The Summer Love In West Virginia

Chapter 36

"You never told me you played guitar." "You never asked." He smiles and grabs my hand and brings me into the studio. He grabs his guitar and starts to strum a song.

He smiles in thought and says," Before my brother left he taught me how to play guitar. We would sit in his room for hours and play. My dad loved us playing music and built this studio for us."

He stopped playing and his eyes teared up a little. I rubbed his back and said,"I play guitar too but kinda suck at it. Will you teach me?" He looks up at me like a little kid looks at candy and says," I would love to someday." I smile at him and he pulls me into a kiss.

I pull away and say," but I thought your dad hated you." "He dose but didn't used to." I look at him with a confused exasperation and say,"Wait? what?"

"Before my brother left we were a big happy family. My dad loved us he wanted a family, kids to take over his business and make him look good."

He raps his arm around me and we walk out of the studio.

He smiles and says," My brother and I use to make forts and have movie nights, he made stories up just so I could go to bed at night. Then High School came, drinking, party's, drugs, out past curfew and bring slutty girls home at 2 am and having very loud sex with them."

He points at a picture with him and his brother and dad dressed up in suits at a party together looking very happy.

"The cops came after him one night said he was being arrested for rape and drug dealing. He went to jail for 10 years. He was 18 when he went to jail. He got out on his 28th birthday. He came home to see us and we we're suppose to act like nothing happen. My dad told him that if he took over the family businesses. that he'd get a clean slate no recorded no guilt. My brother told my dad to go to hell. And punched him in the face."

Derrick grabs my hand ands pulls me to him he looks me in the eye and says," Your the best thing that's ever happened to me Katelyn Kingsley. And I hope it stays that way." He bends his head down and kisses my cheek.

We continue walking down the wall of pictures and he continues his story. " My dad had 2 twin 1961 Ferrari 250GT Spyder one was red and one was blue. They were costume made, custom parts cost about $700,000,000. And the guy who made them was long dead along with his blue prints of the car. So there were only 2 made and my dad had those 2. My dad loved those cars almost more then us." He pointed to 2 beautiful sports cars with his dad and another man standing by them.

"That night my brother took a baseball bat to both of them. And cut all the wires it the engine including the gas line he light a cigarette and said "burn baby burn" And he blow up the cars. My father was pissed he took every photo of Trent down and burned his birth certificate he even changed Trent's last name to Snyder. He told the garidise to never let him in and I didn't see my brother for 6 years. I thought my brother was the evil one."

He looks away from me like he might cry and says ," With a crack in his voice. But all along it was my father."

"Trent message me on Facebook to meet him and he'd tell me the truth. I met him outside a Jewell. He had bags under his eye hadn't shaved and probably had messy hair under his hood."

" Started with the usally how are you how's mom. I told him to cut the shit and tel me the truth. He finally got to it and said "Dad has made it impossible for me to live he had me beat up in jail 3 times. I can't get a job any where have people looking for me bad people that want to start a lot of trouble for me." "I didn't believe him till we were chased down by a gang with baseball bats the screamed things like "This is from your dad." and "Daddy's not your super hero anymore. Is he." Trent told me he was going into the army cause he couldn't get any other job and he can't stand to runt the rest of his life. And if his in war these people won't follow him there."

Derrick pulled his phone out and should me a picture of his brother all geared up in Iraqi ready for war. "And ever since then life hasn't been the same."

I rap my arms around him and kids his soft peach lips. I pull away and look into his Deep sea blue eyes. He smiles and says," What?" I shake my head and he says "What?" He look up at his wondering eyes and say," I'm glad you told me that." He says," Me too." He bends down and bridges his lips against mine then plus away and says," But you can't tell anyone that." I nod my head and say," I know." He smile a half smile and bend back down laying his soft wet lips on mine.