Alexander James Arlington...two months later....
Everleigh sits with me at a long table across from Lyle Pruitt our lawyer, two from his team, and three agents from the FBI. They've been assuring us that he'd go away, for a long time. But not soon enough. The hardest part was waiting, and pretending not to hate my father anytime I was around him. The hardest part was knowing they were taking time to build a fucking case, a huge one. Not just against my father, but others invovled. The fucked up part, was finding out that they were already watching him. Several videos had be traced back to our home. The scariest part? Was they assumed I was also involved somehow. I've been questioned over a dozen times regarding an involvement. I don't blame them really, it's a little hard to believe a grown fucking young man doesnt notice his father is a fucking rapist and pervert and has over two decades of videos and pictures to prove it.
They let us know that within a month, they'll be serving the search warrant, seizing his computers and laptops, along with his cell phone. They've already been tapping his landline and cell phone. But they think it's all done on a lap top or computer. There havent been any suspicious calls coming in or going out, there havent been any texts going out or coming in other than the everyday things that dont raise any flags.
We're there for four hours, talking with them, listening to instructions from the FBI. Keep my contact with him limited. To notify them immediately if Everleigh gets paid anymore visit by him. I wasnt to fucking happy she failed to mention his stalking to me. I'd learned about only a fucking month ago when our lawyers and the fbi sat us down and told us to tell them everything and anything we had on Grady. I'd argued with her in the car for an hour over it after we left. Sitting in the parking garage as we argued over the fact she should have told me the day I showed up with the fucking flash drive telling her I knew about what he'd done.
"We'll need to talk with your mother." The older agent looks at Everleigh and she closes her eyes. She knew eventually they'd have to. She just nods.
"Do you want to bring her in? Or would you like us to come to the apartment?" Asks the female agent. Everliegh shakes her head.
"I...I'll talk to her tonight...when should I bring her in?" she asks.
"Tomorrow...ten am work ?" The female agent asks and Everleigh nods and takes a deep breath.
"Okay, yeah. Thats...that's fine." Everleigh nods.
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After we leave the office, Everleigh is quiet. and I know its because the stress is too much, and now it's even more after knowing she has to break this all to her mother tonight.
"Nova?" I ask gently, placing my hand on knee as she sits in the passenger seat, wearing a hoodie, and jeans, looking out the window as I sit in the parking garage with her. The car still off.
"I cant do it. What do I say to her?" She says, barely audible.
"I have to tell her everything." she says. "I have to tell my mother I've been lying to her...about you...about Grady showing up at my work....that i've been keep all these secrets from her.." She says as she starts to cry.
"Nova. She's going to understand. You know that right?" I ask she looks at me.
My heart breaks as I look at her, her eyes are so fucking sad, so tired, so terrified.
"i've...just got a bad feeling...something bad is going to happen." she says and I shake my head.
"It's scary alright, I'm scared too...this is....fucked up...all of it....but nothing bad is going to happen to you...to your mother...i won't let anything happen to you Nova, not ever again, alright?" she says and nods at the promise even though we both know i'm not fucking superman. That bads things can happen to people you love all the fucking time, our past proving it.
I stop and get us fast food, bringing it with us to the apartment while her mother is still at work. In the two months we've been back in each others lives, Everliegh still hasnt told her mother that were talking again. So she does have a lot to tell her.
Everleigh barely eats as she pushes her half eaten hamburger towards me.
"You can have the rest." she says and then lays back on her bed where we're sitting. I feel guilty for the way my stomach doesnt care about stress. Im always fucking hungry. But I wrap up her hamburger, and the last few bites of mine and shove them in the bag and set it on the night stand.
I lay down behind her.
"Hey, come here" I say and she turns onto her back and then rolls to her other side to face me and I reach out and pull her closer until she's tucked against me. All cupcakes and cream as Inhale her and close my eyes.
"It'll be over soon, okay?" I whisper as I stroke her hair and she nods.
"Yeah, okay" she says and I know I suck at making her feel better about all of this, because how do you make someone feel better at all about what she's going through? I hadnt wanted to know what he'd done, or what was on the video of her. But a few days after she made me promise to make him pay. I asked her to tell me. I didnt want to see it. Then shed told me how she knew what was on that video , even if she couldnt actually remember the night itself. She didnt give many details, just what he'd done. undressed her, touched her. Raped her anally and orally. For hours. Fucking. Hours. All while I'd been sleeping upstairs. Not having a fucking clue that my father was preying on the girl I loved.
