Song: How to Save a Life - The Fray
Justin's POV
After Nicole and my father were taken away we all just stood there in the garden. The silence was interrupted shortly after when I heard my name.
"JUSTIN" Tilda yelled from across the road as she ran towards me.
"Oh my god what happened? I saw police and ambulance outside you house, I came as soon as I could. I was so worried" she said sounding generally concerned
"It's a long story. Do you want to come in?"
"Sure"
We all enter the house. It's a complete mess. Everything is all over the floor. There's smashed glass and paper mixed with blood covering the light shaded floorboards.
"Natalie take Matt and Eddie to the tree house" I order as she nods and takes them back out the house.
Its too much for my brothers to handle, they're only four and I don't want them to be scared from the scenes that have happened.
I take Matilda into my room and tell her everything. She blinks and places her hand over her mouth shocked.
"Oh I feel so horrible, I'm so sorry" she says quietly
"Hey it's not your fault" I tell her
"I know but all this time I've been coming to you with my problems I never even considered that all these bad things were happening in your life" she explains
"Matilda it's okay really"
"But why. Why didn't you say anything. I could have helped, like with the kids. I could have gotten them out of the house as well instead of just you."
I take a deep breath before answering
"Because I didn't want you to know"
"Why? Do you not trust me?"
"Of course I do it's just that I like that you didn't know all this personal stuff, I could pretend that none of this happened. when I'm around you I can be a normal boy. I can be happy."
When I finish she gets up and walks over to where I'm sitting on my bed. She sits down on my lap and flings her arms around my neck.
"I'm sorry" she mumbles into my hair as I wrap my arms around her.
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Matilda's POV
Now that I know what's happening in Justin's life at home I decide I'm going to help him and his family as much as I can.
We get up and I make hot chocolate for everyone. We sit around the TV watching some Disney movie I brought over from my house.
After a while the two boys fall asleep and Natalie heads off to bed.
I place blankets over the boys and turn the TV off.
"Alright I'm going to help you clean the house now." I say
Justin just nods and we walk out the room.
The Downstairs doesn't take that long to clean. Natalie had already cleaned most of the blood up, it was mostly only the broken vase and some books on the floor.
"Do you want to go up there? Because you don't have to, it can wait or I can do it myself. I understand if you don't want to go up there" I ask sympathetically
"No lets both do it now before Natalie and the boys see any of it." He's so brave
I lead the way up the stairs with Justin following close behind. When I reach the top of the stairs the room opens up and I see where the real damage is.
