Sofa(An Ed Sheeran Fanfic)

7. Nandos

Your P.O.V

“He’s back in town” She said. The second I heard those four words come out of her mouth, my heart stopped. This couldn’t be happening. I thought he was gone. I thought I was safe. I thought I would finally get past this.

            ‘Well you thought wrong’ the little voice in my head said.

“No” I said barely above a whisper. “Please say you’re kidding”. I was practically begging for her to be joking with me, but I knew deep down inside, it was no joke. He was back in town, and once again I would be hiding from what scared me the most. Seth.

            Seth was my boyfriend all through-out school. He was incredible. I thought he was the best boyfriend I could ever ask for. But after I graduated, things changed. Not small changes, like us growing apart, or not ‘feeling it’ anymore. No, changes like violence, excessive drinking, drugs, and being extremely possessive in the most negative way possible. He was always drunk, I couldn’t walk next to him without him getting mad and hitting me. He never let me go anywhere. A simple trip to the store would have him going ape shit. You’re probably asking ‘Well why didn’t you break up with him?’. That’s the problem. I couldn’t. I tried so many times to end the relationship, but he wouldn’t have any of it. He told me I couldn’t leave him. And he sure as hell wouldn’t let me.

            “I’m so sorry” Charlie’s small voice pulled me out of my thoughts. I couldn’t help but let a few tears slide down my cheeks. This was happening. Just when I thought life was getting better, it all comes crashing down on me. Again.

            “How do you know?” I asked. Maybe she’s mistaken?

            “He… called” She said, rather hesitantly. I always felt like Charlie wanted to hide all things bad from me. Like I was her child that she didn’t want getting subjected to the horrible thing called life. She was only a year older than me, but she acted like my mother sometimes and it bothered me.

            “Oh” was all I could spit out. I didn’t know what to say. I was in shock. I tried to hold back the tears, but I failed miserably. I was crying. No scratch that…I was sobbing. I was terrified and I didn’t know what to do.

            “It’s gonna be alright” Charlie said while wrapping her warm arms around me. I hugged her tight, not wanting to let go, not wanting to face the world, and most importantly, not wanting to face Seth.

            “No its not” I said sounding kind of pathetic. I was acting like a child, not wanting to go to the dentist. But this was much worse than the dentist.

            “Yes, it will.” She cooed. “I won’t let him hurt you”.

I stood there holding Charlie, and processing her words. She’s not gonna let him hurt me? I mean, yeah, she was tough, but she was small. She could never take on Seth and I was almost certain she knew that. She knew she couldn’t stop him from doing anything to me. I was hopeless. He would find me, and he would hurt me. I was sure of it.

The phone ringing, snapped us back to reality. Charlie let go of me and quickly ran to the phone. She looked at me, before answering it.

            “Hello?” She said in a quiet voice. I could see the relief wash over her, and I knew it wasn’t him. “Yeah, she’s right here” She perked up, and walked over to me with the phone. “It’s for you” She said, smiling a little through her watery eyes. I slowly grabbed the phone, not really wanting to answer it, for many reasons.

            “Hello?” I reluctantly answered.

            “Hey, it’s Ed”