Forever and Always

Chapter 28

Dani's POV

"Dani, wake the fuck up!" Someone nearly shouted in my ear the next morning.

I groaned and buried my face in my pillow.

"Come on, get up!" I now recognized the voice as Alyson. I groaned again. "Alright, you asked for it. Mason, grab one leg and I'll get the other."

"I'm not dressed," I said, my voice was raspy.

"Jesus, it's almost 11. Did you have a late night or something?" Mason asked.

I bit my lip at the memory. I couldn't stay asleep and woke up almost every hour with nightmares, whih made me scared to fall asleep again.

"Dani, you're worrying me. Where's your phone by the way? We called like a thousand times. Demi's been trying to call you too, you weren't even answering her."

"I forgot it at school," I rasped. That wasn't a lie, it fell out of my hand in my struggle with Ben and I didn't think to go back and get it.

"Mason, turn around," I heard Aly whisper. I didn't have much time to think before a blast of cold air slammed into me as my blanket was ripped off my naked body.

"Oh my God," my best friend gasped loudly and I shot up to grab my blanket back. She moved it out of my reach and her eyes took in the bruises on my body. My eyes met hers for a second before I cover my face with my messy hair.

"I'm going to kill that dick," I heard Mason growl, closely followed by loud footsteps out of my room.

"Go get him," I whispered to Aly.

"No, Ben deserves what those guys are going to give him." The bed dipped under her weight as she sat down next to me. "Can you look at me?"

I didn't want to but I knew if I didn't she would force me. So, reluctantly, I turned to look at her.

"Oh, sweetie," she whispered and slowly reached up to my bruised cheek. I flinched away before she could touch it and felt a few tears slip out down my cheek. I figured I'd be all cried out by now, but I guess not.

Alyson's phone started to ring and she pulled it out. "It's Demi." She said befre answering. "Hey, I'm with Dani right now."

My eyes got wide and I shook my head. I didn't want to talk to her, not now.

"Hey, calm down. What's going on?" Aly listened to something Demi said over the phone and her eyes got big as her face filled with a mix or horror and anger. "He did? That damn bastard. Demi, I'm going to need you to calm down. Look, I'm here with Dani and I'm not leaving her anytime soon so I'm going to need you to concentrate on touring. Don't listen to him at all. Yeah, I know he's not what you're worrying about but don't worry about her at all. Ok, yes, that was very stupid of me to say, you have every right to worry."

Aly was very calm, which was a contrast to the frantic voice of Demi that I could make out on the phone.

"She doesn't want to talk right-"

"I dont give a shit!" I could perfectly hear my girlfriend yell and Aly flinched and tore the phone away from her ear.

"Ok, ok, I'll put you on speaker." My best friend tapped the speaker button on her phone and looked at me. "Alright."

"Dani, I am going to get that guy arrested. And then I'm going to find him in jail and beat the living shit out of him, I swear to God." Demi said frantically.

"I'm fine," I rasped.

"You sound like you're lying."

I chuckled. "In other words, I sound like shit?"