The Styles Triplets Part 2: The Triplets go to College

Chapter Fifty

I didn't attend this party so I still have no clue what's going on. I get up from my desk and move to sit on Tia's bed.

"What do you mean?" I ask. Since the both of us don't plan on sleeping, I might as well hear this story that caused all this drama.

"I honest don't want to talk about it," Tia whimpers some more. I stand corrected.

I don't pressure her. Instead, I sit there and hold her hand. She's become one of my best friends and seeing her like this breaks my heart. Sitting here in silence seems to be enough comfort for her. It's amazing how sometimes not saying anything at all, but being alongside a great friend helps the cause.

Edwards POV

"Let me out of here you piece of shit!" I shake the bars of this cage cell.

"Keep that up and you'll be charged with verbal assault." The officer that took the other shift, tells me.

"Oh you'd love to scribble that down on your little forms wouldn't you?" I pace back and forth in the tiny room. The officer completely ignores me and continues reading his newspaper.

I've always pictured to end up in jail some day, but never like this. I thought it would be for something more subtle like vandalization, or trespassing private property. Never for aggravated assault, possibly homicide. I won't know until morning.

I've only been here for about an hour and I'm already going insane. I can't take it! I feel the walls coming in closer and closer as the minutes go by. All I can think about is what happened. It's all so clear to me yet the more I think about it, the faster it starts to fade. My fists burning with rage, hit after hit. Blood covering my knuckles after each strike. I'm sure I broke that bastards nose.

That memory fades and goes on to when I first spotted Tia at the party. How upset it made me to see her there. How close that asshole was to her, and how she laughed with him. I knew she did it deliberately to piss me off. I don't blame her, but she should have known how I feel when I see her with anyone else. Just thinking about it makes me tense.

She's in deep trouble when I get out.

Tia's POV

Liv and I didn't sleep last night. I couldn't. I'd never seen Edward so angry before, and after last night, I was terrified.

I didn't mean to upset him, but he did go to that party without telling me. Uni has slowly been changing him. For the better and the worse.

Liv drove me up to the hospital where Andy had been admitted to. I asked for his name at the front desk and followed the nurse to his room, with Liv behind me.

"He's just now waking up for his medication," the nurse says. Good, he's still alive. "You can go right in, but I suggest one at a time as he's still recovering."

That won't be a problem.

"You can do it," Olivia comforts me, "whatever he says, remember it's for Edward." I nod and head into the room.

I stop at the entrance and see a bruised faced, broken nose Andy laying in bed with a neck brace. A small section on the left side of his head is shaved of with 4 stitches. Stitches on his left eyebrow as well. A couple more hits and Ed would have killed him, no doubt.

"Hey," he faintly says.

"I am so sorry,"'my tear filled eyes walk slowly closer to his bed.

"For? I can take a hit," despite his condition, he still cracks a joke.

"I didn't mean for any of this to happen. He took all of it the wrong way, and got so fucking pissed and he was drunk and yelled at me. I couldn't eve-"

"Stop," he cuts me off, "it's fine, I'm fine. It could've been worse." He was right, but he had no idea. "I'm okay, but you are right, he did go a bit over board."

"I should have stayed in my dorm, I'm so stupid. I knew he'd do something so fucking stupid like this." I tug at the roots of my hair.

"College does that to you," he chuckles a bit.

"The police took him last night and he's still in there," I say. An awkward silence is shared until I finally speak up. "Are you going to press charges?"

"Bloody hell I am," he laughs. "The guy nearly killed me. For what reason besides he's a jealous lunatic!"

"But it was all my fault!" I say.

"You didn't put me in this hospital bed," he mentions.

"But I was the cause for it. Andy please don't press charges on Edward, he'll get kicked out of uni and he's doing fairly well. This was all my fault, I beg you." I take his hand and plead.

"Tia look at me, I am a wreck because of him."

"I know and if I could take it back I would. I just beg you please, don't press charges. What will it take for you not to? Money? If it's money, I can work something out!" I suggest.

"Tia I don't want your money," he laughs.

"Then what do you want? Whatever it is to make you rethink all of this please," I ask.

"Kiss me."

"What?" My heart stops.

"Kiss me, and I'll drop all the charges."

"That's what it will take?" I breathe in a sigh of relief.

"I want you to kiss me, and once I get out of here I'd like to take you out on a date and to the cinema." He smirks beyond all the pain he must be feeling in his face muscles.

"You're really asking for a death wish aren't you?" I laugh. I can't do this.

"That's all it will take and the charges will never be seen on the record of Edward Styles," he smiles at me.

"Okay," I walk close to him. I lean down and my lips press against his. Soft and smooth. Our mouths move in sync and I feel his hand move to the back of my neck.

I can taste the residue medication in his mouth. Very unpleasant but he doesn't seem to care. I feel a tiny spark, and I immediately pull away.

"I should be out of here tomorrow morning," he smiles, "I'll pick you up at your dorm tomorrow night at six o'clock." He looks very pleased.

A nurse walks in behind me, "have to take your blood pressure, darling," she says, wrapping the velcro strap around his arm.

"Six o'clock," he hollers as I leave the room.

Holy shit.

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Hello my loves! Yes this chapter was short but I wanted something up!

I've come back & hopefully we can pick up where we left off after soo long!

I'm so sorry, there's no real explanation for why I've gone missing lol. But all that matters is I'm back!

I love you all so much!

Let's take a moment to appreciate Louis as well. Rest easy to his lovely mother Jay, who raised such an incredible boy.

WE ARE PROUD OF YOU LOUIS