"I'm not going to let you sit out here and get sick, get up." I blinked, not looking up as the rain began to slow to a trickle. Austin had now lifted to his full height, gazing down at me.

"Just go, you don't need to pretend to be nice to me." I held in a shaky breath, I so much wanted to get up, to go into his arms and hear the steady beat of his heart, for things to just be us, and the world to melt away.

"Shut up, why do you have to be so annoying, why the heck do I even try, I don't care, but having you sit out here and die will make me out to be a psycho."

Of course he didn't care, I turned to look down the dimly lit street, clouded headlights shining off in the distance, everything was so still, but nothing was calm in my life, my real father was someone I never wanted to speak to, and the man I viewed as my father was now missing, and he knew the whole time.

"I'll walk home," I hissed, I wasn't sure if he could hear, there was nothing left of my heart, every ounce had been ripped away, piece by piece, until nothing remained. Austin said nothing, and I had guessed that he had gotten back into his car and road away, so with nothing left, I stood up, my skin turning into ice as I felt my feet move, my brain acting on its own.

Step by step, my tears mixed in with the rain, and I didn't look back as I began to walk, completely alone in the world, I no longer cared, I had nothing left to live for.

Rain continued to splatter against the darkened streets, stars glared down, and the world seamed to be humming its own lullaby. My head was cast down at the ground as I aimlessly wandered down the accent street.

I was in my own brain I hadn't even noticed the footsteps that came from behind me, and before Ai could think a pair of arms circled around me. I acted on instinct, attempting to squirm loose, my brain on overdrive. "Let me go let me go," I mumbled almost like a silent march of words.

The arms spun me around before I could even process what was happening, I lifted my frightened eyelids, my own eyes staring up into the piercing ones of Austin's.

His hair was wet and dripping now onto his four head, his jaw hard as he intensely stared down at me. I hadn't even realized that one of my hands was clasped in his, my other pressed against his hard chest just above his heart, that pounded just as hard as mine did.

I jerked my hand off of him, lowering my head to the floor, I didn't even know what to think, I had never been so lost both physically and emotionally, it was as though I were no longer Brianna, she was no more.

"I do care, so much, I never stopped," his words caught me off guard, but I didn't dare look up, if I did it would make everything real, and he didn't deserve that, he was far to good to worry about me, all I had ever done was screw everyone's lives up, maybe things would be better off if I had never been born.

"Well you shouldn't, all I ever do is screw l everyone's lives up," I sobbed, my drenched hair sticking to my face. I cried silently, the ground my only witness.

I could feel Austin's hard breathing, his hands pressed against my face lifting it to stare into his, I was such a mess, a disgusting wet wreck  of a person.

"Don't ever say that again," Austin mumbled his eyes bouring into my own swollen ones. His hands slid from my face down to my back, and I willingly walked into his arms, knowing it wouldn't last long, we stood there in the pouring rain, no more words said, words were not the only way to speak, this moment was enough.

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Another chapter my lovelies, I hope you enjoyed it.

What do you think will happen next?