"Johnny." Layla broke away from Toby's grip on her arms and ran over to Johnny. He wrapped his arms around her.
"How did he get off?" Johnny asked
"It's called self defence mate... I got off with community service..." Toby snapped
"Layla... You can ring the police. He'll get sent down for definite then!"
"I know... But he's my big brother. Toby! Just leave and we can forget this ever happened!"
Toby nodded and ran out the room. Layla started to tidy...
"I don't think anything is broken. If I tidy, no one has to know it even happened..."
Johnny noticed Layla was shaking as she picked assortments of kitchen utensils off the ground. He grabbed her wrist, she flinched in pain.
"Stop! Layla stop it... I'll help you tidy... But you have to promise me to stay at the Vic tonight, so he doesn't know where you are!"
Layla nodded, then embraced Johnny in a huge. After a few minutes she pulled away and carried on tidying. Johnny was concerned that she was working herself up over the thing with her brother... But despite that, he helped her tidy. He kept looking round at her, checking she was alright. He noticed small red marks along her left arm.
As she leant forward, her to shirt arose revealing a large cut that was bleeding up near her shoulder.
"Layla!" she looked up "You're bleeding." he nodded in her direction, indicating about her arm.
"It's nothing." she shrugged and carried on working.
They finished just in the nick of time as Sharon walked through the doors.
"Hello Johnny! What are you doing here?" Sharon smiled
"Umm..." Johnny looked at Layla before turning back to Sharon "Just speaking about her brothers hearing. I'm...a... Sorry about the door! She wasn't answering and I couldn't hear anything so I had to... Ya know..."
"Awe babe... It doesn't matter. I'll get it fixed in no time! And... Umm.. Mick told me Lay, about your brother"
"I'm a... Staying at the Vic tonight. If that's okay with you?!" Layla mumbled whilst looking at her feet
"Oh... Okay. Me and Phil can..."
"No! Please don't say it!"
Johnny laughed before going to help Layla pack a bag. She seemed to be okay. But she avoided the subject of her brother for the rest of the night.
Sorry it's short. I know I'm a rubbish writer so I would appreciate it if you would write a review for me on how to improve!