Chapter 62// "I'm sorry I didn't plan out my peeing schedule"
"There's not point in playing hard to get Dawson you're already mine and no one can take you away from me'' Elliott tells me firmly, but I was not budging with him. I was really angry at him this time.
I ignore him as I unlock the front door of my house.
Elliott tries to follow me inside but I stop him, "You're not welcome here Grayson" I snap at him.
He pouts at me.
"Ok I am sorry Dawson, I promise not to drive so fast again" He promises with those big blue eyes, He puts his pinky out for me to link mine with, to secure a promise greater than words.
Instead, I grab the handle of the door and slam it as hard as I can in his face, but his reflexes were too fast and he stops me from hitting his perfectly sculpted face.
He knew perfectly well how much I hated it when he drove fast, but he always did it anyway. In a relationship, you should listen to each other, expect Elliott didn't understand that.
Yet every second longer he spent with me, it made my anger towards him lessen though I wanted to stay angry with him. He needed to be put in his place for his reckless driving.
One day he was going to get himself hurt. And maybe I was also angry at him because he told me that he quit smoking when he actually hadn't.
I'd caught him smoking this afternoon with Conner and I was disgusted with the both of them.
He lied to me as he promised he had done when he hasn't actually, then we end up in an argument in the car. This leads to him speeding down the dark road, with my life in his hands.
I sigh as I walk away from the door, he wasn't going to stop until I forgave him. He wraps his arms around my neck and looks down at me.
"Dawson, I hate it when your angry with me"
I duck under his arms freeing myself from his grip.
I see Elliott from the corner of my eye lift up a light brown coat from the coat hanger and wrap it around my back as though it was some sort of cape.
I give him a weird look but I still hold the sour expression on my face.
"See now Dawson your 'super angry'
I can't help but crack a smile then.
"See, see that's the smile I love" He laughs and gently kisses me on the lips.
He holds my hand as we both walk towards the kitchen.
I stop dead just outside the kitchen to see someone sitting at our dining table.
Now let me tell you no one ever sits there, well rarely.
It was a man in a black suit, who had brown hair that looked exactly like Daniel's, he was calmly sipping a cup of tea and a newspapers in his other hand.
"What are you doing here?" I spit out, showing no respect whatsoever.
He looks up and sees Elliott and me, this makes him fold up his newspaper and put it down on the table.
"Where is your brother?" He asks.
"No I asked you a question, now what are you doing here?" I shout at him. He had no right to suddenly walk into our house where had he been all these years.
Oh yeah sitting in New York doing fuck all. It's been years since he stepped foot in this kitchen.
"I need both you and Daniel to be here when I tell you something"
He looks up at Elliott.
"Elliott what are you doing here, " He asks. He sees Elliot holding on to my hand and raises an eyebrow.
"He's my boyfriend" I answer before Elliott can. My dad looked surprise like it was something he really wasn't expecting.
"What happened to the Ryder kid?" He asks.
"I liked him but I love Elliott"
"You kids don't know the first thing about love"
"Neither do you dad. You cheated on mom didn't you?"
He opens his mouth to say something until the front door bursts open and voices enter the hallway. Both Alec and Daniel walk into the kitchen holding a takeaway.
Daniel looks downright stunned when he sees our dad sitting at our dining table.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" Daniel asks placing the takeaway on the table. "I don't think we have enough food for you"
"I need to talk to you and your sister. You two can leave now" He points at Alec and Elliott.
Alec looked like he was ready to run out the house but Elliott stood there unmoving.
"We'll be in the other room, we aren't leaving, " Elliott tells him forcefully and walks out the room.
Well, I guess that was my father told.
"Sit down the both of you. This might take some time to sink in" He tells us both as he eyes the two chairs in front of him.
Daniel gives me a confused look but my expression already mirrors his as I take a seat.
Dad looks between us for a few moments and then finally begins to explain what is going on.
"As you know that your mother and I didn't get along too well at the end of our marriage. I did something that I regret which caused the big hole in our marriage"
I knew what he was going to say. I knew where this story was going and I really didn't want to hear it but Daniel sat there listening.
"I slept with someone"
"No, you fucking didn't" Daniel shouts. He looked at my father disgusted, the look on his face showed that he didn't want to believe it.
