@NikkiReed: For those of you speculating about my relationship. I wish you would stop. Especially aiming insults at a young girl who didn't ask for any of this.
I was surprised when I read my ex wife's tweet this morning as I ate what should have been breakfast but was just a handful of kisses. "Have you seen this?" Paul asked coming into the cast room and handing his phone to me.
"She went live to talk about your relationship." He told me and then pressed play. "As many of you know me and Ian divorced in August of this year. What you didn't know what we had seprated long before that, just after our beauftiful little girl was born." She said with a sad smile. "Ian and I didn't seprate because of anything he did, or anything anyone else did. It was on me." I was shocked. "I hurt him deeply hurt him in a way I never thought i would be forgiven for. But when he found out he did. He forgave me because that's the type of man he is. I knew i broke him. I couldn't look at him. We tried to make it work for Bodhi's sake. But I fell out of love with him. I broke his heart. He didn't break mine." She paused and looked down. "He moved out of his own house. His house. For his daughter. He wanted her to have a stable life with everything she deserved so he walked away from everything. But he never walked away from his daughter. In fact it was the oppisite. He fought for her and I pushed him out of her life. For my own selfish reason because I couldn't look him in the eye knowing I caused the pain that I saw flash through his eyes when we spoke." What was she doing? I asked myself. "I cut all ties with him but that didn't stop him. The thing about Ian is he loves with his whole being. Everything he is he'll give to you and thats exactly what he did with his daughter. He wouldn't simply walk away because things got hard." She took a another breath of pause. "I wouldn't have let him see his daughter again if it was up to me. But then I met this sweet girl. Elodie styles. Before everyones started bashing her in the comments, Elodie isn't the villian in this story she's the hero. She gave Bodhi he dad back. She made me see things clearly." What is going on? "She reached out to me. Around late Novemeber time. Me and Ian was in a custordy battle and she could have been horrid to me, knowing all she knew but she wasn't. She asked if she could talk to me. I agreed because I wanted to know what she had to say." She coughed clearing her throat. "We met at a coffee shop the following day and we sat down and spoke. She asked if she could bring Bodhi to Ian, so he could see his little girl on his birthday. When I said no, and shut her down straight away she respectful said okay, before explaining to me why I would regret what I was doing in the furute. She told me she grew up without her biological dad. She was adopted. I hope she doesn't mind me sharing this. And she told me the anger she felt towards her father when she found out. She was angry that he gave up on her. No matter how many times her mother explain to her it was for what's best she didn't care. despite having a happy life with her mum and siblings she was still angry at her dad." Elodie spoke with Nikki in grave detail just so I could see my aughter possibly one last time. "When she spoke with her dad and heard why he gave her away she understood but she was still hurt. Why didn't he fight for her when he was back on his feet. Why didn't he stay in touch. She had all these questions. And things were fine for a while between her and her dad until she lost him recenetly. And she felt the pain all over again the anger all over again. She could of had a life time of memories with her father but she only got a short while because of mistakes that were made that couldn't be taken back. And she asked me, She goes. "Nikki, Please don't let that little girl right there ever feel the anger and betrayal of thinking her dad never loved her, never wanted her. Please. I know and You know Ian would never give up on her but she won't know that because she'll never know him." Please don't let her think he gave up because he wanted to." She actualy had tears in her eyes. "When she left the coffee shop I realised how selfish I was being. I hurt Ian and I was hurting him more now by keeping the one thing that makes him happy away from him. I was hurting my baby by keeping her father out of her life in the long run." She wiped the tears away that fell. "I called her on the 3rd of december... And asked her to meet up with me again. I heard Ian laughing in the background. He sounded genuinally Happy. He was laughing because this girl who was trying to stop me from making a mistake was making him happy and I heard the laugh I haven't heard in a long while again." "What is she?" "Just listen." Paul told me. "She gladly met up with me again, this time she came to my place. And we spoke for a long while. I won't go into detail but I realised she was what was keeping Ian together. Everyone knows E can go off track quickly, he can have a temper and he can drink a little too much but she. This girl who was fighting for him was what was keeping her together. She came over at 5 in the morning when I called her on Ian's birthday and she came and got Bodhi. My baby came home and she has never been happier. My hu-Ian is a god dad. He never turned his back on his daughter and Elodie. The girl everyone is shooting bullets at she is one amazing young girl. Who is inteligent and posed. That girl didn't do anything wrong. Sh ewas just there to support a friend in need and help me see clearly. She's not a home wreck, if anything she put our family back together. So lay off the poor girl and give her a god danm break." "She's posted this?" "This is viral, it was a live she did last night." "And Ian, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I hurt you." And the video stopped.
