I Have To Protect Them - Cleofis Drisen

Chapter Five: Trapped and Alone Part 1

Greg got us to the Green and I was frozen in the car. I got flooded with memories from last night and I couldn't believe he had brought me here of all places. He got out of the car and started waking towards the church, but when he noticed that I wasn't following him he walked back to the car. He opened my door and said "come on Cleo, they're waiting for us." I shook my head as he grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the car. He started walking away, but stopped to look at me when I said "I don't think I can." He smiled at me as he spoke, "don't worry, everything is going to be fine. I'm with you and I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you. Not now and not ever." I chuckled at him. "But you can't control the uncontrollable" I said, making him chuckle too. "Oh yeah, just watch me" he said, making me smile as he began walking again.

There was a group of people around the front of the church and my stomach tied into a giant knot that untied when I saw the group more clearly. Sitting on the door step to the church was Luke and Harry, while standing on their left was Will. Where as, Allie and Sam were on their right and Cassandra was standing in front of them, leaning on a pillar. She was facing us as we walked up and when she saw us she lightly smiled. Greg spoke when we got close enough for everyone to hear him. "Alright Cassandra, we're here. What's going on?" I leaned on the pillar that was opposite of Cassandra and faced the rest of the group. I gave the others a small smile and I looked at Cassandra when she said "I'll get a car and go to Greenwich to get help." Harry looked up at her and asked "why you?" I sighed internally when I heard his voice, it was way too early for this shit. "Someone has to find out where everyone went. We can't all go" Cassandra said, glancing over her shoulder at everyone and then looked back forward, "I'll do it" Harry proposed, perking up slightly. He was enjoying arguing with Cassandra. Cassandra turned to face everyone with a faded smirk on her face. "You sober?" she asked smugly and I chuckled a bit, but covered it a fake cough. Greg looked at me with a smile and shook his head. Harry let out a sigh as he spoke again, "fuck you, Cassandra. Luke, you want to see if we can get some of the guys to come with?" He nudged Luke with his knee and Luke groggily responded with a "yeah." Harry agreed with him as he helped Luke up. They both stumbled into each other, making me raise an eyebrow at them. They walked away and I noticed Sam and Allie talking to each other. Sam signed something, but because I wasn't looking directly at them I didn't see what he said. I turned my full attention to them to see Allie sign and said "notice what?" Sam responded, making me think about what he said too. "The smell it's gone." I took a whiff, noticing that the air was cleaner than it had been in a long time. We chatted for a few minutes and decided to go home until we heard from the guys.

I had learnt some sign language, so that I could communicate with Sam a bit more. I'm not that good because I tend to talk really slow to make sure he can understand me and he always laughs at me. He also tells me how stupid I look when I do that, and he told me he really appreciated that I wanted to learn to sign so that we could get to know each other better. I am sort of friends with Greg's friends, but I have distanced myself from them by being quiet and keeping to myself most of the time for obvious personal reasons. Just because I chose to give up my social life, doesn't mean that he should have to as well. He very rarely goes out anywhere without me, so if I need to be there sometimes when he's with them then I can suffer for him. He has done so much for me and is sacrificing a lot for me. I just don't see the point or even why he would do anything for me. Especially after the horrible person I have become.