WARNING: Ringtone line was stolen from Savannah's story Deadly Secrets chapter one.

Every Rose has its Thorn

Chapter Two: Please Stay

Dante walked over to me, he kept his eyes on me the whole time.

"Hannah…What are you doing here?" At this point he was standing right in front of me; still keeping his eyes on me. I turned around and walked into Brook Lynn's apartment, slammed the door behind me. Leaving Brook Lynn and Dante in the hallway alone, to talk or whatever they were going to do. That's what sucks about being Brook Lynn's friend; she is also friends with Dante. My brother, the child my mother picked over me.

I sat down on the sofa, and picked up a magazine off the coffee table. I started to flip the pages not even reading them, when I hear the door open, someone walked in and then the door shut. I continued to flip through the magazine. Brook Lynn walked over and sat down next to me on the sofa.

"So what you're just going to sit there and pretend to read a magazine for the rest of the summer?" Brook Lynn picked up another magazine off the table and started to flip through it.

"I'm not pretending to read, I am reading the magazine."

"Really? What's it about?"

"Rachel Melvin's boob job." I replayed in a snobby voice.

"Reallly?" Brook Lynn looked at the cover and then smiled.

"Really?" I looked at Brook Lynn and then back at the magazine, continuing to flip pages.

"That's funny because that's Homes & Gardens."

"Why do you have a Homes & Gardens magazine?" I tossed the magazine on the table.

"Carly gave it to me. Don't ask me why I have no idea."

"Who's Carly?" I asked turning around to look at Brook Lynn.

"Never mind. Look I know I should have told you about Dante and your Ma living here but I thought that if I told you wouldn't want to come to Port Charles and stay with me, and I really didn't want to be alone."

"I would have still come to stay with you."

"No you wouldn't have, and I knew that."

"Okay, your right I wouldn't have but I still had a right to know. Don't you think?"

"Not really. I was doing what was best for you, so what they're here. Who cares?"

"Is there anyone else from my family here that I should know about?"

"No! Well not that I know of anyway. I just got her like a month ago myself and I was pretty surprised to see ya ma here, but then I saw Dante and I was like woaw."

We start laughing.

"When the sun shines, we'll shine together, Told you I'll be here forever, Said I'll always be a friend, Took an oath, I'ma stick it out till the end" Brook Lynn's phone starts to ring.

"Hello. Carly?" Long pause. "Yeah I will see you in a few." Brook Lynn hung up and grabbed her bag.

"Bella, I gotta go. My boss wants to see me about the show tonight. I will be back soon, make yourself at home." Brook Lynn walks out the door.

I lay down on the sofa not realizing how tired I am and before I know it I am sleeping.

"Hey, sweetie. How are you?" Olivia hugs me.

"I missed you. Did you have fun with daddy? How was school? Did you make it through first grade okay? I am sorry I wasn't there to help you or take you to school. I wish I had been, but you know that mommy can't come and see you when you are at daddy's. Right sweet heart you remember that don't you?" Olivia keeps asking me questions well I just shake my head back and forth. Half the time I just wanted to tell her to stop talking, I had no idea what the big deal was, I just wanted to play.

"Is there anything special you liked about school? Did you make any friends? Maybe even find a boyfriend? What am I saying you're in first grade you don't have a boyfriend do you? Hannah, sweetie can you say something, anything? Wanna tell mama about Boston? Is it pretty?" She always asked that question; really I had nothing to say to her. I wanted to talk to her and tell her about my life in Boston but I didn't know what to say, I was in first grade and all I knew was that I was going to spend the next two months with mommy and then go back to Boston to live with daddy tell next summer. And I really wanted to play.

"Where's Dante?" I final managed to say. Olivia started at me, she looked like she was about to cry. So she turned her head, took a deep breath, and turned back to face me again.

"Dante is over at Brook Lynn's playing. Would you like to go over there and play with them?" I looked at the floor and then back up at Olivia, only to see tears rolling down her cheeks.

"BELLA! BELLA. BELLA!" I felt someone shaking me back and forth. I opened my eyes, and got up in a sitting position on the sofa.

