Ch.18

Sam POV

I drove around LA, more lost than I've ever been before.

I couldn't really see the road through my tear-filled eyes but who cares? No one loves me anyway.

The one man I thought was my soulmate broke it off before we could even try to fight off Brennen.

I've had enough of Brennen. I never liked him before but now, I hate him with all my being.

I made up my mind. I was going to Brennen's right now whether anyone liked it our not.

My phone kept buzzing in the center console with texts and missed calls from my roommates wondering where I was. Not one was from Colby.

I shut my phone off, planning on not returning any of the phone calls or texts.

I pulled into Brennen's driveway ready to confront this asshole.

I walked up to his door and knocked on it. He answered the door and right away I punched him in the face.————————————————————Brennen POV

I heard a knock on my door and I answered it.

I opened it to see Sam to my surprise, but before I could say anything I was punched really hard in the face.

"Yo what the hell was that for?" I said.

"You know what the hell that was for." He responded with. I could see the pain and anger in his face.

My plan must have worked.

"Did you and Colby break up?"

"That's none of your business since you were the one that wanted it to happen. What the hell gives you the right to decide our lives?"

"I love him more than you do." I said.

"Like hell you do." He said charging at me. Before he could do anything though I punched him square in the face giving him a nose bleed and a huge bruise.

"Why I outta..." He came charging at me ready to kill me. In defense, I punched him again only creating more blood.

He stumbled and just stood there. "If you think you've won you're wrong." He said before he started to walk to the door. I followed him only to have him turn around and punch me hard again in the face.

With that he left.

I couldn't believe it. I always thought Sam was a gentle guy but his punches are solid.

I take my hand up to my face and grimace under the beating that I was given.

I guess this was going to be a lot harder than I thought. ————————————————————Sam POV

I got back in my car satisfied with the pain I inflicted on him.

I could feel bruises start forming on my face and the blood dripping off.

I didn't care. I was fighting for Colby even if he wouldn't fight for me.

I decided I'd go back home since I got all my anger out.

To my surprise, when I walked inside the house, everyone was in the living room, including Colby.

They all immediately stood up when they heard the door open but froze when they saw my face.

"What the hell happened to your face?" Most of them shouted all at once. Colby stood there in silence just staring at me.

"I went to go see Brennen." I simply said and made my way up to my room.

I could hear everyone following me. I turned around and said, "Leave me alone. I don't want to talk right now."

I made my way to my room and slammed the door as hard as I could behind me. I didn't care that there was blood all over my face. I was too numb of all my emotions to care.————————————————————Colby POV

When everyone came in my room bombarding me I knew I did the worst thing imaginable. After Jake slammed the door I got up and followed them. I went to try and find Sam only to learn he had stormed out right after I broke things off.

I know I didn't have the right to be worried because I was the one who sent him off, but I was.

I pulled all the roommates together and apologized for breaking up with Sam and that I'd try to make it better.

"You don't have to apologize to us, apologize to Sam." Corey said.

He was right. I needed to make this better. "Where is he?" I asked.

"We don't know. He stormed off after you broke his heart." Jake said viciously.

I tried calling him but it went straight to voicemail. He turned his phone off.

————1 hour later————

We had all been sitting on the couch when we heard a car pull in and a door slam. We all got up and made our way to the front door.

The door opened to reveal Sam to my relief. Except one thing.

He had blood all over his face and there were bruises starting to form.

Everyone stood in shock. We had never seen Sam this beat up or angry before. It was all my fault too.

"What the hell happened to your face?" Most of us shouted. I couldn't say anything. I was frozen.

"I went to go see Brennen." He said simply before making his way upstairs.

We all followed him, me trying to get to the front before he said, "Leave me alone. I don't want to talk right now."

He slammed the door and we all jumped.

They all turned to me, anger evident in their face. "Fix. This. Now." Jake said.

As I walked up the stairs all I could think about was something Sam had said about me in a previous video. "I need him, and he needs me."

Right now I needed to be there for him and make things better whether he wanted it or not.

I knocked on his door and could hear him whimpering before he said, "Go away."

I didn't listen and opened up the door. He looked up from his bed, face full of hate, anger, and sadness. I've never seen him this way and I was to blame for it.

"You're the last person I want to see right now," he said.

"I know I fucked up but please hear me out."

He laid his face back down on the bed. "But first can I help you clean your face up?" I asked.

"Whatever," He said into the pillow.

I grabbed the first-aid kit from the bathroom and kneeled beside his bed.

"Sit up."

He reluctantly obeyed and I used some disinfectant wipes to wipe off all the blood of his face. He grimaced under the pain.

I put my hand on his knee to try and comfort him but he only pushed it off.

After I cleaned him up I went downstairs to get him an ice pack.

Everyone stared at me waiting for answers. "I'm grabbing him an ice pack." I simply said and walked back up the stairs to Sam's room.

I handed the ice pack to him and he mumbled, "Thanks."

"Talk before I change my mind," he said.

"It killed me to break things off Sam but.."

He cut me off to yell, "Then why the hell did you do it?"

"I didn't want Brennen to hurt you! I'd rather him hurt me than lay a finger on you Sam!"

He looked at me with tears in his eyes."I'm not the golden boy everyone pins me to be Colby. I'd die before I'd let anything happen to you! Hell I'd even jump in front of a goddamn bullet for you! Why couldn't you just give us a chance to fix things with Brennen before breaking up with me? I realize it would be hard but if we truly were soulmates, why did you give up on us?"

Tears were coming and I couldn't stop them. He had a point. Why the hell did I give up so easily?

"I was caught up in the moment Sam. I didn't know what to do. My protective instinct kicked in and I automatically felt I needed to end things so Brennen wouldn't hurt you."

"Got pretty far didn't it?" Sam said pointing to his face.

I was silent. The only reason he went over to Brennen's was to fight for us because I wouldn't.

"P-please forgive me.." I said sadly.

"Colby I don't hate you for what you did. I get it. I probably would've done the same thing in your place. You hurt me really bad though for breaking up with me in front of everyone like that without discussing it in private."

"I acted on impulse. I should've talked it out with you. I'm trying to fix what I broke." I said.

"It's going to take a lot more than this and you know it. I'm starting to question my existence because of this. The one person I thought I would be with forever dumped me out of no where over a stupid ass threat. I didn't even want to come back here but I knew I had to otherwise you would have hunted me down." Sam said starting to get mad.

"Sam please don't feel that way because of me. I didn't mean to do this. I want to get back together Sam. Please." I pleaded.

He looked at me for a while. Then he finally said, "You don't know what kind of pain you've put me through lately. Well for one let's start it off with the prank you did on me with Sam Pepper. I'm still not over it. It's like it won't ever leave me alone. People still talk about it and I still think about it. Every single time I see it I fall apart. You don't know what I would do without you. I wouldn't be able to fucking live if you weren't here. After all that and all the fights we went through you went to Brennen after our manager was threatened by him! I knew from the start that man was trouble but you went anyway and left me in the dust feeling like shit. And now this? This fucking did it. I need time to myself. I need time to think before I give you an answer." By this point he was crying uncontrollably. "I still love you." He said in between sobs.

I walked over and tried to hug him but before I could he held up a hand and said, "Please. Just go."

"I still love you too..." I backed away tears streaming down my face. I walked to the door and took one more look at him before I closed it behind me.

What had I done?

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