An ordinary girl, an extraordinary boy.

Chapter 8: Help me!

Anna's POV

Oh no! He's going to find me again. I slumped back against the bathroom wall and stayed there for god knows how long before Esk came in to investigate. "Anna are you still on the.... Anna oh my god Anna are you okay what's wrong are you hurt why are you sat on the floor? What's happening Anna? Answer me! What's wrong?" I slowly raised my head and looked at her, tears drying in tracks on my cheeks. Wordlessly I motioned my hand towards my phone indicating I wanted her to pick it up and read the text still lit up on the screen.

James:
' I saw you with him.'
'There will be consequences Anna.'
'You know what I told you, if I ever caught you cheating on me.'
'You are such a little slut.'
'If you tell anyone about this I will kill you.'

She gasped, her hand flew up to her mouth in shock as she tried to contain further noises of distress. "When did you get these? How long has he known? Maybe we can fix this I mean it's not like you and Kier are actually a thing. He might go easier on you if you tell him." I looked at her like she was crazy. "I'm not gonna answer him, how stupid do you think I am? I'm done with him." I almost yelled at her. "Okay fine well you're doing to have to do something about him I told you last time to call the police after he almost broke your arm, your wrist still needs a support on bad days." She told me. "I know! Okay, I remember Esk I was there when he grabbed me it was my fault and he reacted badly but I refuse to acknowledge him by telling the police because there is nothing they can do. I have no proof and his dads on the force the only thing it would accomplish is him hurting me worse." I started off strong but by the end of my speech I was sobbing and shaking in terror. Esk knelt down beside me and hugged me, rocking us back and forth until I had calmed down. We sat for another 10 minutes before we heard someone knocking on the door, a voice came through from the other side "Esk? Anna? Are you still in there?" It was Laurence, I looked at Esk in confusion asking with my face why he was out there, she understood straights away and told me "He went to see Kier but came back in alone and said he'd wait for me to see if you were okay." I nodded and stood up heading over to the door after grabbing my phone. Opening the door to the ladies bathroom I stepped out, grabbed Laurence around the waist and hugged him tightly. He stood rigid for a few seconds before I felt his arms envelope me, and his chin rest on the top of my head. I felt content to just stay in this position, it made me feel safe a feeling I hadn't had in an extremely long time. I felt Laurence's chest vibrate as he asked Esk "Is she okay?" I couldn't tell what her answer was but Laurence nodded. "Come on we'd better get you home sweetie, i'll go grab a taxi while you finish up here." He hugged me tightly for a little while longer before releasing me and walking back through the club to the exit. Esk put my arm over her shoulders and grabbed my purse off of the counter before hurrying us both out of the club and into the taxi. In the back of the taxi we sat squished together, me in the middle with Esk and Laurence on either side both offering me support verbally and just by being there which meant a lot to me especially in my more than fragile state. "Do you wanna talk about it?" Laurence asked "I mean it isn't just because of Kier is it?" I shook my head and said "It's not just Kier, something bigger has come up but I don't need to talk about ill be okay just let me be for tonight. I'm sure if you still want an explanation in the morning Esk will be able to help out." We had reached our flat in no time at all, and as Esk and I stepped from the back of the taxi Laurence came around the other side to offer us both him arm. We giggled and linked arms with him before our procession headed up the four flights of stairs to our crappy flat. After rummaging around in her purse for ages looking for her keys Esk looked up and shrugged at me, admitting defeat. I laughed and pulled my set straight from my pocket and opened the door. "Laurence can stay in my room tonight seeing as we don't have a spare set of covers for the sofa." Esk declared to us, grabbing Laurneces hand and practically dragging him into her room and slamming the door behind them. I slowly trailed through the flat to the kitchen and grabbed some painkillers out of the medicine cabinet to try and stop the headache I could feel starting from becoming fully fledged before heading into my bedroom, curling up on my spacious double bed and drifting into an uneasy sleep.

(A/N Still no proper explanation as to the mysterious He but some minor hints might have given it away. Proper explanation in the next upload hopefully <3 Thank you for actually reading this so far it means a lot and if it's not too much trouble could you comment your feedback for me? It'd help me so much thanks . Enjoy Anna xox )