Saviour

No More Hiding Part 22

I could barely believe it I felt his arms around me squeezing tight I was afraid to let go in case it was all a crazy hallucination and he wasn't here. I eventually pulled away and looked up at those beautiful brown eyes I had missed so much, yup he was definitely really here "How. What..?" the words could barely come out.

Joe walked up behind me giving me a signature Gatto hug "well when we found out you three had run off to the emerald isle here, Q and I thought that wasn't very fair and that we should take a vacation and join you. Sorry about your mom Sweetie." I pulled the two New Yorkers close to me we were all together again.

"I finally got through to the guys late last night and they told me they were flying in this afternoon I Okayed it with your sister and she got Liam here to take me to the Airport to pick up the guys" Murr said with a Smile sitting down at the table with Liam.

"You're so lucky I don't charge like a taxi service." Liam laughed as he produced a deck of playing cards and began to lay them out on front of Murr.

"I think there's a bit of a bromance going on there if you ask me." Brian whispered a smile came to my face as I though how much of a polar opposite city and well-spoken James was compared to an Irish Farm boy like Liam.

"So everyone was in on this from this morning and never told me?" I eyed all of them suspiciously

"I wasn't!" a dumbstruck Sal piped up as he entered the kitchen

"Ayyyy Salvatore!" Brian yelled as he high fived his best friend

"Ayyyy Nothing" Sal huffed "why wasn't I told?"

"Cause dude you can't lie to her" Brian laughed pointing to me it was so good to hear him laugh again I nodded my agreement at Sal "He's right buddy you can't."

Joe had joined in with the guys at the table to play cards as I stood just looking at Brian and smiling "Thank you for coming all this way"

Brian frowned as the put his arm around me "I hated thinking you were here without me and still hating me for what happened."

"I don't hate you Q, but we should probably talk about everything that went down" he nodded and motioned towards the back door with his thumb. Sal noticed this too "Uhh Maggie? The Movie?"

"Oh feck Sorry Sal, play cards with the guys I shouldn't be too long" I smiled to him as Brian walked out to the terrace.

I followed him outside the air was mild but the sea breeze made it feel colder. We sat on the grass verge that overlooked the beach the lights of the village sparkled down below "This is beautiful" Q spoke soft as he admired the sky He looked so adorable like a starstruck child it felt so nice to watch him again

"I'm so sorry about our fight Q if I had of known what was coming up..."

"Hey shhh you don't have to apologise, nobody could of known what was just around the corner and I blame myself you were right I didn't ask you what you wanted I just assumed you would want to settle down with me and make a life of it y'know."

I shifted a little closer to him "It's not that I didn't want you there was just so much going on as you can see behind all the guards, I'm pretty fucked up"

Q gave a laugh "We're all pretty fucked up but yeah all this" he spun his hand around pointing at the area and the house "This is pretty crazy, Murr told us most of the story in the car I'm sorry you felt like you had to hide on us about your mom"

I gave a shrug as I picked at the flakes of red polish on my nails "I was hiding on myself more than anything Q, Maggie was a character I invented to run away from everything here she was streetwise and had no emotional ties with anyone.. well until you came along" Q blushed at the words it was all coming out in the open now like word vomit "I was lying to myself but I don't want to hide from you guys anymore there isn't much left to see any way you know my real name and my backstory, where I've come from and what I've been through its all me now."