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Chapter 28: Blow up
"What the fuck did you just say?" Happy hissed at me, his mind unable to register what I just said to him. Tig was just as surprised but for a different reason. He didn't think I was really going to tell him. I held my head up high at him, crossing my arms over my chest. I gulped now thinking I shouldn't have told him anything. Well the deed was done. "You care to run that by me again?"
I knew he was just making sure he heard me right so he could get angrier. "I said James is my boyfriend. You can't keep us apart." See when you tell a man like Happy, a killer who took no shit from anyone including his own kin, that he can't do something, well that's like telling a cat to now kill a mouse its sees. They do it anyway.
"You fucking think I'm gonna let you date him?" He questioned, stalking to me in a dangerous way. Tig didn't bother to get involved, this was between us two only and he didn't want James to get in the way. Happy trapped me between the counter, making sure I couldn't move from my spot. I glared at him, I hated when he did this, made me feel weak.
"You don't have a say in who I can or cannot date Dad." I hissed out, the same anger he had rushing through me. Hell if I had been a boy I would truly be like him.
He laughed in my face, the mocking laugh of a father who was on the verge of losing patience. "I have every fucking say Angel." I flinched at the tone he used when he said my name. Yup, I just got him on the end of his rope.
"I'm tired of you doing shit behind my back and then expecting me to behave like a damn good little girl." I huffed out, pushing at his arms trapping me. I wanted out of the corner he put me in. I was tired of being treated like a child. He didn't see I was growing up and I needed my father to try to be like he was.
"Watch you're fucking mouth with me Angel." He growled warningly, keeping a firm arm even as I pushed.
"Then do the same." I snapped pushing hard against his chest. He grabbed my chin between his fingers, his grip tight making me stare into his orbs. I swallowed hard, trying to be strong when I was so frustrated. He was almost snapping but he would never hit me. He wouldn't be one of those parents who accidentally hit their kids in a fit of rage. "I'm growing up Dad and if you can't accept that fact, then just leave me alone."
He pushed off the counter and I moved quickly, going around the counter to put as much space between us as I could. "Angel I'm trying here-."
"Well you're trying is shit!" I yelled slamming my palms against the counter. "You're trying to shield me and I don't understand why. I'm not some fragile little girl!" I was going to tear up with the building frustrations. Father's were difficult.
"You're being difficult again Angel. You run from Katherine only to end up here and tell me you have a fucking boyfriend. How the fuck am I supposed to react?" He brought her up. He fucking brought up his girlfriend in our talk/fight.
I laughed, a mocking laughter. "That's right. What was I thinking? You been so fucking truthful and open with me so I'm in the wrong."
He moved to come at me but Tig held him back against the counter. He could see the animal in Hap's eyes, the dangerous boundary I was about to cross. The fire I was playing with. "She was only trying to talk to you-."
"No!" I screamed, pointing a finger at him. An arm wrapped around me, giving me a half hug. I rubbed James' arms, thanking him for trying to calm me down. I was Hap's daughter, I had a temper when I got angry.
It was weird now that I thought about and Tig were like real brothers, they were close. James and I were close too but being opposite genders we had that spark between us. Things would have been so different if I was a boy. Oh so very different. The Tragers and my family would always have a bond. There was no helping that.
"She was bringing something up she had no business too! You just too blinded by the need to have another woman you're overlooking that! That's not my dad. You're not my father!" Tears were falling by the end of my yelling. The tears of trying to talk to a father who didn't understand anything. Sure I was upset but I was more upset that he wasn't listening when I talked. He just assumed he knew what I was going to say.
"I will always be you're father." He said in a calmer tone. Tig slowly let go of him, the animal was tamed. James let me go too, doing the same his father had done. He leaned against the counter, glancing at me sideways.
"If you want her in you're life then you can keep her. I don't care. But when you try to force her into my life, there's gonna be more hell to pay." I told him with a calm even tone.
James squeezed my shoulder comfortingly. "He's in my life whether you like it or not just like Katherine is in you're life whether I like it or not." Finally, the room was quiet. Happy was rubbing his temple while Tig was glancing from Happy, to me and James, and back at Happy.
"Let him cool off. Get." Tig ordered to James. He pulled me along, heading for the front door. I wouldn't mind leaving. I needed to let myself breath outside for a bit anyway, to calm my own self down. I really needed self control.
James pulled me around the side of the house. I pressed my back to the wall and slid down to the floor. James stood beside me for a minute, watching as I rested my head on my forearms. He then slid down beside me, pulled me closer. I let him pull me in, wrapping his arms around me. I rested my head on his shoulder, sighing deeply.
Happy was different now. He would never have blown up like that before.
I wanted the old Happy back.
"It'll be okay Angel." James reassured giving a tight squeeze. "You'll see."
James, I don't think you're right.
