Alluring - JJ Maybank Fanfic

The Runway: Hate me.

"Don't do this Willow." John B begs, "He'll come around, okay?"

"He hates me!" I keep my eyes on my bag of fresh clothes I just packed, "He was gone for two months and then he shows up last night shitfaced and still treats me like I'm worthless to him." 

"He didn't mean that shit, you know he says things without thinking when he's mad, he wanted to apologize to you when we showed up at Popes that day you left somewhere with Mrs. Heyward." 

"Nothing I say will make him believe I didn't have a thing with Barry, and even if he did, he can't take back what he did to me or what he said. He chose to walk away after everything." My voice is thick with emotion while my tears soak my skin, "He put his hands on me multiple fucking times, John B, last night when he was breaking down in the stupid hot tub he bought with Barry's money, he shoved me away when I tried to hug him like Kie and Pope were." 

"He shoved you?" John B runs a hand through his hair.

"Yeah, I had to go to the emergency room because I hit my side so hard. And all he did was laugh because he was drunk, then he told us that he has a new girl now, he.. he said that she's way better than me."

"What the fuck." John B looks at me in a daze as my words hit him, "Are you okay Will? How's your side feeling right now?"

"It hurts, Johnny, I'm fucking bruising," Sobs rack my body, "I let him use me, he never loved me. He's using this as his way out of being with me, he just wanted to take my virginity and dip." 

"Fuck man," My brother angrily exclaims, "why would he do this? I was so sure he cared about you."

"You want to know what really makes all of this better?"

He sighs in defeat, "What?" 

"That asshole got me pregnant." I choke back my sobs as his faces turns to shock, my hands grab my oversized t-shirt, moving it to show him my baby bump and the large bruising down my ribcage, "He almost killed our baby by pushing me, thankfully I hit my side and not my belly." 

"You're.." He pulls me into a gentle hug, "It'll be okay, Willow. You still have the rest of us, okay?"

My shaky hands wipe my tears after we break apart, "I hate my life."

"Don't say that, Willow, please."

"It's true."

"Please don't run away, sister, I need you." He cries, "You're all I have left because... because Ward killed dad."

My head snaps up to look at him, "What?"

"Yeah, he attacked me on the boat this morning while we were fishing, he knows about the gold." He rushes out, "We need to hurry up and figure out how to get it out of that well." 

"He killed dad?"

"Yeah and Sarah doesn't believe me," He blubbers, "We need answers, Will."

"Lets go talk to Lana again, maybe she will be ready to tell us what happened now that those burly guys were found dead a few weeks ago." My eyes flicker down to his clothes that are dripping water on my floor, "You should change though, why are you wet anyways?"

"I had to swim after the jet ski ran out of gas when I escaped Wards boat." He grabs my hand and pulls me through the house; to the Twinkie we go, "There's no time to change, we need answers right now." 

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We timidly walk up the Lana's house, she looks at us through her screen door, her face soft as she takes in our tear streaked faces, John B and I start to cry again when we step on to the porch, "We need to know."