Trust Isn't Given Easily

Chapter 3: (Maya)

Chapter 3

Maya's POV:

There in front of me was Louis. He never left. He didn’t leave with his friends without a goodbye. He never shifted his gaze from mine as he noticed I was actually out of my hiding spot. At first, we both didn’t break eye contact, but Louis blinked and actually looked at me. His eyes were gazing over what he could see of my face and body. I could tell he wasn’t checking me out like most guys would, but it almost looked like he was checking me over for cuts or other injuries. When he saw the blood on my sleeve, he quickly closed the space between us and grabbed my hand. He held it up and pulled the sleeve back at bit, searching my arm and hand for blood. It frightened me when he moved so quickly towards me, but I knew, or rather hoped, he wouldn’t hurt me.

After he had most likely checked my hand five times, he looked confused at where the blood had come from. He looked back up at me, silently asking what happened.

            Sadly, that’s also when he noticed the cut on my right temple and my split lip. His hands dropped mine and reached slowly up to my face. First, he cupped my cheek, looking in my eyes. His eyes showed concern, hurt, sadness and slight anger. I knew he wasn’t angry at me, but at the men who had hurt me.

            Suddenly remembering them, I stepped back from him, quickly and looked around him to see if the men were still there. No one was there. I could see the end of the alleyway, cars passing, people walking past and a few stores across the street. The men must have left after Louis and his friends had beaten them up for me. It was scary, sweet and crazy knowing that they had beaten two huge men, just to help a girl like me.

            Feeling safer now, I looked to Louis. His blue, green eyes were already looking into my green eyes. He was almost trying to study me and what I was feeling. I looked back over his shoulder, and then quickly glanced back at him. He saw where I was looking and took a peak over his shoulder. He looked confused when he stared back at me, but realization soon covered his features. He took a step towards me, coming closer.

            Still slightly scared, I back away a step. Louis paused a moment before he continued forward to where I had forced myself to stay still. Louis came right up to me and stopped in front of me. When I say in front of me, I mean chest to chest, face to face and toe to toe. He was close enough to feel the heat coming off of him and his breath on my face.

            Louis looked into my eyes before he leaned closer to me. At first I thought he was going to kiss me, but when he started slowly bringing his arms closer to me, I got scared. He was going to hurt me I knew it. Instead of running away, I froze absolutely terrified that someone I thought that wasn’t going to hurt me was actually going to. My breathing picked up, I was starting to sweat and my body was shaking in fear.

            Louis’ arms came around me. One wrapped around my waist and the older around my shoulders. He placed his head on my shoulder and carefully pulled me gently into his warm body. I tensed as he held me against him, but it didn’t take me long to realize this was only a hug. A very comforting, warm…..hug. His arms, instead of being used to punch me or dig into my bone, were ever so gently holding me to his warm firm chest. His head sat placed on my right shoulder. His forehead leaning on my shoulder mostly because of how much shorter I was than him.

            At first my arms stayed glued to my sides, but the safe feeling I felt with Louis made me drop the barriers I had been holding up and made my fear known. My mind was on replay of what happened and was thinking about things that could have happened if Louis had not been there. My body started to shake, my bottom lip started to tremble and my eyes were filling quickly with tears.

            Immediately my body reacted to the feeling of safety of being in Louis’ arms and collapsed into him. My arms went up and around his neck and my head buried itself in his shoulder as my whole body shook with sobs. Just as my body fell into his, he held me tighter and closer to him. His body was warm, comforting and safe. He would never hurt me and I knew that.

            Even as tears were spilling out of my eyes, I looked down the alley to see a figure coming down our direction. From what I could see the person’s hair was light not dark and they looked to be around the same height as Louis. Their hands were in their pockets and they were slowly making their way towards us. I could also see that it was slowly getting darker and darker down this alley. Probably because of what time it is.

            Willing myself to stop thinking about what happened or what could have happened I stopped my tears and tried to stop shaking. I didn’t let go of Louis and he never once let go of me. Blinking open my eyes again I saw Niall had been the figure and was standing a couple of feet away from us to give us our space. He pulled a small sad smile onto his face, and I returned the favor. He then turned and walked back down the alley. I felt Louis’ arms loosen on me as he pulled away. He left his arms around my waist but backed up enough to see my face. I looked closely at his to see tears in his eyes and small tear tracks on his face. I had never noticed he had been crying because I had only been thinking about myself. Using my clean sleeve, I lifted up my hand and carefully wiped away his tears. The only way you could tell he had been crying now would be by his slightly red and puffy eyes. I put my hands back down by my sides and just looked at him.

            He did the same with me. Looking at my face to try and read something that he was looking for. He blinked and looked away for a second, pulling one hand up and placing it on my cheek. I closed my eyes as he gently swiped his thumb over my eyes wiping away my leftover tears. He placed his arms back around my waist and pulled me to him. I put my hands between both of our chests and my head in his chest just as he placed his head on top of mine.

            It was nice; this hug. It was comforting. I could feel myself start to become tired from all of the emotions that have been rolling off me like waves. My eyelids were becoming heavy and starting to droop, due to being tired after so much crying. Louis must have sensed this as well because he pulled away and tilted my head up to face his. He pulled me back closer to him and kissed my forehead. It was a sweet gesture and it made me blush just the slightest. It would have been hard to tell with my face being red from crying before.

            Just after Louis pulled away, he leaned down and swung one arm back behind my knees. He gently lifted me up into his arms like I weighed absolutely nothing to him and his large figure. I let him carry me, too tired to complain. Normally I would have hit any guy besides my dad or brothers that tried to carry me. But with Louis,…things were different. I leaned my head on his shoulder and curled into his body. I closed my eyes letting my body rest and trust Louis to keep me safe.

            All I could do is listen now, for what was going on around me. I could hear cars louder than they had been down the alley. All the sounds of the city were louder than before. I feel Louis turn sometimes, but just barely. Probably to miss hitting people with me in his arms. Louis was careful about me. He held me lightly in his arms and made sure I never hit anything, or anyone. Maybe a couple of minutes later, I felt Louis stop. I deeper voice broke me out of my mostly sleepy state.

            “Who’s she? You didn’t freaking knock out a fan did you?!” he yelled.

            “No! Now be quiet! She’s asleep. I’ll explain later.” Louis whispered.

            I could feel him pass me to somebody else before I was placed on a lap until I was passed back to Louis. I knew it was Louis by the smell of his shirt and the relaxing feeling from being in his arms.

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Hey guys!

I finally got the third chapter up! Hope you like it!

~Meags<3