House Of Wolves

Helena's P/O/V
I awoke in a strange house. I recognised Frank after a few seconds, he was standing over my bed. Wait. This isn't my bed. Oh yeah, he stopped me from jumping last night.
"morning Helena"
"Hi Frank" I replied, sort of confused, sort of happy, fully safe
he sat down next to me and took off the bandage from my head.
"sorry this probably hurts, but Ray told me to take it off for you and put some antiseptic on it"
I replied
"I't's fine Frank, honestly, I've had worse" and gave him a little smile, yet he looked worried as I said that
He now bandaged up my head and gave me some clothes I could wear
"Thank you, you know my dad was only acting when you guys came round for dinner"
"Really? How? What? When? I mean I understand it... you don't want to talk about it"
"it's fine Frank, so he basically hated my guts since the minute I was born, killed my mother and has abused me ever since, hence the injuries"
He then sat closer to me and gave me a gentle hug. I haven't felt one of those since the night mother died, I shed a tear in remembrance, hoping he wouldn't notice.



Frank's P/O/V
I went into Mikey's bedroom, where Helena was sleeping, she was still asleep, but I must have woken her up, I said hi to her and she said hi back, sounding a little sleepy, and a little bit happy.
Ray told me to change her bandages on her head. Her wound looked terrible, but she didn't flinch once when I put antiseptic on it. She told me she's had worse, then said her dad was only pretending to be nice. She told me about it and hugged her, gently as not to hurt her more than she is already. She felt cold, and I felt a tear on my shoulder. What did I do? Did I upset her?
"Are you okay?" I asked her
"Yeah, sorry, I'm just remembering the last hug I had"
"You can tell me if you want" I told her " I won't laugh"
"It was with my mum... before she went out to her sister's child's funeral. I told her to stay safe"
She was full on crying by now, I got her some tissues and gave her my shoulder to cry on. The gentlemanly thing to do. I sat and hugged her, she seemed to like it.
It reminded me of the last time I saw my best friend before he died in a car crash. I started crying, she noticed and hugged me tighter. There we were. Sat in Mikey's bed. Crying.

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