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Hanna barely slept a wink last night. All she was doing was replaying what had happened the previous night. She didn't know what she was going to do, how was she going to face him again?
Caleb was thinking about how he was going to go to work without killing him and loosing his job. He really liked Hanna but he had a great job and didnt wanna loose it.
She got up out of bed, brushed her hair and put on some makeup. The only thing she had in her purse was a small hairbrush, her emergency makeup bag, $30, and her phone and charger.
She went down stairs to see Caleb making some coffee.
"Hey" She said.
"Morning" He passed her a cup of coffee. "How'd you sleep?"
"Alright" She lied.
"You feeling a bit better today? You know after-"
"Fine" She abruptly cut him off.
"So you going back to Mark's later? You can stay here if yo-"
"No, no its fine. Um...I'll probably go back and get some stuff and maybe go back to Rosewood and stay with a friend for a bit"
"So you're leaving Mark?"
"Yeah, probably. I guess we'll just see what happens..." She said quietly. She knew that is was highly likely that Mark wasn't going to let her leave but she was going to do whatever she could to.
"Is he...did he hurt you?"
She bit her lip and nodded. "He got kinda angry when Jordan said no to the deal. Jordan told him that I wasn't apart of the deal in the first place and... and he started shouting.. and things just got out of hand"
Caleb ran a hand through his hair. "God, this is all my fault"
"What? No it isn't" She said confused.
"If I would have just left you with Jordan then none of this would of happened. Mark wouldn't of got like that"
"If you didnt come in to that bedroom and got Jordan off me, I would be so upset with myself and Mark probably would have got angry anyway so none if this is your fault"
"Does he get angry a lot?"
"Yeah" She muttered. "But never that angry"
Caleb was about to say something but before he could there was a shout from the other room.
"Caleb, can I borrow 20 dollars, I lost my wallet" The voice shouted.
He then walked into the kitchen and stopped in his tracked when he saw Hanna. "Oh Sorry, I...I ugh...didn't realize Caleb had company" The guy smirked as he saw that Hanna was only in one of Caleb's shirts which only reached above her thigh. "I'm Eric, we share the apartment" He smiled.
She smiled back and pulled down the shirt a little. "Oh Yeah, we actually met at the club opening last weekend, I'm Hanna"
"Oh yeah, you're the Hanna"
"'The'?" She turned to Caleb for an explanation with her eyebrows raised and her arms crossed, laughing.
"Here's your money" Caleb quickly said, passing him the note with red cheeks, trying to avoid what Hanna just said.
"Cheers man. I gotta go to work but I'll see you later. It was nice seeing you again Hanna"
"You too, bye" She said still laughing at how embarrassed Caleb had been.
'Ring, Ring, Ring'
"Sorry thats my phone, I should take this"
"Hello?" She said.
"Hey Han" Spencer said with a worried tone.
"Hey Spence, is everything okay?"
"Well the girls and I were just wondering how you were doing?"
"How I'm doing? How I'm doing about what?"
"You know...about Mark"
What? Hanna didnt even tell the girls or anyone but Caleb about last night.
"What do you mean?" She played dumb.
"..We saw the news"
"What was on the news?"
"You know... that Mark's missing"
Hanna's facial expression changed and she was completely silent. She couldn't work out if she was sad, scared or just...confused.
"W-What..." She stuttered.
"You didn't know? Apparently he left town last night and no one can get through to him so they've filed a missing person's report. I thought you would've been the one to report it, are you not home?"
"No, I'm not. Its...complicated. It must've been Larissa, our maid or maybe Clyde, his secretary. I better go, thank you for telling me"
Hanna hang up and didnt really know what to think. She was relieved in a way, but this would changed everything. What if he went looking for me when I had ran away last night? Maybe he just got annoyed and needed a getaway? Thats not like him. To just leave. What if someone hurt him?- No Hanna don't feel sorry for him. He deserves whatever he gets, he's an ass.
"Han?" Caleb said, cutting her out of her thoughts.
"Hm? Oh yeah, ugh...sorry. What did you say?"
