Reunited

XI. Marccelo

After I talked to the kids in my office, the next morning Eden wasn t at breakfast. I brushed it of thinking she left early, but why would She got without Carlos? At dinner I told myself She took more hours at work.
I waited in the livingroom for her to come home. I couldn t sleep, without knowing all of my kids were.
" Are you going to bed?" Carlos came in.

" I m waiting for your sister to come home."

" You may wanna get some sleep. Who knows when she ll be back?" He seemed tensed but not too worried at the same time. It was confuseing the hell out of me.

" When did she got out?"

" About two hours after we talked" What the hell?

" I don t understand what she is doing at that time" I furrowed my eyebrows.

" She s fine. Well, phisically at least. She leaves like this often. Sometimes, she doesn t come back for days, but the point is she s always back." He wanted to say something else, but resrained himself.

" Where is she staying for so long?"

" Look, I don t know much. In case you haven t noticed Eden is a closed book."

" I know. Has she always been like this?"

" Yes." There was a sad look on his voice when he talked a lot about hîș sister and If didn t sit well with me. I got that She ehasn t known us for ling, but Carlos? They ve been together this whole time and She still didn open up to him.

The next day, after dinner She finally showed up. If it wasn t for Carlos, I would ve been looking in the streets for her by now.
When She came back, She was wearing the same clothes and her hair looked like a bord s nest.

" Hey, Danny"

" Hey, Car. How are You?" She was asking him?!

" I m great. Are you?"

" As always. You know me"

" Where were you?" This wasn t about privacy. This was about my teenage daughter being out with I don t even know who.
" Out"

" Out where?" She went out of the kitcken before I had the chance to continue questioning her. Rocco never did anything like this and that kid does whatever he wants, but he knows not to pull shit like this with me.

I went in my office, trying to clear my head by diving into work.
Later, that night, there was a knock on the door.
" Come in" Carlos walked in, dressed in pijamas.
" Can t sleep?"
" Can we talk" His face told me that something wasn t right.
I sat next to him in the cautch.
" I told you anytime. Are you alright, buddy?"

" Um, I am. But.." he was nerveus.

" You can tell me anything."

" I m worried about Danny. More then usual" That made my tension grow. I knew Something was wrong.
" Me too"
" She never talks about anything. I Don t know what to do"

" If it wasn t for You opening up to us, I would think something happened when You were with your mam" He gave me a look that told me that Something did happen

" What is it?"

" It s about Eden and If she doesn t want to tell you i won t" he was giving her privacy.

" I understand"

" I can t get into details, but years ago Eden started seeing someone."

" Some boyfriend? She s bearly sixteen" Years ago??

" That s exactly the problem. I think she was eleven at first, but he was older" What the hell
" I m trying to say calm here, but how much older?"
" Like forty" my eyes widened
" What the actual fuck?"
" Yeah. I told you I don t know where she goes when ever she leaves. She s either with other douche baga or him, probably at his house. " I am going to make that son of a bich regret ever speaking a word to her.
" It doesn t make sense. A men my age, had a eleven year old girl at his house half the fucking time." To say that I was fuming is an understatement.

" She keeps going back there. I tried to keep her away from him, but it always ends up with me driving her away right to him. He s trauble, like really trauble."

" What do you want me to do?"

" That s the thing. I have no idea. She goes there because she wants to. It s like She can t stay away. He s name is Ronan Benett" That name was familiar. And considering my line of work, anyone I knew was suppose to stay the hell away from my daughter.

As Carlos was leaving he turned around.
" Thank you, Dad" My hart warmed up
This was the first time he called me dad. I smiled at him widely, Something that was reserved for my kids and my kids only.
When he shut the door, I imidiatly opened my computer, looking to find where I ve heard that name. I finally found him. He looked disguisting, covered with tatoos. He is a fucking drug delear. Oh no.

She s been going to him for years.....She can t stay away.... He s trauble... She s out for days... Something happened.... It s none of your buisness

Everything cliked in place and I realised that my little princess was doing drugs. If this has been going on for years, then she was almost definatly addicted, so If I killed Benett she would go to someone else and we d end up at the start. At least now I knew who she was with and I could find her anytime..My hart broke realising that something pushed her to do this. She was eleven yeard old, so it couldn t have been for fun. Something happened and I snapped. Who the hell hurt my daughter?
She is always so closed of, so angry all the time, the bruises? My heart broke. I needed to talk to her and seeing that twomorrow was saturday, I had all day to gather the curage.