*Charlie*

"What do you mean she's with someone else?!" I growl, trying not to shout but to keep my temper under control. I've seen what happens to people in here when they lose it - I'm not about to let that happen to me.
But it's hard to control myself when I hear the words I've been so desperate not to hear over the phone. The guy I hired to keep watch over Rose is telling me everything. And I am growing angrier and angrier with every single word I hear.

How she's met someone and that they've been spending all of their time together. About how she's made a whole new group of friends. About how she hasn't been reading my letters, just throwing them away. How she still hasn't quit her cheap job even though I keep telling her to.

That's it.

I slam the phone down against the machine and stomp back towards my cell, ready to release all of my anger through another letter. One she will have to read...

To Rose,
Don't think I don't know what you've been up to. I know everything. Every detail. How could you betray me? After everything I've done to keep you safe while I've been locked up in here. You disgust me. I love you. I thought you loved me? Don't think I won't get you back for this, I will. I will. Trust me. And this man of yours... He needs to be ready for what's going to happen to him. I will kill him, and then we can be together again. You will have no choice but to fall in love with me all over again. I know you haven't been reading the letters, but you will regret it if you don't read this one. Take this as a warning, and if you don't see it... Well I guess you won't know when I'm coming. And that won't end up well for you. I will be seeing you very soon. Sooner than you think.
From, Charlie.

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*Rose *

"Rose, I'm home! I brought the mail up with me. Rose?"

I open my eyes slowly and cringe at the light flooding in through the window in my room. I groan when I see the time on my clock next to my bed. 12:56pm. Wow, I slept late...

"Sorry Summer. I'm coming." I croak through my tiredness and I yawn. I turn around and see Vic sleeping soundly next to me, snoring quietly into the pillow. I smile at how peaceful he looks and I carefully slide out from his embrace, taking my silk dressing gown off the hook on the door and wrapping it around my still naked body.

I head towards my dressing table and look at my reflection in the mirror, seeing the just-fucked look very clearly. I brush my hair quickly and braid it at the side, combing my fringe so it isn't such a mess. I quickly use a makeup wipe to wipe away the remnants of last nights makeup that I didn't have time to take off and then decide I look presentable enough, walking quietly out of my room.

I walk into the lounge whilst trying not to look as tired as I still am and I see Summer watching television and eating from a bag of chips.

"Oh, it lives!"

"Good morning to you too." I groan slightly as the sun is still too bright for my sensitive eyes.

She laughs and turns around to look at me. "Afternoon, don't you mean? I've never known you to sleep in that long before, what's going on?"

"Nothing. Just had a late night, that's all."

"When do you ever not have a late night?"

"True." I say absentmindedly and fold my arms across my chest.

"Mails on the table." She tells me and points in the direction of the table.

"Oh yeah." I walk over to the table and pick up two letters each addressed to me, the handwriting on one of them all too familiar. Charlie. I sigh and rip it in half, throwing it in the trash and not giving it another thought. I recognise the other one as a cheque from work and I put it in the draw safely.

"Anything interesting?" Summer asks me uninterestedly and I shake my head.

"Nope."

"Meh. Anyways, how was your little date with Vic last night?" She says and winks at me, turning around on the couch to face me fully.

"It was nice. I took him to the meadow." I tell her and the smile lingers on her lips, but the previous happiness in her eyes disappears. I avoid eye contact with her and pretend to look out of the window, acting like it's not a big deal to me, even though she knows it is.

"The meadow. You took him to the meadow?" She seems slightly angry but also concerned and I turn to look at her, frowning.

"Yes. What's wrong with that?" I say and she raises her eyebrows at me as if she expects me to know the answer, and I do. "I didn't break down like last time, don't worry. It was nice. I'd like to go again with him actually."

"Well, as long as you're happy..." She says warily and I smile at her. "So that's all you did?"

"Well, I, uh-"

"Morning." I am interrupted by a tired, slightly rough looking Vic who walks into the lounge in just his boxers. He sees Summer and his eyes widen. "Shit, uh, I didn't know you were... I'll just go get changed. Uh, sorry." He stutters, jogging back to my bedroom and Summer laughs.

