This comes from what I'm going through w/ my boyfriend of barely a week...anyway just read it and review please. This a one-shot...Told from Kathleen's POV...

I don't own anything except what's come from my imagination...


It seems as if the nighr stretches on for eternity, like the darkness will never end, and I like it much better that way.

During the day I can be reached by any means of communication.

He uses every means to communicate with me.

I can't escape him.

Joey is infatuated with me and he won't let me alone though we've barely been dating a week.

He wants me to call him and if I don't he calls me. He wants to tag-a-long when my friends and I go out or have a night in. He left me red roses and a card saying he loves me...

I'm starting to feel overwhelmed and anxious, which is not the feelings one would expect when a new relationship with a seemingly nice guy starts.

Now I don't know if I've made the best decision.

Daddy is always trying to protect us, Maureen and I and Lizzie soon enough, from these boys, these eventual men. He's always telling us to go with our instinct and to tell him if someone's hurting us.

But, in this past week, I've fully realized that this is what he can't shield us from.

Daddy can't shield us from obsessive boys or rocky relationships. He can't navigate the world of dating for us.

I lay here in my bed, safely tucked in and all the doors and windows are locked...however those blood red roses sit in a vase in the corner and Joey's card with them and I feel uneasy.

This is what Daddy can't shield me from.

I have gotten myself in to this and I have to find a way to navigate through this.

Joey is a nice guy, a boy scout type with a history with an ex, but he's also clingy and unrelenting. This makes me uneasy.

I don't know a lot of things, nor do I know what to do as of right now.

But this is what they cannot protect us from... and what we must find out on our own.

Perhaps the hard way...

"Dad this is what you cannot protect us from" I'd explain. His face would fall, but I would remain silent...

...because he cannor protect me any longer...


Loved it, hated it, sympathized with it? Oh yeah and I'm going away Monday so I may or may not update my other new fic...but it'll come when I get back definitely...