"I will never let you fall, I'll be there for you through it all, even if saving you sends me to heaven."

-Steve Marie

Chapter 2

As I enter in and close the door behind me, I'm immediately welcomed by the heat of the apartment. We go in the kitchen. Ross makes us three hot chocolate and comes sit with us at the table. We watch her intensively while she's drinking, and I ask myself how did she ended up there?!

After 15 minutes, she finishes her 5th cup, she needed to eat or drink apparently. All goes quiet. I sigh and turn my head to her and ask:

"So...We really want to help you with no matter what you're going through. But for that, we need to know you and your story...So let's start with your name, alright?"

She nods hesitantly, sighs and then says in the smallest voice ever heard.

"My name's Tia."

As I make my way to my room quietly, I hear him shouting my name downstairs. I run to him and see my dad totally wasted. "As always" I think to myself.

"Yes daddy?" I ask him with the sweetest voice than I can have considering that he just slapped me twice two minutes ago. "Don't play the sweet innocent girl with me when you know that you're just a whore, bitch who won't go far in life!" he yells. I silently pray for the tears to not stream or else I'm gonna have another round of hits. "Yes dad" is all I can say without sobbing. "Go at the supermarket and buy me and new pack of beer NOW" he says between his teeth. I simply nod and go as he told me.

When I come home, I hear screams, shouts and cries. But they don't belong to my dad. They come from a woman. I carefully come inside the house and see a woman, who looks really familiar if you ask me, standing in my dad's living room, since I was not allowed to stay there it wasn't mine, and my dad arguing like there's no tomorrow. "Uhm … dad? What's going on here?" I ask him. I know that he won't hit me in front of someone, he never does. In front of people he just acts like a father who loves his daughter and would never hit her. Yeah LIAR!

"Tia, go in your room" he warns. It must be really important if he acts like that in front of someone. As I climb the stairs, I glance at the woman who's looking also at me, with something in her eyes that my dad never gave me, Love. I look a last time at her, hoping to see her soon. I didn't know that it was the last time that I would see her…

As I rise my head up from that horrible flashback, I see two pairs of brown eyes looking at me, waiting for me to say something. I also feel hot tears streaming down my face, but I don't stop them. I don't make any sound either. I just let them fall.

I don't know if I can trust them. I mean they just found me in the streets and they took pity of me. But what if they lead me to the police and then they put me in a foster house? I don't want to! And those 2 last months were maybe hard but I wouldn't change it for a foster house. And I promised myself that I wouldn't trust anyone else except me.

" Uhm…Yeah…Well I- I …" I stutter. I have no ideas how to start that sentence. "I'm not ready to talk right now…I just need some…time." I guess they took the hint because the brunette looks at Blondie and they both start a conversation with their eyes, I hate that. After a while, Blondie speaks up." Could you give us a minute?" he says and then goes out with her.

Ross pov

I take Ally and lead her to the next room which happened to be the living room.

"Ross, she starts, I don't that's a good idea. What if she's lost and someone is dead worried and is searching after her in the entire city? Worst in the whole USA?!" This is so Laura, overreacting for nothing. Well in that case I guess it's for something big but still.

"Laura, you really want to let her go like that? I mean look at her! She looks so vulnerable and broken. I wouldn't forgive myself if something happened to her. And I don't even know her. It's just that, I feel like…there's something about her that…I don't know." I try to explain. She looks at me oddly and then snaps "you sure it isn't just because you think she's hot?"

Ouch. Now I feel offended. I'm not such a jerk! How can she think that? " Wow is this really what you think Laur?" I ask getting a little mad and confused.

"Well she sure looks good and you're …well a guy." She finishes. But quickly adds a smirk to make sure that I know she's only joking.

"What are you trying to say Laur? That I'm an irresistible good looking guy?" I smirk back.

"Not really, just that you can have a huge ego most of the time" she answers, laughing a little.

"Oh shut up! You love it."

"Keep telling yourself that Blondie" she says, winks and then goes back to the kitchen where Tia is. We find her sleeping on the table, her head next to her cup empty. I look at her and can't help but find her so cute. Not a cute like "wow that girl over there is really cute" but more like a little sister cute. I decide that no matter what Laura says, she's staying with us. I decide to put her in my room. I carry her carefully and make my way to my bedroom where I put her slowly on my bed. And even though I know absolutely nothing about her, I can tell that I'm not letting her go and I'll take of her like my sister.

Hey! Wazzup!? So yeah here it is! ...yeah... don't know what to say right now... so yeah :)

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