It fucks me up everyday, thinking about how if I had just felt her get out of bed, I could have pulled her back in, kept her body with me, kept her safe. I don't bother to tell her all the ways I could have saved her that night. Because what if's didnt do either of us any good now. I dont tell her how it eats me alive every fucking day thinking about it, that I'd been in the fucking house, while it was happening. That I shouldve sensed something wrong, woken up. I felt guilty for what happened to her. If Id never kissed her in the first place, shed had never been in my bedroom that night or any other night. But I dont tell her any of this, because it doesnt matter how fucked up I am over all that I've figured out and learned about that night or the things my father has done. Not when Everliegh and her mother are the ones that deserve to be fucking spiraling. Yet, she's not. She's stressed the fuck out, but she's so fucking put together and I know their therapy helped, but how the fuck she's capable of carrying on, dealing with his fucking stalking on her own. Dealing with what I fucking did to her on top of it, even if she was less concerned with my actions than she originally had been.
I dont bother asking her if she forgives me. I focus on doing what I promised. What matters, and putting my fucking father behind bars.
"it's hot in here" she sighs and then pushes away and sits up and pulls of her hoodie. A long white sleeve t shirt undenearth as she tosses the hoodie and lays back down on her back. I feel guilty everytime I fucking looking at her. Knowing what she looks like, and only because I treated her like a whore that night at the party. Ripped her panties from her and then the blanket when she refused to tell me what she was talking about. God, I fucking hated myself. I didnt deserve to ever lay eyes on her again.
She stares up at the ceiling. She doesnt come back to my arms, so I lay on my back with her, staring at the ceiling, dropping my hands down, palm up. She doesnt look down, but her hand slides over mine and her fingers slip through mine and she squeezes.
"Blue." she says.
"hmm?" I ask, turning my head.
"You asked me that night....what color house I wanted." she says and I feel a rock form in my fucking throat.
"Blue." she says. "I want a blue house."
"Okay." I say quietly. My eyes watering as she makes plans for the future again.
I squeeze her hand tighter.
"What shade of blue?" I ask and she turns her head, I turn mine and she looks in my eyes.
"Alexander Blue." she says as she lifts her hands to my face, her thumb gently running over my cheekbone. "This blue." she says and I realize she means my eyes.
I nod. "Okay."
She smiles softly.
"Promise me." she whispers.
"I promise." I say , tears slipping down the side of my face as I take her hand kiss her palm and then place it back on my face.
"Keep it." she whispers.
"I will." I say quietly and she looks at me, my mouth, then my eyes and sighs.
"I love you." she whispers like she used to and I close my eyes, exhaling as I try not to fucking fall apart, thinking I'd never hear those words ever again from her.
"say it again." I request quietly.
"I love you Alexander." she whispers.
"I'll always love you." she whispers even more softly. And with my eyes closed it's like im seventeen again, with Everleigh in my bed, kissing me, making promises to me at only fifteen years old, that she'd keep without every breaking a single one.
"Do you still want to kiss me?" she whispers and my eyes fly open, and she smiles softly.
"I always want to kiss you." I say and she moves slowly and pushes up and I suck in a breath as she lifts her leg over me and slips ontop of me and sits up.
"just checking" she says and I exhale and close my eyes.
"Nova." I groan and she gives a small little laugh, and I open my eyes to look at her.
"do you want to touch me?" she asks as she slides her hands over my chest and into the pillows by head as she slips upward and hovers. Her ponytail spilling down over one side of her head.
"yes Nova. I want to touch you." I answer her.
"Put your hands on my hips." she whispers. My hands go right fucking to where she commands me to put them.
"unbutton my jeans" she whispers.
"fuck" I exhale and she bites her lip, my eyes on her fucking face, as she looks at me, my hands moving to the button, and I undo it.
"do you want to take my pants off me?" she asks. and I groan.
"yes" I growl.
"lay me down and pull them off me Alexander." she says and I curse, my cock so fucking hard from the second she asked me if I wanted to fucking kiss her.
She was playing with me, teasing me, and I knew it, but I didnt care.
"Are you sure?" I ask as I turn, and lay her on her back. Making sure this isnt just some vulnerable response to all the stress she's under.
