A New Beginning (Adopted by Ariana Grande and Jai Brooks)

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• Amelia •

I try to run after Maya, but I fall on the floor getting off the bed. I try to get up but Nash hops off the bed and grabs me before I escape. He jumps in front of me and slams the door shut. He pushes me up against it, once again pinning my arms to it.

"Listen up you fat whore. If you tell ANYONE about this, you're going to get the worst punishment in the world. Do you hear me?!" He whisper yells in my ear.

I don't respond and he clenches my wrist harder.

I wince at the pain of his nails digging into one of my unhealed cuts and feel my self esteem drop a million levels down.

"I ASKED DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

"Yes." I whisper.

"Good. Now you go out there and you act normal. You act like nothing happened." He demands.

I nod my head.

He lets me go and I open the door.

He smacks my ass.

I run down the stairs fast.

He follows quickly.

"There she is!" I hear Skip call.

"Oh and Nash too!" He adds.

Everyone comes back to the living room.

"Yep, here we are." I say trying to act as normal as possible.

"Where were you guys?" James asks.

"Upstairs. I wanted to show her some of my vines and it was kind of hard to hear down here." Nash tells everyone.

"Oh! That makes since!" Beau says smiling.

"Yep." I say.

"Well glad you guys are back." He says.

He hits the play button on his music.

I go over to Jai.

"Where's Ariana and Maya?" I ask him.

"I think they went somewhere!" Jai yells over the music.

I just nod my head.

Great.

Maya got Ariana to take her out of the house and I don't know where.

Great.

I decide to go outside and sit in the driveway. I'll wait for them to come home.

I walk out the side door and sit against Beau's car, my back leaning against the back tire. I reach behind me underneath my shirt and hook my bra back together.

I begin to cry. I think of what Nash was doing to me. It's just a repeat of what my father did to me once, except worse. That time I was only 7. Now here I am 7 years later and it's all happening again.

I think about Maya. How hurt she looked. How she thinks this is all my fault. How I'm never going to get her back. My heart sits in the pit of my stomach and I feel like I'm going to throw up.

I fell in love with this girl so quickly. Everything about her is just so perfect that I couldn't stop myself from falling. And now a boy that I just was introduced to ruined it. I lost my everything because of him.

I burry my face in my hands and cry harder.

Suddenly I hear the side door close shut. I flinch because it's loud when it closes.

I look up and see Luke walking towards me. I quickly try to wipe away my tears but it's no use because they keep falling.

He comes over to me and sits down next to me, his back leaning against the car.