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 know I wrote Ralph off as nothing more than a Step Brother but It seems there's more to it than I was willing to accept nor tolerate.That day at the toy store we stopped by to pick stuffs for Ava and I ran Into the douchebag and Jordan, it wasn't hard to miss the signal he gave off.I also couldn't bare to see him hold her hand like that and since I couldn't just rip it off like my eyes did, I only had to swallow the annoyance I felt till he snatched her out from my presence.I don't know what game he's playing at but That girl is Mine now and it will stay that way.I will make sure of it.I remembered how her eyes lit up when she spoke of the function at the orphanage and I really want to be a big part of whatever makes her that happy.I couldn't go Toy shopping with her like the douchebag but I got an even better idea. I realized I was too busy getting mad over Ralph's hold on her hand to pay much attention to the orphanage she spoke of but it's a good thing Travi
Jordan's P O VNo it is not a dream.No matter how I wish it is and I would soon spring out of bed and realize for myself all of this is nothing but a dream, the truth is it's no dream. The sound of my muffled cries were evident enough.I would have been sprawled out on the floor letting out the pain from what I'd just witnessed but Ralph still held onto me dearly looking a Confused mess but he still didn't say a word."What's the matter? What happened?" I heard him say sometimes later in a strangely low voice and when he spoke to me was when I realized I really appreciated his silence."I want to be alone" I spoke out. The words came out my lips with so much force but I still managed to remain calm and had my gaze fixed on nothing in particular."Please just go! All of you!" I added when he was trying to protest and I could see the others from downstairs coming in from behind him.They shared worried glances between themselves before slowly leaving one after the other.I walked towa
Adrian's P O VMy latest discovery totally has to be the biggest shock of my entire life and what bothers me most is Jordan.I've never felt this miserable and utterly confused all at the same time.I didn't know what to do at this point and how to go about anything.Also, I feel extremely terrible for letting her get into that car.I should've been there for her at that one moment like she was for me when it was my turn with the case of my Mother.My throat felt sore with how frozen its been since the past minutes and no matter how hard I tried to say a word, all that came out of my mouth was nothing at all.This is really worse than I am taking it to be.Each new second that passed flooded my head with new truths that only made the situation feel alot more intense for me.He is Jordan's Father? And he's here in my house, He returned with my Mother, and according to Jordan, her father left twelve years ago?The night my mother left was the same night Jordan's father did?F*CK no!Wh
Jordan's P O VThe slowest two weeks of my life crawled by and every new day had me up in my room doing absolutely nothing asides trying to live in denial and hating whoever I felt should be hated.I stopped going to work, I hardly said a word to anyone at all, I looked and felt like a total mess.I Know I said I would'nt dwell on my pain but....Easier said than done, right??"It's Open" my cracky voice responded to the first knock on my door since I peeled my eyes open this morning and not too long after, Brittany stepped in completely dressed for work."I keep telling you, you don't have to stop by every morning just to see me before leaving for work" I groaned as I sat up in bed to her presence.I know she cares about me and blah blah but this is seriously getting too much and I don't mean to be an ass about it but Is coming to see me every morning before she leaves for work really necessary?"You can't stop me from checking to see if you've gotten glued to the sheets but it's a d
Jordan's P O VAs though all of that wasn't enough for one morning, I walked back into my office to find Travis present in it with Brittany having a discussion which stopped the exact same moment I barged in.Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against Travis but seeing him right now only made me feel worse for some reason and it prompted me to want to leave."Uhh.... What're you doing?" Brittany questioned as she noticed me clearing my desk."I no longer have a job here" came my response as I kept on shoving all that belonged to me into the brown box I had in my possession.I could hear them talking behind me in really low voices but I paid them no attention. My mind had zoomed off to an entirely different place and had shut them out.I wanted to scream but I was in a building packed full of people so I tried so hard not to. The next thing I knew is, I was out in the hallway with my box in my hand, moving through the building with almost everyone's eye in my direction but I ignored
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