Chapter twenty,

bed resting, a body was found

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FIVE DAYS LATER, her life just felt so fucking shattered, despite all the pain that she had endured her entire life, she now has to live with the fact that she has no family left.

   She was fucking alone in this world.

   No mom, dad or siblings. Just her.

   She had simply remained deep in thought until she heard a gentle knock on her bedroom door, "Angel?" Snapping out of her own head, she had seen her boyfriend simply standing by her doorway, black sweatpants and a white t-shirt.

   Naomi had offered him a gentle smile, "I thought you were going to school?" She never heard him leave, though she was consumed in her own head, so she wouldn't of ever realized if he left.

   He slowly approached his girlfriend, and swiftly taking off his shoes as he quickly laid beside her in bed, body turned her direction, a small smile displayed on his lips, "Don't get mad at me, but —" He slowly began speaking, and began twirling a piece of her hair with his fingers, "I'm taking a break, especially since we are leaving from here soon." He retorted.

   Naomi had blinked her own eyes, she felt extremely guilty, softly speaking to him, "You didn't have to go on doing that for me, Chad. I didn't want you to dropout, as well." She had ultimately dropped out of college, she'd like to believe two days ago mostly because she wasn't in the right headspace, and they understood, it was surprising that a college understood, that she wasn't in a good headspace, perhaps they seen her in the news.

'A sexually abused teenage girl
forced to avenge her abusers death,
only to miraculously betray her now
deceased family.'

She seen her face plastered on every channel and social media, she was everywhere.

Chad had gently placed his hand onto her cheek, his touch was so gentle, "I don't mind, Angel. College will always be here, and I rather make us money, so we can have a place to live over there on Louisiana. . ." He soothed her face cheek, "You're my number one priority, and I'm going to put you first, so no buts." He given her a playful stern look.

She lightly giggled, and had pressed a soft kiss on his cheek, "You're so bossy, you sound like a mom." She lightly pinched his cheek.

He playfully rolled his eyes, a small smirk tugging on his lips, "I prefer dadd—" He was interrupted by his girlfriend who fake gagged.

"Don't you dare," She had playfully narrowed her own eyes, "I'm warning you, Chad Meeks - Martin." She retorted.

   He playfully thrown his hands up in surrender before he gently questioned her of something, "Are you okay?" He had dragged his hand up and down her arm, calming down her nerves.

   Naomi exhaled her breath, "No, Not really, but I'd like to believe that someday. . . someday I'll get better. . ." A tear rolled down her eye in which he wiped with his thumb, "Sydney has recently been helping me find a good therapist to see in Louisiana, but I feel guilty —" She had deadpanned.

   "Why do you feel guilty?" He had worriedly asked his girlfriend.

   "Mark and her offered to pay, and I don't want to seem that I'm using them, I'm not like that." She embarrassedly rambled.

   Chad had given her a very reassuring look, speaking to her, "You're not using them, Angel. If they offered it's because they are doing it out of their own kindness." He gently remarked, he knew that Sydney Prescott had a kind heart, his mom had always mentioned on how sweet she always was, and a comforting person.

   She sniffled, "I know, but still."

   She wrapped her arms around his torso, though she had let out a soft groan because of her stitches, as her boyfriend was just being very gentle with her, and pulling her into a very comforting hug where she had softly began to sob against his neck, all while he gently cried, it seemed a lot that they've been doing, the two were so emotional for multiple reasons.

Both ultimately drifted off to sleep, and
simply were clinging onto each other, though only for an hour later to be met by Mindy who had came to the apartment, and had sensed the quietness, quietly heading towards her friends room and seen the two asleep, so she covered them up, turning on her friends night light on. All while, softly closing her friends bedroom door and had then carried on by chilling in the living room, and grieving her deceased girlfriends death.

   A shortly while, later she had ultimately heard commotion, "Oh my gosh, how long have you been here, Mindy?" Naomi gasped, a smile was plastered on her lips, as her boyfriend was keeping her balanced.

   Mindy smiled, "Two hours."

   "You should've woken us up," Naomi had gently told her friend, all while Chad shook his head, "Nah. Then she would've hogged you all up, Mindy needs to stay in her lane." He kissed the top of his girlfriends head who had lightly slapped his chest.

   "Don't be rude," She sternly told her boyfriend.

   Mindy had smirked, "Yeah, Chad. Don't be rude." She flicked her brother off.

   He had quickly flicked her off before he had innocently eyed his girlfriend, "I wasn't being rude, I was being truthful." He had innocently argued.

   His girlfriend playfully scoffed, "Mhm. So, what are we watching?" She softly asked Mindy before she had them quickly asked her several more questions, "Oh. How is Tara? Is she still mad at me?" She rambled on.

   Mindy had given her a sadden look, "She's doing good still jumpy, but let's not talk about her, Naomi. You're doing great, and don't need to listen to someone else's struggle." She didn't want to tell the girl on much Tara just rambled on how it's unfair that she isn't in trouble, or anything.

   She didn't want Naomi to even hear of all the kind of awful things Tara rambled on about, it's also mostly the reasoning into why she agreed with her brother to leave New York as well, and also take online classes, she really has no point to even stick around here, and also a fresh start sounds fun.

   Naomi had taken that as it wasn't good, so she slowly nodded her head in understanding, "I understand, it's pretty established on where she stands, but it's whatever. I'm leaving New York anyways, so she really won't have to see me anymore." She sighed sadly, all while her boyfriend led her towards the sofa, and sitting right beside her, "You two are all that I need." She gently told them.

Mindy softly smiled, "We're family."

Chad nodded his head in agreement, speaking right beside his girlfriend, "Exactly. Us three here are a family, and you're going to be my wife." He smiled at his girlfriend.

Her cheeks reddened, despite a few tears rolling down her eyes, "Family. . . I like that, it sounds really nice." She sniffled.

A sudden knock was ultimately heard on her apartment door, Mindy immediately gotten up, "I'll get it, but checking who's at the door." She declared, all three of them were paranoid, and didn't want to be in danger.

A very familiar woman voices was suddenly heard, "Naomi, we've got some news." Sydney had a very saddened look, and Naomi felt like she knew what she was about to hear, though she already knew that her mom was dead, she just didn't know how brutally Ethan and her dad had left her.

   Naomi m stuttered with her own words, "I – Did you guys find her?" Her voice had slightly cracked.

   Sydney had gently nodded her head, "They found her body." She given the teenage girl a saddened look, especially with how she knew the way that Bridget Jones was left, the very deceased woman was almost unrecognizable.

Naomi attempted to stand up, groaning in immense pain only for her boyfriend to keep her steady, "Take me over there, I want to see her."

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𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞, hope you
liked this chapter.

I'm not sure how
much chapters are
left, but I want to get
to a point where Naomi
is in a good headspace,
and can get intimate with
her boyfriend.