Morgan

After that day with Ethan, the one where I almost gave everything up to him on my living room sofa AND the day that the cops were called to his house, everything seemed to fall in line for us and our relationship.

He didn’t notice, but that day when the police were called, I picked up the crumbled business cards that were given out and did some investigation of my own. I found a counselor at one of those domestic abuse groups who were willing to help without getting law enforcement involved. She managed to find Ethan’s grandmother on his mom's side, and a date had been set to when she would be arriving… only Ethan didn’t know anything about it, yet.  

We’d been going out steadily for almost four months, and I couldn’t have been any happier. My parents liked him. Clarissa didn’t look at us weirdly anymore, she used to seem suspicious of us being together, but the ice around her attitude seemed to thaw out a b