Chapter 9

                                    

                                          
POV Len
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Clark looked so sad as he saw my heart break and I wanted to tell him everything, but I couldn't ruin his birthday. I ran out and I turned to see Scy as he was calling my name and running after me. "Len, wait!" "What do you want, Scy.. I need to go home." He frowned then hugged me tightly. "I saw what happened.. Let me get the girls and we can get out of here, okay? Just stay right here." I didn't have a ride, and the college campus wasn't close enough for me to walk there so I had no other choice. Scy ran inside and came back with Vivian and Michelle. Vivian rushed up to me with such worry in her eyes. "What's wrong? Are you okay? What happened?." I tried to speak but I just ended up bursting into tears in her arms. Scy picked me up and carried me then laid me in the back seat of his car. I felt Vivian wrap her arms around me as she joined me in the back as Michelle got in the front with Scy. I had no clue where Scy was taking us, but I didn't care. All I could do was cry and sob. After a while I ended up crying myself to sleep in Vivian's arms. I woke up in a random room that I've never seen before. My eyes were sore and dry. It hurt to touch them and blink, but I ignored the pain as I looked around. I slowly got up and saw that I was changed into a baggy shirt with short gray shorts that were covered. I could tell that I still had my bathing suit under the new pair of clothes on me. I slowly got out of bed and onto my feet while gently rubbing my right eye without it stinking. I took a deep breath with a big stretch before walking out of the bedroom and saw everyone sitting in the living room. Vivian walked up to me and gently hugged me. "What's going on? What happened?." she looked at me with a soft sorrowful smile while moving a strand of hair behind my ear. "Scy told us what happened. London was never someone to be or act this way. I'm so sorry that he has done this to you. We are all here for you."
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 I frowned as I had remembered everything. How my eyes ended up the way they did. How I ended up here. Everything. I tried not to cry but a few sobs had escaped. Clark rushed over to me with a big hug and Vivian joined as well. One after another, everyone hugged me tightly and they all comforted me at once. After a while, I called Night to pick me up and stayed home for a bit until I finally got the energy to go back to school. I started to hang out with Clark and the friend group a lot more often. I got to know them and even learned a bit about London. We would let London hang out with us a bit but none of the guys would ever give him much of their attention and would mostly just ignore him. I felt bad but the amount of pain that boiled inside me overcame everything and I even joined them and would avoid London as well. Eventually London stopped trying to hang out with us or even talk to us as much and I didn't feel as bad anymore. As I was walking to class, I heard someone call my name from behind me and turned to see it was Tom. "Hey, Len! It's been a while since we last saw each other! We haven't really hung out much. You want to maybe do something after class?" I wanted to say no but I realized that maybe he likes me and if I do this, it might help me get over London. "Uhm yeah. Sure. why not?" I smiled softly and saw him start to blush with a big smile and an excited glow grew in his eyes.  "We can meet up outside the main building of the campus." 
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He nodded with an even bigger smile than before. "Yeah, sounds perfect. I'll see you there darling." I flushed a bit by his nickname but brushed it off and continued walking to my next class.
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I waited at our agreed location to meet up with Tom. After a while he finally made it and ran up to me. "Sorry I'm a little late. Ran into some guy that looked a bit panicked about something, I helped him out though." he said a bit breathlessly then smiled as his lungs started to calm down and was able to breathe normally. "No, it's okay. I'm just glad you got to help him out. Are you ready to go.. Hang out?" He laughed a bit then grinned and nodded in response. He held my hand gently then carefully pulled me while walking out away from campus and into town. We walked together all-around town and just talked about random things, and I started to get intrigued about him. Something about him caught my eye and fascinated me. After a couple months of hanging out with Tom, we started to get a lot closer really fast. One day, I was lying on my bed, working on some assignments on my laptop when I heard a knock on the door. Night was at Brenden's house, so I was the only one home and Night never knocks on the door since she has her own dorm key to get inside. I hadn't invited anyone over so I wasn't sure who it could have been. I closed my laptop and got out of bed then walked to the front door. I hesitantly reached for the knob and slowly turned it. Once I opened the door, I saw it was Tom. "Oh hey. I didn't know you were coming over today. "He didn't say anything and started to look a bit worried. "Is something wrong?" He sighed heavily then stepped up to me, walking inside the dorm and I stepped back to let him in. He closed the door behind him then pulled me into him.