Matt’s P.O.V
We were bored out of our minds and I knew we would be for the rest of the day with the rain as heavy as it was, there was no way we could get out of the cabin today. Hannah had stayed in the kitchen, staring out the window and watching the rain, I knew because I kept stealing glances at her from my place on the couch. Brian came downstairs and made his way into the kitchen, he placed a kiss on her cheek and then looked down at her, confusion and worry etching onto his face.

“What do you guys want to do today?” Jimmy asked “I’m gonna go stir crazy in here today, I can feel it,”

Zack and Johnny answered his question telling him that there was nothing we could do other than work on music, watch shitty movies or play video games. But I couldn’t take my eyes off of the way Hannah and Brian were interacting in the kitchen. She handed him her phone and I saw his expression and body language change, then, he walked away and headed back upstairs,

Hannah just looked back out the window with her back to me so I couldn’t see the look on her face.

Not too soon after Brian returned up the stairs, he and Erin started screaming at each other and without another thought, Zack jumped out of his seat and ran in the direction of the argument.

I looked to Hannah again, who was now holding her head in her hands and shaking it.

“What are they arguing about?” I asked worriedly, walking into the kitchen and crouching beside Hannah who refused to look at me while she answered.

“I’ve been getting text messages from an unknown number,” She told me quietly “And apparently Erin has been too,”

I didn’t know how to respond, she has been keeping things from me again? The last time something was kept from me she died and I hit rock bottom. No, what was not going to happen again.

“How long?” I asked.

“Since we got here,” She sighed “The morning before the lake,”

“And you didn’t tell me?” The irritation was clear in my voice “How could you be so stupid?!” I snapped, causing her head to snap up to me.

“I didn’t think it was anything!” She spat back “It’s just text messages, and I thought…” Her voice stuck in her throat “I just thought that if I ignored it then it would go away, because for once in my horrible existence, something was going right, I’m happy and I’m not dying but now someone else wants to come along and fuck that up,”

“You’re supposed to tell me everything!” I told her, raising my voice, standing up and looking down at her “How can I trust you if you don’t tell me things like this?!”

“How can you trust me?!” She yelled, pushing the chair back and standing up, squaring up to me “Do you fucking know me at all, Matt?” Her voice wasn’t so loud this time “Since I came back from… the dead… have you ever once asked me how I’m feeling, not physically, but mentally?” Tears welled in her eyes “After all this time, everything my mother told you about me when you met her, all the things I have told you, don’t you think I’m falling apart?” I was at a loss for words “Because I am, Matt, I’m-“ She was cut off when the front door of the cabin slammed shut.

“Hannah, I…”

“I’ve been going crazy!” She yelled through the tears that were streaming down her face “I’ve been losing my mind, and you don’t even see it,” She sobbed “You don’t even care,” She hung her head and let the tears continue to fall. I stepped forward, my arms out an ready to pull her to me but she stepped back “No!” She yelled.

“Please,” My voice cracked as I begged her to let me hold her “Hannah, please just-“

“Don’t,” She cut me off, her red eyes meeting my watering ones “Just don’t,” She turned to leave, but when she reached the lounge, she turned to me and I stopped dead in my tacks, I’d been moving behind her like a lost puppy without realising it “Don’t follow me, Sanders,” With that, she turned back around, stepped into her shoes and continued out of the cabin, leaving me alone in the living room with Jimmy and Johnny.

“Where’s Zack?” I asked “And Brian?”

“Brian didn’t come back down, Zack followed Erin,” Johnny mumbled, his eyes never meeting mine.
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Hannah’s P.O.V
I didn’t care about the rain battering down against my bare skin, I didn’t care about the fact that I wore only a tank top, a pair of shorts and red converse, I didn’t care that my long ginger locks were sticking to my face and neck with the water falling from the sky and I didn’t care about the Charger following me.

“Hannah!” The voice belonging to Brian called out as the car slowed to my walking pace as I walked quickly down the dirt road away from the cabin in the hopes of reaching civilization soon enough “Hannah come on! Get in the car!” He pleaded.

“Why, Brian?!” I yelled over the rain, stopping and turning to look through the open window at him “Why should I get in the car and let you take me back to him?”

“I’m not asking you to let me take you back to him,” He told me “I’m telling you to get in the car so we can get away for an hour,” It sounded appealing, but I needed something more “I have your phone,” That did it. I opened the door and climbed into the car, soaking the seats and holding out my hand for the phone. Just as he placed it in my hand, it buzzed.

“It’s the number,” I told him lowly.

