Alex's P.O.V.
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It takes me a few seconds to realize lips were on mine, and when I notice they're not Raven's lips, I push the person away harshly making them fall to the ground.
"Alex! What the fuck!?" A familiar voice yells. Damn it its Katherine, also known as Gabby.
"No one told you to fucking kiss me in front of my girlfriend, slut." I harshly say.
"Who? You mean that elf over there?" Gabby asks with a smirk.
I turn to Raven anger rushing through me, but one look at her and I know she's beyond the limit of anger, beyond mad, beyond furious.
She slowly walks over to Gabby, who is now standing with her smirk slowly disappearing, walking slowly as if stalking her next prey.
"Well, I may be short, but last I checked there are people who are even shorter than I am. You can't talk, you know, mostly 'cause you're a whore who can never keep her legs closed, and is all talk but no fight." Raven says, quietly, scarily calm, firmly.
"Really? Well at least I'm not a gold-" Gabby never finished her sentence, although I'm sure we all knew what she was going to say, when Raven threw herself at Gabby and started delivering bone crunching punches.
"You," punch.
"Fucking," punch with more force.
"Bitch," kick.
"That's more of a," punch.
"Gold digger," punch on the nose. Ouch.
"Than I am," pull hair and punch.
"Can't fucking talk," Raven manages to throw in one more punch and kick before my dad pulls her off Gabby and my mom quickly rushes to Gabby's aid.
"She's unconscious and is losing blood! Alex why didn't you help her!?" My mom screeches.
"She was talking about my girlfriend like she was trash, thing is mom, Raven will never be trash like this wanna-be here." I say, pointing an accusing finger towards Gabby's unconscious body.
My dad being the good man he is, is checking over Raven's knuckles making sure she's alright and totally ignoring my mom and the whore.
"Thanks dad, I'm sure she's fine. She is a personal trainer after all." I say, pride for Raven evident in my voice.
"She's definitely a keeper son, don't let her fight all her battles alone though, not everyone is as easy as...that." I can't help but smile widely that at least one of my parents actually accepted my girlfriend.
"Thanks dad, I know." I say.
He just smiles at me, and turns to go back in the house, once he's gone I get Raven and pull her by her hand back to my car so we can get out of there.
I look at Raven from the corner of my eye, I still have many questions from a few weeks ago, but I know I have to wait for the right time before I ask her, and I have the perfect time in mind.
"Are you ok?" I ask.
"Fine." She replies, looking out the window.
I nod, and just keep driving.
"Where are we going?" Raven asks after a long time of driving.
"There's this one place that I found a long time ago. I go there when I just want to get away and think or just.. get away. I wanted to show it to you." I feel more than see her nod, and the rest of the drive is in silence, besides the radio that is softly playing in the background.
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We arrive to the pond that's in the middle of the what I call the 'Little Mountains'.
"Oh, wow." I hear Raven say, before getting out of the car. "This is amazing, and so beautiful." I'm looking at Raven while she looks at the pond in awe and I can't help but go over to her and kiss her softly on the lips.
"Come on, let's sit." I motion close to the pond, and we both walk there. Once we're seated, I angle my body towards her and say, "Raven we've gotta talk."
She stiffens, but nods her head for me to continue. "I know you've been through a lot, but why was that guy after you?"
She clears her throat a couple of times and looks out at the water, then speaks, "Well.. you know about how my parents.. my family.. how they died. Yeah, well no other family member would take me in, so I was set up in a foster home. One of my foster homes, was with Jordan.
He was handsome, I was 15 almost 16, he had money, a great house. There were always guys at the house, they all smelled funny. I always wondered 'hey, why do these guys smell funny?' and I eventually got my answer. Jordan was a leader of a gang, he did drugs and all that shit, and when stuff went bad, he took it out on 16 year old me.
Now, I used to think 'this is probably going to be the best home ever', that was until one day, he came home from his job and was completely wasted." Raven has tears in her eyes and it tears me apart seeing her cry, so I get closer to her and hug her close to me. Silently telling her I'm here.
She breathes in, then continues, "He grabs me, tells me that I'm his and that he'll do whatever he pleases with me. He raped me, more than once. I miscarried a few times, because of the hits I took from him. Jèsus was always there for me, always ready to take me to the hospital if things went too far.
Life can be shitty you know, but I went through hell and came back stronger. I built walls up, was pretty successful, always had Luis with me. We even went to college together. Opened up my gym, kept running from them, and finally I met you." She smiles at the last one, smiles despite her tears and the terrible story she just told me.
"I'm so sorry Raven." I whisper against her shoulder, wanting to take away every single second of pain she went through.
"You didn't do anything wrong, don't apologize to me." She gives me a small smile, running her fingers through my hair.
"Ok.. I'm sorry but I really need to ask you one more question that I really need the answer too. I want to ask you this question, and then after this I want us to start brand new, we turn the page of the book and just start over."
"Ok, what's the question?"
Raven's P.O.V.
"Why did you leave?" He asks.
"Because I had to, I had to set things straight and stop being afraid. That's why I became a personal trainer, to be able to train other people and be able to train at the same time as them, getting stronger for that reason." I reply honestly.
"Just don't do it again.. I love you, and I nearly died when you left." Alex says, staring intently at my eyes. After a few more seconds of staring at me, he slowly, lovingly, kisses me.
Surprise, at being told that someone loves me, and him just kissing me out of no where, has me not responding to his kiss. When he finds that I'm not responding he slowly pulls back, questions in his beautiful ice blue eyes.
"I'm sorry.. it's just that.. what did you say?" I ask.
"I love you Raven, probably since the first time I saw you, something about you just called out to me." He smiles softly, remembering.
I open and close my mouth a few times, not knowing how to reply, but Alex saves me from having to say anything.
"I know it's too early right now, you don't have to say it back yet, but I still want to be with you." He looks at me, then out at the pond and setting sun.
We just sit there, taking in the sun set and the beautiful setting, when it's almost dark, Alex grabs my hand and pulls me to the car opening the passenger door, and closing it once I'm inside.
And all this time, thoughts are running through my head.
Why would this amazing man love someone like me? Why would he want to be with me? Do I love him too?
The last question was the easiest one to answer.
Yes, I do love him.
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