"Are you okay?"
"Um..I'm not sure. Um...its Mark...He's missing" She stuttered.
"What? He is? Where do you think he is?"
"I really don't know" She rested her elbows on the counter and rested her face in her hands. "Oh God" She groaned. She really didnt need this.
"Um...I should go, I need to sort some stuff out at home. I might go to Rosewood sometime next week, I don't really like being in that house all alone."
"Can I drive you home?"
She smiled at how through all this, she was his main priority. He should probably be worrying how he's gonna get paid with Mark gone. "Its fine, I can call a cab, I would walk but I'll be wearing last nights dress so..." They both laughed.
"No, I'll drive you" He said.
"No, after all you've done, I think I'll find my way"
"Do you really want to be crossing the road in that dress in the morning?"
"I guess not but I really don't min-"
"Get ready, I'm driving" He smiled.
After Caleb had dropped Hanna off, She had got a call from the police asking for her to come down to the station. They took her statement and she told them the truth, that Her and Mark got into a fight and she stayed at a friends, she then got a call from another friend telling her the news. She knows she should have told them that he stared to...hurt her..., but she didn't want to. The police department promised that they would update her on any news that they had on his whereabouts as soon as possible.
When She looked around the house and none of his stuff was gone, only his main credit card, She even called him a few times but there was no answer. As much as she's very worried for him, She's quite relieved that he's gone. She knows its bad to say but she is. After last nights outburst, she was so scared to come back here. She couldn't abuse Caleb's niceness and end up staying with him for longer than she needs to. She would have to face Mark some time. She was going to come back today anyway to get some stuff and sneak away. She was done with him. Last night was the last straw.
As she lay in bed, she was thinking all these different things. It was weird staying alone. Sure, Mark went on business trips from time to time, but it just felt different. She was quite scared to go to sleep. She kept thinking that he was suddenly going to come back and hurt her or...worse. Even him being gone, she still feared him.
'Ring Ring Ring' Her phone rang, puling her out of her thoughts.
She reached for her phone on the bed-side table. "Hello" She answered.
"Hey, how you holding up?" Caleb said.
"Yeah, I'm alright. Thanks for asking" She said softly, smiling on the inside and out.
"I was just thinking about you"
"You were?" She chuckled slightly, grinning widely.
"Yeah, I was wondering if we could go out tomorrow, you know, take your mind off things." Yeah right. To 'take your mind off things'.
"I would love that. Where are we going?"
"I know a place"
"well..." She said waiting for him to go on. "What place?"
"Its a surprise"
"Do you know how hard it os to dress for a surprise" She rolled her eyes. "An If you din't mind, wherever we go, can we not go to anywhere really public? I don't want people thinking we're on a date the day after my boyfriend went missing."
"Don't worry, I got that covered. Wear something you like. I'll pick you up at 7"
"Okay" She breathed out. He could practically hear her smile over the phone. "See you tomorrow, goodnight" She whispered.
"Goodnight, Beautiful" He whispered back then hanging up.
'Oh god he said beautiful' She thought.
The next day, she didnt really know what to do with herself. Mark was gone. He would probably come back soon, but for now he was gone.
She was now getting ready for dinner with Caleb, wearing a baby pink body con dress, which clung to her curves in all the right places and made her look more tanned. She had a few outfits that she bought for herself and not Mark, sexy outfits but not stripper-looking outfits. She paired some strappy black heels and a thick silver necklace. She obviously had her perfect curls in and although she usually has quite a bit of makeup on, today she kept it subtle but lined her lips a lot but they looked naturally full and put light pink eye-shadow on to match her dress. She covered up some of the marks on her arms and neck with concealer and tried her best to forget about what happened and enjoy tonight.
She kinda felt bad going out with another guy just a day after she found out her boyfriends missing, but she actually liked Caleb and she didnt like Mark. At all. He was mean, rude, cruel and he didnt treat her right. That wasn't who she wanted to spend her time with but she couldn't do anything about it.
