Lillian
“Lilly!
What on earth happened, you have moss in your hair!” Mary says to me as she pulls it out. But one look at Liz and she knew.
“You bitch! No way seriously?!”
She screams and I hush her.
“What? What? I am so lost.”
I hear Mary say and we both give her a look and that's when she sees the bite mark Adonis left on my neck.
“NO FUCKING WAY”
She squeals and I can’t help but laugh.
“God took you long enough, Mare.”
Liz rolls her eyes.
“You will tell us everything later. Swear it right now.”
I look at my two best friends.
“Yes, I promise I will tell you everything. Now let's get going!”
I tell them and we start to walk over to the boys.
“Where to next?”
Mary asks and Liam says.
“Well, I know a great food truck spot!”
We all cheer because we are all starved. Adonis though just stands there and says nothing. Does he regret what we did? I asked myself; I saw the look in his eyes when we left the cave. He didn’t want to make eye contact with me at all. I take his hand, and he looks down at our entwined hands. He looks back up at me and smiles, but I can tell this smile is a hollow one.
I should know, I am a master at giving those. I don’t say anything to him about just walking hand in hand to the bikes.
He gives me my helmet and helps me on as usual, but he doesn’t say a word to me. I can’t help but feel self-conscious about all of this. One moment he is begging for me, the next he is keeping me at arm’s length. I don’t know why he is doing this. I want to confront him about it but knowing him he would just say he is ok and there isn’t anything wrong.
I sigh and he hears me through the mic.
“You alright Lillypad?”
He asked me, talking to me like usual and I couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
“Yup. Perfectly fine Adonis.”
He stiffens a bit when I say his name putting a bit of venom in it. I wanted him to know I am upset because he isn’t talking to me or rather, he isn’t communicating with me about what is going on in his head.
We arrived at the food truck spot, and they have different food trucks everywhere. Mary, Liz, and I all have our eyes set on a Chinese one. The boys went to a loaded potato truck, we all got our orders and sat down. Everyone was laughing and joking, having a fun time. Adonis was chiming in, but his happiness was hollow. I didn’t like it. I wasn’t as cheerful as the others and I wasn’t talking much, just eating my food. I feel a pair of eyes watching me all of a sudden and get a chill down my spine. I look up from my plate and look around. I feel a bit of panic as I do.
“Hey Lills, you, ok?”
I hear Mary ask.
“Yeah, I think, I think I'm going to go to the restroom really quick.”
I tell them and feel Adonis watch me as I walk away.
I walk to the restrooms and look at myself in the mirror, I breathe out and fix my hair a bit. Giving myself a once over and walking out. That's when I hear it, a voice I know all too well.
“Hey Darlin, I see you’re not afraid to chow down in front of people anymore.”
I turn around and see Maxwell and my heart begins to race out of fear. He begins to walk closer to me and I take a step back.
“Now don’t be like this, remember what happened last time.”
I scoff.
“How could I forget my cheek is still a bit swollen.”
I tell him as he reaches for my cheek.
“Hey at least I didn’t leave a black eye this time, right?”
He tells me smiling as if he did me a favor. I swat his hand away and he hisses.
“Now ,”
He walks closer grabbing a handful of my hair.
“Don’t be like this, or else I’ll drag you away and show you again who’s in charge.”
I freeze remembering all the terrible things he did to me in my past.
“What do you want?”
I ask him and he lets my hair go.
“Well, we didn’t get to talk about the money I need, and I thought it be best to discuss it now.”
He tells me and I can’t help but scoff again.
“When I said I wasn’t going to help you anymore I meant it.”
I say and begin to walk away.
“Hey, get back here we aren’t done here.”
He says grabbing my arm hard I wince at the pain, and he begins to tighten his grip when suddenly he stops and looks at my neck.
“What the fuck is that?”
He asked me snarling at me. I quickly put my hand over the bite mark Adonis left on me.
“It’s nothing.”
I tell him feeling the fear start to grow.
“Bullshit”
He says and removes my hand from my neck. He then grabs my face forcing me to look the other way so he can see my neck clearly.
“So now you’re being a slut for who that Malith guy?”
He snarled with every word he said to me. He starts to put more pressure on my face, and I begin to wince. He then pushes me down slowly by my face.
“God so you wouldn’t put out for me but for him you would huh?”
He bends down and puts his face near my neck.
“No, I deserve a taste too, it won’t matter now that you’re not a virgin right?”
He licks my neck, and I grimace at the contact. He then pushes me to my knees and begins to unbuckle his pants.
No not like this, tears begin to form in my eyes, and I am helpless, I can’t fight him because he would only make it worse on me. I don’t care. I try to pull away from him and he hits me.
“Don’t you dare fucking try and move.”
He tells me and I try again this time yanking harder from his grasp. I managed to break free, but he grabs my hair, and I yell in pain.
“Hush Darlin, it’ll all be over soon-”
His words are cut off suddenly when I see a fist hit his face. I look over and see Adonis, Liam, and Noah. Liam helps me up and Adonis lifts my chin and looks me in my eyes, and I see his eyes move to my cheek and my lip and his eyes begin to grow dark.
Suddenly I saw him go for Maxwell and picked him up by his shirt.
“How fucking dare, you touch her! She’s mine, you piece of shit!”
He tells Maxwell and punches him again.
“I think it’s time someone taught you a proper lesson.”
He tells him and hits him with another blow. He keeps punching him over and over until I start to see blood. No No he needs to stop. I pushed Liam to the side and rush to Adonis.
“Adonis stop! That’s enough.”
I tell him but he pushes me away and continues to hit Maxwell. His eyes had a rage in them that could only see red. Mary and Elizabeth come over to see what's going on.
“Hey Liz, Mare, take Lilly home. Call an Uber using my card.”
Liam hands Mary the card and they nod.
“Lilly, are you ok?”
Mary asks and with that one question I begin to cry, and Elizabeth holds me. Will he be, ok? Fuck Maxwell will the others be able to stop Adonis? I can’t help but cry the entire ride home.