Riley

Chapter 49

Riley POV
Who the hell is that! My mom brought home a random guy! Well technically this isn't our home...but it might be after those guys broke into our actually home.

The man has jet black hair and bright blue eyes. He actually resembles Ian Somerhalder a bit, though I can tell he's a bit taller.

"Come in." My mother says waving him in.

When he steps in, the first thing I notice is his shoulders and biceps. Its evident that he works out...a lot. This guy is seriously well muscled, and very tall. Handsome man. I can see why my mom likes him. He's wearing white v neck shirt with dark wash blue jeans and black chucks.

"I'm Damon." He says With a slight southern accent.

"Hey." Peter says from behind me, lifting one his hands to wave, then placing back around my waste.

Peter is so shameless.

"Hi." I offer a wave.

Damon raises his hand to his head and salutes us both.

"Would you care to tell the rest of the story, since I blacked out. " My mom says smiling at him.

This is to weird, and also kind of cute at the same time.

"Well. " He starts. "I swim often so holding my breath wasn't difficult. And I'm a strong swimmer as well."

"That's very believable." My mom says interrupting him.

He chuckles. "Well anyways. Your mom was trying to swim upwards and then stopped swimming all together. I figured she was blacking out. Wrapping my arms around her waste, I swam to the surface. There were random floating objects everywhere but none that would support her weight so I could get the water from her lungs."

He coughs. "Just our luck, and a few other people's too, a cruise ship was passing by. They tossed out life preserves, the ones with the rope attached, and the pulled us near. There was a huge crowd of people who were all wearing shocked faces at the sight before them. People everywhere panicking. Only some made it up...anyways they tossed over a rope ladder and I had to climb it. It was real difficult, but I did it. Once on board everyone made a clearing and I layer your mom on the deck and got her mom to cough up the water. Then the rest of the trip was actually quite nice. I mentioned it was a cruise ship." He nods and looks to my mom

"Yes, it was quite nice after we finished explaining how the plane sunk and people finished crying over all the lost lives." My mom adds.

"There wasn't really enough room for all of us to get our own rooms, the boat was full, so Damon and I had to room together." She gives a broad but flirtatious smile at Damon and then looks to me and Peter.

She continues "The cruise was just about over and we enjoyed our time on the ship. There were lots of rich people who voluntarily paid for our cruise expenses. They also were kind enough to give us extra money to just have, since all our things were lost in the water." She takes a breather.

" Once the ship set, Damon told me that he'd 'follow me anywhere.'" She smiles at Damon and refocuses her attention on me and Peter "We just couldn't separate, so we caught a cab to the nearest airport and got were lucky. There was a flight that we could still catch to get here, that wasn't full. So we paid at the airport and boarded."

She chuckles. "She gave us a hard time though, the woman that we had to pay to." She shakes her head. "I had to run the whole story by her to convince her to let us on the plane. she apologized for being so cross at first and wiped a few tears away. Which made her makeup smudge, but I didn't tell her. She shouldn't have been so rude at first. " my mom grins as she finishes her story.

"We got here this morning and bought new suit cases and clothes. Also another phone and and such. Then we came here. " Damon adds.

"Riley where is your phone?" Mom asks

"It was left at the house." I answer.

"Okay, your turn. " Mom says.

Me and Peter both run the story by them, minus the fact that Peter has some sort of power and that Isabella, my birth mother, didn't really take a sudden leave. I'll tell her about her sister when Damon leaves. When we finish hey both have shocked expressions.

"So all the bodies are still in the back yard?" Damon asks shocked.

"Yea. " I answer. My eyes water at the thought of poor Daniel.

Peters tightens his grip around my waste and kisses my shoulder.

"Well I know to never mess with you guys." Damon says shaking his head.

"Well I did teach her well." My mother says proudly grinning. "Oh sweet heart I'm so glad your safe. And I'm so sorry about your friend. I'm sorry hat you had to go through all that you did because of that vile nefarious man. "

She leans over, careful to avoid my leg and kisses my forehead.

"Damon, could you bring our bags inside please. Then we have to go clean up out back and prepare for my father to come home. This house has to be spotless, or he will kill us."

"Sure thing. " He reaches outside and pulls in the bags. "I'm going to go check out the back yard. "

"Okay. " Mom replies and she sighs deeply.

" I have to tell you something mom. " I start. "Isabella didn't go off on some trip and never return. "

She looks at me wearily and with tired eyes. "What do you mean? "She brushes a strand of hair from her face.

"...Michael killed her. " I say slowly.

Her eyes water and I lean to comfort her but she waves me away.

"He killed my Isabella. " She says in a statement. "But why? "

"...Well, he said that she was getting on his nerves. They once were in love but she was nagging him to much. He said that once she told him she was pregnant he couldn't kill her then, but after she gave birth, he killed her. Then only said that she went on a vacation to never return as an excuse."

"That MONSTER!" She jumps up suddenly with clenched fists. "He will burn in hell for what he's done." She sits back down and puts her elbows on her knees, her face in her hands , and weeps.