Abducted

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POV Shiloh
I go downstairs to find my parents. While I was in my room I have been thinking a lot and I need to talk to them. I want to tell them about what Chris did to me. I think they deserve to know.

I find them in the living room. Angie is sleeping on brads lap. I sit down on the other couch as brad greets me "hey, what's up?"

"I wanted to talk to you guys, but I can do it later." I say since angie is sleeping.

"Oh no, it's fine. She needs to wake up soon anyway. He gently shakes her. "Ange, wake up."

She slowly opens her eyes. "Babe, 5 more minutes"

"Shiloh wants to talk to us"

"Is everything alright?" She asks while sitting up.

"Yeah, I just have been thinking.. I think I'm going to start calling you mom and dad"

"Honey, you don't have to.." angie says

I cut her off "I know, but it feels right. I tried to think of reasons why I shouldn't and I could not come up with a single one. It's just that I feel like you deserve to know everything that Chris did to me and I'm finally ready to talk about it."

They look at each other before looking back at me and brad says: "okay, but only if you are comfortable talking about it. Its completely up to you. "
I nod

POV angie
"Remember I told you what hazel said?" She asks

I nod my head slowly as I take brad's hand in mine. I'm afraid I already know what she's going to say.

"I'M HOME!!" We suddenly hear and moments later, pax enters the living room. He's wearing his jersey because he just had football practice.

We all look up but nobody says something. "Did I interrupt something?" He asks considering it's so quiet.

"Why don't you go take a shower" brad suggests "you smell like sweat"

"Alright" he says taking the hint and leaves.

I turn my attention back on Shiloh, to listen to what she's going to say.

"So, when Chris took me, it was really weird. I don't know how he did it but after like 2 weeks of crying, I didn't even remember you anymore. Life with Chris was all I knew from that point and to be honest, he was pretty good for me. I think at one point I even called him dad, because I thought he was my dad. It was like this until I was 12 years old. He raped me on my 12th birthday and that's when it got bad. The once a week, became almost every day and that's why I eventually tried to escape. It was all I ever knew, but at that moment it seemed off and I eventually ended up in the hospital."

I'm in shock. I have no idea what to say. Tears are welling up in my eyes, but I quickly wipe them away. I sit down on the other couch next to my daughter and wrap my arms around her. "I'm so sorry"

"It's okay. It's not your fault. I'm okay with it now. What happened in the past can't be undone, but I've grown to live with it."

I look at brad who is just sitting there in silence. I can see he's having a hard time.  "Excuse me" He says standing up and he leaves.

"You should go after him" Shiloh says

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah. He needs it more than I do. Seriously mom, I'm fine"

She called me mom. It's like music to my ears, but it's not the right moment to comment on it.  "Alright" I smile kissing her hair and I leave.

I look for brad, but he's not in our bedroom or his office. I think about it and decide to take a look in the gym. He sometime likes to do some boxing when he's upset.

I enter the room and see him hitting the punching bag.

"Brad, are you okay?" I ask

He stops and looks at me. He has been crying. "I swear to god, if I ever see that bastard, I will beat the shit out of him."

"Babe, calm down" I say after he punches the punching bag again, making the ceiling rumble

"He raped her ange" he cries while resting his head against the the punching bag.  I hug him and he cries on my shoulder.

After a while, the door opens. "Jamie is here" pax says who looks confused.

"Tell him we'll be ready in 10 minutes" I say and brad let's go of me.

"Aight, are you guys okay?"

"Yeah" brad says while wiping his tears. He walks over to pax and hugs him tightly "I love you so much bud"

"I love you too dad" he says looking a little surprised.

Then brad leaves the room. Pax looks at me. "What's up with him?"

"He's devastated about what Shi told us"

"What did she say?"

"That's not my story to tell. She'll tell you when she's ready"

"Alright" he nods.

I mentally thank him for not asking further. We both leave the gym and I go up to our room to change for the dinner.

*
POV Shiloh
That night I'm in bed about to go sleep. The dinner was nice, but kind of awkward since Hazel was there too. Especially the moment she walked in because apparently everyone forgot to give me a heads up.

I ignored her all night and it was fine. I had fun with pax and hazels twin brother Finn. After dinner when everyone went home, mom and dad announced that we are going to Greece the week before Christmas and I'm so excited!!