Trouble

“You're the best thing that has ever happened to me, I hope you know this is forever right?” He said, staring at her as they watch the sunset while sitting on top of Adele's car. 

“I know babe,” Adele replied shyly, resting her head on his shoulder. “What if we didn't work out?” she egged him on. 

“What? We will work out.” He turned to Adele, talking her face in his hands as he place a kiss on her forehead “we work out perfect fine princess”

“Hey! Are you okay?” Amanda said,bringing Adele out of my thoughts, she looked up to Amanda looking at her with pity. “I've been calling you for a while now, we are here” She continued when Adele didn't reply. 

Adele nodded at her before getting out of the car and headed straight to her room tiredly, dragging her feet on the tiles like a zombie. Adele entered the bathroom, turned on the shower and sat there crying her eyes out. 

That's not my Jacob, we had our future planned out, he promised me forever. She thought to herself while sitting there, she was so lost in thought that she didn't hear Amanda and her Dad banging at the door

“Wait here, let me get the spare key so _____” he was cut off by the sound of the door being unlocked. 

They looked like they've seen a ghost or something, Mr Harris was the first to recover

“What the hell happened when you met with Mr Kings?” He sounded serious and worried, he continued when he didn't get any reply from her.

“Did he do something wrong, Did he touch you?”

She could only shake my head as she couldn't construct words, she walked past them and sat on her bed. Amanda put a towel around her  

“Can I have a moment with Amanda please?” she pleaded with her Dad with her eyes to give me space not wanting him to see how broken she was. 

Mr Harris nodded “let me know if you need anything” he said to Amanda before closing the door after him. 

“Girl, you better start spilling, cos you've been acting out of it since I picked you up. Tell me everything in detail, Now” Amanda broke the silence, showing her frustration as she sat beside Adele on the bed. 

More tears poured down Adele's face “it's him, he lied” That's all she could say. 

“Him who? Is it Jacob? Did you meet his friend? Did he tell you what happened to Jacob?” I shake my head as more tears keep pouring.

I opened my mouth then closed it back as I tried to put the words together. 

“Ehm, Jacob is Mr Kings” Adele blurted out looking down at her hands 

“I don't understand what you're saying, aren't you supposed to meet Mr Kings, the one who wants to marry you?” She asked, confusion clearly written all over her. 

Adele explained everything to her in full details, which have her mouth hung open

“I.…… I'm speechless, I never thought of him to be an asshole, but you really need to talk to your dad about him” She said as a matter of fact. 

“I don't know, I__” Amanda cut her off instantly “you don't know what? Don't you want clarity as to why your boyfriend of almost three years, who went missing for about six months, turns out to be a stranger with another name and wants to marry you in exchange for helping your father?. Girl, you know I would have turned this whole house down and set it ablaze just to know why he directed me to my father for answers”.

Amanda's words made sense to Adele as it sank into my head making her heart race because she knew Amanda was right, she needed answers only her father could provide. 

“Can you give me a second?” Adele asked rushing to her closet to put on dry clothes before heading straight for her Dad's room. Her steps turned sloppy when she saw him pacing around the study with the door wide open. 

“Dad” she called, causing him to stop to look at her. 

“Are you okay baby?, come sit” he said worriedly

“I need to ask you some questions and I need you to tell me the truth” she ignored his question and went straight to what was bothering her.

“Okay..” He sounded unsure.

“What's the deal between you and Mr Kings?” Adele threw the question at him, he tried to cover up as he wasn't expecting that from her. 

Something flashed across his eyes and disappeared as fast as it came but Adele saw it.

“Nothing, he just want to help me out on my business and his condition is to have you, that all”

He said calmly but the chaos within could be seen as he eyes were everywhere except from where Adele was standing.

“That's all?” she asked to be sure, he nodded and she lost it because she knew her father too well. 

“Don't you dare lie to my face dad, I met with him today and to my greatest shock, he turns out to be my fucking boyfriend that's been missing for months while I was thinking he died and he's very much alive, he said it to my face that the only person that can answer my questions is you and you say you don't have anything to say to me? Are you seriously lying to me?” she finished breathlessly, with a river of tears flowing down her eyes.

She waited for him to say something but he didn't say anything, his head was bowed which annoys Adele more.

“It's fine if you're not going to tell me but don't blame me if I act irrational since you decide to be selfish then I'll have it my way”. She walked out without waiting another minute. 

She got to her room to find Amanda waiting for her

“How did it go? Did you get answers?” Her face fell when Adele shook her head. 

“Can we talk tomorrow? I'm tired and exhausted too,” she said, facing Amanda.

“Call me if you need me okay? We'll have it sorted together” she said, giving Adele a reassuring smile and her hand a little squeeze then she left.

Leaving Adele all alone with her thoughts. 

Adele went to her closet to fetch the whiskey she kept there a while ago. She needs to forget everything that has happened today. She opened the bottle and drank directly from the bottle. It burned the back of her throat but didn't suppress the heartache she was feeling, it didn't burn like she wanted it to. 

She kept drinking from the bottle and before she knew what was really happening she was drunk with an almost empty bottle, then a crazy idea came up and she didn't think twice. Not sure if it's the alcohol in her system or the pain and betrayal but she went ahead with the plan. I grabbed my laptop, typing into it and grinning widely as she carried out the plan. She let out a strange laughter like a maniac when she clicked enter with satisfaction written all over her.

***********”

Adele woke up to the sound of someone banging on her door. She tried to open her eyes as she held her head in her hand as the hangover hit me hard, she realized she had spent the night on the floor. 

She groaned as she took sloppy steps to the door to unlock it, just to have her dad rush in, pushing her out of the way and walk into her room. He was red from anger and he looked like he was about to explode.

“What the fuck have you done? Why do you want to complicate the issue more than it already was?”

She placed her hand on her forehead, not understanding why he's shouting and adding more to her headache. 

“I don't know what___” He didn't let her finish

“You're going to have yourself killed and I won't be responsible for that, you'll have to face the consequences of your actions because I won't be able to save you this time”. He shouted before walking out and slammed the door hard that she jumped, leaving bewildered. 

She wondered what she did wrong.