SEBASTIAN **I hate how the weekend was so slow, cuz it was Monday again. I had one of the best times of my life with him this weekend.Though he had to keep me hidden because he said he didn't want people knowing he was dating me, at least for now. The attention on him will be a lot. Especially since everyone is talking about me coming out.I haven't seen the news, touched the internet or checked anything at all that weekend.I didn't even touch my phone, I just wanted to spend quality time with him and I did."So... what are you gonna do? Your house or your office?", Asher asked getting ready for school."My house first, Timothy already told me to come over that we needed to talk, and we actually do, also need to have a good conversation with My Dad but, not today", I said."Okay, well I already made breakfast. ", he tossed me a key."You can lock the door when you're leaving "."Isn't this your key?"."Spare key, so you can come anytime you want ", he said.I smiled, "You're so s
SEBASTIAN * * It was a Saturday evening, exactly one month after my whole family drama. I got a call from the hospital that my Dad was dying and he needed blood. Fast! Usually, Anthony was always the one donating blood whenever my Dad was sick. My mom always made sure of it. Something about my blood being contaminated because I had tattoos. I got to the hospital as fast as I could. Anthony wasn't in the country, it would literally take at least two days before he gets here. We were checking everyone possible for a possible match. I knew I was a match so I told them whether or not my blood was pure it was better than no blood at all. My mom was confusingly refusing I even get tested. I just thought she was being paranoid and went ahead the get tested. The result was what confused me. It wasn't that my blood was contaminated because of Tattoos, no it wasn't. It was that my blood wasn't a match with my Dad. Which was crazy to think of because we had the same blood grou
"Are you telling me that my mother has been lying to me? what for? she had no business with Graceville. Your mother might be involved because I mean clearly she use to work there, but what mother has to do with any of this? let's assume what you're insinuating is true in the slightest way possible, why the fuck will she want to buy a trafficked child? I was there on the day Anthony was born, I lived through it all, from the very first day, I was young but I remember things clearly, so what are you even saying?", I was getting pissed at this point. "I don't know okay? I genuinely don't, and I want to lie and convince myself that we're just imagining things, but lines are crossing Sebastian, lines are joining . And Asher-". "Asher is older than me, so there's no possible human way that I'm his older brother, it's impossible, clear it from your mind. Even if you think our mothers are lying to us, his definitely won't, especially because she's dead so please, shove all of us in the bin
I hated that hangover feeling you get after drinking your ass out the previous night.My head was banging, there was pain relief on the table with a bottle of water.Asher I swallowed the pills and then went to take a shower and then got out feeling a lot better than earlier.I got downstairs and found Asher in the kitchen."Someone finally woke up"."What time is it?"."Past 12pm"."Whatttt???", I shrieked."Yeah your friends just left like 30 minutes ago, they came to check up on you since you ghosted them last night and didn't show up at work today", he said dropping a plate of freshly baked bread and eggs in front of me."Damn it, and I had somethings to do at work today", I said digging into my food."You're such a good cook you know that right?",I asked.He smiled, "So, you want to tell me what happened last night?", he asked taking a seat beside me.It was at that point that memories of last night flooded my head. I paused and took a deep breath in and then released it."Nothi
At 6:42 am, I got a call from the hospital. It was a call I expected a long time ago. I had lived this day in my head a couple of times but my reaction to the reality of it was different. My Dad was dead. Immediately I cut the call the first person I called was Anthony. Not to ask him how he was taking the whole news, not to ask him if he was ok, but to check up on my mom. She's been attached to this man all her life, she changed her entire identity just to become the person he would love to have as a wife. His eyes decisions became her decisions, his life became hers. Although my father never loved her, he only loved the ideas of having a woman like her. "How's mom?", I asked. "She's... she's not breaking down", he said sounding so surprised. "I don't get it". "She's already planning his funeral with his sister's, I don't know if she's pretending to be strong or she's just kinda happy he's finally dead I don't know". "Where are you guys?". "We're at the airport heading back
At my Dad's funeral, I watched my mother cry her heart out, but get this... it's fake. Now I've seen her in her most emotional state, I've seen her cry I've seen her emotional, I've seen her Sad over the past few months because of my Dad's health. The day he died she showed zero emotions, she didn't cry , not even for a second. And now she's weeping at his grave but she doesn't even mean it, at all. It's so fake that it's scaring me. "Sebastian what's happening with mom?", Anthony asked coming to stand beside me. "I don't know", I mumbled. "I mean we're the ones that are supposed to fake the tears and she's doing that for us". "It's like she's happy he's dead, but she's putting on this show so people will sympathize with her", I said. "Hey I don't blame her, I mean if I were her and went through all those shits she went through, believe me even I will be happy ", he said. "Exactly, but we're not her, it's mom. This woman is obsessed with him, badly obsessed". "I think we sh