"Take my pants off my body Alexander. I'm sure." she says and I curse as I unzip her jeans and grab the waist and pull them down, her panties are black and slipping down slightly as I pull at her jeans, her ass lifts as I drag them down her legs, her legs parting once they're off and I kneel there, looking down at her, her panties hugging her her pussy lip, the one side of them askew onher hip. I reach my finger under it, lifting it back up, putting it in place.
"Do you still want to taste me?" she asks and I nod.
"Here?" she asks, her hands sliding over her stomach and her fingers skimming the top of her panties.
I nod again.
"make it nice.....and soft....don't be mean to me" she says I wince, reminded of how I'd touched her the party.
I shake my head. "Never again. I promise." I say and she nods.
"i want you taste to my pussy Alexander." she breathes and I groan.
"what about your mouth?" I groan, wanting that more than fucking anything else right now.
She shakes her head. "when he pays...you get my mouth....but you can have this if you want it.....you can taste it if you're nice to it." she says sliding her fingers into her panties.
"take my panties off slow...like you shouldve....show me how you strip down the girl that loves you ..." she says and I groan, nodding as I lean down, my mouth going to her panties, kissing her hips, one at a time, taking my time and she breathes faster, my hands on the bed as I drag my tongue along the top of her panties and then move one hand to her hip, tugging them down just inch, to kiss the skin that had been beneath him. She writhes slightly and I look up at me, as she watches me.
"take them off me...taste me" she breathes.
"you told me to show you how i shouldve done it....this is how i shouldve done it.....taken my time.....the first time i took your panties off you...shouldve been just like this.....with you dying for me to take them off you Nova." I say as skim my fingertip down her hip and down her thigh, and kiss over to her other hip and bite it gently and she moans.
" god, i fucking love you baby" I whisper on her hip, then lift my hand to drag this side of her panties down just a little and kiss and bite the new skin. She whimpers as she writhes and he hand slips into my hair.
"god, take them off" she whines and I grin slightly as her head pushes back and she pants and her hips roll and my mouth skirt over her panties and kisses them, right above her pussy and she moans.
"Yeah" she exhales. "yes" she repeats as I kiss lower, right where the line forms inher panties, showing me where her pussy starts to split and I kiss right above it. Then down, over her lips, against her panties and she gasps, her legs spreading wider.
"oh...god..yeah" she whimpers grabs my hair with both hands and I darg my tongue over panties and her hips jerk as she squeaks slightly and her legs shake.
"shit...oh god" she pants as I keep licking her panties, making her moan.
My mouth travels up, back to her pelvis and she whines.
"no. dont stop" she whines.
"shhhh." I whisper. "theres no rush"
"Alexander....please" she whines.
"shhhh" I whisper against her skin.
"im taking my time with you Nova...the way I always did....there was never a rush to have you then....theres not one now....let me take my time with you..."
"I cant...I need you to keep going, to take them off and taste me"
"shhhh"I whisper and she whimpers.
"he's....he's the only one that's ever done it.....and I....i dont...r-remember.....i saw it but i dont remember it...and i need you to do it...i want you to be the first one to taste me that I can remember..y-you shouldve been the only one" she cries. Actually fucking cries.
"fuck" I exhale, shooting up, and taking her face in my hand.
"shh, hey, hey , Nova" I whisper and she closes her eyes and shakes her head as she cries, tears falling down the corners of her eyes and into her hair.
"baby, hey, shhhh" I say and kiss her cheek. "Nova, hey" I say, trying to get her stop crying as she just sobs.
"kiss me" she cries. "just kiss me"
I wince, and exhale. Debating it. Wondering if I should or shouldnt. Would it help? Would it really help at all?
"Look at me." I say. Her eyes open and I press my forehead to hers.
"I made you a promise....when he pays....okay?....not a second sooner.....so if you want me to kiss you...you need to look me in the eyes and tell me it's because you really want it....i'll give you whatever you need Nova, you just gotta take a deep breath and tell me if it's what you really want....because im only breaking that promise if you specifically tell me to." I tell her and she nods.
"I want it. I want you to kiss me. I want it. I wanted it the day you came here to apologize, and every day since. I miss you, I fucking miss you, and you're here, you've been here and I still dont have you...i need you to kiss me..i love you, kiss me, kiss me" she pleads.
"kiss me like you used to, kiss me like were in our beds , before everything was so fucked" she cries.
I exhale.
"nova" I whisper.
"fucking kiss me Alexander" she cries and pulls my mouth to hers.