Saving Belle

Chapter 14

Liam's POV: 

My Mom died a few years back and my Dad started drinking. 

He's not a very happy drunk. What started with him yelling, turned into hitting, turned into punches or smashing beer bottles on me, which by the way is way harder than they say in the movies. 

Sometimes I go to stay at Xan's (Xander) house, I have a trundle bed underneath Xan's bed and I'm on the family phone plan and insurance. I declined both offers, but Enzo and Xan can be very convincing even Ian if he really wants to.   

The only reason I keep going back is cause every once in awhile he threatens to call the cops, and I don't wanna put that on Enzo or the other Romano's. 

Enzo said he would try to take custody of me, but I don't wanna put him out and make him support another kid full time. 

When I called Xan towards the end of the call I heard screaming. 

He said his sister woke up, but it sounded bad. He's told me a bit about her, but their family keeps her pretty hush hush. 

I got in the car and im freezing. She looks so uncomfortable and scared of me. 

She looked back and saw me shivering, while we were waiting in the McDonalds drive thru. She had a blanket over her and she tapped Xan on the shoulder and when he looked over at her she whispered something in his ear, then he took her blanket and handed it to me. 

"She said she doesn't want you to be cold so you can borrow her blanket, but not keep it." He said with a big smile. 

"Thank Belle I will return it washed and warm from the dryer." I said smiling at her. 

she just moved a little further away. 

"Do you know what you want Belle?" Xan asked Belle. 

She just shook her head. 

"have you had McDonalds before?" He asked. 

She shook her head again. 

"I recommend the chicky nugs here, they're pretty great and a good thing to start off with." I recommended. 

She nodded her head.

When we got home Xan said Leo was gonna hangout with Belle for a bit so he could clean me up. We went into his bathroom. 

"Dude can you please have Enzo figure stuff out for you so you can live here?" He asked. 

"It's less than a year before I turn 18 I can make it until then." I told him. 

"It's 10 1/2 months dude." He said as he went to put rubbing alcohol on the cuts on my face. 

"Ow that hurts." I told him 

"If he threatens you to go back again you let Enzo handle it, ok?"

"Dude I ca-" 

"Ok?"

"Ok..." I told him defeated. 

"Now for my sister I need to debrief you. on some rules
1: Do not point out her scars.
2: no physical contact.
3: No yelling, like at all.
4: We don't comment on how much she eats, if she eats 5 bites or 2 we don't comment.
5: We don't get angry around her. If you find yourself getting angry you leave.
6: She drinks tea, if you want tea you ask her, if you notice she's running low you tell one of us.
7: If she asks you to do something you kind of have to do it cause she doesn't usually ask for anything
8: At 4PM She watches TMNT on the TV. She asked for it after Luca showed it to her.
9: She gets nightmares, like really bad. She starts off in her bed, but when I go to wake her up she comes into mine, this will not change." 

That's a lot of rules. 

"I feel like the way you ordered those weird." 

"I think it was based on importance." He said.

"Tea before night terrors?"

"Yes, also Mason can't come over for a while we're trying introduce her to people slowly.."

"That sucks, but I get it." I told him. 

"Ready for bed?" 

"Yeah I gotta get my PJ's." 

"In the closet in the third drawer I reorganized." He told me. 

"Not cool dude, I hate the way you fold clothes." I said. 

"I don't fold clothes." He said. 

"Exactly." I said.