I wake up to the sounds of Jaces video games going through the TV. I sit up and rub my eyes.
"Good morning Love. Did you sleep well?" He pauses his game and turns his full attention towards me.
"Yes i did. What about you?" I ask.
"I slept okay. Oh by the way we need to go get your stuff from your house so we can move you in to my house. If you want of course." He turns back to his TV.
"Oh. Of course." I say as I look through my phone and seeing my step dad has been blowing up my phone. "My step dad is texting me?" I say out loud so Jace can hear.
"He is? What's he saying?" He pauses his game again and gets up from his chair as he walks over to my side of the bed.
I hand him the phone as he skims through the messages. "I think he wants me to come home?" I say as I get up and get dressed.
"You are not going back to your house love. Its not safe." He puts the phone down.
"But he's going to hurt me if I don't. He will find out where I am and I cannot put you in that situation." I throw my bag over my shoulder. "So just give me a ride over to my house and I will live there for a week or two then I'll be back okay?"
"No," He grabs my bad and sets it on the bed. "We are going to go to your house, get your clothes and anything you want to bring to my house okay? And then you will live with me. I'm doing this for your safety only okay? What about your mom can you talk to her about it?"
I shake my head. "He killed her." I say as I sit back down on the bed, looking at the ground. "Before I left for the last time. They haven't seen me in 3 months. He doesn't even know that I was at the mental hospital because all of the forms went to my mom but she was dead so your mom signed them as my legal guardian."
Jace stood there in pure shock. "He did what?" His voice rises in concern. "We have to go El. He's probably passed out from being drunk still. We can turn him in to the police tonight okay? I promise he will not get away with this."
"Okay." I say as we empty out my bag of all my dirty clothes to get it ready for the new clothes we are going to pick up.
Jace brings me out to his car and opens the door for me as I get in. He shuts it and I sit there silently all the way to my house. As we get closer to the house, thoughts flood into my head and I start to get nervous.
Jace looks over at me and realizes something is wrong. He puts his hand on my leg and reassures me that everything will be okay. "Elliot your shaking." He says.
"I-Oh. Oops." I try my best to stop as we pull up next to my house. It seems as there is no movement inside of that house. I peer back to the shed behind the house to see it locked shut. Jace let's me out of the car and we both walk up the door together as I take the keys out of my pocket. I unlock the door and walk in quietly. I hear footsteps coming from around the corner and brace myself for getting yelled at.
I look up and it's my step dad with a worried face. I look behind me to see Jace closing the door with a confused expression on his face.
My step dad wraps me into a big bear hug as he "cries" into my shoulder. I push him off of me screaming "get off of me you bastard!"
He stumbles back. "What the fuck is your issue you little shit?" He asks getting in my face.
"Where's mom huh? What did you do with her?" I jab my finger into his chest.
He slaps me across the face as I see jace lunge forward. I put my hand out to gesture him to move back.
He steps back and I look back at my step dad. "You mother fucker." I saw with my teeth nailed together.
"What are you gonna do kill me?" He laughs.
"Oh I'll kill you." Jace pipes up from behind me.
"Just like you killed YOUR dad?" My step dad steps towards him.
I freeze to the statement, my body filling up with anger. "What did you just say?" I say as I shove him into the railing of the stairs.
"Ohhh. Somebody's getting protective over their little boyfriend huh?" He runs into the staircase.
Jace runs in front of me and punches him in the face. I run upstairs and fill my bag with random clothes and different things that I might need as I hear yelling and fighting down the stairs. I run back downstairs and pull Jace off of my step dad as we run out the front doors with my step dad chasing behind us.
We both get in and he drives off as i buckle my seat belt. I look in the rear view mirror and see him limping down the road with blood dripping from his head and his nose. I look over at jace and see that he is completely unharmed. Just his clothes are a little messed up and he's out of breath.
He looks over to me and smiles with a funny look on his face. "We did it. You're finally mine." As he kisses me and we pull into the driveway.