friends | blake richardson

~chapter 37~

While Blake and the boys were doing a cover at our house, I ran out to the store to buy all the food we were lacking. I was in the crisps aisle when I heard a familiar voice behind me that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Why is it always at the store? Instinctively, I put a hand on my belly just in case anything happens.

"Look who it is." He says in a sickly sweet tone.

"Evan, why do you keep bothering me?" I say as I turn around, my blood boiling.

"Oh? You're pregnant?" He laughs. "Guess that's the consequence of sleeping around."

"And who cheated on who?" I say with raised eyebrows and he just rolls his eyes.

"How long did your relationship last with that last guy that threatened me? A week?" Wow, he's so pathetic.

"He's my husband now and the father of my baby." I smile and it shuts him up, but not for long.

"I've been thinking, is it too late to ask for a second chance?" He says while he tries to kiss me. His face is inches away from mine and he wouldn't listen to me when I said no about a million times. So I pushed him off hard before he can do anything.

"Go to hell," I say and walk off to quickly pay for my things. I sit in my car thinking about what just happened before I hurry home to find Blake. With my emotions getting the best of me, I walk in crying and luckily the three boys were right there in the living room. All of them stand up, worry washing over their faces.

"Baby what's wrong?" Blake walks over and embraces me in a hug. 

"E-evan showed up." I cry.

"Who's ev-" Blake cuts himself off as he realizes. "Is he your abusive ex we ran into?" I nod and I can feel him tense up.

"Did he do anything to you or the baby?" He asks and I shake my head. Whenever I see Evan I get PTSD from how much he abused me and with my raging hormones, I was a mess.

"We're gonna give you two some space. We'll see you both later." George hugs us. 

"If you need anything, just let me know, okay?" Reece hugs me and I nod. When they leave, Blake turns to me.

"What did he do?" He says softly.

"He almost kissed me. I kept telling him to stop so I pushed him off. I still can't believe he did that after I told him you were my husband."

"Are you- where is he?" Blake is getting angrier by the second. "I swear I'm going to kill him."

"Blake, don't. For one, I don't know where he went or where he lives. And two, I told him to go to hell." I titter.

"Good job, love." He chuckles.

"Blake, he- when we were together, he raped me. That's why I ended it." I finally reveal. Ever since that incident, I've blamed myself. I got to the point where I was so ashamed I didn't even want to tell my husband. It's been lurking in the back of my mind ever since and my mind will suddenly think of it which makes me want to shut down. Although I didn't want to tell my husband, it felt good telling Blake. My parents were the only ones who knew so it was like a whole weight had been lifted off my shoulders. But, of course, thinking of the memories made me cry more.

"He wHAT?" Blake yells.

"Blake I know we're both extremely pissed off but we can't do anything about it now because he's gone for who knows how long," I tell him. He stands up pacing around the living room.

"But he- you...why-" Blake stutters, not being able to form a sentence. "How could anyone treat you like that?"

I shrugged before saying, "I don't know."

"Tell me every detail about what happened at the store," Blake says and hugs me tight. As I'm explaining, his grip gets tighter and tighter.

"if you squeeze me any tighter you might crush your daughter."

"Oh right yeah." he pulls away and leads me to the couch to cuddle and watch tv. At some point in time, he lifted the back of my shirt a bit to scratch and rub my back, which eventually calmed me down and put me to sleep. when I woke up, the credits were rolling.

"Sorry I didn't watch it with you.' i rub my eyes.

"Don't be sorry, you needed it. You feeling better?" He asks and I shrug. I'm laying on my back on the couch while Blake is on his side right next to me. He smiles down at me before pressing his lips to me.

"You know I love you, right? I'd never hurt you." He mutters quietly.

"I know and I love you too." I connect our lips once more and we kiss for ten more minutes before Blake gets a call from George asking if we wanted to meet them at Nando's.

"You and Lili up for Nando's with the boys?"

"I'm always up for that and if Lili isn't then too bad," I say and blake just laughs and shakes his head in amusement. We get ourselves ready and head out.

"Hey lani you doing okay?" Reece comes up to give me a big hug when we get there.

"Kind of, still a bit shaken up," I say. 

"You know George and I are always here for you if something happens. If you ever need anything, anything at all, call or text us."

"Thank you." We walk in and guess who's here? Evan. I try to get Blake and the boys to walk out before Blake could spot him but they could tell something was off with me.

"Leilani, what's wrong?" George notices.

"Uhh nothing I just think we should go to a different restaurant," I say shakily. I think my panicky voice gave it away to Blake because he just noticed Evan. He storms off in Evan's direction and I try to stop him but I'm too slow. Next thing I know, Blake is dragging Evan out of the restaurant by his shirt. We all follow him, trying to get him to stop, but he won't listen.

"If I ever see or hear about you being around Leilani ever again, you'll regret it." Blake pushes Evan against the wall.

"Blake, stop!" I yell.

"Why would you want to treat a girl like her that way? First cheating on her many times and then raping her?" Blake exclaims and connects his fist to Evans face. In return, he gets a punch in the face as well. Okay, this has to stop. I try stopping them but before I could even take a step, George pulled me into a protective hug while Reece took care of it. Luckily he was able to get rid of Evan quickly and him and Blake came walking back at us.

"Blake, why would you ever do that?" I whisper yell at him.

"I'm sorry, I just looked at him and couldn't stop myself!"

"You're lucky we were in an alley, mate," Reece says. 

"You would've gotten arrested," George adds.

"I get it! It won't happen again as long as that bastard stays out of our lives." 

"Blake." I scold.

"Fine, it won't happen ever again."

SHITTT YOU MAKE ME HAPPY
lol sorry I've just been obsessed with sad song by the vamps and had it on repeat as I wrote this chapter lol

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~d r a m a~

I want you guys to know that although her reaction to the whole Evan raping incident might seem a tad excessive to some people, it's a very true and real reaction and I always like to put true emotions into all my books. Anyways, on June 25th it'll be the year anniversary of when I started this book on my notes app. I never did think it'd be good enough to post on Wattpad but in February I just said screw it and did it. I didn't think people would like this book bc I just wrote it for fun for me and  @marleyyyholmess. but here we are 1.3k reads later! I want to update the last chapter of this book on June 25th bc I thought it'd be cool haha😂I can't believe this story is coming to a close😭

love you all! 

-Madi xx