Thanks again so much for everyone who is reviewing and following, it means so much and keeps me wanting to update. To the guest review who wrote about me using the word "mummy" sorry for the fact that I use mummy but I will not be changing it, in Australia where I am that how its spelt so that's obviously what it defaults to while typing, other countries its spelt mom. I read stories where the punctuation and spelling is different and that the thing with fan fiction I guess people from around the world write stories and grammar etc is going to be different.
This wasn't initially how I wanted this chapter to go, but I wanted 'she thing' dealt with. She is always a thorn in Christian's side and felt she had to be removed before he can have a relationship with Ana and Chris. Will she go away…pfft we are talking about Elena Lincoln yeah right. It's a bit sappy but its bringing the family closer together
Christians POV
I finally have arrived at mum and dad's house for mum's birthday. I am an hour late, though I'm sure when I explain to them where I have been hopefully mum won't be too disappointed in me.
Dad answers the door and he doesn't look too happy.
"Thanks for finally showing up son" he grunts at me.
"Sorry dad, I really am, can I give these flowers to mum, wish her happy birthday and I'll explain what happened". Just thinking of Ana and Chris puts a big smile on my face.
Dad snaps out of his angry tone when he sees my face "well obviously something good has happened for you to get a smile like that one your face".
"Ana and Chris" is all I say and I continue to walk through the house until I find mum.
Before mum can say anything I rush over put one arm around her give her a kiss on the cheek and tell her ''happy birthday" while I hand her the bunch of flowers.
"Oh Christian you finally made it, and these flowers are beautiful, thank you".
"I'll be honest with you mum" I chuckle. "You ended up with the second lot of flowers that I bought today. You will never guess where the first lot ended up".
"Come on mum, find some water for those and I'll tell you why I am so late, and I apologise mum, though when I tell you who I ran into, hopefully you'll be happy".
I help mum find a vase for her flowers and we walk back into the lounge room where the family and a few of mum's friends are sitting, oh no Elena is here, shit.
"Yo bro! You finally made it, where the hell have you been?" Elliot shouts at me.
I just continue to grin like a loon, nothing could wipe the smile off my face. So I begin to tell everyone about my afternoon.
"Well you see I was buying flowers for mum and was heading here, when I tripped on the sidewalk".
Everyone bursts out laughing.
"Do you need some glasses or what bro? Did you save the flowers?" Elliot responds.
"You will never guess who caught the flowers?" I then stop and let them ponder.
"For goodness sake Christian who" wails Mia.
"My son" I whisper like it's a big secret.
"Ah, what, how?" comes from Grace.
"Well it turns out I tripped on a suitcase that Ana was having trouble pulling alone the sidewalk and well as I tripped the flowers fell out of my hand and into Chris's hands. I didn't know what had happened at first until I heard a voice telling his mamma that he got some pretty flowers".
"Oh my god Christian, what happened next?"
So I proceed to tell my family and not really care who else is listening, about the rest of my time with Ana and Chris, how I got Chris to give Ana the flowers because pretty ladies need them and us men don't. That got a chuckle from the men. And how I gave Ana my card and left the ball in her court, apologised for being an ass and hoped that she would call me.
I then think about the small kiss I gave Ana and my face must give me away, as Elliot pipes in "something else happened bro, come on spill".
"Well maybe I gave her a kiss goodbye on her cheek".
In response to that Elliot does a woof whistle, Mia is screeching and mum and dad have big grins on their faces, Elena looks like she's about to vomit and mums other friends give me a sappy look like they want to kiss my cheeks.
"Oh you romantic sap you" Elliot comes and slaps me on the shoulder.
"So what now?" asks mum.
"Well now I wait for her and prey to the lord that she will ring me".
"We'll all prey for you bro" Elliot chuckles.
"Ok enough about me, today is about mum, where's the wine I want to make a toast".
