Fraser Family Ties - 2

Chapter 25 - Thoughts

Charisma got out of her car at Marnie's. She saw Wesley taking his bags to his car, rushing too, while Marnie chased after him. "What's going on?."

Marnie was in tears. "Wesley please.." she said pulling on his arm not wanting him to go.

"You could have told me the truth." He said. "I just need some time Marnie.. just give me some time...

"Wesley....

"What's going on?." Charisma asked again worriedly.

Wesley looked at her. "You'll need to ask her."

Marnie fell to the ground and they both rushed over to her, no matter what Wesley could never see her hurt. Also seeing her this upset was killing him, but she had kept the fact that she had a relationship with Keegan to herself.

"Marnie please.. what's going on?." Charisma asked worriedly as they helped her inside.

Marnie looked at her. She then held her head in her hands. "Charisma.. you know I love you.. and I didn't hold this back from you to hurt you...
She glanced at Wesley who was straight faced.
"Before you met Keegan.. me and him had a relationship...

"What?... you never said... when?."

"I met him when I was 21 and he helped me out of a really tight spot that could have ended with me being raped.. after we got talking and we hit it off... and for quite a while after we were together.. I didn't see much of you then because you had moved in with Alfie and Nijada... so you wouldn't have really known... I was the one who told him where we were gonna be on your 21st... I just need to make it clear here that me and him had parted a long time before that at least 8 to 9 months, we hadn't been together." She paused and then took a deep breath. "But, I knew that you were struggling to be happy after Cooper left... So it was me who told him about you, and told him to come along and meet you at your birthday celebration.....

Charisma sat and just didn't know what to say, she was still trying to process what she had heard.

"She failed to tell me as well" Wesley said. "And as Keegan is my boss, and one of my best friends... I don't know how I feel right now...

"It was a long time before you Wesley.. years and years...

" was he good to you?" Charisma suddenly asked which made both of them stop and stare at her. "Did he hit you?."

Marnie shook her head. "No, not once.... that's why I fought so much for you and him to make it work.. I didn't know what he was doing to you in the beginning... then the whole Nijada thing happened and I was in the care home for my disabilities and I didn't have the right mind or strength to deal with anything outside of that.. all I knew was that I wanted you to be happy...

Charisma still didn't know how she should think or feel about this. For now she was just staying quiet. It was Wesley who was showing the hurt.

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Keegan looked at Ryan and nodded, as they both rushed into the upstairs of this place that they were being kept in. There were only four men watching them and with Knox out of it downstairs, they knew that they needed to come up here and deal with these men. Then the aim was to take Knox back to one of their traps and interrogate the shit out of him.

Keegan and him had a lot of history and he wasn't about to just kill him, he wanted to make him pay.

They took all of the men by surprise and were able to quickly move out, taking Knox with them in the trunk of one of the cars that had been left outside of these premises.

"I hope that what we talked about is gonna stand?." Ryan said to him. "And I really hope to God that you are not going to end her life...

Keegan raised his eyebrows. " no, I am not going to kill her... That was a stupid fucking idea and I don't even know where it came from... But, I will have a conversation with her about it. I think that's the way forward for me and her now, we need to talk about things."

Ryan nodded. " that's definitely progress man.. it's only taken 8 fucking years." He said with a grin.

They realised that they weren't far from home, and that they would be back within the next half an hour. Keegan couldn't wait to see charisma and Ryan was glad that they had had this time together to thrash out their issues, and give Keegan the chance to calm down before he came face-to-face with charisma after learning that it was Ryan she had slept with.

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Charisma went home, she really didn't know what to do or say about the situation. Apart from the fact that it happened years ago and that she had been involved with Keegan herself now for eight years. There really was nothing that she could say. She hadn't slept with him behind her back she had had a relationship with him before he even knew charisma. The thing that hurt was that she didn't tell her, she could've given her the heads up before they met on her 21st birthday. Would it have changed her mind about being in a relationship with him? That was something that she couldn't answer right now, too much time had passed. But she would've just liked to have had the chance to think about it, by knowing that her best friend/sister had had a relationship with him previously.

She was still within time to call it a day with Keegan and just say things weren't going to work out. After all they had had a date and had slept together, but for them to actually be a thing neither had given the their full blessing yet, only talked about it.

She just sat and watched the kids running around her. Maybe this was gods way of saying there is no future for them because every time they tried something else would be thrown up in front of them, another hurdle to conquer and she didn't know if she was up to that anymore, she was slowly giving up: