Chapter 77
Ethan gave me the strength to continue “You can do this…. have faith that this will be the steppingstone to a healthier you and even for them…” Ethan said giving me the support I needed. I knew that if we were doing this it needed to be quick and all the way to the end. “The last time Maxwell hit me, beat me whatever you want to call it, it was when Cate, Jose, Nick and I had did that whole college tour experience thing for the weekend and.. I didn’t tell Max because well we were broken up. I don’t have to answer to any man nor will I ever… we were having fun at a frat party and he must have found out where we were going because I made sure he wasn’t on any of the lists. I was talking to a couple of guys and he walked in when one of them touched my hand and wanted to take me to another room… I was having fun and figured hey it’s what college is about and I had protection. We had been hanging out with the guy and his friends all day… anyways Max waited until we were almost in the bedroom to pull the guy back and shove me inside. He yelled first calling me a whore and telling me I was nothing and would never be anything, he told me if I didn’t take him back, he’d kill me. So I took him back one more time even after he beat me. Nick and Jose busted down the door and pulled him off of me… that was one reason we had taken a couple extra weeks since we were on break and told you both I just needed another week. To finish out the tours of all the schools and we all went to London making Oxford our last stop” I stopped needing another break to get my anxiety under control.
Just as I had been ready to start again Sebastian entered the room and I knew he was already listening from on the other side of the door. “I can’t keep listening to this from the other side of the door….. and I wish I could just walk away and mind my own business. The truth is I work for you and protection is what I’m here for in whatever capacity that may be” he said as he sat down and took my hand in his. I could feel Ethan’s energy all around us and wondered for a moment if he got Sebastian more worked up on purpose so I would have someone next to me. I had made sure my parents did not get close as I needed them to be away from me as I told them the things they wanted to know. My father looked from Sebastian then to me and watched us, knowing the look all too well. He was now wondering if we had something going on.
Before either my father or mother could say a word, I started again when he was about to open his mouth and my mother was sobbing on and off. She was begging me to let her hold me. “So, I pretended to be with Max until the last day of his senior year and he left for Prague with his parents for vacation and told him we had our own plans so couldn’t go with him when he asked… 6 weeks later…. I—I took a pregnancy test which was positive….” “MIA…… WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN YOU TOOK A TEST AND IT WAS POSITIVE…” “MIA…what did you do….” my father and mother were on their feet and now standing over me with Sebastian standing immediately to guard over me. Sebastian stayed standing in front of me as my father paced the floor of my bedroom and was building with anger and tension in his body. I now understood where I got the passion from.
Amelia my mother was another story as she was on her knees in front of us sobbing so much, she started to hyperventilate. I stood straight up putting my chest against Sebastian’s back “Hey I’m ok… you should really go now please while I handle this, I know you care about me and are only doing what you feel is right or your job whatever. I’m asking you though to please just wait on the other side of the door and just make sure no one comes up” I asked almost begging when he wouldn’t go. His body stiffened up even harder and flexed his back against my chest in a silent way of him telling me he really did not want to leave me. “FINE… I’ll be downstairs” he said softly before side stepping my mother who was still sobbing/screaming on the floor. My father was still pacing the floor with his hands in fists and turning bright red another sign I noticed how much I was like my father. I waited until the door was closed again and heard Sebastian’s hard stepping as he went down the hardwood steps before I got down on my knees where my mother was in a fetal position.
The energy in the room was so thick you could cut it with a knife, and I felt more than just Ethan there now which made me all that stronger for the next step. “Hey… mommy shhh look at me…. please…” I begged trying to fight over her screaming and crying. My father was looking everywhere but at us and when the room became too small for him, he walked out onto the balcony and screamed as though someone was killing him. The sound was my breaking point causing me to cry but there was no sound just tears and the emotion. I silently prayed for the strength to calm my parents who still had not heard everything and I even skipped over a lot but pretty much told them everything that had happened. I knew that it was only a matter of time before someone, or everyone came running up to see what the hell was happening including Sebastian who had left us. I crawled towards the bedroom door to open it hearing the steps of what sounded like an army coming up the steps heading towards us. I grabbed the handle just in time to swing it open to weak to stand now.
There Sebastian stood leading the way with not just my friends but the people who were there to celebrate my friend’s wedding. I was in Sebastian’s arms and off the floor in seconds with his arms holding me tight and his face in my neck softly comforting me the best he could. It was still too much affection from him in front of my parents and everyone else and I knew there would be consequences for it. In a split second my father was at my back with my mother in his arms no longer sobbing and screaming but crying and sounding weak like I knew her when Ethan had died. “Mia… come now we are going to the house where I have more room. I need my office and we are going there now, Sebastian carry her if you have to but this is by far over” my father said as he waited for Sebastian to respond to his command. Sebastian did of course by picking me up and carrying me ahead of them.
Down the stairs we went and to the front door where now there was a crowd of our friends. “Hey…. guys I’m sorry this is my fault, please continue with enjoying yourselves before this happened” I said as Sebastian carried me out the door. Catherine, Nicholas, and Jose, both watched us with haunting eyes knowing that things were bad and only going to get worse before they got better. “No… wait we are coming with…” Catherine yelled out and ran after us. Along with Nicholas and Jose who were trying to catch up to her as they yelled out “Cate it’s private and if they wanted us in there they would ask.” Sebastian sat me on my feet once we got to the office and after I had begged him to, now. I was stronger now that I had gotten fresh air into my lungs. My father placed my mother on the couch before closing us all inside with Catherine approaching the door along with Nicholas and Jose close behind. “No, you 3 go enjoy… this is your day, and we will be out soon I promise… and now I know that you 3 have only secrets that my daughter shared with you and kept the other ones to herself. You are my daughter’s rock and I thank you for that, but right now this is a family matter between us and now Maxwell and his family” my father said before closing the door.
Catherine looked at me confused and mouthed at me “MAX..?” like she was asking a question. “Cate really, I promise things will be ok and once this is over, I will tell you and the guys, but I just want this to be for them this day… and I tried my best to keep it that way…” I said promising that this was the last thing I wanted. I took a seat next to my mother who was staring at me and Sebastian as he held me up right even though I said I was ok. “Ok, so we are in here now, so I guess my question is why? I haven’t even finished what I had to say, and you both freaked out like I knew you would. Yet Ethan kept pressuring me to tell you both since he took me into a dream world where I met my great grandmother Amelia and reconnected with Nana Mia who died when I was like what 5 years old. So are you going to sit down and listen to the rest of the secrets I’ve kept to myself for the past almost year and so many months now?” I asked with a tone that warned them.
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