You Can Never Escape Me(BxB)

t h i r t y n i n e

Anthony Lawrence

"I don't need any comfort, Oliver." I tried to tell Oliver nicely for like the thousandth time, because he couldn't stop asking me what he could do to make me feel better.

It was nice to have someone that wanted to console you after you've literally been through hell, but somehow I just didn't want people to feel pity for me, my friends and family included. It was starting to stress me out.

I didn't tell Oliver or anyone else that Elias popped up out of nowhere, ruined my date and to top it all of tried to rape me afterward. Not when I wanted to avoid getting more sympathy from others.

I've always been someone to suffer in silence that mostly kept everything to himself and wore a bright smile on the outside. While to some people it didn't seem like a good way to handle problems and pain, it was actually what I've did all my life and I didn't regret it.

"Do you want me to stay when Elias wakes up or should I go?" Oliver asked as he came with two hot cups of tea out of the kitchen, sitting next to me on the grey couch in my living room.

"Thank you." I gave him a light smile, sitting up as he gave me my cup. It made my heart melt to see him pamper me and how much he cared about my wellbeing, although we barely knew each other. "You're probably tired, I think it'll be better if you'd go home to rest a little."

After Elias passed out on my bed, I had no idea what to do with him, but it was clear that I couldn't call the police nor let him die, Leah would kill me for that. And Sam needed at least one parent, who would protect him and not try to kill him again. I wasn't that coldhearted.

The problem with helping Elias was that I didn't have the right equipment and medicine to treat him in my apartment, nor did I have a car to secretly bring him to the hospital and take care of him in there. I wasn't that dumb to call an ambulance that would ask for his identity and probably put him into jail afterward.

So, I ended up calling the only person that could help me in such a situation- Oliver. He had a car and didn't know that he was helping me, saving someone who kidnapped me.

To my surprise, Oliver agreed and wasn't that angry with me for suddenly disappearing on our date. Actually he told me that he was just sad because he thought that I didn't like him as much as he apparently liked me.

Because of the few months I spent with Elias, I was somehow always expecting the worst coming from everyone and therefore also that Oliver would hurt me for just leaving him alone on our date.

As an excuse for my sudden disappearance I lied to him, telling him that Elias was a friend of mine, that was extremely sick and called me to help him, before eventually passing out on my bed.

Oliver believed me.

He helped me get Elias in his car, which has been quite difficult seeing as Elias wasn't the lightest person, before we drove to the hospital, where I could instantly stabilize Elias' physical state, while Oliver made sure that no one would bother me.

Getting Elias' body to finally function normally again was tough and I was sure that Elias' doctors weren't so dumb to just let him leave in this unstable and weak state. It took me nearly six hours until I was sure he was safe, before Oliver and I carried him back to Oliver's car to drive back to my place.

"Don't worry about me," Oliver reassured me with a warm smile, but couldn't suppress a yawn. "I'll stay with you as long as you want me to."

Although I wasn't too fond of the idea of going on a date with Oliver at the beginning, I found myself enjoying the little amount of time we spent together before Elias decided to crash my date and therefore also my chances of maybe getting into a healthy relationship with Oliver.