Chapter 24
When I woke up I didn't recognise where I was. At least, not until Wendy leaned
over me.
"What happened?" I asked, trying to sit up but she stopped me. I looked around the room and as more things started to come into focus I realized that I was in Wendy's bedroom.
Confused and dazed I saw the tears rolling down Wendy's face.
"You fainted at work. I didn't know what was wrong with you." She said.
"How did I end up here?" I asked as I heard someone else walking into the room.
"I brought you here. I saw you pass out and brought you to my house." She said.
"How is she?" Wendy's mother Darcy asked.
"She just woke up." Wendy said, not leaving my side.
"You gave us quite a scare." Darcy said.
"I'm so sorry." I said, feeling so guilty for making them worry about me. I hated putting people out like this. I know that there's a lot more important things that they should be doing than dealing with me.
"Don't you dare apologize. It wasn't your fault. Not after what the doctor said." Darcy said.
"There was a doctor here?" I asked, confused.
"He came to house. He said that you were malnurished and that's what caused you to faint. He estimated that you hadn't eaten in a few days at least." Wendy explained.
I felt like I wanted to die right now. They called a doctor because they were so worried about me and now they knew a lot more than I ever wanted them to. I don't want them to worry about me like this.
"Honey, why aren't you eating?” Darcy asked. And I tried to sit up again while I was shaking my head. I couldn't do this. I couldn't tell them what was going on.
"You're not going anywhere. It's your parents, isn't it?" Wendy asked. And I looked at her with horror on my face.
I started to feel the tears prick at my eyes and as much as I tried to stop them, they started rolling down my face and I couldn't do anything to stop them.
"It's alright, sweetie. You don't have to cry. You're safe here." Darcy said, walking around Wendy and hugging me.
"I didn't want you to know." I said, softly.
"I know honey. But if your working, why don't you buy food with that money?" Darcy asked.
"Jack stole it. I had it hidden in my room and he stole it to buy beer." I sobbed. "He stole all of your money. And they won't give you any food?" Wendy asked.
I shook my head no and she looked at her mother with a sort of fiery anger that I had never seen on her face before.
"Everything is going to be alright. I promise. And you are not going back to that house." Darcy said.
"I have no where else to go." I said, letting go of her.
"Yes, you do. You're staying here." She insisted.
I looked at her in stunned silence and I looked at Wendy who was smiling at me. I couldn't believe that they were so easily willing to take me in and take care of me. No one has ever wanted to take care of me like this.
Was all this a dream? Was I still unconcious? None of this was making sense. "Why are you being so nice to me?" I asked.
"Because we're not like your parents. I don't think anyone is. And your my best friend. You're staying here." Wendy said.
I started crying harder now. But for a completely different reason. And Wendy sat on the side of her bed and hugged me this time.
"I'm already making dinner. I'll let you know when it's ready." Darcy said, leaving the room.
I saw her give Wendy a strange look, but I was pretty sure that it was just to make sure that I didn't leave. She wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to go home.
I had never experienced any sort of kindness like this before. And I wasn't sure how long they were going to keep showing me this sort of kindness. So I figured that I had to get in there first.
"I promise Wendy, it'll just be for a little while. Until I can save enough money again to get back to Seattle." I said.
"Hey, don't even worry about it. I mean it. You are staying here for as long as you want. And don't worry about saving. When you get paid, I want you to go shopping and buy yourself something that you would never dream of buying yourself before. You work hard for that money. You deserve to spend it." She said. And I looked down while nodding my head. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"No one has ever been this nice to me before." I said.
"Well, get used to it around here. Because we all love you and we aren't going to treat you like a cash cow or a slave." She said. And I chuckled.
"That actually sounds pretty good." I said. "Does your dad know? Is he going to have a problem with this?" I asked, starting to feel my anxiety rising a little bit.
"Wow. Calm down. Dad knows all about it. Mom called him. He told us not to let you go back home." Wendy assured me.
"Okay." I said.
"I want to ask you a personal question. You don't have to answer it if you don't want to and you can tell me to get fucked if you want." She said.
"Okay." I said, curiously.
