All I want "on hold for now"

Chapter 7: the broken boy

Nini pov

I was sitting on my bed, leaning against the head board reading the Great Gatsby, it was around 12:30 am and I was starting to feel sleepy. Christmas was next Thursday's and I was going shopping Monday with Kourtney and ashlyn to get gift for everyone. I don't know what to get Ej that is if he will ever talk to me again.

That night when he stormed outside, he was mad because I told Ricky I loved him in the song I posted on Instagram months ago, but then when he said it to me I didn't say it back. I just didn't know what to say and I was scared he would reject me like Ricky did. Saying "I love you" for the first time is scary.

I decided to go to sleep because my eyelids could not stay open any longer. So I closed my book and turned my lights off, I snuggled into the warmth of my covers and found my self drifting off.

I woke up to the sound of my phone ringing, I groaned wondering who the hell would call me at two in the morning. I answered the phone without looking at the caller Id.  "Nini" I heard a voice whispered, I pull the phone away from my ear to check the caller ID "Ricky" I asked breathlessly

"Nini, I need you" Ricky said through the phone as I heard him let out a whimper, I could hear pain in his voice, like he was hurt. "Ricky" I asked as I pulled the covers off my warm body, he didn't say a anything nor could I hear his breathing. "RICKY" I yelled through the phone as I made my way downstairs to the front door.

As I opened it I came face to face with the most heart breaking scene ever, there stood Ricky with his phone on the ground and tears in his eyes. I looked at him shocked and worry, but what broke me was when he dropped down to his knees. " Ricky" I yelled as I ran to him, into the freezing cold without no shoes nor jacket.

I grabbed him into my arms as he cried, I held him tight to my chest smoothing out his curly brown hair. He lets out whimpers after sobs, and I could of sworn I felt my heart ripped in half. We stayed like that for a while, I held him as he cried in my arms. But eventually he became to calm down "take deep breathes" I told him as I continued to run my fingers through his messy hair.

"Tell me what happened" I told him as he was still against my chest and my arms wrapped around him. It was freezing outside but it didn't matter because he was keeping me warm. "My mom...." he slowly began as his grip on me tighten afraid of me disappearing.

"My mom and dad are fighting" he tells me as I wipe the tear that ran down his check away , "I'm scared Nini, my house doesn't feel like home anymore" he tells me in the softest voice he owns, he looks at me with puffy eyes and that moment my heart definitely broke in half. "Come on let's get you something warm to wear and some sleep" I said as I places both of my hands on either sides of his face to get a good look at him.

As we stood up from the cold wet grass we made our way into the house and upstairs to where my room is. I walked into the closet to his side of his clothes and pulled out some grey sweaters and a black hoodie. "Here" I said walking out of the closet to hand him his clothes "you kept them" he asked in a whispers as he looked at the clothes in his hands "of course" I said before leaving the room so he could get changed.