Chapter 11

Isa couldn’t believe her eyes, this guy was hot, and he was pinning her best friend against a tree. ‘This can’t be right,’ she thought to her self. The air around them seemed to be sparkling and glowing. His hair seemed to grow from short to, a past the shoulder length. Marie’s hair seemed to be a bit brighter, and shorter. He caressed her face, and whispered into her ear, and she laughed. She locked her arms around his neck. He slid his hands down her back and gripped her butt, as she lifted one of her leg and wrapped it around him. She tilted her head up, and he bent down, they were going to kiss and just before their lips made contact Isa screamed out “NO!!!” she shook her head to get the vision out of her head.

When she snapped back to reality, Marie and the mysterious guy were looking at her, “Isa you ok?” Marie asked. Marie had totally forgotten that she was being pinned to the soda machine.

“Yeah I’m ok,” she said, “I’ll tell you about it later.”

“Ok,” Marie said, turning her attention back the guy that was pinning her to the machine. “Can you get off me, please?”

“Yeah, sorry,” he said, “I just wanted to scare you a little bit, I wanted to make sure you didn’t forget me.”

“Now why would I go and do something like that,” she said, “it’s not like you would let me forget you even if I could.”

“Too true,” he said turning to Isa, “you must be Isa, and Marie talks about you all the time; but she forgot to mention how adorable you were.”

“Dave, you know that I don’t pay attention to that kind of thing,” Marie said, “Unless it’s a guy.”
“Ah, you got me there,” he said, “again.”

“Here let me introduce you properly,” Marie said, “Isa this is my cousin Dave. Dave this is my sister Isa.”

“That’s so cool,” Isa said, “I still can’t believe that were kind of sisters now.”

“What do you mean?” Dave asked.
“Her mother is now my legal guardian, her moms in your father’s office now signing papers and stuff,” Marie said.

“Oh, I didn’t know,” Dave said, “dad doesn’t tell me anything that goes on with the family anymore, he still thinks of me as a little kid.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Marie said, “things will get better, and you just have to believe that they will. You have to keep trying to talk to him, other wise your relationship won’t get anywhere.”

“I’ll remember that,” Dave said giving Marie a hug and a kiss on the cheek. “Hope fully the next time I see you it won’t be in the police station.”

“Well, I can’t guarantee that,” Marie said, “you know your little prank wouldn’t have worked today unless I had someone with me.”

“well Michael told me that he was going to pick you up,” Dave said, “so I figured that someone would come with you since you were staying at a friends house; so it did work.”

“Ha-ha, I guess it did,” Marie said.

“See ya,” Dave said, “Isa it was nice meeting you. Later.” He started walking in the direction in which he was headed; to his father’s office. To Marie he seemed a little down, and he only got like that when trouble was brewing. Something was up, Marie couldn’t put her finger on it, but there was definitely something going on.

After Marie and Isa acquired the sodas from the machine they walked back to her uncle’s office, and Isa’s mom was standing outside of his office, she was talking to Paul. Dave and Michael were currently inside talking to her uncle, and it didn’t sound pretty.

“WHAT THE HELL!!” she heard Dave shout, “So it’s my fault now?”

“I didn’t say that, but if you would treat her more like family, there wouldn’t be this damned rumor floating around.”

“And what rumor would that be?” Dave asked, “And since when have you cared?”

“You know that her father probably has a reason for why he got caught,” Michael said, “and it’s not because he got careless.”

“Then why?” Dave asked.

“It’s all about how much pain he can cause the person he’s trying to torment.” Her uncle said, “You are not helping her by pulling that stunt you pulled today,”
“So what, I just wanted to startle her friend is all,” Dave said, “I don’t get what the problem is, Marie thought it was funny.”

Marie couldn’t believe what she was hearing; they were having an argument because of something so childish. What she really wanted to do was to walk right into that office and smack them all for having such a childish conversation. As if any of them really cared about her well being. They were just using her to catch her father and his minions; not that it was a bad thing. But what really pissed her off was that she was bait, and the line wasn’t being watched.

She knocked on the door to his office, he motioned for her to come in, “what is it?” he asked.

“Do you need anything else from me before we go?” she asked.
“Actually tell me something,” her uncle said, “what is going on between you and Dave?”

“there isn’t anything going on between Dave and I,” she said, “were family, and that’s it, there isn’t anything else, he’s more like a big brother to me than mine ever was.”
“You’re sure that’s it?” her uncle asked.
“Yes,” she said, “you should know by now that I’m not the kind of person who would lie to you; but then again you didn’t believe until the other day that I wasn’t telling you a bunch of lies.” She picked up her purse and opened the door, and walked out; before any of them could muster up the courage to call out to her she was gone, out and around the corner. Isa and Paul followed her, they promised to never leave her alone again.

“Damn it,” her uncle said.

“What did she mean when she said, that up till a couple days ago you didn’t believe her?” Dave asked.

“That girl would call in once or twice a week and say that her father was doing awful things to her, but I thought that she was just trying to get attention. Her father assured me that she was just telling lies to get me to hate him; and her mother said that she would tell lies all the time just to get her way. It seems that I was mistaken, because when they found her along the street that one day, her back and her arms were bruised to kingdom come, and the marks that did it was a belt. And what hurt the most was that her father was seen leaving the crime scene.” Her uncle said.

“How long has she been accusing people of these crimes?” Michael asked.
“Since middle school,” her uncle said, “when I would see her she was always wearing long sleeved turtleneck shirts so you could never see any of the markings. I should have known something was up when all she wore were turtle necks, and then she stopped using her first name. “

“Damn it,” Michael said, “I knew something was up when she said she wasn’t going by Lilly any more. She asked me to call her Marie; I just didn’t expect it to be something related to this.”

“well hopefully now that she’s not in the hands of my brother and law anymore her wounds will get the chance to heal, and she will get the chance to see how pretty she actually is.” her uncle said, “maybe that will help with her self esteem issues. I also think that her friend Paul is also good for her, maybe he can help her come out of that shell of hers.”

“Well, only time will tell,” Michael said.

Dave was sitting there in the chair, he heard what they were talking about; but he didn’t like it. If Marie ever found out that he wasn’t really a cousin, that he was adopted; she would probably never forgive him for not telling her. Although that was possible, he was more scared of what would happen when she found out that he was working for her father. Although he did it to try and keep her from getting hurt and to stay close to her; he was still working for her father all the same. It wouldn’t matter to her what the reason was, she would hate him all the same; and that could never happen.

Later that evening, Isa, Marie and Paul were sitting in back at the picnic table. “Well, it would be worse,” Marie said, “I could have to go back to my parents place to live.”

“Well, yeah,” Isa said, “think of it this way, were sisters now.”

“Yup,” Marie said, “ok, you have to explain to me, why you were yelling at the station.”

“Um, I kind of had a vision, or I was daydreaming or something,”