Ok, I feel so horrible for taking so long to update. I hope I still have my readers because I love seeing the same names in the reviews for each chapter. I'm back to finish the story if you guys are still reading. Please review at the end so I know if you guys are still into it. After this long wait, please enjoy.

One month later

Lucas's POV

It's our second day back home after everything happened. Jason, Penelope, and Riley are all doing fine. Riley still hasn't told me what happened when Missy had them and I don't want to push her but it's driving me nuts knowing I put her in this situation and I can't help her.

"Do you need anything?" I question when I see her staring off into space.

She looks at me and gives me a small smile and looks down at Penelope. "I've got to get going. Charlie wants to see her before he leaves." She grabs her keys and the car seat and hurries out the door.

I let out a frustrated groan and kick the wall. This is what I've been getting. Nothing. For a whole month. It's getting to me. I know she went through a lot but we're suppose to be helping each other through things. That why I'm here. To pick her up when she's down. To be the one to pick up the fifty percent of the relationship when she can't put that much because she can barley get through the day. I'm here for her.

I just don't understand how she doesn't want to talk about it. She went through something so - so traumatic and she's shutting everyone out. The only person she talks to and has a full conversation with is Jason. Speaking of Jason.

Jason hasn't spoken at all. He just sits there. He will only talk to Riley but that's only if they leave. They talk to each other. She tells me he talks to her, but won't tell me what. I need to know what happened to my son. I need to know how to help him. I need to know how to move on from this.

Jason and Riley wake up screaming in the middle of the night. Last night was the first night I couldn't get her to stop screaming. Lacy tried and she kept screaming. Farkle and Zay tried. Even Maya. But she kept screaming.

Flashback

I'm lying awake next to Riley in our bed for the first time in a month. She looks terrified. Like someone is going to get her in her sleep. I can't take my eyes off her.

I feel Jason start moving in between us and he opens his eyes. "Hey buddy." I whisper

He just looks at me and then flips over and looks at Riley. He stands up and jumps over her and walks to the bathroom. As soon as the door closes Riley starts screaming in her sleep.

Normally I just wrap her in my hands and hold her until she wakes up. This time is lasted five minutes longer then normal, so Lacy walked in.

She tried talking her out of it but this time Riley got up and started swinging and yelling to stay away from Jason. "He's just a little boy." She screams. "He doesn't know any better." She grabs a pillow and just holds it rocking back and forth.

Zay, Farkle, and Maya all run in next and look at her. "She needs to talk to someone. If not us then a therapist. She's going to drown herself in her feelings and she'll take forever to to swim back up." Farkle tells us.

Maya walks over to her. "Riles. Listen to me."

"Get away from him. I get it. Please leave him alone, he doesn't understand any of this." She yells setting the pillow down softly and standing up.

"Riley, it's me. Maya. You're safe. Missy is gone. She isn't-"

"Leave him and take me. I can handle it." She cries.

Maya looks back to us. "Call Corey."

Line break

"How long?" He asks walking in. He hasn't went back to New York yet because he wants Riley and Penelope to go back with him but she insists to stay here.

"At least thirty minutes. We've tried she just won't stop."

He nods and walks over to her slowly with his hands behind his back. "Sweetie, I'm going to grab you softly and you can scream, kick, punch, but I'm not letting go until you wake up." He continues and just when he's about to reach out she stops.

She looks him dead in his face. "You're not touching my son without a fight from me." She screams.

He looks at us and you can tell he blames me. I blame me. It's my fault for not protecting them.

"I'm here to help. I'm here to help you and Jason." He whispers and take a step forward. "You're safe."

"NO!"

He reaches out to grab her and she pushes him away and starts swinging but he doesn't stop until she's in his arms. "It's ok. I got you sweetie." He holds her and rocks her and keeps whispering things in her ear. It takes another ten minutes but she finally snapped out of it.

End of flashback

Riley's POV

When I get to Charlie's hotel I park the car and sit there. It's good to be home and get back into my routine with Jason and everything else and start up a routine with Penelope. I start my new job next week and I'm ready to start school.

