Cherry's pov:

I gave in. I couldn't handle those sparkly eyes of Lily, staring at me and crying. I hated seeing her cry in front of me and not being able to comfort her at all. Most importantly, I hated being the reason for those tears. She was beautiful. And she looked beautiful even when she was crying but I couldn't be mesmerized by that beauty when I knew those tears were not tears of happiness. Those were the tears of being broken into pieces.

I couldn't hold back. Sorry if she would get in trouble because of me. And I knew she would, yet I couldn't control myself seeing her break down. I hated that I was not brave enough to break her once and for all. But it's okay, I'd protect her from everything that's about to come.

I hated to admit but I was the one at fault for making her go through this. And I would still be the one at fault for what I knew was about to come. I am sorry, Lily. I really am.

Thinking all of this, tears were going down my cheeks as I was driving the car, my vision got blurry because of my tears so I stopped the car before it could get any worse.

"Phi, why did you stop the car?" Lily looked at me confusingly once she realized the vehicle she's on isn't moving anymore. She looked at my face and saw tears rolling down my eyes.

"Phi, why are you crying?" She asked, wiping my tears with her soft fingers.

"Tears of happiness. I can't believe you're my girlfriend now." Yes, I lied. Those were not tears of happiness but tears of fear. Fear for what's about to come, fear for breaking her heart once again.

"Are you that glad, phi? Please don't cry. You were fine just yet while I was breaking down and now you're crying?" Lily said, trying to comfort me.

I stopped crying. I knew that her comforting me this much wasn't gonna be enough to make those thoughts ease away. But looking at her hurt, confused face, I could not but smile.

"I am fine," I said, wiping my tears.

"Phi, do not cry na. You know I don't like to see you cry...," Lily said and pouted, crossing her arms.

"Don't be mad na. Ok, I am not crying anymore," I smiled and kissed Lily on the cheek.

"Now this is the side I like of yours!" Lily smiled and pinched my cheek.

"Hey, I am the one who's supposed to do that!" I teased and smiled, fighting for dominance.

"Really?" She smirked and giggled.

"Hmm...," I pouted my lips and looked back at her.

"Drive now na, Jenny's gonna be worried."

"Okay, ok. I am!" I continued driving my car while acting a bit jealous of Jenny.

We arrived in front of Lily's dorm. I dropped her off and she gave me a goodbye kiss on the cheek. I waved her goodbye and stared at her the whole time till she went inside the dorm.

Just after Lily got out of my sight, the smile on my face disappeared, tears started forming in the corner of my eyes again and I went back home crying.

This feeling had been so familiar to me that I was very used to it now. The feeling of fear, the fear of you or your loved ones getting hurt by I knew who, was just so similar. The reason why I didn't like relationships, be that any type.

I knew wasting my time thinking about this was not gonna make things better. In fact, it'd make everything worse. But I couldn't help thinking about the safety of the person who got close to me, especially Lily. If they got hurt in the future, I knew that I'd be the reason.

I finally reached my house or what I could call 'hell'. Where a lonely bitch like me would spend her whole time thinking about all the shit she'd done. I wish I had someone to talk to, so I could avoid the topics I hated to bring up and move on.

Anyways, I wiped my tears and went back to my house, parking the car in the garage. Then laid back on my bed bringing those hell thoughts back again.

Lily's pov:

I was so happy. Phi and I were finally together. Phi Cher dropped me off and I could feel her staring at me the whole time. But for some reason, she didn't look as happy.

Jenny saw me jumping happily and coming back to the dorm. She looked at me confusedly and gave a look of disgust teasing me as she always did.

"What the hell happened? Why are you so happy?" Judging from the way she asked, her day definitely didn't go well.

"You can tell?" I know that's a stupid question. But I was too caught up in the mood.

"You're jumping like a monkey. Only a fool like you won't be able to tell.'' I flinched my mouth. Then she asked again "so... What happened?"

"So... Phi and I..." I didn't know if I should tell her already but I guess here we go..... "We're together now"

"What?" Jenny jumped out of her chair almost falling, losing balance.

"You're lying!" Jenny claimed. I was too done with her!

"No, I am not! See this lipstick on my lips? Remember I lost my lipstick, asked for yours and you refused to give me so I just went there without wearing any. Where did this come from then?" I said, pointing on my lips which had red lipstick all over and there was even a slight red lipstick mark on my cheeks.

"No way! You kissed her??" Her eyes got big.

''Yep." I said smiling proudly.

Jenny was sitting there speechless, having no idea what to say, cause earlier that day when I told her I was going to talk to phi Cherry, she had already decided that I was gonna be heartbroken, she had prepared chocolates and all as it would've been my first heartbreak.

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I was so happy the whole day, and had a great night sleep with a sweet dream. Meanwhile, what I didn't know was that Cherry was in her house crying, out of worry, for me. Just if... If I knew what was gonna happen, I probably wouldn't have been this happy and stayed by Phi Cherry's side instead of going home. If... Phi Cherry told anyone that day about what was going on.

Cherry's pov:

Laying down on my bed, not being able to sleep, typical me. My head was full of Lily and her smile, her tears but not quite in a good way. I couldn't help but think that if something happened to her that day, I wouldn't be able to protect her at all.

I picked up my phone, looked at the time and it said 1:47 at night. Still not able to sleep, I scrolled through Instagram for a few minutes, got bored and put the phone back down on my bed.

Just after a minute, my phone rang. I knew exactly who that was yet my mind pretended to wander around thinking "who the hell is calling that late at night?".

I picked up the phone and saw the caller's name, exactly who I thought and received the call.

"Hello?" I asked with a scared voice.

"Come back RIGHT NOW. Who the hell do you think you are?" A harsh voice yelled at me.

"..."

"Just because I let you move out doesn't mean you can be like this!"

"...''

"I said COME BACK" he shouted again.

"Okay."

I had no choice but to abide by his footsteps and orders or.... I knew exactly what's gonna happen.

I put my phone in my bag, checking the time for the last time '2:37'. I picked up my bag, put on a coat, took my house keys, put on my shoes and left, taking a look at the house for a few seconds.

The whole road was silent. Only a few houses in the street have their lights on. I could hear baby's crying from the house. I wanted to go and calm the baby down but it's not my goal. My goal was way greater and harder than that.

Putting on a stern face, I finally arrived at the house I was looking for. I rang the doorbell and a harsh, deep voice came from inside "the door is open. Come in!''
A tear fell from my eye as I was walking towards the door. I quickly wiped that tear off and opened the door, taking a deep breath going inside...

*A new journey of revelation begins. So where is she going? Who is the guy that called her?*

To Be Continued.....

A/n: Who do you think called Cherry? Why does Cherry call her house a hell?