"You okay?" Brook Lynn asked.

"Yeah, I am fine."

"Yeah, sure? Cause you where pretty out there."

I roll my eyes.

"Brook Lynn! I'm fine. I was just tired."

"Tired? Really, cause you looked like you where dream about your ma."

"Yes, I was tired. And no I was not thinking about Olivia, and would you stop calling her my ma. Please."

"Fine. Why? You want me to call her your mom? Mommy? Mother?"

"NO! Call her Olivia."

"Why? She your ma."

"Brook Lynn!"

"Fine, fine. I'll let it go."

"Good."

"Good." Brook Lynn walked into the kitchen area.

"Hey, is there a coffee shop around here?"

"Yeah, Kelly's best place in town."

"And I get there how?"

"O just walk around you'll find it."

"Thanks." I say as I walk out the door.

Turns out Brook Lynn is right about something, after I leave her place I walk around town and before I know it I am in front of Kelly's –it's not that far from her apartment-. I walk into Kelly's and take a seat at the counter.

"What can I get for you?" A man in his late sixties asks.

"A cup of coffee would be great." I reply well checking out the place.

"You must be new?"

"This is a really small place isn't? Or are you all just great friends around here?"

"Kind of both."

I laugh, and then take a drink of my coffee.

"I'm just here for the summer."

"Visiting someone?"

"Yeah, my best friend, Brook Lynn."

"That wouldn't happen to be Brook Lynn Ashton would it?"

"The one and only. I take you know her."

"Sweet girl, trouble maker but sweet."

"In her own way right?"

"Aren't we all?" I hear a man's voice ask from behind me.

I turn around to find Dante standing right behind me with some blond girl.

"I don't know Dante why don't you tell me?"

"You two know each other?" Asks the blond girl, she looks at Dante and then at me.

"Kind of, what's it to you?"

"I was just wondering. I happen to care about Dante and I also know everything about him so I was just trying to figure out who you are. He's told me a lot about his friends from back home."

"Lulu this is Hannah, Hannah this is Lulu."

"Is she from the old neighborhood?"

"I thought you knew everything about Dante? I guess not."

"What is your problem?" Lulu yells like some kind of freak.

"You, so how about you take that fake ass hair out of here."

"This is really hair."

"Whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better about a hair coloring job gone bad."

"Hannah stop, please." Dante puts one arm around Lulu.

"Dante who is she?" Lulu turns to face Dante.

"It doesn't matter, just forget it. She just likes to start argument when she has nothing better to say."

"That still doesn't answer my question."

"I'm his sister." I get up and bump into Lulu on my way out.

"You're sister?" I hear Lulu ask as I walk out of Kelly's and head back to Brook Lynn's apartment.

I walk into the apartment and slam the door behind me. Just as I sit down on the sofa, someone starts knocking on the door.

"I wonder who that could be." Brook Lynn walks over to the door and opens it.

"Dante?"

"Hi, Brook."

"Hi, come on in."

"Thanks." Dante walks into the apartment. I don't look up but for some reason I sense tension between Dante and Brook Lynn.

"So what brings you by?"

"I came by to see Hannah."

"Okay, well let me check if she..."

"NO!" I answer before Brook Lynn is even done talking.

"She doesn't really want to talk to you. Maybe tomorrow?"

"Not a chance." I answer again.

"Look Dante I really don't think that she ever wants to talk to you to be honest."

"Right! Can you just tell her that what I said at Kelly's today was out of line and that I didn't mean it."

"Kelly's? Wait you ran into each other at Kelly's? What happened?"

"Hannah and Lulu had a fight and I said something. Look I just want her to know that I didn't mean it, and it would be nice if she stayed in town."

Dante leaves and Brook walks over and sits down next to me on the sofa.

"You got in a fight with Lulu? Please tell me you kicked that bitchs ass?"

I laugh "No, it was more like I yelled at her and then walked out?"

"Better than nothing. What did Dante say?"

"It doesn't matter. What's going on with you and Dante?"

"We had sex." Brook Lynn's answer to my question made my mouth drop open and almost fall off the sofa.