As we eat dinner I admire everyone's animated conversation. Even the very confusing story Belle brings up. My mom continues to coo over Belle and her and dad make Raffaele feel even more welcomed. All we need is adoption papers, hell. All conversation stops when we hear a door close. We look over to see Joel walk in, "Sorry I'm late for dinner. I went for a walk and lost track of time." Joel glances at me and sees that both seats beside me are taken and he frowns slightly. He comes and joins us, sitting by my mom. He fixes himself a plate and my dad gets in a deep sports conversation with Daniel since he's captain of the basketball ball team.

  I smile at how adorable this is. I love how my boyfriend and dad are bonding. But I catch Joel glaring at them and giving a smug look before looking at his phone while eating. I sigh and shake my head. "Hey Joel.." He snaps his head up and raises an eyebrow,  "Yeah?"

"How was your walk?"

"It was nice.. very tranquil and relaxing."

  I nod my head, returning to my food. I engage in a conversation with him, maybe he feels left out. Or maybe he knows how everyone feels about him. We have a conversation about dance suprisingly. He brings up phantom of the Opera and I almost die. It's a very livid conversation and of course someone gets jealous,  "It's so adorable how you know so much about Maxxine.. a lot of that stuff sounds familiar. Like its straight out of a book or a journal of some type."
 
   I glance at Daniel realizing he's right. What he's saying sound like it's from my journal. But it reminds me of when Daniel went through my journal. That must be why he knows that! "It takes one to know one Danny." He blinks rapidly at me and I stare at him, "I'm just saying that sounds an awful lot like your journal." I smirk, "And how would you know? Oh yeah, because you were the first to go through my journal. And my journal isn't even in this house. It's hidden in my mom's old house so how could he look through it if we haven't been there? Maybe he just knows me and maybe you're a little scared that someone knows me a little better."

  He blanches. I bite my tongue, realizing what I just said. He excuses himself and walks away.. upstairs. I hear the door slam and I jump a little. Everyone looks at me except for Joel. I excuse myself and run upstairs. I open my door to see Daniel on my bed, nose flared and face red as a chili pepper. "Are you that fucking dumb Maxxine?" Excuse me? "What the hell did you just say Daniel?" He smirks, "You heard me. Are you that fucking dumb to actually believe that he knows you that well? How does he know you that well all of a fucking sudden? He didn't know that shit yesterday? Or when y'all came back but all of a sudden this dude knows everything? He's obsessed with you and you can't even fucking see it! I don't fucking understand. Oh wait, and then you make me look like the bad person cause of his hard life. I had a hard life too! Did you forget? So stop being stupid and naive about this."

  I look at him. I can't even with him. I just get up and simply walk away. I can't argue with his stubborn ass. I bump into a hard chest. I look up to see Joel smiling at me, "Good. We need to have our talk." Oh yeah. Forgot about that. I walk with him to the room he's in and he shuts the door. He smiles at me and I smile. I hear a door down the hall slam and the door downstairs open and close. I hear a car start and I hear it screech off. Daniel. My face drops completely and Joel notices. "What's going on with you two? Did you break up or something?" I swear my heart clinches at the though and I look at him as if he wiped out a whole land of people, "Never! Nothing will ever break Daniel and I up! We're made for each other!  I'll never love anyone like I love him."

  He gives me a look and rolls his eyes, "Sure Maxx. Anyways, let's talk." I nod my head, "About what?" He frowns, "About how no one likes me. I'm not dumb and I heard everything everyone had to say about me. Why do they hate me? I live you just like everyone else does. And honestly why are your with Daniel.. when you can be with someone better?" He sits beside me and looks at me. I chuckle and it turns into an inappropriate laugh, "And who is honestly better than Daniel?" And that it. He kisses me. He pushes me down with all of his weight and continues to kiss me. I'm squirming and hitting him to get him off but he won't budge. He breaks the kiss, "I told you this skirt was too short, easy access." He kisses me again before I could do anything and I'm literally using all of my weight to get him off. He pulls down my underwear and. I heard his pants unzip. He pulls out a condom and flashes it in my face he breaks the kiss again and stuffs a cloth in my mouth and grapples my hands while trying to open the condom.

  No.. please no. I'm squealing and still kicking. The door swings open, "What the hell?" I can hear the broken voice. No he thinks I'm cheating.. I'm not just look at my face.. you can see the tears and the truth. He throws Joel off of me and his face drops. "This fucker did not try to rape you." He hands me my underwear and gets up. He looks to where Joel was but sees that he's gone. Daniel sits beside me and try to stop me from crying he takes to cloth out of my mouth and I sob loudly and very inhumane. I'm literally shaking. I see Raffaele and my parents looking at me and with that, Raf already knows. But he can tell he's gone. He calls in another wanted and sits beside me to help comfort me. Lesson learned. Never doubt my boyfriend and brother again.

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What?!?! Updating the next day?!?! I know. Maybe I'll update again today. We're getting close to an end but definitely since Joel is missing, the sequel will be even better. But a couple more chapters for this book and we're done. I also have a new book coming up. I talked about it before but I'll talk about it again at the end of this book or close to the end. Love you guys and enjoy!

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