The Mafia and I

Chapter 2

Lucy's pov

Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights and our comfort when we occasionally falter-Brad Henry

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The love of a family is life's greatest blessing-Unknown

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Family isn't just an important thing it's everything-Unknown

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Family isn't always blood. It's the people in your life who want you in theirs. The ones who accept you for who you are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what- Your Tango

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The older I get, the more I realize the value of privacy, of cultivating your circle and only letting certain people in. You can be open, honest and real while still understanding not everyone deserves a seat at the table of your life-Your Tango

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You don't choose your family. They are god's gift to you, as you are to them-Desmond Tutu

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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and involvement in each other's lives-IllusionFactory.com

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Family isn't just blood, it's the people in your life who are there for you when you need them most-Unknown

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Family is the best thing you could wish for. They are there for you during the ups and downs and love you no matter what-Unknown

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Family like branches on a tree we may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one-Unknown

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When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family, your friends, your material possessions, your beauty, your youth, your life and there is only thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing-Yasmin Mogahed

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Family isn't defined only by last names or by blood; it's defined by commitment and by love. It means showing up when they need it most. it means having each other's backs. It means choosing to love each other even on those days when you struggle to like each other. It means never giving up on each other-DaveWillis.org

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Family isn't always about the people in your life who are blood relations. It's about the people in your life who want you to be in theirs. It's about the people in your life who accept you for who you are, support you in the things you choose to do and no matter what, are there for you. It's the people in your life who love you, respect you and who you can depend on. Now that's family-Unknown

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When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter-Terri Apter

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When they argue, there can be no danger of a permanent rift, because they're mother and daughter. A terrible and beautiful phenomenon to watch-JD Salinger

The following three bible stories about forgiveness will demonstrate what forgiveness is all about-Unknown

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To Mom, no matter how many times we argue, how many times I don't understand you, and how many times I get scolded by you, I still think that you are the best and will always be the greatest mom in the whole wide world I love you-Unknown

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Lucy's pov

My name is Lucy Rose Bennett I'm 21 turning 22 on the 20th of October which is in 4 months and 15 days. I come from a wealthy, respectable and classiness family both of my parents are lawyers. My mother is a prosecute lawyer she prosecutes criminals if they are guilty and my father is a defense lawyer he defends criminals if they innocent or not. He tries to prove that they are innocent and not guilty and my parents work at different law firms. I'm 5'7, I have medium length hair and my hair color is dark brown, I don't have any tattoos or piercings but my ears are pierced. My hobbies are reading, writing, cooking, running and watching movies. My favorite books are vampire, werewolf, demon, bad boy, mafia, b**m, fiction, fan-fiction and classic novels. My favorite foods are pasta and Pizza, my two favorite book series's are the 50 shades of grey books and the twilight saga books and my favorite movie is the lost boys it's a vampire movie. My dislikes are scary and horror movies except the scream movies, bullies, pedophiles, murders, racists people and rapists. I have four brothers unfortunately no sisters because I'm the only girl that my parents had. I was going to get a sister but sadly my mother had a miscarriage when I was 4 years old. It completely broke her heart and she got depressed for a few years. She has gotten over that stage that she had in her life and she treated me like a princess it made her very happy and I didn't want to ruin that so I never did. Even though that we barely talk anymore like we used to she still treats me like her princess and I will always be her princess no matter how much we fight and argue I love her that won't ever change. If my mother didn't have a miscarriage and if my little sister had been born she would have been named Isabella Maria Bennett. Named after both of my grandmothers who are still alive from my mothers and fathers side of their families. My parents only had me and my brothers they didn't try for another baby after they had lost my little sister. I think they had decided to not try again for another baby was because they were worried and scared about losing another baby. I know that if my mother did get pregnant again and lost the baby she would got into depression again and I don't want her to go through that ever again. Because if she did it would probably break her heart again and mine for her. Me and my brothers never talk about our little sister anymore because when we did it would make my mother very upset and we didn't want to see her cry again so we stopped. Sometimes I wish that my little sister was alive so that I could of talked to her about guys and other stuff and her do the same as well. Because I'm the only girl that my parents had my brothers are very protective of me even though two of my brothers are younger than me they sometimes treat me like I'm the baby of the family. When I told them what Lilly and Jake did they weren't very happy with the both of them but they were more pissed at Jake then Lilly. They wanted to kill and torture him for hurting me and breaking my heart. If my little was alive I think that she would have also killed and tortured Jake for what he did. My brothers would never ever hurt a girl or lay a finger on her because my brothers were raised better than that. Because if they did my parents would probably kill them for even thinking about doing that to a girl. I would kill them as well if they did that. I'm glad that my brothers aren't assholes who get on my nerves. Even though I sometimes get annoyed at them for being too over protective of me but I know that they are just looking out for me I hope that never changes.

