A Scream For Help 3/?
Title: A Scream For Help
Chapter: 3/?
Pairing: Joe/Demi , future Selena/Demi
Rating: T
Word Count: 1.615
Summary: Her finger went up and down and slowly formed a single word on the glass. Help.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except the idea.
A/N: Thank you for the reviews!
Selena woke up at around 4 p.m. Everything was still blurry, but the one thing that’s clear is that she’s lying in someone’s arms. She was not in the mood to be in company right now, but whoever it was, the arms around her body gave her a warm feeling.
She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. This was the best rest she had ever had in the last three years, even though she was sitting on the floor. Imagine how good she would be able to sleep if she and this person were actually in a bed and not on the floor. Then it all became very clear to her and she jumped up - without waking the girl - as soon as she realised it was Demi.
‘Oh, God,’ she mumbled to herself as she put her hand through her hair and watched the younger girl sleep. ‘Shit.’ There it was. A curse. Selena Gomez never used to curse. Except for the last three years, but she would always make sure her daughter wasn’t around.
When she remembered everything from the past few hours, she cursed herself for crying in front of Demi while she had promised she wouldn’t let it happen. Then, after a good five minutes of staring at the still sleeping girl, she figured that maybe it wasn’t all that bad. It happened and there was nothing she could do to change that. She was just going to have to be tougher.
She noticed the position Demi was in and a sigh escaped from her lips. ‘Five more minutes of being sweet won’t hurt...’ she whispered before she picked Demi up and laid her down on the comfortable bed. She couldn’t help but run her hand through Demi’s soft, black hair before she leaned down and pressed a kiss against the girl’s forehead.
‘I miss you, Dems,’ she whispered, breathing in deeply before turning around to sit on the couch near the window. She stared down on the street, to all the passing people. They all looked so happy.
Suddenly, she spotted that same man again in the black clothes. He was just standing still on the pavement and he was looking right at her window. She wanted to jump off the couch, but she tripped over some clothes and she ended up knocking over the small nightstand, which, of course, woke Demi up.
‘Sel, what’s wrong?’ she asked instantly as she noticed the older girl had pressed herself against the wall with her knees pulled up to her chest.
‘Guy, black, scary, street,’ Selena breathed out as she stared at the wall in front of her, tears building in her eyes again. So much for being tougher.
Demi turned to the window and looked outside, but there was no one that fit Selena’s description. ‘Selena, there’s no one there.’
‘What?’ the older girl gasped and she stood up to see if Demi hadn’t just said that to make her feel better. ‘Where did he go? I swear he was there!’
‘Selena, calm down,’ Demi said, placing both her hands on Selena’s shoulders to make the brunette face her so she could look into her eyes. ‘Will you please tell me what happened?’
Those eyes. That chocolate brown color. Selena couldn’t deny she didn’t drown in them. Falling for Demi all over again, Selena nodded. ‘I will,’ she whispered before she looked to the door. ‘But not here, not now. Let’s wait til tonight. We can go for a walk in the backyard or something, because I’m not going out on that street.’
‘Okay,’ Demi smiled and she pulled Selena into a hug and Selena had never felt more safe than she did now.
~*~
The night began to fall and Mandy was playing with Hayley in the living room so that Selena and Demi could go to the backyard to talk. Selena pulled on her hoodie before she walked outside while Demi took a jacket and followed her.
Demi didn’t really say anything as they walked towards the bench in the back of the backyard. There was this whole path with rocks and flowers. The Gomez family really spended a lot of time on their backyard. It was one of Brian’s obsessions. Everytime something bad happened or he felt like working, he would work in the backyard.
Selena sat down first and Demi stood in front of her. She wasn’t really sure whether to sit down or not because she knew she still didn’t have Selena’s complete trust.
Looking up at Demi, Selena let a small smile touch her lips as she patted the space next to her for the younger girl to sit there. ‘Let’s just talk, I’m tired of being angry all the time,’ Selena said sweetly as she moved over a little bit so that Demi could join her.
