stolen kisses, pretty lies.

Family Ties.

A/N - Flashbacks are written in italics present time in normal font.

Karlie's POV.
Josh was smiling at me from the drivers seat, his smile makes me feel like the only girl in the world. He'd just pulled up the car in the Kushner's drive way, their house was bigger than anything I had ever seen. It wasn't even a mansion, it was so much more, we must have driven up 300 acres of land to get to the front door. Josh opened up the passenger door for me like the gentleman he was, smiling at me before taking my hand and placing a kiss on my cheek. The cold December air hit me suddenly all at once, causing me to shudder in the white summer dress I had stupidly put on. "Would you like to wear my blazer Karlie?" I nodded politely at my boyfriend, why is he such a gentleman. Surely he's got some flaws.

Wind blew in my hair, Josh was there standing next to me; he'd just knocked on his parents door. Apparently he didn't find it polite to just walk in to his parents house, even though he had claimed not a hour previously that the door is always unlocked. A bit crazy of you ask me.

"Karlie! It's lovely to finally meet you." Mrs Kushner opened the door and greeted me by a warm motherly hug.
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Turns out Josh's parents were just as abusive as he was, they deserved to know that they'd never see their 'Grandson/Nephew' or whatever.
"Taylor pull over the damn car now!" I yelled causing Taylor to break hard. I got out of the car when I noticed the black Audi pull up behind us, and walked over to get Ethan out of his car seat. "Karlie. Don't you dare, he's my son too!" Taylor was protesting as she was getting out of the car, slamming the door. "I'm letting them get one glimpse of someone they will never know. Just back me on this, he's your son too but I want to show them what Josh did to me."

"Mommy who's Josh?" Shit I forgot Ethan was in my arms. "He's no one baby, no one for you to worry about. Ethan I want you to stay with momma for a second while I go see this person okay?" I handed Ethan to a pissed off Taylor who gripped him tightly not letting him even move, it's cute how over protective she gets of us but she really needed to calm down.

"Hey Karlie!" The mystery man appeared from the car, who I quickly recognised as Josh's older brother Jared. "Is the boy my nephew?" he asked glancing over at Taylor who was shielding Ethan from view. "What's it to you Jared? Do you not remember the time you walked in on Josh beating me to a bloody mess! You walked in with your children for God's sake."
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"Please, I am sorry Josh. Your niece and nephew will be here shortly. Stop!" Another blow to my jaw, blood pouring out of the cut from my lip that exploded on impact. I dropped to the floor Josh kicked me in the stomach a few time, vomit hit the back of my throat and burned but nothing came up. Praying that it was over it forced myself to look up at the man towering over me, anger lingering in his eyes. Josh grabbed my hair and head butted me. "What the fuck are you doing Joshua. Get away from her now!" Jared walked in just in time and saved my life.

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"If you want to see him, you can but he's Taylor's son too and only you can see him. Not the rest of your family, understand me?" Jared nodded his head and smiled. "His name is Ethan. I am only doing this for you because of what you did for me."

Taylor's defiantly going to be even more pissed at me for this.