We accept the love we think we deserve.
AN: just to let you know, this chapter is going to get a little…extreme. Some of the content is kind of messed up. It contains some….topics not normally in fics. And probably not what you would expect from me. So just be warned, there is talk of child molestation.
"Rose, where did you put my bacon?!" Christian called from the kitchen, but I was still frozen at the door. Abe Muzur, the man who had been haunting my dreams for the last year stood at my door.
When I didn't reply to him, I felt Lacey by my legs, growling and Mason and Eddie behind me. They were always my protective brothers. And I loved them for it.
"Ki, why don't you let me in, it looks like rain." The flashy man before me said, and tried to walk in but stopped when Lacey snapped. Damn I trained her good. To anyone that seemed like a threat, or she didn't know she was the fierce Pit, but if you were a kid, or someone she knew then she was the sweetest thing. Hell, the neighbor's kid was jumping on her and acting like she was a horse one moment last week, and then the neighbor's dead beat baby daddy came and tried to pick the kid up and Lacey nearly ate him. Needless to say everyone loved her.
"Rosemarie, call that beast off" my mother called from behind Abe as she walked into the house. Wait, she knows him! That bitch! I have been asking her about him and she told me she didn't know who the hell I was talking about, the whole one time I got her to answer me.
"What? No. not until I get answers! Who the hell are you?" I broke out of my frozen state when I heard my mother, but now that she was here, my fury overruled any shock. When I felt the rest of my friends join me by the door, I took a tiny step back, and felt Lissa put her arm around my waist.
"Rose, call that dog off and we will sit down and explain everything. Though I think your friends should go home." Janine said as she pushed past us, Lacey knew not to bite her, but she did growl.
"They are not going anywhere, in fact." Taking a deep breath I pulled out my phone and called the number I hadn't called in a month and a half. When Dimitri picked up the phone, his voice was surprised.
"Roza? What's the matter? Is everything alright?" he asks and I heard him putting on his long jacket, meaning that he was already on the way out of the house. Good. Even thought I was still mad at him, he was the one who knew all about my dreams and what was going on. He deserved to be here to hear what the hell was going on.
"Uh, honestly I don't know. Can you just come over? Please?" I ask, than sighed when I saw 2 cars pull up outside. One was a black 2012 Camaro. It was beautiful and I couldn't help the small smile that came to my face.
"Yes, I will be over in a few minutes. Is mason or Eddie there?" he asks as the door slammed behind him. After thanking him, I hung up and walked past Abe to the guy walking up to me with a set of keys.
"Rose? Here are the keys to the rental; there is a box in the trunk with all the personal stuff from your Altima. It will be in there until at least the middle of March, the damage was pretty bad. They have to replace most of the body, plus whoever it was messed with the engine too. Parts are missing, or all around broken." He told me and I nodded. This shit was way too much for a 17 year old to deal with.
"Thanks Keith." I told him, and I think he got that I was dismissing him, and not a moment too soon as Dimitri came walking up the walk. "I need you to be Penn right now. My friend, who I can talk to about anything. Not my ex-boyfriend who I am still a little mad at." I told him, and he nodded. "Abe Mazur…he is my father. At least that's what my mother said when they both showed up here."
To say that he was shocked would be an understatement, he looked about 4 steps past that. "Roza, you know who he is? He is said to be the Godfather of the Turkish mafia." he told me, his voice low as he took a step closer to me and put his arm around my waist. I was about to shake him off, until I saw where he was looking. In the door stood my mother and Abe, God, why was he making it so hard to say mad at him?
"They said they would explain everything if I called Lacey off. I think Mase did that for me though" I told him, putting my arm around him too and took a deep breath. "Let's go see what they have to say, I left my family in the house with them." I pulled him with me to the door and we pushed past them and into the living room. When Lissa saw us with our arms around each other, her eyes went wide and gave me a look that said 'are you back together or something?' I just shook my head and went to sit between Mason and Eddie. "Ok, start talking." I said to my….parents. When they looked around at everyone in the room, I said "they are my family, you tell me, and you tell them."