‘Well, you have every right to be angry,’ Demi sighed, yet sat down next to the brunette. Selena didn’t reply to that, she just lifted her eyes to look at the sunset in the distance. Demi’s voice turned soft and warm as she spoke. ‘Are you up for talking now?’
‘I want to talk about something else first,’ Selena said, still looking at the purple glow in the sky. ‘Why did we agree?’
‘I don’t know, I guess Disney has that kind of power,’ Demi answered, looking how half of Selena’s face was lit up by the sun, causing a sparkling reflection in the older girl’s eyes. Demi thought it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
Shaking the thought out of her head, Demi turned to look at the purple glow in the sky. ‘I’m just... So sorry for breaking all contact, but... I thought it was best that way.’
‘You thought it was best to let me suffer through hell without any contact rather than just a simple text everyday?’ Selena commented, but to Demi’s surprise, Selena’s voice wasn’t harsh at all.
‘You know they told us we had to keep things low key or both of our careers were down the drain,’ Demi explained, knowing that Selena would remember exactly what Disney had said. ‘And you were just launching your career and I wanted things to work out for you. Then you suddenly disappeared.’
‘Yeah...’ Selena whispered, her voice trailing off before the right corner of her mouth changed into half a smile. ‘It’s kind of both our faults isn’t it?’
Demi didn’t reply to that statement as she felt an awkward silence started to surround them. She clasped her hands together in her lap and stared at them until Selena’s voice reached her ears, the soft spoken words catching her off guard.
‘I forgive you.’ Those three whispered words meant the world to Demi as her mouth turned in the biggest smile she’s had in three years. Ever since Selena had disappeared she hadn’t been able to smile as bright as she used to. Even Joe had noticed it.
‘I forgive you too,’ Demi whispered back and before she knew it, Selena had enveloped her in a bone crushing hug.
Selena’s mind was racing while she held Demi in her arms. She had promised herself to be tougher, but Demi had a weird effect on her. It was in this moment, under the setting sun, that Selena remembered why she fell in love with Demi. No matter how much time they’d spent apart, Demi would always come back to fix her broken - more like shattered - heart, using her love for Selena as glue.
‘I read you went missing a week after you came back from promoting your album in Europe,’ Demi whispered, not sure if Selena wanted to talk about it yet.
‘Yeah... Six days actually,’ the older girl nodded as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. It was time to finally get it off her chest and she was going to trust Demi with it, no matter what had happened between them.
~ Flashback ~
Stepping outside the door, Selena closed her eyes in the warm sun. She had decided to walk to the studio today because the weather was just perfect. She hung her bag over her shoulder and walked over the pavement until she heard a voice behind her.
‘Sel!’ It was a male voice. A voice she didn’t recognize until she turned around.
‘Trace?’ Selena said, not sure what Miley’s brother was doing here without any family or body guard.
‘Long time no see,’ the boy smiled as he took a grip on Selena’s shoulders, which she found weird because he had never done that before.
‘We haven’t actually seen each other yet...’ Selena mumbled slowly as she tried to turn around, which didn’t work. ‘Look, Trace, I really have to go to the studio.’
‘But you were in love with Demi, right?’ he asked, not letting go of the girl as he threw his arm around her neck and pulled her in the opposite direction.
‘What the hell?’ Selena questioned, struggling in his grasp. She had no idea where he had heard it nor did she know what was going on.
‘Don’t tell me you weren’t, because I have my sources,’ the tall boy hissed, pulling Selena through some bushes and into the woods.
‘Trace, where are you taking me?’ The Wizards star grew scared as they trailed off further from the street and they weren’t quite following the path of the forest.
‘You know, Demi kept talking about you when she was with me, and I figured it is time that you pay for that,’ Trace simply explained, making Selena’s eyes go wide as he pushed her in an abandoned little house before walking in himself.