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Toby's eyes go wide as he looks at me. Then he glances down at his and so do I. My breath catches in my throat when I see that his hand is dripping with blood.
Spencer's POV
It takes me a second to realize that it's my blood on Toby's hand. My hand flies to the back off my head. My hair is soaked with blood. The large gash has opened up again, and is bleeding furiously.
"Oh shit!" yells Toby. He jumps up looks at the back of my head. Hanna, Aria, and Emily are at my side in an instant.
"How did this happen?" asks Toby. He doesn't give me a chance to answer. Instead, he turn to the girls and starts barking out orders. "Someone get a first aid kit, some towels, and water." the three girls are too shocked to argue, and they all rush off in different directions to get the items Toby asked for.
"Spencer, why didn't you tell me you were hurt?" he asks. He grabs a blanket off the back of the couch, and presses it against the back of my head. A small cry escapes passed my lips as he applies more pressure.
"I didn't realize it." I say.
"Stop lying Spencer." he says.
"Why do you always assume that I'm lying?" I snap. I can feel my anger building up. Why does he have to be so difficult? Why does he have to make it so hard to keep him safe. How can I protect him when he doesn't believe me?
"I'm not assuming anything! I know you're lying." he says. "You had to have known you were injured. There's no way you didn't feel this. An injury like this causes a lot of pain."
"Toby. Please just let this go." I beg. My voice is raw with emotion.
"How could you even ask me that?" he says. "You're practically bleeding death and you want me to just let it go. Don't you know how much I care about you? I love you too much to let this go." he leans down and looks me in the eye. He gently grabs one of my hands and squeezes it. "Please Spencer. Tell me the truth. Let me help you." he whispers.
"I can't." I say. Tears start to roll down my face.
"Don't you trust me?" he asks with hurt in his eyes.
"More than anyone." I say.
"Then why can't you tell me?" he asks. Because I love you, and I need to keep you safe. Because I would rather die than let anything happen to you. That's what I want to tell him, but I can't. Saying that would be as dangerous as telling the truth. So I decide not to say anything.
I pull my hand away from his and shift my gaze to the floor. I let my hair cover my face so he doesn't see my tears. I know my silence is hurting him. I can almost hear his heart breaking. But I guess this is the price of saving his life.
"I got the first aid kit." say Emily. She walks into the living room holding a small white box. Aria and Hanna walk in right after her carrying the other things Toby requested.
"Hand me one of those towels." says Toby. Aria gives him a towel. Then he takes the bowl of water from Hanna. He dips the towel in the water, then he starts cleaning blood off my head. The girls huddle around me with worried expressions.
"Emily. Can you the towel against her head while I get what I need out of the first aid kit." asks Toby.
"Of course." she says. She walk behind me and gasps when she sees my injury. "This looks really bad." she say. "Maybe we should take her to the Hospital."
"No." I say without looking up. "I don't want to go to the hospital." Aria kneels down in front of me and rests her hand on my knees. She tilts my head up so she can look me in the eye. Her eyes widen when she sees my tear streaked face. My friends have rarely seen me cry, so it comes as a surprise to her.
"Spencer, why don't you want to go to the hospital?" asks Aria. She gently wipes my tears away with her sleeve.
"I can't." I say.
"Why not?" she asks. I look down again and I continue to cry.
"I just can't ." I say. Hanna sits down next to me and rubs my shoulder.
"You're hurt really bad Spencer." says Hanna. "You might not have a choice." I look up at my friends. I can tell that they're terrified. They want to make sure that I'm going to be okay. But I can't go to the hospital. The doctors will see my other injuries. They'll know what happened to me. Then A will punish the people I love.
I look over at Toby. He's digging through the First aid kit. He feels me staring at him, and looks up. Our eyes lock. His are full of worry and anger, mine are filled with lies.
"Please." I say without looking away from him. "Don't make me go." he looks down for a moment then back up at me.
"I won't make you go if you don't want to." he says. "But if you don't go to the hospital, then I'll have to patch you up. And I won't do it nearly as good as a doctor would."
"That's okay." I say. He nods his head and starts to work on my injury. We all fall into an awkward silence as Toby works on my head. He puts something in the cut that causes pain to shoot through my entire head. I jerk my head away from him and gasp.
"Sorry." he says. "I'm almost done. Just hold still." he continues his work, and a few minuets later he's done.
"Okay. That should do it." he says. He closes the first aid kit and sits down by me.
"Thanks." I mumble. He smiles, but there's no happiness in it. And now that I'm no longer bleeding, the girls start asking questions.
"How did you get hurt Spencer?" asks Emily.
"I don't remember." I say.
"Why didn't you tell us you were hurt?" asks Hanna. "You had to have know you had a huge bleeding whole on the back of your head."
"I really didn't know." I say. Aria looks closely at me. Aria and I are best friends. We're closer to each other than we are to the other girls. We spend so much time together. And we can almost always tell when the other one is lying.
"You're lying." says Aria. "You've been lying to us this whole time." it would be pointless to argue with her. "Someone hurt you. Someone did this to you, and you know exactly who it is." she says. I start to panic. They can't find out. Their lives depend on it. My body starts to shake.
"Is it true Spencer?" asks Toby. "Did someone hurt you?'
"No one hurt me." I say.
"When has lying ever done you any good?" says Toby. My hands curl into fists. I cant take this anymore. I can't take their questions or their accusations. Can't they see I'm doing this for them? It's hard enough to lie about a secret you want to keep, but it's close to impossible when it's a secret you can't bear to have. If they stay here any longer I'm going to break.
"Leave." I say.
"What did you say?" asks Aria.
"I said leave. I want all of you to leave." I whisper.
"Spencer we're not just…." I cut Aria off by standing abruptly.
"I want you to leave! Get out of my house! I don't want any of you here." I scream.
"Calm down Spencer." says Toby.
"Stop telling me what to do." I shout. I start backing away from them. The stress that I've been under is beginning to take it's toll, and I can feel my mind starting to crumble.
"We're your friends Spencer. We're just trying to help you." says Hanna.
"If you were my real friends, then you wouldn't be accusing me of lying. You would believe me and stop questioning every single thing I say. You would trust me" I yell. "If you were really my friends, you would see that this whole thing is killing me right now. You would consider that maybe I'm not lying, but that I'm just scared out of my mind because I can't remember what the fuck happened to me. You would see that I just need one second to breathe without someone asking me questions that I can't answer."
My knees buckle and I fall to the floor. My injured body is no longer able to support my weight. I've spent all my energy trying to convince them that I'm telling the truth. If they still don't believe me I could lose them forever. Just the thought of losing Toby and my three best friends makes me cry. I start sobbing loudly and my entire body shakes as I try to breathe. I feel someone pick me up from the floor and gently put me in their lap. I don't open my eyes to see who it is. I just keep crying.
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