My mother looked around, as if she was looking for somewhere to sit, than sighed. With that everyone piled around me on the couch, with Eddie on one side, mason on the other, Lissa next to Mase, historian on the arm next to her, Andre next to Eddie, and Dimitri on the arm next to him. leaving the chair and love seat open for Janine and Abe. When they sat down, Lacey moved to lay between my legs, her eyes on Abe.
"I met Abe when I was 19, and on vacation in Turkey" my mother started, leaning back in MY chair, like this was just some random talk. "We met at a club and there was an instant….I don't know, spark. For the next 2 weeks I was there I spent every moment with him and ended up falling in love. It was 3 weeks after I went home that I found out I was pregnant with you." when she looked over at Abe, I simultaneously nearly barfed, and nearly cried. She looked at him like he was the greatest thing in the world, with so much love. She had never looked at me like that.
"When your mother told me that she was pregnant, I was over the moon, and determined to be the best father I could be to you. So when you were born, I had you both live with me in Turkey. You loved it." Abe picked up the story, now his look that was the look of a father. One who loved his daughter? "Things were amazing, until you turned 7." When he said that, his face hardened, and I could see why he was the master or whatever of the Mafia.
"When you were 7, we got you a sitter. On the surface he was a good man. Good with kids, heart of gold, spoke perfect English and Turkish, both of which we wanted you to know. He had been working for us for nearly a month before you started acting differently. More closed off, and shy. When I would try to play with you, you would freak out. You wouldn't even let me help you get ready for bed." Abe reached for Janine's hand as he spoke, and held it tightly.
"When I tried to get you to talk to me, you ran away. We spent nearly 2 weeks looking for you. Your father and I were so scared" mom continued, looking from face to face and settled on mine. And for the first time in 17 years, I saw emotion for me. She wasn't the heartless bitch she acted like.
"When we found you and got you home, and were able to get you to talk to us. We found out that Aydin had been molesting you since he had started watching you. But by then he was gone. After that we decided that we needed you out of there, so we moved here, where my friends from college lived." Mom went on, looking a little uncomfortably between me, Lissa, Mason Eddie and Andre.
"When I moved here, I had a sit down with Rhea, Eric, Draven, Tara, Trace and Heather" Draven and Tara were Mason's parents and Trace, Heather were Eddies, and Rhea and Eric were Lissa and Andre's. "I told them what happened, and they all said they would look after you when I wasn't here."
"For the last 10 years Abe and I have been traveling the world, looking for this bastard, and we have always been one step behind. Until now. We think he is here." She said her face hard as stone.
And just like that, everything came flooding back to me. Memories of a beautiful house in Turkey, my mother and father laughing and tossing me in the air. Picnics, and days out at the market. Sitting by the fire drinking hot chocolate and watching the fire, my mother and father both kissing me goodnight as they tucked me into bed. Than a man, with dark hair and eyes, watching me, touching me, making me touch him.
I shuddered as I remembered and let out a small gasp, instantly the dog at my feet was on hers, rubbing her head against my hand, and I felt the spot next to me shift and an arm wrap around. When I looked over, Eddie had his arm around me.
"I…..I remember." I whispered, my eyes closed as I turned my head and buried it in my friend's neck. This was all too much. Pushing myself off the couch, I walked to the window and watched as rain started to hit the window. I always thought it was ridiculous when people say that the weather matched their moods, but now I understood.
There was a storm inside of me, I was so confused. Confused, scared, happy, sad. And angry. Running my hand though my hair, I turned back to the room. "So me meeting my friends wasn't just chance." It was the easiest question that was going through my head, and when my mother shook her head I nodded. "I remember, in turkey, we were happy. You loved me. What changed?" I ask her, biting my lip, scared of her answer.
