Hey readers, if you haven't already guessed, I'm going to be redoing most of my stories. I've already rewritten Another Hurdle to Overcome, and I'm also going to be redoing Dangerous, Inevitable, Struggle and the sequel to another hurdle to overcome. I want to redo my stories because it's going to be too difficult to pick them back up again after so long. So please, bear with me, and I hope you like my writing.
Another note. I know you all probably know that I'm a terrible updater, and I can't guarantee that I'll be better this time, but I'll try. I'm not in high school anymore though, I'm a first year uni student and I want to be a psychologist so that has to be my first priority cause my programme is competitive and I need to get high grades. So I'm sorry if fanfiction isn't high on my list, but I promise that there will be updates when I have free time.
So I hope you enjoy this story and thanks to MelBelle94 for everything, she's the one that pitched this idea back to me in 2011, so thanks Mel :) She's an awesome writer and her stories are awesome, so check those out, and Chaos which we are co-writing, it's on my profile.
She stood at the entrance of Angelo's, watching a group of people laughing and chatting over pizza and lemonade. They didn't notice that she was there, just staring at them.
The girl was pretty, with curly caramel coloured hair that reached down mid-way down her back and big brown eyes. Her hair was loose and there were sunglasses propped up on her head. She was dressed in a striped black and white maxi dress and nestled in the crook of her arm was a black handbag. Tattooed on her wrist were the words 'Blood and Sand' in cursive.
Casey was the first to notice her. "Lilly? What are you doing here?"
"I'm sick of being stuck in Mangrove with Gran," Lilly said. "I wanna hang out in the Bay with you guys for once."
"Who are you?" Ruby asked at the same time as Charlie said, "Brax, who is this?"
Lilly smirked. "Didn't you know?"
"Didn't I know what?" Charlie asked.
"Lilly, don't." Heath warned, but it was too late.
"I'm Brax's daughter," Lilly said. "But it obviously seems like he didn't tell you, whoever you are."
Brax looked at his daughter, a stern look on his face. Charlie stared at him, a mixture of hurt, anger and upset on her face.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Charlie asked. "I thought I was important too. I thought you trusted me!" She stood up, shouldered her handbag and ran out of the restaurant.
"You shoud've told her, Brax," Ruby said. "Charlie deserved to know, you know about me being Charlie's daughter."
"I know that, Ruby!" Brax exclaimed. "I was going to tell her!" Meanwhile, Lilly sat had sat herself down in the seat just vacated by Charlie and was helping herself to pizza, not really caring about what had just happened.
"Whatever, Brax," Ruby said, standing up. "She trusted you." With that comment, Ruby picked up her bag and walked out of the restaurant. She headed down to the beach, where she found Charlie sitting on the beach, her knees pulled up to her chest. She was crying. She was hurt and upset and angry because Brax had kept something incredibly big from her and she didn't even find out from him.
Ruby sat down next to Charlie and put her arm around her mum. "He was going to tell you eventually."
"Please tell me you're not defending him?" Charlie asked, the sound of the waves crashing on the shore slightly calming her.
"I'm not defending him Charlie, it's just that we haven't really given Brax a chance to explain everything."
"What if I don't want to talk to him Rubes?"
"Well, have you told him about how I came about?" Ruby asked.
"Ruby, that's completely different!" Charlie exclaimed. "He knows I had you young and that's it."
"See, you're both keeping stuff from each other!"
"So I'm just supposed to say, look, I understand why you didn't tell me you had a daughter, when I was raped at fourteen and didn't tell you?"
"No, Charlie," Ruby said. "You have your reasons for keeping it from him, but maybe he had his reasons too. Think about it." Ruby said before getting up and making her way back to Angelos, leaving Charlie alone to mull things over.
Okay, so maybe she was a tad harsh. But, wasn't she justified? Brax having a daughter was pretty huge. Maybe he was planning on telling her but Lilly ruined it. Ruby was right, maybe Brax did have is reasons for not telling her. Charlie guessed that she would find out soon.
Back in the restaurant, an angry and frustrated Brax was questioning his daughter.
"Lilly, what are you really doing here? Where's your Gran?"
Lilly didn't answer, instead she just grabbed an empty, unused glass and filled it up with lemonade from the half full jug on the table.
"Lillian Grace Braxton, answer me." Brax said in a demanding voice.
"Dont call me Lillan!" Lilly snapped.
"Lilly, answer the damn question." Brax said in a warning tone.
"Cheryl kicked me out!" Lilly finally answered. "She didn't want me anymore."
"What?" Brax asked. "I thought everything was fine."
"Well, guess what Dad, it wasn't. She was drinking and spending money gambling all the fucking time. She didn't give a crap about me. She only wanted me so that you had time to work and earn money to support her and fuel her disgusting habits!" Lilly answered, her voice getting louder and louder. She wasn't crying, she was a Braxton, and Braxton's don't cry. Ever.
"Lilly, we're sorry. We know Mum can be a handful sometimes." Heath said.
"Exactly, we can talk to her." Casey piped in.
"No!" Lilly exclaimed. "I don't want to live with her anymore, I want to live with you guys."
Brax, Casey and Heath exchanged looks.
"Well?" Lilly asked, impatiently tapping her fingers on the table.
"Okay, Lilly, we'll go get your stuff tonight, and then tomorrow night we can have a BBQ and invite Ruby and Charlie along."
"Ruby and Charlie?" Lilly asked in disbelief. "The pig and bacon?"
"Oi, you do not talk about them in that way, you understand me young lady?" Brax asked, just as Ruby walked in. "Did you talk to Charlie?"
"Yeah, she'll come around eventually," Ruby said as she sat down next to Casey. "I tried to make her see sense."
"Thanks Ruby." Brax said gratefully to the teenager.
"Oh, it's no problem really." Ruby answered, just as Charlie walked in.
"Brax, can I talk to you?" Charlie asked. "Alone?"
"Yeah, we'll go to my office." Brax said, standing up. Brax closed the door once he and Charlie were inside.
"Why didn't you tell me, when I told you about Rubes?" Charlie asked.
"I'm sorry Charlie, I was gonna tell you."
"Yeah?" Charlie asked. "When?"
"I don't know!" Brax exclaimed. "I didn't want to bring up un-necessary information when I didn't know how long this thing would last."
"I still wish you would have told me."
"I know," Brax said. "How about you and Ruby come over for a BBQ tomorrow night? That way you can get to know Lilly better."
"Okay," Charlie smiled. "That sounds great. It would be nice to get to know her, she's another part of you." Charlie told him, reaching up and caressing Brax's face.
"Yeah and once she gets to know you I bet she'll love you." Brax grinned, before leaning down and gently kissing Charlie on the lips.
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