Love twist

The truth- part 3

*Maddie's Pov*
I wake up to Brads heavy breathing, he begins to fidget, like he's having a bad dream. I lay for a moment watching him. He laid sleeping. So peacefully, his brown curly locks all messy but still perfect, his lips so irresistible, slightly parted so he could breath. I lean down and softly kiss his lips, I just couldn't hold back any longer. I lay my lips to his, connecting them slowly. He returns the kiss, while moving his hand up onto my back and under his shirt that I was wearing . I place one hand so I'm cupping his face. We kiss passionately. And I would have been happy for it to lead further but we stopped, we needed to get to school as I couldn't wait to wipe the smile off of Hollie's evil face.
I jump up and get in the shower, while he gets ready. When I get out he is sat there all perfect and ready. With his black jeans and the same tartan top on the day I met him. I smile and walk over, he stands so that he is my height, I grab hold of the tartan shirt and say
'I love the shirt, but it's look better on the floor' he smiles and kisses me.
'Now get ready, we will be late'
I frown at him and begin to get dressed.
*Nat's Pov*
I wake up and look to Tris, he's sat on the edge of the bed and he's looking to his feet. 'Nat, I really want to protect you and I will, I won't let her hurt you anymore but I'm worried, worried about revealing my secret'
I understood and I didn't want him to say his secret but I also knew I couldn't take anymore hate from her. It's the first night and day that I hadn't reached for the blade, it's because I felt a ton of pressure lifted off of me.
I reply ' I know Trissy but we will do this together, like we always promised we would'
He turns and smile. 'This is why I love you'
With that we get dressed and follow the normal routine of taking Jessie to school and then going to face Hollie. We were dreading it.
*Maddie's Pov*
We jump in his car and head to school, we were the first ones there, when the others arrived, they looked nervous.
'Alright' James begins
'Everyone ready to have their secrets around the school' Con adds
'Yeah, at least we won't be forgotten' Tris tries to make a joke, no one laughs. They were all terrified.
'I can't believe everyone is going to know that James cheated on me, think of the rumours, she's not good enough, she must be crap in bed. Why is she still with him? She desperate?! I don't know if I can handle that'
I look to Abby as she finished speaking, I could see so much sadness on her face. The beautiful, cheery, bubbly Abby wasn't to be seen. That's when I shut everybody up
' it's fine Abbs, no one is revealing any secrets today. I have a plan'
Everyone looks to me, waiting for an explanation and I give them one. We all soon agree 'it will be risky but it might just work. We have to try. But are you sure you want to be the one to do it Madds?' Nat expresses her concerns.
I was certain, she caused me so much hurt. I was going to be the one to stop her. I just nod and smile.
We stand there together waiting, waiting for Hollie to turn up. Brad has his arms wrapped around me, I could feel him shaking. I turn to look at him, he tries to pretend he's okay by smiling. 'Brad, don't worry, your secret isn't coming out. Please don't shake, it's okay I'm here' he leans down to kiss me but stops. I look to him confused. His eyes widen as he looks past me. I feel a tap on my shoulder and I turn, Nat points towards Hollie. She's stood staring, looking very unwell but angry. She's probably unwell from the pregnancy she is hiding. I take a deep breath and begin to walk towards her, scared of what might happen. I feel Brad's hand grab hold of mine, 'I'm not letting you do this alone, let's show her just how strong we are'
I was relived, he gave me the strength to do anything and with that we walk to meet her.
'What are you doing with her?' She snaps at Brad
'I'm with MADDIE because I love her' brad squeezes hold of my hand.
I look up at him. He continues
'And I know Hollie, I know everything you've been doing to Maddie and why you've been doing it and it's time to stop'
'Oh so you told him, that means everything gets exposed. I thought you cared more for him'
Brad goes to reply but I stop him, I let go of his hand and walk closer to Hollie so I am centimetres away from her face.
