Chapter 27

She looks at her phone and realizes it is midafternoon when she starts hearing footsteps coming. She hides farther in the cave but can’t hold back her sobs. She’s been crying so long that she is gasping for air most of the time.

The twins come running into find her in the cave. She tries to push them off but they hold her tight into their chests.

“Baby. Please you have to listen to us. They are fucking lying.” Liam says in a cold tone.

“Yes baby. We would never do that to you. I promise.” Josh says as tears run down his cheeks.

“You asked us to talk to you if we heard rumors and I would hope that you would know that we would want you to talk to us too.” Liam pleads.

Allie looks up to them and sees that they both have tears running down their cheeks and their faces are red. Josh has a black eye and Liam has dried blood running from the corner of his lip.

“What happened to you?” She asks with concern. Totally forgetting about what she is upset about for a minute.

They both look at each other and chuckle. “Chris.” They say in unison.

“He told us what you all overheard. Baby, please you have to believe us they are lying. We would never do that to you.” Josh says.

“We didn’t mean to fucking touch them I swear.” Liam pleads.

Allie narrows her gaze at them while she takes a few steps back from them. “What do you mean you didn’t ‘mean to’ touch them? Did you meet them last night?” Allie asks in a murderous tone.

“Well…” Liam starts as he looks down. “Yes, they were where we were last night.”

Allie starts crying again and tries to get up away from them. “That’s why I had the pain and got sick. I can’t believe this. I never expected this from you. Especially you both.” She says through her hard sobs.

“It’s not like that baby. Please hear us out. I promise it’s not like that.” Josh pleads.

Allie looks down but nods wrapping her arms around her stomach to comfort herself not trusting her voice to say anything right now. She’s waiting for the blow to hit her heart.

“We went to our normal meeting place to meet Mason and Eric at our usual time. But when we got there the three of them came out of the forest naked.” Liam says. “And Mason and Eric weren’t around.”

“They tried to get us to touch them and even tried to negotiate with us to have sex with them for them to leave us alone but we pushed them down and ran away.”

“We ran right into Mason and Eric right after and told them everything that happened.”

“Why didn’t you just tell me?”

The twins both look down in embarrassment. “We thought it would be better if we didn’t say anything to you because what they did can be considered a challenge to the Luna. And you were asleep when we got back. We should have just told you.”

“Wait…what did they do?”

Liam and Josh exchange glances but don’t say anything.

“I have a right to fucking know.”

They both hold her hands before they sigh and nod.

Liam is the one to speak. “They pressed their bodies against us, touched our bodies, Brittany had her hand down my pants at one point, and tried to kiss us. But I swear we were trying to move their hands off the whole time.”

“This is so fucked up. Do you not trust me?” Allie asks as more tears fall from her eyes.

“Baby, yes we trust you. We just didn’t want to hurt you.” Liam says.

“I have trusted you with pieces of my horrible past and it feels like you both can’t trust me with your future.” Allie cries out as she breaks away from them and runs out of the cave.

They run after her and catch her just as she is about to run into the ocean.

“We trust you with our lives.” Josh says through his tears.

“No more hiding anything love. We promise. Even if it hurts.” Liam says.

“We promise.” They say in unison.

“Are you sure that is what you want?” Allie says as she looks down nervously.

“Yes, love. We are sure.” They say together.

She looks up at them and they smile at her holding their arms out. She slowly sinks into their arms and they hold her tight.

“We need to talk to your father then. I refuse to let this continue. I left Dark Moon because of shit like this. I’m not doing it again.”

“We will handle it together love.” Liam says as he kisses her neck.

“Always together.” Josh says as he kisses her shoulder.

“Will you forgive us love?” Liam asks in a shaky voice.

“On one condition.” Allie says with a smirk.