Safe

chapter 44

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(fair warning, this is the FINAL chapter of safe. I haven't updated in a while because I rewrote this so many times, but decided this was the best way. The epilogue will come soon, and then story is done. There will NOT be a sequel. sorry. but I hope you enjoy the final chapter of safe :) )

Chapter 44

Rae's Pov

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"Why can't you except this?" I looked at my father in shame. "What is your deal with Harry that you don't want me to move with in him? I'll be living there within the year as it is. At least with him, I'll have a home, Harry will be making great pay, and everything is within walking distance. So I'll ask again, what is so wrong with me moving?"

"Because it's with that boy! He may have been generous to me those weeks ago, but that doesn't change the fact that those people were there! They were there because of him! He may show you the love you think you need from him, but people like him don't change! He will never be good enough for you!" He bellowed.

"Don't you think he's aware of that? Everyday he tells me those words, and I always remind him that I am there for him, that he was was worth the fight. And dammit, if I don't stay true to that word. His love for me is what made him stop. He ended all his ties that day. It was me or the life he choose before I came into it. And he choose me. And everyday he tells me it's the best decision of his life. He doesn't regret it, and neither do I."

"You're too young to know what love is! He's settling for the first person that showed him the least bit of compassion. His false love targeted you first and he's afraid to let go of the one thing he has been able to return love to! It is not real, Rae! Get your head out of the gutter, and open your damn eyes!" He raged.

"They are open, and I love him, dad. I love him with all my heart, and I know he does too! I read those letters mum wrote to me everyday when she was pregnant with me. She knew you would be difficult about me finding someone to share my heart with! She warned me. But she also told me to fight. If I don't fight it's not real. And here I am, fighting for what I love."

Showing up to my home, and having a yelling match with my dad had never been my intention. If anything, I thought he would try to get me to stay just a little bit longer. Yet, he stands here, face red, and fists clenched, telling me my love for Harry is nothing but a crush that has gone out of hand.

I'll never understand him. From the very start he could not stand the thought of Harry. But as the time went on, the Harry subject had become more manageable. From going easy on him after he was released, to Harry saving him from outside the pub, to Harry risking his life in his mums home, to letting me stay at Harry's flat for a while. What has been his true hold up now?

"No one can love anything about him. He is a disgrace to be called a lover and should've deserve the life he has received with you."

"Do you not hear yourself!? May I remind you, you are talking about your childhood best friends son! It is wrong to say that about anyone! Second changes are always possible, and I'm Harry's. You out of all people should know about second chances!"

"Do you not remember the time when I was ten, and your grieving for mum had not let up? Do you remember you telling me that you give up and can't live without her? That I was a spitting image of her, and it killed you to look at me? Do you remember any of that? Of course you don't! Because when I came home from Grace's you were on the kitchen floor with a damn bottle in your hand, and empty sleeping pill bin in the other! I could've left you there. I could've been fostered, and been adopted or live there until I was eighteen."