Two of my brothers are older than me by 3 and 6 years they are 24 and 27. My two other brothers are younger than me by 4 and 5 years they 16 and 15. My parents were 17 and 18 when they had my oldest brother. my two older brothers are both married with a couple of kids who I used to babysit before I left San Francisco and moved here to Los Angeles. They are both going to be lawyers just like my parents but I'm not sure if they want to be defense lawyers or prosecute lawyers or family lawyers when they finish law school and they both went and completed high school and university. My two younger brothers are both still in high school, they both have girlfriends while I'm still single not that I'm complaining. They are both going to university when they finish high school and then go to law school they want to be lawyers like my parents and like my older brothers who also want to be lawyers as well. My brothers names are Rick, Andrew, Damien and Peter. Damien is the oldest he is 27, Andrew is the second oldest he is 24, then me, then Rick he is 16 and Peter he is 15 he is the youngest and the baby of the family. My fathers name is Alexander he is 48 years old and my mothers name is Emily she is 47 years old. When my mother got pregnant at 17 with my older brother Damien my grandparents my mothers parents and my fathers parents weren't very happy with my parents when they found out my mother was pregnant. They wanted my mother to get an abortion before Damien was born because they didn't want my parents to be young parents and my mom to be a teenage mom as well. Her parents my grandparents had threatened to disown and kick my mother out if she didn't get an abortion. But my mother refused to get one she moved out of their house and my father did the same they moved in together they got married before Damien was born. They raised Damien for a years before they had decided to try for another baby and had Andrew then me, Rick then Peter. I'm glad that my mother never got an abortion and disowned because if she did Damien wouldn't have been and I wouldn't have anything to do with my grandparents. I would never think about getting an abortion and I'm not judging women and girls who get abortions because it's a very hard and difficult choice to make. It's just that I think that getting an abortion is wrong because if you chose to have unprotected s*x you have to accept and deal with the consequences of your actions plus it's also killing a fetus which is unborn baby which grown in the woman's or girls stomach. The only two reasons you should get an abortion if you get rapped and its a rape baby or if your health is it risk. I'm also glad that my fathers parents my grandparents never disowned him because he got a girl pregnant at a young age. If they had disowned my father I wouldn't anything to do with them as well. Sometimes I think about if I ever got pregnant at 17 and if my parents ever kicked me out and disowned me which would of really sucked if they did that. Because it would of meant that I wouldn't of had a relationship with them anymore especially with my mother and they wouldn't of had a relationship with their unborn grandchild. I don't want that to ever happen no matter how much me and my mother fight and argue I still love and care about her that won't ever change. After my parents had both moved out of their parents houses, moved in together and got married. My father had decided to get a job so he could pay for all baby expensive's that they would need. My grandparents offered to help them out with everything but my parents refused their help. But they were struggling with money so they gave in and asked my grandparents for help. I'm glad that my grandparents helped them out because if they didn't my parents would still be struggling with money and baby expensive's as well. After Damien was born My parents were never really around much after Andrew, me Rick and Peter were born and while we were growing up. My Parents had hired maids and butlers they raised us like we were their own children so they were more like family then just the help. They are also like our second mothers and fathers.

