Demi P.O.V
Today had gone much better than I thought it would have. Only a few people, less than ten, asked me where I'd been for the past three months and every time I replied with the same answer. After I had told the ninth person, it had spread around the whole school that I was back and that I had been in LA with my aunt at a record label. So I didn't really need to answer a lot of questions. Nobody had questioned me on it, everyone just seemed to go along with it, whether they believed it or not.
Nick had been great ever since I'd been admitted to rehab three months ago. He was the boyfriend that every girl dreamed of you know? He's the boy who cares for you and loves you for you and not just for your body or for sex. I seriously don't know where I would be and if I'd still be alive if Nick wasn't with me, by my side.
"Hey baby, everyone's waiting." I nodded, following Nick out of the hallway and into the living room.
I had told Nick to gather up all of our closest friends and bring them here tonight. Lying to everyone was already hard enough, there was no way I could lie to my friends, and they didn't deserve that. It was the least to say I was scared of their reactions. It had been running through my mind all day, I'm not sure if some will be angry or sad or disappointed? I just don't know, all I do know is that I have ten people waiting in here for me, and I really need to start speaking because they're all just looking up at me, waiting.
"Hey guys, err, you're probably wondering why Nick and I invited you round tonight?" Everyone nodded and looked at each other, wondering if anyone knew why they were here. "As you all know I've been away for three months."
"In LA?" Eleanor questioned, looking at me for reassurance.
"No, I haven't been in LA, that's why you're here tonight. I want to tell you where I've actually been." I licked my lips, the nervousness was fading away and the strong girl inside of me was coming out.
"Where have you been?" Chloe stood up, only to be pulled back down my Lucy.
"I know this is going to shock you but, these past three months I've been living at Timberline Knolls."
"Isn't that a rehab clinic?" Joe furrowed his eyebrows, looking at Kevin who also wore a confused expression on his face.
"Yeah, it is."
"Why would you need to go to rehab?" Kevin asked.
"I've had a lot of trouble in my life, and I don't really want to go into it, but it has caused me quite a few problems. I would get upset and angry with the direction that my life was going in, I would take that pain and anger out on myself." I rolled up the sleeves of my long sleeve t-shirt. Eleanor was the first to cry, and then Lucy, then Chloe broke down. I looked over at Nick who had this pained look on his face. Whether it'd be from all of his close friends breaking down in front of him or me talking about my self-harm? I decided I'd carry on. "About three months ago, something went down with my dad and it got me upset, and I blamed myself, even though it wasn't my fault. It pushed me over the edge and I went up into my bathroom and took all of the pain that was built up inside of me out on myself. I carried on until I could no longer feel the pain. When I woke up I was in the hospital, Selena had saved my life. When I recovered I was admitted into rehab. I wanted to tell you guys straight away but I myself wasn't strong enough and I didn't want you to hear it from anyone but me. I'm sorry."
All of the girls, all four of them stood up and ran over to me, engulfing me in a group hug.
"Don't apologise, you did nothing wrong." Chloe whispered, all of the girls muttering 'yeah' and 'don't worry'.
I couldn't hold it in anymore, I broke down. The tears spilling out of my eyes, the relief of knowing I had my girls through whatever came my way. I felt more than one hand on my back, soothing me, trying to hush my tears.
"These are happy tears; I love you all so much."
"We love you too Dem." They said back, synchronized. We all pulled away, laughing at how in sync we were.
I looked over to the couch; Joe, Callum, Kevin, Jake and Luke were sitting there speechless.
"I need to go." Luke stood up, jogging out of the door. What? He left?
I had known Luke since I was ten, I realised the news would hit him hard but I never would have thought he would have run out on me like that? That hurt.
"I'll be right back." I followed in the footsteps of Luke and found him sitting on the sidewalk, head in his hands, crying.
I walked over to him, sitting down beside him.
"Why did you leave Luke?"
"Dem, I need to be alone."
"Well tough, I'm not leaving. I want to know why you left me like that."
"I didn't even know Demi. I didn't even know you and your dad weren't getting on. If I'd of only cared that little bit more I would have known and I would have been able to stop you." He whimpered.
"No, Luke you wouldn't have known because I wouldn't have told you. I didn't tell anyone, I didn't want to tell anyone." He took my hand in his, his eyes shooting down to our interlocked fingers and smiling.
