I woke up when I felt movement and heard cries next to me. I quickly sat up and saw Cole sweating through his shirt while shaking and crying out.

"Cole." I said shaking his shoulders. "Cole it's just a dream, please wake up!" I said getting really worried. I shook his shoulders harder until he finally shot up and looked around furiously.

"It was just a dream." I said running my fingers through his hair. He looked up at me like I head ten heads before pulling me against him and pressing his head onto my shoulder. "Want to talk about it?" I asked him. He just shook his head and pressed me against him harder.

We stayed like this for about ten minutes, with me just playing with his hair as he snuggled against me.

"Sorry for waking you up." He mumbled.

"Don't worry about me." I smiled as he looked into my eyes.

"I'm so lucky to have scored the best girlfriend." He smiled tucking my hair behind my ear before leaning in and placing a kiss on my lips.

"I'm lucky to have scored the best boyfriend." I smiled back.

I checked the clock and it read 4:18.

"Are you tired?" I asked him. He just shook his head and laid down, still holding me to his chest until I felt myself drift off.

"Skye!" nope, I don't care if the house is on fire. I. Am. Not .Getting . Up.

"Skye if you do not get out of bed I'm going to drag you to school in my clothes. He wouldn't. That's when I felt him yank my leg and I toppled to the floor with a thump. Hey at least I still have my pillow. I went to rest my head on it when I felt it get yanked out of my grip causing my head to crash into the wood floor.

"Ouch." I groaned and put my hand to my head. That's definitely going to leave a bruise. I felt arms wrap around my torso and lift me up.

"You literally fucking sleep like the dead. I had to check your pulse like fifteen times to make sure you were still alive." He complained dragging me into the bathroom with my bag.

" Can I go back to bed?" I begged.

"Nope get dressed or I'm going to come in there, and change you myself." He threatened. I groaned and just got ready for the day. Once I was done I walked out of the room only for him to not be there anymore.

I walked down the steps and looked for him but I couldn't find him in any of the rooms downstairs.

"Cole!" I called. That's when I heard a sound almost like glass shattering. I ran towards the noise hoping Coles father doesn't try anything. I tried to open the door but it was locked.

"Cole?" I called. Nothing. I started furiously banging on the door. It slammed open and there he was. It was Captain John.
I backed up into the wall behind me when my hand felt the lamp on the accent table. I gripped the base of the lamp as he inched closer to me. I looked around him to see Cole's father unconscious on the floor and Cole slowly walking towards me from the bathroom.

" I dislike you very much you want to know why." He muttered taking another step closer to me. "You're father was the reason my wife went away with my kids and never came back. He talked about you a lot and I mean a lot, everyday of every hour was about, oh I have to get back to my precious Skylar. Well I had enough and tried to end hearing every dreadful story about you. I'm glad they haven't found your dead father you deserve to suffer for what he did to me." With that I grabbed ahold of the lamp and slammed it as hard as I could into his head that he collapsed to the ground.

I quickly dialed Claire's number and she showed up with reinforcements to take him to prison.

Cole had been soothing me on his couch telling me its going to be ok. Meanwhile, his father fled we don't know where he went, but Cole just doesn't care.

"I've missed so much school." I groaned.

"You've only missed two." He said giving me a look.

"I still don't understand why he hated my dad so much." I said looking down at my picked at fingernails.

"I don't either sometimes being in the military does that to people." He said brushing my hair behind my ear.

"We should do something to get your mind off of this whole mess." He said picking me up off his lap and setting me on my feet. He led me to his truck and started driving away from his house.

"I'm sorry he went to your house." I frowned.

"No, we are not talking about this anymore, and stop blaming yourself for everything." He said gripping the steering wheel tighter. He pulled into the all familiar parking lot to the park.

"The park?" I laughed.

He walked over to my side of the car as I was getting out and smiled at me struggling to not die. I finally reached the ground and we walked hand in hand to the bench where we had one of our first conversations more like second argument but you know.

We sat down and watched the little kids running around with there parents chasing after them.

" Remember when you told me that your father didn't approve of what you do as a job what is it?" I ask immediately regretting it when I see him visibly tense.

"I sometimes fight or I street race." He frowned avoiding eye contact.

"Oh. um that's cool I guess." I mumble unsure of what to say.

"I know its not the best thing hell its not even close but I make a good amount of money and its enough to save for a future that you will hopefully be apart of." He said and I felt my heart melt. I leaned forwards and pressed my lips to his.

"Ew mommy thwey wust kwissed." Said a little boy that couldn't pronounce half of the words that came out of his little mouth.

"Sorry about my son." She laughed and pulled him away from us. I couldn't help the laugh that escaped my lips.

"Come on." I said pulling him off the bench with me. I led him to the slide.

"No way." He laughed. I wasn't taking no for an answer. He was going down this bright yellow tunnel slide whether he likes it or not.

We climbed up and went towards the slide entrance.

"You are going to be the end of me." He groaned and sat in front.

" Am I even going to fit in this thing." He groaned.

I laughed and gave him a little push. "Ah no your coming with me." He said grabbing me so quick I couldn't fight him. He placed me on his lap and started sliding through. The slide with me on his lap. We made it about half way until we got stuck. "Oh no." He groaned we are stuck in the bend.

"This is all your fault." He groaned.

"Push." I said to him trying to squirm off of his lap.

"Red head please stop doing that." He sighed causing my cheeks to turn bright red. I felt my phone ring in my back pocket.

"Hello." I spoke.

"Hey its Seth I was wondering where you are its lunch right now and I cant find you guys." He said.

"Oh sorry something happened and I couldn't go to school today and Cole is stuck inside of a slide with me right now." I laughed.

" Oh have fun getting out of that slide." He laughed and we both said our goodbyes before hanging up.

"I dislike him very much." Cole breathed behind me.

" How are we going to get out of here?" I questioned turning around so I was laying on top of his bunched up body. I started to feel us slide a little bit.

" Hey we are moving!" I shrieked. We were picking up speed until I felt myself come I contact with the mulch and not even 2 seconds later Cole came crashing right on top of me.

" I feel like flat Stanley." I groaned. Everything hurts. He slid off of me and helped me up.

" You look like you just took a bath in the mulch." He laughed helping me get it off of me.

We stayed at the park a little longer and we spotted the ice cream truck driving by and we couldn't pass that up.

I got the spider man one and he got one of the snow cones.

"Want to head back to your house?" He asked me and I just nodded.