Broken

part 14

Kylie held onto Aaron tight, this shouldn't be happening this was wrong. they didn't know each other and now he was promising to be there always? Her stomach knotted up tightly but she couldn't find the want to let go of her defender. her knight, her hero,her someone she could trust and even...love. Finally he let her go reluctantly and looked over at the only family she had left, aside from the snobby aunt that lived in LA somewhere. The older man didn't seem to mind...too much...

"Kylie go lay down and relax, be sure to ice that." he said leaning down and grabbing ice from the freezer and handed it to Kylie before she walked out of the room to lay down on her bed. She knew she shouuld relax but her mind was racing to try and figure out what to do. She knew she had to get rid of Dan. For good. but each time she thought of that all she heard in her head was, "who would want you? No one." She still had to sort out things with Aaron. It was too soon, too wrong, but yet so right...

Meanwhile in the kitchen Uncle Willie cracked out a cold one and sipped. With a heavy sigh he began,  "Now Aaron, I've known you a long time, and I've never seen you get like that. We both know her past. We both know everything that's happening. You can't tell her that you're always going to be there now. Its confussing for her and she has enough to worry about."

"I know, i just want her to know I'm going to hlp her as much as I c-" Aaron defended as he sat down

"The best thing you can do for her is let things with that boy, if you can even call him that. You can be there without claiming your love for her. she's your first one isn't she?"

Aaron paused for a second to choose his words carefully. "I've felt things for other girls before, I've been on two or three dates, but those girls cheated, lied, anything and everything. They put on acts but soon they showed themselves. Now I see how innocent Kylie is and i know what I felt for those other girls was nothing compared to this. I know its fast and doesn't make sense but it does for me."

Willie looked straight at aaron eye-to-eye and saw the honest in his eyes. He leaned back taking another sip as he thought things over, "You've got passion in your heart, and good intentions but leave it slow. That messel was, and in his mind, still is Kylie's first boyfriend, and he does give men a good name, or give Kylie the want to give another boy a try."

"I know. I'll go at her pace when this is over." Aaron said looking down the hall at the closed wooden door to Kylie's room wondering if she was ok but he didn't dare go in her room. She had to think. She was barely ok as she laid there thinking. Her face was going half numb, she was shaking slightly now, and the more she thought the more she felt every hit she'd taken from Dan. She sttod up and lifted her shirt to look at the bruising skin. it was yellow, green, blue, black, and almost any other color mixed bruises could make. Her legs to were bruised from being hit, or falling anytime she was. Now her face would start to match.

Yet it was different.. Her head was throbbing the more she tried to sort out her feelings for Aaron.... He loved her and she knew it, now the questions she had looped over. How can I save myself? How can I get rid of Dan forever? What if he tries to hurt Unlce Willie? Or Aaron again? Is it even possible to get rid of Dan forever? What do I do about Aaron? I like him, but do I love him? Can I love him?