Uh…Yeah…heyyy y'all…it's meeee, ya girl, i'm baaack lol.

Merry Christmas and suck it Chloe, I did update!

"Aurora, get in the car" Paul said softly as he slowly rode beside his daughter who was walking very angrily and fast on the sidewalk "get in and we can talk about it"

"there is nothing to talk about, I know everything that I need to know about you two"

Paul sighed. "We made a mistake Aurora, a huge mistake, but if you would just allow us the chance to tell you why we had to do what we did then maybe you could understand"

Aurora stopped in her tracks. "I don't need to hear about your little 'mistake' the only mistake was telling me now" She said as she crossed her arms and angrily blew air out of her mouth to move a strand of hair out of her face. Paul couldn't help but chuckle, Stephanie did that exact same thing and it always cracked him up, how can you be angry one minute and then do something so adorable like that the next? it's also another reason why she stayed angry with him, she took it as he was laughing at her and not taking the situation seriously, it always caused the arguments to go on longer. "And now you're laughing" Aurora said.

Like mother, like daughter. He thought to himself. "I'm not laughing at you, Stephanie does that same thing"

"What same thing?" Aurora asked

"Nevermind, it's nothing" he said as he put the car in park "get in, it'll be cold soon."

As much as she wanted to continue to walk, she couldn't ignore the fierce breeze that disrespected her sweater as it ran through her. She knew he was right and she would not make it all the way home once it really started to get dark, and if it's one thing she knew, it's that you did not want to be caught walking alone in her neighborhood, getting more bruises would be the least of her worries.

"Fine" she said reluctantly "but I want you to take me straight home, my home"

Paul sighed. "I'm not taking you back there, ever." he said as he turned up the heat before giving her his full attention "so you can just forget that all together, you're never going back there and that's final."

Aurora wanted to protest, she wanted to scream and fight and hit him and tell him why she was right and he was wrong, but deep down she knew she truly did not want to go back, and by the tone of his voice, she knew she never would.

Stephanie's mind was racing, and she could do without all of the questioning that her children were asking her, all she wanted to know was where Aurora was and if she was okay and if Paul was going to bring her back home. Deep down she knew he would never let her return to her old home, so that shouldn't even be a worry of hers, but it had been over an hour and she had no choice but to let her thoughts rule her mind as the time went on. She was about to give up and call him when she saw his car pull up in the driveway. She wanted to run outside and greet him and see if he had bought their daughter back, but she decided she'd wait on the couch incase he came in empty handed, she didn't want him to feel bum rushed the second he walked through the door. So she sat and waited impatiently, the door opened and she stood up, Paul walked in and said nothing, his face read nothing, and Aurora was not beside him. She was about to sit down and cry when a few seconds later Aurora walked through the door. "You should really get that fixed" she said as she rubbed her ankle.

Paul chuckled. "You and Stephanie are the only two that have a problem with that loose brick on the driveway, no one else trips over it but you two"

"I told you I wasn't crazy" Stephanie said to him before she slowly walked over to Aurora "Hey" she said softly

"Hi" Aurora said in the same tone

"Hungry?" Stephanie asked

"I think we have more important things to discuss right now besides food…mom"

Stephanie sighed. "I was just trying to lighten the mood Aurora"

"There is no way to 'lighten the mood' " she said as she brushed past Stephanie and sat on the couch.

"Just give her time, it took me forever to get her to get rid of the sarcastic tone"

Stephanie nodded. "Okay" she said softly as she walked over and sat next to Aurora on the couch who was already making herself at home by removing her shoes and propping her feet up on the couch.

"So" Aurora said as she leaned back against the couch with her arms resting behind her head "What do you want to tell me?"

"I'd like for you to take this seriously, first of all" Stephanie said sternly

"pfft" Aurora sighed as she rolled her eyes.