I have a good paying job and I live in a nice and comfortable apartment. I work as a waitress at a Italian restaurant called La Bone and I have been working there for 2 years now. People who are rich and sometimes famous people come to La Bone for the food and wine. Most of the time the paparazzi come to La Bone they always try to get in and take pictures so we have bouncers to stop the paparazzi from getting in. Most of the meals cost about $100 to $350 but it depends what's in the meal and the wine is also expensive as well. I really like working at La Bone everyone who works there with me is nice and friendly and the owners are very nice and friendly as well. Some people might hate their jobs but I don't I'm not bragging or anything but I get good money from my job. I make 1,500 a month plus tip it it depends if La Bone is very busy or not. Most of the customers that come to La Bone are nice, kind and friendly and they always say really nice things about the food, the restaurant and me how I'm a great waitress and a nice and friendly person as well. But some of the customers are rude and obnoxious they think that they are better then me and everyone else who works at La Bone. I find it really rude and bloody ridiculous just because they are rich I'm from a rich and wealthy family I was never rude to people at a restaurants who need the money because I'm a polite and nice person. I had told the owners of La Bone about what the customers that had made the rude and disgusting comments about the food, myself and the other waiters and waitresses who work at La Bone. the owners kicked the rude customers out and banned them from coming back to La Bone ever again. The owners of La Bone are a nice, kind and sweet couple their names are Maria and Francesco. Maria is 70 years old and Francesco is 73 years old. They are both originally from Florence Italy and they moved here to Los Angeles about 25 years ago and they have been married for nearly 50 years. They have 5 children who are all grown up who are married and have children and I have met all of their children and grandchildren. Maria and Francesco remind me of Helen the head maid at my parents house and her late husband Marco. Helen is 65 and Marco was 67. Marco was also Italian and he was from Pisa Italy he moved here to Los Angeles after he had met Helen when she was in Italy for a holiday. They met in their 20's and fell in love they got married Helen was 21 and Marco was 23 when they got married. Marco moved down here for Helen so that they could have and raise a family and he was also the head butler at my parents house before he passed away. Sadly he passed away from stage 4 lung cancer a few years ago which broke Helen's heart and made her go into depression for a few months. I helped her through her depression and she became her old self again. She hasn't remarried but she is seeing someone. His name is Marcus he is the head butler at my parents house back in San Francisco. I haven't met him yet but I'm hoping that I will when I go there next weekend. Helen has 7 children and 12 grandchildren. I have met all of her children and grandchildren sometimes I used to look after her grandchildren when I used to live in San Francisco before I moved here to Los Angeles.

I first met Maria and Francesco when I was on a date with Jake when a waiter had accidentally dropped someones food on the floor. Maybe I should of just let some other waiter or waitress help that waiter but I didn't. I had helped the waiter clean up the mess that he made. After I had helped the waiter I went back to mine and Jake's table. He looked and smiled at me he said to me that he was proud of me for helping the waiter. We finished our meals Jake had paid as we were getting ready to leave Maria and Francesco had walked up to us and asked us to sit back down because they wanted to talk to me. They said that they saw and watched me help the waiter clean up and that they were looking to hire more people to work at La Bone. They offered me a job to work at La Bone and I took the job. Ever since I took the waitress job at La Bone I have been very happy working there and I still am. I'm not bragging again but I make more money than an average person does in a month. I have been saving up for 2 years now because I'm trying to find a shop to buy so I can open up my own bookstore. Rose and Caleb work at La Bone as well Rose is waitress like me and Caleb is one of the chefs at La Bone Lilly did work at there but she quit because of what happened and also because we stopped being best friends. Because if she kept working at La Bone it would of been uncomfortable and awkward for us to be in the same work while she is engaged to Jake. I have been living in Los Angeles for about 4 years now I used to live in San Francisco all of my life until I had turned 18. The day I turned 18 I had become an adult and that I could make my own decisions and choices and that no one could tell me what to do anymore. So I made the choice to move to LA to get away from everything and to start fresh as well. I moved here to Los Angeles with Caleb and Lilly but Rose moved a year before we did. I did live with Caleb and Lilly for 2 years before I had got my waitress job at La Bone. If I didn't take the job at La Bone I would still be living with Caleb and also relying on him, Rose, My family and Helen for money all the time when I need it.

