“Lexi I—”
“Just think about it, while I go talk to Adam, since it was solely my idea, and I haven’t shared it with him yet,” within three seconds of saying this, she was nowhere to be found in the room.
While Lexi’s murmurs outside the room were buzzing my ears, I kept weighing the pros and cons of staying here, thinking about the odds of any repair or damage me living here will possibly do, and finally, I make up my mind.
The decision was finally made.
Chapter 12
Lexi was driving me home. Home: the place where you share your life with those most closest to you. The only place that I used to think would always protect me from the unknown. The only place, my mom would constantly say, that will forever have my back in life. The only place that causes children to smile at the end of a school day, when the bell rings its final ring, knowing that that’s where they’re heading-that they’re heading home. The only place that motivates us to never give up even if we’re having a bad day because we know that that’s where we’re returning to after a long day of work- that we’re returning to our peace. The place, that when we departure, our heart aches because we think of how much we’re going to miss our family- even if it’s just for a few seconds.
I was heading to that place now, and I wasn’t exactly on cloud nine. In fact, it was the opposite way around, for I was completely down. Facing my parents with what little yet sufficient information I have –according to Lexi- wasn’t something I anticipated doing so fast. Despite having my time, even if it wasn’t a lot, to think and process what I now know about my life, I wanted more time to do the exact same thing- think and process- to know exactly what I would like to say to my parents. Time was the key, and I didn’t have it. All because we were approaching night by now, and I had to decide where I want to stay these upcoming few days.
“Evangeline, we’re here.” Lexi knocks me out of my trance.
Setting my gaze on the house I always called home, my body shivers from the sudden cold. Not from the weather, though. After what I untangled from their dark tangle of secrets, I doubt that this house will ever provide me with the warmth it always previously did. Visualizing my obvious discomfit, Lexi places a hand on my shoulder, distracting me from my crest-fallen thoughts.
“Would you like it if I head inside with you?”
Lowering my gaze from the house to Lexi, I shake my head. “I need to do this alone. Will it be okay if you wait in the car till I’m done?”
“Yes, don’t worry. Just head in there, do what you have to do, and when you finish, I’ll be right here waiting for you.”
After Lexi gave me a thumbs up, I unfastened my seatbelt, took in a deep breath as if my life depended on it, and slowly made my way out of the car. On my way to our their ‘welcome’ mat in front of the main door, I didn’t overlook neither my parents’ silver Lamborghini Veneno nor Trevor’s black Aston Martin One-77, but I did a mistake. A tiny mistake that led to a dreadfully chaotic effect. The only time I didn’t fully survey my surroundings, because I didn’t, was the time that I had to the most. After this one slip-up, I made an oath to myself to never not be cautious ever again. Here I was, about to knock on the door, with a little bit of hesitation, for I was drenched in fear of what would happen once I go in, oblivious that the real threat behind that door was not my parents but someone else.
While I was on my way to the door, I failed to heed something extremely domestic to my vision that if I were more aware, I wouldn’t have been as shaken as I was when I knocked on the main door, and it flew open. Something that if I have noticed, I wouldn’t have knocked on the door in the first place. Something that would’ve caused me to not think twice about turning around and running in the opposite direction. Something that I wasn’t counting on being here. If I had taken a little more time to just look closely, I would’ve felt like someone dropped a bombshell on me because I would’ve never been able to determine a possible reason to what the blue Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita was doing in the driveway of my parents’ house, neither would I have been as surprised as I was when the door was slammed open, and I came face to face with the person I’ve wanted to hide from the most- Adrien.
“I can’t believe the audacity of that jerk.” Lexi kept cursing under her breath while throwing me a few worried glances every now and then as she drove me to my new residence. “Are you okay?”
I respond with a slight nod, not capable of saying another word after I was done quickly recapping to her what happened inside; let’s just say that ‘things didn’t go as planned’ in itself was an understatement.
“Does it hurt?” She looks extremely nervous as she poses the question.
“A little, but don’t
