Chapter 51

Lizzie's P.O.V.I'm fuming. This is what I'm expecting him to do. I don't even know why I decided to fucking show up here. He likes Robbie. That's not a huge secret but finding out I've been cheated by him and still chooses to side on him just doesn't seem to make even the smallest bit of sense. I'm his daughter for god's sake.

"He kissed a girl in a club that's why I left him." I snapped and he just laughs sarcastically.

"That's it?"

"David" I hear Mom warns standing up to her feet too.

"He kissed a random girl at a club and you called it off already. May I ask you was he sober?" I wasn't thinking about Robbie anymore or what he had done in the past because he and I are long over. There's nothing there anymore and this is just fucking ridiculous. "Damn right he's not."

"That doesn't matter anymore. That was two years ago and you know nothing of what I've been through that time."

"Oh come on, he's drunk. It was a drunken kiss, did you even talk to him after you found out."

"Why would I want to fucking talk to him after that?"

"Then what did you do run off? to who? to her?" Shannon stands abruptly beside causing us to stop and turn our attention to her. My heart's beating out of my chest as I noticed something. Something, I haven't seen in two fucking years.

Dark eyes.

"Shan—"

"We're going home." She mutters emotionless and that's making me feel worse. She goes to turn around as she takes my hand. Her hands are cold, stiff and a bit shaky and I know that if any moment we're not out of here, I would completely lose her and I can't. I can't do this again with her.

I glanced at Trent who is staring at Shannon. I guess he noticed it too because he looks at me with complete horror in his eyes and as she takes a step towards the door, Dad says.

"She's staying here." I felt her stiffen her grip on my hand tightens quickly as the tension fills me. I start to panic.

"Baby" I whispered moving in front of her and touching her cheek. Her face feels hot and its not good when that happens. She looks at me and my heart stop.

She's not here.

"Trent" I called in panic. "Can you get the car ready please."

"Oh shit, okay." I hear him mutter before disappearing in a flash. I kept my eyes locked with Shannon's. I need to bring her back. This isn't happening anymore.

"Elizabeth Chase Olsen, you are staying here—"I ignored my father as she squeezes my hand again. I stroked her flushed cheek with my thumb ever so gently and whisper.

"Honey, we're going home okay. Do you hear me? I'm coming with you, anywhere you want. Please come back." Her grip loosens as my hand held the side of her face.

"Elizabeth!"

"Dad!" I eventually hear Mary Kate snaps which I'm fucking grateful for. This is because of him. He fucking caused this. He didn't changed, I understand he did like Robbie but that doesn't mean our relationship couldn't end just because of that. He fucking cheated and still he's making excuses for that. What the fuck is wrong with him.

"The car's ready" Trent says urgently before getting to Shannon's side. "Is she?" He says breathing heavily and I shake my head as hot tears starts to fill up my eyes. He sighs and nods. "I'll get her to the car. You grab your things, we'll wait for you there."

I nod at Trent before turning back to Shannon and say. "You go ahead to the car with Trent honey. I'm just going to get our things." She nods and lets go. Without a word, she starts walking away with Trent catching up behind her leaving me to deal with my father.

"What the fuck was that?" He scoffs and I've just had enough. I wiped a few tears that have escaped from my eyes taking my phone from the dining table before walking to my mom and giving her a kiss goodbye as well as the twins,with Mary Kate telling me to call her when we get home. Courtney and Jake went over to us as I pull away from Ashley.

"I don't know what's happening but I hope Shannon's okay." I smiled at Courtney's sincere concern. I never really had a problem with my half siblings. We just don't see each other and hang around with each other that much and maybe its time we start to.

"So you're going?" I hear him say and my blood starts to boil again. I've had it under control for two months, and now he would ruin that in an hour span of insults and false accusation which doesn't even makes sense. I try to calm myself down as I pull away from Jake. "I'm your father—"

"Since when?" I cut him off, I couldn't keep it together anymore. "You know nothing of what I've been through. Robbie cheated and you're still making excuses for him. Are you hearing yourself. Shannon was the only one who was there for me all the fucking time, always. I love her for so many reasons and I don't have any reason not to love her because she is the most selfless person I have ever met, and she just proved that by being here and take in your insults that doesn't even makes sense at all. I never really wanted to go here, she just made me do it, out of respect to you and you just pushed her to the edge. Thanks for that." I walked out of the room without anything more to say as I let a few tears of anger escaped from my eyes. I'm so mad, I don't think I have ever been this mad before. I feel my head and my chest is going to explode at any moment.

Who the fuck does he think he is? The way he insulted and accused my girlfriend of shit in front of my family. He fucking pushed her to the edge and now she slipped. For months, I was preventing for that to happen and now this. I knew I should've just stayed in her house and not tell her about this maybe this night would've turned out differently.