"So that's what you got up to last night." She says and smirks at me, making me blush and shake my head at her.

"Shut up."

"Well, aren't I lucky I didn't stay here last night." She continues to tease me and I hit her playfully on the back of the head, walking out of the lounge and into the bedroom where I see Vic almost fully dressed apart from his torso which is naked.

He doesn't see or hear me come in and I stand in the doorway as I admire his messy hair and tanned, toned body. He has the 'just woken up' look and it suits him a lot, making him even more attractive than usual.

"You should stay here more often if that's how you're going to look in the morning." I say and startle him a little. When he sees me and processes my words properly he smiles, slips on his top and walks over to me, sliding his arms around my waist and kissing me gently on the lips.

"I'd be happy to, if your sister doesn't see me half naked again." He says and a portion of his blush from earlier returns in his cheeks, and I smile at how innocent he looks.

"She shouldn't complain. I definitely wasn't." I smirk and pull away from his grip, taking off my dressing gown even though I am naked underneath, and I put on some lacy underwear that I take from my closet draws. I turn around to see Vic staring at me, his mouth slightly agape.

"I think I might have to stay here more often..." He says and I giggle, pulling a white lacy dress off one of the hangers and stepping into it.

"Can you zip this up for me?" I ask and move my hair out of the way, turning around so my back is towards Vic.

"Course." He mutters and slides the zip up slowly. "That dress looks really nice on you."

I blush and look down at the floor. "Thank you."

"It's so cute when you blush." He smiles and takes my hand in one of his, brushing my fringe out of my face with the other and locking eyes with me. I blush even harder and he smiles wider, leaning forward and kissing me.

I close my eyes and so does he, the kiss deepening and becoming more passionate. He caresses my face with one hand lets go of my hand with the other, letting it wander up the back of my dress, and I do nothing to stop it. I put my hand up his shirt and I hear him moan quietly into my mouth and I grin against his lips, loving the fact that I have that sort of effect on him.

The kiss becomes rushed and more messy than it started off with as we start to remove each others clothing, me trying to unbutton his jeans and him trying to slide off my knickers from under my dress.

"Rose, I- Woah, okay, sorry! Shit, uh, I did not want to see that. Got my eyes closed, this is so awkward." I hear Summer interrupt us and me and Vic pull away from each other as quickly as possible, my face burning with embarassment in front of my sister and Vic holding back his laughter. "Are you guys done fondling each other yet or should I leave you to carry on?"

I laugh when I see that she still has her eyes scrunched shut and that she is turning away from us, leaning against the door frame awkwardly.

"Please say you're done or I might have to leave the apartment."

I laugh. "Yeah, we're done now. Sorry about that, maybe you should knock next time."

"Maybe you should lock the door next time, or maybe even give me a little shout to say that I shouldn't disturb you. Jesus." I can't help but laugh and neither can Vic, and Summer scowls at us. "Vic, I don't ever want to see you trying to take off my sisters underwear again, okay? And Rose, you're still my innocent older sister whom I look up to. Seeing you literally trying to get down a guys pants is not setting a very good example for me."

"Shut up, Summer. As if you don't get up to anything while you're at uni." I start to laugh and suddenly stop as I see a flash of emotion cross her expression. "Summer? Did I say something wrong? Sorry..."

"No, it's fine. Uh... Yeah, it's fine." She tries to reassure me but fails. I look at her disbelievingly and she smiles at me, not convincing me at all. I send her a look that means we will talk about it later and she looks down at the floor.

"Okay, good."

"So are you two doing anything nice today?" She looks up and asks, acting completely normal now.

"Not unless Rose had anything planned...?" Vic says and looks at me questioningly.

"Uh, no. Actually I thought maybe me and Summer could spend some time together with Elle today if that's alright?"

