SEBASTIAN**I grabbed my phone with shaky hands and called Anthony."What is it?", he asked not so excited to hear my voice."Anthony, Asher's mother is dead", I said."Who the fuck is Asher and what's my business with his mother?"."Asher, me bodyguard, the mother had cancer, Leukemia, same thing Dad has", I stated."Oh... Damn, she died?", he started getting the memo."Anthony we need to talk to Dad about this thing, we need to tell mom, so we can sit down like one fucken retarded family and have a Goddamn conversation about what we're doing", I stated."Dad is not gonna want to talk about it, he might even get furious and send us out "."Anthony we're walking on Eggshells, we don't even know what we're doing. One day he's gonna up and die and we're left with zero idea on what he wants or what he didn't want. All this hints no I'm not fucking with them, I'm not. I want to know what he wants and everything, Damn it" He sighed exhausted, "Look, Dad's not gonna want to talk about i
ASHER * * I was standing in front of a beach house. An actual beach house. Sebastian brushed pass me. "What's wrong? you don't like it?", he asked. "Like it? this place will take me a full century to even-" "Asher, don't, just take a deep breath in and enjoy", he said holding my shoulders. I nodded, It's hard not to overthink. "So, do you know how to cook?", he asked. "What?". "I totally forgot to get a cook, I only paid for a house keeper and I don't want to go through all that stress of getting one", he said. "You don't know how to cook?", I asked about to laugh. "I spent my childhood trying to be an ideal son for my Dad, cooking was not an ideal son". I chuckled, "I can cook", I said. "Good, perfect". We went into the house, it was a cabin but with glass walls. It was beautiful. "Alright so unfortunately There's only one bedroom, I can't believe I'm only realizing that now. But there's like 4 bathrooms, what the fuck, who built this place, I can't believe I bough
ASHER * * I woke up at 9:15 and the house was smelling so good. I noticed first of all that I had a blanket around me. Again. I smiled and went to the bathroom to freshen up. I came out and went to find what was smelling so good. Sebastian was in the kitchen, he was making burgers. Again! And this time they didn't look so bad. "Okay, what's going on?", I asked "Well I'm recreating everything you did last night", he said passing me a plate. I took a bite out of it, surprisingly, it wasn't so bad. "It's not terrible", I said. "I'm making progress, so I'm guessing I've got a good teacher", he said "That's nice, but if I'm gonna let you do the cooking that'll probably mean we'll have to be eating burgers everyday", I said. "Anything to prove to you that I'm not just a rich spoilt son of an Alpha male". I smirked. "What do you want to have for breakfast?", I asked. "No it's okay I already ate a lot of these before you came, how are you? how was your night? did you sl
ASHER**I'm laying on the bed right now and you won't believe whose next to me sleeping.Sebastian.Let me tell you what happened to today.It was gonna be a rainy day, we could already see it. We stayed indoors watching TV and talking about the most random things. Asher tried making breakfast, pancakes actually and it was horrible of course, they split in half and had too much sugar in them.I decided to make lunch and dinner.It was night time already and the weather was still pretty gloomy.This time you could see the rain clouds very well and the lightening was threatening already. I wrapped myself in a blanket and closed my eyes to sleep when I heard Sebastian's room open, he walked to the kitchen and out, and started walking around. He didn't seem like he had anything in particular doing."You can come stay in the bedroom if you're cold", he said.I opened my eyes and looked at him. The first thought that came to mind was that he wanted to sleep with me which would have been
I swallowed hard and sat up.I've waited for him to say that to me for months, but yet I can't smile about it because we just can't be together."We can't be together, you know that too well even more than I do"."Yes I know that, trust me I've thought about it for weeks, I do. But I don't want to die today or tomorrow or whenever I live a long life knowing that I for the first time knew I wanted someone so badly and because of I was afraid and a coward .Asher I'm not gonna forgive myself if I let you slip away, I won't. You've made me see myself lot different, made me realize my life is a lot more different than it truly is.".He held my two hands, "I know this is gonna be hard, really really hard, but I want to give this a chance, I really do".I swallowed hard, I was so anxious."This is the same thing that happened with Veronica and I", I said.He started shaking his head."No it's different, listen Veronica is a terrible person, she is and you know it and let's be honest with ou
SEBASTIAN * * * I wished I could stay a week longer at the beach house but unfortunately I had a company anniversary to plan and a father to impress. Asher is... I can't even use words to describe him. Sometimes I think he's so unreal, sometimes I think it's just fate playing some dirty trick on me. We spent the remaining days in each other's arms never wanting to let go. But unfortunately I had to go back, especially when Timothy said that Rebecca wanted to meet my family with her family. Which seemed like progress to me. It was hard pretending like Asher and I didn't make out in every corner of that house. We didn't have sex though, Asher said he wanted me to really figure out if this was what I wanted or it was just the sex. It was going to be a Family dinner at my place. My father and mother were already seated, having small talks with Anthony. Rebecca's family came in and trust me, I didn't know I was in for the most shocking night of my life. They started interacting
