I'm waking up from the sounds of my phone ringing so I grab the device and look at the time before I pick up without looking at who it is. "Aiden, it's literally three in the morning, what the f-"

And then I hear the sobbing and the ragged breaths on the other side of the phone, what causes me to jump up in my bed and spring to my clothing room to get a t-shirt as I look at who is calling me.

"Gia? What is going on? What happened?" I am literally panicking. She's not able to form a sentence if even a word.

"K-Keenan?" She finally manages to say. "Yes, yes I'm here, bellissima. What is going on? Where are you?"

My heart is beating against my chest as if I just finished running a marathon. Is she hurt? "I'm out with Eliana and Oliver. A-and they were suddenly gone and when I looked for them someone grabbed me and it w-was Nick."

"He grabbed you?" I feel my skin starting to burn, my heart ache from her cries and the feeling of being helpless right now for not being here right now. "Yes. But I ran outside of the club and now I'm standing in a valley but it's so dark and I am scared, Keenan." She begins to be more and more hysterical.

"Send me your location, I'll be there as soon as possible. Don't move from where you are, okay?"

I didn't want to hang up. I wanted to make sure through the whole drive that she is okay but she hung up the phone.

The club wasn't far from my home. I drove way faster than I was allowed to but it made me be there in seven minutes. I park my car and sprint out of it and look for a dark alley she talked about when I already heard her.

"Gia?" She runs out from the dark spot and immediately jumps into my arms. Her whole body is shaking and there is cold sweat on her neck and on her forehead. Her face is already buried in my chest but I grab her again and look at her face, her throat and look for any kind of bruises to only pull her closer to me when I couldn't find some.

"I'm here, baby.." I tell her as I stroke her hair a little bit and have to hold myself back to not burst out in anger when I see the two people in front of me. Eliana's expression turns into shock as soon as she sees her sister literally falling apart right now in my arms.

"Oh god, Gigi. What happened?" El goes to grab her shoulders but Gia flinches away at the touch and looks at her with her face still against my chest. "Get into the car, okay?" I open the car door and wait for her to sit on the passenger seat before I close the door and turn my attention to her sister.

As I look at her, I see that she's wearing her shirt the wrong way around, sweat coating both of their foreheads and her hair being very out of place. "Did you know he was there?" I ask her.

Eliana looks shocked at first but then looks to her boyfriend and then down on the floor. "I wasn't 100% sure if it was him. But I guess then I saw him."

She wasn't even trying to lie about it. I can't tell what feelings I am feeling right now. I could cry because of seeing Gia like this. But I answer the way I always do in these situations.

"So you saw the ex-boyfriend of your sister that mentally abused her and threatened her to beat her into a fucking hospital bed if she wouldn't fucking shut up about it and still decide to screw your boyfriend instead of getting her the fuck out of this club?! Without telling her where you are going? You just left her alone with him!?"

I think she only tealized what she actually did in this exact moment. Because she puts her hand in front of her mouth and looks into my car with her sister in it. "Can I please talk to her?" She asks.

"I'm bringing her to my place now." Is my answer, grab her boyfriends arm and shove him into an empty cab that is parked behind my car and hold the door open for her. "Now get lost." I wait for her to get into it too and then close the door, watching it drive away.

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We are almost at my place when I look at the woman next to me. She has her knees against her chest, looking as if she would try to protect herself with it. She watches the raindrops cascade down the glass of my windows and the lights on the streets show the tears in her face.

So I pull over, stop the car, unbuckle hers and my seatbelt and get her on my lap. "Come here..." She immediately holds me close to her, just whimpering a little from the cries she tries to hide. "It's okay, bellissima. Let it all out.." With that, she starts sobbing, crying. Breaking down.

"I don't want this to have such a big impact on my life anymore." She admits. "I don't want it to bother or hurt me anymore. I just want myself back again, Keenan. And I don't know how I'm supposed to do this but right now it feels like it'll never happen. It feels like I have completely lost control of my own life and I don't know who controls it right now because it is not me."

I don't want to cry. But it feels like I feel every single emotion she feels right now... and I don't know what else to say but that I am there for her...

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Dad told me he would be there in a few minutes. Eliana apparently told my parents about what happened last night so he immediately called me to be outside in five minutes. So I got out of the building and was pulled into his warm embrace that always manages to make me feel safe.

"Oh god your sister scared the living shit out of me, baby. Are you alright?" He asks me in a worried tone to what I just answer that I am fine. "Why didn't you call me or your mother in the first place?" He asks.

"...Because I know he picks up and I feel safe around him." I tell him... Dad looks down at me, stroking my cheek. "You're falling in love, Gigi."

"I know. And it really scares me, dad."

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Omg.

I cried.

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