"I just wish you would have told me Dem, I could have helped."
"Luke, nobody could have helped me, do you boys not get that? You and Nick are the same." He pulled his hand away from mine at the mention of Nick's name. He stood up, dusting himself off.
"Dem, I need to go, my mom's waiting up for me, I'll call you later?"
"Yeah, I'll hold you to that." I wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling him in for a hug. It took him a few seconds but he returned it, wrapping his strong arms around my petite waist.
"Bye Dem." He pulled away and turned, walking briskly down the sidewalk.
I shook my head and walked back into the house. I was greeted with a group hug from all of the boys. Joe grabbed onto my hand, pulling me towards him.
"Are you okay now though Demi?" Joe asked, everyone nodded, wanting to know the same thing.
"I'm better than I was three months ago, it takes time to heal, but if something was going on, I'd tell you, I promise."
"Good, now as we're all here...dance party!" Joe screamed, breaking into dance immediately. Everyone laughed at him and joined in, doing little bounces and shimmying across the floor. My friends are so special.
"Demi babe, let's dance." Selena mouthed. All the girls; Chloe, Lucy, Eleanor, Selena and I made our way into the space that was occupied by Joe and Callum dancing in and pushed them back, leaving us with plenty of room.
We all nodded at each other, everyone knowing what we were going to do.
"Nick, turn that stereo on!" Chloe shouted, settling herself next to me.
Yes, we were going to do our cheerleading dance from junior year. It amazed me how everyone still remembered each step. That's probably because you all do it whenever you're together. Yeah, my subconscious was right.
The sound of Chris Brown's turn up the music, rattled through our ears. I was pumped; all the other girls were to.
"1 2 3 4." We all started dancing, in sync of course.
We strutted across the floor, shaking our hips. Making all of the boys' eyes shooting down to our asses. We all moved in close, bashing our hips together and singing along to the music. There were some attempted worms across the floor, some flips, and don't forget the dougie's.
The song changed and we finished our dance much to the guys' disappointment. All of the girls cheered and were later joined by their boyfriends.
"You know baby, maybe you can perform that dance for me later...in private." Nick pressed his front to my back, kissing my neck.
"Or I could do it now?" I teased, backing into him slightly.
"Dem, please don't tease." He moaned, breathing heavily onto my neck.
"I'm not teasing baby, if you want it, come get it." I walked out of his grasp, into the hallway, up the stairs and waited outside my bedroom door.
I didn't have to wait for long as Nick bundled up the stairs, nearly tripping up on the last step, and crashing into me. His hands went to either side of my face on the wall, trapping me from escaping.
"You Lovato are a tease." He whispered, putting his lips on mine, and slipping his tongue in past my parted lips. His hands moved off of the wall and grabbed onto my hips, his thumbs caressing my shirt clad stomach.
I bent my elbow, and pulled on the handle, opening the door. Nick pushed off of the wall; I wrapped my legs around his waist so I didn't fall. We stumbled in, Nick closing the door and pushing me up behind it.
"Baby, you looked so sexy when you were dancing." He mumbled, pressing his lips to my neck, sucking on the purple blemish that appeared this morning after Nick's crazy antics yesterday.
"Not to alarm you but someone's in our bed?" I breathed out, looking over at the lump in the comforter.
"What?" He whispered, pulling his lips off my neck and whipping his head round also to see the bump. "Who's there?" Nick questioned with my legs still wrapped around his waist.
"It's just me Nick." Selena appeared from under the covers, her hair all shrivelled and knotted.
"Just you?" I raised my eyebrows, knowing there was someone else under there.
"Yeah, I was tired from all that dancing." She fake yawned, stretching her arms.
"So where's your shirt?" I nodded down at her blue bra that was peeking out from under the comforter.
"Err, I got hot."
"Yeah I'm sure you did." As we were about to leave I noticed a familiar shirt on the floor, my mouth dropped open.
"Bye Dem."
"Yeah bye Sel...bye Joseph be safe!" Joe popped up from under the covers shirtless.
"How did you know?"
"Well exhibit one." I bent down and picked his shirt up, dangling it in front of his face. "I bought you this shirt for your birthday, I think I'd remember who I bought it for." I slung it at him, hitting him right in the face.
