my love

leading to the trial

I wake up the next morning and I am getting dressed when my phone rings. I look at the caller ID and its a number I don't recognize but I did just report Ronnie so it could be a detective needing to talk to me so i answer the phone.
" hello, this is barb bishop" I say
" hi, this is one of the detectives on your case. Is there anyway you can get to the police station. We need to talk. Its about your stepdad" he says
" yes I can get down there it will be a few minutes" I tell him.
"Ok" he says
I hang up the phone and call grandma
" hey, a detective just called me and I need to go to the police station to talk about what he did to me and everything else and dalton"s dad can take me. I just want to let you know where I'll be." I tell her.
'OK. But you are coming home tomorrow. You have school. Its your first day of high school Monday and we need to go shopping and get you some clothes and on the weekends you can spend the night at daltons but during the week you need to be home. I will see you tomorrow love you" she says.
I hang up and I go in the other room to find jimmy and I walk in the kitchen and find a detective in the house.
" hey, barb. I heard you on the phone and I know your still upset so I decided instead of you going to the police station I would have a detective come to you so you could be more comfortable. So you and detective Johan can go in the living room and talk." He says.
I go to sit and johan sits and im looking around the room.
"Whats wrong" he asks.
" I want my boyfriend." I say
"Jimmy told me that Dalton is out getting you something for your 1 year anniversary. He will be back soon. Ik your upset but he will be right back so let's get started. So how about we start with when Ronnie first started hurting you and go from there" he says.
"Ok so I was 10. I went to go find my mom to spend the night at grandmas and I found he had murdered my dog and I was pissed so I went and spent the night over at grandmas and when I got home I told him about how I feel about him killing my dog and he said as punishment for back talking him he raped me for the first time and then every night before bed he would do it to me and I was too scared to report him for if I did he would hurt my sisters and so when I met my boyfriend I realized you know a stepdaughter amd stepdad shouldn't be doing this and I was no longer afraid of him so I left and then a few hours later I grabbed my sisters and took them with me to my boyfriends til I reported him and then he would also abuse me. If I didn't do what he wanted he would beat me. Have you guys found him yet." I ask
"We have and he is denying that he raped you. That he never hurt you. If you could find proof of it that would be great. Like clothes from a night when he hurt you so we could run it against his dna." He says
" I have 2 things of proof. I have clothes that I saved, and I have a tape recorder of a conversation of when he called me the other day." I say.
I go and grab the clothes Nd the tape recorder and give it to him.
" ok im taking this with me and I will be in touch with you guys." He says
He leaves and I am do upset and I go run in daltons room and plop on the bed and I just start crying. Pyper walks in.
" barb are you ok. Who was that man that was talking to you and why are you here so much. I thought you live with your mom and stepdad." She asks.
" ok, I was raped by my stepdad and the man that was here is a detective and they are trying to charge my stepdad with charges and put him in jail but it's seeming harder than they thought. They came to get proof that my stepdad hurt me and I had plenty of proof for them. Now can you tell dalton to please come here. " I say
She walks out of the room and I just start crying then I feel someone wrap their arms around me and I jump and start moving away from the person and I see its just dalton and so I moved closer to him and he wraps his arms around me and I lay my head on his chest and kisses my forehead.
" shh, it's ok. The detective stopped me and talked to me before he left and asked me a few things and I told him everything I know. Trust me he isn't gonna be able to come anywhere near you. Just lay here. I've got you but your grandma said Helena misses you and so I told her to bring Helena here and she can spend the night and hang out with us." He says.
I look up at dalton. Im thinking to myself. I have the best boyfriend in the world. If we don't break up (seeing as we are both about to be in high school) then I could see myself spending the rest of my life with this guy. He is one of the best guys I have ever been with. I lean up and kiss him and put my head back on his chest and someone knocks on the door and I sit up and dalton goes and opens the door and its Helena. She comes to me and I hold her and she hugs me. I sit up and helena sits next to me.
" hey, princess. Whats wrong. I  ask
"Dad called me on the phone you gave me yesterday and he told me that if I don't get you to take back your report to the police about what he did to you then he will come and kill you and that was 3 days ago and then I hadn't heard or seen you for 3 days so I was scared that he had successfully done what he said he would do." She says.
" oh sweetie, I just got done talking to a detective and I pressed charges and they have him in custody and he is locked up. He won't hurt anyone anymore. And if he does get out he won't be able to hurt any of us because I have the detectives number so let him try to hurt anyone I care about, that detective will be the first person I call." I say.
" so he is locked up. And mom is also locked up. They said she knew about what was happening to you and didn't say anything or protect you. Ik that has to hurt you. Ik how close you and mom were." She says.
" yah, but I want alone time with Dalton. Go play with pyper and ashlyn and I will come get you when its time for bed" I tell her.
She gets up and goes in the other room and she shuts the door first. I lay on the bed again and start crying again because of what she said about our mom. I dont understand why she would let him hurt me and why she never said anything and why she didn't protect me from this bad man.
" babe, what's wrong." He asks.
" im just thinking about my mom. I don't understand how she could let Ronnie hurt me and her not tell anyone and I dont understand why she wouldn't protect me. She knew the entire time and I don't understand why she didn't say anything to me or the cops. I may not hate her forever and I don't really hate her but I do know I am really mad at her right now but hey enough about her and lets lay here and watch TV before its time for bed." I say
" ok, sounds like a good idea" he says.
I grab the remote and put grandmas Netflix account on his TV and we start watching greys anatomy when I hear helena crying.
I jump up and go see whats going and helena is on the phone with someone so i take the phone from her.