Into The Unknown

Chapter 51

Ryan's POV

I hated arguing with Abi, but keeping the twins out of the spotlight was important to me. On the other hand I didn't want our last night to be tainted by a stupid argument, I took the microphone and dedicated Something I Need, to her.

It wasn't hard to do as I actually wrote it about Abi in the first place.

As I look at Abi I notice she is smiling and singing along, this woman honestly has no idea what she has done to me over the last 4 years. She has completed me...

"And if we only die once I wanna die with you..." I make eye contact with Abi as I sing the lyrics "I know that we're not the same, but I'm so damn glad that we made it to this time, to this time..."

I noticed Freya saying something to Abi and the Abi looked into the crowd, that's when I saw him Owen Creston. He had a camera pointing at Abi, she looked a little cautious of this too. I walked closer to Abi and kissed her in between song lyrics that'll give you something to wrote about.

"And if I only live once I wanna live with you..." Owen is now speaking into a voice recorder, I lean down at the end of the stage and call out for Leroy to come over.

"What's up man?" Leroy asks me, I glance over to Owen "I see him, what do you want me to do?"

"Watch him" I snap a little "If he so much as tried to get side stage...throw him out" Leroy nods, he knows as well as I do the last thing Ab's needs is added pressure from that ass hole.

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"That was awesome" Freya gushed as we all walked off stage "I can see why Mom loves you guys so much"

"Glad you enjoyed it princess" I smile as I loop my arm around Freya's shoulders.

"Oh yeah it was amazing, Counting Stars is my favourite" as I look up I can see Abi and Leroy in deep conversation about something.

"Ryan" a female voice calls from behind us, as I look round I can see Alice and Sandra walking towards us "That was fantastic" Sandra beams "We would love to have you on board, that's if..."

"Are you serious of course we still want to" this is the best news I've had in a long time. I can see the look of relief on the guys faces. This was the break we had needed for such a long time.

"What's going on?" Abi had stopped to turn around.

"Sandra wants us on board" Abi's face beams with pride as she rushes forwards. She almost knocks me back as she crashes into me.

"That's great baby" she grins before kissing me hard. I reach my hand behind her neck and pull her closer...

"EEEWWW GROSS" Freya whines, Abi and I pull away and laugh at Freya's remark "Do you guys have to do that all the time?"

I look into Abi's eyes and she is biting her lip, she is thinking something...

"ABIGAIL, ABI JENSON-TEDDER...how does it feel being married to a superstar? Is it true your fame has rocketed their careers? When was the last time you smoked pot or snorted a line of coke? Is it true you..." Abi and I both turned and saw Owen Creston.

"ALRIGHT THAT'S ENOUGH" my blood boiled as Owen Creston pushed himself forwards and practically terrorised Abi.

"HOW DOES IT FEEL KNOWING YOUR RAPIST KILLED HIMSELF?" Shit, you bastard I couldn't control the rage that was surfacing. I could hear everyone gasping around me. Leroy was moving towards us. My fist connected with his face and Owen Creston flew backwards onto his ass, Leroy's arm pulled me away before I hit him again.

"Mom who raped you?" Freya's question stunned Abi, she looked straight at me with tears in her eyes "Mom is that guy telling the truth...MOM?"

Neither of us had noticed Stella standing behind Owen until he fell backwards. She looked just as shocked as everyone else, Abi still hadn't said anything she was just staring at her Mom.

"Come on let's give them some space" Alice said loudly, Leroy had escorted Owen out of the building and was now back beside Abi. I could see the pain and frustration in Abi's face and it made me feel physically sick. The last thing Abi wanted was for Freya and her parents to learn the truth about what happened to her all those years ago. But yet here we were facing questions from both angles.

I watched curiously as Stella moved closer to Abi, she took Abi's hands in hers and looked straight into her eyes "Is it true? What that reporter said? Did Dominic Hendly...did he...?" Abi fell apart, my instincts made me rush in and hug her. She wrapped her arms around me tightly and cried into my shirt "Oh swetheart" Stella could hardly speak, she too had tears in her eyes now.

"Hey come on chicken let's go and grab a drink?" Leroy spoke, Freya was reluctant but Abi made her go with him.

It was just Abi, Stella and myself left now "What happened? Why didn't you tell us?" Stella sat down beside Abi on the couch. I handed her a bottle of water and sat on the chair opposite them both.

"Because if I told you and Dad then I would have to admit that it happened" Abi sniffed "I didn't want to face it"

"But you knew?" Stella turned her attention to me now. I nodded, she looked pissed "And you didnt think to say anything?"

"Mom it's not his fault" Abi defended me quickly "I made him swear he wouldn't say anything"

"Is this true?" Stella obviously disapproves.

"It wasn't my place, it happened along time before I got to know Abi. I couldn't really bring it up out of the blue could I"

"Fair enough" Stella relaxes and turns her attention back to Abi "So do you want to talk about what happened?"

Abi shakes her head and looks at the ground "I can't Mom...I'm sorry" she starts to sob again I can hardly bare this, all this pain. Abi obviously hadn't dealt with this as well as she would like people to think. I didn't realise how much of a brave face she was putting on it until now.

"Oh Honey you have absolutely nothing to be sorry for" Stella wrapped her arms tightly around Abi and pulled her close. I watched quietly as Stella comforted her daughter.

In the four years I had been with Abi, I think this is the first time I had seen this side of her and unfortunately this wasn't going to be the last time...because at that very moment none of us realised the pain that was coming just around the corner...