"I knew I shouldn't have worn that shirt tonight, damn it." He cussed, shaking his head.
"So Joe you and Selena eh?"
"Dem-"Selena protested only to be quietened by Joe's hand resting on her leg.
"I suppose so yeah." He nodded at Selena, smiles on both their faces.
"Well Joe, she is my best friend, so if you hurt her I'll have to get my boyfriend to beat you up." I glared seriously at him.
"Your boyfriend as in my weakling of a brother?" He chuckled.
"If you call me that again I'll have to beat you up now." Nick stood forward, tensing his muscles.
"Calm it Nick I was only joking. I'll look after her Demi, just for you." He smiled and rubbed at Selena's leg.
"Well, we're going to leave you alone in my room in my bed...ew no...No sex or anything in my bed, that's gross." I scrunched up my face and leant into Nick's side, resting my head in the crook of his neck.
"We'll probably not live up to that promise." Joe chuckled, looking at Selena and winked.
"Fine, but just remember, that's my bed and Nick's my boyfriend, also your brother and I don't think it's a secret that we have sex, so unless you wanna roll around in your brothers-"
"Okay, we're going." Joe huffed, pulling on his shirt, followed by Selena pulling on hers.
"Be safe now, go sleep together in my dad's room that he never uses!" I shouted, as they walked out of the room, shutting the door behind them.
"I am so lucky I have you, did you see the look on his face? Ah it was classic!" Nick reached for me, laughing and tumbling onto the bed.
"It was good wasn't it, I definitely embarrassed them. That's what you get for wanting to have sex in my bed."
"Speaking of that." Nick rolled on top of me, smirking.
"Mmm." I crashed my lips onto his, grabbing onto his shirt, lifting it up and over his head. Nick's lips went to my neck, sucking and biting at the visible bits of flesh.
"Demi what do you want?" Chloe barged in, flustered.
"What?" I pushed Nick off me, sitting up from the bed.
"Oh god! Selena and Joe told me you wanted to speak to me urgently." Chloe looked around the room.
"Oh did they?"
"Yeah, I'll come back later."
"Err, Chloe there's nothing I need to talk to you about, Joe and Selena were just messing around with you." She huffed and smiled before walking out in search of Joe and Selena I guess.
"Where were we?" Nick muttered.
"Uh uh, I wanna see this, come on." I stood up from the bed, chucked Nick's shirt at him and made my way down the stairs.
"I hate you so much Sel!" Chloe couldn't hold the laughter in when saying it.
"Why Chlo what's happened?"
"You know what you did."
"What?"
"You made me go into Demi's room because I thought she wanted to talk to me but when I got in there those two were grinding all up on each other!" She chuckled, shaking her head.
"We were not grinding all up on each other, we were just making out." I stepped forward, bringing Nick with me.
"Yeah, of course you were Dem." Selena winked, smirking evilly. I know that look.
"Sel you can't talk babe."
"Excuse me?"
"I heard Joe was a pretty good kisser? Is he good Sel?" I chuckled; Selena smirked, shaking her head.
"Yeah, he's pretty good." She blushed lightly, her cheeks changing with a tint of red in them.
"Don't play with fire Sel, you'll always get burnt." I mouthed.
"I'm confused, do you two hate each other now or?" Joe looked around the room for answers.
"Yeah, I'm with you on that bro." Nick added confusion in his eyes.
"Boys." I looked at Selena and all the girls and just cracked up laughing.
"No we still love each other, girls do that all the time, it's just for fun." Eleanor laughed, leaning into Daniel's side.
"Girls are so weird." Callum stated, shaking his head. All of the boys nodded and laughed at their own confusion.
"Won't be saying that later." Selena winked at Callum and then Lucy.
"Sel, stop, please." Lucy moaned out of embarrassment.
Oh how I loved my friends, why did I ever think they would just leave me and think I'm weird. Everything was fine; everyone was okay with me and my past well apart from Luke. I really don't know why he acted like that? I mean sure, we've known each other for eight years and I knew it would hurt him the most, but to leave just like that? It was weird. Something was going on with Luke and I'm not sure if I want to know. I just have this feeling that whatever he's holding in, is something big and it scares me.