Chapter 49

"I should tell Zoë the thing about me moving out." I say as she sits down on the edge of the couch and takes my leg on her lap and starts massaging it. Its a bit sore from earlier and I don't know why maybe because of what happened earlier. We're currently in my house and its almost eight in the evening, I don't know if Elizabeth is spending the night but seems like it she would. Zoë's out with Liz and might be probably back in an hour or so.

"Yea" A small smile crept on her face but not quite reaching her eyes. "When are you planning to tell?"

"I don't know, maybe in the morning." She nods her head and says nothing. She just kept her focus on my leg and every time she's being like this, I'm slowly dying to know what is running through her mind. Well, she still haven't had a call from Marla and my phone is still doing okay at the moment but I'm sure what happened earlier will be roaming around the internet later on.

"You're going to stay for the night?" She sighs and shakes her head.

"I wish I could but to a surprising turn of events, Dad's coming to visit with Jake and Court and Mom's making dinner. Haven't seen them in a long time. I don't even know what they loo-"

"Wait wait, your Dad? Have I met your Dad?"

"No" Her tone didn't have a hint of chance I would get to meet her father and its making me intrigue, confuse maybe the tiniest bit of hurt but I'm sure she has a good reason for it. "Will I ever get to meet him?"

"You will, just not right now. Charles is on his way here to pick me up."

"Why?" She sighs and finally looks up to me so raised my brows in confusion. I just don't get why can't I meet her father.

"We're having dinner at Mom's house and I can't let the last time happen again baby. I just can't I'm sorry." The last time? what happened last ti— Oh, that. Yea it figures, I don't want to cause a scene either. "We had enough flashbacks for today honey and I'm tired, to be honest, and believe me I would rather stay and cuddle with you if I could."

"I know sweetheart, that's okay. You know we could cuddle now while wai—" She launches herself beside me on the couch making me chuckle watching her melt in my arms. I really love moments like this when the both of us could just hit the reset button just by being close with each other. Its kind of a breather and definitely feels like home.

"So, when are you expecting me to go home to you for good?" She looks up from my chest and smiles. A proper smile this time which gives me victory on changing the subject to something that will give her mind a break from all that had happen and will happen today because judging by her reaction earlier she and her father probably doesn't have that good and close relationship compared to her family.

"As soon as possible" She giggles making me smile and squeeze her in.

"Well, the question is, is your house ready for my stuff?"

"Honey, in case you didn't figure it out, my house is built only for the two of us. So that's not really an issue here." Hearing that made my heart skips a beat. I don't know if that should make me happy or sad and guilty at the same time and it proves to show how our relationship made an impact on her. Its two years, I'm sure there are people lined up for her men and women, but she chooses to wait for me and that's quite overwhelmingly incredible to be honest.

"Why?" I asked and she looks up to me again with a confuse look on her face.

"Why what?"

"You could have anyone Elizabeth. For two years, I'm sure there were people who took their chance on you. Its not that I'm not grateful that you chose to wait for me, you even built a house on our spot and that is just amazing, I'm just curious." She props herself on her elbows turning to me as she bites on her bottom lip. Well, she's looking to be interested in talking about it so I smile as she settles down beside me.

"Okay, I had relationships before and thought that was the full capacity of what love feels like. But you came along giving me another view of it. I never thought I could fall in love with a woman let alone have a real relationship with one. I never imagined that, I was straight, but then I did and it was best thing I've felt my entire life" I smiled and nod as her eyes turn big and bright talking about it.

"Here." She shows up her right hand with my Grandma June's ring on it and pointed it out. " I gave this back to you two times and you've returned it to me every time. And I guess I held on to that, so I waited. I tried to forget about you after a year of not hearing from you but I just couldn't because you gave me too much that its hard for me to let go already. No one can top that. I built a house on our spot because that's where I spend most of my time and it somehow brings me closer to you, to us and what we had. I know, its kind of crazy—"

"Its not crazy, its sweet." I say and I swear her cheeks turn pink as I said so. "Go on, I'm loving this story." She giggles and nods.

