Hiding in the Shadows

Chapter 3 The Confession

Brandon's eyes were wide as he starred at me and then back at his father. I hope he won't send me back with Dave. He didn't know who I was, just some slut that his father got. Guess that's what I get for being in this mess with my step father.

When he finally spoke he seemed frighten. "Dad... how does she know my name ," but after he said that he looks normal to an extent.

"Because I said your name a few times while I was talking to her." Dave looked at me again and his eyes said that when I get you alone I'm going to beat you and I know how hard Dave can hurt me. I really don't want to be alone with him and he was my step-dad's best friend and client.

"Ok. I'm going to text Jade and see what's up with her which I doubt she with reply anyways." He pulls out his phone and texts the number he got from my phone. And when my bag starts to rings my default trigger for text messages he looked at me closely. "Dad get the hell out of my room... Now." His voice was now a growl as he looked past me to his dad. when his father tried to grab me Brandon was behind me and in front of his father so he couldn't touch me anymore. "Leave her and get your ass out of my freaking room NOW DAD!"

I heard a door slam shut and I burst into tears and walk to a corner away from the door. Afraid that he will come back and abuse me like I usually get by my own stepfather. I hold myself and rock while Brandon went to his bed. he stares at me for a few before a knock come from the door. I flinched and hid in the closet again. "Come on Brandon I bought her for you do have. I wanted to get you a girl because you haven't dated anyone ever since Samantha died."

"YEA MOM DIED TO SAVE ME. YOU NEVER DONE ANYTHING BUT USE PEOPLE. YOU ARE THE WORSE FATHER EVER," I heard Brandon scream at his father. "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE OK. YOU HAVE DONE ENOUGH TO MAKE ME WANT TO LEAVE RIGHT NOW."

"I'm going to go drink. If she is here by the time I get back I'm going to take her from you ok." Dave left the house and Brandon collapses on his bed before he spoke after he heard the car started up and left the house.

"He is gone. You can come out now." When I didn't come out of the closet he got up and opened the door. "Jade... You can come out now."

I stayed where I was but finally got the courage to speak. "Why... Why protect me?"

I watched him sigh and thinking why he had protected me in the first place. "Because... Because you're not like all the other preppy girls that only look at me like I'm just the finest thing in the world and that only want to get in my pants. Yea that's not who you are." He walks towards me and helped me up like I was little kid. He was gentle to me and walked me out and had me sit on the bed.

"You're nothing like the girls at school say you are. You isolate yourself from others, not because they don't like you. You do it to protect yourself and your secrets. That they won't understand you at all because of your past," he reached out and was going to smooth my hair down but I flinched and moved away from him. This is what happens when you been so alone for years and that no one cares how you feel anymore.

"You put on a front so you seem tough but you're so fragile though. No one ever seen this side of you because they never got to know you at all." Brandon moves towards me and smooth my hair down. I looked down at the bed so he wouldn't see me cry but he cupped my face and made me look up at him. "You're so cute," he starts to lean in to try and kiss me but I looked away and pushed him slightly.

"I.. I can't. I need to leave right now... be... before Dave gets back." I really don't want to be here when he does. He's a lot harmful when he's drunk and I really don't me to be bruised again. He has done previous damage to me before and I really don't want to get anymore problems again. So I tried to get up and away from him but I was only brought back.

"You can't leave with out an explanation Jade," he sounded a little angry but not furious like before. I looked at him as his eyes pierced me. Should I tell him? No you can't, you barely know him. But maybe he can help you? I doubt it. You don't know what he will do, try for once in your life.

I sigh and sat back at on the bed. "It's a very very long story to go through and I don't think I have time to tell you."

He got up from his bed and went to the door and I heard a loud click as the lock was set into place. He came back and look at me and smiled slightly. "Now you have plenty of time to explain. Jade you are safe, but why are you so anti-social at school but when I see you like this you look like you dropped out of a movie.. Why is that?"

I look down away from him as I try to explain my life the way it is now. "It all started when my dad past away. My mom married my now step father but it was when she died from a car crash when I was 15 years old. My step dad took the opportunity to use me. He said if I would like a job and I said yes, I just didn't know it was what I do now." I turned around trying not to cry in front of him.

"My step dad never remarried because he had me to himself. I finally got my door back but if his buddy, your father doesn't give him a good review about me, I will loose it again and who knows what else he will do to me..." I sat there explaining more of what has happened to me. Then there was a bang on his door.

"Son, I'm sorry I didn't know what came over me. Can I come in." Brandon's dad kept banging on the door. When he look at me, he whispered for me to hide in the closet which I did.

When Brandon open the door his dad came stumbling in the room, he was drunk and that wasn't a good thing when a girl was there. Guys get violent when they are drunk but I have been through a lot so I know how to deal with all types of men because of my step dad. I stay quite and left the closet door a crack. Hoping he won't find me because who knows what will happened.