'Now listen to me. Your going to stop abusing me and Nat, your going to stop throwing stuff at us, humiliating us and just hating us for no good reason. Yes I have told the boys everything how could I not, I don't lie to them and I couldn't. And guess what your not going to tell anyone there secrets either'
She begins to laugh and 'why wouldn't I tell anyone their secrets when you backed out of the deal like a wimp'
I begin to get angry 'you will keep quiet. And I will tell you why. See you look a little unwell today and I'm guessing it's due to the morning sickness your feeling ( she looks shocked and before she could say another word I continue) don't bother denying it because I have proof ( I play her the phone call, she gasps) now Hollie I don't want you to ever go through what I and Nat have, it wouldn't be fair. So let's make another deal, you keep your mouth shut about their secrets and I swear I will forever keep your secret. I don't want to hate you but your making it very easy for me to. You've hurt everyone that could be your friend, people only follow you because they are scared of what you might do if they don't. Do you really want friends that way? Hollie do we have a deal'
She begins to think for a while when she finally agrees 'okay, it's a deal, and for what it's worth I'm sorry '
With that she walks past me and past the others with her head down. I was shaking all over, I didn't think that would work. We are free from her. Before I knew it Brad sweeps me off my feet swinging me round, he eventually puts me down and pulls me in for a kiss. It was perfection. With that everyone runs over, we were all just so happy. They kept asking what happened? how did I do it? But as I promised Hollie the secret was a secret so I told them that 'I knew her secret and we came to an arrangement, and no I'm not telling you guys the secret'
With that we went to our lessons, in each one I was with Brad in he just kept staring, smiling and winking at me, he made it so difficult for me to resist him. In the last lesson he wasn't there but Nat was, so it was okay. She was being weird though. She kept looking down and to her arm, I was convinced something else was wrong. I decided that when the lesson finished I would talk to her about my concerns. I couldn't wait for that end bell to go.
As the bell goes I run to catch up with Nat, I take her to the bathroom so we could speak.
'Nat, show me your arms!'
She looks shocked, confused and startled, she doesn't want to as I see her grip hold of her long sleeves.
'Please don't make me ask again, Nat just show me. I know and you know what will show, let me help you'
She looks down and I see tears begin to roll from her eyes, she reaches for her sleeves and pulls on them revealing cuts all up her arm, deep, open wound cuts.
'Oh Nat. Why didn't you tell me? I've let you down. I should have noticed how much you were struggling, I should have known. I'm so sorry'
'Its not you fault, I let everything get on top of me, it was like it's suffocating me, I can't breath. It's just consuming me and I don't know how to stop it'
I think for a moment. 'Im going to tell Tris. He needs to know about this so he can love and support you more'
She just nods in agreement, I grab hold of her and hold her so tight she struggled to breath, as we walked to the exit. I held her hand, I wasn't letting her go or down again.
As we get to the front of the school, I see Tris. ' look Nat I am devastated it has come to this, please don't hate me but you know Tris needs to know what is happening '
I walk her to where they all were and asks to speak to Tris privately. He's confused, he instantly thinks he's done something. As we walk away from the group he begins 'what's wrong? What have I done?'
'Tris... I don't really know how to tell you this...... Okay we've been blind and we've let someone we really love down. (He turns and looks to the group who were watching us, I grab hold of his hand.. As I continue) now she's been suffering a lot and we've been too busy to notice her pain, well now I've noticed it and it's worse then I could think. She is in so much pain Tris, she feels like she is suffocating and cannot breath. I mean wouldn't you, her parents have left her on her own to care for Jessie, she's had to deal with all this hate and keep everyone's secrets. It's got too much. (We were both aware of who I was talking about, as he kept looking back to her) because we didn't notice and she didn't want to worry anyone or cause anymore stress she's hurt her self''
His head turns back to me and I can see his eyes watering, he begins to cry. He's confused. He leans down and I hug him as he says 'No, why? Why did I not notice? Why didn't she tell me? I've let her down, this is my fault'
I pull back to see his face, 'it's not your fault. It's all of ours. We didn't support Nat when we really should have but now we have to support and care for her, we can't continue to let her down and I have a plan on what we could do to show her our love'
He's still so upset that he begins to lose his breath, his breathing begins to go erratic. I try to calm him but he continues to struggle. Brad notices and comes running over 'breath Tris, breath with me. Come on' Brad begins to take deep breaths and Tris copies. Thank goodness for that. I tell Tris to 'take Nat home, run her a bath let her relax and do nothing, I will pick Jessie up, and tomorrow we all meet at Cons throughout the day except for Nat. Then we get her to come in the evening okay'
He agreed.