'Knock Knock Kock'
She grabbed her black Valentino purse and headed downstairs, brushing her hair down with her fingers just to make sure she looked perfect.
"Hey" She beamed as she opened the door. He looked really handsome, he was wearing jeans and a dark blue shirt.
His jaw literately dropped. She looked really good the fist time he saw her at that event when she was wearing that low-cut silver boy-con, and she looked sexy when she wore the black lace dress at the club opening, but tonight...she looked gorgeous. She was natural and she wasn't wearing something revealing to impress anyone and her smile actually looked genuine.
"H...Hi..." He stuttered after about 15 seconds straight of him just looking at her. "You look amazing. Really...you're beautiful. Why would Mark go anywhere else when he has...you" He blurted out.
She blushed and smiled at how he was acting. He was like a 12 year old with a crush on the hot nanny. "Thank you" She giggled slightly.
"You ready?" He asked after he got back to reality.
"Sure" She said closing the door and locking it. He put his hand on her back as they walked to his car, him opening the door for her like the gentlemen he is.
It was quite a short drive but Hanna didn't really recognize the route he was going.
"Where are we going?" She asked.
"You'll see..."
"But I'm inpatient and I really wanna know"
"Not right now Princess" He teased. That sounded really good coming out of his mouth and that made her feel really special.
They drove a few minutes longer and then he finally stopped the car. They walked to a bridge where there was a little restaurant with tables outside looking over the beautiful New York City buildings and pink skies.
"Oh my god, Its so cute" She said as she saw it. It was so perfect. Mark always dragged her to fancy restaurants but he was always on the phone and the people who work there and the people who eat there were always so snobby.
He led her to the table and he couldn't help but kook at how beautiful she was when she was looking around with a cute little smile on her face.
After they ordered there food and drinks they began talking.
"So you grew up in Rosewood, what was that like?" He asked.
"It was boring. There was nothing to do there and everyone had such high expectations for you so everyone had to act perfect all the time"
"I can't imagine you acting perfect all the time for anyone" He said laughing.
"Me? No. Defiantly not. I acted different to the people I needed to, and then on the weekends I would go to parties, get drunk and just be me. What about you, what were you like when you were younger"
"Well, when I was 7 my mum walked out on me and left me with my Aunt. My Aunt then moved me to a foster home a year later. I jumped from foster home to foster home and ran away several times, until eventually, my Mum tracked me down when I was 16 and we reconnected and then my dad found me a year later" He explained. He doesn't really open up to people about his family but she was just so easy to talk to.
"Wow thats amazing. Its really cool that after all that time of being apart you found each other. Whats she like?" Hanna asked, genuinely interested.
He was quite shocked. No one had ever really cared enough to ask things about his past. "Um, she's great. She apologized for leaving me and while I was gone she had 2 great sons"
"You have two brothers!" She said excitedly at the thought of mini Caleb's. "How old are they?"
"There's James who's 12 and Clay who's 9" He said with a smile. Hanna loved this. Mark didnt share anything about his past, she practically knew nothing about him. "What about you, do you have any siblings?"
"No, but after my dad left, he re-married a devil named Isabelle, and now I have a half sister named Kate" She grunted.
"She younger?"
"No, same age. She's the worst person ever. My dad even paid for her college instead of paying for me and When she met Mark, she was so jealous that he's my boyfriend because of how rich he is. She thought that was the only reason I'm with him"
"Is that the only reason your with him?"
"No! Of course not! Believe it or not, he used to actually be really nice"
"What changed?"
"I don't know but it was really weird. As soon as I moved to New York with him, he just became obsessed with his job and had no time for me. The big house and the amazing clothes and diamonds are great, but I would much rather him pay some attention to me and be a little nicer"
"Why didn't you ever break up with him?" He asked. Aria had told him that he used to hurt her and force her to stay by threatening her but he wanted to hear it from her.
"He just...Its complicated. He just has a way of manipulating anyone to do what ever he wants" She said sadly.
They ate there meals and talked more about their past, all the good things.
"What do you say we go get drunk?" Caleb said after paying the bill.
"You read my mind"
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