Chapter 53
Belle and Shawn sat there for what seemed like forever just holding each other. Shawn didn't know what to do he knew that Belle needed help but he wasn't sure how she was going to get it. Then an idea hit him. His mom was a psychiatrist maybe she would talk to her.
Belle sat up from Shawn's arms and decided that she had something that she needed to tell him.
Belle: Shawn I need to tell you something.
Shawn: Okay what is it?
Belle: I want us to try again. You will have to regain my trust, but by you not walking out that door when I needed you the most was a step in the right direction of getting my trust back. I need you to promise that you will stay away from Anna.
Shawn: Baby I will do anything to have another chance to be with the woman I love.
Belle: Shawn I will get help but I have to be able to trust the person.
Shawn: Belle baby my mom is a psychiatrist you two were pretty close when you left do you think you could talk to her.
Belle: I don't know Shawn. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try.
Shawn: Can I ask you a question? Why did you put this off so long? I mean you used to seem so carefree and you didn't seem like you had this horrible past. How did you hide it but yet now it is affecting you so badly.
Belle: After it happened, I was pretty messed up so I talked to my aunt. She helped me a lot and I finally blocked it from my memory and pretended that it never happened. I moved on with my life and never spoke of it again. But then when Brady told me that you and Chloe knew, it all came back to me. It was ten years ago Shawn but it seems like it was yesterday. I can still feel his touch and his breath in my face. I still feel the pain of the beatings. I guess I didn't block it enough.
Shawn: When are they going to let you out of the hospital?
Belle: Sometime today I think.
Shawn: I'm going to take you to my mom's house. She will help you.
Belle: Why did Brady walk out on me? He has always been there for me. He took my baby and left.
Shawn: Brady just wants to see you get better. And it isn't that I don't trust you with our daughter, I'm just scared that you might have another nightmare or flashback and you will be too scared to take care of Zari. I love you so much Belle and I want to see you get better.
Belle: I told Brady that I was turning into my mother. I don't want that. I don't want Zari to grow up like me. Make everything better for me Shawn. Make things go back to the way they were before we ever went back to Phatos.
Shawn: Baby we will just take things one day at a time. We will make the best possible life we can for our little girl and maybe by us being the best parents in the world you will realize that you could never be anything like your parents you don't have a mean bone in your body
Belle and Shawn sat there for what seemed like forever just holding each other. Shawn didn't know what to do he knew that Belle needed help but he wasn't sure how she was going to get it. Then an idea hit him. His mom was a psychiatrist maybe she would talk to her.
Belle sat up from Shawn's arms and decided that she had something that she needed to tell him.
Belle: Shawn I need to tell you something.
Shawn: Okay what is it?
Belle: I want us to try again. You will have to regain my trust, but by you not walking out that door when I needed you the most was a step in the right direction of getting my trust back. I need you to promise that you will stay away from Anna.
Shawn: Baby I will do anything to have another chance to be with the woman I love.
Belle: Shawn I will get help but I have to be able to trust the person.
Shawn: Belle baby my mom is a psychiatrist you two were pretty close when you left do you think you could talk to her.
Belle: I don't know Shawn. I guess it wouldn't hurt to try.
Shawn: Can I ask you a question? Why did you put this off so long? I mean you used to seem so carefree and you didn't seem like you had this horrible past. How did you hide it but yet now it is affecting you so badly.
Belle: After it happened, I was pretty messed up so I talked to my aunt. She helped me a lot and I finally blocked it from my memory and pretended that it never happened. I moved on with my life and never spoke of it again. But then when Brady told me that you and Chloe knew, it all came back to me. It was ten years ago Shawn but it seems like it was yesterday. I can still feel his touch and his breath in my face. I still feel the pain of the beatings. I guess I didn't block it enough.
Shawn: When are they going to let you out of the hospital?
Belle: Sometime today I think.
Shawn: I'm going to take you to my mom's house. She will help you.
Belle: Why did Brady walk out on me? He has always been there for me. He took my baby and left.
Shawn: Brady just wants to see you get better. And it isn't that I don't trust you with our daughter, I'm just scared that you might have another nightmare or flashback and you will be too scared to take care of Zari. I love you so much Belle and I want to see you get better.
Belle: I told Brady that I was turning into my mother. I don't want that. I don't want Zari to grow up like me. Make everything better for me Shawn. Make things go back to the way they were before we ever went back to Phatos.
Shawn: Baby we will just take things one day at a time. We will make the best possible life we can for our little girl and maybe by us being the best parents in the world you will realize that you could never be anything like your parents you don't have a mean bone in your body