"How is she?" I asked Trent as soon as I saw him leaning against his car waiting for me. He shakes his head and goes to open the back seat. I bit my lip trying to suppress a cry. Oh God, we're back to square one.

"Is this the first time?" He asks and I nod not being able to say another word anymore and that made him sigh and pulled me in his arms. "Its going to be alright, If I knew Dad is still an asshole. I might've let you leave earlier. He was okay when we were talking at the garden earlier. I never knew he's planning to assassinate your relationship with Shannon."

"Can we go? I need to wake her up." I sniffed and he looks at me apologetically and nods. He steps aside so I could slide in beside Shannon, who is stuck staring out of the window, before closing the door and making his way to the driver's seat.

"Where to?"

"My house." I say as I slipped my hand into Shannon's cold ones and this made her turn her head to me so I offered a smile.

"Where are we going?" She whispers and I can still see the fog in her eyes.

"We're going home honey." She doesn't say anything as Trent starts driving but she kept my hand in hers which was a good sign for me and I wanted so bad to just wake her up. This isn't her. This was used to be her but I won't let it destroy her again. I open my mouth to take her attention when she beats me to it and says.

"I'm sorry. I couldn't save you back then." My brows furrowed at the sound of that, totally confused on what she was talking about. "He hurt you, because of me. I wasn't there but I can picture it." My eyes widen as my heart starts racing like crazy. No, fuck.

"If I'd known better—" I squeezed her hand automatically like an instinct and she stops talking. She turns and looks at me as I can feel my brother's intrigued eyes digging through me through the rear view mirror. Fogged eyes staring back at me raising her brows. I shake my head and she says.

"Your Dad, he likes him doesn't he?" She changes the subject which was a relief in someway but in an odd manner. She hums and nods when I didn't respond, her eyes slowly clearing up and now I realized what she was doing. She's waking herself up.

"I've had moments with my ex's dads. I've had worst." She chuckles softly which made a tear slip from my eye relief washes over me like a bucket of ice cold water. The weight in my chest being lift off in an instant. Is this real? I swear she was out of it and now she's here. I can see her. I stare at her in disbelief as she looks back up to me brows furrowed but then she smiles and I feel the corner of my lip curving upward at the sight in front of me.

"Hey, uh. I'm sorry about ruining your dinner. I'll call your mom later on to apologize. I shouldn't have crashed in—" I cut her off by kissing her. I don't care if my brother is in fact in the car with us but I'm just so happy and relieved that she's back here with me.

"Hey! Get a room!" I hear Trent scolds and that made us burst into giggles before pulling away, my head dropping to her chest in embarrassment but more of seeking comfort in her touch because believe me, that scared the shit out of me.

"I'm sorry, your sister is pretty aggressive." She chuckles and I give her a playful slap on the chest.

"I'm glad you're back bud." I look up and saw Trent smiling through the rear view mirror looking at Shannon who smiles back before looking at me and say.

"I had to." ————————"Did you tell her?" Its been two days since that terrible night at my Mom's. But with Shannon, its like it didn't happen. I don't know if I should be worried about that because when I asked her about it she said she couldn't remember half of it or even how she got in the car that night. Considering that she really tend to forget things which is because of the accident and I get that, maybe its the way her brain protects her from you know, going into a total mental breakdown. Well, I'm not bothered at all about that because damn I don't want that to happen again. Never again.

"Yes" She simply said without any signal of anything more as she strap herself up on the passenger side of my car because Chase is resting at my house having two days of non stop popularity in the papers because of the road incident that happened. And with her unusual style when it comes to cars in LA, we can be easily spotted in case we use her in public again, so we opted for my car instead. Its much more invisible from the public eye.

"Well?"

"What?" I gave her a smack in the arm which made her chuckle as she pulls back rubbing the skin of her arm. "Okay, okay. Calm down woman."

"You know I hate it when you do that." I rolled my eyes at her as she giggles and flashes that charming smileof hers. She really know how to get my attention and she enjoys it.

"Okay so this is how its going to be." She buckles her seatbelt and slightly turns to me and she seems to be so serious about telling me this that she made sure she has my full attention. "So I'm moving out and Liz is moving in. Ahhh" She grins and I giggled at her antics biting my bottom lip as I stare at her. She really is so charming.

"So that's it, you're moving out and—"

"Liz is moving in. As simple as that." She shrugs. "Might probably start moving tomorrow or the next day, but you have reshoots on Saturday so you really need to rest the day before that but I doubt we will be able to move things tomorrow since there's a party tonight and everyone will be fucking wasted and—"

"We can do it tomorrow honey. I'll call Charles to book us a U-Haul truck. Just don't get too drunk tonight though. Do you have a lot of stuff in your house that needs moving?" I asked and she shakes her head and says.