"Oh Rose, I never stopped loving you. I know I am a bitch, but I had to do that. You didn't remember what happened, and I didn't want you to know what I was really doing. It was easier for you to hate me than for you to be tormented as a child by what happened. Every time I was a bitch it would kill me, I would call your father crying." She told me, getting up to walk over to me and put her arms around me.
Taking a deep breath I put my arms around her and hugged her so tightly I was surprised that I didn't hurt her. But she didn't complain, she just hugged me back, when I felt arms around my back I turned to see Abe join our hug.
I still had tons of questions, but right now I couldn't think. I pulled away and walked over to my friends, but instead if sitting where I was, I walked over and hugged Dimitri. Mad at him or not, feeling him hug me back felt right. I was nowhere near getting back together with him, but as long as I was dealing with hard topics today, I might as well get the one with him over with.
And my friends seemed to notice that. Standing up they walked into the kitchen where Christian finished making dinner, and my parents walked out to the car, I think to get Abe's stuff. Taking a deep breath, I took Dimitri's hand and walked with him to my room where I sat on my bed.
"I am not ready to go back to the way things were, but I know we need to talk. So I am listening to whatever you have to say. Whatever reasons you have for not telling me. I won't interrupt you, or get pissed. Ok I won't start yelling, I may get pissed but I will keep my mouth shut." I told him, grabbing my pillow and pulling it to my chest.
When he nodded and sat on the end of the bed, he smiled at me a little. "I didn't mean to upset you so badly. I knew that you would be mad, but I didn't think it would be that mad. I didn't tell you because, you trusted Penn. Far more than you trusted me, and I knew that you needed someone to talk to." He said, running his hand though of his hair. "When I started falling in love with Kit, I didn't know that you were her. I was in the same place you were. I loved and I hated that I loved Kit."
"Then when you broke up with me, I hated myself. I knew that I should have told you and I hated that I didn't. I hate that I hurt you, when I love you so much. You have no idea how much I love you. You are the first thing I think of when I wake up, and the last before I go to sleep. Every night I dream of, and all day you are all that's on my mind." He said rushing, than shook his head a laughed a little.
"What I am trying to say is, I am sorry Roza, so very sorry. And I don't blame you of you never trust me again, or never want to be anything more than friends." He reached for my hand and smiled a little. "But know, that friends or not, I will always be here for you. You can always talk to me, and I will always help you when I can." Without even knowing what was happening, I threw the pillow to the side and threw myself into his arms, my lips pressing hard against his.
And for the first time in a month and a half, I felt happy, safe. Whole.
AN: WHOOOOOT! So Abe is not a bad guy, and Janine is not a bitch. : O who saw that coming? And now we know who is after Rose. Things are coming to a close, though there will be like 3 more chapters I think. And Prom will be in the next chapter. And everyone who has had a walk in so far will get one last showing. XD so if you have had a walk in and have any dress in mind for yourself send it to me in a PM and that's what you shall have. Ha-ha
I'm sure that everyone is happy that Rose and Dimitri have reconciled. Ha-ha, ya she is still a little mad at him, but she loves him more than she is mad.
Oh and in the next chapter we will find out who everyone's pen pals are…well Eddie and Masons at least. Since they are the ones we don't know. (I'll give you a hint on Eddie's him and his pal I ship them SOOOO hard. Ha-ha first one who gets Eddie's pal right gets to be Masons pal. XD)
So now that we got all good stuff posted, as you saw there was a serious topic in there, that I feel needs talking about. 4 out of every 5 women will be sexually assaulted some time in their life. And hundreds of kids are part of that. If you or someone you know is, or has been a victim of a sexual crime, talk to someone. There are departments in the police force dedicated souly to dealing with sex crimes. I can tell you from experience, that knowing the man who hurt you is locked away and not able to do what they did to you to anyone else, it really helps with coping.
IF YOU SEE/KNOW SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING!