Battles In Life

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Adam had left me a message on Friday telling me the girls want to meet me at ten a.m. today is now Sunday and Im nervous very nervous. I don't know how this is going to go. Lochie isnt joining me. I told him I wanted to do it on my own but corey will still be at the centre if I need him. I am currently in a taxi on my way to the centre.
Pulling up corey was waiting out the front.
"Morning corey" "morning dana. Danielle, Latisha and corby are already here" I nodded "are you feeling okay?" "Nervous and worried but I will be okay" " I will be in the centre whether it be down stairs or upstairs but if you need me call out for me okay" "thank you corey". "They are in the training room" I nodded "I better go in" "good luck dana".
Walking in, my hands were sweating and shaky but I held them to my body to cover my nervousness.
As I walked in, all eyes were on me. they hadn't changed a bit, only aged but still looking wonderful.
Latisha is about 5'8 long black hair and light green eyes, corby is just a tad shorter with dark brown hair and hazel eyes and Danielle is about 5'9 short blonde hair with brown eyes. "Dana" I gave my attention to Latisha "hi Latisha" "please come sit" "I will" "hi Danielle" Danielle stood up and I took a step back "dana we have missed you so much" "why did you do what you did? I thought we were friends we had been friends for years" corby spoke up but I could see they all had a sadness in the eyes. "We didn't.. we didn't want to do it dana. you were one of our best mates, we always had each other's back" "but you did" "we were threatened you need to believe us, we didn't want to hit you it has killed us every day knowing what we did. None of us could even speak to each other after that day, we just all separated it was callie dana she.. she threatened to hurt angelic" "angelic" I looked at Latisha "your little sister" Latisha nodded. I swallowed the lump in my throat. "Can you please come sit with us, we want to explain what happened while we were there, we don't want you to hate us dana" I looked to the roof trying to not let the tears fall then nodded. I moved closer but kept about a two meter distance between myself and the girls, taking a seat on the mat. "Look the day we hit you, callie had forced us to do it. we didnt know jordan would lash out first it just happened. I don't know if it was callie's plan for it to happen that way or not but we all hit you once, none of us hit you hard enough to do any damage just made it look that way. Callie came up hitting you in the side of the head knocking you to the ground but you kept your eyes on us and we understand why you thought one of us had done it. after she hit you, she pulled out a knife cutting your head then started laying punches into you. we just couldnt be there and ran" "why didn't you help me?" "She had a knife dana, we were scared but as soon as we ran out danielle called your mom" "she's the one who found me?" "Your mom didn't tell you?" "No I.. I never asked. When I ahh woke from the coma, I ahh I couldn't speak for two and a half years" "what?" "I needed a lot of therapy for my mental and physical state" "what happened dana?" "I don't remember what happened after I had seen you girls in front of me, she must've knocked me out then. but ahh after I woke up from the coma, I was told I suffered three fractured ribs, a stab to the thigh, a cut to my head, thirty six cuts up and down my arms but the deeper ones were on my wrists and umm severe bruising all over my body. I have had a lot of laser treatment done with only two more sessions to go" "to remove the scars?" "Yeah" the girls all sat silent but I could tell that by what I had just told them they were hurt. "We need to bring her down" I looked at Danielle "I don't want to be anywhere near her. I was stupid enough to let her in my life, I thought she was a friend but I soon realized she wasn't" "she has been near you?" "Yeah she was but only came over when she wanted me to go out. One night, she basically forced me to go and took me to a club. Well ahh an incident happened there and she didn't give a shit" "f*ck" I nodded.
"Dana" I stood up and moved back away from the voice. Looking at the door, it was exactly who I thought it was, jordan "no, I don't want to see you, how did you know I was here?" I looked at the girls "I'm sorry dana, I didn't know you didn't agree to see him" I looked between corby and jordan "you lied to corby" "dana please understand I had to see you, I needed you to hear me out" "no i trusted you and you hit me, you hit your own girlfriend" "dana I'm sorry I lashed out. I was angry and I regret it every day" "what did I ever f*cking do to you?" "Look I was told you slept with Daniel and my..." "What?" "Just let me finish. I was told you slept with Daniel and my anger boiled over. I didn't mean to hit you, I wanted to hit the wall and when my hand connected with your head I.. it f*cking killed me" "I did not sleep with Daniel" "I know that now but even if you did, I shouldn't have touched you dana and I'm here to apologise. I just wanted to explain to you what happened and to apologise". "Dana are you okay?" I nodded at corey as he stood behind jordan "yes but thank you" he looked around the room more eyeing jordan off then walked out.
"Did you have anything to do with what callie did?" "No.. no of course not. I didn't even know what she did until I spoke with Adam, I thought you just up and left" "we all did dana" I looked at Latisha "but.." "no we looked for you, we all wanted to say sorry but your house was empty and no one knew where you went. we have all regretted what happened that day, you never deserved that" I nodded swallowing the lump in my throat. "This is just a lot to take in" "we all wanted to see you, we didn't want you to hate us to think we were the ones that hurt you" looking around it got me thinking about Gabby. "Where is Gabby?" "I haven't seen her since school finished" "none of us have, we don't believe she lives in town anymore" "you all still live there" corby nodded "we heard you were in a magazine" I shook my head how did I know this would come up "yes I was, I was modelling with Adam" "is that your career?" "No it was a favor. I'm a computer technician" Latisha grinned "you have always loved computers" "yes I have. Have you girls got the careers you wanted?" "No I am just working in the local cafe for the time being but I'm nearly there" I nodded at Latisha "still wanting to be a doctor" she grinned "yes I'm working on my degree" "Danielle?" "Yes I am a yoga instructor" "and I am a teacher". I looked at jordan "did you become the mechanic you wanted to be?" "You remembered?" I nodded "yes I started my own mechanics". "Dana I have never forgot about you, I am stupid for doing what I did" I already knew where this was going "I can't get your eyes out of my head. I have never been able to like another woman you have invaded my mind for years and I know I probably won't ever get the chance again but I wanted to let you know I still love you" "jordan this can never happen I'm sorry but I am in love with someone else". "Is that so?" I turned to see Lochie with a mouth watering smile on his face making me grip my bottom lip between my teeth "Lochie I didn't know you were coming" "well as much as you told me you were fine, I still couldn't help but worry" I nodded as Lochie walked up to me putting his arm on my lower back "Lochie this is Danielle, corby, Latisha and jordan, everyone this is my partner Lochie" "you are dating Lochie hernandez?" I couldn't help but let a laugh slip at corby "yes I am" "oh my God".