As promised I went with Brad and picked up Jessie, on the way me and Brad talked about Nat.
'I just can't believe we didn't notice'
'I should have noticed I'm her best friend and I let her down, I didn't see that my best friend was hurt, I'm so crap'
He stops me and looks into my eyes. 'You've done so much for each other and us, she hid it well. It's not your fault, we are going to help her. But you need to strong now for her, she needs you'
'I know Brad, I know' I hug him and we carry on walking to pick Jessie up.
As we get to Jessie's school she is waiting for us, she runs up shouting 'Aunty Maddie, uncle Brad. Yay' she runs to me and I pick her up to spin her around, she grips hold of me tightly, hugging me. 'Uncle Brad, shoulders shoulders' I didn't know what she meant but Brad did, he lifts her up so she is sat on his shoulders. He was so good with her.
We head back to Brad's where we were going to stay the night. We made pizza's, played hide and seek and watched all the possible Disney films we could. She begins to get tired, so I take her to bed, tuck her into bed and head to the shower. 'Brad I'm jumping in the shower'
I stand there , the water running over my face, I run my fingers through my hair holding it back, I stand there for a while. My mascara running down my face. I snap out of the trance and get out the shower. As I exit the bathroom I could hear Brad talking 'and then she saved the whole kingdom, because she was so beautiful and kind. Everybody loved her but she noticed someone sad, she now helps her to be happy' I begin to creep up to the door, when I see him sat with Jessie telling her this story.
'What did princess Maddie do next'
'Well she came up with a plan to make the sad person happy, she works very hard to have every person smile'
'Wow I love princess Maddie' Jessie begins to shout
I smile and walk in, forgetting I had only a towel wrapped around me.
'Well princess Maddie never done it by herself, she had loads of very cool friends to help her'
As Brad sees me walk in his eyes widen, I couldn't help but smile. He tucks Jessie in and kisses her good night. As we walk out, I ask 'what happened?'
And he explains 'she had a bad dream, I was just putting her back to bed'
I loved how good he was with her, he was so perfect, just so perfect. I was so lucky. I could no longer resist him.
I grab hold of his top and pull him into his room, he begins to smile. I push him to the bed while I shut the door. As I turn I see him sat, he looks sad. I walk to the bathroom, chuck his white shirt on and I sit beside him. 'What is it Brad?'
'When I was with Hollie this is all she ever wanted me for and now I'm with you, it's different your special to me and I don't want this to be all our relationship is about'
I couldn't help but smile, he said I was special to him, he respected me and didn't want sex to be everything. I finally open up to him
'Look Brad, (I take a deep breath. He looks to me) I never slept with Harry. (His eyes widen) you would be my first. So in a way our relationship will be about Sex because it would be about me trusting you, loving you and wanting you be my first. But we will also be so much more then just sex, we will be Brad and Maddie, a couple who love each other'
'Really, your first?'
'Brad you will be my first and my last, your all I ever want'
He began to smile widely, I saw him blush. I begin to run my fingers through his hair 'Look Brad, I think I'm ready, but I also love how you respect me and our relationship. We will wait it's fine'
He looks up to me 'you won't get bored?'
I laugh and push him down, I sit on top of him and lean towards his soft, slightly parted lips before kissing him I whisper 'I will never get bored of you. I love you Brad, more than I ever thought possible'
He smiles and pulls me in close to kiss me . We begin to kiss passionately. After a while we decide to cuddle and watch TV and that's what we done. It was the perfect evening.
My thoughts were constantly on Nat, I couldn't stop thinking about the pain she is going through. I fall asleep thinking about her.
