chapter four

"What?" I unwrapped myself from him fixing my eyes on his soft golden ones that gave off an innocent yet mysterious vibe.

"Yes I know that topic and I can gladly help you prepare for the test if you would let me. You can come over to my house and we could--"

"Um no, I can't," I quickly responded stepping away from him.

Why would he invite me to his house? Was he a kidnapper?

"Why not? Don't you want to pass the test?" he inquired, taking a step closer to me while I unconsciously took one back.

"No, it's my mom she would never let me plus you are a stranger," I reasoned.

"Don't worry, I would never hurt you, I just want what's best for you," he coaxed

"I'm  sorry but I can't. See you around Mr uhhh---" I let the sentence hung not sure what to call him

"Jaycob. You've already forgotten my name?" He looked hurt for a moment but quickly masked up his emotions.

"Um see you around," With that, I walked off and thankfully he didn't follow me.

I reached home and to my surprise or bad luck, mom was already there, pacing around the porch, probably waiting for me.

I looked at my watch and it was just ten minutes past five, she always comes back home around six o'clock so why was she home early?

"Where have you been?" she seethed and my heartbeat drastically increased as I feared for my life.

"Um, I was---"

"speak up! Where the fuck have you been? School was over an hour ago! So where---" she stopped herself and scanned me from top to bottom and that's when I realized I was still wearing Jaycob's hoodie!

"Where did you get that?" she asked coming towards me and standing just a few inches away.

" um I--" before I could even explain, a hot slap landed on my cheek and it stung like hell!

"You little whore! You went to see boys didn't you?" she slapped me again and a lone tear slid down as I held my burning cheek

"Don't I give you enough huh? I provide everything for you and yet you still went ahead and sold your body you fucking little whore!" She slapped me again and I bite my inner cheeks, preventing myself from sobbing.

"Babe what's going on," I heard dad's voice.

When did he come back?

"What's going on? Are you seeing this? This ungrateful bitch has been whoring around. Look at her, wearing a hoody that I never bought for her and--"

"Victoria, where did you get that hoodie? Is what your mother saying the truth?" He sternly inquired and I made the mistake of shaking my head,

"Are you ---- are you calling me a liar?!" mom seethed grabbing me by the hair but dad quickly jumped in, freeing me from the crazy woman's clutches.

"Go to your room now, Victoria!" he harshly spoke and I ran into the house while I heard him tell her that it was okay and he was going to deal with me later.

I went straight to my room and lay on my bed crying my eyes out.

I couldn't understand why she didn't like me, what did I ever do to her?

If she despised me so much then why did she adopt me??

"Victoria," The door softly opened and I wiped my tears sitting up as dad walked into the room closing the door behind him.

I scooted closer to the wall hugging myself tightly afraid of what he was going to do to me.

He has never hit me before but you never know. People change

"Don't think much about what your mother said," he softly spoke sitting at the foot of the bed while I attentively looked on.

"I will talk to her and I promise she won't be rude to you like that again, okay,"

He scooted closer to me and kissed my forehead while I looked on wondering what suddenly changed. He always supported her so why the sudden change of heart?

"Have you eaten?" He asked caressing my cheek and I shook my head.

"Dinner will be ready in an hour, why don't you freshen up and come downstairs,"

He kissed my forehead again and after giving me a small assuring smile, he left.

Okay, what just happened??

Why is he suddenly a caring and nice father?

Brushing off the thoughts, I went and freshened up then went downstairs and sure enough, dinner was set, there was a variety of food that made my mouth water.

"Oh good that you are here," mom said in a happy cheery voice removing her apron while dad chuckled doing the same.

Both of them sat down while I just stood there watching,

"Come sit down honey,"

I cautiously sat down while keeping a close eye on the duo and wondering what was up with them.

"So your 18th birthday is coming up, have you made any plans to celebrate?" Dad asked and I shook my head slowly eating the food.

"Huh no problem, your mom and I will fix something up for you since I will be in town for a while, right babe,"

"Yes of course!" mom cheery responded, "we will make sure it's the day that you will never forget," she said it in a way that made me feel the wrong shivers run down my spine.

I looked at her and she had a look on her face that told me whatever plans they had were not good.

Thankfully dinner went by smoothly, I wanted to clear the table but they both stopped me and told me to go to my room and study while they finished up doing the dishes.

I did as told and went straight to my room, lying on the bed and trying to figure out what the two were up to.

"Victoria," I heard someone whisper my name followed by a stone being thrown on the window.

"Victoria," The person called my name again.

I got up opening the window and I was not expecting to see Jaycob standing there with a breath taking smile adorning his face. My heart beat skipped a bit when I saw him standing there, the glow of the moon shining brightly on his face.

He looked hot.

"What are you doing here?" I whisper yelled while he just smiled, beckoning me to go downstairs and meet him.

I looked at my watch and it was 8 pm. There is no way I was going out of the house at this time.

What if mom or dad randomly decides to come to check up on me and find I'm not in the room, then what? They will most definitely kill me this time!

"Are you crazy?! It's 8 pm, I can't!" I whisper yelled back and I saw him give me the puppy dog eyes, that made him look cute, and I couldn't help but stifle in a giggle.

An older man with puppy dog eyes? That's funny.

"Please," he pleaded but I shook my head.

I saw him slump his shoulders down. He gave me a thumbs up and walked off.

Seeing him walk off, my heart ached. For a moment I thought that maybe he would continue insisting or something like that but all well.

'I better get ready for bed,' I said to myself going to the bathroom

I brushed my teeth and after wearing my pajamas, I walked into my room and ----

"Ahhhh!!" A startled scream left my lips when I found Jaycob sitting on my bed waiting for me.