Bruised

Chapter 5

Jaeden P.O.V
When I asked Molly to stay with me tonight, I honestly didn't expect her to say yes. I just couldn't let her stay in that house. God knows what her foster parents would do to her. If they hurt Molly again, I would never forgive myself, because I could have stopped it. She has to get out of there.
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"You can go ahead and take and shower, if you want." I said in a low tone.

"Yeah I'll have to take one"

"Come on, I'll show you where it is," I take her hand and lead her to my bedroom. "I already laid some clothes out for you." I said pointing to the bed. "I'll be in the livingroom when you're done."

"Ok, thanks" she says quietly and I walk out of the room.

Molly P.O.V
I grab the clothes off the bed and go into the bathroom. I set them down on the counter and begin to undress. I look into the mirror at myself in my underwear. I see the scars from the whip and belt, I see the bruises from the beatings, and I can see my ribs from where I don't eat at times. Every scar tells a story.... I tell myself. They show you're a survivor... I try to reassure, it doesn't work of course. I drop to my knees crying, I can't even look at myself anymore.

My scars make me ugly, they always have. Thats why I only wear jeans, leggings, long sleeve shirts, and hoodies. Anything revealing would give it all away.

People say I look 'hot'. I'm anything but that, underneath the clothes I'm skinny, bruised, and scarred. But nobody knows that except for me..... well, Jaeden does now too.

30 minutes later

I get out of the shower, dry off, and get dressed. Debating on whether to go back down, the bruises on my face aren't covered. Pretty much everything is visible on my face. Although the sweats and hoodie cover up my body, I still feel exposed.

'Jaeden is different, hes better than him. He won't do anything, you're alright.' I try to calm myself down, it helps a little.

I go back downstairs and Jaeden is sitting on the couch, watching TV. He immediately notices my presence and turns to me.

"Hey, you look good in my clothes," he says smiling at me awkwardly.

I look down so he can't see me blush.

"Thanks," I say quietly.

"Come here"

I walk over and sit next to him. He pulls me to his chest and rests his chin on my head. We watch tv for a little while and then put a movie in.

"What do you want to watch?"

"How about, Titanic?"

"Oh come on, that movies so cheesy." He says playfully

"What?! How do you not like Titanic, it's my favorite movie." I say scrunching up my nose.

He rolls his eyes and chuckles.

"Fine we can watch it, only because I like you,"

"Really? Y- you actually like me."

He turns and looks at me.

"Yes Molly, I like you. Much more than you know." He turns around and looks at me. "Even though we've only known eachother for a short amount of time, I've grown to like you a lot."

I'm speechless, I've never had anybody say anything like that to me.

"I- I..." Jaeden comes over and hugs me tightly.

"Its alright, I don't expect you to say anything back. Honestly I don't even expect you to feel anything towards me. I just wanted to get what I was feeling off my chest."

If only you knew, Jaeden, if only you knew how I really feel.

The next Morning

Jaeden P.O.V
I woke up this morning with Molly curled up beside me, resting her head on my chest and lightly snoring. She's so cute. I meant all that I said last night. I really really like her. And who knows. Maybe one day we could be something more than just friends....

"Good morning," she says sitting up and stretching her arms.

"Good morning. How did you sleep?"

"I actually slept very peacefully."

"Good." I say getting up. "We should get ready for school."

"Ok, but I don't have any clothes."

"You can wear some of mine. Come on," she follows me upstairs.

Molly P.O.V
Jaeden leads me into a huge master bedroom walk-in closest.

"Holy shit, this is closest is huge." He chuckles at my comment.

"You can pick anything you want to wear."

"Alright, thanks."

Hmmm, what should I wear? I thought to myself. I'll just wear a hoodie and sweats, yeah that will be fine. I walk out of the room, not paying attention and slam right into Jaeden. I almost fall, but he catches me just in time.

"I'm having a bit of deja vu right now," he says laughing.

I smile and he lifts me back up.

"Let's grab some breakfast and go to school"

"I- I don't usually get to eat breakfast," I said looking down.

He came over to me, I lifted my head and he frowned.

"Well, that's going to change from now on."

"What do you mean?" I say looking confused.

He pauses for a minute and shows a small grin.

"I mean, I want you to stay here.......with me.....permanently....."

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Ahaha, I guess you weren't expecting that. I'm sorry that this chapter took so long to come out. I've been soooooo busy with school work and tests and studying. I promise this next chapter will come out faster, because I have absolutely no plans this weekend. So, I will work on the story a lot more.

To be continued.....