WHEN I'M WITH YOU

WHEN I'M WITH YOU: PART 7

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I woke up in a white room, my head hurt badly and I groaned as my blurred eyes adjusted into vision. "Eddie your awake!" I heard my mother cry as she hopped up and stood next to my bed. "What happened? Who did this to you?" Jake questioned in his usual demanding voice. "These guys tried to mug me..." I lied while struggling into a sitting position. "How did you know I was here?" I croaked, my mouth was dry as fuck. "When you were bought into hospital Annie recognized you and called me right away, luckily for you a police car went down the street you were beaten up in and found you otherwise you would of lost a lot of blood" my mother said, hugging me tightly, I winced, she was not being careful of my bruises.

I went through many more examinations and a talk on how to clean my stitches before I was allowed home. Luckily no brain damage had occured, but I didn't care about myself, more disturbed of what Kai would think of it when he saw me tomorrow. When I got home I examined myself in the mirror, the cut that had been stitched up was just underneath my hairline, I could easily flatten my hair down at the front of cover it up. I ran my hands over my bruised face, I descided i'd get up early and try and match some of my mum's make-up to my face so the bruises weren't visable. I shouldn't lie to Kai, I know I shouldn't, but I was doing this so that he wouldn't get himself into trouble, I don't exspect anyone to understand, I know its difficult to, but i'm going to lie to him to protect him.

I'm going to shower in the morning, I'm far to tired right now. I stripped off into my underwear and climbed into bed, gently pulling the picture of me and him off the wall. I pressed my face up against the picture and thats when tears started to spill down my cheeks. I thought they would never stop, no matter how much I wiped my eyes and nose, more and more teardrops would replace them. I was in pain. Not because of the beating, but due to the fact that someone wanted to hurt me to hurt Kai. Who am I kidding? Of course Kai was going to find out! And when he did it would rip him emotionally apart. I cried loudly, not trying to hide the fact I was upset from anyone. My dad knocked and Jake softly called my name through the door, but it was locked. Kai was the only person allowed in, and he wasn't here...

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My alarm rang signaling that it was 6am. I groaned but I knew I would have to get up. I crept into the bathroom and opened a draw filled with my mothers make up. I found one a near enough colour to my face and poured it on my fingers. I even used a brush to try and blend it perfectly. When I had done a decent enough job, I got some water and flattend my hair over my stitches, they weren't noticable now, even this close up in the mirror. This process had taken me a good half an hour and I hated knowing i'd have to do this every morning until the bruises went away. I sat around for ages until it was actaully time to get dressed. When I walked downstairs everyone noticed straight away, but of course they had seen me yesterday. "Eddie what have you put on your face?" My dad sighed, getting up to examine me. "Just some stuff to cover it up, I don't want people asking questions" I muttered. I couldn't be bothered with them today, so I just left, i'd buy something to eat on the way to school.

I walked into my form room and straight away was smothered in Kai's huge warm arms. It hurt slightly, but I made sure I showed no pain on my face. "Hey, I missed you" he laughed, rubbing his nose against mine. I thought i'd gotten away with it, that was until he ran his fingers through my hair. I felt him pause and knew that he'd already spotted the cut on my head. "Eddie...what happened..." he said quietly, so that everyone else in the room wouldn't notice. I breathed deeply and looked up at him with a stupid smile, "I fell" I said, and laughed fakely. "Oh...Oh no!" Kai said and started planting kisses all over my forehead. Anyone else would of noticed I was lying, but that's the thing about Kai, while he was gorgeous, sweet and funny, he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. "I'm fine Kai, let's go sit down" I muttered, pulling him towards everyone else, hoping someone would start a conversation to take Kai's mind of my injury, luckily the make up had done a good enough job on the other damage otherwise he would of worked it all out straight away.