Before I had decided to move here to Los Angeles to start fresh and to get away from everything as well. A few months after I had turned 16 and my mother setting me up on dates with all of her friends sons and after that when I had started to date Ryder I had became a rebel teenager because I wanted my parents to see that I wasn't there perfect daughter that I once was. They were always proud of the achievements that all my brothers did. They did used to be proud before I had changed into a rebel teenager. They stopped being proud of me when I stopped doing things to make them proud of me. They are proud of Damien and Andrew for completing high school, completing a couple of years of university without dropping out like I did and also going to law school as well. They are proud of Rick and Peter for focusing on school working, studying for tests and exams I like I used to before I had become a rebel teenager and want to be lawyers and for also wanting to go to university and then law school when they finish high school.

You see I used to be a good girl before I go to the age of 16 and before I had become a rebel teenager. I was a straight A student with perfect grades, I never got anything below A and I wanted to be a lawyer like my parents. I never once got a detention, I always gave in my assignments on time, I also never did drugs, never smoked, never drank, never sneaked out, never went to parties I hardly ever went out because I would spend my night times and weekends doing homework and studying for tests and exams. I had really good friends besides Caleb, Rose and Lilly at the time before I had ended my friendship with her because of what she and Jake did. I never had a boyfriend before Ryder, never kissed anyone and I never had s*x with anyone because I was a virgin at the time. Well until I met and got involved with a certain bad boy called Ryder smith and I fell in love with him or I thought I was in love with him. It was a typical love story between a bad boy and a good girl. At first me and Ryder became friends we would hang out at school when I wasn't hanging out with my friends. Until one day while we hanging out at his house after school doing homework in his bedroom. When he kissed me out of the blue. After he kissed me he asked me to be his girlfriend and I said yes. Ryder was my first boyfriend, my first kiss and the first guy I had loved. He never once pressured me to have s*x with him while we were dating but we did do some s****l things. When I told my parents about Ryder they were surprised that I liked someone because I didn't really social much back then. But they were happy for me that I had found someone well until I told them that Ryder wasn't from a rich upper class family. I had thought that they would be happy that I had found someone that loved and cared about me. But no instead they said to me that I had to break up with Ryder. I said to them no that I wasn't going to break up with him. They said that if I didn't break up with Ryder that they wouldn't talk to me ever again. I was angry and upset with them for evening asking me to break up with Ryder just because he wasn't from a rich upper class family. It was like they were judging him when they didn't even meet him yet. My brothers were ok and fine with me dating Ryder and they were also happy that I was dating someone that cared about and made me happy as well. But my parents weren't at all.

