a beautiful lie (continued/ original by winternightz)

The Town And Its Problems

"What if they tell on us?" I wouldn't be surprised if Star and Vive went crawling into Romans room telling him about everything we had done tonight

"They wouldn't dare, they know how much shit I have on them." Damn, the way Lotty said that made me think there was another side to her. Id never seen her act so cold. I kinda just stare at her for a while in shock

She breaks the silence "CMON! Lets go!" I follow her lead and we soon find ourselves staring into shop windows
"wow... I haven't been into a shop in so long." I say, reminiscing my freedom
"Yeah me either..." Lotty seems to me remembering her past as well
"Im sorry, but I hope you don't mind me asking.. what was your name... yanno before Roman re-named you?" Lotty paused for a while, deep in thought. Her eyes welled up and her smile dropped
"my name" she paused as if she had only just remembered she had a life before all of this "my name was Annabelle" she looked at the floor and I noticed a few tears fall onto the ground.

I put my hand on her back and leaned my head on her shoulder
"When I was Annabelle" she continued "My life was full of bad bad things... I had my childhood ripped away from me when I was just ten years old." That would explain why she acts like a kid sometimes
"you don't have to tell me, I understand if you don't want to talk about it"
"No no, I want to talk about it, I actually haven't told anyone about my childhood." I nodded whilst I rubbed her back

"when I was ten, my mother lost custody of me. Meaning id have to live with my father.
He was a bad man, I remember when Id spy on him and my mum when they were together, he would hit her and throw her around. Thats when I swore to never let a man treat me that way. So when I moved in with my father, he would do things to me. And after a few weeks living with him I ran away. Roman found me outside of a corner shop and took me to the mansion. But obviously I came to find its no better than living with my father, it was even worse. So I tried to run away, but I was caught before I even got downstairs. His men beat me. And well the rest is history"

I don't even know how to respond to that, Im just so appalled at how someone could treat a ten year old so terribly. Instead of saying anything I just pull her into a hug. We stand there for a while before we get shouted at by a civilian

"LESBOS!!" In that moment, something inside of me snapped. Taylor came out

"Who the fuck are you talking to like that" I turn around and walk towards a woman well in her thirties stood on the other side of the path
"Do you know who your talking to?" I shout, she takes a step back, and Lotty tries to pull me back by my shoulder but I shove her hand off of me
"You better have an apology by the time I come over there." I keep walking rage filling me
"or help me God I will beat you to a pulp." The woman backs up more

"Don't fucking move" I reach her and grab her by the collar of her shirt
"Do you have anything to say for yourself." I wait and the woman is too shocked to speak
"you have five seconds to muster up an apology or I will do something I will regret."

"Im sorry! Im so sorry! Please get off I have kids!" she pleads
"I don't give a fuck about your kids." I raise my fist
"should've thought about that before shouting at us you freak"
"I know! I KNOW! im sorry miss! Let go of me!"

"look at me in the eyes." She does as shes told
"bitch" as im about to send my fist full force into her jaw Lotty grabs my arm

"Stop it Cee shes not worth the trouble." She says afraid she might be shouted at too

"you are one lucky fucking woman." I let her go and Lotty backs away from me
"Cee?"
"I'm sorry Lotty..." I put my head down, not because I'm ashamed of what i've done, but because I've scared Lotty
"Lets go back." she says

The walk back to the mansion was long and quiet, the only noise being the few cars going down the street. Lotty cant even look at me and I cant even bring myself to speak

"Crimson..." I look up and turn my attention to her "what happened? you could've just told her to piss off, you didn't need to go off on her like that...." She doesn't sound disappointed, she sounds more concerned
"I know, Im sorry. I don't know what happened. I haven't acted like that in years" Im not going to lie, I couldn't give less of a fuck about what Ive done, if anything Im glad I did it. It showed me that ive still got some fight left in me.
"alright."

We came back to the mansion and before going through the window I had one last thing to say
"Lotty... please don't be afraid of me. I don't want to loose you."
"Cee, you're not going to loose me. Im just scared you might go off on me like that."
"Lotty, I promise, I would never scream at a friend like that. Ever." She looks up at me and gives me a half hearted smile before climbing through the window and disappearing to her room leaving me stood outside in the rain

I climb through the window, making sure to close it behind me and I head back to my room. The world around me slows down and my brain is full of nothing. When I reach my room, I get into bed and go to sleep, dreading the morning.