Adrian's P O VBright and early the next day I set back for home.Although Travis insisted I have breakfast with him, I had to decline. It was high time I faced head on what kept me up through out the entire night.Driving through the strangely less busy road got me parked out at my destination sooner than expected and although I was seriously starting to get second thoughts about the whole of this, I decided on the spot it was now or never.Without wasting any more time, I got out of my car and slammed the door shut while trying to block out memories of the last time I was present here last night trying to get as far away from here as possible.The elevator ride up was especially long and suffocating and honestly, I didn't want it to end just yet seeing as my moment of truth really waited for right when I get out the elevator doors.The hallway that led to my main entrance was as quiet as it's always been but this quietness felt different.It was accompanied by the loud drummings in
Jordan's P O VI had hugged the boys goodbye as they set off for the airport not knowing when we would ever get to see ourselves again and If it wasn't for the thick tension between Ralph and I, time spent with them was actually really splendid.It's been forever since I hung out with this many people and by forever, I mean since just yesterday at the hospital with Adrian, Travis, Brittany and Mrs Bell too.That was also quite a number.But that was just yesterday?This weekend surely is the longest I've had in a very long while and it went from one thing to another which started from my little lunch date with Adrian all the way down to this moment."These cakes are fire!! Here, have some" Brittany's thought intrusive voice sounded from beside me with a cupcake she held out to me which I took from her gratefully as I'd forgotten to eat anything at all since this morning.It was just us both present in the house as Ralph hasn't returned from the airport he left to with his friends yet
Jordan's P O VThe rest of the afternoon and my entire day had me locked up in my room after the somewhat chaotic exchange with Ralph which didn't end well as planned and also my refusal to speak with my Mother who by all means wanted to milk out information from me.I also didn't hear Ralph leave his room right from the time he slammed the door shut the previous day up until this very morning I got out of bed and settled to get ready for work. I did that with all gladness of heart because I seriously just wanted to be out of this house even if for only a little moment. The atmosphere in here was thick and not one I'd like to be in any longer than I already have.I got dressed in a simple dress a dull shade of brown and had a matching length beige coat Fred got me some days back thrown over. With my small purse I snatched up from inside my closet and a pair of matching four inched shoes, I set off out of my room to an empty hallway. Usually, I would walk out to meet Ralph present in
Adrian's P O VAfter the morning of my long overdue reunion with my mother, I spent the rest of my day working in my home office because I still felt alot too overwhelmed by her presence and thankfully, no one thought to disturb me. Not even Ava who I'd imagined would come running in anytime soon. She sure has so much bright spirit for an eleven year old.When I eventually stepped down for dinner, it appeared everyone had retired to bed because it was just me in the kitchen while I ate slowly. Still reminiscing about my long crazy weekend and how its finally come to an end.I later made my way up to my room I've missed for two consecutive nights and I felt my nerves relax even before I got in my perfectly laid bed. I gulped down the little amount of water that accompanied my pills down my throat and after quite a moment of having my eyes fixed on nothing in particular in my room that was dimly illuminated by the moon's light, My sight got clouded by pitch black darkness as my lids
Jordan's P O V.Since Adrian left for his meeting, I basically had nothing doing and although I tried working alone, I couldn't. Not only because I was bored but because my mind was all over the place. I couldn't focus on anything at all asides the replaying scenes in my head that got a thin line of sweat trailing down the middle of my back.I could still feel his large hand wrapped around my neck that made it difficult to swallow hard. My chest that was pressed hard against his as his fingers dug into my bottom cheeks when he held me up still drummed hard at the pleasurable feeling it caused me.It perhaps a good thing he's locked up away in some meeting that has nothing to do with me because I'm certain I could melt to a puddle if he gets an inch close to me again.Hours flew by and I realized it wasn't just the butterflies in my belly that caused the all too frequent rumbling but I was actually starving!I only had soup last night and this morning, I was too eager to slip out of t
Ralph's P O V Perhaps I should put it down in record. I could never explain the pain I felt when she said those words to me.It was bad enough to know Shelton was hitting on her but when she told me she loves him, my throat stiffened and a flaming rod shot right through my chest at the exact same time. I should've been pissed but I was more hurt than anything else and when I stormed up into my room, it felt as though I had offered myself willingly to be caged in a void that was only surrounded by my hurt feelings that tortured me wickedly until thick Into the night when nature rescued me by letting me fall asleep at some point I was too caught up in my feelings to notice. I had heard Jordan leave for work this morning and although I badly wanted to see her face like every other morning, I didn't get out of bed until I could no longer hear her steps down the hallway. Josh had jockingly tagged us both the new age Romeo and Juliet ever since he realized we both have the sam
