~Chapter 9~
The pale morning light filters through the white curtains. It seemed like an ordinary day.
Maybe even a good one.
I wake up suddenly, as if something has pulled me out of that dream.
My heart is beating too fast for a dream that was nothing but silence.
I run my hand over my face and try to remember what was so.
.. real.
On the nightstand, the phone vibrates.
A text from Ezra:
“8 o’clock. Don’t be late.
Sergio has the location.”
I stare at the screen.
The party. I vaguely remembered. Maybe that’s where it all begins again. Or it ends for good.
Today was Thursday, that stupid party. I struggle to get out of bed and my eyes are getting heavier and heavier every day.
I go to the bathroom, undress and get in the shower, let it devour me from the inside, so that I don't feel anything anymore.
My skin was red when I got out of the shower and I looked in the mirror, full of suddenly appeared marks and tattoos that hide more venom.
Black ink spread all over my body that to most people seems normal but to me. .. It hides more than it needs to.
When I finally get out of the bathroom I go get something to wear and eat. Mom came home yesterday, she was pretty quiet yesterday when I asked her why she was late
"I've been busy with all this work"
I go down the stairs and go straight to my mom's office, like any kid who wants to annoy their parents.
When I finally get to the office door, I knock on the door because it's nice and go in.
"Mom" I say and she was with her head down and thousands of sheets of paper, and when I say thousands, I mean thousands.
Everywhere, on the desk, on the floor, on the bookshelf.
"Oh'...why do you need so many?"
"What do you want, Cassian?
" She says and takes her glasses off her eyes while she focuses on me.
"I'm hungry" I say and wait for him to get up and go with me to the kitchen, but.
.
"Cassian! I don't even know where to put my head with all these papers and you're asking me to make you food?
You're a big boy, you have a future ahead of you, you know" he starts out a little louder but then his voice drops a little.
"Okay..." I say and say it more softly "we hope we have some mother-son time like before" after that I leave the room and go to the kitchen.
My dad was in the kitchen. Something suspicious, he was usually only home around 5-6 and then left.
I take my phone out of my pocket and see that it's almost 6 so now I understand.
I walk past him and go to make myself a coffee.
While we wait for the machine to finish doing its job, I hear a voice behind me.
"Don't you have time to say hello to your dad?
" I turn to face him, coffee in hand.
"I never considered you my father, Silas.
I thought you knew that" he stopped while they had a sip of coffee and I leaned against the kitchen counter.
He looked at me with a face he has not read much and often.
"Always more disappointed" says "dad" while looking into my soul.
Or looking.
"And you me, dad" I say and I approach him, "what have you done since I was little?
Think about it for a bit" I say and I see that he doesn't say anything so I add "bingo!
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You were only concerned about your business and money, that's all.
The wife or children were on the last step.
.. Why are you lying? Do you think I don't know when my mother was working hard and you fuck another Woman at the hotel, that's how bad you ended up" after saying this, I only know that I felt a fleeting pain in my left cheek and after a father who is extremely annoyed.
"Who do you think you are to comment on me!
I raised you since I was little and fed you and this is how you reward me?
" He says angrily while his voice is so high that I 100% heard the door to Mom's office open.
We have nothing left to fill in so I drink my coffee and go upstairs. When I get to my room, I close my door and draw the curtains. I wasn't going to go anywhere, all the fun for today was gone
I wake up from my sleep when I hear voices and someone trying to break down the door.
"CASSIAN! Open the damn door" Sergio says as he knocks on the door like crazy.
I get out of bed and go to the door and open it.
What I see is a red-faced Sergio with eyes like the pupils of a viper.
"Why the hell did you close the door?
" He says angrily
"Intimacy, dude.." I say
"Fine.
Change because it takes 4 hours to get there.
And come on, I've been knocking on your door for more than 10 minutes" he says and enters my room and sits on the bed with the phone already clicking on it.
"I'm not coming" I say and wait for him to leave my room but he gets up and comes in front of me.
"Right now you change into something sexy and move your ass in my car until I force you in your pajamas" he says softly in my ear and then when I see his face he smiles super suspiciously.
After what seems like an eternity I say "ok" and go to the bathroom.
After brushing my teeth I go to the dressing room and get something "sexy" to wear.
When I come out of the dressing room the first thing I hear is Sergio saying
"No.
Absolutely not. Back there" he says and grabs my shoulder and puts me in the closet again.
"Hey! What's wrong with this?" I say and look at me.
He looks at me with a bored face and something else on his face but it's always hard to read
"Are you kidding?
Is that what you call sexy? You're too dressed" he says and walks over to one of my closets and motions for me to lean against
When Sergio decided that I was completely sexy, I finally left the house.
I was wearing some black pants that were a bit elegant but also a bit baggy and on top I had a black shirt.
As accessories, I put on a gold chain, and the earring the same.
I also put on a Rolex because Sergio said it looked good with it.
"Do I really have to change like that?
What kind of party is this? For the rich and luxurious? " I say as I get in the car.
Sergio starts the music and says we're going to pick Emy up from her house.
I forgot that yesterday she told me to pick her up from her house.
When we arrive, she gets in the car and she's dressed nicely.
Very nicely. A red dress and some black cloth over her, her hair was in a ponytail and she was wearing some black heels with red soles if I remember correctly.
"Emy tell me, what the hell are we dressed like this for?
" I say and turn my head to her back. She looks at me a little surprised and giggles
"Cassian don't you know?
" She says and I shake my head no. "It seems like this party is more luxurious, so to speak.
They have a palace like the main house, what do you think" she says while saying something else but I'm not interested anymore.
All I heard was the word "luxury" and that alone disgusts me to the core, exactly what I don't like doing.
"Cassian, have you heard?" Sergio says.
I turn to face him and raise my eyebrows
"Apparently not.
" He continues
"Sorry-" I say softly "I was in the clouds.
What did you say?" I ask
"The people who are throwing this party are brothers and they're super handsome if that's what you're interested in" he says and Emy giggles from behind
"What does it help me that I don't understand?
" I say when Sergio looks at me, like he's staring.
"Well...maybe you end up in bed with them too.
" She says and adds after a pause "doesn't that sound good?
"
"Since when do you care who fucks me?
I mean both of them, why Emy?" I ask and look at her.
She looks at me a little annoyed that I'm looking at her and says
"I was just saying we were too"
Her answer hangs in the air, but I don't believe it.
I lean against the window and bite my lip to keep from saying something I'll regret.
There's an eerie silence in the car, only the wheels crunching on the asphalt and the bass from the speakers filling the gap between us.
I look at the lights reflecting off the windshield and realize that everything seems fake — the laughter, the jokes, even this drive to a place where no one is honest.
"What?
Are you mad?" Sergio says, in that half-amused tone that instantly irritates me.
"No, I'm just... sick of the way you all think fun is synonymous with stupidity.
"
He looks at me in the rearview mirror, and for a moment, he doesn't say anything.
The air gets colder.
Emy sighs and looks back out the window.
Me? I'm just trying not to get lost in this silence that hurts more than any words could say.
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I really don't know how to delineate the next chapters, but at least you have earlier chapters ????