"I'm not taking you home!" He insisted. I kind of wanted to go home. I had to face my mom sooner or later, so I wanted to get it over with.

"Then let me out." He was driving, more like speeding, down the highway. Of course he wouldn't leave me here.

"Y/n. I don't want to see you bawling your eyes out again." My face grew red with embarrassment. "That hurt me."

"Johnny..." I felt sad again. "I won't. It will be different. She knows what you're like now."

"No it won't!" He yelled.

"She's my mom!" I said back. He was making me angry. "Please John."

"No way in Hell." I looked at him. He was starring dead ahead, his jaw clenched.

"John please." I begged. "I need to."

"You can do it later, but for tonight, you're staying with me." I rolled my eyes. He was so stubborn. "Why don't you want to stay with me?"

"I do!" I reassured him. "It's just that I need to talk to my mom."

"Well, too bad then." He said. He makes me so angry sometimes.

I didn't say anything. I just turned my head, and stared out the window. I felt like crying, but I don't want to cry anymore.

I heard him sigh. "Let's make a compromise then." I felt him glance over at me, but I didn't move. I felt a hand slowly grasp mine, I didn't fight it. "You can talk to your mum, if you stay the night at my place."

Again I didn't say anything, but I did nod. He really wants me to be with him. A smile formed on his face.

"Just promise to be careful." He added.

"Okay Johnny." I looked at him, he was looking at the road again. He was so handsome. His teddy boy hair, and the way he smiled, and his beautiful eyes. Everything about this boy was perfect. "But you sometimes get on my nerves, y'know?" I rubbed my thumb against his hand.

"I could say the same about you." He said back, he smiled proudly. "It's a shame that I'm in love with you."

"How's it a shame?" He was obviously joking, but I played along. This is how he likes to cheer me up. He's really cute that way.

He answered me with a laugh. "I love you." He whispered.

"I love you too."

He took me back to my mom's house. I opened the door and Lenny jumped straight into the car, and went over to Lennon.

"Lenny!" I laughed as I picked him. "Its rude to barge in like that." I laughed and kissed him on the top the head. He gave me a little meow.

"That's alright." John leaned over and pet my cat. "You're a cute one, and so are you Lenny."

"Wow. That was cheesy." I laughed, as I set the cat down outside of the car.

"I wish you weren't so stubborn." He frowned.

"John..." I held his hand. "I need to do this. I need to talk to her." I squeezed his hand.

"I know. I just hate seeing you so sad." His eyes looked glossy. "I love you y/n."

"I love you too." I kissed him on the forehead. "Don't worry so much."

"I'll pick you up around...eight?" He asked.

"Sounds good." He gave a little smile, than frowned again. "John. Please don't worry about me. I'll be fine."

"Yeh promise?" He asked. He look so sad.

"I swear on my life." I kissed him again, but this time on the lips. "I love you."

"I love you too." He said back. I waved bye to him as he drove away.

I walked into my house, Lenny at my heels. Lenny seemed to really like John.

I saw my mom in the living room with that man. She had her head in her hands, and that guy was comforting her.

"Mom." I mumbled and she looked up at me.

"How dare you come back to this house!" She yelled.

"Mom, all I wanted to do was talk." I explained. "Why can't we just have a normal conversation?"

"I told you not to hang around that boy! And he had his arms all around you!"

"I know mom but you were convinced that he was a bad person." I sat down across from the two. "He's not a bad person mom."

"What's on your neck?" She stood up, and moved my hand away from my neck. "He gave you hickeys!" She gasped. "Did you-"

"No! We didn't mom!"  I felt my face go red from embarrassment. "Who's that?" I pointed to the guy next to her.

"My boyfriend, Jerry." She said.

"I bet he's a jerk. I bet he drinks and drives, and he likes to beat people up." I glared at the man.

"Y/n M/n L/n! How dare you!" She yelled again.

"What? That's what you said about John!" I said back. Her face drained of color. I got her there.

"Y/n." She started to say.

"Mom, you judge people too fast." I told her.

"Respect your mother!" The guy said to me.

"I'm sorry but I don't respect people who don't respect others." I told the creep.

"John took my daughter"

"No mom, he made me stronger. He made me realize I can stick up for myself. He made me see that I know who people really are."

She looked at me with pure pain, but also something else. I couldn't tell what it was.

I sighed. "Mom, I just want peace and it's hard when you act like this. It hurts me. It hurts me a lot. I miss when Dad was alive, you were different. Is this your way of mourning?" I started to cry. "I just want my mom back. I miss her."

"Go to your room." She said. That's all she said.

I did as she said. She really hurt me, very badly. I cried and cried and cried. I miss my dad and my mom.

I hadn't heard the knock on the door, but I heard my mom start to yell again. I wiped my tears, and leaned my head against the door to listen.

"You stay away from my daughter!" Shit, John was here. I ran down the stairs and my mom had the poor boy backed into a corner. He frowned when he saw me.

"Mom please!" I pulled her away, and she glared at me.

"You are never aloud to hang out with this boy!" She yelled at me now.

"Nothing will change if I stop!" I cried.

"We're moving to Jerry's." My mom said flatly. "That means a different school, and new friends. A new father too." When she said new father I got furious.

"No one can replace my dad!" I yelled back. "Absolutely no one!"

"If you run out with this boy, than that's exactly what will happen." She said.

"Not if I never come back." I walked out the door, and John followed behind me. I collapsed in his arms, crying. "I'm sorry John."

"Don't be sorry." He opened the car door for me, and sat me in it. "None of this is your fault." He kissed my forehead, then went around to his side.

"You're so good to me." I said quietly. "Thank you."

"I love you y/n and nothing can change that." He held my hand and drove to his house. "You're perfect."

I smiled. "I love you too, Lennon." He squeezed my hand.