"Has Elle's team seen this?" "Everyone in the world has seen this." "Well where is she? Everything is fixed." "She's not turned up yet." I frowned. Elle is never late. Like ever. She'd rather not get changed than be late for work. I tried to call her but it went straight to answer phone. "Hey It's elodie, leave a message and I'll call you back." "Elle, where are you?" I say and hang up. "She's going to be so happy." "Who is?" Candice said coming in. "Elle." "Why?" She asked oblivious. "Because Nikki has fixxed everything, she put out a statement and- "Elodie's on a plane." "What?" "She's heading home." "Why?" "She got death threats, he brother came and picked her up last night." "Why did no one tell me this?" I asked annoyed. "She aske dus not to becaus eshe expected your reaction would be this one." Kat said. "No one thought to tell me she was heading home?" "She'll be back when it all blows over." "Her mother isn't going to let her out of her sight." I say grabbing my jacket and keys. "What time was her flight-"Morning." She said walking in suitcase dragging behind her.
"Flight got cancelled there was a storm...I took it as a sign not to get on a different flight unlike my brother." I smiled and hugged her tightly. "Woah." She said holding me back after a few seconds. "Have you seen the vi-"One second." She said answering he phone and going off in the corner to talk. "Stop smiling. It doesn't suit you." kat joked nudging me. "It's all going to be okay."
"Well?" Candice asked. "Well?" "Is everything fixed?" "God no." Elle said almost amussed. "Theres still the lying to the world about being adopted for my entier life, the Nina sister thing, The dating roumours. But me being a home wrecker taken off that list." She said sitting down. "Elodie... Lovely to have you on set today... We're going to cover you in blood and dunk you in a swimming pool. That okay?" A set manager said coming in. "Sounds thrilling." She said getting up. "Wait!" I say loudly before she could walk away. "If you want to talk you're going to have to come to the blood room." She joked and I followed her out.
"Whipped!" Paul called after me making a sound effect and the two girls laughed. "What's up?" "We haven't spoken properly since the kiss." "What kiss?" She asked uncertain. "Not the one on set." "Well that wasn't a kiss. That was an almost kiss." "So specific." "You want to talk about it?" "Duh." "What do you want to say?" "I... Um... I." I couldn't find the words to say. "That it was a mistake and that it shouldn't of happened. That you were drunk and not thinking straight? All of the above?" "Actually no." "Then what?" "I don't know." She chuckled shaking her head and changed quickly into costume. "I will let you figure it out." She said patting my shoulder before leaving. "What do you think?" "Huh?" "About the almost kiss what do you think?" "I think that...I am a silly hormonal teenager who almost ruined the best friendship she's ever had." And with that she left.
"You almost kissed?" Candice said shocked. "You almost kissed my sister!" Came through the phone. "Coming Tessa." i say practically running out of costume. Elle was already filming when I arrived at set. I tried to get her attention but she was professional and wouldn't look away from the scene. Paul on the other hand... now thats an Idea. Nope. Both of them were too invested in the scene partly because it was a one take kinda scene. And Paul just trew Elodie in the water... "Cut." And now everyone was laughing because that pool water was freezing. E resurfaced on the other side and pushed herself out and set put a robe over her shoulders to prevent her from getting cold.
I approached her. "Word of warning, Nina knows that we almost kissed." "How?" "They were stood there when we were talking and-" "Hey nina." She said answering her phone. "I wrote to you about it." "She wants to speak to you." She said handing the phone over. "Paul!" She called and left me with the phone and an angry big sister. "Hi." "I ask you to look after her and then you try to kiss her." "In my defence she tried to kiss me." "Don't kiss my sister period." "Got it." "Anyway how have you been. I miss you." I laughed. "I missed you too. i had Bo this weekend." "Aww how is she?" "She's grown so much, she's sitting up basically on her own." I gushed
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Age Is But A Number
FanfictionIn which an alternative ending to the original series TVD's is being filmed and New star Elodie Styles joins the cast. Though there's a secret that's kept from her until the last moments of her father's life... Will she ever sort things out or will...