*Nat's Pov*
I stand with everyone while we watch Mads talk to Tris. My heart was pounding. I saw his face fill with sadness as he looked to me, my heart began to break. This was the worst thing seeing him hurt because of me. As the conversation continued I could see him struggling to breath before I could run over Brad was already there, Brad calmed him down thankfully. After that they walked off as Tris came back to me. I had my head down, he grabbed hold of my hand and said 'I will call you later guys, we need to get home'
As we walked away he was silent, gripping my hand tightly. I didn't know what to say, as we go back to ours he pulled me towards the door when I stopped. 'Jessie, we have to get Jessie'
He replied quickly, quietly and calmly 'no, Mads and Brad are having her for the night and they are taking her to school. We need to talk Nat, so please come inside' I look up at him and follow him indoors. He takes my hand and we sit on the sofa.
'Why didn't you just speak to me?'
'You know I couldn't about the Hollie thing' I can see he's slightly angry
'No Nat but you could have told me you were sad, you were hurting, that you can't explain it but you need help. But you didn't you hurt yourself instead of talking to me. Your boyfriend of 3 years we should be able to talk about this'
I go to speak but he continues, so I sit quietly
'Nat I'm not angry you hurt your self, I'm not angry you didn't tell me, I'm not angry that your hurting and feel like that is the only way to stop the pain. I'm angry that I didn't notice and couldn't help. I'm angry that you weren't able to speak to me. I'm angry that I'm sat here with you, and I have no idea of how I can help, protect or care for you right now. My heart is broken that you've done this to yourself. But I promise you this (he kneels down in front of me and takes my hand) I will take all of your pain your feelings, we will share every hurt, happiness, sadness, excitement, pain, enjoyment, every feeling. We will share it together because that why it will make it easier to handle. ( he turns my hand over, pushing the sleeves up revealing the cuts. A tear rolls down his face as he sees them) I'm sorry, Nat and I love you. Promise me you won't do this to yourself again. Please promise me you will speak to me, I will help you in any way you need. Please just promise me this. (He leans towards my arm and begins kissing the cuts.) I will do this everyday, every time your sad, every time your close to cutting I will kiss you arm, I will remind you of how many people love you and want you here. I will comfort you until you feel better'
I look down into his eyes that are full of tears that he is trying to hold back. 'Trissy, I'm sorry! I promise, I promise with all my heart. But I will need your help and support to stop. But I promise I will tell you everything I feel. I love you. Thank you for not shouting'
'You have my everything, I will do everything you need me to. I love you to Nat and that's why it hurts so much to know you've done this. I would never shout Nat. Never. now why don't we sit and watch a few movies, then I will run you a bath okay?'
He sits beside me and puts his arms around me so that I am now laid on his chest 'okay'.
We sat till 9 at night watching films when he got up, I looked to him. 'Come on let's run you a bath' I smile and walk with him to the bathroom, he runs the bath and puts my favourite bath wash to make it bubbly. I settle down into the bath, he sits there for a while before saying 'I'm going to call Brad quickly, I promise I won't be long' I just smile and watch him leave. While on my own I sit for a while and think, think about the day, about everything that's happened. Why did I let it get so far? Why didn't I just speak to Tris? He looked so hurt. I look to my arm and I already had the urge to do it again, the pain I saw on Tris' face I couldn't bare it.
*Tris' Pov*
As I walk out of the bathroom, I call Mads and Brad.
'Hey Mads, how's Jessie? '
'Shes fine Tris. How's Nat?'
'Im not sure Mads, I just don't know what to do'
'Tris, just be there for her. But remember the plan, bring her to Cons for 8ish so it has just got dark okay?'
'Okay Mads, thank you for this'
As I re enter the bathroom she's just getting out of the bath. 'Jessie is fast asleep' she looks to me and smiles. 'Come on, it's been a long day. Let's get to bed and get some sleep'
She agrees and we head to our bedroom, for the first time in weeks she wears her normal short sleeved top to bed, I held her all night, I wouldn't let go. I laid awake all night, watching her sleep. She looked absolutely beautiful, how can someone so beautiful suffer from so much pain.

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