The billionaires best friend

Chapter thirteen

Darius PoV

"Why didn't you tell me!, I would've accepted you too. I know I'm four years younger that you both but you never trusted me. You always treated me like the annoying little brother-" Ramos cuts me off, "we know and we're sorry. We tried our hardest to  shield you from his bad moods, we would often take the blame for you when he found out things you'd done. They were mild things, like if he heard you had a new friend we vouched for them, even if they weren't up to his standards. I know this doesn't make up for that day but you need to know we tried. When you left that day I was stunned into silence as he ranted about how disgusting gay people are, I looked up after twenty minutes of his tirade and noticed the hurt look on Sophia's face and I lost it. I called him every bad name you can think of and told him that you and my sister were perfect in every way. He was shocked of course but not as much as Sophia was, I'd just outed her after she'd seen you get kicked out for the same thing"

It hurt to know that one look of his twins sad face was what it took to get him to stand up to our father, while, when it was me he couldn't react but I didn't comment. Ben on the other hand "you fucking bastard, you stood up to him for her but not your little brother-" Ramos holds up his hands "I hate myself for that every day since. I was frozen in shock but had gotten over it as he was rambling. The reason I looked up was because I finally realised what had just happened. I realised he was wrong and I wasn't going to stand for it. So after I lost it I told him we were going to find you and we weren't coming back. I told him I'd take care of you even if he wasn't willing to." I'm surprised to hear this but I let him continue.

"That's when the unthinkable happened, mam got up and smacked right across the face, she screamed at him and I've never witnessed anything like it. She told him that she was leaving too, that he had no right to kick her baby out of his home and that if we also left over his homophobic ass she'd go too" he takes a deep breath and continues.

"Next the unthinkable happened. He broke down. That was shocking let me tell you. He kept repeating that he was sorry and he asked her to help him. Dad knew in that moment that the depression had hit him hard. For the second time that day we were frozen with shock, here he was the man who prided himself on being in control, never showing weakness, the moodiest man we'd ever encountered, crying like a baby. Mam promised to get him into a program and told him he needed to get meds to help him, he agreed to do anything she said once she'd stay and once we vouched to bring you home. I left after that to find you, I searched that town from top to bottom praying you would be within reach. I don't know how you did it kid but you vanished. I searched for days before I realised it was hopeless, you'd left town" I'm in tears at his words, they were too late. I literally hopped on the first bus I saw and that's why they couldn't find me.

Ramos continues "I didn't stop until we found you, Sophia, mother and father all helped. You see as soon as he started to get the help he desperately needed father really realised the enormity of his mistake and it hit him like a tonne of bricks. We would often find him sitting on your favourite bench in the garden or on your bed looking through photos, sometimes sobbing, other times smiling sadly. I know you don't want to hear this but he broke his own heart throwing you out that day." This is becoming too much for me to hear, seven years I've thought they hated me. Seven long years of missing my family and they come barging back in expecting me to understand their point of view on this.

Sophia who's openly crying looks over and says "I've missed you so much, can I please hug you?" I don't know what to do, I need to process this information. I feel like I'm that scared eighteen year old kid again but I also feel the family bond. It's too much so I get up and bolt like a fucking kid. I run straight out the door and then out the front. Sitting outside on my motorbike is Lor, that fucking beauty of a man, he knew and he prepared for this situation. I hop on and we take off. My last though as the wind hits me is, please forgive me Ben and Rick.