Instead of listening to my parents like they wanted me to because I went and did the complete opposite of what they wanted because I still dated Ryder. They were really angry at me for not listening to them and ignoring what they said. While I was dating Ryder I had started to drink and smoke sometimes either weed or cigarettes and I had also started to do really bad at school. I would't do homework and study for tests. I had started to mouth and back talk to the teachers, get detention with Ryder, smoke on the school grounds, I even got suspended a few times. I would sometimes ditch school to be with Ryder I even ditched my old friends but not Rose, Caleb and Lilly when me and her were still best friends before I ended my friendship with her and caught her and Jake in bed together. To hang out with Ryder and his friends to either get high or cause trouble somewhere. I would also sometimes come home late at night without telling anyone where I was either high or drunk. I would sometimes sneak out to see Ryder to either make out with him or to get up to all sorts of trouble with him and friends. I had also start going to parties I even got a fake ID to get into clubs and I would come home either at 3 or 4 in the morning high or wasted. When I had changed my parents didn't really do anything to make me change back to who I used to be. Because they still wanted me to be lawyers just like them. Before I had changed I wanted to be a lawyer or I thought that was what I wanted. I went up to my parents one day and I told them that I didn't want to be a lawyer anymore and that I want to be a writer. They weren't happy with my choice my father is happy now with my choice that I've made but my mother still isn't or I think that she hasn't happy with my choice because half of the time we are either arguing or fighting with each other. While I was dating Ryder I thought that I knew him like I thought I did. Ryder was in a gang and he was the leader. He didn't tell me about the gang the first few months of our relationship. He did eventually tell me about the gang. He told me about the gang when I was at his house when I snuck out of the house. When he told me I was a bit angry at him for not telling at the start of our relationship when I had told him everything about me when he and I became friends before we started dating. But I understood why he kept it a secret from me. He did it to protect me because he didn't want me to be in danger but I did up in danger. There was this rival gang and the leader of the rival gang his name is Ben. Ben hated Ryder because Ryder slept with Ben's sister before he met me and also because Ryder's gang was making more money and profit from drugs then Ben's gang was. These two reasons had caused a rival war between the gangs and I got dragged into the middle of it. Ben had found out that me and Ryder were dating and he kidnapped me as revenge against Ryder and to also to stop him from making money and profit from drugs as well. When Ben's sister Emilia found out that Ben had kidnapped me she found Ryder and told him that Ben kidnapped me.

Ben tortured me but he and his gang never rapped me which was good because I didn't want my first time to be rapped in a warehouse because I wanted it to be in either mine or Ryder's bed. To see if I knew anything about the drugs that Ryder was selling on the streets to people and also about Ryder and his gang. He tortured me for months he even sent Ryder pics and videos of him torturing to see if he could get Ryder to come and find. I was angry at Ryder for not finding me soon rather then later but then I stopped because I had a feeling that Ryder would figure out how to find me. I thought he was going to kill me since he figured I didn't know anything. They didn't let me starve which I was happy about because after they would finish with torturing me they would give me meals to keep my strength up so they could torture me again the next day. I would pray to god every day even though I'm not christian but I do sometimes pray when I'm alone. That Ryder would find and rescue me and I guess god had listened to my parer and granted it because the next day after Ben had finished torturing me Ryder and his gang found and rescued me. No one as killed which I was glad. When Ryder was untieing me he and Ben got into a fight which resulted in Ryder stabbing Ben in the stomach with a knife that he brought with him. After Ryder stabbed Ben I ran to them and I helped Ben stopped the bleeding Ryder called an ambulance and they took him and me to the hospital. Ben was very lucky that he survived and only had to get 5 stitches. He and Ryder made a truce so that their gangs wouldn't start a war again and to also share the money and profits that they would get from selling drugs. Because I had been tortured for 4 months I had a broken arm and leg, bruises and cuts all over my body I was in the hospital for 3 months. So I could let my body heal itself and Ryder was by my side through the 3 months I was in the hospital.

While I was in the hospital Ben came to visit me after he felt better and he brought flowers and apologized for what he and his gang did to me. I forgive him and his gang and we became friends. I had healed all the cuts, bruises, broken arm and leg that I received from the torture that Ben and his gang did to me. I still dated Ryder even though that my family wanted me to break up with because they blamed for him for me getting kidnapped and tortured for 4 months. But I didn't listen to them even though that I did get kidnapped and tortured it didn't make me stop loving Ryder or want to break up with him. After I left the hospital and healed a few months I lost my virginity to Ryder. I could of lost it before everything happened but I didn't because I wasn't ready and Ryder never once pressured or pushed me to have s*x with him. He was a complete gentlemen about it. I lost my virginity when I was at Ryder's house and in his bedroom. He was slow and gentle which made me feel special and happy that he wasn't rough. After a few more months of dating Ryder for a week I was deciding whether to stay with Ryder or break up with him. When we were at his house because my parents didn't want him to come to the house anymore because of what happened. We were watching a movie and I paused it I turned and looked at Ryder and I told him that I didn't want to be together anymore and that I want to be friends instead. The reason I broke up with Ryder is because I had lost feelings for him I still liked him but only as a friend. I also did it because I didn't want my life to be danger again if there still people that hated Ryder and wanted revenge. I'm not blaming Ryder for what happened because it wasn't his fault. I also wanted to stop the bad habits that I was doing with him and who I was becoming as well. Ryder wasn't happy at first but he let me go and he also understand why I broke up with him and he also wanted me to be happy as well. We didn't officially broken up he took me on a very last date before we broke up for good. Ryder took me on a picnic date to our special place it was exactly like the first date he took me after we got together. After the date we kissed and hugged one last time then we parted ways on good terms and we remained friends and we also keep in contact as well. After I had broken up with Ryder I cleaned my act and I stopped all of my bad habits. I finished and completed high school I did go to University for 1 year but I dropped out. A month after I had turned 18 I moved away with Lilly and Caleb here to Los Angeles 4 years ago and to start fresh as well.

