An angel and her demons.

23. Therapy

CHARLOTTES POV

One part of my recovery from hospital was that I have had to be being spending two hours a week stuck in therapy. At first it sucked, and I hated it, but after a while I began to enjoy it.

My therapist Carla works for my brother's 'business' helping employees who have had 'accidents'. I don't believe for a single second that my brothers own a business, there is something deeper going on. I haven't worked out exactly what, but I have my suspicions. One thing that really helped fuel my suspicions was the day I had a run in with none other than the 'wonderful' Ryder Strong incident.

Walking out of math holding my new test result that read A+ on it. I was so proud of myself and I couldn't help but smile. I just kept running my finger over the letter.

That was until I heard a lot of commotion, a fight.

Being the nosey child I am, I walked around the corner. When I saw it wasn't a fight as so much the school football captain beating up someone yelling a lot of slurs as he threw the punches. I rushed over and grabbed his fist "Why don't you pick on someone your own size."

"Do you want to take his place, little girl?" He spat at me then pushed me against the lockers. Holding my hands above my head. "Not really." I kicked him in the balls and pushed him off of me. The guy on the floor was pulled up by someone and he looked at me nodding "thank you." Before he ran away.

"You worthless, stupid bitch." He stood up and threw a punch at me, I dodged it and pushed him back. "I'm not going to fight you, so I suggest you walk away. Now." I yelled at him. "You don't tell me what to do little girl." He clenched his fists.

He threw a few punches, I dodged most but one flew right in my eye. He looked proud. I stumbled back, I kicked his shins and pushed him away from me. As he went to punch me again, his fist was grabbed by Xander, his smirk dropped.

"Hey are you okay?" Xavier rushed to my side, both worry and anger evident in his eyes. "Yeah I'm fine. Can we go home?" I looked at him.

"Come on sorellina." Instead of walking... he picked me up. I wrapped myself around him like a koala bear, resting my head in his shoulder.

He put me in his car, "Are we not waiting for Teo and Xander?" I asked as he put me in front seat.

"Xander has his bike, Matteo will ride on the back with him, once they have dealt with Ryder." He replied as he pulled out of the parking lot.

We drove in silence, anger and worry were radiating off of Xavier. In order to try and calm myself down, I rested my head on the window. Before I knew it I was back in Xavier's arms as we walked into the house.

Enzo turned around from the sofa when he saw Xavy carrying me like an infant. "Hey what happened?"

We both ignored him as Xavier just placed me in Enzo's arms before going to the kitchen. I felt tears falling down my cheeks as Enzo held me stroking my hair.

"Xavier what happened?" His voice hitched as he saw the icepack. "Ryder Strong punched her." I could feel Enzo's anger as he held me. "Hey baby I got you, you're ok." He soothed.

"He c-called m-me a w-worthless stupid bitch a-and it reminded me o-of m-mom." I sobbed into him and Enzo pulled me into a strong hold. "You are not worthless or stupid or a bitch, you are our little angel, you are amazing." He whispered into my ear.

"I feel like a baby." I laughed. "Well good because you are our baby, and we are going to baby you as much as we can." Xavier chuckled as he sat beside us holding the icepack to my face.