Justin was sitting on the floor when Chris came out of Lilly's room.
"What happened? Is she OK?" He asked, standing to his feet. Chris looked at him.
"You can ask her that yourself. She asked me to send you in. But, don't force her to talk about anything." He paused and looked at Justin, he nodded.
"Im going down to talk to the guys, she wanted me to explain it to them. But she wanted to be the one to tell you."
Chris patted Justin's shoulder and walked off towards the stairs.
"Hey Chris."
He stopped and turned around to face Justin.
"Thanks."
Chris smiled and went downstairs. Justin turned and softly knocked on Lilly's door.
"Lilly?" He asked.
No response.
He slowly opened the door to see Lilly sitting on the floor by the bed crying. He went inside the room and closed and locked the door, then walked over to her. Kneeling beside her, he moved some hair out of her face. The second her saw her red, puffy, cloudy eyes, and tear-stained face, he wanted to scoop her up in his arms and transfer all her pain to him. But she looked so vulnerable and ready to break at any moment.
"What's wrong honey?"
She slowly started to go through her story again. When she finally finished she was still crying. Justin tried to hug her to show her things would be OK, she would be OK. But she drew back, afraid of guys. Even though she knew she could trust these five guys, she was still scared.
He put his hand on her shoulder and felt her jump and tense up. He immediately removed his hand and sighed.
"Im going to go downstairs and let you get some rest. If you need anything, I'll be right downstairs. So will the rest of the guys."
She nodded her head and tightened her grip around her legs.
"Don't worry Lilly, I'll protect you. Nothing and no one will ever hurt you again. I promise."
He got up and went to the door, then looked at her. He then left the room and went downstairs.
"Guys, we have to do something. That monster ruined her life." He said when he got to the living room. All the guys agreed.
"Joey's in the kitchen talking to Virginia, she went through something similar as a child. Her father beat her and her mother too. But her mom took her and left before it was too late." Lance said.
Justin nodded and sat down on the couch by Lance. He was about ready to cry himself.
~*~ About 10 Minutes Later ~*~
All, the guys were sitting in the living room when there was a knock on the door. Joey went to answer it and hugged Virginia when she came in.
"Thanks for getting here so fast." He said.
"Sure, you said it was an emergency, so I got here as fast as I could."
She sat down on the chair and Joey sat in the floor in front of her. While Chris explained, once again, what happened to Lilly when she was younger. Virginia noticed, that out of the five guys, Justin was taking this the hardest. About half way through, he couldn't take hearing the story again so he went to the kitchen, sat down at the table and started crying. When Chris finished, Virginia stood up.
"Guys, before I go talk to Lilly, Im going to go talk to Justin. You guys stay here."
She walked into the kitchen and found Justin with his head on the table crying.
"Justin?" She asked. He didn't answer.
She sat down across from him.
"You like her don't you?"
His head shot up and he looked at her, then he looked back at the table and nodded his head. She smiled and put her hand on his arm.
"Don't worry, she'll be OK."
He nodded once more, and suddenly they heard screaming coming from upstairs.
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