Once we all have a wine glass of wine I say "to the world's best mother and now grandmother, happy birthday mum, I love you" and I blow her a kiss. I really do love mum why the hell has it taken me so long to acknowledge that.
Mum has a tear rolling down her cheek and blows me a kiss back.
The rest of the night goes off uneventful everyone sharing stories about Grace.
And then I run into Elena again, oh here we go.
"Christian darling, how nice to see you" and she tries to give me a kiss.
"Hello Elena" I say gruffly. "Is there anything you wanted?"
"That's no way to greet your long-time friend, Christian, why are you being like this towards me? I taught you everything you know, you were nothing before I got to you, I gave you the best sex of your life and now look at you. World at your feet and now your carrying on like some loved up sap towards some gold digging whore and some boy that 'supposedly' your son. Have you had a DNA test? With your lifestyle Christian you can have it leaking that you have gone soft. Where's the strong alpha-male I have taught to whip and beat little brown hair girls and fuck them into oblivion. You don't need some little mousy little girl and some little boy, you only need me darling".
"Enough Elena" I snap. "You may have taught me how to fuck and set me back on the right track but you have no right to say those things about Ana or my son. And no I don't need a DNA test because one look at him and I know he's my son, carbon copy of me he is. I am doing everything in my power to win back Ana and Chris and if you ruin that or get involved in any way, I will ruin you do you hear me?"
Next thing I hear is Graces voice. "What's going on in here"?
Oh shit how much did mum hear?
I don't say anything I just hang my head and Elena looks pale at first and then takes her dominatrix stance and says "nothing Grace Christian and I were just having a little chat about that gold digging girl and the boy she's claims to be his son".
Grace looks at Elena and says "Oh I heard that, but I also heard something else, something about you having SEX with my son". Mums voice is pure contempt and anger as she spits those last few words at Elena.
"Oh he wanted it" Elena retorts. "He was practically begging for it, I had him for 6 years Gracie dear if that doesn't tell you that he didn't want me then I don't know what will. For 6 years he was begging for me to fuck him at any available chance we got…..
Before she can finish her sentence, Grace goes up to her yanks her hair down and whispers venomly in her ear "you will get the fuck out of my house and never come back here again you filthy whore and if I ever see you or hear that you have been interfering in any of my families lives and that includes Ana and Chris then I will personally make sure that you never see the sun rise again". And with that she lets Elena's hair go and shoves her towards the door so hard that she actually falls back onto her ass. "Oh Elena don't let the door hit you on the way out" and with that she storms past Elena and giving me a look that says 'follow me or god help you', so I quickly put my head between my legs and follow mum out the room. Thought not before giving Elena my threat.
"If you come anywhere near Ana or Chris, I don't care how much you helped me Elena, you will wish that you were never born. I won't say it again Elena, everything you have will be gone. Don't tempt me". And I walk away.
"Come with me" says Grace and we walk into dads study and shut the door.
"How old were you" says mum.
Oh shit do I lie? I can't, mum will be able to tell. So I hang my head and say "15".
Mum just bursts into tears "I'm a horrible mother" she screams.
"No mum" I tell her and pull her into a hug.
"I let you get abused, I am a bad mother, I led you to a paedophile, oh my god she was my friend and she slept with my son, what sort of mother allows that to happen".
"It's not your fault mum, at the time I wanted it, craved it. It set me back on track". I am so not telling mum that she would beat the shit out of me if I didn't do as she asked.
"She used sex as a tool to control me, was it right, well at the time I thought it was but looking at it now well I don't know".
"None of it was right Christian, please you need to see that, she molested you, my baby boy was molested".
And with that Grace breaks down.
Was I molested, I didn't think so, I wanted it didn't I? Though I didn't really get to make the decision as the decisions were made for me. Behave and you will get hot sex, misbehave and you'll get the shit beaten out of you. I did what I was told because well I wanted the hot sex and well the beatings I felt as if I deserved them anyway, who would love me the son of a crack whore.