Jordan's P O VI didn't get to wonder why Adrian and Travis would bring themselves to a Toy Store because I got lost in what I was doing.I feel robbed. Why didn't all of those cool toys exist when I was a child?It's the morning of the Anniversary and I woke up to the sound of Music coming from downstairs and when I found my way down, my entire family was present in the kitchen that now looked like a Bakery.The entire counter and top of the table was covered in freshly baked doughnuts in uniform sizes and an even larger number of small cupcakes.The strong smell of tomato and curry up in the air made it known to me that something was definitely cooking but I didn't get a chance to peek into the pot to see for myself because the doorbell rang.Mom was still taking out cakes from the oven and Ralph was busy applying glaze to the doughnuts with a brush he wielded like a pro and Fred was certainly having fun applying sprinkles on top of them all leaving me as the only jobless one in a s
Jordan's P O V. After the fun filled day at the orphanage with the kids, My eager fingers kept me awake the entire night as they kept busy trailing the envelope Fred handed me to present to Adrian.Travis had told me Adrian would be working from home the next day and that only meant I had to meet him at his house and that only made me even the more nervous.My eyes were wide open when morning came and since I didn't want to just show up at his door by six in the morning like a creep, I waited in bed and kept on watching the clock tick away each second that took me closer to the time I planned on leaving.When I convinced myself it wasn't too early to show up at his front door anymore, I peeled myself from off my bed and glanced at that one message from Travis holding Adrian's home adress for the seventeenth time since last night and a small smile appeared on my face.I got all set up to go real soon and when I pulled my door open, Ralph appeared in front of me."Oh, hi Ralph" I gree
Adrian's P O VI had just watched my Father get carted away with his hands cuffed behind his back and I felt absolutely nothing.He faked his own death and He's been dead to me for several years so i prefered it stayed that way.I probably hated him the more for what he tried doing to Jordan. The original files pertaining to my hotel were retrieved and now in my possession. Everything seemed to be alright now and there was no other issue asides from My Mother giving me a thousand and one reasons why I shouldn't go be with Jordan like I plan to but for the very first time, I found myself only thinking to go against my Mother's wishes.Too much have come between me and Jordan up until this point that I wasn't gonna let my own Mother be the stumbling block now. I couldn't just let that happen.I literally walked out silently with nothing but utmost determination to go grab the woman my world revolves around and preferably take her with me far from here. Away from the rest of the world
Jordan's P O VI was a mess.An emotional wreck at the same time a physical mess because my eyes were not only swollen and red from crying but were also darkened down to little above my chin with the smudges from my mascara.I was still in that same state pacing around the place when my door flung open again."Mom please...." I said out in a weak and broken voice without even turning to see who it was and next, I heard short quick steps reach me from behind and before I could even think to turn so I could see who it is, the person's arms wrapped me from behind.The matching best friend wristwatches we got for both our single asses some valentines ago that sat present on the person's wrist told me who it was and with teary eyes, I turned to face Her and cried into her shoulder while she slowly rubbed my back without saying a word."I'm so sorry." She whispered close to my ears and all I did was nod and wipe on my face with the back of my hand a little too violently."I don't know what
Jordan's P O V I feel like life happened to me so fast and I must say it's particularly hard accepting my new reality but it stared me in the face. The little hug from Ava after I finished saying my last goodbyes to Dad was literally the only thing I needed at that point. I squeezed my little sister in my arms and was grateful for her existence. It feels as though she's my only gift from my father and I wished I brought her as much comfort as she did me. She's only just as old as I was when Dad left Mom and I in the first place so I alone knew how difficult it's gonna get and that too, seeing as it's a worse situation right now because he's never gonna come back, it really is gonna be a lot worse for her.Atleast, I clung unto the hope that he would return to me someday but she doesn't have a chance at that hope.She clearly knows he's never coming back. She slowly eased out from our embrace and I quickly wiped my face clean from tears with the back of my hand