"You did that to mom, even though she was ill. Who did you sleep with, I'd better not know who she is"
I look over at Daniel, I'd never expected him to be so angry about what happened in the past, but I guess he was so close to mom and it was really sad for him as a kid to lose her. He never really blamed dad, he thought it was just mom's illness that ruined their marriage. He thought it was that dad never wanted to let go of mom before she died that's why he distanced himself.
But I knew better, I knew there was something seriously wrong and then it all made sense when mom wrote me the letter, detailing that dad cheated on her.
"You do know her" Dad let's out a large sigh.
If Daniel finds out dad slept with mom's best friend he is going to hit the bloody roof.
"Well tell me then, what kind of women would do that to another person?"
I move my seat slightly away from Daniel, he looked like he was going to explode.
"Abbi, your mom's best friend"
It was silent for a few seconds, Daniel looked stunned.
Daniel used to like Abbi when he was a kid but as he got older he hated her for taking mom's place. He just wanted mom and not her.
"Your having laugh. This is some sick joke isn't it"
Daniel looks at me waiting for me to react in the same way as him, but I drop my gaze from his. He stands up in rage pushing his chair back.
"You banged mom's best friend. Then why has she been looking after us for the past 10 years" Daniel yells.
"It was a mistake" Was all dad said. His voice was calm and he wasn't showing any sort of emotion on his face.
"A mistake? Please forgetting to feed the fishes is a mistake, not banging another woman while your married"
"Why are you here? This isn't the only reason is it" I ask with a spiteful attitude.
"There's something else"
"Oh were you banging the cleaner, the gardener, maybe the sweet old lady next door"
"Daniel!" Dad shouts, his voice has a sharp edge to it. Daniel stops speaking but still not sitting down.
"There was a child"
That's when Daniel walks away from the table and stands with his face against the wall. He was actually shaking with anger.
"A child. You got her pregnant. Who is the child then?" Daniel says slamming his hands on the table.
"We don't know. I wanted Abbie to have an abortion but she wouldn't go through with it. I gave the child up for adoption"
"Without her permission?" I ask him, I was more disgusted about the fact he got her pregnant and made her give away the child. No matter what the situation that must be the hardest thing.
"It was for the best"
"Then why are you back? Does she want to find out who the child is" Daniel asks angrily.
"No, she doesn't want to ever get to know the child. She believes the second the baby was taken away from her it wasn't hers anymore. It belonged to it's new family. She didn't want to come in the child's way. I want to find out who the child is"
"Why, you barely looked after your own family let alone another child" I stand up in rage.
"I'm making things right again Crescent"
"You want to make things right, then start with me because I hate the sight of you" I shout at him, walking out the kitchen.
Elliott was in the hall waiting for me, he instantly pulls me into a hug.
"I'm staying at your tonight" I snuffle. I usually end up crying when I'm angry rather than when I was upset.
"I already know"
*
Daniel wouldn't stop tapping his foot against his chair in PE class, it was so stupid to have a writing class as part of PE and the fact we also have an exam in this subject. That aside it's like ever since the day dad moved in, Daniel has been extremely anxious.
I knew how he felt, I hated dad being around. It was like before we could do what we wanted but no we were restricted. We always made it feel like home and now we have this intruder. I spent most of my time at Elliott's now anyway.
Elliott's brother Jack would be back soon, they had finished they're honeymoon and were visiting Tiffany's parent in Australia right now.
I heard that one night when mom came home and it was just Daniel, mom and dad that Daniel had lost his shit. When I went home I found most of the Denby cups smashed and in the bin.
The good news about this situation was that this wasn't permanent, and Dad was only staying until they found out who the child was.
Dad says that he wants to get to know the kid but I think it had something to do with the press. They were catching on to dad's secret and it would look bad for his company.
Daniel had taken it upon himself to find out who the kid was and so far he was having no luck whatsoever.
"Is it just me or do you think Daniel's been acting sort of weird lately?wont" I ask Elliott who wasn't paying attention to the class anyways.
"He's just annoyed that no one told him about all this before, you know what he's like he hates being kept in the dark about anything" Elliott shrugs.
