Somniphobia

Chapter 3. Part two of staying the night

"So you do always walk with your head down." Caleb chuckled at her. She looked up at him with an angry face crossing her arms. "H-hey t-that's n-not n-nice." She pouted forgetting her parents were sleeping and it was 5 in the morning.

He chuckled at her again because of her childish attitude. "Shhh!" She told him with her index finger on her lips reminding him that her parents and his friend were still sleeping.

"What are you doing up so early?" She put her head down avoiding his eyes because she was about to lie. "I n-needed s-some w-water. I-I'm g-going b-back to b-bed n-now." She said trying to walk away to go to her room.

But Caleb grabbed her arm stopping her from leaving. "I wasn't done talking to you. Come in my room so we can talk." He told her letting her arm go so she could follow him into his room.

Caleb closed the door walking over to his bed. Aria stood by the door with her head down avoiding his eyes. "Look at me princess." She nodded her head no refusing to look up at him. Afraid he will figure out she was lying about why she was up so early.

She heard him walking towards her until he was right in-front of her. He lifted her face up to look at him. Her eyes still avoiding eye contact as he looked at her.

He was so much taller than her she was only 5'2 while he was 6'5. She had to look up at him and he had to look down at her. "I know your lying about going to sleep princess. I don't like being lied to." Her eyes widened feeling embarrassed for getting caught. She knew she would get caught she was horrible at lying.

"W-why d-do y-you e-even c-care? Y-you d-don't e-even k-know me." She argued back. She turned around ready to leave his room angry with him for trying to make her feel bad when it was none of his business.

They didn't even know each other. She grabbed the door handle about to leave but Caleb stopped her once again.

She turned around trapped between his arms against the door looking into each other's eyes. "I don't know why I care, your right it's none of my business. You don't have to tell me what's going on but I will find out and when I do I'm gonna make you mine princess." He told her making her blush like a red tomato.

He moved away from her. "You can leave now." She turned around quickly leaving the room as fast as she could. She went into her room shutting her door.

Her heart was racing like it was going to jump out of her chest she didn't know how to react to what Caleb told her. She began to overthink everything keeping her up for the rest of the night.

When the sun came up she grabbed clothes to go shower to help her body gain a little bit of energy even tho it wouldn't help much. When she finished scrubbing her body and hair she dried herself off with a towel. She put her clothes on and started brushing her teeth.

She stared at herself in the mirror her eyes began to burn from exhaustion. She didn't know what to do anymore she was gonna have to try to sleep at least a few hours. She walked downstairs to start breakfast.

Caleb and Aaron came downstairs after Elizabeth and Andrew called them down for breakfast in the dining room. They sat down waiting for their food to arrive.

Aria walked into the dining room with a tray with everyone's plates on it. She gave everyone their plates to start eating. She stood there waiting to see if her father or anyone needed anything else before she left back into the kitchen to clean up the dishes.

Caleb couldn't help but stare at her she looked so exhausted he couldn't help but notice she hasn't eaten anything since he came yesterday. "Are you not going to eat princess?" He asked her ignoring the fact that her parents and Aaron heard him clearly call her "princess."

Aria looked up at Caleb nodding her head afraid to speak because she knew it would anger her parents.

Caleb looked at Andrew and Elizabeth "why isn't she allowed to eat at the table?" He asked them bluntly. Andrew looked at Caleb with a guilty smile. "Uhh she's um." Elizabeth cut him off quickly noticing he was struggling with figuring out a lie.

"She's very clumsy so we just make her wait till we finish our food then she has hers right Aria?" She said looking at Aria. Aria looked at her mother then to her father not knowing if she should speak or just nod her head.

"Y-yes." She answers looking down at her feet knowing it wasn't the entire truth. Caleb looked at Andrew and Elizabeth then back to Aria.

He slid his plate towards her. "Here eat my plate I don't like eating in the morning." Aria looked up shocked by his gesture. "N-no I-it's f-fine I-I'm n-not h-hungry." She hurriedly replied.

Caleb looked at her with a serious look in his eyes. "I didn't ask now sit and eat." Andrew face grew embarrassed by the whole situation.

Elizabeth looked at Aria angrily blaming her once again for ruining her appetite to eat. "Sit down Aria." Her father said trying to make the situation seem better by acting nice.

Aria sat down grabbing the fork to eat. Caleb just stared at her as she ate he knew it seemed creepy but he couldn't help it he was mesmerized by her. Even tho she looked exhausted like she hasn't slept in days and had bruises all over her that she tried to cover but didn't do such a great job.

She was all he though about only meeting her for almost two days he felt like he's known her his whole life.

He had a feeling her parents had something to do with the bruises all over her. He also knew they were lying about her being clumsy at the dining table. He was going to find everything out Andrew knew not to fuck with him.

Caleb didn't like Elizabeth either she was a total bitch. He was going to make Aria his wether Andrew likes it or not and he was going to make sure both Elizabeth and Andrew pay for all the pain they caused Aria.

Aria was the last one to finish only her and Caleb were left at the table. Caleb making sure she ate her whole meal.

She looked at Caleb shyly. "T-thank y-you." She thanked him softly getting up to take her plate. "Your welcome princess." He told her while getting up to go find Aaron.

Aria finished washing all the dishes and cleaned the dining table. She was about to leave to go to her room when she got yanked back by her arm. Her mother and father stood in front of her angry.

"Do you know how embarrassing that was?!" Her mother yelled. Her father grabbed her hair yanking her head back to look up at him. "Ahh oww!" Aria cried out in pain. "You always ruin everything for me and your mother. You deserve to be beaten and tortured you never know how to do anything right!"

Her father spat in her face. "You think he's gonna be able to save you from us you have it all wrong no one wants to be stuck with a childish girl like you." Her mother told her.

"I-I'm s-sorry." Her father slapped her across the face. "Did we say you could speak? Did you really forget your under our control? You don't speak unless told to." Her father threw her to the floor giving her mother space to kick her in the stomach.

"We can't even explain to you how much we hate you. Your a fucking disgrace a disgusting disappointment to this family all you do is embarrass and ruin things for us!" Her mother yelled spitting on her face. Leaving her on the floor as both her parents started to leave.

Before her father walked completely out of the room he mentioned a few more things. "You better not even think about having dinner with us or mentioning this to anyone. Get your ass up and clean this whole house from top to bottom. I expect dinner to be ready in 2 hours." He told her. Proceeding to slam the front door shut on his way out.