Chapter 3: Ice Cream Shop Madness.

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A/N: This is the next chapter. I hope all of you enjoy it.

"So how long has father been like that?" Anna asked her brother as she sipped on her chocolate shake.

"I first noticed him act like that a few years ago, when I was your age. I was shocked just like you are." Bryan responded.

Anna sighed sadly. She didn't appreciate seeing her father act like that. He never raised his kids to be racist so this new side of him was a shock to her. Anna looked around the Ice Cream shop her eyes going from person to person as her mind raced about her father.

"You shouldn't worry kiddo. He still is the same person-"

"No Bryan. He isn't the same person. He is a completely different person. I believed that he was fine with all races. Now I know that he isn't the father I thought he was...Its hard to... Its hard to see him as a racist person. It hurts me..." Anna said as tears began to fall from her face.

Anna got up from her seat at the bar and hurried to the restroom. She mumbled that she would be back shortly and left her brother sitting there.

As Anna walked closer towards the bathroom she didn't notice a group of guys sitting at a table near the bathroom. One of them was Diego. Diego watched Anna hurry away from her brother. He noticed she was crying and he felt saddened that something would cause her to cry. He quickly excused himself from the table and followed Anna. As he quickly caught up to her he grabbed her wrist.

Anna gasped in fear as she felt a hand close around her wrist. She pulled away quickly fearing that it was one of those gang members. She turned around ready to fight when she saw Diego's kind eyes.

"Diego...you scared me. What are you doing here?" Anna asked questioningly.

"I was just here with some friends...Are you alright?" Diego asked.

"What?...Oh yes I'm fine. I just found out something awful about my father..."

"Is he alright?" Diego asked

"What? Oh yea he is fine. I found out that he is racist and he didn't want me to see you again. But I don't care what he thinks. How he acts towards you and others like you is wrong and I cannot stand it." Anna stated firmly.

"Its alright Anna, you don't have to defend me to your father. Really I am used to it." Diego said.

Suddenly both Diego and Anna heard commotion coming from the front of the Ice Cream shop. Anna turned and looked at the entrance. There was her father, enraged as ever and he was heading towards Diego and herself. Anna watched as Bryan tried to stop their father from going to where she and Diego stood, but his attempt failed.

"Get your damn hands off of my daughter." Anna's father yelled.

When Anna heard that she finally realised that Diego still had her wrist gently in his hand. Anna's father did not scare Diego, and he didn't let go of her wrist. Both Anna and Diego watched as Anna's father approached. Anna gently pulled her wrist free of Diego's gentle grasp. Anna stood firmly in front of her father.

"Don't talk to him like that!" Anna said firmly as she glared up at her father.

"You don't belong with trash like that!" Anna's father yelled.

"I don't care. Don't you see that. Bryan and I aren't like you. We aren't racist!" Anna shouted back at her father.

Anna's father didn't like the comment that came out of his daughter's mouth. He slapped her across the face. Anna didn't make a sound but she quickly looked up into her fathers eyes. She searched in his eyes for something anything that would show the good old loving father that used to be there but she found no sign of that person.

Meanwhile Diego was watching this whole scene before him. He saw Anna's father hit her and that act made his blood boil. He didn't pay attention to what he did next. He didn't even think of what he was doing or the consequences. Diego lurched foreward and attacked Anna's father. Diego started punching and hitting her father. He never felt such rage before. Anna's father then began to fight back. Bryan was trying to get his dad to stop fighting but it was no use.

The owner of the store rushed over to the phone and called the cops. A few minutes later a group of police men rushed into the store and pulled the two men apart. They hand cuffed Diego and put him in a squad car.

Shortly after getting a statement from Anna's father the police took Diego to the town jail. No one asked questions and nothing happened to Anna's father. They just told him to take his family home.

After twenty minutes of what seemed to be a long journey home in a silent car they arrived in the driveway of their nice home. Anna didn't speak to her father as she got out of the car and made her way to the house. She mumbled goodnight to her brother and mother as she made her way upstairs to her bedroom where she sat and listened to what she knew would be a late night conversation between her brother and her father.

"The way you and your sister acted tonight was inconceivable. What were you thinking!" Anna's father demanded.

"We were thinking of how you decieved us into thinking you were a good man. We thought you were different. I think that Ann and I are ashamed of you and what you have become." Bryan stated as a matter of factly.

"Bryan!" Anna's mother stated.

"Maybe you should go to bed, dear." Anna's father said to his wife.

Anna didn't hear what her mother said in response to her father but she heard her parents bedroom door shut so that was a sign that her mother did what he suggested.

"I don't know what went wrong when I raised you but you are not the son you once were." Anna's father stated coldly.

"At least I'm not like you, and that is all that I hope for. I don't ever want to be like you." Bryan said with anger in his voice.

Anna let out a gasp when she heard her father punch Bryan, for the second time that night.

"You better take that back son. You don't want to turn your back on me." His father said with anger in his voice.

"Your too late. I already did that when you hit Ann." Bryan said.

"I don't want to speak of this any more tonight. We can talk in the morning." Anna's father said.

Anna listened until she heard her father go into his own room. Anna then heard her brother's door shut as well. Anna opened her bedroom door slowly and peeked into the hall. Her brother's bedroom door was shut which usually meant that he was in there. Anna slowly crept down the hall to her brother's door. She lightly knocked on it. Her brother opened it and moved out in the hall so that they could talk.

"What is it Ann?" Bryan whispered.

Anna looked up at him. She grimaced at his bruised face when she saw it in the moonlight. Anna motioned for them to go downstairs. Anna didn't speak until they were safetly in the living room where their conversation would not be heard by their parents.

"I'm going to see Diego." Anna stated.

"What?" Bryan whispered harshly.

"Don't worry. I'll be careful. I just want to make sure he is alright." Anna stated calmly.

"You hardly know him." Bryan said.

"I know. But he fought against Daddy for me after I got hit. The least I can do is go see him. He doesn't deserve to be in that jail. You and I both know that-"

"Yes I do believe that but its two in the morning. And its dangerous out there. If you do go just be careful...And don't let Dad catch you. Be home by 4:30, I'll wait up for you. If your not back

I'll go look for you, don't think I won't..." Bryan stated firmly.

"Thank you Bryan...Your amazing. I don't want you to get in trouble too." Anna said.

"I'm past trouble. If your going to go. Go now. Before I change my mind about letting you go. Be careful Ann. Your my kid sister. No go." Bryan said.

Bryan kissed his sister on the top of her head and watched her leave the house. He was afraid for her but he knew that she would keep herself safe. Bryan moved towards a chair that was next to the window and sat down. He readied himself for a long night of waiting for his sister to come back home...

A/N: That is it for this chapter. I hope it was as good as the other ones. Please read and review. I worked hard on this chapter. I hope ya liked it.

-Blaze-LoganLover