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"florida?"

[trigger warning]

lennox laid on her bed, not wanting to move. she heard footsteps coming up the stairs and listened to the sound of someone knocking on her door. she sighed, getting up and opening the door to reveal her beautiful mother.

"how are you doing, baby girl?" her mom said, rubbing her arm. lennox pulled her arm away and  shrugged.

"how would you feel if the boy you loved, went to prom with someone else, broke up with you through a note, got called a hoe for going to prom with bryce, and your mom found out you cut yourself? cause i feel fantastic." lennox rolled her eyes, moving and sitting on her bed.

"you're going to hear this many times, but noah is not worth it, baby. he didn't love you." bella sighed, sitting next to her daughter.

"but i loved him, mom. you don't get it." lennox sighed, tears trickling down her face.

she noticed a figure standing in the door and it was derek, her "dad".

"dad." lennox started balling, running straight for him. "you're back."

"we need to talk, lennox." derek sighed, walking to his daughter's room.

"bella, eli said he wanted to talk to you about girl problems." derek whispered to his wife, sitting on lennox's bed.

"but this is boy problems! this is where i can help, derek." bella whined, rolling his eyes.

derek motioned to the door and bella exited the room.

"len, what's really going on?" derek sighed, closing her bedroom door.

"dad, i'm so unhappy. nothing ever keeps me happy and you're always gone. why can't you just stay? are you out hoeing around dad? because, dad i have something to tell you." lennox started.

"i'm not hoeing around, len. i have to get away from your mother sometimes, i can't take her always hitting me and hitting you kids." derek said. "what is it, len?"

"dad, noah pressured me into doing things i didn't want to. he would try to go too far and i wouldn't have sex with him, and i think that's why he left me." she started crying. "dad he touched me in places i didn't want to be touched. and that same day, mom took eli's ear to the stove and took the curling iron to my skin. dad, i'm scared to live here."

derek just hugged his daughter. "shh, it's okay. we're leaving tonight. i already talked to eli, he knows. so right now, we're going to get everything you need or want and we're driving to tampa."

"florida?" 

"yes."