Warning: There is abuse in this chapter.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Tate stayed with me the whole night comforting me until I fell asleep. When I woke up he wasn't there, and that made me a little sad but I pushed that away and went into the bathroom to take a shower. I looked at myself in the mirror and my eyes were puffy and red from all that crying last night, and my hair was a mess. I stripped off my clothes and stepped into the shower letting the hot water soothe me. I just stood there letting the hot water run down my body until it turned cold and then I turned the water off and stepped out wrapping a towel around me.

After getting dressed I just simply laid down on my bed, I had a bit of a headache from crying last night.

"What's wrong?" Someone said scaring me, I looked up and of course it was Tate.

"Nothing, I just have a headache." I said as he sat down beside me as I was still laying down.

"Sorry for scaring you once again."

I chuckled, "It's alright. I just didn't expect you to come in since you were gone when I woke up." Now I pulled myself to sit up.

"Oh yeah, I just had to go take care of some business." I nodded knowing not to push for more information. He pulled me into his lap. Oddly enough my head started feeling better when he did that.

"So are you going to show me some of your other tattoos?" He asked with a sly smile.

"Sure." I said showing him the heart that I had on my ankle.

He studied it closely, "Cool, does that one have a meaning?"

"No not really. I mean I got this tattoo when I was going out with Wes, but it has nothing to do with him." He tensed up at that name.

"Good." I nodded agreeing with him.

"I was thinking about something late night. You told me about your sister and you already know that I have a sister but you didn't know I had a brother. He was my older brother, Beau. He wasn't really accepted by society, or my mom for that fact. He had some physical defects, so my mom had Larry kill him. She told me that he died of natural causes, but Addy and I know the truth." This news made me sad. How could his mother just tell someone to kill her son? That is really disgraceful.

"Is he still in the house?" A part of me already knew that he was.

"Yes, he is in the attic."

"What about Addy?" Knowing that was his sister.

"Her, I'm not too sure about. She died off the property, but I know she sticks around for Violet and me."

"Okay." I said remembering what he told me about him and Violet's relationship. Whenever I thought about it, I would feel a bit jealous knowing I could never be loved the way that he loved Violet and I could see he still loves her a lot.

"Your dad is coming." Tate said quickly getting up.

"Where are you going?" I really didn't want him to leave me alone with my father.

"Don't worry, I'm just going into the closet. I'll be right here." He said disappearing quickly as my door slammed open.

In the door stood my father and Jennifer was behind him, he looked so mad "You are in so much trouble!" He said is a calm voice that scared me.

"W-what did I do?" I asked in a really small voice.

"Constance came over and told me you have been hanging around her son. I know that's probably not all you have done." He literally spat.

How did Constance know this?

"No I haven't been around him. I don't even know who he is."

"Don't lie you bitch!" Jennifer yelled.

"I'm not lying." Right after the words left my mouth I was flung back by the force of someone hitting me, I fell to the floor in pain.

"I don't want you to see that boy anymore!" He yelled kicking me once before leaving and slamming my door shut.

Tate rushed out of the closet to my side, being careful he picked me up and put me on my bed. Once again there were tears running down my face.

"Shhhh its okay, he's gone." He brought me close to him.

"How did your mother know I was with you?" I asked in a small voice.

"Because she's a bitch who always knows my business." There was hate evident in his voice.

It was going to kill me to say the next few words, "He is right, I shouldn't see you. We are completely different people, your dead and I'm still alive." My voice cracked when I said those words.

"No Lily! Don't listen to him, please don't shut me out now." He begged desperately.

"Seriously Tate, what's the point. He is just going to send me away."

Tate stopped and un-expectantly kissed me, "I don't care what they say. Why should we let them stop us?"

I thought about it, "You're right." Then I brought his lips back to mine.

Then I realized what was going on and pushed him away, "Wait, what are you doing?"

He tilted his head at me in confusion, "Kissing you, am I not allowed?"

"No you're allowed to. I mean why are you kissing me?" I said even though I wanted to kiss him again.

Tate chuckled, "Lily I'm kissing you because I like you."

"What about Violet?" This had me wondering if this was all a dream.

"What about her? What she and I had is in the past and she made it clear that she doesn't want to be with me." He explained and I nodded accepting that answer and pulling him into another kiss.

I don't know why, but it felt right kissing Tate. He made me feel safe in a place where I knew I was not safe.

We pulled away, "Wait, what are we going to do about your mother knowing about us?" I asked wishing she didn't know.

"Don't worry about it. I will take care of her and hopefully she won't bother you again." He pulled me closer to him. "I'm glad you finally know my feelings for you." He said kissing my neck lightly.

I smiled, "Me too. I forgot to tell you I like you as well."

"I knew that much." He said with a chuckle.

"How did you know?"

"Well you don't hide it very well, and you keep having dreams about me because you whisper my name nearly every night." I blushed deeply at his words since I remembered those dreams perfectly. Some of those dreams were very graphic if you know what I mean.

Tate saw that what he said made me blush, so he decided to push it even further "I know what you dream about."

"What really?" This made me very embarrassed by my dreams.

There was now a smirk on his face, "No, I'm kidding with you." I playfully hit him for that.