After I had broken up with Ryder and moved here to Los Angeles I still keep in touch with Ryder. I talk to him on Skype and on the phone everyday about things that are going on in my life right now. He has told me that he has a fiance' and it's Emilia Ben's sister and they are expecting a baby boy and that he is still in the gang. I have told him about my life here in Los Angeles and about my job and my book as well. He said that he is happy for me that I'm doing what I like and that I'm happy as well. I also told him about the fights that me and my mother have had these past months and that she wants me to become a lawyer or find a husband or a boyfriend with wealth and status. He said that it's not her life that it's mine and that it's also my choice to be a lawyer or not. I also told him about Jake and what he and Lilly did he asked me if I was ok and I told him I was. He also asked me if I wanted him to come to Los Angeles and kick Jack's ass for me I laughed and said that he didn't need to. I told him that when Jake came to my apartment to pick up his stuff and that I chucked the garbage bag at him. Ryder laughed and said that it was funny that I would put someone's stuff in a garbage bag and also chuck it at them. Ryder is my best friend as well as Caleb and Rose. He is my third best friend I did have four best friends but that was before I stopped being best friends with Lilly because of what she and Jake did. I can talk to Ryder about anything and he doesn't judge unlike my mother does when I tell her something when we talk which is hardly ever. Before I moved here to Los Angeles I made up with my old friends and I also stay in touch with them but I stopped being friends with Ryder's friends. When I had left San Francisco I told my parents over Skype that I was fine and that I moved to Los Angeles to start fresh. They were angry at me and told me to come back home. I told them that I wasn't going to come back home and they will have to get over it. After 2 months of living here in Los Angeles and after my parents and I got into argument. My parents thought that I would come back home. But I didn't go back home like they thought I would and they waited another 2 months to see if I would come back home. But when I didn't go back home they had finally expected the fact that I wasn't coming back home at all. I hope that one day my mother will finally except what I want to do with my life, myself and my decision to not be a lawyer or find a husband or a boyfriend with wealth and status because I don't want that I never will even if I have to keep trying to make my mother see that.

The head maid Helen is more like a mother to me then my own mother is which says something when me and her aren't fighting which is most of the time ever since we had the argument on Christmas last year. When I was dating Ryder and changed into a rebel teenager Helen had become very worried about me she liked Ryder and thought that he was a good boy. But when she noticed that I was doing bad in school, not hanging out my old friends anymore, doing drugs, drinking, going to parties and clubs. She would look after me when I would come home either high or wasted. While Helen was doing laundry in the laundry room I walked up to her and I told her that I was planning on moving here to Los Angeles to start fresh and that also I wanted to be a writer. She told me to pressure my dream and to not let anyone stop me from doing that. She was happy that I was starting fresh and changing back into the person I once was. Because if I hadn't of gotten rid of my bad habits of doing drugs and drinking alcohol Helen was going to send me to rehab. I'm happy that she didn't. She was also sad that I was leaving where she practically raised me as her own child and my brothers as well. That I was moving to another city which is 5 hours and 38 minutes and a few months after I had turned 18. I call, text, f*******: and Skype Helen everyday we talk about things like my life here in Los Angeles and what's been going on in San Francisco, my job, my book, how is my family, my love life even though that I haven't got one at the moment and her children and grandchildren. She told me the other day that her 3rd oldest daughter is pregnant again which 13 grandchildren. Helen knows about what Jake and Lilly did. I told her what happened a few days after it happened. We don't talk about it anymore because she knows that it makes me upset. So instead we talk about other things like Brian she keeps saying that I should jump his bones we always laugh about it. Then we say bye we either end the phone call or end the Skype call. After I finish talking to Helen I go and do what I normally do of a day or night depends on what time me and her talk on the phone or Skype call.