I'm pulled out of my inner thoughts when dad, Mia and Elliot come through the door. Dad walks over to me and shouts "what the fuck have you done your mother? Elena has just rushed out the door, not that I care, but I've sent everyone else home too, now you will tell me what the hell is going on and now".
I know that once dad has a bone to pick I am not going to get away so I just let it out "Elena and I had a relationship starting from when I was 15, she used sex as a tool to control me. I went on for 6 years. Since then I have had relationships with woman where I have been in control, just fuck them then I'm done with them".
Dad backs away from me, Elliot is yelling, Mia is sobbing and Grace still is too. Look what I have done to my family. I bet none of them even want to be my family anymore. I need to get out of here now. I start to move towards the door but dad pulls me back "where are you going, you drop that big bomb on us and then think you can sneak away, not going to happen".
I hang my head and say "why would you want me here, I have either upset you or made you angry, I never wanted you to find out about me, I know you must hate me. Why would you even want someone like me in your perfect family? You are all perfect and look at me".
Mia then comes barrelling over to me "I love you Christian, you have always looked after me and protected me from the world, yes it drives me nuts sometimes but I wouldn't change it. I wouldn't change you, expect that I wished you would open up a bit more, but that doesn't change how much I love you, believe me Christian", she sobs into my chest.
Elliot then clasps my shoulder, "I feel like I failed you bro, Elena approached me to and I turned her down, if only I had told you then maybe you wouldn't have been in that situation, I hope you can forgive me and I love you Chris, yes you are a jackass sometimes, but you are and always be my little bro".
Elliot steps away and takes Mia with him, dad then walks up to me "son you have often made life hard for your mother and I, but what child doesn't at some point in their life, I feel like I failed you as well. Shouldn't a father know what is happening to his own son, what kind of father does that make me? I will promise you that we will get justice on what Elena has done to you, you may think you wanted it, but how would you feel if your son was in this position in 25 years' time and you were just finding out about it. I feel so helpless Christian, that I couldn't protect you from a predator that I couldn't find my own ways of helping you so that you felt like you had to go be someone else's sex slave to get back on track. I am sorry too son I hope you can forgive me too, and know this I will always love you, from the first time you came into this house and even now".
With that I pull my father into a hug, I never hugged my father before. How would I feel if it were Chris, I would kill them. Since finding out have a son, I would do anything in my power to protect him and if I found out that he has been taken advantage of by an older person, who should have known better, I would feel like I failed him too.
"I forgive you dad and I love you too" I tell him, that's probably the first time I have told him I have loved him.
"I love you Elliot and Mia too. I'm sorry if I haven't used those words before, I guess deep down when you are told you aren't good enough and that love is for fools, I guess that I never deserved to love or to be loved, but I can see now how much you all love me. I am sorry for everything I have put you all through, I promise to try and be a better son and brother to you all".
Last is mum, I open my arms for her and she dives straight in. She then looks up at me and says "the first time I saw you Christian I fell in love with you, I love you now and I will love you until my dying breath, you are my son, my little boy and no matter how big you get you will always be my little boy. I am with your father when I say this and that is Elena will pay for what she has done to you, she is officially cut from my life. No more invites to any of my charities, if we have to see her at others well I won't cause a barny but I won't be talking to her. I am done with her. Dad is right too, and I know deep down if this happened to Chris you would make this person's life a living hell, it's what any mother or father would do for their child and I'm sorry that it wasn't done for you when you were younger but you don't have to do this by yourself anymore, you have a family who love and support you and will hold your hand to continue this journey of life. You are beginning a new chapter in your life now, and we are always here to guide you, never feel that you are alone Christian, you are not alone anymore".
And with that we all come together in one big family hug and I know that I will always have my family here and I am so grateful of that, now I just need Ana and Chris by my side and everything will be complete.
So did like my sappiness Next chapter will be Ana, a phone call and them meeting I promise!