Chapter 11

“an ass hole” he said simply. My heart dropped to the puts of my stomach

I already experienced that first hand.

“but he can be the nicest person ever. It’ll take time to fully understand him, he needs a lot of patience, but I’ll choose working for him any day” he sounded proud to be working for him, It wasn’t going to lie, Ben could be an ass hole sometimes, but his other qualities make up for them.

“Do you think I’m making the right choice? What if he doesn’t love me as much? Or what if later on, he gets bored of me?” i finally voiced out my insecurities

“one thing I know, he is loyal and he is not the type to dump you because he is ‘bored’ he would always be there. I’m kind of happy he didn’t end up with that bitch Emily, she didn’t deserve him. But you two? You guys have been through a lot. You deserve each other”

I felt happy.

Someone who thought we deserved each other.

“By the way, i heard what your sister did in there. She is an ass hole, i might not know the whole story, but you shouldn’t have had to go through what you went through. Ben is handling it though.”

It quickly got me alarmed. “what do you mean he is handling it?”

“Sorry. I thought he told you about it” my heart raced a bit.

“Arnold, please. Tell me, what is he doing?”

“He took them to the police station, they are going to confess or get no bail.”

“is that even legal? Should he be doing that?” I was in panic mode. It was different telling him things I was willing to share and then it was another thing for him to hear it, what if they explained EVERYTHING

I didn’t want him knowing the details of how I got abused.

What if he saw me differently?

I swear I wouldn’t be able to take it.

“Can we go there?”

“I am meant to take you home. He’ll be pissed if I didn’t follow it”

Please” I begged.

“Fine, but I didn’t take you there.” I nodded, practically bursting through the doors of the station to see Ben fuming in anger.

He already knew.

I walked slowly towards him. This was it, he was going to tell me to get away from him and talk about how disgusting I was.

“Ben?” I said, barely above a whisper.

he moved to me as fast as he could on his chair. “I didn’t know it was that bad, I am sorry” he said hugging me tightly. I let out a breath.

“I thought you would hate me if you knew”

“Why would you think that?” he pulled away sounding offended. “I love you, and that means no matter what.”

“I love you too” it was the first time I was saying it out loud. I noticed the way he looked less tense when I said it.

“what’s going to happen to them?” I said after we had our moment.

“The police would handle it from here. But I made sure they can’t get anything less than their deserved jail time.”

“want to go home?” he asked

“Sure”

On reaching home, I found boxes packed and being loaded into the trunk of the car.

“Are you going somewhere?” I looked at him with wide eyes.

“Umm” he mumbled looking like a kid caught in a naughty act.

“I couldn’t put of my Leeds trip, so I have to go today. I was planning to go in the evening”

He was leaving.

He didn’t bother to tell me.

“oh”

“I was going to tell you, but with the events of today, I couldn’t”

“Its fine. I didn’t just know it was this soon. I would have started looking for a place to move into”

“Why?”

“I’ve free loaded enough. I don’t want you to think ...”

“I am not thinking anything and I would love if you stayed. Although, I would love even more if you cane with me, but I understand you have a life here, so I respect that decision. I would never force you to do anything you are not comfortable with.”

I nodded my head and went inside.

The thought of him being away from me, for an unknown period of time didn’t sit right with me.

I wanted to be close to him.

I wanted to have those rides from work with me and him telling me about the details where I wasn’t there, I wanted those dinners where we would laugh over something stupid.

I wanted to come home and see Jim on days he didn’t go to work because of his feet therapy or his other business. I wanted...

I wanted to never leave his side.

But my life here.

I thought hard. There was no reason to stay behind, I didn’t have a family to stay for. I was still working in the same business over there. So why not?

There was nothing actually holding me back.

I changed into comfortable house clothes and went back out.

The boxes were gone, and he was nowhere in sight.

He didn’t leave me, did he?

My chest was beating wildly at the thought. He couldn’t have, no..

I sat down on the couch, my head buried in between my hands.

“are you okay?” I snapped my head up to see Ben sitting there, looking at me with an excited face.

“Look at this cool chair I got, it’s automatic that way I don’t need to push..” I rushed to him and hugged him.

“I thought you left” I said with relief in every word.

“you can’t get rid of me that easily” I laughed at that

“I’ll go with you. “

“Are you sure? Look it wont be aa problem. I’ll make time to come see you and all. You don’t need to shift your life for me”

I shook my head no. “there is nothing here for me. I just want to be where my home is, and that’s with you.” This time, it was him blushing.

“You are my home too” he smiled at me. “we’ll leave at night then?” I nodded.

“seems like we’re eloping” I laughed.

“Maybe we are”

**

Ben’s p.o.v

I went into the car with the assistance of Arnold.

“same place?” he asked looking at me with the rear view mirror

I nodded.

We reached the mortuary and i went straight to were they were laid.

In loving memory of the D’lux family, survived by their son, Benjamin D’lux.