Song: Alone- Ava Max and Alan Walker

The flight home was intense as Ashton and Atticus kept looking over at the two of us. Every now and then I will see Atticus on his phone and I just knew that he was talking to my dad. Eli gets up to sit across from me as he grabs a pillow to prop up my leg. He leans down to help me place my leg firmly on the pillow beside him. He then grabs my other foot and starts to massage my foot. His fingers go in between my toes and he adds a little more pressure. I let out a soft moan and of course I get the looks to kill from Atticus and Ashton at the same time. I make my eyes bulge out at them and snare up my nose with a crooked smile waiting on them to continue with whatever they were doing. I look back over at Eli and we both start to smile at each other.

Once the jet lands, we get in the car that was already there where they have left it earlier. Even the drive home was intense. As we pull up through the gates, Eli's hand tightens around mine.

"Everything will be fine, you will see; you have nothing to worry about." I nudge him in the arm with my elbow.

He continues to look out the window at the massive mansion that is now sitting right before us. "It's been years since I have been here. For some reason I thought I made this place up but wow look at this place it's just like I remembered."

I look over at him a little puzzled. "You have been here before?"

He turns to look right at me. "Of course, my dad brought me here years ago. I was always in awe of this place. I thought whoever lived here must have owned everything in the world. I always wondered how it would feel to live in a place like this."

"Well...maybe you will just get that wish after all."

As we get out, he was about to pick me up before I stop him. "Eli, please don't. I can walk in with the crutches. Atticus can you please get them out for me."

"I really don't mind carrying you," he says as his arms start to pick me up again.

I hold out my hand for him to stop as I step away from him. "I know you don't but I think its best that I walk in on my own, if you know what I mean."

I hate the look he gives me but I am glad that he doesn't put up an argument up about it. If I walk into the house with him holding me, I will never hear the end of it. Ashton grabs the door and opens it as I walk in with Eli right behind be and then Atticus. Atticus passes by my hop along pace and drops off the few suitcases that I have by the staircase and then walks on in to the living room area. When I step into view, my mom smiles up at me glad to see that I am back at home.

"Well we are glad you are back home. It's nice to see..." She stops when she sees Eli come up by my side, "And Eli. Please come in and have a seat your dad will be right out."

I hop over to the sofa and Eli sits down beside me to grab my hand within his. A few moments later I hear my father walking down the hallway as he is talking with someone and the moment he comes around the corner Eli jumps up into standing. "Dad what are you doing here?" he walks over and shakes his hand and they do this off to the side hug with a few pats on the back.

"You know why I am here." He tells him as he is doing the half hug but he is staring right at me. He lets' go of Eli and walks right over to me with open arms. "Little Violet it has been so long." His arms come around me in a warm embrace.

"Jasper, wow it's been forever. How have you been?" I let him hug me but the whole time I am wondering why the hell is he really here. I glance at Eli and he is just as shocked as I am.

"Better than you the way it looks." He stands back to look at me and then pats Eli on the shoulder. "Look I need to have a word with my boy here do you mind if I take him away from you for a few seconds?"

I throw my hand up in the air while I look back and forth between the two of them. "No, please do; whatever he is your son you have the right to converse with him."

Eli steps back over towards me as he rubs his hand along my head as if petting a little puppy. When he leans down he kisses me on the forehead of all places. "I'm sorry; I will be back in a few."

"Don't be sorry. I will see you in a little while." I try to reach up to kiss him but he backs away before I can. Suddenly I feel a little annoyed with him because he acts like we are only friends and nothing more.

My dad turns and walks back down the hallway as Jasper and Eli follow after him. I wonder what they all have to talk about that is so secretive. Of course I don't have time to think about that as my mom sits across from me. "So what really happened?"

"I slipped and fell, really it was nothing." I try to brush it off but I know she is not going to let me do that.

"Nothing, seriously look at you." She gestures to the cast on my leg. "Vi this is serious."

