Hi guys, sorry I uploaded this chapter 2 times. So if you read this chapter already then please go back and read the other chapter. I uploaded the wrong chapter so I had to fix it. Sorry again.

Oswaldo P.O.V

“What!”

Both Melody and I say in union. This can’t be true, I refuse to believe it. I look down at Melody and she’s looking back at me. Together we both look at our entangled hands and she pulls away from me, stepping back shaking her head.

“Mama, daddy tell me this ain’t true. Why should I believe you, maybe you’re making all this up just to break us up. Please, please say it ain’t true, please.”

She crying now and just like her I don’t want to believe it. I want to comfort her but I can’t move. I look at her and all the memories come rushing back, I can see it in her eyes that she’s thinking about the same thing. Just this morning she was in my bed moaning as I made love to her. No! I refuse to believe it, and even if it’s true I don’t care. I love her too much to just walk away and let her go.

Her father started talking. “I’m so sorry sweetheart, but it’s true. He is your cousin.”

“Stop saying that!” She yells “How could you do this to me!? I-I love him, I s-slept with him!”

Her mother starts crying harder when she heard that last part. Watching Melody cry is breaking my heart. I love this girl, now they’re telling me that our love is forbidden. I know I will never love another girl the way I love her. She is mine. I feel it in my soul. My love for her runs very deep and I don’t think I’m willing to give that up. Not now not ever.

“I don’t even know you, how can I be sure you’re speaking the truth.”

I’m facing her father, my ‘uncle’ as he calls himself. I’ve heard the story about my grandparents’ oldest son, running off to marry a woman that wasn’t approved of by them. I never really asked about it because it was before my time. Now their mistake is coming back to haunt me.

“I won’t lie to you son.”

He looks over at Melody and I see the sadness in his eyes.

“I would never put my daughter through this. I might not have been a good father to her, but I love her and hurting her is the last thing I would ever do.”

I see the truth in his eyes, but I still don’t wanna believe it. Melody is sitting on the sofa curled up into herself. Everything in me is telling me to go to her, but I’m afraid she’s gonna push me away. I’m staring at her, my eyes blurred from my tears. I know they say men don’t cry, but this is a moment that warrants crying. Her father is saying something but I’m not listening, I’m looking at the love of my life fall to pieces.

“These are pictures I have of my family when we were younger.”

I turn to see Melody’s father holding an old album. I took it and look at the first page. A picture of my grandparents standing with two boys was in the front. I turn more pages and find more pictures. I dropped the album stepping back. This means nothing.

“I…”

“No! Stay away from me!”

I turn to see Melody backing away from her mother. She is shaking violently. I don’t care what anyone have to say, I know she needs me. I rush over to her, wrap my arms around her and hold her close. I have no words of comfort to give to her and I think she knows it too. I hold her and she cry’s into my shirt.

“I don’t care.”

Melody raise her head looking at me.

“I don’t care.” She said again.

Her parents looks horrified. “What! Baby you can’t…”

“I said, I. DON’T. CARE!!” She yells, cutting her mother off.

“I just can’t stop loving him, mama. Why should I have to? You say this is wrong, but I don’t believe it is. I can’t walk away now even if I wanted to.”

She turns and looks up at me. Her eyes are pleading.

“Take me away from here please, Richie.”

“Where do you wanna go?” I asks.

She entangles our hands, resting her head on my chest.

“I don’t care as long as it’s away from here.”

I nod and turn to leave. However, her father stops me. I turn back to face him, with my mind made up. If he is going to ask me to do the right thing and let her go, he is in for a surprise because just like Melody, I don’t care.

“Think about this son, you have to know that this is wrong. You two can’t possibly be together. She is your blood.”

Right at this minute, I could give a damn. She’s not my sister and that’s all that matters. I’m not letting another issue come between us again. I’ve had it with everything and everyone who has tried to break us up. Somehow I know that we are meant to be together and deep in my heart something doesn’t feel right about this situation. I don’t for one minute believe her to be my cousin of any sort.

I’m not willing to sacrifices the only good thing in my life, because my family messed up somewhere along the line.  It’s there problem let them deal with it, my only concern is to make a life with the girl I love. Whether they like it or not.

From the look on Melody’s father face I can see that he sees the conviction on my face.

“I have thought about it, and I’ve come to the conclusion that just like Melody I don’t care. I love your daughter, how do you expect me to just turn off that love. You’re telling me this should feel wrong, but it doesn’t. It feels right, very right. I don’t think I will be able to stay away from her even if I wanted to. She’s my world and one day she will be my wife and I could care less what anyone have to say about our union.”

Turning I pack up Melody’s fallen bag pack and head for the door. I can hear her mother crying frantically behind me.

“Melody baby, it ain’t too late. Please baby we can work this out. You can go stay with yo aunt and put all of this behind you.”

Her mother makes a last attempt to change her mind.

She turns to face her mother. “It’s already too late, mama because I think I’m pregnant.”