Chapter Seven: The One I Need Most
"What the hell, Lilly!?" Jeremy looked at Lilly with a furious look on his face.
"Jeremy please." Lilly desperately tried to explain. The look on Jeremy's face told her that he didn't believe her at all and she was really going to get it.
Just then Lilly's cellphone started to vibrate. Oh god no, not now. Please don't let it be Oliver calling. Lilly thought desperately to herself.
Lilly grabbed the phone. Much to Lilly's dismay the Caller ID read: Oliver Oken.
"Its that Oken guy again, isn't it?" Jeremy asked sharply. And Jeremy then picked up the phone and put it on speaker so that he could hear what Oliver had to say.
"Lilly?" Oliver's voice could be heard coming from the phone. "Lilly, is everything okay, I'm sort of worried."
Jeremy looked increasingly angry as Oliver continued to speak. Jeremy let out a small, very low growl.
"Lilly?" Oliver's voice was heard again. "Was that you? Are you there?"
Jeremy picked up the phone and yelled "Shut up!" into it. He then tossed the phone onto the floor. "Lilly." He began very slowly. "Are you cheating on me?"
Lilly shook her head in terror. "Liar." Jeremy snapped at her. He then struck her across the face. "How stupid do you think I am? Is there something going on between you and Oken?"
"No!" Lilly yelled. "We're just friends!"
Lilly jumped off her bed to get away from him. He followed her and yelled "Then what reason should he have to be worried about you? Why is it that whenever I see you, you're with him? Explain that! Don't walk away from me, Lilly! Tell me why now!"
Lilly was now crying out of fear. "I swear we're just friends!"
Jeremy shoved her against her closet. "You're a real bitch, you know that?" He kicked her. "I just can't trust you, you'll run off cheating on me with Oken. Why don't you two just run away together?"
"Its not his fault! And I'm not cheating on you, I swear to God!"
On the floor, Lilly's pink cellphone was still on...
Oliver's House
Oliver had called Lilly to check up on her and then Jeremy yelled into the phone. Jeremy had left the phone on and Oliver could hear a few small sobs and stuff breaking. What was happening? Should he go running over? Was Lilly alright? Was she safe?
Sleep would not come to him that night. He kept thinking about Lilly and the sobs he had heard. At exactly one o clock at night, he heard his phone ring. He picked it up and Lilly said in a sad voice. "Hello Oliver."
"Lilly!" He almost yelled. "Is everything okay?"
"Its fine." He could tell from her voice that everything wasn't fine. She had been crying.
"Whats wrong?"
"Jeremy and I got in a fight." She replied.
"Do you want to come over here?" He asked her.
"Yes." She replied in a small voice.
In a few moments she showed up at his door in her pajamas, her eyes were red and puffy. "I'm sorry about this. It was somewhat weird and I just had a nightmare."
"Its okay." He replied. "You want to sleep here?"
She nodded and he led her up to his small bedroom. He pulled the covers down on his bed and gestured for her to go in. She slipped into his bed and he arranged a sleeping bag for himself on the floor. They hadn't had sleepovers since they were kids. Sleepovers used to be so fun, until their parents told them about boy-girl sleepovers.
There was silence between the two of them but neither had fallen asleep. He could hear Lilly's steady breathing in the room. Her eyes were looking up at the ceiling. "Oliver?" She asked softly.
"Yeah?" He replied, leaning up a bit.
"I...never mind." She put her head back down on her pillow but did not sleep. It would be a long night for them both. He was still awake when he looked at her bed and saw her crying and tossing and turning. He rushed over to the bed.
"Lilly! Whats wrong?" He asked.
"Oh." She looked embarrassed as she rubbed her eyes and tears. "It was just a nightmare."
"Are you going to be okay?" He had to make sure she'd be fine with him.
"Yeah." She replied, but the tone of her voice wasn't very assuring. Oliver slipped back into his own sleeping bag when he heard Lilly softly ask "Oliver?"
He leaned up and said "Do you need anything?"
"No, I just... will you hold my hand while I sleep?" Oliver hesitated and then Lilly said "I feel safe when I'm with you." Oliver chuckled at how strange she sounded but said "Sure."
She extended her arm down and he carefully took her hand. He knew that he would not sleep that night.
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