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I decided to tell him the truth. If he trusted me enough to tell me about him cutting himself, then maybe I sould trust him about my 'parents' abusing me. But how could I trust him when I never trusted anybody before?
I took a deep breath. "My stepmom pushed me down the stairs," I choked out.
"Why?" Whoa. What was that? Did his eyes just turn red? No, they're blue now...
"I don't know. My stepsister probably lied about me." I felt something wet on my cheek. Iwasn't really crying was I? I almost never cried. But, then again, I never had ayone I could cry to.
He reached across the table and took my hand in his. "It's ok, Stephanie. Don't cry. I'll always be here for you."
I looked into his eyes, and knew that he meant it. I actually trusted in his words. 'That's a mistake,' I told myself. I learned the hard way that I couldn't trust anybody but myself. And I never did until now. What was it about him that made me want to trust him? What had made a girl like me that never trusted anyone before suddenly start trusting in a guy she had just met? "I know," I said wiping my tears away.
"You know that you don't have to go back there," he said quietly. He was right. I didn't. They would never miss me, and they wouldn't care that I had vanished. But I had nowhere to go. How could I even be thinking of running away, when I didn't have any money? I sighed to myself.
"I don't have anyplace to go. And I don't have any money. There's no way I can go now."
"You could stay with me," he said thoughtfully.
"I don't think so." That would just make his time here even worse. I had to tell him now. We couldn't be friends without it costing him. "Austin, I don't think that we can be friends."
He looked at me with hurt surprise. "Why?"
"Because of my stepsister. Austin, if you stay friends with me, nobody will talk to you. They'll treat you like an outcast." Though it broke my heart to tell him that we couldn't be friends, I had to. I looked up at him, waiting for his answer.