"I know it is; I never said that it wasn't." I want to avoid making eye contact with her but I know that is not going to happen. I throw out my right hand in the air and let it land on my leg. "I was being stupid alright."

She gives me this look, like I better start explaining myself or she will take my head off. I puff up my cheeks with air and then let the air out. "It's true. I am not lying to you. I was being stupid. I wanted to go to a club just to dance and let myself go. I have been busting my ass off with dancing and I just wanted to do a little freestyle." I stop for a second as she crosses her legs and leans forward giving me her full attention. "I had a little too much to drink. When I walked out to my car I slipped on the pavement and somehow my leg got all bent up underneath me. I heard a pop and anyway that is how it happened."

"You want me to believe that and Eli, why is he here with you? How long have you been seeing him again?"

"Actually we haven't talked at all in the past few months, not since you guys left." She looks at me with this quizzical look. "I'm telling you the truth. I have no reason to lie to you." I close my eyes for a second just wanting to block it all away however when I open them she is still there wanting more. "Ok. Apparently he has been watching me still alright. He followed me to the night club. I was drunk, like really drunk and I was trying to get into the car to drive home. I fumbled with the keys and dropped them as I was bending down to pick them up, I slipped. Go figure, look at me, little miss clumsy." She doesn't laugh or make any facial expression for that matter. "He happened to be there, like he was waiting on me to mess up or something. He was there behind me and he took the keys away so that I couldn't drive. I told him I was fine but he insisted to drive me home. I let him believe that I was fine." I roll my eyes. "He made sure I got rest for the night and the next morning he took me to the doctor, alright. That is it...I swear." I hold both my hands up to her. "Nothing else happened between us."

"So there is nothing going on between the two of you, hummm" she raises her eyebrows again. "He is just looking out for you?"

When I don't respond fast enough, Atticus clears his throat. I already know he has said something to the two of them. I bite back a few choice words as I roll my eyes in frustration. "He might have kissed me." I look over at her again nothing. "I might have kissed him back. Fine...alright I still have feelings for him alright is that what you want to hear?"

"Now there is the honesty that I was looking for. You don't ever have to keep anything from me you know that right?"

"I know. So I need you to be honest with me since we shouldn't be keeping anything away from each other. Did Eli call you telling you I was hurt again?"

My dad walks into the living room at that time and stands beside my mom. "No he didn't, Doctor Mateo called us. He had to make sure we had the insurance and the funds to pay for the extensive surgery."

I look down at the floor. I feel so bad that I keep costing them so much money but in reality they have so much coming out their ass that my few thousand dollar surgery won't even skim the surface. "I'm sorry, I really am."

"Mateo said that they warned you to take it easy. He was surprised that it held up as long as it did considering how much you have been dancing."

"You wanted me to finish out the season did you not?"

"Yes...but to practically kill yourself no. He says you will need extensive therapy and it will talk a long while to heal this time. So you will stay here. I already set up therapy to start up once the cast is off."

I should have known that was coming, anything to keep me home under their wings. "But I have to wear the cast for a good six weeks or more and then therapy will take months. I..."

"We are not asking you to stay, now it's final everything is set up, welcome back home."

No they are not asking, they are fucking telling me that I will stay whether I want to or not. "And Eli...what about him?"

He doesn't say another word as he shoots daggers through my eyes. He turns to look at my mom and then turns to walk out of the room, ignoring my question all together. I look up at my mom for an answer and she throws her hands up in the air.

"Give him time Violet he will come around."

"Yeah...so you say. I think we both know him well enough that it will take more than that." I stand up and head off towards my room. As I get to the hallway, I hear sounds coming from the workout room. I should ignore it but instead curiosity has my attention. Why would they be in there having a meeting when they should be in his office. The closer I get to the room, I hear grunts and punches. I have heard those sounds several times over the years and I wonder who is getting their ass kicked.

As I come into view of the mat I noticed that my dad is bouncing around the mat and he is hitting no other than Eli. What the hell is going on here?