Kaylee's P.O.V.

I didn't want him to see them. That's the thing I never want. Anyone that ever finds out, just leaves and ends up running their mouth. It's been like this ever since Freshman year of high school. I won't even be surprised if Vic ends up like everyone else. Maybe it's just my paranoia getting to me but you never know how people will respond. It's kind of weird that he quoted his own song though. I snap out of my thoughts and pull away from Vic.

"What happened?" He asks as his eyebrows scrunch together with concern.

"I don't want to talk about it." I just refuse to talk about it. They sent me to therapy to try and talk about it but I just sat there and stared. I'd rather runaway from my problems than be stuck letting them out for the world to know. "You just won't understand..."

"But...I do understand." Vic pulls up his sleeves and reveals scars on his wrists. There's pain in his face as he looks at his wrists. He doesn't leave his sleeves up long before pulling them back down. I didn't even know he cut. He just doesn't seem like someone to do it. He always seems so happy and like nothing's ever even bothered him. "I get it." He snaps me out of my thoughts. "I really do. Please..tell me what's going on." His eyes are full of agony.

I sighed. I don't wanna talk about it but there's something about Vic that makes me want to tell him everything. It's not just because of his scars but there's something. "It started after my mom died. If I wouldn't have had practice that day, she'd still be here. I already blamed myself and so did everyone else. People at school just made it worse. They'd call me a murderer and say that it should have been me. Freshman year of high school started and it just got worse. These guys, they had an issue with me since..." I'm trying not to cry. I've cried so much since I've met Vic and I'm just tired of it. I swallow hard and continue. "well I was friends with Sam. We were different from everyone. They didn't like it. They couldn't do what they wanted to to Sam since his sister was, as some say, flawless. I was just the one that got rath of the guys. Well the guys, they'd catch me between classes and literally kick me down. I'd come home at 3 days a week with a bloody nose and bruises. They were the football players so of course they didn't get into trouble. It was same thing every single day for all 4 years of high school. I'd walk down the hallway between every class and have to listen to people scream "you should kill yourself now.", "didn't cut deep enough yet? Too bad.","No one would miss you if you left." and a lot of other things were said but I don't feel like getting into it. Cutting...was just always some way to get rid of the pain."

"I-I'm sorry." Vic stuttered. His eyes are showing disgust and sympathy. He reached over and grabbed my arm. He pulled up my sleeves and kissed every scar and cut I had on my arms. "Don't do it anymore okay? You're better than this. I know it's hard but you can do it. I won't let you do it anymore. You're gonna do it as long as I'm around." Vic pulled the corner of his mouth up just a little bit showing a slight smile. "Promise me?"

"Promise." I don't know if I'll be able to keep the promise but I can sure as hell promise him I'm going to try. It's obvious that it hurt him when he saw the scars and I don't want him to hurt because of me. Something I did.

"What do you wanna do? We're gonna turn this day around and have some fun. What do ya say?" Vic's smile lights up the whole room.

"I have an idea. Follow me." I kiss him on the cheek, grab his hand, and pull him out of the room. If he knows this much, I might as well show him the rest of my world.

"Kayls where are we going?" Vic laughs trying not fall as we run through the hotel.

"Trust me!" I say as I turn around grabbing his other hand and run backwards. We get into the car and I drive for half an hour pulling up at a trail surrounded by trees.

"Where are we?"

"My get away. Me and Sammy found this when we were 7. We were just riding our bikes stumbled upon it. Turns out, this is where we'd go when we were done with everything or just needed to get away. Come on." I get out of the car and lead the way down the trail. The branches of trees fall toward each other above the trail,creating a little tunnel.We finally get to the end where there's tons of rocks stacked on top of each other. The wall of rocks is about twenty feet high. The way to get around it, is to climb.

"I don't get it." Vic stares at me but I just keep staring at the rocks debating if I can still do this. I haven't been here since Sammy died.

"Hey. Don't ya trust me?" I shake my head and give him a crooked smile. "Start climbing."

"What?" Vic raises his eyebrows as far they'll go giving me a look like I'm crazy.

"It'll be worth it. I'm not just gonna bring you here to look at some rocks." I laugh and start to climb. Vic follows me, climbing not far behind me. Once I get to the top, I just stand there for a second taking in the scenery. Vic finally reaches the top and stands next to me.

"Woah." His eyes stare off in the distance with pure amazement. "This...it's amazing."

"Yep! It's beautiful isn't it?" There's a waterfall in the distance that flows into a small body of water. There trees everywhere and flowers of all different types and colors. There are rocks that pull the whole look together. It looks like something you would see in a movie, but it's real.

"Yeah...it is." His voice is quiet and calm.

"Come on." I started to climb down the rocks and onto level ground. Vic follows my lead. I get the ground before he does. He's a feet above the ground when he freezes.

"What are you doing?" I ask looking up at him.

"What's this?" He pulls out a yellow sketch pad and tosses it down to me. He climbs the rest of the feet down and stands in front of me.

"I can't believe this is still here." I rub the front cover of the sketch pad. I used to come here and draw. It's a little water-logged but all in all, it's still in pretty good condition.

"It's yours?" Vic asks confused.

"Yeah." I laugh. "I used to draw all the time and I liked to come here in order to do that." I open the front cover and there was still a picture of me and Sammy taped to it. We're smiling and he has his arm around me. I remember when that picture was taken. It was the first day of summer when we were ten. I took that picture since we were both having a really good day. It hurts in order to see that.

"Can I see?" Vic asks holding his hand out.I debate letting him see but there's no harm in it. I hand it to him and he sees the picture. I explain the picture and he flips through the rest of the book.

"Wow. You're really good." Vic stops on a picture of the waterfall I had drawn.

"Thanks." I look down and kick a rock smiling.

"You're welcome." He smiles and hands the sketch book back to me. "I can see why you'd come here. It's so calm and peaceful." We walk up to the water hole and sit with our feet in the water.

"That's why I love this place." I pause for second and realize that it's pretty hot out today. "You wanna go for a swim?" I smirk at Vic who gives me a confused look.

"In our clothes?" He raises one eyebrow.

"Yeah why not?"

"Well okay...but you have to go in first." He smiles and pushes in the water. I go completely under and come back up for air.

"That was so unfair!" I laugh splashy him.

"You said you wanted to swim!" He laughs and kicks water in my face.

"Fine!" I grab his legs and pull him in with me.

"That wasn't funny." He's laughing so hard he can barely stay above the water.

"It kinda is." He dunks me under the water in spite of me pulling him in. We go back and forth trying to get eachother under. Vic usually manages to get me under way more times than I can him. I finally just give up from being out of breath.

"Follow me." I swim behind the waterfall where there's this so called "hidden cave." I pull myself out of the water and just sit to catch my breath.

"You know everything about this place don't ya?" Vic says as he pulls himself out of the water. He took his shirt off while we were messing around in the water so all of his muscles were revealed when he pulled himself up.

"Haha yeah pretty much. Spent a lot of time here."

"Well ya know, you're pretty great Miss Kaylee."

"Thanks." I blush and look down at the water.

"Come here." Vic pulls me and rests his forehead on mine. We just sit there for a minute as the butterflies build up in my stomach and my heart starts to race faster and faster. Finally, he starts to kiss me. It was like magic. I felt like nothing could go wrong with him, here, just kissing me. It was honestly just perfect.

Notes

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