Life's Highway {Sequel to Little Tomlinson}

Chapter 28-Talk And Drama

"...Okay," Louis started, him and the other boys had sat Tellie down to question about the "incidents" Louis'd been told. "These girls, what do they do exactly."

Tellie wrapped her hands around her knees buried her head in them slowly, she had a confused expression on her face as she sat on the lounge, Louis kneeling in front of her, the other boys standing behind him.

"Come on, you can tell us love." Harry persisted.

"No one's gonna be mad." Louis added softly. Tellie peered over he knees fear filling her eyes.

"Can you tell us?" Niall cooed.

Tellie shook her head and reburied her head.

"Baby girl it's okay." Louis prompted. "We need to know what's happening."

Louis sighed as Tellie just shook her head.

"Let me try." Liam whispered. Louis nodded and moved over so Liam was kneeling in front of Tellie.

"Tellie, love we understand if you don't wanna talk about it," Liam empathized. "But if stuffs happening you need to tell us, when I was in school bad stuff happened to me. Trust me you've just gotta tell us."

Tellie prompted her head on her knees her face full of thought.

"We're not gonna be mad." Liam added quickly. Tellie slowly put her pinky finger out.

"Promise...?" She whispered.

"Promise." Liam replied putting his hand out. Tellie looked at the other's her face still painted with fear.

"You gonna tell us?" Louis asked softly. Tellie already had tears forming in her eyes as she looked at Louis.

"They're mean..." She replied in barely a whisper.

"What do they do love?"

Tellie looked at the ground. "They make fun of me..."

"Do you know why...?" Louis asked as he sat on the lounge next to her. Tellie shook her head and buried her head in her knees.

"It's okay." Louis added as he put his arms Tellie, she automatically leaned into him tears still sliding down her cheeks.

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Vanessa had always loved her job, somehow she found closure by dealing with family court cases, but the ones she always hated dealing with was custody cases. Ever since her parents divorced her life was filled with her parents war for full custody over her and her brother Johnny, and the court case's always ended the same-50/50 custody for both. But her parents never felt satisfied having to share custody. She'd always hated it but her and her older brother-no matter how hard they tried-could never get their parents to understand how much it was hurting them. When her parents finally realized what they were doing Johnny was already in depression, suffering from the terrible side effects of self harm. So when Phoebe Walker had put her case on her desk, Vanessa was filled with disappointment and sadness.

"...Look Phoebe," Vanessa said sympathetically. "I get what your going through I see it everyday, you want your daughter back, and it's a good thing that your tying." She sighed. "But there's no case. I went over it all, the court's going to favor him over you... I'm sorry..."

Phoebe curled her lip and twisted her black locks around her lean finger.

"I've done my homework Vanessa, the court usually favors mothers not fathers." Phoebe replied curtly.