Everyone thinks I'm just trying to sweep everything that happened under the rug. I just don't think what happened matters anymore. It happened. It's done. I'm alive. Jason is alive. Penelope is alive. Everyone is where they are suppose to be.

The only one that really is going to be messed up because of all of this is Jason. He hasn't talked since Penelope was two days old. She's a month now. I'm the only one he'll talk to and he still shuts down a little.

People I don't even know are talking about how sorry they feel for me. Every store I go into they look at me with so much pity. I don't want pity. I'm fine. They just don't know how to understand that. I went through it but people go through worse then that.

I just want people to stop asking me if I'm ok. Stop asking me if I need anything. Stop sugarcoating things when I'm around. Stop following my every move. I will tell them if I'm not ok. I will tell them if I need anything and I will tell them if what they are saying needs to be sugarcoated.

If and when I'm ready to talk about it Maya and Lucas will be the first people I talk to. Hell I might even talk to Jason when he's sixteen about it. It may take me a few weeks or fourteen years. What they need to understand is that I'm dealing with it the best way I know how. By not dealing with it and moving on, and when I'm ready to talk to them I'll let them know.

My group of friends are family. They will be the first ones to hear about my prob- I hear a knock at my window and see Charlie standing there. I turn the car off and open the door. "You ok, Riles?"

Here we go again the fake smile so they'll stop asking. "Peachy." I say grabbing the car seat out the back and Charlie carries her inside.

He pulls her out of the car seat and starts making baby noises with her and smiling. "Look I know we aren't together and it none of my concern but are you sure you're ok?" He asks looking from me to his daughter.

"You're right, it's not your concern. What is your concern and mine is, is how we're going to do visitation."

"When I'm not busy with football." Is all he says.

I roll my eyes. "I'm being serious Charlie."

"You don't think I am. Look this is why I said I didn't want her. I love her, she's beautiful." He smiles looking down at her. "But football. It's my life. It's how I'm going to take care of her. I have to focus on that. She has you. When I'm free I'll pay for a ticket to come down here or pay for one for y'all to come down."

"I'm not worried about her. I know she's in good hands and I know you're in good hands. If I didn't trust you I'd want her. But let's be honest. Who is better for her? You." He finishes.

All I can do is nod. "I'll keep you updated with her. Let her know she's loved, your just working hard for her to be taken care of."

"Thank you. I'm going to make sure she's taken care of but I don't know how much I'll be physically there. She's a blessing, she's already been through so much and I just don't want her going through the daddy abandoned me issues. I'll call you when I figure this out."

Line break

I just laid Penelope down for bed and now I'm finally going to sleep. Or I thought I would be.

Lucas storms in the room and closes the door and I already know he's wants to talk. "Look I get it. It was traumatic and scary and you had no one to take care of you like you took care of Jason, but Riley I'm here now and I'm trying. I'm trying so damn hard." He cries.

I know he means well. I know everyone means well. I'm just not ready to talk. The more the keep asking me the angrier I become. I'm angry. I don't blame Lucas for any of this. I know if I talk about it he's going to think I do because of the anger I have. So I keep pushing him a way until I'm less angry, because he's going through it too.

He may not of been there but he's going through it. Wondering where his child was. If he was ok. Safe. Where I was. Just not knowing. And then coming back home to the screaming from both of us in the middle of the night.

I just- I just need space.

I want to tell him I'm managing. That when I'm ready I'll talk to him. He'll be the first one I'll come to. Just give me time.

But I'm angry. So it doesn't come out like that. "Well, I never asked you to try. And I definitely didn't say I needed you here so leave me the hell alone. I said I'd talk to you when I'm ready, and you just don't get that. Leave. Me. Alone." But that doesn't stop him from still loving me.

He nods his head and lays in bed next me and pulls me close to him. "Ok." He says and goes to sleep.

I'm sorry for the long wait again. Please please review though. Hope you enjoyed.