"I don’t understand, Calum! What in the word do you want from me?!" I yelled.
“I want you to support me like the other boys’ girlfriends do! Is that so hard to ask?!” He screamed back.
Calum and I have been arguing with each other for almost half an hour now. He says that I haven’t been supporting him as much as everybody else has, when, in reality, I’ve been giving him all the support I can. He must have forgotten that I still have to finish school and I have a job to do, so I can’t always be there, but I am when I can be.
“You’re not the only one with a job, Calum! Did you forget? Or, did it get lost in the big head of yours?! God, you have to realize that I’m trying to support myself, too, not just you!”
“Yeah, you’ve got it so fucking easy! All you do is go to school, and do whatever you do at your job! God, you are so over dramatic! All you ever do is complain about shit, can’t you learn to appreciate things once in a while?! Maybe that’s why your parents abandoned you!”
My heart dropped. My throat closed. My knees felt weak, and I felt like I was going to be sick.
“I.. I’m sorry.” I said to him.
I turned around, and raced outside, running in any direction that I saw.i just kept running, no matter how bad my legs were hurting. I couldn’t stop. Soon, I ended up outside of the town, where there was nothing but giant trees and two roads, one going one way, and one going the other. I just placed my back against the tree, slide down, and just started to cry.
Calum is one of the only people that know that my parents abandoned me years ago. They didn’t leave a note or anything, they just left. I can’t believe he used that against me. Out of everything that he could have said, he decided to use that?!
I laid my head on the wet ground, trying to sleep with the sound of the trees rustling, crickets chirping, and the occasional car driving by.
I was woken up, by somebody shaking me. I opened one eye, to see a lady and a man that I didn’t know, crouching down next to me, a sympathetic look on their faces.
“Hey, sweetie. Are you alright?” The lady asked me.
I sat up straight, and wrapped my arms around myself, as I was freezing and it raining.
“Yeah, I’m fine, I’m okay.” I told them.
“Are you lost? Do you need somewhere to go?” The man asked me.
“I’m not really lost, I just left. My boyfriend and I had a little trouble, and I kind of ran out of the house and I didn’t know where else to go.”
They looked at each other, and the lady nodded at the man.
“Come on, sweetie. We’ll take you home. I promise, if you guys just talk it out, everything will be okay.”
I nodded, and they helped me up, and brought to their car. The lady sat in the back with me, and wrapped a blanket around me to hopefully stop my shivering. I told them which way to go to bring me back to my house. Once they pulled up, the lady got out of the car with me, and walked me to the front door. I gave her the blanket back, and I went to knock, but the door opened swiftly, and Calum stood there with his cellphone in his hand, eyes red and puffy, hair a mess.
“Oh, God, (Y/N)!” He dropped his phone, and crushed me in his iron grip. He didn’t even care that he was getting wet, he just hugged me tightly. I turned to look at the lady, and smiled at her.
“Are you okay, sweetheart?”
“Yes, thank you so much.” I told her.
Calum looked up from my shoulder, and looked at the lady.
“Who’s this?” He asked.
“She found me and helped me get home.”
He held his hand out towards her, and she shook his hand.
“Thank you so, so much for bringing her back to me. How can I repay you?”
“No need. I just wanted to make sure she got home safely.”
I smiled at her, and turned to wave at the man in the car.
She walked back to her car, and I walked inside the house, the warmth overcoming me. Calum shut the door, and he raced over towards me, enveloping me in a hug again. I could hear him start to sob into my shoulder.
“I’m so sorry! I-it just came out m, and I know I can’t take it back, but please forgive me! When you left, I thought you weren’t coming back! I’ve been calling everybody and seeing if you went to their house, but nobody saw you and I thought something happened to you! God, please don’t ever do that again.” He whispered the last sentence, sobbing in between words.
“It’s okay, it’s okay.” I said, lifting my arm up to sling around his shoulder, and running my fingers through his hair, knowing that it calms him down. Soon, his sobs started to slow, and disappear. I lifted his head up, and kissed him on his nose. He smiled shyly, and he brought me up to the room. I started to put on dry, warm clothes, and Calum made to bed for us. I laid down next to him, he brought me into his arms, legs intertwining, my head in his chest.
“I love you so much.” He said, kissing the top of my head.
“I love you, too.”
