Dallas Winston and Cherry Valance: The Tale of an Unexpected Love

Part 3

Cherry's Pov
"I love you"- Dallas said to me
I just couldn't believe it. Even though Dallas has shown me his soft side I hadn't thought that Dallas could ever love someone. I figured that he's just seen too much of the downsides of life to really love someone intently.
After that Dally and I laid down on the grass and cuddled into each other. Dally's warmth and cologne were both making me relaxed. I felt my eyes getting heavy then I dozed off into my peaceful sleep.
I woke up the next morning to find myself nuzzled  into Dallas and his leather jacket around me. Everything seemed  perfect at that moment until I realized that my parents were going to go ballistic when they find out I didn't come home last night. That's one of my problems with them. They are straight up hypocrites. They couldn't honestly careless whether I came home or not. They just don't wanna ruin their damn image of the 'perfect family. They want others to see is as the family with the perfect husband with the perfect job, the phenomenal housewife with the perfect look, and the neat as a pin 16 year old daughter with the perfect boyfriend and life. As much as I didn't want to I had to wake up Dal to take me home. I decided to be gentle so I peppered his face with kisses till he stirred awake.
Dallas Pov
I woke up expecting to see my beat up room on the place Tim lets me stay but instead I awoke to Cherry kissing me all over. I grabbed her waist and held her.
"Baby as much as I hate it I need you drop me off home. My parents are going to flip I
Didn't show up to our dinner with our neighbors."- Cherry said frowning
"Shit I forgot about your parents"-I said chuckling
She stood up and we got into my car and I made my way back to her house
After about 20 minutes I got to her house and stopped in front
She frowned and teared up a little bit
"I really don't wanna go back I want to stay with you"- she said while looking down
I lifted her chin
"Hey I'll come and get you later ok if you want to come see me meet me by the drive in i'll be waiting there ok baby?"-I smiled
She nodded and gave me a kiss goodbye
Cherry's Pov
As soon as I walked in I knew there was something wrong. It was too quiet.
Maybe my parents were still sleeping
But of course they weren't as I made my way to the kitchen I saw them both sitting at the table.
"Care to tell us where you've been...we had our dinner with the ScottenDales last night and you weren't here. You completely humiliated your father and I"-my mom said
"I was at Marsha's sleeping over"-I lied
"Are you sure?"-my mother said
"Because we called and Marsha said you weren't there. She said you were in that dirty no good neighborhood."-my mom responded looking angry
"And what's this nonsense I hear about you messing around with some dirty no good hoodlum"-my father yelled
"Those people that you spit upon and say are dirty, worthless, criminals, and heartless have more compassion than us. They treat me like a real family!!"-I yelled
"So you have been hanging around those worthless pricks"-my father yelled
"Imagine what our social group is going to think of us. You've embarrassed this entire family with your attention seeking! And who's this hoodlum you've been hanging around huh? Bob came here all bruised and cut up saying that he saw you and tried to politely say hello and all of a sudden your new guy comes up and starts fighting him!"-my mom screamed
"First of all Bob deserved what he got. Bob was drunk out of his damn mind and came it and grabbed me! Look at my arms"-I yelled out and showed them my arms
They gasped
"That hoodlum did that to you!"-my father yelled
"No that dick Bob did this to me. Dallas beat him up for me that's why he was all bruised up!"-I replied
"I don't believe you...you're just trying to protect that piece of shit"-my mother said
That's when I lost it. I'm not going to let anyone talk about my Dal that way
"If anyone's a piece of shit its both of you"-I yelled
All of a sudden a hand came in contact with my face and I fell to the ground. My face  started bleeding and I swear it took all my strength not to cry
"I don't know what's the hell has come over you but you will not talk to me and your mother that way! I forbid you from seeing that sack of shit any longer and causing this family embarrassment!!!"-my father yelled in disgust
"I wish your brother were here. He's the only child that I am proud of having. If I I could go back in time I wouldn't have even had you"-my mother said while looking at me in complete disgust
I swear I could have killed them right then and there. But I ran upstairs to my room and locked the door.
I sat on my bed thinking. What if I just ran away to be with Dal? I learned at this point that no one else cares about me besides him. So what else do I have to lose?
I got up and grabbed a bag. I shoved my t-shirts and jeans that I secretly bought so I
didn't have to always wear dresses and skirts all the time into my bag.
I took some perfumes and my tooth brush and threw them in along with some shoes.
I decided that I was going for good. This family is made of plastic and all they care about is having the image of a dream family except it's a living hell.
I thought just to mock them I'd leave a little letter. I wrote:
"Just tell the others that you hypocrites sent me off to a boarding school or something. Wouldn't want you to be embarrassed."
With that I climbed out the balcony window and started running towards the drive in where Dallas said to meet him.
I got to the drive in and I saw Dal sitting and watching some scary movie.
"Hi Dal"-I said
He turned around and froze

Dallas Pov
I heard someone say my name so I turned around to see Cherry. I was about to grin until I saw her face...it was bruised up bleeding with a huge handprint...and she was crying
I took her into my arms  and she just started crying...I can tell she was holding that in because she was crying so hard
"Dal"-she sobbed
"WHO THE FUCK DID THAT TO YOU!"-I    growled
"It was my father..."- she cried
"I'm going to kick his ass and I don't care about the fucking cops!"-I spatted out coldly
"Baby no it's not worth it"-she said
"Oh yeah?...care to tell me why not?"-I said looking her in the eyes
"I left that house  Dal. I packed my stuff and I'm not going back"-she said motioning to her stuff
"You're coming to live with me and I don't give a shit about what anyone else thinks. Got it?!"
-I growled
She nodded
I for sure am not going to turn soft anytime soon or ever. But for Cherry I will love her no matter where she comes from. I will fight for anyone who harms her and to my knowledge she already knows that because I already proved that to her. But as I continue to look at her bruised face I continue to feel anger build up in me. But for Cherry's sake I'll just let it be. After all I don't wanna be thrown back up in jail, I wanna be with Cherry.
I took her to my place
"I know it's not much but it's for us and we can be alone"-I said sort of embarrassed
"It's perfect"-she said while coming up to me and hugging me
I got undressed and saw her watching me
"You like what you see babe?"-I said smirking
She blushed and started to get undressed so we could lay down together
"So tell me what happened babe"-I said
"Alright well when you dropped me off I went inside and it was unusually quiet. I thought my folks were sleeping but they were  waiting inside the kitchen. When I walked in they asked me where I was because I embarrassed them by not showing up for dinner with our neighbors and I said I was sleeping over at Marsha's but turns out they called her house and she told them I was was in town some where on my way to see you. So then my dads says that Bob came to my house after you beat him up for me and told them I was with you. My mother then said that you were a piece of shit. I got so angry so I said that if anyone was a piece of shit it was them both. All of a sudden my dad slaps me and I'm on the ground. My mom looks down at me and says she wishes my brother were still here because she didn't even want me. If she could go back in time she wouldn't even had me."- she said while crying again
I literally felt my heart drop. Even though I got to know Cherry I didn't know things were bad like that. But she's never going to have to go through that again because she's with me now.
"Come here"-I said
She moved closer and I put my arms around her while caressing her bruised cheek. She flinched a little bit. I kissed her cheek all around to calm her.
"I love you forever and always babe"-I said
"I love you too babe...forever and always"-she replied
She fell asleep and I just started to think about what me and her will do. Maybe it's time to move somewhere far from here...

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