TWO WEEKS LATER

It’s been two weeks since the incident at home and my father still hasn’t been found but an unsettled feeling in my gut tells me that he is going to come back but a lot stronger this time.

I have seen Stella like every day these two weeks and the first day I saw her when I was in the hospital and she tried to slap me but Andrew had to hold her till she calmed and when she did she full on hugged me and let me tell you it hurt for two reasons.

Reason one: I got the fucked up and battered by my dad and…

Reason two: This girl can hug harder than a bear!

I got snapped out of my thoughts when my phone vibrated. Smiling I lifted my phone thinking it would be Stella since Andrew just went for a shower but my smile slowly faded when I read the message.

‘Astrid you don’t deserve any of the things that silly boy is doing for you slut! You don’t deserve him at all he deserves something a lot better then you! And I won’t hesitate to kill every one of them and make you watch!

GO KILL YOURSELF YOU FAT BITCH!!! YOUR MOTHER WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUDE OF ME FOR EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE!!!’

Tears threatened to spill from my eyes as a unsettling feeling emerges from the pit of my stomach go he is going to kill them all if I don’t do something about it now. Putting my phone in my pocket and slipping my shoes and socks on and running out of the house.

God I have to do this. For Andrew. For everyone.

By the time I get to my location I pray that they all will be ok after I’m gone, they have to be.

I get up on the edge of the bridge and look down at the flowing water and whimper, maybe I do deserve all this, and maybe this is all my fault. I don’t know all I know is that I have to do this for the people I love and care about that is all that matters to me at the moment.

“Astrid! What are you doing?” I whip my head around to see Andrew walking up to me slowly and Stella getting out of her car with tears in her eyes.

“Baby look at me you don’t have to do this I will protect you” his voice was soft and caring and he kept creeping closer and closer to me thinking that he can get to me before I jump, but he was wrong.

“Andrew… I love you and I love you too Stella” I said while looking at Andrew and his shocked but happy face and his eyes turned watery as I turning back to the river and jumped.

All I heard was my name being called out before I hit the freezing cold water the impact left me dazed. Andrew was the last image I saw in my head before I died.

Stella’s POV

OMG! She is going to jump.

No she isn’t going to jump.

“Andrew… I love you and I love you too Stella” oh fuck she is going to jump.

I can guess who made her want to kill herself that fucked in the head of a basted Peta Astrid’s father!

When I get my hand on that basted my clean hands will turn real dirty!

What the hell are you thinking Bitch! God I’m so dumb my best friend is about to kill herself and you are just standing there thinking about killing someone! Stella that is for later when your best friend isn’t dead.

I look back at Astrid to see her jump over the edge. FUCK!

“ASTRID!” me and Andrew screamed.

The only reason that I’m here so early is because I was going to go visit Astrid, Andrew, Melissa and little baby Rose-Marie. And saw Andrew on the was running fast so I stopped and he told me that he saw Astrid run away and to here and what I just saw my best friend jump terrified me.

Andrew turned to me and said “Call 911 Now” he yelled as his eyes leaked with tears and he took of his shirt and walked up to the edge of the railing to jump into save her.

But before he jumped I grabbed his wrist and pulled him back down “What the hell are you doing?” I asked, with tears in my eyes.

“I’m going to try and save the girl I love and will always protect even if it is the death of me” he told me with more tears flowing.

I nod as a single tear slids down my left cheek.

And he jumped.

I dial 911 and told them everything and they are on their way.

Andrews POV

Fuck I can’t let the girl I love so much die, I won’t be able to forgive myself for not protecting her enough. I wouldn’t be able to live with knowing that the girl that I love so much could almost be dead now.

I love you baby girl!

When I hit the water the air got knocked out of me and I swam to the surface and breathed in fresh air iinto my lungs. I look around but can’t see her anywhere.

Where the hell is she?

I took another deep breath and went back under the water and searched for her. The water wasn’t that clear but clear enough to see for a metre or less, I looked all around me and still couldn’t see her.

I came up for air once more and gasped for breath. Took another breath and went back under water to see nothing until I caught something in the corner of my eye and turned.

Astrid!

I swam closer and closer to her till I had her freezing cold body in my arms and swimming to shore.

When I got to shore I laid her on the wet sand and tried her pulse but I came up blank. Fuck! No she can’t be dead! NO!

I laid her cold fragile hand back on the sand and opened her mouth and breathed in her mouth a few times then put my hands on her chest and pounded four times. I did that another couple of times and nothing happened. I sat back in the sand and stated crying like a big baby with heavy tears flowing out of my eyes and my heart was aching with pain of loss “God baby come back to me, please come back I love you so so so much please don’t be gone! I love you, I love you, I love you, I-“

The next thing I know Astrid spat out heaps of water that was in her lungs and opened her eyes. Relief flooded through me as I picked her up and sat her in my lap.

“Andrew?” she asked in a week but still beautiful voice.

“Yeah baby it’s me, I’m here, I’ll always be here” the last word I said cracked as I brock into large sobs.

“I know what I was doing Andrew” She said as a single tear slid down out of her beautiful green eyes and half way down her check as I kissed it away “You shouldn’t have jumped I-“ I stopped her from finishing that awful sentence by kissing her and hungrily.

She instantly kissed me back and wrapped one of her hands around my waist and the other on my right cheek.

“I love you, Andrew” she said in a smooth and gentle voice.

“fucking hell!” I yelled.

She frowned “What?” her beautiful green eyes turning hurt and sad.

“God I was going to say that first!” I chuckled.

Astrid reached up and cupped my jaw, bringing me down for a kiss that wrecked me from inside out in the most perfect way. Amazed, absolutely blown away by how a single word, look or touch or just a sweet kiss from her could put me right in my place, completely humbled by her.

Then there was really no talking and no thinking. My mouth was everywhere. Our hands on the move.

We moved together, our hands joined tightly and I lifted up and stared into her green eyes that sparked greener than ever.

I fell in love all over again.

She kissed me hungrily, wrapping her arms around my bare abdomen, pulling me closer, and I swallowed her cries with kisses, as a shattering whirl of warmth powered down my spine.

I don’t know how much time passed but someone rudely cleared their throat.

I look up to see an angry Peta looking down at us, I jumped to my feet and pulled Astrid with me and gently put her behind me shielding her from Peta.

“Oh look what we have here, my slutty daughter slutting it up” Oh hell to the no am I just going to let him talk shit about my girl.

“Don’t talk shit about my girl asshole!” I lunge at him.

I’m so so sorry guys that I haven’t updated in a month! I have had exams and my mums been really sick and we have not long ago had a cyclone and my mum was in hospital most of the time very sick! So I hope you can understand and forgive me! And sorry guys for the CLIFHANGER! bUT I HAD TO!

qUESTION: hOW DID YOUS LIKE STELLA’S pov?

Song TO THE SIDE CALLED ‘Knoking on heavens door’