✔ Scars. (Book One) ✔

Chapter Sixteen

It has been a week since what had happened between me and James. That night, everything changed forever. In some ways for the better and in others, for the absolute worst.

Sure, I'm not with James anymore, but that IS a good thing. I wasn't happy, most of the time, but the times we were, were so amazing and I will never forget them. But, I couldnt handle it anymore. The day I woke up after what had happened, I was still wrapped up in Tom's arms, and that's when I realised it, I was the happiest I had felt in a very long time. I felt so safe with him. What followed wasn't quite.

The guys and Demi sat me down and made me tell them everything. From the first time, he had hit me right up until that night nearly a week ago. Including the beating that made me have a miscarriage. That little fact didn't help in the whole, 'I'm going to kill James when I get my hands on him' thing. The guys had going on. But its been nearly a week and James still has the use of both his legs and he's still breathing... Which is a good thing.

I hate what he did to me, but I dont hate him. It will take me a while to trust him enough to be around him again but in time, maybe I will learn to forgive him. He came around the next day and asked the guys if they had seen me. Apparently, he woke up with a very sore and painful scrotum, wondering why I wasn't tucked up in bed with him and couldnt remember a thing of what had happened the previous night, Until.....He saw all the blood on the floor by the bed and completely freaked out and came to see if the guys knew where I was.

The guys wouldn't let him anywhere near me, at one point Mike and Tom had to be dragged away from him by Aaron, Liam and Ollie which, I'm told, wasn't very easy. In the end, they had to be locked in the bedroom with me and Demi, to make sure they stayed put and didn't murder him or something.

Oh, wondering why I'm locked in the bedroom with Demi in the first place? Well.......like I said, I wasn't allowed near him. When he came to the room looking for me, Demi grabbed me and dragged me to the bedroom, Away from him and so I wouldnt see what the guys did to him. Hey, I said he could still breath, I didn't say they didn't kick his ass..But apparently he just stood there and took it and I, or the others, hadnt seen him since.

The guys decided to leave and move hotels but since everywhere else was all booked up, they had to say put at the same hotel. Since when we all checked in before, We were staying on the floor reserved by Blackheart's manager, We decided to check in for ourselves under our own name and on a different floor. Anyway, Abi and the other guys went to Collage that day, they said they came down to get me but Tom told them I was sick and wouldn't be going today, or tomorrow, or the day after that. I havent actually been there in over a week, the last time I was there was the Thursday before the Festival.

When my mom phoned up and asked me why I hadnt been in or came home on Monday, I said Abi was sick and since her mom and dad and little sister were still out of town, I would look after her for a week or so. I was surprised she fell for it. She wasn't happy I would be missing Collage but let me anyway. So I've been staying with the guys, In Tom's room, Of cause and Demi has been staying with us too, with Liam.

I phoned my Auntie Sharron, Demi's mom, to see what was going on and why she kick Demi out. I asked what had happened and it turns out, she came home from work late one night and found Demi with a boy in her bedroom, in her bed. When I asked her about it, she promised that nothing had happened, that the boy, Conner, was just a friend from school, who she has known for like, forever and he needed a place to crash.

Her mom didn't think she was telling the truth so she gave her the ''You have broken the rules one too many times Demi'' speech and kicked her out. So.. now she's going to be living with me. my mom told her she has to either, stay with me at 'Abi' while I'm away so she can sort out my bedroom for her to share with me or she can go home and get her stuff ready for moving out. Of couse, she picked to say with me. Plus, Liam asked her to stay with him, and she jumped at the chance. So since she will be moving in with me when they leave, which Me or Demi are so NOT looking forward to because we won't see them for a very long time, as they decided, well me and Demi managed to convince them, to still go over to Australia with Blackheart for the tour.

They will be gone for a while. She will be starting college with me next week.

She will be starting in the year below me. She should be in the same year as me but since her birthday is on the wrong side of the school year, she was put in with them. She will be one of the oldest one in her year. Just like me, I should have been in the year that left when I started my last year, but my birthday is also on the wrong side of the school year. Damn.

Demi and Liam still insist that they are only good friends and nothing is going on. Which, until tomorrow, which is her birthday, I hope is true. After then, they can do whatever they like. I'm not stupid, I know her all too well. I know she likes him more than a crush and we, well not Demi, all know he likes her way more than a friend. I've spoken to Abi since that night, but only on the phone. I had to give her a reason why I've been missing collage and band practice. So I told her I was very sick and that I'm going to start going back to and doing the band stuff next week. As my face will be wall back to normal by then as the marks have already started to yellow and fade away.

Yay!.

Nothing had happened between me and Tom, I just sleep in the same bed as him. Of course, when we're in bed, I cuddle up to him and he cuddles me. H still calls me babe, but we haven't really talked about US since that night, I guess he doesn't want to push thing too soon. Well, I guess everything is moving pretty fast, I mean, within two days of me meeting him, I had already become best friends with him and the band, we had got off with each other, nearly had s*x, which would have caused me to lose my virginity to him, and fell head over heels in love with him... and within a week, I had told him and his best mates/band my most horrible secrets, which almost caused them to commit murder, I'm sharing a bed with him, My cousin and his best friend are practically dating, and were all technically living together in a hotel.

.. So... A lot...