Summer's POV

"Hey." Jesse said to me as I walked up to him after school. "We're going out tonight right?" I'd hate to break a date with him but I had plans.

"I have plans. Sorry." I said. "Me and Katie have been planning this for the last two weeks. Me and the girls are gonna have a girls night out and get away from everything. Rain check?" I gave him the puppy dog eyes. But somthing in those dark chocolate eyes didn't agree.

"No Summer. If you can't commit to a relationship then we shouldn't be in one." What is he talking about.

"But i've been planning this and I never broke a date scince we've been going out. Can't I have time for my friends too?" I asked then I heard Katie's car horn to pick me up. "Oh thats Katie." I said turning to walk away and then he grabbed my wrist.

"I'm not done yet." He pulled me close to him and he had rage in his eyes. "You break those plans with your friends. Got it?" I tried to break away but I couldn't.

"Hey! Let her go!" I heard a voice and looked over to see Freddy.

"And if I don't?" Jesse asked still tightly clutching me by the wrists.

"I'll...I'll..." He paused for a moment. "I'll shove these sticks down your throat!" He held up his drums sticks.

"Haha. Really convincing." Jesse laughed. I was in pain. Freddy stepped up on the curb.

"You. Let. Her. Go." He said with pauses between each of them like they had their own setence. "Now!" Then i felt the grip loosen on my wrist and Jesse pushed me back. I almost fell back on the ground.

"Ok fine then. But Summer," I turned my head toward Jesse. "you better show for that date tonight." and he walked away. I felt a stinging tears on my eyes and I broke down and cried. My hands were soaked with tears. My hands were clutching my face and Freddy came over and gave me a hug

"My shirt is more absorbant then your palms." He said as I cried into his shirt leaving a big patch of tears on his shoulder. We sat down on the curb and talked.

"How long has he been treating you like this?" He asked me.

"Um..A few weeks now." The tears had finally stopped. "He wants me all to himself. He dosen't let me have friends or anybody. He wouldn't even let me go to my aunts funeral last Friday beause we had a date." I started to cry again. My aunt Lola was my favorite aunt and he wouldn't even let me go!

"Shh.." Freddy craddeled me in his arms. "It's ok." After a few minutes I wiped the tears from my eyes and stood up.

"I-I got to go. Katie's 'Girls Night Out' party." I picked up my book bag and Freddy stood up.

"I'll walk you home." He took my bookbag insted and swung it over his shoulder. "I'm really sorry about lunch. I'm sorry for freaking out on you like that. I didn't mean it, really."

Freddy's POV

"I'm sorry too. Your bisneuss is your own and nobody elses." We got to her house and stood on her porch.

"And thank-you for helping me back there. Jesse is so controlling. Your a really good friend." She smiled.

"Your welcome. And I guess this is your stop." I took off her book-bag.

"Sure stay for awhile. My parent's aren't home anyway so they won't care." She unlocked the door with her keys.

"Great. Why not?" I stepped inside and took off my shoes. She ran up over the stairs.

"I'll just be a second packing for Katie's." Her voice echoed through the empty house. The phone rang. "Answer that!" I clicked on speaker.

"Hello?"

"Hey Sum whats up?" It was Katie.

"This is Freddy."

"Oh hey. Why are you there?"

"I walked Summer home."

"Oh yeah I was waiting in the parking lot for her for like 10 minutes and then I thought she must've already left so then I left. Where's Summer?"

"Getting ready upstairs."

"And Jesse dosen't care that your there?"

"He dosen't know." I said and then Summer ran down the stairs and across the hardwood floor.

"Who is it?" She asked.

"Katie." I said.

"Oh hey Katie!" Summer yelled out.

"Hey Summer! Well I gotta go. See you at the party?" Katie asked.

"I'll see ya." And I hung up the phone. Summer sat on the couch next to me.

"So." I said. "Tell me about your relationship with Jesse." She rolled her eyes and said "Ok."

"Well...He isn't what people think he is. He yells at me for being late for a date, I plan stuff before dates and he breaks the plans without even asking me. Like just then when you came along." She said. "He's just so..."

"Abusive?" I said. She nodded. "You deserve better then that. You should break up with him if he keeps on being like this."

"I'm afraid to. I'm afraid to see what he'll do to me." She put her head on my shoulder.

"Don't worry Summer." I said. "I'll always be there for you."