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Chapter 2
He should be upset. He should be screaming, yelling at her. He should be red in the face. They should be yelling back and forth at each other. At least, that's what she thinks they should be doing. Maybe not, though. That's how Grayson would settle everything. He would get upset fast, so fast. He would scream, he would yell, he would get right in her face, his own face getting redder by the second. He would wrap his hand tightly around her neck, cutting her off of air then he would begin to beat her. She would try to fight back, but Grayson was stronger than her, much stronger than her. It didn't take much of his energy or his strength to keep her against the wall while he used her as a punching bag. After he was done with that, after he was done beating the crap out of her, he would pull off of the floor and into the bedroom. She doesn't even want to think about what he did to her in the bedroom. She hates to think about it. She feels so ashamed about it. How could she have let that happen? She can feel the tears coming to her eyes. She will not cry. She will not cry. She will not cry.
"Hey, hey, hey," Robert says in a quiet voice, bringing Allison out of her thoughts as his hands back up to her cheeks once again. She hadn't even realized that he had put Zane back into his car seat. She hasn't even realized that the tears have begun to fall from eyes until Robert wipes them away with his fingers. "What's wrong? What's the matter? Why are you crying?"
"No, no, I can't tell you," Allison cries as she places a once again sleeping Olly back into his car seat before turning away from Robert and placing her arms over her stomach once again. She can feel herself shaking, really bad. All of the bad memories running through her mind. "He said… He said he would hurt me if I ever told anyone. I can't tell you."
"Allison, listen to me," Robert says as he moves to stand in front of Allison and gently places his hands on Allison's shoulders. "He, whoever he is, can not hurt you. You are safe. Please believe me when I tell you that you are safe."
"I do," Allison says in a very quiet voice. "I do believe you."
"Good," Robert says. "Now I know you don't really want to me what is wrong, I understand that, and you don't have to tell me now just eventually, okay?"
"Okay," Allison says.
"Alright," Robert says with a small smile on his face. "How about we go back to the topic of the fact that the two of us are still married."
"I know I should have told you earlier," Allison starts. "But I had a lot of other things to worry about and every time I would plan on calling you to tell you, something would always happen so I would have to wait till later to tell you and then Zane ended in and out of the hospital so all of my attention was on taking care Zane and making sure he was going to be okay while also taking care of Olly, who someone knew that his baby brother wasn't well and everything just became crazy."
"Hey, hey, hey," Robert says, placing one of his hands on Allison's cheek, rubbing it gently with his thumb. "Slow down, just slow down. Here, sit down on the couch and I am going to get you a cup of water."
Allison sits down on the couch while Robert heads to the kitchen, she watches as he walks into the kitchen and disappears from view. He is taking care of her. He is taking care of her. The tears one again quickly come to her eyes and slid down her cheeks. It has been such a long time since someone has taken care of her. For the past few months, she has been taking care of Olly and Zane all alone, she has completely negated herself in the process. It feels really nice to have someone take care of her once again. She quickly rises from the couch and quickly makes her way to the kitchen where Robert is getting her a glass of water. She doesn't waste a second before hugging him from behind, she immediately feels him stop his movements and tense up, she rests her head gently in the middle of his back, just like she used to do, her heads rest on his chest, soon she feels his hands on top of her own. This is their special hug.
"Thank you," Allison whispers. "I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't taken us in. We really didn't have anywhere else to go. I thought for sure that you wouldn't take me and the boys in after the way I left things. I should have never left. You don't know how much my life has changed for the worst since I went back to Chicago. God, I wish I never left."
"If you never left then you wouldn't have Olly or Zane," Robert says. "You wouldn't have those two beautiful babies."
"I guess you are right," Allison says, snuggling closer to Robert. "You are right. If I had never left, I would have never gotten those two beautiful baby boys, but don't let those sleeping babies fool you, Robert, I have missed many sleeping nights taking care of those two. I would get one feed, changed, and asleep and then the other one would wake up and I would have to repeat the process."
"Sounds hard," Robert says. "What about the twins' father? Didn't he help you?"
"He wasn't in the picture and let's just leave it at that," Allison states as she moves away from Robert to stand in front of him. "Listen, Robert, we need to talk about sleeping agreements. I mean I know the twins and I will be sleeping in the guest room…"
"Who said that?" Robert asks, interrupting Allison.
"What?" Allison questions.
"Who said that the three of you would be sleeping in the guest room? I never said that you three would be sleeping in the guest room. I know eventually that we will have to move the twins in the guest bedroom, I guess it would be the nursey now, but I know how babies are for six to twelve months and they aren't that old so they would be sleeping with us."
"Robert, slow down," Allison says, placing her hands on his chest, he immediately places his own on top of hers. "What are you talking about?"
"Well, you said that you and the babies would be sleeping in the guest room and I said that you weren't. I said that you and the babies would be sleeping in my bedroom with me, just like a family would," Robert explains and suddenly realizes what he has said. "Unless you feel that it is uncomfortable for us to be sleeping in the same bed since you know, all those things that happened to you with that other man. I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable. I want you to feel like you belong here. I want you to feel like you and your babies belong here. I will do everything in my power to provide a home for you and your children. That's all I want to do. Is to make you three feel like you belong, feel like this is your home, to make you three feel comfortable. As long as you will let me of course. I don't ever want to do anything that you aren't comfortable with. I would never do that."
"Why?" Allison questions. "Why would want to do that? After everything, I have done to you. I left you, I left our marriage, then I came back to get a divorce, and I told you that I didn't love when that wasn't even true and on top of that, I never sent the divorce papers in meaning that we are still married and you should totally, completely be mad about that and doesn't seem you are. God, I made your life miserable. Heck, I hurt our relationship before we were married, before we were even engaged. I am the one who always forces our relationship back. I don't even know why you stayed with me all this time. How? Why? How on earth could you want this for me, for my children? Why would you want to do this for my children and me? Please explain this to me, Robert, I need to know why you are willing to do all of this because it is really not making any sense. You should have never taken us in, but you did and you are willing to do all this like everything I have done, like everything bad that happened between us. Can you just, please explain this to me?"
"Because I love you, Allison, always have, always will," Robert calmly says. "Because I want to make our marriage work. Because I never want to say goodbye to you again. Because I want to take care of those two babies. Because I want to help you take care of your children like they were my own. Because I want to be a family. Because I want to be family with you. Because I never ever want to see you covered with bruises and cuts like this ever again. Because I want to protect you. Because I want to protect Olly and Zane. Because I want to protect you three. Because I love you three and I want to protect you three as long as you will let me."
"Wow," Allison breathes. "I wasn't expecting that but I am glad you said that. How could you possible already love Olly and Zane, you just met them?"
"Because they are your children and I love you," Robert says. "Any children you have, mine or not, I will love them. So, what do you say, will you let me take care of you three?"
"I will," Allison says. "Because I love you too and I want to make our marriage work."
"We will make it," Robert says as he places his forehead against Allison's forehead. "We will make it."
The two of them go quietly. Slowly both of them move closer to each other. There are inches away from each other's lips. They are really going to kiss in over a year. A sudden cry pulls them away from each other once again. One of the babies is once again awake. Allison doesn't say anything, she quickly makes her way out of the kitchen and back towards the babies. Robert runs a hand through his short hair. Those babies really have it out for him, apparently.
Strike two.