Loving me

Strong Enough

"She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has been half goddess, half hell." Nikita Gill

"Why the fuck are you here?" I turn to Alexander.

"I'm was invited." I hear the voice of my nightmare. I tense and Enzo notices.

"I don't care if you were invited, you are allowed to be anywhere near me."

"I didn't know you were going to be here."
"But you did know that Mia was. The whole thing is for Mia." He came for me. I start to shake.

"Leave."

"Don't do this here, Alex."

"Leave before I do something, leave before I forget you are my father." Alexander says through his teeth.

In seconds Enzo gets up from the chair and his fist connects with Mr. Parra's jaw.

"This is from everyone that respected Mia's decision." He punches him again. "This one is from Mia." He does it again. "This one is from me."

"Enzo." I get up to grab him.

"That doesn't equal the hurt that Mia has been through because of you." I have never see. Enzo so angry, even when he saw Alexander almost kiss me.

"Are you just going to stand there?" Mr. Parra looks at his children. They haven't moved a muscle.

"I've been wanting to do that since the moment you did that to her. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to worry my mom more."

Alexander tells him.

"I been waiting for someone to do that since the day mom divorced you and you confessed." She walks closer to him and slaps him. "This is from my mother and I."

Mr. Parra looks around and everyone is staring at him. He turns to walk away.

"Now you you know how I felt, when you turned them against me." Enzo turns to me and gives me a hug as we watch Mr. Parra leave.

Vanessa walks to me and takes my hand.

"Are you okay? Do you need some fresh air?" She asks softly. I don't let go of her hand and I just nod.

Enzo let goes of me and I walk towards the gate with Vanessa by my side.

"I'm so sorry, Mia. For doubting you." She has tears running down her face.

"Oh please. Don't cry. Waist your tears on someone who is going to believe them." She looks at me shocked.

"I thought..."

"What? That I was going to forgive you? No. I came out here so I can hear what you have to say. But nothing you say is going to get me to forgive you. I've learned to be a person who goes by actions not words."

"I'm sorry."

"Sorry doesn't make things go away. I still remember the words you said to me. No matter how many times you say you are sorry, they will never go away."

"At first I didn't want to believe you, when you told me about my dad, but once I got home I start to doubt myself. I was going to go over and apologize but my dad asked me to talk to him, I confronted him and he said that you went up to him and that you told him that you wanted to get back at Alex for killing your baby. He said that he pushed you away and that when he did that you told him that you were going to tell everyone that he went on to you." She takes a deep breath. "I believed him because I saw how angry you were with Alex. And I didn't want to doubt my dad, my hero." She is crying.

"I'm sorry that I lied to you about your brother and I, but that doesn't justify that instead of asking me what happened, you went to the one in question." I tell her. I wanted her to know that her dad and her brother were two different topics.

"I know." She looks down at the floor.

"Mia? Can we go? Sofia is tired." I hear Enzo. I turn to see him holding Sofia.

"Sure let me say goodbye and I'll meet you in the car." I turn to Vanessa. "I'm going to go say bye to everyone."

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We have been back at the hotel for an hour and and we are laying in bed with Sofia, fast asleep, between us. We aren't asleep, we are both enjoying our company, while just staring at the ceiling.

"Why did you tell everyone at the party that Sofia was your daughter. I thought you told Alexander that she was only mine." Enzo asks me.

"Because I didn't tell him." I tell him.

"But you went after him."

"I did. I went to ask him to please stay away from us. I told him that I was happy with you and that I wasn't going to risk you or Sofia."

"I see."

"I told him that Sofia was God's way of giving me another chance at being a mom."

"Really?"

"I know that we barely started this, but I really want to be in her life." I turn to look at him.