"Yeah, that's totally cool. I'll chill with Tony or something." He says and we smile at each other, and I can tell he still wants to laugh about being caught a few minutes earlier. "Anyways, I will leave you girls to it then. Summer, I hope you're not too traumatized from what you saw." He says and we all laugh, me turning red once again.

"I think I'll survive." Summer jokes and smirks falsely.

"I'm glad. See you later, Rose. I'll call you later." He turns to me and kisses me tenderly on the lips, then waves and heads out of the apartment.

"Okay, now spill." I say and cross my arms across my chest, looking at Summer impatiently.

"There's nothing to spill-"

"Don't lie to me. Lie to whoever else as much as you want, but don't ever lie to me." I say sternly, trying to show her that I can see through her lies.

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"Don't lie to me. Lie to whoever else as much as you want, but don't ever lie to me." Rose tells me, and I can tell that she has seen right through my lies. I figure that I can't find a way out of this one and I sigh in frustration. I'm going to have to tell her everything.

"Can we at least go into the lounge and sit down?" I ask her nervously.

"After you." She says and unfolds her arms, following me into the lounge and sitting on the couch and turning to face me.

"Okay..." I lose all of my ability to process speech and thoughts as nerves take over. I am so worried about what she will think of this - whether she will be angry with me for not leaving Jack sooner or whether she will be triggered or sad because she knows how it feels.

"Summer, you know you can tell me anything. You don't have to be so nervous, it's only me." She says soothingly and her words calm me mildly. I take a deep breath as I feel tears start to sting the corners of my eyes and hear my heart rising and falling rapidly.

"Okay. I know. Okay. Uh, well... I really don't know how to tell you this."

"Just say whatever comes to mind. It's okay, Summer, but you're starting to scare me now. I don't know what there is to be so nervous about but I don't like the way this is going."

"I lied about uni." I blurt out and I see her eyes widen in shock and then squint as her eyebrows furrow in confusion.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Uh, I-I lied about going to uni. I haven't been to uni for..." I clear my throat. "I haven't been to uni for a really long time, I quit."

"What? Summer! Why? Are you stupid? You're going to throw your life away, you was doing so well with your course. You're going to end up just like me, and you don't want that." She says sadly. Her words hit me and I realise that she is right - I am slowly becoming more and more like her. She dropped out of uni - I dropped out of uni. She got beat - I got beat...

My eyes blur with tears and I blink them away, causing them to fall down my cheeks slowly. I look down to try and cover my face, but it's no use. She has already seen that I am crying and it's too late to take back what I said now.

"It wasn't my fault - I didn't mean for it to happen! I-"

"Sh. It's okay." Rose places her hands gently on the sides of my face and wipes away my tear trails with her thumbs. "You didn't mean for what to happen?"

"I didn't know he was going to hurt me." I say quietly, but she heard every word. I hear her breath catch in her throat and she gulps heavily.

"Summer... What are you talking about?"

"I..." I trail off, not wanting to carry on telling her, afraid that she would be angry with me for not doing something about it the way she should have done when it happened to her.

"Who are you talking about, Summer?" She asks me softly, but I can tell she is impatient for the answer and wants to know if what she is thinking is correct. Little does she know that it is 100% true. "Who is hurting you?"

I burst into tears, not being able to contain myself anymore and she shuffles over to me on the couch, wrapping her arms around me and letting my tears soak into her clothes. "I'm so sorry." I choke and she shushes me.

"You have nothing to be sorry for. We will get this sorted. This isn't your fault, okay?" She asks me and pulls away from the embrace, holding my shoulders and looking me in the eyes. I see tears glistening in the corners of her eyes and I feel guilty for telling her.

I can't get any words out so I just nod in response to her and she pulls me closer again, and this time I wrap my arms around her, the both of is wrapped up in each others arms and each others sadness.

Notes

Sorry, this took me longer to update than i thought it would, its basically because i have come up with a better twist for the story and in order to do this i had to add in a few chapters, so when i said this one would reveal trouble and stuff...i kinda lied...well i didn't lie, i just changed my mind a bit, this chapter does have some interesting and important things in it though but you will have to wait for the real drama ;)

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