Piper
I was so glad my friends were back, especially Hunter. I knew I was going to need to tell him my story and why I was so hesitant to be with him. I knew I liked him but I was going to protect my heart. I needed more time and I wanted him to understand why, because I wanted to be his girlfriend. We were all sitting in their house. It was now or never, I needed to tell him before his heart became to invested, ugh I so didn't want to do this maybe I would wait one more day. I mean we were all having so much fun why ruin with a sad story, it wasn't really anything that good anyways. No one except for Aria knew what I went through. The only reason she knew was because of her dad and if it weren't for him I wouldn't be here today. I decided I would wait for now I wasn't ready to tell my story yet. It was not like he was asking so I wasn't going to tell it if I didn't need too, did I want them all to know I wasn't sure. First, I think I owed it to Hunter to tell him first. If he then decided I was not worth it to him then I would let him move on, this new girl Riley seemed like a lot of fun. I knew she was Klea's best friend and Max's cousin. I was glad that Titan was doing better too he seemed like a whole different dog, except when the doorbell rang then he would go ballistic.
"Relax Titan it is just the pizza" Max said, as he opened the door and paid the delivery guy, we all laughed and ate pizza, we were having so much fun. I knew once I told Hunter my story it would ruin everything, we wouldn't have as much fun. Everyone was cuddling and watching a movie, I mean everyone except for Riley. I am sure she would find someone though it wasn't hard to do in college. I never really did know her story though, "you good?" Hunter asked me. "I am just thinking" I said, "anything I can help with" he asked, "no, I mean we do need to talk but no" I said. "Piper what is going on?" I asked, " a lot and I want to tell you but I am afraid it will make you hate me" I said. "That will never happen" he said, "come with me" I said pulling him out of the house. Everyone else was so invested in the movie I didn't even think they noticed us leave.
"If I tell you this it can't be repeated. I have never told anyone this story before, and I don't want to be pitied because of it" I said. "I promise I won't say anything" Hunter said. I trusted him hell I was pretty sure I was in love with him, ugh okay well her goes nothing. "I had a pretty normal childhood; my father was a drunk and my mom worked all the time. I was 8 when my dad walked out on us for good, never heard from him again. I found out he died when I was 12, he drank himself to death. My mom worked a lot to keep us on our feet, we lived in dump after dump. Then my mom met Hank, he helped her out with all her bills. I never paid much attention to him, I just tried to keep my head down, and then when Hank left it was another guy and then another. My mom was what I would call a serial dater, she tried to get money out of all of them. Well Hank came back after a few months wanted my mom to pay him back. It was just me home alone and he went after me, I tried to defend myself, he threw me to the floor, and I hit my head on the table in the living room it was made of stone. He left me there and if my mom didn't come home, I would have died on the floor there, Aria's dad was the surgeon on call that night, he was here in Toronto. He saved my life, and I owe him a great deal, I watched my mom date all these men and it made me resent her. After the accident she changed and dedicated her life to me after that, I mean I was only 14 when all this happened, she became a better mom and has stable job now. She is dating a guy named Tripp and he adopted me as his own. He had 2 kids from a previous marriage and Ginny and Bailey are my siblings. I adore them and my new family; I would like to think the accident changed all that, but I don't know" I said
"Damn that was a lot, I am so sorry that happened to you it makes me feel sick. Piper, it doesn't change how I feel about you and I would never do anything to hurt you" he said. "I know that, but I just I am protective of my heart you know" I said, "I get that, and I promise to protect your heart with my life" he said. That made me cry and I hugged him and kissed him, I felt like I could finally be who I wanted to be with Hunter. I could finally just be myself. I was going to become a biologist and study damn hard to help children with uncurable diseases, it is what I wanted to do. "I want us to be official" I said. "I kind of thought we already were" he said, "well okay then I guess we are" I said and he kissed me we sat on the porch a little longer, I felt better knowing that he knew my story. I didn't expect anything special from him but the fact he still cared about me made all the difference in the world. I was finally finding my place after the accident and coming out of my shell, and I felt that Hunter was a good place to start, in fact all of them were I liked our little group.
The door opened and Max, Aria, Klea and Adam all came out, "we okay out here?" Aria asked, "yup we are better than okay" I said and Aria smiled at me, "well um we making sure you two didn't get lost" Klea said. "We are good" Hunter said, "need more time alone or want to come watch another movie with us" Klea asked, "I think we are good here" I said. "Yeah we are good" Hunter said and they all went back inside, I wanted to just be alone with him everything was out on the table now and I think I wanted to introduce him to my family. "I want you to meet my family" I said, "I might not be a fan of your mom" he said, "she always did what was best for me, she didn't know Hank was going to do that, like I said she changed after I was hurt and she is so amazing now. She turned her life around, I promise you she is not the same person she was before" I said. "Alright then sure I would like to meet them" he said and I smiled we had one more day before school started again and I was going to set it up for tomorrow.