Chapter 2

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Henry^

"I'm Henry by the way," he gives me a small smirk before turning back to his spot at the counter.

"Gramma, cosa sta succedendo? Who is he?" (What is going on?)

"I can understand you," He jumps into our conversation. "I don't care." My eyes go back to my grandma. "Costa sta succedendo," I ask again. "Vieni con me," She ushers me out of the room. (Come with me.)

"Gramma, who is he?" She closes the door to the study behind her. "Your Grandpa and I are aiutandolo. He's in trouble, he's in libertà vigilata." (Helping him, on probation.)

"Okay. Are you just letting him stay here, or is he helping?"

"Staying here."

I wanted to ask more questions. Why is on probation? Why are they letting him stay here? How do they know him?

"È tutto?" (Is that all?) I nod my head before following her out of the study.

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My door opens unexpectedly a couple hours later. I was sitting in the middle of my moms room- my room- with a pile of old pictures cut up around me.

It was Henry. "What do you want," I ask dully. "What are you doing?" He walks further into my room, without my permission.

"Please leave, I want to be alone," I plead. "Do you need help cleaning that," he asks.

"Please leave." Instead or leaving he sits down next to me. He grabs a few parts of a picture, sadly one with my father in one. "Whose this?"

"My father," I respond coldly. He sets them back in the pile. I thought he was going to leave after that but I was wrong. He sat against my bed on the floor, and looked at the pile of pictures in front of me.

"Your grandparents told me what happened, I'm sorry about what happened."

Even though I don't know him, at all, I can tell he's sincere.

"Yeah well, there's nothing we can do to change what happened," I say through an obviously forced smile.

Well that was a sooner update than I thought. But these chapters will be short so it doesn't matter. Maybe when reach the third or forth chapter I'll combine them all with the 1st one. I think I will do that. Ok well please vote, comment, and share.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Ashlyn

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