Justin’s POV:
It was the day after everything happened and my hand was throbbing in pain and swollen from punching Tony so many times. I was so angry that he tried to hurt Selena and knowing that that was the bastard who had raped and hurt Sophia when she was younger made me livid. I grabbed my phone to call Scooter.
“Hey Scoot, I think I need to go to the hospital,” I told him.
“Is everything okay little man?” he asked back, concerned. I explained everything that happened last night and told him that I might have broken my hand.
“Do you need me to go with you?” he asked.
“Nah I’ll tell Fredo to go with me. Don’t worry about. Just wanted to let you know,” I told him and then hung up.
Fredo and I went to the hospital and it turned out that I had broken my hand and my knuckle was bruised from the inside. The doctor put me in a cast and told me to go back in a couple of weeks to check if it had healed already.
Fredo and I were leaving the hospital when I felt my phone ringing and saw that it was Selena.
“Hey baby, how are you feeling?” I asked her as I answered the phone.
“Still kind of shaken up. Sophia and I had to sleep with mom and dad last night because we couldn’t sleep.” she told me. “Can you come over? I really wanna see you,” she asked.
“Sure. I just got out of the hospital so I’ll be there in like ten minutes.” I told her.
“What? Are you ok?” Selena asked me worried.
“I broke my hand punching that idiot last night. I have a cast on.” I explained.
“Are you ok babe?” she replied.
“I’m fine. That asshole got what he deserved.” I told her, getting angry again thinking of what he did to Selena. “I’ll be there in a bit. I love you.” I told her and then hung up.
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We got to Selena’s house and I saw Selena outside, sitting down on a swing.
“Hey beautiful,” I smiled to her as I got closer. “You like my new accessory?” I joked showing her my cast.
“My poor baby,” she said making a pout and kissing my cast.
“Hey Sel, where’s Sophia?” Fredo asked.
“She’s in the TV room doing her therapy.” she told him and with that Fredo went inside.
“What’s on your mind baby?” I asked Selena as I made her get up from the swing so that I could sit down on it, and then sat her on my lap.
“Sophia,” she replied.
“Why are you thinking about Soph?” I asker her.
“The way I felt last night Justin was just horrible. Having Tony on top of me and me not being able to do anything about it made me feel so worthless and scared. Then I thought about Sophia and how she went through what I went through almost every single night when she was only eight years old. She was just a baby.” she explained as she began to cry.
I wrapped my arms around her and put my chin on her shoulder. “Nobody should ever feel like that or go through that.” she continued.
“I know baby. I know.” I told her, not knowing exactly what I should say. I rocked her in the swing for a while when Selena’s mom came outside.
“Justin what happened to you?” she asked, noticing my cast.
“I broke my hand punching that guy last night,” I explained to her.
“Oh. Well thank you for taking care of Selena,” she said. “Sel, have you seen Lily? I can’t find her anywhere.” her mom asked.
“No. I thought she was inside.” Selena told her.
“She told me she was coming outside with you,” her mom said and then started running around the house looking for Lily.
Selena and I both got off of the swing and started looking for Lily too. “Lily!” we both yelled running around the house. We looked everywhere but there was no sign of her. Selena and I went inside the house to see if Lily was with Sophia.
“Hey Soph, have you seen Lily?” Selena asked her out of breath.
“No, what’s wrong?” Sophia asked, sitting back down from working on her therapy.
“We can’t find her anywhere,” Selena explained.
“What?!” Sophia exclaimed, worried.
“I found her!” we heard Mandy yelling, walking towards the room. “She’s in her tree house. She’s crying and doesn’t wanna talk to me,” she explained. “She asked if it was true that Sophia was her mom.”
We all just stared at each other, not knowing what to say. “I’m gonna go talk to her and try to explain everything to her,” Sophia told us, “can you take me?” she asked Fredo.
“Of course baby,” Fredo told her and carried Sophia outside to talk to Lily.
Sophia’s POV:
Fredo carried me in his arms up to the tree house where Lily was at. I could hear Lily crying and it broke my heart. Fredo sat me down at the edge of the tree house. “I’ll leave you two alone,” he told me.
“No. Please stay with me,” I told him, grabbing his hand for support.
“Lily, baby, I need to talk to you,” I began.
“Are you really my mommy Sophia?” she asked innocently.
“Yes baby girl,” I nodded trying not to cry.
“But you said that my mommy and daddy died when I was a baby,” she replied.
“I know, Lily. Ms. Scott made me tell you that lie. I wanted to tell you the truth but she wouldn’t let me.” I explained.
“So what is mommy now?” she asked referring to my mom.
“Mommy is your grandma and Brian is your grandpa,” I explained to her, trying to make it easier for a five year old to understand the situation.
“And what about Seena? She’s not my sister?” she asked again.
“Seena is your aunt, you can call her Aunt Seena, if you would like to. I’m sure she would like that.” I told her.
“What about my daddy?” she asked. I was hoping that maybe somehow she wouldn’t remember him because I wouldn’t know what to tell her.
I looked over to Fredo, trying to think what I would be able to tell her.
“Well…Lil, your daddy had to go away somewhere far away. He isn’t here anymore.” I told her.
“So I don’t have a daddy?” she asked, beginning to cry again. Fredo got up and walked to Lily and picked her up trying to calm her down.
“Lily, would you like it if I was your new daddy?” Fredo asked her wiping the tears from her face. Lily’s face immediately lit up. I was shocked.
“Baby? What are you doing?” I whispered to him, confused. He couldn’t be Lily’s new father. What if worse comes to worse and for some reason we break up? Lily will be devastated if she loses another father. Fredo walked over to me and stared into my eyes.
“Sophia, will you marry me?” he asked as he knelt down, still carrying Lily in his arms.
