A new dawn (Fragility 2)

12. Two of them

Talia had received a message from Riz. She headed to his place. She got out of her car and she walked up to the door. She knocked, half expecting what this was going to be about, but not expecting to see Amelia standing looking back at her as she opened the door "T!." She said with a huge grin on her face as she saw her sister.

Talia's face was straight, she just stared at her sister. "I guess I'm here because of you.... But what are you doing here?"

"I took her away from yo father's house" Riz said coming to the door and letting her in. "there was no way I was going to leave her there... I just think the two of you need to talk, because when it's all said and done T... you two are all you've got left...

Talia, heard exactly what he said. She couldn't even bring herself to tell Amelia that she had seen their mother, because she knew that their mother felt absolutely nothing for any of them. Amelia was never going to finish school, she barely ever went. She was quite slow, she clung onto the fact that her body would get her what she wanted in life, and that she would be able to find herself a man with money to settle down with, not realising the implications of that and it just wasn't that easy. Talia just stared at her. She couldn't help it, she wanted her to be so much more than what she was out here being right now, she sighed.
"So talk to me Millie... what is it that you think you can say to change the way I feel about you right now.."

Millie took a few seconds her smile had faded from her face because she could see that her sister was still very serious about the whole situation. "You.... You've been like a mom to me and I know that I fuck up, I get that, I don't mean to ... But that is evidence that I need you more than ever... I didn't mean to kill them, but I really need your help...."

"Millie, do you feel any remorse for what you did at all... You keep saying that you didn't mean to hurt them or kill them... But you did, and that was in your hands, you could've used your words instead of driving off at full speed, because of something you thought was going to happen... Cara and Alfie are gone forever do you understand that?.."

Amelia chewed her lips nervously. "I just wanted them to wake up, of course, I feel terrible, but I am not good at dealing with my emotions. The only person I can ever be straight with is you?...

Talia was quiet for a second, and Riz was just happy that the two of them were actually talking. At this point, he stayed in the background allowing them to get on with it. "This baby, Amelia... You know yourself, you're not ready to raise a child, there are things that you don't even know how to do for yourself...the most basic of things..."

" And this baby could be the first thing in my life that is good... I could prove to all of you what I can do all you have to do is trust me and be there for me... though Zain did say if I had a termination he would stay with me.."

Riz shook his head. " Can I just butt in here... Amelia look at me. I need you to understand that he will not be staying with you. He will leave you the second you have the termination, things will go back to exactly the way they were. Please do not plan yo life around Zain Farrow... he hurt you baby girl, he put a sex tape out on social media, he shamed you for everyone to see... He doesn't care that you're carrying his child, if I wouldn't of got there yesterday, who knows what could've happened between him and his cousin... You have to make these decisions based on you and what you want, just a conversation between you and yo sister. You need to forget about him and I mean that Amelia forget about Zain.." he told her in no uncertain terms.

Talia will still very much deep in her feelings about what har happened to her younger brother and sister. But after having that conversation with her mother, she knew that Amelia would fall apart without her being there in her life to guide her, because she had no other female role models to look up to. As much as she still hurt deeply, she also couldn't see her very naive and vulnerable sister fall into these traps over and over again and ruin her life or even end up dead.

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".... What the fuck are you doing here...

"That's a nice way to greet yo son, Dad" Zain said, putting down his bag and just flopping back onto the couch.

"no, I mean it. What the fuck are you doing here Zain?." Mason said again. "Have you got nothing to do with yo life, why the fuck aren't you at school and what the hell happened to football?.."

"Well, in case you haven't heard, mom fucked coach, so nobody wants me on the team, because they think I'm gonna get special privileges... But, I say, fuck football anyway... I want to start moving weight like you... and I've been doing my own bit anyway.." he said.

"Are you for real?... of course you are cos you're a complete pain in the fucking ass! ... But I know I'm not gonna be able to stop you, just like my mama was not able to stop me... so I would prefer that you came and did some work for me rather than try and get involved in this shit by yo self because you're only gonna fuck it up without me, showing you the ropes.." he smirked. " But whatever happens boy, you're going back to school and completing it.."

There was another knock at the door, Mason raised his eyebrows at Zain and Zain tutted before he got out of his seat and went to answer the door. Samira almost pushed him out of the way, barging through angry as hell, looking for Mason, her face cut and bruised, her lips swollen and her eye closed over.
Mason looked at her. "What the hell?."

"This was all thanks to your daughter... Actually, come to think about it, this is all down to you Mason..." she snapped. " You have never been there for me when I've been trying to raise these kids. None of them have any fucking respect for me whatsoever, look at them they can come here they can be the complete assholes that they want to be because their father lets them.... And I also heard the Khadija is going to meet your new girlfriend.... Thanks a lot for that..." she said. "so you're going to introduce some stripper ho to our kids..."

"Samira, go home.." Mason said cool and calmly. "You can't pin this on me if anything, we're both at fault here, and that's why it's easier to go our separate ways and do our own thing... because we're obviously no good for them or us being together...

"Yeah mom, why don't you go and take up with Coach... oh, but wait a minute, you're not gonna get much use out of him are you... the motherfucker can't even walk..."

Samira shook her head and walked out. Mason walked across to Zain and slapped him around his head. "You need to fucking stop with this, she is yo mother... regardless of anything else the disrespect stops now?.."....