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Shortcut: SunsetBlessing

Fourteen days weren't a long span of time. Four weeks seemed more distant, but it was quite fascinating how in such a short time things could mutate in your life.

I was alone, confined in a room my brother tried desperately to force me out of. I felt overwhelmed. Sometimes I felt like a parasite abusing my brother's love and understanding because of my situation, yet I preferred the loneliness of this room to many things.

"El, open this door please" he begged with an assiduous voice, he rarely gave up, especially if it involved me, every day he would knock at my door until I opened it to him and he made sure I was actually doing okay.

He never raised his tone at me, he was the patient older brother that loved his little sister.

I took a deep breath, pushed myself up, and went opening the door. When I appeared to view, his eyes drifted on my figure, I wasn't exactly unclean, I had showered a handful of times in the past two weeks and I wasn't smelling but I kept wearing the same clothes and I was barely eating any food, my hair wasn't taken care off and I looked tried.

My body still hurt and my thoughts became worse, I kept staring at the bruises on my body that were yet to disappear when I couldn't sleep, and sometimes I would burst out crying for no apparent reason. Having Andrew finally out of my life wasn't as easy as I thought it would be, he almost killed me, he had been capable of leaving marks on my mind that were never going to disappear, and the slight element that reminded me of what he had done to me made terror take control over me.

"El..." My brother said, he looked like he was about to say something that would upset me.

"Ezekiel"

"El mom and dad are here, they want to see you, they aren't going away this time"

I hadn't yet met my mother and father. I tried to avoid them as much as possible because I didn't want them to see me in those conditions but it's been so long since I've hugged them and looked them in the eyes, I couldn't keep hiding from them forever.

Looking down at my feet I nodded slowly, I hated his pity, and mom and dad would've just made it worse but I loved them, and pushing them away wouldn't benefit any of us.

"uhh...yes, I'm coming" I muttered distractedly, he nodded and left my room as I began to change clothes. I didn't care for my hair nor for anything else. I didn't have the motivation to make myself look more than decent. I just put clean clothes on and made sure my odor was good. I exited from the room and directed myself to the living room.

"Mom, Dad" I whispered, my voice was trembling, a worried expression appeared on my mom's face when she saw me, and my dad instantly got up from the sofa and walked in my direction.

"Dear," he said with a dreadful tone, he took my face between his hands and looked at my wounds.

"How are you, Dad?" I tried to force a smile but I knew it was pointless. He always saw through it.

Lying to him when he wasn't searching for the truth in my eyes was so much easier.

"We should've never let you be with that Andy guy in the first place, why didn't you tell us?"

"It's Andrew dad,"

"I couldn't care less"

"Why didn't you tell us El?"

"I thought I loved him and I thought...I thought, that maybe he would become again the man I was so madly in love with, I was afraid you wouldn't believe me and-" I heard my mother sniffle and it broke my heart.

"Elide we would never have believed him over our daughter, you are our baby and we love you more than anything else, we liked him because we thought he made you happy when you talked about him your eyes used to shine and your smile was so bright and as a father, I couldn't wish anything but to see his child happy and safe."

"It's been more than a year since we had the chance to properly talk to you, to hug you, we missed you," Ezekiel said.

"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry" I said, Dad wrapped his strong arms around me and I rested my head on his chest, I couldn't stop the tears from wetting his polo shirt but I didn't care, Dad was crying too and he held me tight while I did the same.

"Elide, please come here," Mom said getting up, I unwrapped myself from my dad's embrace and walked in mom's direction.

"Yes?

"From now on I want you to never hide anything from us. For how worrying or worthless it is, I want to hear the truth, your private life is yours. I'm not asking to know what you do but your safety is also ours. We deserve to know if someone is hurting you, what if he'd have killed you? Please Elide, never hide things like this from us again." she was wiping my tears away and trying to hold hers.

"I'm sorry, mom, so sorry"

"Stop apologizing, I'm so happy you are here"

"Andrew and his family are going to pay for this" I loved my brother but he sometimes went too far, I remember when I was still at high school I came home from a party crying, I refused to tell my mother and dad what happened too busy pitying myself so they called my brother that lived hours away, yet he showed up regardless and demanded to know who made me cry, when I told him I was crying because the same guy he never approved me being with in the first place had cheated on me things didn't go exactly amazingly, let's just say the poor guy wasn't able to walk for three months and no one knew what happened to him outside of my brother.

I refused to talk to him for months after that, he knew how much I hated him using violence but had no issues using it when it came to me.

"Ezekiel, he's already going to prison. What do you want to do?"

"Elide we both know that that isn't enough, what when he goes out of prison? I know you well I would never let your fear for him ruin your life"

"With that crazy mom that helped him only the universe knows how his father is"

Rage bubbled inside me at his assumption. Yes, maybe it was also my fault, I hadn't mentioned Damien to him but he couldn't ruin his life over opinions he made in his mind?

"Hear me out Eze, You will not do anything to his father, if he wasn't for him I would be dead okay? leave him out of it." I said with a warning tone I never used unless I wanted him to actually listen to what I had to say.

"How could you be so naive? Do you really trust his family after everything?" his ability to keep his tone steady even in arguments scared me sometimes.

"I know him, he was the one that helped me out of it. you don't know anything!" I ignored my parents' perplexed expression. My eyes were fixed on my brother who was slowly shaking his head.

"You knew Andrew too right?" he questioned with a mocking expression that infuriated me even more.

"It's different-"

"How is it different? he's his father."

"So just because he's his father he has to support his crazy son? Do you think dad would support you if you did something like that to your wife?"

"I would disowner you son, You know well what I think of men like that" Dad said taking my side, Ezekiel glared at him not saying anything.

"Well even if that's true he's still his father"

"As if that would change that he saved me, stop trying to find some reasons to beat him up, leave him alone, Eze he has nothing to do with this!"

"Enough you two! Ezekiel you won't be doing anything, listen to your sister, do you want to ruin your image? let it go. Elide we are coming tomorrow and I'm cooking your favorite cake, we will talk tomorrow okay?" My dad spoke and then placed a kiss on my cheek and hugged my brother, mom hugged and kissed both of us and they went out of the living room, opened the front door and exited from there.

"Elide, why did you get so defensive when we were talking about him?" He asked, still looking at the door our parents closed just a few minutes earlier.

"Damien he's a good man"

"Did you spend much time with him?" he asked with a casual tone, but there wasn't anything casual about it, I knew where this conversation was going.

"I lived in his house for the summer so yeah I guess."

"Elide was he fucking you?" Although I knew he would eventually ask something in the lines, his words were still unexpectedly harsh.

"What?

"You heard me well"

"Eze I-

"Don't lie to me El, what was your relationship with him? Did you fuck him"

"It's not what you think I-"

"You what Elide? you fucked your ex-boyfriend's father?"

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