ASHER **"There's no way I'm going to join you and your family for a celebration vacation of your Dad's death", I said for the 600th time."But my mom insists", he said."Look I get you, I really do and yes I do want to spend time with you, but there's no way I'll be comfortable there, I just won't. I would love to meet your mother again, she was so nice to me the other time, but right now no, I just can't "."It's gonna fall on your birthday, we can spend time there instead of reading books or whatever it is you do there", he said ."Babe don't worry about me I'll be fine I promise, go spend time with your family"."I want to spend time with you ", he said."Me too, but that'll be when you come back, I promise "."Fine", he mumbled."I love when you're like this, it's cute, we'll talk later okay? I gotta go now ", I said He groaned and then I blew him a kiss and cut the call.I went back to my project. I was sitting at the football mini stadium. Just a few people were there."Hey
I was emotional about today.. I turn 29 and I have zero accomplishments... this is definitely not how I had pictured my 29 years to be.And tomorrow would make it a year since I met Sebastian. I remember because Veronica forgot today was my birthday and then she said she would make it up to me by going on a date with me... one she constantly forgot about everytime.Maybe this year was gonna be different, because I was determined to be different, and I wasn't going back.The next morning I got a basket of gifts from GWM employees. I guess they never forgot my birthday. I called Lucy to thank her because I knew it was all her , we talked and caught up with each other.Maybe I would go for the Superbowl. At least I don't have to be sad and emotional today.I went to my mom's grave later that day, spoke to her for hours, cried at a point, reminded her how much I missed her so much and then I got home in the evening.Eric called reminding me of the Superbowl and I told him I was definite
ASHER * * Sebastian mother was the nicest woman I had ever met and for a second, I legit forgot that I was here to find out about things. She couldn't stop talking about me and how much she loves that I was able to make Sebastian comfortable and bold enough to face his ruthless father and come out. She talked about her marriage with her husband and how cruel he was and apart from the money, one of the biggest reasons she chose to stay was because of her kids. She reminded me so Much about my own mother. Her's was mental abuse while my mother's was Physical. I genuinely felt so bad for her. Infact I was convinced that the real monster here if there was any was Belinda because this woman was too kind to be involved in anything shady. It was until Belinda came that I snapped out of everything and realized why I was really here. "What is he doing here?", Belinda asked not so pleased to see me. "I came into town and so I invited him for Lunch", she said nicely. Belinda rolled he
"What? no , look I already closed that chapter of my life already, I'm genuinely not interested in finding any lost sibling of mine"."I know Asher, it took you a while to move on from the whole thing but right now we need your help, things are far more complicated than it's looking", Timothy said."What's happening?", he asked.Timothy looked at me, I looked at him."We think somehow... one of us might be adopted from Graceville".Asher looked taken aback, "What?"."There's just way too many evidences, but then so many loopholes we can't just connect the dots"."Wait I'm confused, when do you mean one of you are from Graceville?"."There's a secret birth certificate of Sebastian, we managed to scan it properly and it had Graceville as the address. And I the picture of Sebastian's birth, my mom was there, but she wasn't pregnant, which is odd because.... I was born two months after him".Asher stared at both of us, startled."When did you guys... when did you start all these? when did
Before I came back to New York, I paid a short visit back to my mother's house to meet Nona.She was surprised to see me."Can you explain more on what you told me that day? about replacing my letters with more valuable informations"."Oh, it's just pictures of you and Timothy, I found them when they were renovation the house some months ago in the garage, didn't want it to be thrown away so I decided to keep them, for memory", she said calmly.But this wasn't the answer I was looking for, and deep down I felt like she knew the answers to everything,but she wasn't going to tell me."Is there... anything you wish to let me know?", I asked."Only that I wish the best for you", she said and then returned back to her daily activities.I left home more than confused, everything seemed to be crashing in my head.My relationship with Timothy was on a loose thread, the only thing that's keeping him around Is the company.We barely talk to each other unless it had something to do with work, de
