(Seth P.O.V)
I put my head in my hands. "She doesn't deserve anything like this", I told myself. My head snapped up When I heard loud banging on the door. I wearily opened the door and came face to face with a anxious kid my age, "Have you seen a girl with dark brown hair, black glasses, her hair is in a braid, and she's really jumpy, probably threatened to kill you. I have her things and I figure she might need them."

"None of you're fucking business." I snapped. The boy tried to push me out of the way and I lost it. I punched him. He hit me and I was on top of him and hitting him. Before I could make anymore damage Hali pulled me off of him.

"What the hell is going on here? he asked you to keep it a secret that she was here not do any damage to the damn boy", she said before turning to the guy, "Sorry asshole but we don't want you here", she said shoving him out of the door and slamming it in his face. Gracie came out looking small and innocent. "Who was that? Was it Dylan? Did he have my things?", she fired question after question. I nodded my head answering her question. Hali gave me a weird look and I shrugged. I've known Gracie forever.

"Seth! I need my clothes! Wait...what did you do? Why do you have bruises on your face?", she glared at me like my mom would. We sat her down and told her the whole story of how he had come to our house. She shook her head, yelled at me a little before going to open the front door. "What are you doing?", I asked her. "I am going to go get my clothes back", she said and before anyone could stop her the door closed behind her.

                                               (Change to Gracie P.O.V)

I walked down the eight houses to Dylan's house where I knew where he would be. I was a couple houses away when I caught sight of him ad T.J arguing in front of his house. A few seconds later when they had caught sight of me. They ran over and engulfed me in hugs. "Let me guess, that friend of yours was the one that jumped me?", Dylan asked. I shrugged my shoulders saying, "You shouldn't of angered him or me."

They both shook their heads and was about to shepard me inside when I stopped them. "I'm not going to stay with you. Either  of you", I started off, "I'm going to live with my amazing friends Seth and Halley. And I know I will be protected because Seth was the one who sucked punched you, " I said pointedly towards Dylan. They both gave me disabelieving looks as I went to Dylan's truck, grabbed my things, and walked back to Seth's house.

I hadn't even realized that they had followed me until Seth opened the door and gave me a weird look. "What?" , I asked confused. 'Is there a reason two idiots are following you or is that just something that's normal for you/", he asked raising his eyebrows at me. I whipped around almost hitting T.J in the face. "What the hell are you two doing following me?", I said utterly pissed off now.

 "We just want to see what's so great about this Seth guy that you'd rather live him instead of us", T.J said shrugging his shoulders like this was a normal situation we were in. "Well for starters, he doesn't follow me around like a fucking stalker. Second he's been there for what feels like forever. He's helped me through so much. And, he's never hurt me to the point where I want to kill myself. To the point where I end up in a mental hospital because I tried to set myself on fire!", I yelled then angrily slamming the door in their face. 

I turned around to be engulfed in a hug. I didn't even realize that I was sobbing until I heard Seth trying to calm me down. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. Please", I sobbed into his shoulder over and over again. "Hey listen to me. You have absolutely nothing to be sorry about. It's okay. Your going to be okay", he told me. "You don't know that! You don't know that I'm going to be okay! How can you even know that?!", I said yelling at him slightly. 

He looked at me for a second before grabbing my wrist lightly. Before I could stop him he was sliding my long sleeves up past my elbow. I looked away as he gasped and ran his fingers over the thousands of scars that ran up both of my arms. "Are there more? Do you cut anywhere else? Gracie please tell me!", he asked me sadly. Instinctly I looked down at my thighs. He pulled me into his bedroom and locked the door behind him.

"Take your pants off", he told me authoritly. I nodded my head, and as he looked away I slid my pants off to reveal thousands upon thousands of scars, running down my legs and thighs. They were a mix of both old and new scars and I heard two gasps. I looked up to see that Pierce, Seth's best friend had come from the other door. I hurridly pulled my pants back on and curled into a little ball, trying to hold in the raging panic attack that was building up inside of me. 

"Hey it's okay. Your going to be okay. I'm not going to let anything else happen to you. I'm going to take care of you. I promise I'll be there for you. Just promise me you won't do this to yourself anymore", Seth said hugging me as I sobbed into his chest. I heard a gasp and looked up to see Hali one of our friends looking at my wrists. I hurridly pulled down my sleeves and hugged Seth tighter. He picked me up bridal style  and tucked me into his bed. I grabbed his hand and asked him to stay with me before he could leave. He knocked. I snuggled up into his chest and soon fell asleep.