Before I start telling you I am sorry again for the late update, I want to thank you for being really patient and still reading my fanfiction instead of giving up waiting for a new chapter. The idea for this story used to be in my mind for quite a year before I wrote it down and being brave enough to share it with you. Therefore, thank you!

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Chapter eleven:

When I arrived home after school I found a note on the kitchen table, obviously waiting for me:

Hey Lillian, could you please pick up your brother from Emily's, around four o'clock. You're dad is still at work and I totally forgot that I had an appointment today.

See you at dinner. In love, Mom

As I was done reading I checked my watch and it was already 3:45 pm so I decided to get going because it didn't make sense to get undressed and dressed again either.

My aunt Emily and her wife Paige didn't lived far from our house since they moved back to Rosewood. Beforehand they traveled all around the world together, therefore it is always interesting to visit them because they can tell the best stories from all the adventures they did experienced, this is probably the reason why Emily is one of my brothers favorite persons in the world, I love her too but actually I was always the Hanna child.

Nevertheless I could listen to her stories forever, especially the one how Paige asked my aunt Emily to marry her while they walked over the big Chinese wall.

Just one year later they married on Hawaii with the most beautiful location on the beach. I'd always admired their relationship, it just seems to be perfect.

After I waited one minute outside their door Paige opened it with a bright smile. "Hey Lillian, come in" I smiled back and entered their house "My mom had an appointment and ask me to pick up William" I informed her. "Okay he's in the guest room, actually he fell asleep in between sentences." She laughed lovingly. Just in that moment Emily came around the corner to greet me. "Hey Lilly" "hi" We hugged. "Um Em I have to leave for work now." Paige mentioned and looked at my aunt. "Oh yes right. See you at dinner?" She nodded in response "Okay love you" They pecked each other on the lips and then she left.

"Come in. William is asleep. He couldn't stop talking about his new friend." She smirked secretly at me. "Oh did he made a new friend at school?" I questioned confused about her face expression. "Well not at school." She giggled "He told us about Alexander and it really seems like he likes him." I blushed at what she just did say. "I can imagine your parents like him too after what your brother told me." I was happy that my brother did so well with Alex but her second thought reminded me of my actual problem. "Well, I am pretty sure mom's okay with it but..-" "...but Toby's not" she completed my sentences.

"Do you want to talk about it?" She asked softly. I just shrugged "I don't know, I mean I kinda do understand him but on the other hand he behaves differently." We walked over to the living room and sat down on the couch. "In what way?" She asked further. "Well, when I came home late after my date he grounded me for any party on the weekend and it's not like this is unbelievable bad or something, it just isn't usual for him to get this upset." I explained, Emily just smiled slightly at me which draw confusion on my face.

"I can imagine, your father was always overprotective over everyone he loved and cared for." she smiled. I thought about it and had to admit that it was indeed true because with every single story I heard from my mother just proved my father's need to protect her.

"He had probably seen that boy and with him everything he could do to hurt you and besides the fact that his little girl had grown up and is just about to leave the house to discover the world without his help but instead with some random guy." She added and placed a hand upon my knee "Talk to him, prove him that he has no need to be worried" I just sighed, I had no idea how I was supposed to do that "But how? When he probably doesn't even wants to meet Alex because last time he suddenly had headache" I imitated my dad's voice. I was still angry because he lied to me.

"Then invite that boy over again. It helped me, to show my parents that it's not weird to be gay, but instead totally normal" She explained optimistically. I wasn't convinced that another confrontation would improve this conflict but maybe I should just try and see, I mean ha won't kill him, right?

"Maybe you're right but I better hide my father's gun before things get tense." I worried and oddly Emily had to laugh "Well good idea. Even if I am not convinced that it will be such dangerous. But now tell me, how long do you know him? Did you already met his parents?" She overran me with he curiosity and I just shook my head and laughed. "No I didn't met his parents yet and he moved here around one month ago, he was in my french course and somehow we became friends until he asked me for a date last week." It seemed like she couldn't stop smirking and one of the reasons why was probably my blushed face. "That sounds lovely. And do you like him?" she smirked, but suddenly a little boy came rushing around the corner.

"Well I do" William shouted. "Is Alex visiting us again?" He asked and his eyes sparkled with excitement. "Surely sometimes but we should leave now otherwise aunt Emily is going to be late for work." I tried to convince him but like always without success "But I wanted to show him my new train station and cars. He already told me that he wants to see them." I didn't know how to explain the situation to him "C'mon Will I can ask Alex when we are home okay? Now go get your stuff. We don't want Em to be late." I smiled and soothingly stroke his back but finally he gave in and nodded. "I am sorry that we distracted you I hope you are still early enough." But just like my aunt Emily was she just smiled softly "It is totally fine. I won't be late." "Thanks for picking up William from school and for your support." We stood up and reached the door. "I am always here for all of you. Drive carefully and greet your parents"

We shared one last hug and William kissed her cheek before we headed to my car to drive home.

On the whole drive my brother yawned and finally fell asleep. I was lucky that dad arrived at the same time to carry him to his room, William must have had an exciting day.

"Hey sweety we didn't got chance to talk about what happened yesterday" My mom mentioned when she walked into my room after dinner, when I sat at my table to do my homework. "Why? What do you mean?" I tried to figure out what she was talking about because apparently she wasn't involved in the conflict me and my father had. "I mean that you and your father barely talked at dinner and that since yesterday evening you seem to be mad at him." My mom explained softly and I just shrugged, I didn't know what to tell her and besides I didn't wanted her to be upset with me, too.

"Come on Lilly, I can tell when something is wrong with you. You're my daughter and pretty much like me in a way. And everytime I was keeping my mouth shut, especially in regards to my dad, I wasn't alright with certain things. So, why are you mad at your father?" I couldn't explain because my mother would have the same opinion about saturday. "He pretended to have headache just to get out of Alex's way" I said harshly. "No reason to snap at me" She responded even angrier. "Okay sorry it wasn't my intention to let it sound likewise. But I agree that it was wrong from him to react in that kinda way but..-" "But what 'I should talk to him and so on' he doesn't even want to talk. Everybody tries to tell me that but what if my partner of communication doesn't even want to communicate?!" It wasn't possible for me to lower my anger.

"Still you seemed to have the best father and daughter relationship yesterday evening" She stated. "Well obviously he lied and he never grounded me for being late home before I was late home because of a boy" I responded and I realized that my father stopped supporting me in every way he could, like before. Now, he didn't agree with something and immediately lied. He'd never done something like that before, he always told when he disagreed. My mother started to stroke my back. "Do you think it helps when I talk to him first?" I just nodded and fell into my mother's arms.

TPOV

I was walking out of William's room when I heard my girls talking in Lilly's room. I knew that it was wrong to listen to their conversation but when I heard my daughter saying that I lied about Alexander and that she couldn't understand me anymore, I couldn't help but had to listen. "It feels like he doesn't want to support me in my decisions anymore, he used to do this the last 16 years" Lillian sobbed and it broke my heart to hear her like this.

I was just confused, on the one hand I wanted to protect her and support her at the same time and on the other hand I more or less wanted to raise my baby to a woman.

A tear ran down my cheek when I again noticed that she is growing up and I am not able to keep her from making her own decisions whether they're good or bad.

First of all I hope you liked it, and I will try to post the next one before Christmas because I still have two exams in the next weeks and a lot of other things, I hope you're not too disappointed.