Take me Away

Silence

It's been almost a week since the whole meet Harrison thing and I still haven't talked to him...yet. Today was very quiet at "home". Almost too quiet. I started to get scared. So I decided to go out of my room to take a look around the house. Hoping that there wasn't any sight of violence. As I walked in the kitchen I saw my mom laying on the ground. At first I was relieved because there was no sight of John. But then I realized that mom was hurt.
"Mum?"
There was a dead silence before she catched her breath and said,
"Ella I want you to listen to me..."
When she said those words I started to wonder what she was gonna tell me.
"don't ever let a man control you sweetie."
"What happened mum?" I asked her.
"Did you listen to me Ella?!?"
"YES mum! But what happened?"
"John left... but before he did he made sure to show "who's the man" mum said.
To me that was music to my ears. Not so much for mum though. My mum loves that man. Almost too much. She knew what she was getting in when she married him. But she already bought a ticket so, there was no turning back.
Tears were streaming down my mums face as I helped her up. I gave her a bath and when I finished I helped her get dressed and I layed her in my bed since I thought that she didn't want to be in the bed where he was.

~1 hour later~
Since my mother was sleeping, I went for a walk outside for a while. I walked and walked without stopping. The only thing I could think of was of Harrison so I could forget about reality. But at times reality kicked in. I was miserable, sad and at point depressed. Again, all side effects of being a teenager.

As I was walking by my favorite hangout place I saw him. I stopped to pinch myself to see if this was really happening. It was. The whole thing was like a dream. I couldn't believe it myself. As I walked in I saw him with some friends. With that in mind I chose not to go to him and let him be with them. I sat down and ordered the usual (strawberry milkshake). All of the sudden Harrison came to my table.
"I was wondering when I'd see you again." he said
"Oh hey!" I pretended that I hadn't seen him before.
"So, when were you planning on calling?" He said laughing.
"What if I didn't call you?"
"Well I'd be really embarrassed to be honest" He said blushing
The waiter brought me my milkshake and asked Harrison if he wanted his food delivered to this table instead of the other one. Harrison then agreed to have his food there with me. After 5 minutes the waiter brought him his food.
"You're not eating?" He asked
"Not hungry really..." I said revealing my sad face to him. Which afterwards I regretted it.
"You ok Ella?"
"I guess so."
"Doesn't seem like it. Wanna talk about maybe?" Harrison asked.
"Harrison I don't even know you." I said slightly laughing.
"Well, I'm Harrison Webb, 17, 1 older brother named Sam. I love life really." He said as I chuckled at the irony (he loved life I didn't).
"Now you know me. Will you tell me now?" He said with puppy eyes.
I though about telling him but it would have been narcissistic of myself to be honest. Talking about myself and my problems and nothing else. At the end of it all I never told him because I didn't want him to think that I only think of my problems because I know other people have it worse. I just think it's better to not go through the whole thing.
"Alright. You don't have to really. Just trying to make conversation with a pretty girl." He said as I looked up to him.
"Pretty?" I sord of whispered to him.
"Yes." He whispered back making me laugh.
As we kept on talking about random stuff, I checked my phone to lock at the time. It was almost 1:00am. Which meant it was closing time. I can't believe we've been talking for over 3 hours now. And again, just like everytime, he made me forget about reality. He made me forget about the past and more about the future. He made me really believe that I could actually be happy.
It came to a point where him and I were the only ones there. The manager told us that we had to leave so, we did.
Once we were out of there we walked a couple blocks. He then said,
"How about I walk you home?"
"I'd like that." I told him blushing.
And that's exactly what we did. We walked towards my house and he said,
"Lovely home."
In my mind I said,
"Outside but not inside."
Then I told him, "thank you for walking me home"
"The pleasure was all mine, Ella."
When he finished those words I saw him leaning down at me, since he's so tall, and the gave me a peck(kiss) on the lips.
"What was that for?" I asked him.
"I needed to do that or else I would have regretted not doing so otherwise"

(I mean it's not like I didn't want him to or anything. But it was very unexpected.)

Then there was that awkward silence that deep down I hated. It was still inevitable.
"Well thanks anyway." I finally said.
"No, thank you." He said smirking.

I then walked up to my door, turned around and waved goodbye to him. When I was finally inside my house, I started to think of his name. His hair. His height. His everything... But then my thoughts were abruptly ended by screaming coming from my mums room.

I cursed in my head because I knew HE was there. I was afraid, like I always am. So I just walked in a dead silence up to my room. But then I heard someone say,
"AND WHERE IN BLOODY HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?"
I knew it was John's drunk voice. But all I did was run up to my room and lock the door before he could get to it. So I did. I had to distract myself from the loud banging on my door. So, I texted him.
"Hey :) -Ella" with tears streaming down my face.
"Couldn't stay away could you? ;)"
I giggled at his response.
It calmed me down. Talking to him I mean. We texted for almost an hour. But then the banging at the door stopped. After a couple of minutes I heard the front door open and the slamed shut.
My phone rang again.
"How about we go out. Today didn't actually count because it was a coincidence... So? Saturday 7:00 pm?" Harrison's message said.
"Okay." I replied as calming as ever. No hesitation what so ever.
"Perfect. Se you then."
The bad news now was 1. I've got nothing to wear. 2. I have to wait almost a whole week to see him (which was pretty much turture). And on top of it all we needed a new bloody door.

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Hope you guys liked this one. I know I'm bad at this but bare with me cuz I'm new at it lol.

Anyways! Expect more chapters and more frequently(hallelujah for Christmas break).