Deadly Rose

Chapter 11: Harry

Angelina had Liam, Louis, Zayn, and I go with her to the gazebo late at night. She seemed calm, but in her eyes, she seemed nervous. We all waited calmly for her to speak as she leaned against the railing of the gazebo.

“I know that my behavior these months have been a pain for you all,” she began. “I'm sorry that I made you go through my mood swings and I'm sorry with how I treated each one of you. I wasn't in my right mind, but that isn't an excuse. I should have never hid what happened to me, but I was scared of what you were going to think of me after I told you. I was scared of the looks you would have given me. I felt like I was going through this alone.”

“But you weren't alone,” Liam muttered. “Angelina, we are all here for you. You can tell us anything. You should know that.”

She shrugged, “This was different to me. I thought you were going to judge me or treat me differently if I told you. I wouldn't be able to handle any of you looking at me with pity or treating me differently. I didn't want to show you weakness.”

“You're not weak,” Louis said. “You're strong. Many who would've went through half of the things they did to you, would've given in. You didn't give in through all the pain and torture they did to you. How can you call yourself weak for that?”

“You're strong, Angelina,” Zayn agreed. “You're stronger than anyone I have ever met before.”

I nodded in agreement, “They're right. You handled it better compared to what others would've have done. I don't see you as a weakling, none of us do.”

Angelina batted her tears away, “You mean so much to me. I've known each of you for so long and you mean the world to me.” A tear leaked down her cheek. “I thought I was alone, but I wasn't. I thought if I told you what happened, you would leave because of lack of faith or something. I just forgot how loving and loyal you are to me. I doubted each of you and I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry for the way I've acted to all of you. I love you all very much and I'm sorry I let down. I promise it won't happen ever again. We are going to remain acting like a family for now on.”

Liam was the first to get up and wrap her arms around her. After Liam, we all joined in and hugged one another. Angelina quietly sobbed and I noticed that a few of us were crying a bit too, including me.

“We will never abandon you,” Liam muttered. “We are all back together now and we are staying like that.”

Once the emotions drained down, we all departed but Angelina and me. She knew what I was going to ask her, because she took a deep breath and sat down on the bench nearby.

“Jazlyn and I solved some of our differences,” she stated. “I told her that I forgave her when you witnessed her hugging me.”

“Does it change though? Can she still remain a human or will you change her within the year?”

“I don't change someone unless they ask me to. You know that.”

“So if she agrees you will change her, but what happens if she says no? Are you going to separate us from each other?”

Angelina sighed and looked another direction. “I don't know. Harry, we both know that she will eventually have to decide what she wants. She will have choose and it's not only because she is getting older. Jazlyn is going to be in danger no matter what.”

“I'll protect her.”

“What does she want?” Angelina questioned. “Did she bring it up with you?”

“I think she wants more time to decide. She was talking about how she wants to do so much before she gets turned. That's all she wants.”

“What do you want?”