"Not that much, just a few furnitures and my babies. Which would look good in the back garden sweetheart." I giggled as I turn on the engine and start driving us to the shops to get some supplies for the party in her house tonight. I still find it odd how obsessed Shannon now is with plants. She usually does a great job of staying away from them before and the only time she did something and that includes digging or you may call it gardening is when she decides to build a greenhouse for me in our backyard all from scratch. I wonder if the people who moved to our former house did finish that green house or they just took it down and just build a pool instead. I would never know that now.

"Why are you smiling like that?" I snapped out of my thoughts and glanced at her and I can't help but giggle and shake my head.

"You know you always complain about not having the 'green thumb' so you stay away from my plants before. Its either you overwater them or you just give them blisters honey and now its just strange how you now address plants as your babies. I mean there's nothing wrong with that its really cute, I'm just not used to it and I don't mean it in a bad way." She smiles. A genuine smile, like she was imagining what she probably is with plants before before she shrugs and relaxes to her seat taking my hand in hers.

"You have work next week?" I asked. She nods and smiles saying,

"Yea, I have a production meeting for Love and Death and then I will work on a music video for Kevin. Oh yea and I offered to babysit Rose next week for about two days."Her voice falters as she ends her sentence which really caught my attention and made me glance at her. She had this guilty look matched with a growing smile making me think she wasn't planning on telling it to me now. Not just yet anyway. I raised my brows asking for some further explanation on this and she sighs.

"Scar called last night and asked me to babysit Rose because she and Colin will ho out of town for two days next week and she said Rose asked for me personally and that she won't let them leave until they agreed that she will stay with me while they're gone— and baby, I can't just disagree to that, I have no choice and I really miss Rose you know. I promise to take full responsibility of my actions, I really do—"

"Okay" I say stopping her whining. She really loves Rose and it doesn't really bothers me knowing that I have a childproof home and that sets not only for kids but also for Shannon since she's a little klutz sometimes. "Does Scarlett knows we're moving in together?"

"Yes and that's the reason why she's relieved that you're going to be with me. I don't know if I should be offended by that but for some reason I agree with her as well." She chuckles and I find it how adorable that sounds. Shannon can be so childlike sometimes and that doesn't change up until now. Well, we all have our moments right.

"Then maybe we should get her something just so she'll have something to do while she's home with us honey. All I have are books which Mae and Leonard read whenever they spend the night."

"Rose likes to read too, maybe we can get her some children's books and of course new puzzles. She loves that." I smile as I hear Shannon rambles on and on on what to get Rose for next week and it makes me wonder if one day, we'll have a kid, I bet she would be so obsessed with it just how she's obsessed with taking care of our friend's kid, maybe even more and that's really a comforting thought.

We finally arrived at Whole Foods. I parked to the spot near the entrance where it is always safer from the men we know. I turn off the engine while Shannon unbuckles her seatbelt and immediately gets off the car, jog towards my side while I get my bag and opens up my side of the door for me. This is a routine that works for her whether which side I'm in. She would always be that chivalrous, something that didn't change at all.

We walked in with her arm around my shoulders and mine hanging around her lower back as I gripped on the fabric of her shirt. Fortunately, there are only a few people  in the store at this time of the day and its perfect for keeping a low key identity besides wearing a cap and sunglasses. Shannon pulls away as she gives me a list Zoë probably gave it to her knowing how forgetful Shannon can be.

"Okay where do we start this quest?" She says pulling a cart closer to her and leaning against it. I let out a softgiggle shaking my head as I open up the piece of paper and what I see just made it clear how the party is going togo tonight.

"Uh who's cooking tonight honey?" She looks at me confused and shrugs.

"Why? what's on the list?"

"Uh, Chips, Guacamole and just a long list of alcohol and cake." I raised my brows at her as she laughs at that. "What kind of a party are we at tonight baby?"

"Drinks and drinks, a little bit of karaoke, chips and just more drinks and cake." She chuckles as I look at her in disbelief. "Well, good luck for us moving tomorrow."

"Want me to whip us some home made guacamole, a cake  and maybe some pizza. I think we have enough time for me to put those all together." I say as we walk through the liquor lane.

"Really?" She straightened up as her smile grew flashing me a contagious smile. I feel my cheeks heat up suddenly as I give her a nod. "Oh sweetheart you're an angel. I love you really even more than the food you make."

"Okay, I'll try to take that as a compliment." She laughs before walking towards me and puts her arms around my waist locking me in between her and the cart. "I just love you Elizabeth, more than you'll ever know." She whispers   and smiles. Without taking in consideration that we are in public, I wrapped my arms around her neck making her smile grew wider revealing those pearly whites.

"Well I love you too." I say sincerely. She steals a kiss from me before releasing a chuckle and taking me completely in her arms that familiar comfort making me so relaxed and how I wish we could stay like this forever.