I put my fork on the table and let out the breath I was holding, I feel like I should just leave the room at this point."If you don't want to marry Mr Sebastian you can just say it than all these lies you've come up with", her father said."Why do you think I'm lying? what you don't your sweet innocent daughter can be a Lesbian? well let me just say it now. I'm sorry Mr and Mrs Greenwood, I really am I do apologize for leading your son on up till this moment, the only reason I faked this love was because I thought that if I hide my true self and be who people want me to be it will be better, but the truth is I am in love with Beatrice, she is the woman I want to spend my life with -""Enough!", her father yelled."Over my dead body will I sit and watch you spew such disgusting horror from your mouth, where did this come from? who is deceiving you? is it that your wayward cousin Stephanie? you leave London for a few months and you've already let these terrible people influence you? wh
SEBASTIAN **Later past midnight, when everything was over and I was tired as fuck, I went to Asher's room.I knocked, the door was opened so I opened it, he was on his laptop.He smiled."Hey", he said, "How did the whole thing go? you don't look so good"."Terrible", I said taking off my shoes.He closed the laptop and bided me to come. I did, I crashed on him. I suddenly felt like all the pressure on me was taken away. I felt so good."Well Rebecca brought Beatrice around", I said."Her girlfriend? oh shit".I nodded, "Yeah terrible shit, Halfway through everything they started asking Beatrice about stuffs with her and she mentioned she owned a Queen Strip club, Club Eden"."Oh yeah I know that place, it's at Malcom street"."Wanna go there sometime? Beatrice said everything should be fixed by the end of the month", I asked.He smiled, "Definitely ", he said.Then I continued, "Of course Rebecca's father was not going with the whole idea, asked her why she'd be having someone lik
"What?"."It was a harmless kiss I promise... and I didn't kiss him, he kissed me and -""WHAT?!"."I'm sorry I'm only telling you this now and it's like... terrible timing, I know I'm sorry, I really am, but I promise like... it meant nothing to me okay? we were just hanging out and I felt like he was starting to reconnect with old feelings so I told myself it would be the last time we'd meet and I went to meet him to tell him that I was in a relationship with you and that he shouldn't get any ideas that all of this was just platonic.We started talking.. I don't know what happened but he kissed me... I kinda snapped back to reality and then I told him about you and that I was in love with you and -""Why didn't you tell me like... months ago?"."I'm sorry, I just didn't think it was gonna be anything, I'm just telling you now because I'm beginning to see how horrible it's looking like now... I'm sorry Asher".He raked his hair."Do you find him attractive? I mean it's fine if you w
I had to put on my fake smile."Hi", I said."Fancy seeing you here", he said shaking me."Yeah I just came for a short vacation, work stress is killing me, you?"."I'm actually here for a friend's wedding, it's tomorrow", he said."That's nice.... uhm this is my Boyfriend Asher, Asher this is El Fuego".Yeah I saw Asher's face when I mentioned his name. The cute thing about Asher was that he doesn't know how to hide his facial expressions."Oh .... wow, this is... THE Asher, pleasure to meet you", Fuego said .Asher just gave a fake friendly smile and nodded."So ... what are you guys doing today?", he asked ."Nothing in particular, we just planned on staying home and enjoying the weather.", I said."Well, you can join us, we're going sight seeing", he said..I looked at Asher, of course he wasn't interested in going sight seeing with me and my ex"."We would love to, but maybe some other time", i said."Alright then, we'll see you around", he said and then we waved each other a goo
SEBASTIAN **Work has been crazy recently. I'm going to work by 6 am and coming home by 2 am. Most times I just sleep at work.We had to create a small room right next to my office with two beds, a closet and a bathroom for Timothy and I, cuz recently we've been working from the office.Now I low-key get why my Dad was so paranoid about getting a good CEO to take over, this company required a lot of work.After one month of stressing each and everyone of my employees, We finally hit our monthly target.I had to double everyone's salary for the month, I was definitely the one to reward someone when they've done well.I decided I was going on a two weeks vacation with the love of my life. And you know the universe wanted that too because that also happened to be the same period he was on his break."Asher just pick one country, it's not a big deal"."I genuinely have nothing in my head right now, honestly, they're just so many places I've wanted to go but .. there's nothing in my head
I gave Timothy and Sebastian a run down of everything that happened, in details. But it got dark and twisted when I got to Nona's part. Sebastian said he was gonna convince her to talk but Timothy reminded him that she's very religious, and blood oaths aren't to be broken.So we had to figure it all out on our own. I gave them my own piece of advice; We drop all of this and move on with our lives whether or not we get to live in a lie or not. Nona already mentioned we stay out of it, that It was more complicated than we imagined and we should stay out of it. Honestly I didn't want to get involved in it anymore. I'm getting my life on track, I've got a degree to a prestigious college, I'm dating the best man to exist in the universe, I'm slowly finding comfort and healing from my past trauma's and no longer feel pain from my mother's death. I don't want to go back there again. And that's what I told both of them. And we all agreed to not talk about it again and let everything die.
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