SEBASTIAN * * * I genuinely didn't even know when or how we got back, but I woke up in Asher's arms. We had a pretty long night, I think we both got drunk and had a karaoke night, good thing it was just the two of us there. Whenever I was with him, I felt free, I didn't feel like I had to act perfect and pretend... my inner child always come alive when I am with him. "What time is it?", he asked rubbing his eyes sounding so sleepy and hungover. I looked at my watch. "Almost 10 am", I said. He sprung out of the bed, "Are for for real? fuck I have a class in like 40 minutes", he said grabbing his phone. He held his mouth, "28 missed calls from Eric?". I sat up. "Why is he calling you that much?". "We were supposed to go to the Superbowl last night remember? I Just ghosted him, Damn", he said calling him back. I rolled my eyes and laid back on the bed. "Hey.... I'm so sorry... Rea really sorry about last night, something very important came up ... yes it was very importa
I was emotional about today.. I turn 29 and I have zero accomplishments... this is definitely not how I had pictured my 29 years to be.And tomorrow would make it a year since I met Sebastian. I remember because Veronica forgot today was my birthday and then she said she would make it up to me by going on a date with me... one she constantly forgot about everytime.Maybe this year was gonna be different, because I was determined to be different, and I wasn't going back.The next morning I got a basket of gifts from GWM employees. I guess they never forgot my birthday. I called Lucy to thank her because I knew it was all her , we talked and caught up with each other.Maybe I would go for the Superbowl. At least I don't have to be sad and emotional today.I went to my mom's grave later that day, spoke to her for hours, cried at a point, reminded her how much I missed her so much and then I got home in the evening.Eric called reminding me of the Superbowl and I told him I was definite
ASHER **"There's no way I'm going to join you and your family for a celebration vacation of your Dad's death", I said for the 600th time."But my mom insists", he said."Look I get you, I really do and yes I do want to spend time with you, but there's no way I'll be comfortable there, I just won't. I would love to meet your mother again, she was so nice to me the other time, but right now no, I just can't "."It's gonna fall on your birthday, we can spend time there instead of reading books or whatever it is you do there", he said ."Babe don't worry about me I'll be fine I promise, go spend time with your family"."I want to spend time with you ", he said."Me too, but that'll be when you come back, I promise "."Fine", he mumbled."I love when you're like this, it's cute, we'll talk later okay? I gotta go now ", I said He groaned and then I blew him a kiss and cut the call.I went back to my project. I was sitting at the football mini stadium. Just a few people were there."Hey
At my Dad's funeral, I watched my mother cry her heart out, but get this... it's fake. Now I've seen her in her most emotional state, I've seen her cry I've seen her emotional, I've seen her Sad over the past few months because of my Dad's health. The day he died she showed zero emotions, she didn't cry , not even for a second. And now she's weeping at his grave but she doesn't even mean it, at all. It's so fake that it's scaring me. "Sebastian what's happening with mom?", Anthony asked coming to stand beside me. "I don't know", I mumbled. "I mean we're the ones that are supposed to fake the tears and she's doing that for us". "It's like she's happy he's dead, but she's putting on this show so people will sympathize with her", I said. "Hey I don't blame her, I mean if I were her and went through all those shits she went through, believe me even I will be happy ", he said. "Exactly, but we're not her, it's mom. This woman is obsessed with him, badly obsessed". "I think we sh
At 6:42 am, I got a call from the hospital. It was a call I expected a long time ago. I had lived this day in my head a couple of times but my reaction to the reality of it was different. My Dad was dead. Immediately I cut the call the first person I called was Anthony. Not to ask him how he was taking the whole news, not to ask him if he was ok, but to check up on my mom. She's been attached to this man all her life, she changed her entire identity just to become the person he would love to have as a wife. His eyes decisions became her decisions, his life became hers. Although my father never loved her, he only loved the ideas of having a woman like her. "How's mom?", I asked. "She's... she's not breaking down", he said sounding so surprised. "I don't get it". "She's already planning his funeral with his sister's, I don't know if she's pretending to be strong or she's just kinda happy he's finally dead I don't know". "Where are you guys?". "We're at the airport heading back
I hated that hangover feeling you get after drinking your ass out the previous night.My head was banging, there was pain relief on the table with a bottle of water.Asher I swallowed the pills and then went to take a shower and then got out feeling a lot better than earlier.I got downstairs and found Asher in the kitchen."Someone finally woke up"."What time is it?"."Past 12pm"."Whatttt???", I shrieked."Yeah your friends just left like 30 minutes ago, they came to check up on you since you ghosted them last night and didn't show up at work today", he said dropping a plate of freshly baked bread and eggs in front of me."Damn it, and I had somethings to do at work today", I said digging into my food."You're such a good cook you know that right?",I asked.He smiled, "So, you want to tell me what happened last night?", he asked taking a seat beside me.It was at that point that memories of last night flooded my head. I paused and took a deep breath in and then released it."Nothi