Maybe yall will like Aleyah after this chapter.
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Cameron POV
It's one in the morning and I just can't take the thought of not being near Aleyah anymore. Her mom called me earlier cussing me out, so I know she's there. Even after explaining everything from my point of view, she still sided with Aleyah. I drive to her Mom's house and hesitantly ring the doorbell. It felt like years before her Mom came to the door.
"Cameron what the hell are you doing out here in the middle of the night." she tightens her silk robe.
"I need to talk to Aleyah. Please." I sigh. She stares me down before stepping aside.
"Keep it down, because if you wake my husband you're on own. And Cameron?"
"Yes ma'am?"
"I don't know what Aleyah's told you about her past, but it's the reason she's the way she is. You ever heard of the saying 'you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink?'" I nod. "That's Aleyah. I take it you don't know about the incident with the last guy she dated. The real reason I agreed for us to move down here?" She crosses her arms. I think really hard.
"Doesn't ring a bell."
"Well if she hasn't told you then I can't either. Just know there's a story behind every persona." She says. I just nod and proceed upstairs to Aleyah's room in deep thought. I slowly open the door, and she was just sitting in the window seat, with her knees tucked into her chest. Made me think of when were teenagers.
"Aleyah." I close the door. She looked up at me, and the look in her eyes made me feel small. Intimidated in a way.
"What Cameron?" she frowns. I slide her the surveillance disk.
"Aleyah, you know to be my wife you don't trust me a lick. Why is that?" I take a seat on the bed. I was really just trying to ease into the conversation about why she really moved here.
"To be honest, I can't even trust myself." she lifts her head slowly. The moonlight shined at such a beautiful angle on her face. I just stare, knowing any moment now she would say more. "I'm sorry I'm not easy to handle Cameron. Half the time, I'm not even sure what's going on around me."
"I understand... Continue..." I get up and sit next to her.
"Cameron. I'm so weak on the inside. I'm probably a hard ass on the outside but you know how hard that is for me to be? It takes so much not to break down and just give up on everything sometimes. But I keep reminding myself that I don't want Maddy and Nolan to grow up without a mother, because she doesn't know how to cope with her past." she bites down on her bottom lip so hard it left a mark. I know she's holding back tears. "I'm scared Cameron. Trusting anyone will always be a problem for me. I just can't. That's why I accept the fact that everyone knows I'm stubborn. I'm only stubborn to protect myself. From everyone. Even Maddy and Nolan. I don't know who's gonna turn on me, or anything." she shrugs. Now I just wanted to know what happened.
"Aleyah... why did you really move to Cali?" I finally just say. She looks back out the window. A heavy uncomfortable silence fell over the whole entire house. "Aleyah?"
"I just couldn't be threre anymore Cameron."
"We've known each other too long to not know things like this." I grab her hand. Another long silence. "Aleyah, talk to me sweetheart."
"He tricked me. He said he loved me." she just breaks down. "He lied to me. He let them all do bad things to me. And I thought that I was doing the right thing because I-I thought I loved him." she sobs. I didn't know what to do, I don't think she has ever cried this hard, and it made my heart pound. "He is why I'm so stubborn. He is why I can't be completely happy! I didn't deserve it. I was so good to him. I did everything to keep him happy. Even after catching him with other girls, over and over and over again. He took my virginity along with like five of his friends." she shakes her head. "And all I could think was why me ya know? What did I do to deserve that?" She cries. I felt my fist tighten and my eyes burn as she just cried clutching her chest. I swallow the lump in my throat. "I'm sorry I'm so stubborn and have a hard time trusting you and other problems. But I just don't know what to believe in this world anymore. I have this permanent guard up because I don't know if you're going to betray me like he did, or anyone for that matter. I'm not stubborn. I'm scared." she cries even harder. "I'm scared to go through that again. I had to have an abortion. Get cured for a fucking STD I got from one of the assholes that took advantage of me that night. All because I thought I was in love. I thought I had someone special, and look what he did to me. I'm scared you're going to do something to hurt me more than I've already been hurt. I'm so scared." she sobs. I pull her into my arms, and I did the only thing I could think of right now. I cried with her. Had I known I wouldn't have snapped at her all those times. I would have definitely done some things completely different. I didn't know. I didn't know I was further breaking someone who seems to be permanently broken.
"Aleyah, I'm so sorry. I didn't know." I hold her tighter, as if my hug could put all the pieces of her broken soul together. I was going to fix this. I don't know how, but I do know that I am.
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Just a little sum sum to change up the game. What do you guys think??????
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