"That year, while we're shooting WandaVision. I was in a complete black hole because I was losing hope and I was missing you so much. Kathryn was the first one, other than my family, who I told everything about us because I couldn't handle it anymore. So she knows about you even before she met you. I've had episodes while we were on set and I hate that. She and her kids would go to my trailer and cheer me up so that's how we've gotten close. Paul found out about it too but never did asked me about it. I did felt better through it and as the house got finished I was having thoughts that maybe I should just let you go." She stops as her eyes stares at mine. Strong force pulling me in. I can picture how she might've felt in those years. If I didn't have the accident, I'm pretty sure we might've been back together in a blink of an eye.

"Well, I'm glad you didn't." I whispered and she smiles. I can hear the loud thumping of my heart seeing that smile.

"I tried but I just can't let you go" Her voice fades by the end of it as I lean closer taking her lips in mine. Her hand slides to the side of my face fingers curling on the back of my neck as I pull her up to my level.

"Shan! There's someone outside— Oh!" We sprang apart at the sound of Zoë's voice echoing inside of our heads, we almost fell off the couch.

"Can you fucking knock!" I groaned making Elizabeth giggle as she gets off on top of me.

"Well, you didn't tell me Lizzie's here and its my house too you know. Hi Lizzie!"

"Hi Zoë, Hi Liz!" She giggles standing to her feet and walk towards them giving them a hug while I sat up and fix my shirt.

"There's a guy outside, Charles?"

"Oh, that's my ride." Elizabeth smiles before turning to me with an apologetic smile. "I have to go, I'll text you okay. I love you." She gives me a two quick kiss on the lips and says goodbye in a hurry.

"Say hi to your family for me." I say loudly as she makes her way to the door.

"I will, love you. Bye!" Door slams shut leaving me figuring out how to talk to Zoë about the moving out thing.——————-Lizzie's P.O.V."Just take it easy Lizzie." Charles says as he turns off the engine. I sighed and nod. Charles knows I'm not really in good terms with my father since he never did feel like a father to me for I don't know how long. Charles was the one who basically was there all the time.

"I'll try." I mutter to myself before getting out of the car. I sent a quick text to Shannon on my whereabouts and I might not text her until all of this is done. This is stressing me out really and its giving me a fucking headache. In all of the days, they decided to show up today. When I had to go through a meeting and got into a little accident and not to mention, I have to worry about tabloids coming in later on because clearly we caught a lot of attention earlier. God, why do I have to do this?

I knock on the door and waited typing one last text to Shannon.

I'm going in honey. Wish me luck, I hope I won't lose it tonight. I love you. Text you later.

I hit send at the same time the door opens revealing Trent whose face fell when he saw me before raising his brows.

"Aren't you going to let me in?" He opens the door further and steps aside letting me walk in.

"Where's Shannon? Did you two have a fight?" He asks closing the door behind him. I rolled my eyes and sighs.

"No. I can't let her come with me after what happened last time obviously."

"Why are you in such a mood today? Is it about Dad?" I gave him an obvious look making him sigh and takes me in his arms. "I know he's not the best but he's still our Dad, come on just give him a chance." I sighed and nod on his chest.

"I really don't have a choice do I?" I mumbled and he places a kiss on top of my head.

"No you don't. So come on they're waiting for you." I let out a heavy breath as I pulled away. "Really wish you brought Shannon though."

"I'm starting to think you like her better than you like me. I'm your fucking sister." He snorts in laughter giving me a playful nudge and says.

"Its not like that, maybe a little bit, I just thought that maybe it will be easier for you to get through this knowing she's here."

"I know, but something happened earlier and I can't add this up to her. Its better if she's home and safe and—"

"Wait, what happened anyway?"

Shan!

I stopped in my tracks as it flashes right in front of me. How we swerved and how her body froze. I shake my head at the thought while my heart automatically starts racing and beating out of my chest, I can hear it in my ears.

"Liz" I snapped out of my daze as I felt an arm on mine making me look up to see Trent's confused eyes. He was about to say something when the twins shows up giving me a chance to compose myself. I breathe out a heavy breath as I gave them both a hug but still I can feel his eyes on me.

"Where's Shannon?"

"I didn't let her come, not after last time."