“I think I know who it is, read it,”

I opened the message and it read;

Hannah, baby, I miss you! We shared that amazing night together and you never called back,
you didn’t come out again and you didn’t give me any of that amazing pleasure ever again… and now you’re going to regret that. You have fourteen days to make it up to me and Gena with Erin, don’t do it? I’ll go to the press, I’ll go online, with the pictures included in this message. I hope to hear from you soon, love. Hugs and smooches, Val xo

The pictures at the bottom of the message were of Brian, Erin and I the other night in bed, the pictures were hot and they were taken from right outside the window…

Then the phone buzzed again, with another picture, of Val… naked.

“It’s Val,” I sighed

“Erin got pretty much the same thing,” He grunted “But from Gena, all because the two of you didn’t follow up on them, you realise what happens if they go to the press with this, right?” I nodded my head.

“Your career is ruined, right? They can find out everything else you’ve done and the band will be over,” He looked at me “I heard what you yelled at Erin,”

“Are you hungry?” Was all he asked and I nodded, remaining silent for the rest of the drive.
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Ten minutes of silence later Brian pulled up at this little fifties diner, but before I could get out of the car he gave me a spare hoodie from the back of the car and told me to tie my hair up, making a joke about how I looked homeless or something. Funny.

Brian ordered both of us pancakes and coffee, finally talking to me while we waited.

“Why did you leave, exactly?” He asked.

“What?”

“Why did you leave the cabin? How badly did he fuck up?” I sighed and held my mug in both hands in attempt to warm my frozen hands.

“He hasn’t noticed me falling apart,” I said lowly “I died Brian, I was kidnapped, killed and woke up in the morgue. I was already fucked up in the head before all of this and that just topped the fucking cake,” I was ranting, my voice was raising and my pace quickening but I took a deep breath and slowed down “I’m going to have to go back on my meds, I think,”

“Is that a good idea? Mixing your pain meds with your other ones?” I glared at him and he held up his hands in defence “Alright, sorry,” He chuckled “Your call,”

“Why didn’t you follow Erin?” I asked, looking at my phone that sat on the table as it flashed with a text from Erin.

“The same reason Matt didn’t follow you,”

“She told you not to?”

“Not in so many words, but as her husband I know better,”

I picked up my phone and read the text from Erin.

Matt’s here with me, we’re back at the cabin… he’s a mess, H, he feels terrible – E

I sighed, shook my head and typed my reply.

Having breakfast with Bri, he hasn’t said it yet, but he feels horrible too, I can see it *sigh* Matt should feel horrible, but I’ll talk to him when we get back – H

I locked the phone again and slid it into the pocket of Brian’s hoodie.

Soft cooing noises from across the diner caught my attention and I looked to the table it was coming from to see a couple sitting there, the woman cradling a tiny baby boy and I couldn’t help the small smile that tugged at my lips.

“What are you smiling at?” Brian asked and I just nodded over to the table. He turned around a little and looked for a few moments before looking back “You want one, don’t you?” I nodded.

“It’s the one thing I’ve always wanted in my life, and now, I might not be able to have it,”

“Hey,” I looked up at him “You will be a mother, alright? You and Matt are going to have beautiful babies, and they’re going to be spoiled rotten by all of us,”

“I hope you’re right,” I told him.

“Please,” He laughed “When am I not right?”
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Matt’s P.O.V
After spending the morning with Erin, I headed to mine and Hannah’s bedroom, her bag was on the floor and I almost tripped over it, so I lifted it to put it in the closet, but a big folder fell out of it and onto the floor. I looked at the folder for a minute, put her bag away and returned to the bed, leaning down to pick the folder off the floor. It was white and had ‘Our Wedding Planner’ engraved on the front in gold.

Flicking through it I saw that it was everything Hannah wanted for the wedding, there were some things she’d marked for us to choose together but almost all of it was ticked off at the front, everything from centre pieces and flowers to bridesmaids dressed, it was only the big things like the venue and her dress that she hasn’t ticked off.

“Matt?” Hannah’s soft voice came from the doorway. I looked up and she was slowly coming into the room “What are you looking at?”

“The wedding planner,” I told her with a small smile “Everything looks great,”

“I’m stressing myself out about the whole thing,” She admitted, sitting on the edge of the bed.

“Then come to me for help, it’s our wedding and I want to help plan the whole thing,”

“Okay,” She looked guilty “I’m sorry about this morning,”

“Why are you sorry?” I asked, closing the planner and pulling her into my lap “If anyone should be sorry it’s me, I’m the big goof who screwed up and didn’t know when his fiancée needed him,”

“I yelled at you,”

“Good,” I smiled a big dimpled smile.

“But I made you feel bad,” She frowned.

“And that’s what I needed, I’m so sorry baby, I’ll never be so stupid ever again,” She looked deep into my eyes and then leaned in and kissed me softly.

“Make love to me,”

Notes

Tension between the couples in the house? Is everything going to be fine and dandy between Hannah and Matt now? Hannah wants a baby! Yay!

More from the gorgeous E to come later my loves!
- LMV x