Annabelle Chapter 3: Mistakes

"Why the hell am I so stupid" Anna was contemplating what had happened with Drake, how stupid she was when she left Drake because Lewis called, god the things he does to her... She was laid there, on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. She felt like crying, screaming and punching a wall all at the same time. Anna got up off the bed and ambled over to her desk, opened up the top drawer, took out the picture of her and Drake and laid back down. As she began to stare at the photo, she realized how happy she was. That's when the tears came. Then there was a knock at her door Anna jumped, "crap my bruises." Anna looked into her phone and realized the bruises had faded.

"Yeah?"

"it's Payton"

"Oh, come in."

"You ok" inquired Payton

Anna looked up at Payton. She was balling at that point. "Ok stupid question, sorry..."

"No, it's fine" Anna sobbed.

Payton sat next to her on the bed, then held and comforted her. Anna put hands on her face and leaned on Payton. Anna didn't want a relationship right now and she especially didn't want to talk to Lewis. "Ding, ding, ding, ding..."

"Hey, who is it," questioned Payton

"It's, Drake?"

"You want some privacy?"

"Yeah please"

Anna stared at the phone for a moment. Her heart dropped, she didn't know if she was ready to talk to him yet. She watched her trembling hand press the answer button."Um , hello?"

"Hey, it's Drake can we talk"

Although she wasn't ready to talk to him she said yes, they agreed that he'd come over in an hour. Anna got up, changed out of her pj's and into some leggings and a jumper. She entered the sitting room, looked around, she did the dishes and cleaned down the sides. After she made the sofa neat, fluffed up the pillows and ordered a pizza.

"Hey, Payton,"

"yeah?

"Well, Drakes coming over to talk so I'm going to need the sitting room ok, and do you know when Jason gets back?"

"Uh that's ok and Jason doesn't get back until six, and it's only half past three so you've got plenty of time. Anyway, I'll just stay in my room."

"Oh, yeah, thanks."

Anna checked that the room was clean and tidy then she sat on the sofa and checked Facebook on her phone. Then she noticed a text, from Lewis. The text read "Hey you got to come over today around eight GOT IT!" Anna decided to reply saying "Ok I'll see you at eight." Anna was anxious to see Lewis again. "Knock, knock" Drake was here, her heart was in her throat. She opened the door... "Hey..."

"Hi Drake, come and sit down"

"Yeah ok"

The two sat on the sofa and began to converse.

"I'm sorry for everything I said when your first told me and I'm sorry for blowing you off,"

"Nah, it's ok. Anyway, how've things been?"

Anna and Drake, sat, chatting and laughing for a couple of hours. This was the first time Anna had felt close to him in a while. Friends she thought, friends sounds good. Anna thought that she and Drake were better off as just friends, she thought, it less complicated, less stressful, and less intimate. To Anna that sounded perfect as she wasn't ready to get intimate for the moment. She, for once in a while was happy.

"Hey I got to go, I've got a shift at work today,"

"yeah ok, I'll see you later,"

"bye."

Upon looking at the time Anna knew she had to go to meet Lewis, so she headed out. She stood at his door staring at the handle. Her eyes began to water. She knocked on the door, her whole body trembling. He opened the door, it was the same as last time. Lewis looked at her with his devil eyes. Quickly, he grabbed her hair and dragged her into his room. Going against her will, he beat her and forced her to get intimate, she was sobbing through it all. Eventually, he let her go at eleven o'clock. "Now we're finished you can get the fuck out." She ran out of that building sobbing. When she got back, she opened the door looked around and snuck towards her room. All of a sudden, Jason came out of the kitchen. "Crap," Anna thought. "Hey, what's wrong?" inquired Jason.

"Oh I-I um... It's nothing,"

"hey, come on, I know some things up, you can talk to me"

"I-I can't"

"well, at least have a drink with me, we haven't spoke properly for years"

"well, uh, fine."

The two sat down on the sofa with two bottles of whiskey (Jack Daniels to be exact). By one o'clock in the morning, Anna had almost drunk a full bottle, while Jason had only three shots. She was almost completely drunk.

"You ok?"

"Yeah, I'm fine Jason, I'm just exhausted, and sad"

"Hey um, do you want to tell me the truth about earlier, come on what's going on ay?"

"Well, um I've kinda got myself into a fucked up situation, well kinda, its more of and abusive relationship, it's stupid, my fault..."

"Hey, what? Come on, please tell me? Who is it? What happened?"

"It's nothing, whenever he calls me I go over, otherwise, he comes over here, and I don't want him to come over here. When I see him he hits me and forces me to be intimate, but it's my fault. I met him when I was drunk and we were intimate that night, but it's my fault because of that first night I was getting over Drake, I wanted to do it. At first, it was just drunken love, but now I hate it."

"Hey come on, tell me who he is, Anna?"

Anna looked over at him, then she looked at the whiskey. Quickly she grabbed the bottle and finished it off. "Anna comes on, tell me..." Anna stared at her hands for a moment, then she looked at Jason. Her face was completely pale.

"Anna?" She looked at him she began to blink more and more. "Jason?" All of a sudden fell back, as she passed out.

"Anna? ANNA? SHIT! PAYTON, PAYTON, QUICK!"

Anna had fallen backward off the sofa. All she could hear was buzzing. She was tired, exhausted even. Her heart was pounding extremely fast, and it was difficult for Anna to breathe. "ANNA, ANNA COME ON GET UP? PLEASE ANNA!!" Exclaimed Payton.

"Ngh, wha-what"

"ANNA?"

"Wha-what?" Anna sat up, her head was pounding, her ears ringing, her vision blurred. She could barely see if it was Jason or Payton sat in front of her. However, it was neither of them.

"Thank god she's ok" sniffled Drake

Anna jumped, she could hear Drakes voice, she rubbed her eyes and looked up. There he was "H-hi Drake."

"Hey, are you ok,"

"Yeah, yeah I'm ok"

Drake came up close to Anna and leaned into a warm embrace. Anna felt like pausing the whole world just to enjoy the moment for a while longer. She was happy, content. "I'm so sorry for worrying you all, I'm super stupid..."

"No, no you're not, its fine, we all care about you no matter what!"

"Yeah," "defiantly" Payton and Jason agreed with Drake.

"Anyway, now you're ok, I have to go home, you know because it's like three am."

"Yeah see ya,"

"bye" "bye."

"Anyway you two, I'm off to bed."

"Night Payton," "yeah, night"

"Come on, I'll take you to bed, make sure you get there safely" Jason held Anna's hand and took her to bed. Jason began to practically tuck her in.

"Hey, come on, I'm not a kid"

"Wha-oh yeah sorry"

"Anna, you know something,"

"what Jason?"

"You, Annabelle after ten years, are still just as beautiful, still just as cute, still just as amazing..." Anna looked at Jason, as she began to blush.

"Jason, I'm not fifteen anymore, I'm twenty-five,"

"I know, and I'm twenty-seven, we know that what we want now, not like before when we used to mess around" explained Jason as he touched Anna's hair gently with his hand.

"Jason..." Anna knew she wasn't ready for a relation but she just couldn't hold back. Old emotions were running high, however, it wasn't like in high shool where it didn't matter. It did matter now. Jason pushed the sheets of her and climbed on top of her he began caressing and kissing her. "Jason..."

"Yeah?"

"I-I just realized how much I still love you" Jason began to take off her clothes, as Anna looked into his misty blue eyes.

"Remember, it's just like our first time,"

"yeah, very romantic" Anna had fallen in love with him all over again...