In the past week I all of my bruises had healed, all of my cuts had scabs and some of the small ones were gone. I spent from 7:30 to six at Andy's house with him, tomorrow he'd go back to school, and thanks to the doctor I have three extra days to heal before I go back. I've spent my nights at Vic's, and slept in his bed that smelled just like him, which was rather comforting.

Finally Andy had convinced his dad to help me with my emancipation and today was the day I was due in court. Andy bought me a nice dress to wear. For the pretrial, the judge would decide if I had a case or not.

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"All rise her honor now enters the court. We all stood up. I was the first case of the day. I was sworn in and Andy's father started asking me questions. My father didn't know yet what I was doing.

"Is it true that your father has raped you before?"

"Yes."

"On how many accounts?"

"Too many. He did a week and three days ago, and beat me."

"Did you end up seriously hurt?"

"Yes I ended up in a hospital."

"Did he admit you?"

"No my friend saved me from my father. Who didn't seem to notice that I was barely conscious."

"Does your friend know that he's beat and raped you in the past?"

"Yes, my father usually does it as soon as I get home so I will signal my friend about five minutes after I get home to let him know I was ok."

"Was this the first time you've wound up in a hospital because of him?"

"No. But this time was the worst."

"You see your honor, she needs to be removed from her father, and it wouldn't be good for her mental health to remove her from her friends. She needs to be able to take care of herself."

"Agreed. Issued is a temporary emancipation so she can be away from her father, she may move out. Notify the father that he needs to appear in court for this case."

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I walked out of the court room to find Vic. I ran and leaped in his arms. "I can legally leave that house." I whispered.

"Samantha Elise Ross," he said breaking the hug and cupped my face, "Will you be my girlfriend?"

"Of course." I smiled.

He kissed my forehead.

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I went home with Vic. I watched the guys practice and jumped in on my part, in Hold Till May.

After the guys went home I said my good nights with Vic and went into his room. I quickly fell into a deep sleep.

*Dream*

I was walking around my Dad's house, it was dark and erie. I turned around, sure that someone was there. I see a grim rapper walk into another room. I quietly tiptoe backward and bump into something I turn around and it was a ghostly pale version of my mother. She looked at me with tortured eyes.

"How could you do this to me?" She kept repeating whispering quietly and slowly got louder and louder until she was screaming and grabbing on to my arm.

I turned around and saw the Grim Reaper rapidly advancing towards me and my mother. I screamed. "I didn't do this! Mom listen to me! I didn't do this!"

Someone was shaking me. I woke up gasping. Vic was the one shaking me.

"Are you ok? You were screaming." He looked at me with his worry-filled brown eyes.

"It was just a nightmare." I sighed.

He sat down on his bed. "Are you sure your okay?"

"Can you sleep in here tonight? I'm really spooked."

"Yea." He hopped under the covers.

He wrapped his arms around me. "What was your dream about?"

"My mom.." I trailed off.

"You didn't do it, kill her, you know, you couldn't have given your mom cancer."

I sighed, "I've heard too many times that its my fault, I guess you just start to believe it, after a while."

"I know you didn't and she knows that."

And then Vic's parents came rushing in.

"Vic? What the hell was that, I heard screaming, and you two are in bed together?" Mama Fuentes asked.

"It's not what it looks like, I swear." Vic tried to explain.

"No you have to sleep upstairs with us now, you can't have sex with her she's a minor and nonetheless under my roof." Vic's dad said.

"Mr. and Mrs. Fuentes, what happened is I had a nightmare about my mother and her death and I was screaming, so Vic came in here, woke me up and was going lay here with me until I fell asleep. I swear nothing like that happened at all," I explained, "My father for years has blamed her death on me even though it was just cancer. Every once in a while I have a nightmare about it."

"Fine but Vic, get out of the bed." Mr. Fuentes said.

"uhh.."

*Vic Pov.

No, most definitely not. I kinda had a boner, but I wasn't going to try anything, but if I got out of bed, they'd notice and send her away. Okay think Grandma naked.

"Can he stay? It helps to have someone that cares about me near after my nightmares." Sam asked.

"Fine but not in that bed he can sleep on the floor. Vic get out of the bed." My dad sternly commanded.

And it's gone. I got up out of the bed, and grabbed my pillow from the couch and a thick blanket from the hall closet, and walked back in my room and laid on my wood floor.

"Okay you better stay down there, Victor." And my parents walked out of the room. She and I pretended to be asleep when my parents walked in twenty minutes later. After I was sure they were in their room asleep I hopped up on my bed, and cuddled with Samantha, we fell asleep like that.

We really need to get our own place after she get emancipated.

Notes

Sorry it's so long and