, we're going back to my place. No she hasn't told me anything." There's a small pause. "For fuck sakes Hero I just found her."

I tap on her shoulder, "Whats he saying?" I whisper.

She covers the microphone of her phone. "He wants to know if you want them there or not. They're worried is all." I can see a pained expression in her eyes, like she's been through this too.

I think about it for a moment. It scares me but I do believe it's best for them to know. "Yeah, they can."

She nods and starts talking into the phone again, "Just you, Tom, and Niall, no one else."

I automatically begin to panic, what if they think it's my fault I got assaulted? What if they think less of me? Hero already can't stand me. But before I can tell Kiya no, she hangs up.

"The boys will meet us at my apartment. I'm going to call-"

"Kiya do you think Hero will judge me?"

She looks at me like I've grown a second head, "No. God no. Mae he just wants to see if you are okay, don't be to quick to judge him, trust me. Why do you think he will?"

"Everyone does."

Kiya lets out a soft sigh and side hugs me. "Listen, the boys have gone through this before, they will not think any less of you, if anything Hero will be on a man hunt. We will listen to what you have to say, and that's it. I promise, nothing will change. Tom will still be goofy and shy, Niall will still be well Niall and Hero he won't change but he may be a little
More patient with you."

Her words reassure me. I nod at her and she gives me another hug. She calls a taxi and the ride to her apartment is quiet, but Kiya just gently holds my hand.

Honestly I think she's probably one of the best people on the planet and she doesn't even realize it.

When we get into her apartment I see Niall and Tom first. Niall is the first one out of the couch and walking over to me, engulfing me in a hug. Tom is next and for some reason I cry when Tom hugs me.

Kiya grabs Niall's arm and pulls him away for a moment. "Where is Hero?" She asks.

"Your room."

Kiya walks to her bedroom, Tom looks at me with worried brown eyes, Niall however wraps an arm around my shoulder and takes me to the kitchen. "You said blue orchids didn't you?"