Mortified

Chapter 14

"Well, shocked? Even I was when I heard that you and Stana are not my family. You are not my sister nor am I her daughter. I am only and only a sibling with Robert. He is my true blood. You are just nobody to me. Sorry that you had to tolerate me for so long. How could you do this to me? You never told me about my real mother. That is just not fair. I deserved to know, but you kept me hidden from her. I do have a dad unlike you. I am not related to you. So stop trying to control me. " She says all this, yelling out. I don't know how but I slap her.

Dallas and Emily quickly come forward. While he tries to hold me back, Emily goes to Rose. She tries to push her back but Emily doesn't allow that. Because she is drunk, she passes out. Dallas picks her up and tells something to Mia, who shakes her head.

I am crying again. How could she say all this to me? I have always considered her as my real sister. Never as a step one. How could she say something so harsh? Why?

When we reach home, my mother is pacing the room. I give a nod to tell her that she was okay. Dallas goes and puts her on the bed and covers her.

"She overheard our conversation. She knows that we are not her real relation. But I don't understand how it could affect anything? We never bothered to care about it, so why does she?" my mom doesn't say anything and goes back to her room. She can't take so much misery on one day. I hug Emily, who insisted that she would stay but I don't let her. Dallas takes me to my room and puts me in bed, he is about to leave but I stop him.

"I want to go to the next base. Can we?" I ask, absolutely unaware of whatever I was saying, still in shock from the whole situation at home. I think that I have neglected him all this while, even though he never told me that. I am really losing it!

"Yeah sure!" he says and slowly comes to my bed. Suddenly I am scared. I don't actually want to do it. And want to tell him to stop. He comes to me and slowly pulls my jeans down. I shiver.

Then he says, "For me, the next base is to tell you that I will never leave you. I will be there whenever you need something. And if it doesn't work out in the future between us, I will still want only the best for you and will protect you even then. I love you. Now sleep you have had a very tiring night." By the end of it, he has changed me from my tight shirt to one of his shirt. There was a minute when I was partially naked with only my innerwear and he touched me here and there and I could see want in his eyes, but he stopped and controlled himself. And after having the surety of his words, I drift into a sleep.

"Darling, listen to me. I am going to leave you and go okay. I can't handle you anymore. You are just a piece of shit in my life for whom I have no place." My dad tells me in a very drunk voice "no don't go, you promised you won't, no....." "But I don't love you. Nobody loves you. You are a headache to me, and later on in your life everyone will leave you. Nobody loves you." He says and walks out of the room shutting the door on me.

"Katherine wake up, wake up" in a moment I wake up and look around, I'm in my room and then I hear Dallas. "Hey, look at me, it was just a bad dream. You are okay!" I didn't realise that I had been crying. I look up at him. I hug him real tight and he plants a kiss on my forehead. "He left us..."

"Who did?" he asks, tension in his voice.

"My dad."

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