It All Starts With a G

~ Chapter Six ~

I could feel myself grow cold and sweaty at the same time, if that was even possible. Just the mention of his name made me want to vomit. He was the sole reason that I could not be with Gray or my family. They chose him over me and I am sure that I was not the only one they were hiding the secret for. Aunt Chris was the only one that did not stay loyal to him and maybe it was because she was his first true victim. He was a vile man that I once looked up to and cherished as my favorite uncle. That was until the day he became jealous over my relationship with Gray and decided to destroy it all. As I looked at Scarlette I wondered if she too had suffered from his abuse and if he had done the things he had done to me how she escaped with her normalcy. If she could do it then just maybe I could too. That thought alone gave me hope and the courageous to try.

She was still watching me as she had laid the journal down in her lap and the intense stare I was receiving was exactly the kind that reached into your soul and read all of your deep dark secrets.

"OMG that is what this is all about, this journal, your breakup with Gray and you moving in with us" she exclaimed to more herself that me.

"That bastard did it to you but on a whole different level" she continued looking up at the ceiling as she whispered something else under her breath.

I just sat there watching her emotional outburst as she went through the last couple of years and light bulbs started going off. Narrowing her eyes at me she pinned me to the back of the couch with those icy blue orbs as she glared at me.

"And not once you never thought you could confide in me" she asked with betrayal and hurt evident in her voice.

"Your mom asked me to try to not tell you so much and at the time I thought it was because she was trying to keep you immune to the entire ordeal" I said apologetically.

"My mom was trying to protect me" she asked sarcastically

"Well that is what I thought at the time, I swear I did not know anything other than I was dying on the inside and she was the only one that was willing to take me in" I offered.

To be honest, I was in a fog and had not even thought that any of my other female cousins could have been his victims to. But now I could see how wrong I was.

"I was not only your cousin but your best friend Em, we share everything together or so I thought" she whispered with hurt laced all through her words.

"If we were so close and shared everything then why am I just now finding out that he did this to you too" I asked with the equal amount of hurt in my tone.

"My mother told me that everyone would look at me different if I said anything and you were so happy with Gray that I did not want to ruin it for you. I guess we both made some mistakes by not confiding in each other" she said softly.

"We can talk about it now and figure out how to move on, but it looks like you are doing just fine now" I offered.

"Oh, we are going to talk about it but we are also going to fix it where he does not keep doing this to others. But more than anything you are going to get Gray back" she said seriously.

"I would love nothing more than to take that bastard down, but there is no way I would drag Gray back into this mess, he doesn't deserve any of this" I told her.

"Bull shit and you know it. Gray has tried to tell you that too but you pushed everyone away because that rat bastard of an uncle thought he could bully everyone to save his own ass" she yelled.