"How bad was Jack? I only ask because I heard about what happened at the party and you said that it was nothing too bad. Nothing too serious. But from what I understand it was. So, why would you think it wasn't that serious?" She asked. And I nodded my head, realizing that I had to try and figure out the best way to answer this question.
"Well, let's just say that I've had a lot of experience fighting off unwanted attention." I said.
"Has Jack ever done that?" She asked.
"He's never raped me, no. But he's done other stuff. Like I said, it's not big deal. I was able to fight him off, most of the time." I said. Seeing how uncomfortable I was Wendy left it at that. She didn't ask any more questions.
When her dad David got home Wendy and I went downstairs and the whole house spelt of a delicious roast dinner that made my mouth start watering immediately. I hadn't eaten anything like that in so long. If ever.
I've seen food served at the diner that I think I could really get stuck in to, but none of it smelt as good as this does.
"Ella. It's so good to have you here." David said, giving me a quick hug. I wasn't expecting that. He was sure to make it quick, but it was also unexpected. A simple hug from a man, a father figure, without him trying to cop a feel. That was weird.
We all sat down to eat dinner together when it was ready and I watched everyone interact with each other. I was both envious and I felt comforted knowing that they were welcoming me into this house with them.
It was such a different feeling to what I was used to. A complete opposite to the way my home is like.
My phone started ringing and I looked at it quickly but put it face down on the table.
"Are you alright?" Wendy asked.
"It's Marilyn. Probably wondering where I am." I said. So Darcy's face contorted and she reached across the table and grabbed my phone and took it out of the room to answer it.
I was pretty panicked when she did that but Wendy just put her hand on mine, letting me know that it was alright. Her mother was going to handle this. But that didn't comfort me much. I knew how Marilyn could be.
Darcy came back to the kitchen with a smile on her face and placed my phone down gently next to me and sat back down like nothing had happened.
She looked back at David and they started the conversation that they were having before she walked out of the room.
I looked at Wendy really confused, but she just looked at me and smiled.
"Mom takes care of everything." Wendy whispered.
"Did you see the Potter's car next door?" David asked. Potter. That's Leia's last name, wasn't it?
"No. I didn't notice." Darcy said.
"I heard that they are having a meeting over there tonight about the twins father intending for Leia to be with one of his sons." David explained.
I couldn't explain it, but just hearing that made my heart start beating a little faster and it felt like wasps were going off in my stomach. I couldn't believe that they were having a meeting right now talking about Leia being with one of them, and that it's being orchestrated by their father.
"I don't think that's right. Kids should be allowed to choose their own mates.' Darcy said. And David looked up a little at me but just went back to his food.
It felt really weird right now. Something I hadn't felt before.
I knew that it was jealousy. Stabbing me straight in the heart. I didn't want Leia anywhere near either of the twins. I know that I have been denying it for a long time and telling them to stay away from me, but I can't keep denying it to myself. I wanted them and I knew that they belonged to me.
I had never felt this sort of feeling of belonging before. I felt like they belonged to me and I don't know why.
"Yep. It's about time you realized that." Ava sang in my head like she was taunting
me.
"Shut up." I mumbled to her.
"You know that these feelings have grown a lot deeper than you realize." She
said.
I thought about it for a moment, but she was right. I didn't realize just how much I was feeling for the twins now.
That's why I didn't want them to see me anywhere near my house. Why I flipped out when they showed up seeing Marilyn and Jack. I didn't want them to see that. Not because I was humiliated, but because I didn't want to expose them to that
part of my life.
After dinner Wendy saw me saw me sitting in her bedroom looking really down and distracted. So she gave me a jacket and she pulled me up from the house
and we walked out the front door of the house.
"Where are we going?" I asked.noveldrama
"For a walk. There's a great view out the back of my house." She said.
But we were stopped by noise from the house next door.
The front door had opened and I saw Nathan walk out first and Tristan walked out
behind him and Leia was holding on to Tristan's arm. I stood there staring at them with my hands in my pockets, no one could see them shaking in my pockets, but suddenly Nathan stopped walking and he looked straight over to us and he stood there staring at me.
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