"I will not be disrespected in my home Aurora"

"Must be nice to have one" she countered quickly

Stephanie pressed her lips into a thin line, she was trying to asses how to work through this, but if Aurora kept this up it would be her hands around her neck in a minute. She quickly erased the thought from her mind, her poor child has been through enough, and here she is with the thought of choking her out for giving her a little bit of attitude. "Why don't we start with you, tell me what is on your mind and how you're feeling"

"You want to know how I feel?" Aurora asked as she placed her feet on the floor and removed her hands from behind her head so she could lean forward and look Stephanie directly in her eyes. "I feel like you didn't give a rat's shit about me until you knew I was a fan of him!" she said pointing to Paul. "That's how I feel"

"Aurora" Paul said very sternly "you will not speak to your mother like that, do you understand me?" Aurora went to protest but Paul cut her off " I said do you understand me?"

"Yes" she responded softly with her head down "I'm sorry"

"That is not true Aurora, I always cared" Stephanie said "I always loved you, I always wanted to find you and before you say I didn't, trust me, we tried. I know you think we didn't try hard enough but we did, it just got to a point to where there was nothing we could do." Aurora went to speak but Stephanie cut her off. "I know, I know, money and resources." Stephanie said as she cut her daughter off. "We were searching long before we had that and after, it just became hopeless at one point, we got so down and out about it that it started to affect our work and our lives and we knew we had to provide for ourselves and your siblings so we had to let it go for a little bit longer until we got to a place where we could just stop everything and give it our all. It was not long before I met you, that we briefly spoke of it again. It was and is such a touchy subject that we hated the idea of bringing it up to the other without a solution. Coming up empty handed was not an option for us again, and not one we could bear."

"For your own sanity you just forgot about me so you could continue to board your private jets? or was it to get a new pair of Chanels?"

"Aur-" Paul started to say before she cut him off

"No, like I told you in the car, you guys do not get to dictate how I feel, and this is how I feel, so deal with it" she said crossing her arms and leaning back. Stephanie reached up and brushed a strand of hair out of her daughter's face. "It's not fair" Aurora said softly "It's just not"

"I know" Stephanie said as she scooted closer "But let's focus on the now, and now you have us and we are more than willing to give you the life you have always deserved, the family and the love you have always deserved. I am not saying you cannot be angry, I am not saying that you cannot have thoughts of the past and you should forget it and move on, or forgive us and move on, but you have to be willing to let it go in order to move on with your life."

Aurora was silent, she knew her mother was right but it was just so hard. She knew they would not expect her to just let it all go and give them a huge hug and move on like it never happened, she knew that they knew it would take time. She was afraid, she was afraid of what all this would mean and how her life would truly change and that was the part she was not ready for, not yet. "I just need some time"

"of course" Stephanie said as she placed Aurora's hand into her own. "we will give you all the time you need, all we ask in return is that you do not push us away."

"I won't" Aurora said softly "I promise"

With that Stephanie's motherly instincts kicked in and boundaries were no more, she gently pulled Aurora in and placed her head on her chest and held her, it didn't take long for the tears to come from both of them. Aurora wrapped her arms around her mom and held her tight as her shoulders shook. Tears of joy, and fear, flowed down her face like an active river and it was not long before Paul joined them and sat on the opposite of Aurora and wrapped them both in his embrace, this was a time for healing, and boy did they all need it. They all let it out, no one tried to be the strong one, there were moments of silence and not long after one of them would sniffle and the tears would flow from them all over again. Soft kisses and "I love you"s were said throughout the night between the three.

The rest of the night was spent with the three of them sharing small stories, Aurora tried to focus on the positive things in her life but there were so few of them that it would eventually get back to the bad. Paul had to keep his composure because God knows if he ever got his hands on the man that abused his daughter he would personally kill him, nice and slow. Stephanie had the same feelings about the female in the household but had to keep herself together because she knew as long as she stayed calm, Paul would as well. The night did end on a good note with Paul cracking a few jokes about the similarities between Aurora and Stephanie to which they both rolled their eyes and would insult his nose. He was normally sensitive about it, but he knew it was in all good fun tonight and he was thankful to have this moment with his wife and daughter. Everything might have gotten off to a rocky start, but by the end of the night, the future was surely looking up for this small family.

I'm already working on the next chapter, I will drop it when I'm finished.