Moving out of my parents house was easy and distant from my parents especially my mother. Because after what happened with me being kidnapped and tortured my mother still wanted me to be lawyer and to also be the perfect and obedient daughter I once was before I turned 16, before I met and dated Ryder and got into my bad habits. Moving out was also hard and l because I was leaving my family, my childhood home that I grew up in, my friends that I had become friends with again and leaving Helen as well. It was also stressful as well because I didn't have a job at the time and I needed to find one. To pay rent, clothes, food, power, bills and other things that I needed as well. Because I couldn't keep relying on my family, Helen, Rose and Caleb for paying things that I need or give me money. For 2 years I had lived lived with Caleb and Lilly when we moved here to Los Angeles 4 years before Caleb kicked Lilly out for what she did. For 2 years Caleb and everyone else either bought me things that I needed or lent me money. Until one day I had decided to get a job so that I could move out of Caleb's apartment, to get an apartment of mine and to pay for my own stuff as well. I remember when my mother and I had gotten into a huge argument about me getting a job as a waitress when I visited them on a weekend after I moved away and before we got into the fight that we had on Christmas last year. She said that a respectable young lady should never get a peasant job, that she should either be a lawyer or find a husband who will pay for everything. I told her that I'm a independent women who doesn't need a husband to pay for things or a husband at all or be a lawyer like her and my father. I also told her that I will become a robot with no feelings. She got angry at me she called me an grateful child and she slapped me very hard across the face which she has only done a few times whenever we argue which is most of the time. I held my right cheek where she slapped me and I cried as well. I looked at her with a shocked and surprised look after slapped me. She hadn't done that for long time not since we had that fight when I was 16. She tried to apologize to me soon as she slapped me. But I turned away from her, I grabbed my suit case that I had brought with me because I was suppose to stay for the weekend. I left the house, I put my suitcase into the car, I got into the car and I drove away before she could catch up and stop me from leaving. When I had got home from my long drive home my mother I called me but I declined her call and I turned it off before she could call me again. After that argument we had I ignored her calls and texts for a month. My father asked me a couple a times to call her and talk to her about the argument we had. But I couldn't call her and forgive her at the time for what she said and for slapping me as well.

