Smoke

Ch. 22

I woke up the next morning to find myself back in my bed.

I sat up and felt the blood rush from my head causing a series of black dots to fill my vision.

I whimpered silently and almost immediately Calum was in the room asking if I was okay.

I nodded feeling light headed.

" You need to lay down and rest, your not strong enough yet beautiful." He whispered.

I blushed as I crawled back into my bed.

" Good. now I'll go get you something to drink to help the throat issue." He smiled.

Once he left I was alone again watching the rain drip down from the sky.

----- 5 days later ------

Lilis Pov

It's christmas break now. I'm physically almost all healed, other than the now light purple bruises on my neck.

But mentally I was far from okay. Sometimes I would wake up screaming my mind sticking to the memory in detail.

Other nights I would wake up begging for Harry back.

And that's what truely irked me. I shouldn't want him back, he should want me back.

I got up from my bed, first day of Christmas break.

Ashton would be coming home today at noon for an early lunch. It was 9:00 A.M. Now so I stripped down and hopped in the shower.

The warm water patted down on my skin softly as I scrub a handful of shampoo into my hair.

When I was done washing my hair, I shaved my legs and used my body scrub.

After all that I warped one fluffy towel around my body and another around my hair.

I walked into my closet to search for something cozy to wear to pick up Ashton and eat.

I grabbed some black high-waisted skinny jeans, a white cropped sweater, and my tanish plaid scarf.

After that I combed through my hair and blow dried it before putting on some pink/nude colored lipgloss.

I hurried down stairs and found it was 11:00 a.m. His plane comes in in 30 minutes, and the airport is 35 minutes away.

I grabbed my iPod and hurried in my car.

I sped down the highway, listening to Take Me To Church fill the car..

----- 11:45 a.m. -------

Ashton's Pov

Lili rushed over to me, and jumped on to my body screaming.

" I missed you ashypoo !!!!" She screeched making me laugh.

" I missed you too Little boo." I smirked.

We hopped in the car and I stared out the window happy to be home, but mad I wasn't home soon enough to save her.

She seemed different now, almost guarded....

" So how's your mom?" She asked quietly.

" She's better, how are you?" I asked carefully.

" I'm great healing well." She said as if she was building up a bigger wall around her emotions.

" I mean how are you emotionally."

" I'm getting better." She smiled .

" Lies, look Lil. I love you because your like my little sister, but I'm not gonna tolerate you lying. So tell me how you actually feel."

" .... I'm scared." She whispered as a tear fell down her cheek.

" We all are." I mumbled.

" I think I love him, and that scares me." She said even quieter.

" What?" I said in an airy shock.

" I think I fucking love him Ashton. and I don't want to! But I fucking do!" She screamed.