"Well, that's sad. Anyway can you tell her she owes me big time now that my feet are sore from all the walking we did earlier." Ashley whines and I giggled upon hearing that.

"Yea, she mentioned it to me."

"Lizzie?" I look up to see Courtney and Jake making their way towards us. I was taken aback when they gave me a huge hug squeezing me tight and surprisingly, it felt nice. We don't see each other that often but they really are nice and easy to get along when we all meet together. I just don't have the energy for my Dad right now.

"Oh hi, how are things?" I say as we pull apart.

"Yea, everything's good. Paul is here with Dad at the backyard. Uhm- We heard about your girlfriend. So where is she?"

"Yea, Where is Shannon?" Jake butts in more enthusiastically than expected making meraised my brows and also it made me feel odd in a good way. I guess. "I'm sorry, I watch her videos and I'm a fan of her work so— Oh and I'm on directing too so I have some or a number of questions to ask."

"Ookay." So maybe they're all expecting Shannon to be here. I glanced at Trent who automatically raised his brows on me. He knows something's up. "I'm sorry, she couldn't make it. Her leg is a bit sore from the walking they did earlier." I hear Ashley sniggers and Mary Kate nudging her side.

"Bummer." Jake mutters his mood changing in an instant which made me feel bad to be honest so I say. "Hey, I'll let her know and she would definitely would want to talk about it." He smiled, a proper one. Well that was easy, I guess my family does love my girlfriend but I don't really know about Dad. God, I need a shower to relax my mind.

"Could you excuse me for a bit. I'll head up and freshen up a bit. Its been a long day."

"Alright, you go ahead. Mom's probably going to cut our head off with us not helping in the kitchen." Mary Kate says. I smiled and nod as I start to walk away and say. "I'll see you in a bit."

I made my way upstairs and frown as I hear footsteps behind me making me turn and saw Trent following behind making me sigh. I know what this is about and he's not going to let it go until I tell him about it.

"So what happened earlier?" He says as soon as the doors were closed in my room. I tossed my bag on the couch and slumped down beside it before releasing a huge breath. I actually don't know if I should tell him this knowing he's over protective of us but he won't let it go until I tell him the truth and mind you he knows when I'm lying.

"We almost got into an accident"

"What!" He said loudly making me stand up and my eyes widen. It was loud enough for the people downstairs to fucking hear it.

"Can you fucking keep it down."

"No! What the fuck Elizabeth!"

"Trent it was my fault—Oh Jesus!" The door flies open revealing my sisters and Jake looking at the both of us. Oh God, I don't really need this right now. I need a Tylenol, my head is getting worse and still I haven't come face to face with my father.

"What's happening here. We heard shouting." I slumped back down on the couch rubbing my temples hoping to ease my headache but Trent's loud mad voice is not helping at all.

"Is that why she's not here?" He says,

"What the fuck is happening?" Mary Kate says

"Elizabeth! Is that why she's not here?" He says again ignoring Mary Kate's question and I just wanted to disappear right then and there.

"Lizzie?"

"Okay yes! and just because her leg is sore and I won't let her drive after that but that's not the only reason why she's not here and you know it." I snapped. "It was my fault, I came at her and she froze, got out of herself, had a flashback and stopped in the middle of the road in the city. But we're fine, no broken bones see. Totally fine." I sighed realizing that my two half siblings who know nothing about Shannon or my relationship with her is in fact in the room.

"Now you have you're fucking answer can you just leave me alone for just a second. I really need a fucking break from all of this."

"I'm calling Shannon" Trent mutters as he leaves the room. No one speaks as they followed him close behind and as soon as I hear the door close, I swallowed the lump forming in my throat. God, I'm so tired. Now I'm starting to think I shouldn't of come here anyway and just stay the night at Shannon's house then maybe I would feel more better and not this too overwhelmed.

I release a breathe as I take my phone out of my bag and texted Shannon knowing Trent's probably on the phone with her right now.

I can't do this. Can I crash at yours tonight? I can't stay here. I need you.

After hitting send, I got up and toss my phone to the bed before deciding to just take a long relaxing shower to take my mind off things, just for a while and hope this day would go fast and end up with me in Shannon's arms as I get lost in dreamland.