Chapter 12: The Start of Something New

3 months later

Today is Martin's graduation day but I'm not going. He would be graduating with a BA in physics and an offer to play for the Yankees.

Things were going great for Martin and Melanie especially after that horrible family reunion.

The reunion was months ago and I thought everybody hated me. Especially when they found out that we had sex when he was drunk and I was sober. So all the blame was on me.

I have an apartment not to long from where Martin lives. He wanted to make sure that his daughter was right by him in case something horrible happens.

A knock at the door interrupted my thoughts as I was cooking dinner in the kitchen.

"Martin you're early," I said as he just looked at me and walked right past to the back to get Melanie.

"What's your problem?"

Martin finally came from the back and looked at me in a way that I knew he was pissed but I just didn't know why.

"My problem. Ruthie you wouldn't even understand my problem."

"How can I when you never try to tell me?"

Martin paced back in forth with fire in his eyes. Something was definitely wrong with him and I wanted to know what.

"My dad's not coming to my graduation. I can't believe this. How the hell does he manage to fuck up everything that's good from my life?"

"Martin, you know your dad's work and all the time it takes out of it."

"Bullshit, Ruthie, you know that's been his excuse since I came to live with you" he said, "and why the hell isn't Melanie ready?"

"She is if you would've just picked her up. Don't come and take your anger out on me." I said, finally letting my feelings out on him. "You always come back and take your anger out on me."

"Me, me, me, Ruthie, everything's always about you. I take my anger out on the person I am angry with and obviously if I keep taking my anger out on you, you're the one I'm angry with."

"What did I do now?"

"Nothing. Melanie will be spending the night with me and don't bother to come to the graduation."

He then went into the back room and grabbed Melanie and her bags as he was leaving. I screamed " I wasn't coming anyway!" There it was again; the reason why we can't seem to be getting along. His temper, god, I never knew he had such a huge temper problem.

I decided that tonight I was going out since I haven't gone out in such a long time. I haven't talked to Cassie in so long. I missed her so much so I decided to give her a call hoping that she still had the same cell phone number.

The phone rang twice and then a familiar voice answered.

"Hello!" I said with excitement.

"Ruthie!" Cassie said back. I could hear she was excited to hear from me.

"I'm so sorry I didn't call you when I first arrived here."

"I thought something bad happened to you, Ruthie. You could have called me."

"I know, I know, I am so, so, sorry."

The conversation lasted for hours. She wanted me to come back out there for the weekend. I told her yes. I told her everything about Martin and the family reunion. She said she wanted to meet him one day. She even mentioned that the court told Adam that he had to do counseling or jail for being so abusive to women. She even said he missed me and wanted me to come back to him but that was never going to happen.

Now all I had to do is tell Martin. I never even talked to Martin about Cassie or the abuse. I haven't told anybody about the abuse.

I was so embarrassed about the whole thing I just couldn't. And a part of me was starting to be scared of Martin and I've never been scared of Martin before. I needed to have a talk with Martin fast because I couldn't keep going through this. I couldn't keep growing more and more scared of him.

As I looked at the clock, I saw that it was 12 o'clock at night so I guessed my night out was not a good thing.

Today was Wednesday so I have two days to talk to Martin and tell him that I would be going back to visit Cassie for the weekend.

Melanie was at my parents until Friday so I asked Martin to come over and spend a day with me. After trying to get him here, he finally decided to come.

I knew when he got here he was going to be upset since his girlfriend just broke up with him and I have a feeling he really wanted me to go to the graduation because he hasn't talked to me since the graduation day and that was Monday.

The door bell rang and I went to answer it. When I opened the door, there stood Martin. Every time I see him, he looks more and more sexier then ever.

"Hi, Martin," I said with a big smile. I was not trying to argue tonight because I wanted to go see Cassie and Jason so badly.

"Okay," he said, coming in and sitting on the couch, "why are you being nice to me? What do you want?"

"Martin, I'm always nice to you," I said, sitting next to him on the couch. "I just thought that this relationship was going downhill. We're always arguing, we can't even be around each other more than five minutes, and to tell you the truth, you're starting to scare me with your temper problem."

He just looked at me and smiled. I didn't know what was going on or what he was thinking.

"Ruthie, are you serious? Are you really scared of me?"

"Sometimes, you have a temper that I wish I never would have to come across."

"Ruthie, I never meant to scare you. I never meant to be so angry at you. It's just that everything's been going so bad for me and I guess I just needed somebody to take it out on. I don't ever want you to be scared of me."

"Martin, don't do that."

"Don't do what, Ruthie?"

"I know you're mad at me really, maybe not a lot but you're mad at me for something I did and I just don't know what." I guess all this talking and we didn't realize that we were so close that we were almost face to face. "I want you to tell me. I don't want secrets between us two. I've been holding a lot in because I am so embarrassed to tell anyone. I guess I always thought I got what I deserved."

"Okay, what are you talking about? And what secret are you holding in now?"

"I asked you to tell me first."

"Ruthie, what are you embarrassed about that you can't tell anyone? Did someone hurt you? Is something wrong with Melanie or you? Is this about the whole Melanie being my child because people are going to talk no matter what."

"Martin, I can't answer all them at once and I don't know what you just said."

"Ruthie, just tell me the secret."

"No, I asked you to tell me why are you mad at me." The truth was that if I told Martin about Adam he won't let me go to see Cassie.

"Ruthie, I'm not mad at you" Martin said in frustration. "I just said not to long ago I needed somebody to take my anger out on. So tell me the secret now."

"I want to go visit my friend Cassie this weekend," I said, trying to change the conversation.

"What kind of secret is that?" he asked, letting out a laugh. He knew I was trying to change the conversation; he knew me too well. "Why are you telling me that and why are you trying to change the conversation?"

"You know me too well," I said, laughing along with him. "It's just that I need you to watch Melanie."

"Ruthie, you know that I would watch our daughter and just tell me the secret."

"I'm afraid to because you not going to let me go."

"Ruthie, I'm not your dad. I can't tell you what to do. Your dad can't even tell you what to do" he said, grabbing my hand and holding it inside of his. He was playing some kind of mind game with me. "So just tell me what the secret is."

"Okay, first, let go of my hand because I know what you are doing," I said, pulling my hand back.

"You know me too well," he said, smiling and putting his hands behind his head, "and Ruthie, don't make it short; we've got all night."

Two hours later, we both were crying. I was crying because of the pain it brought me and Martin was crying because he was so pissed. In a way, this is what brought us closer. But as I thought he said, he was not going to let me go.

The deal would be that Cassie and Jason would come out here since they wanted to meet Martin.

Later on, around 10 o'clock, we started a movie and sat and enjoyed the company of each other until in the middle of the movie when something came over us.

Martin slide his hands down on my legs and started rubbing on both of them. Then, his right hand moved to my ass as he squeezed it softly. That's when I looked up at him as he looked at me and smiled.

I smiled back and then moved my right hand up his shirt as I felt his six pack, then I moved my hands on his penis.

I then started unbuckling his belt and got up as I put my left leg over him and sat on his lap. I moved my lips to his neck as he put his head back and rested his two hands on my ass.

He then whispered in my ear, "Now we're both sober," and then turned me over so he could be on top of me. We looked into each others eyes as he laid a soft kiss on my lips and then the kisses got more hard and passionate; just like I like it.

He then lifted me up and we were on our way to my bedroom.

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