black and blue
(prologue)It was the first time he had hit me. I was fifteen then.My face was red from the punch, my cheek already bruising. I could feel the heat spreading throughout my face, both from shock and pain."Dean," I whispered, my breath coming out in short, fast pants."Shut up!" he shouted, his voice loud and unsteady, his eyes empty but his expression scared like he couldn't believe he'd done it. "Just shut up, Haden! For once, just...shυt the fυck up," he whispered, clenching his fists.I was still babbling on, tipsy still, trying to make sense of what I'd done wrong. "I didn't even know him, Dean. I swear, it wasn't anything. I just touched his arm for a second. Just one second," I said, and then his fist was on my face again and my head was whipping to the side.I put a hand to my cheek. We had been at a party, I had been a little tipsy. I'd touched a guy's arm. I had been smiling when Dean grabbed me and pulled me outside, his face red and angry. I'd never seen it coming. "I'm sorry..." I whispered and he kicked me in the ribs. "Shut up," he grounded out. So I did.He drove me home. I pressed my face to the glass of his window, tears streaming like rain down my cheeks, my shoulders silently heaving with pent up sobs. I couldn't believe he'd hit me. I couldn't believe it."Haden," his voice made me look up. It was so soft. So was his eyes. So different from how they'd been. They'd been dark, angry. So, so dark.I swallowed when he touched my cheek, right on the place he'd hit. It stung a little."I love you," he whispered so gently that I believed him. "I love you so much. I'm sorry baby."I didn't say anything."Please talk to me.""I... I can't believe you hurt me." And then I started to cry. Really cry, noises escaping my mouth that didn't even sound like me, my shoulders shaking hard. Dean pulled me into his lap, his shoulders slightly shaking too."I'm so sorry," he whispered into my hair. "I love you. There's only you," he said and it sounded like he was crying too. "I'll never do it again, I promise."I shouldn't have believed it. God, that was my biggest mistake.But still, I said, "Okay. Okay, I forgive you. I love you, too." Stupid, stupid, stupid.new story (: i've missed writing.