Chapter 2

*Riiing….Riiing….Riin-*

"Hello?"

"Hey Lexi, sorry if I woke you up."

"It's okay Elli. Anyway, why are you calling so early?"

"Oh I was checking up on you because you didn't text me when you got home yesterday so I got worried."

"Oh u-um yeah about that…my dad and I got into a really bad fight."

"Oh no, are you okay? Did you get hurt again? Do I need to come pick you up? Do-"

"No,no,no someone already....did."

"Babe what's wrong?

Once she asked if I was okay I stated to tear up, because she is my girlfriend and I don't want to lose her. She is my everything and I don't want to hurt her, but eventually I will have to tell her about Elliot and the marriage. But I don't want to. At this point I am crying to the point I can't even hear her screaming through the phone after I dropped it. Moments later my mom came rushing in asking if I was okay and I could only respond by shaking my head side to side over and over until I got light headed and fell back onto my bed. My mom had picked my phone up asking who it was.

"Who is this?"

"U-um I'm lexi's girlfriend Elli? Who is this?"

"I'm her mom. Um Elli where do you live? I will come pick you up. We have to talk in person, if you don't mind."

"Okay I will call in about 30 after I am done getting ready for the day then you can come pick me up."

"Okay then we will probably get there in about an hour."

"Okay see you then."

"Bye."

I had started crying more when my mom hung up. Knowing that she was going to question me because I didn't tell her I had a girlfriend. I was too scared to tell her because I thought that maybe she was going to end up telling my dad about it, so I just kept it a secret and said we were really good friends.

"So how long have you two been together?" My mom had asked without any sign of anything that I didn't want. She seemed really calm like she was completely okay with it.

"So you're okay with it?"

"Yes, I love you for who you are. I am not going to judge you for who you like and date."

"Oh okay. I thought that you weren't going to accept who I was and tell dad, so I didn't tell you."

"Oh well I love you for who you are. Now how long have you two been together?"

"We have been together for about a year and a half."

"That's nice, when did you catch feelings for her?"

"Uuum I'd say about three years ago."

"So you liked her for one and a half years before you asked her out?!"

"Um yes but no. I didn't ask her out, she asked me out."

"Oh how sweet. Were you just going to keep pushing your feelings aside if she didn't ask you out?"

"Um, I don't know."

"Well you know what, I should probably go pick Elli up."

"Yeah you probably should. While you are gone I will take a shower and get freshened up."

"Okay well I am going to go get my stuff and leave. Bye, love you, be back in a bit."

Mom had left my room a few seconds later. I had laid in bed for about 10 minutes thinking about what I was going to tell Elli. I decided to take a quick shower and get ready for the day. I didn't put any makeup on after my shower because I have the feeling I might cry again today. I got dressed and went downstairs to see if I could find Elliot so he can help me find things I need for breakfast. When I got downstairs Elliot was in the kitchen and there was an amazing smell coming from the kitchen.

"Hey."

"Hey, are you hungry? I am making breakfast if you want some."

"Oh yeah, I was just wondering what smelled so good. I was just coming downstairs to get something to eat."

"Is that so? Oh and your mother left about 30 minutes ago."

"Oh yeah I know my mom told me she was leaving."

"Oh okay well, there are plates, cups, silverware, and napkins on the table, will you please set them up? Your mom said she was going to go pick someone up so I grabbed an extra of everything."

"Yeah mom went to go get someone and yeah I will set the table."

"Thank you, breakfast will be done in about 20 minutes."

I wonder why Elliot treats me so nice. He could treat me like I am an object.

"Hey Elliot, why do you treat me so nicely. If you wanted you could treat me like I am an object, not that I am complaining."

"It's simple, I'm not like other people that get offered to marry a young and beautiful woman. I also did not want to marry you because I'm a creep or anything, I wanted to marry you because I could tell by the way that he was talking about you he was very abusive, and I wanted to get you out of that situation because when I was your age I was in the same position. For me the abuse started around 5 from my mother. She said things like I was the reason my father left, in reality she was the reason he left because she was an alcoholic. She would treat me very badly and when I was 16 I got a job and started saving every bit of money I got from the job for 2 years then I found a house jot a better job and moved away from my mom. After that my life was amazing, and I thought that I would help you."

"Well thank you, I really need to get out of there."

"I just didn't want you to suffer anymore even though I didn't know you, it was a free chance to free you, and I was never going to give your father any money by the way if you were wondering. I was not going to let a scumbag like him take advantage of me or you like that."

"Well thank you again for everything."

"No thank you for letting me save someone before something even worse happened."

"Well I am going to go set the table now."

"Okay well breakfast will be done in about 5 minutes."

"Okay."

My phone had dinged and I only had a couple of things to do for the table so I did that before I checked my phone. It was from my mom saying that she was about 10 minutes away. I reply saying 'okay see you when you get here.' Elliot had started placing things on the table. It had taken about 5 minutes to set the table completely. I had gone to plug my phone in upstairs because I forgot last night and it was almost dead. On my back downstairs I noticed that my mom's car just pulled up, and all of the sudden I got a wave of anxiety. I remember that I forgot to take my anxiety medicine earlier so I ran back upstairs and took and ran back downstairs. Mom and Elli were walking in the door when I got at the bottom of the stairs.

"LEXI" Elli had run and jumped on me causing me to fall. "Are you okay, is everything okay?" She started asking a lot of questions.

"I will tell you everything after we eat, okay? This way." I got up and showed her to the kitchen. Where I introduced her to Elliot and we ate. It felt like we were family.