Adrian's P O VBlack has always been my favorite.But right now that I had it on alongside everyone else, it feels more like a plague.Ava's cute little dress didn't get a chance to shine because the look on her face was that of grave sadness.She's certainly the bravest girl ever but I still wished there was anything at all, just a single thing I could do to brighten her even if a little.My eyes left Ava for my Mom who looked to be the most affected by the turn of events.Her tear sunken eyes looked as red and broken as ever and all I could do was gaze. Ralph stood afar off with Brittany wearing somewhat matching expressions on their faces and Fred stood nearby them with his wife's face buried in his chest.I swallowed hard after carefully studying each of them.I found myself in distress but not so much that I couldn't notice Jordan wasn't anywhere in sight.I recalled the last place I had seen her and thought she could still be there and after I took a number of steps away from t
Jordan's P O VFew minutes ago, I stood in place wondering why Adrian's supposedly Dead Father was standing right in front of us but seconds ago, My entire life flashed before my eyes when I saw his gun swing in my direction and he fired without warning.My life played before me in slow motion while I froze with my eyes closed waiting for what was about to come.My head was too busy to make out the number of voices around me that screamed out in horror but I heard them all screaming softly in the background of my head while my eyes were held firmly close.The place went silent and the shot was fired but I felt no impact from it.What had happened?I was more than certain he had aimed at me.More so, I heard and saw him fire.I slowly peeled my eyes open and the first person I saw through my slightly dizzy eyes was Adrian standing a distance opposite me and the look in his eyes looked like he literally was about to shed a good amount of tears. I looked from him to myself in search of
Adrian's P O V"We meet again, SON." His Voice flooded my ears and I was struck with a serious brain cloud that left me Dazed for several minutes.I couldn't grasp what was happening and my swollen head didn't let me a chance to even try.How is he speaking to me right now?How can I see and hear him speak?How is he here?He- He's supposed to be Dead."How- How- How are....." I tried as much as I could to speak but my every utterance came forth as stutters."You must be Really surprised to see me. Well, let me tell you this. Real men never Die so easily." Came his response as though he could see the train of questions I had in my racing thoughts.I could tell I was conscious but I still told myself this is only one of my many nightmares borne from my traumatic experience with having him as A Father because there's no way he's actually here right now and smirking at me.His eyes left me and landed on my mother who seemed like she was soon to pass out where she cowered behind Anthony w
Jordan's P O V The strange man who is the reason I'm being held captive moved away from me after having whispered close to my ears and he returned himself back to his wheelchair still with a disturbing expression on his face and everything about him was questionable. I mean, who uses a wheelchair when he walks perfectly fine. And why does he have a resting evil face? I watched the man look into his wristwatch then rolled away almost completely out of sight on his Mobile chair while I studied him intently still trying to place an identity on him but I couldn't agree with the growing thought in my head because the door was soon thrown open and a troop of people I very well recognized buzzed in. I couldn't keep my eyes focused on them all at the same time so I kept my eyes fixed on the one I had yearned for the whole night up until this moment and he also had his eyes directly on me since he barged in. His steps towards me increased greatly especially when he noticed
Adrian's P O VMy verbal exchange with Ralph soon ended when we both followed Brittany out of the house and were met with a strange thing staring us all in the face."Is this how you recieve your mails?" I questioned as Brittany crouched down to pick up the little enveloped letter we walked out to meet right in front of the doorway after we stepped outside."Who sends mails when you could just text?" Ralph questioned while Brittany flipped the envelope in her hand back and forth probably in search of words but it was plainly blank."How did this get here?" She questioned to no one In particular and I frowned when a thought dropped in my head."This wasn't here while I got here. The real question should be, Who brought this here?" I pointed out and they both kept silent for seconds before Ralph rushed steps away from where we stood towards the curb and while at a spot, he turned his neck from left to right in search of anyone who could have possibly brought this."There's no one in sig
Jordan's P O VMy eyes slowly fluttered open and what followed was a sharp groan that escaped my lips when my previously shut eyes came in contact with the light that invaded my sight.I should have been confused as to where the hell I found myself but surprisingly, my memories came to me alot faster than I had expected.I remember being hauled from where I stood by the school's yard and I also remember being thrown into the hideous looking van like a sack of potatoes but what I don't remember is the face of whosever sent a blow to my head nor do I remember what any of his colleagues that yanked me away look like thanks to the ski masks they had on at that time.This is the second time I'm finding myself in a situation like this just that this time, I'm all to myself and I had nothing to ponder upon as to why anyone would wanna abduct me.No reason I came up with made any sense at all and all I did as I sat there on the cold floor was slowly Blink my eyes open so I could behold the fa