Chapter 37

Zac's POV

It's Friday evening and a few min ago we came back. Honestly, it was the best tour of my whole life! Even though it was weird for me that my bro wasn't with us we had great time, there wasn't a moment that I was bored, and although I was tired, I didn't care cause I was on tour with my best friends, the girl I'm in love with since I was sixteen and her cute son whom I loved!

We were exhausted, but decided to see a movie at Hayley's place. "So...you'll come with us, won't ya?" I asked Ellen.

"Yeah, she will! Maggie and Daniel will come over too!" Hayley said excitedly. "But...what about Jenna and Josh..?"

"Invite them over too, why not?" I said.

"Look, Jenna and I are good friends, but...what about Josh..? We-"

"-oh come on now...you made up with him so what's the problem? I don't say that you should tell him to come over just because he's my bro but if you would then you'd be on better terms with him."

Hayley smiled and said "Yeah! You're right!"

Then Ellen looked at me. "I'm sorry, but I can't..."

"Why not?" I asked. She looked at Bentley, who had fallen asleep in her hug. "He's so tired..." she said.

"Yeah, but your mom could take care of him if she's home."

"That's a good idea, we'll go to my house and ask her if she can take care of him so as I can go out with ya guys!" She started walking to her house, which was a few blocks away from mine. When she saw I wasn't walking she looked at me and said "What? Aren't you coming with me?"

"Oh...yeah, of course, I'll come!" I said and we started making our way to her home.

I was feeling uncomfortable because...you know, we're going to her home and her father doesn't like me at all, he never did. He'd say "Stay away from Ellen, you're not good enough for her!" and that would make me feel sad because it was so obvious that I was in love with her and he'd believe she shouldn't be my girlfriend. Her mom, though, wanted me to be friends with her. "One day you'll be her boyfriend because I believe you're the one for her," she used to say.

"So here we are!" Ellen said when we reached her house.

"Oh...I'll wait here for you..."

She looked at me and said "No, you'll come in, I'm not gonna let you out freezing..."

"But what about your dad? I'm sure he still doesn't like me..."

"Don't worry, he is out." she said, smiled at me and opened the front door.

When we got in the first thing I saw was Ellen's mom. When she saw me she smiled and gave me a huge hug. "Hey Zac, how are ya?" she asked and smiled.

I shrugged. "One in the same, thanks for asking..."

She saw that Ellen was in Bentley's bedroom and motioned for me to sit next to her. "So...what's going on between Ellen and you?" she asked.

She knew I was in love with her, and she still knows I didn't stop loving her. I preferred not to talk about that cause knowing that Ellen will never love me is breaking my heart. "Oh come on now, tell me...You know I won't tell her anything about that..." she said.

"Okay, okay...nothing's going on...She doesn't love me...so-"

"-So what? I am sure that one day she'll admit she is in love with you." I was looking at her in disbelief cause I know what she said isn't going to be true. Sorry, correction: it's going to be true in my dreams.

"What I believe is that she never forgot you, and she never stopped loving you even when we moved out of the town."

I smiled. "Well...I wish that was true-" Before I could finish Ellen walked out of Bentley's room and asked "Mom, can you take care of Bentley while I'll be out with the guys?"

"Of course yeah!" her mom said and smiled. She's one of the most easy-going persons I've met in all my life. Luckily she always liked me so I wouldn't have a problem if I would ever be Ellen's boyfriend...at least with her...Who knows what her dad would say or how he'd react..?

I heard the doorbell ringing. I just hope it won't be her dad. Ellen opened the door and said to me "Let's go!" She just ignored the young man that walked in and said "I came here to take my son for the weekend."

Ellen gave him a cold look and said "Okay, he's in his room." Then she looked at me. "So, let's go baby!" she said and we were out of the house walking to Hayley's home, until that man who I understood he is Bentley's dad and Ellen's ex was bearing down on us. When Ellen saw him she asked indifferently "What the hell do you want?"

He didn't answer, he just punched me. I didn't see it coming. "What the f-"

"Why don't you just shut up and stay away from my wife?" he yelled at me and punched me so hard that I fell on the ground.

"Who told ya that I'm your wife, you idiot?" Ellen shouted at him. "That's enough! I'm sick and tired of your extremely immature behaviour!"

He was so angry that he was ready to slap her but I managed to stand up on time and hold him back. "Stay away from her or I'll call the police!" I yelled at him.

He punched me one more time, made a rude gesture to Ellen and me and walked away. "Oh my God, are you okay?" she asked, her voice full of worry. She was almost in tears. "I'm so so so sorry about what happened..." she said and started crying.

I hugged her. "Please don't cry...You're breaking my heart..." I said and she tried to stop but she couldn't. I was comforting her for the next minutes until she finally stopped crying. "I'm so-"

I interrupted her and did the only thing I could do. I kissed her.

So...ButtonGirl73...hope you liked this chapter... :) i'm happy that I included you in my fanfic cause I believe that you and Zac are a great couple! :)

So sorry for the waiting, I didn't update since last week...

I hope you had a nice Christmas guys! :D