I definitely won't be doing anything adventurous and wild for 22nd birthday unlike other 22 years old do for their 22nd birthdays. Because I just be spending it with Rose and Caleb here at my apartment. With a shopping day then spending the rest of the day and night here at my apartment watching romance movies and eating pizza, ice-cream, all sorts of candy and chocolate. I would of invited Ryder and Emilia but I can't because they are back in San Francisco and I don't want to drag them all the way out here to Los Angeles while Emilia is 7 months pregnant and plus 5 hours and 38 minutes. I did invite Lilly and Jake but I uninvited them because of what they did. Hopefully Caleb and Rose doesn't change the plans that I have made for my 22nd birthday and do something silly and stupid like drag me to a club in town. To most likely drink and get drunk or completely wasted. To also hook up with some random guy we just met at the club and do things with him as well. Like they did to me last year on my 21st birthday. The night didn't go according to plan like it was suppose to. When I turned 21 last year the legal age to go to clubs and drink Caleb had dragged me, Lilly and Rose to a new club which had just opened. When we got to the club Caleb had promised to stay by mine, Lilly's and Roses side for the entire night. But it didn't last very long because Rose and Caleb had ditched me and Lilly. We tried to find them among the huge crowd of people that were in the club. Lilly was helping me until Rick came and she ditched me Like Caleb and Rose did to go dance with him. Which left me by myself to find Rose and Caleb so I could tell them that I was going to go home because there wasn't any point of me being there anymore when they ditched me. While I was trying to find them by myself which wasn't a good a idea at the time. Because this really creepy guy walked up to me and asked me if I wanted to dance and I politely said no to the guy so that he didn't think I was rude or something. I walked away from him and I had got my phone out of my purse so I could either Lilly, Rose or Caleb to tell them that I was leaving the club and going home but none of them answered so I put my phone back in my purse and I kept trying to look for Lilly, Rose and Caleb. The guy kept following me everywhere I walked to he wouldn't leave me alone and take no for answer which he obviously never had any girl say to him before me. He kept trying to touch me every time I would stop to look for Lilly, Rose and Caleb. I went to the bar to see if they were there but they weren't I get my phone out again and I went through my contacts and I found Jake's number. I called him and he answered the phone I asked him if he could come to the club to take me home. I told him the name of the club he said that he was already at the club. He asked me where about's I was and I told him I was at the bar and that there was this wouldn't leave me alone.He told me to stay where I was and that he would come to get me soon. I waited for Jake to find me and to take me home because I didn't feel safe walking home alone especially at night when anything can happen to me.

The guy bought me a drink which I should of no because I didn't realize that he had spiked it and I was stupid enough to drink it. He spiked my drink with roofie it's a date rape drug that guys use to spike girls drinks with so that they can take them home and rape them without the girl trying to up a fight. Plus you can't smell, see or taste the drug to know if your drink has been drugged or not. After I had finished the drink I had started to feel very dizzy and the room started to become fuzzy I looked at the guy and he smirked at me had realized that he spiked my drink and drugged me. the The guy almost took me he would of taken me to his place to most likely to rapped and kill me. Before he got the chance to do that Jake had came and saved me from that fate he shoved the guy on the ground and punched the him in the face a of couple times. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked to see Jake punching the guy. Caleb, Rose with their guys that ditched me for showed up and Lilly and Rick also showed they walked up to me and helped me up. Caleb and Rick managed to pull Jake off the guy before he killed him. Security came and took the guy out which was good. Jake was really angry when he was punching the guy because he had ago Caleb, Lilly and Rose for ditching and for not sticking with me when I was nearly going to get taken and raped. He eventually calmed down after a while then he said to Caleb, Lilly and Rose that he was taking me home so that nothing bad happens to me. They said to make sure I got home safe and put me to bed so I could sleep it off. If Jake hadn't of saved me that night I wouldn't be alive right now. Me and Jake left the club and he took me back to my apartment to look after me. When we got back all I remembered when I woke up was Jake bringing me, undressing me and me falling straight to sleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. When I woke up the next day I looked down and noticed that I was in my panties and a t-shirt of mine. I was shocked and surprised to see Jake came into my room with some toast and a cup of coffee for me. He put the plate of toast and coffee on the bedside table for me to eat and drink. He sat down on the bed next to my legs. I asked him if he stayed until I fell asleep and left. He said that he stayed the entire night making sure that I was ok and he also told me everything that happened that night because I had no memory of what happened in the club after we had left. Jake said that there was this guy that got into a fight with because the guy had spiked my drink and that he had ago at Lilly, Rose and Caleb for not staying by side. I told him that it wasn't their fault and that it was the guy's fault for even thinking it was ok to spike a woman's drink and if he wasn't following me he probably would of done it to someone else. I hugged him for 10 minutes and thanked him for saving me. I was happy and glad that Jake saved me from getting rapped and murdered. After what happened that and knowing Jake for a few months we had started to date. I will always be glad and grateful to Jake for saving that night even though that he cheated on me with Lilly and broke my heart as well.