Bits of the truth

In less then five minutes they were in front of the house.

Hunter hurried out and opened the door for Noah.

Noah scooped Rose up and Hunter put the jacket over her again.

Connor ran out.

- What happened? What's wrong?

He said.

- Its okay. We're okay. Lets just get inside.

Hunter said as Allison appeared at the front door.

- Move!

Aliyah told her and she moved to the side. They went in and straight upstairs.

- What the hell is going on?

Allison asked as Connor and Hunter walked in and closed the front door.

Aliyah opened the door of Mr.Ps bedroom and Noah laid Rose down in the big bed.

- I'll get her some water from downstairs.

She said and hurried out.

Noah sat in the floor at the side of the bed still holding her hand.

- I'm sorry! Really sorry, I didn't want to..

Rose muttered.

- Hey no, no. I am. I am sorry I let go of your hand tonight although I promised I wouldn't, I'm the one who let you down. Right now all that is important is that you are safe, you are home. you rest now ,we can talk about everything else later, okay?

She shook her head. She was still shaking. He put a heavy blanket over her.

- How is she?

Connor asked Aliyah as she fidgeted around the kitchen looking for the water.

- I don't know. Physically okay I guess but uhm… but she's shaking a lot and I just need some cold water I don't know what else to do. We should have taken her to the hospital.

- No, she didn't want to go.

Hunter replied convinced they did the right thing by bringing her there.

- Yeah but what if I don't know…what if her grandmother did something to her

- Like what?

Allison asked, she wasn't convinced this all wasn't just to avoid talking tonight.

- I don't know, inject her with something? Put something in her drink? I don't know?!

- That's her grandmother we're talking about!

- Oh for fucks sake, and you are supposed to be her best friend but you made her promise not to see us.

Allison looked at Hunter, he had told her, she knew.

- Well Aliyah since..

- Since Rose is upstairs waiting for this and I really want to be there for her I will not stand here and listen to whatever sorry ass excuse you have

She said and walked out the kitchen and up the stairs.

Noah was still sitting near the bed holding her hand.

- Ro, I got you some cold water.

Rose was still shaking.

She looked at Aliyah and tried to straighten herself up and take the glass.

- Do you want to change? Hunter has a spare change of clothes downstairs; I could get those for you?

- I have my sweatshirts here.

- Okay then I'll help you change.

Rose nodded.

- I'll be downstairs okay?

Noah kissed her hand and left.

- News travels fast around here I guess.

Allison said looking at Hunter.

- Just thought since it concerns us all it was right for her to know.

- Yeah, sure , sure.

- Well you didn't feel ashamed doing it, didn't think you would mind others knowing

- Okay so we are just going to pretend I put a gun to her head and I forced her to do so, she didn't in full conscience choose to listen to me and cut all ties with you for four years

- Guys its not the time

Connor had wished things wouldn't escalate into a fight again but now it seemed impossible.

- Yes , yes it is. Thanks to her, our best friend is upstairs going through God knows what because some rich assholes bullied her for years because we weren't there

- What the hell are you talking about?

- Of course you didn't know because as long as she was away from Noah you did not give a fuck where she ended up

- Oh my God again with this!!! I did it okay? I didn't fucking want her and Noah together. I still don't and I never will! Is this what you want to hear?

- Surprise surprise!

- I have had it with you Hunter! It has nothing to do with you so stay the fuck out of it!

- The fuck it does, it has to do with all of us not just them two and you know what I am tired of you too, I am sick and tired of you always getting what you want and I am fucking tired of your tantrums when things don't go your way

- I get everything I want?

- Yess, yes you do, every fucking time. This time is Noah, you want him he doesn't want you and you draw them apart and you run away for four fucking years

- Like you really gave a damn if I was away or not

- Oh my fucking God. I did ! we all did! We all do. That's what you don't fucking get!!

- Oh c'mon now. For the last four years you haven't even once reached out.

- Did you? I wasn't the one who left. Did you reach out? no you didn't. why? Because you were waiting for me to do so because you can never take that first step, you can never admit that you were wrong. You can never say sorry.

- Sorry? I am the one to say sorry? For what? See this is all you do. All of you. You need a reason to make Rose look good so you dump all the blame on me while she makes a scene and lays upstairs avoiding all of us once more.

Noah was just down the stairs and he ran into the room.

- What the hell did you just say?

Allison looked pale but she wasn't going to back down.

- Just the truth

- That's what we were hoping to hear too, but not this bullshit about how you're so innocent, just why the hell did you say to her? what went on to keep you apart for four years?

- Did you ask her? or is this questioning only for me?

- I will, not tonight because I don't want to make her feel worse than she already does

- Oh of course we wouldn't want the princess to feel bad, go ahead take it all out on me. You want to know the truth? You all only cared about her, all of you. Especially you. Even before the accident the only person you cared for was her and it killed me that you pretended you were my friend because you never were, and I lost everyone trying to keep you

- How would you know what it feels like to lose someone?

How would you fucking know?

You never lost anyone or anything. All your life your parents gave you everything you ever wanted. This pain you say you feel, it's not because of losing someone, it's not because you feel like you lost me. It's because for the first time in your fucking life things didn't go your way. For the first time in your life something you wanted wasn't given to you on a fucking golden plate.

You don't fucking know what it is to lose someone. But she does. I do.

Because of your stupid tantrums I spent four years away from the one person in this world I want to spend all my years with.

And for what? You haven't changed one fucking bit. You're not even sorry.

- - Noah..

- No. I've kept my mouth shut for long enough.

Us not saying anything has apparently given you the impression that you were right but you're fucking mistaken. We didn't do anything wrong. We aren't sorry because we don't have something to be sorry for.

- oh please, I lost four years of my fucking life away from all I know. You want to talk about losing.? I lost my everything. All I love. I lost my best friend. All because you two were too fucking coward to just tell the truth.

- What truth? What truth? You knew everything. You knew I loved her since the first time I ever laid eyes on her. You fucking knew because I never fucking hid it. But you weren't mad about that. For the first time in your life she was picked over you, she had something you never could that's what's fucking pissed you off. You didn't fucking lose your best friend, she did. She lost you. She almost died because of things that could have been avoided had you been a decent fucking friend. But you weren't. But let me tell you something, I've stayed away from her long enough because of you but that's it. She will never lose me. I will never leave her again.

And you can go away and spend ten more years of your fucking life cutting us off because of that.

- Okay. You want the truth? Okay then.

We both went away, yes, I asked not to see you, true. But I didn't force her, I didn't want her seeing you but I never asked her to not see the others, that was her choice. And we left, but she left to go live in a rich mansion with her own grandmother while I was admitted into the "Lily Garden Mental Health Facility"