"Yeah maybe he should become some sort of detective, with all this investigating he's doing"
"I heard that" Daniel speaks up from in front of us.
"Daniel you shouldn't be so worried. You probably won't know who this kid is, for all we know he could live in Sweden"
A piece of rubber literally flies right past Elliott's nose at that moment, my eyes are wide at the shock of seeing something nearly hit us.
Coach.
"Can't you see your disturbing our conversation" Elliott snaps at him.
"Elliott Grayson watch your cheek or else one day it's going to get you in serious trouble" He puts his hand on his hips as he glares at Elliott. Coach wasn't really angry it was just their funny way.
"Class turn to page..."
"69" Elliott whispers in my ear. "I can't wait to do that with you Dawson" His warm breath tickles my ear and a shiver runs through me.
"241" The teacher shouts through the class waking up everyone who was bored enough to doze off. I still wonder how they let this man teach.
Being given textbook exercises where the best part o this class because no one even did them anyway. It was stupid to even have a textbook on this subject because there was nothing to actually learn.
This was also a compulsory class for anyone who was on the football or cheerleading team. And also it looked good when you were applying for university.
"Sir, can I please go to the bathroom?" Aiden asks in the sweetest manner from next to Daniel as he raised his hand.
"Can I please get my retirement money?" Our teacher replies.
"I thought you were supposed to answer a question with an answer. My whole life has been a lie. No, seriously sir I need to go to the bathroom"
"What for?" Coach asks narrowing his eyes at him.
"To open the chamber of secrets what do you think?" Aiden says sarcastically.
"Well boy the answer is no and why didn't you go at break?"
"I'm sorry I didn't plan out my peeing schedule"
"Boy I'm going to let you go but if you do you will have to do 'the run.'"
I look at poor Aiden. 'The run' was where you had to do continuous laps of running over a steep rocky and very muddy hill near the top of our school grounds.
All children have to experience this run in the first year of high school and let me tell you it is torturous. Coach enjoys using this form of punishment when the football team doesn't win a match, or as a painful punishment to any student.
All in all, it might strengthen you leg muscle but it is one of the worst experiences of your life.
Aiden stops for a moment weighing out the pro and cons and eventually leave the classroom in a sort of waddle.
"You have one minute boy" Our coach shouts.
"There is this kid in Amsterdam, that's adopted and he was born in this state," Daniel tells us while scrolling through his phone.
"Mate your taking this way to seriously" Elliott scoffs.
"Daniel it doesn't even matter who the kid is and how the hell did you know that?" I ask him
"Research" Was all he said as he goes back to scrolling through his phone.
I look up at Elliott and gesture to him to talk to Daniel.
"Dan, really what's going on with you?"
"Cress pass me your glasses all this reading is making my head hurt. I hate reading"
I don't even offer Daniel my glasses but he grabs them anyways and puts them on.
That's when Elliott grabs the phone off Daniel. My brother looks up at my boyfriend with his eyebrows furrowed.
"Seriously bro what's gotten into you?"
"What do you think, if there is another child then don't they get part of dad's company? Dad barely has enough time for Cress and me and then some kids going to come along now and take him from us again. I know he was a cunt for leaving us but he's really all the family we have"
I didn't know Daniel felt like that. I didn't even know he cared about dad.
I don't care that dad doesn't care about me in the slightest and I have made it clear to everyone that I don't want a share in dad's company.
What I did know was that Daniel did want to join the world of business, after he goes to university to study business and math. Which was exactly what Elliott was going to study.
I understood why Daniel was worried, it was like our father never cared about us and it was as if he never wanted us like there was something wrong with us.
"Bro fuck him if he wants to give the company to some random kid. You have the boys and me. I would give you half a share of my dad's company in a heartbeat, heck my dad treats you like his own son" Elliott reassures him.
Sometimes I wonder if it wasn't for me if maybe Daniel and Elliott would end up getting married, but that was a really farfetched thought.
Not going to lie, thinking about it I really shipped it.
"Rapid timing my boy" Coach says loudly as Aiden comes back in the classroom breathlessly.
Aiden doesn't even look Coach in the eye as he comes straight up to us breathing heavily.
"I saw them, Aaron's men, they were with Ryan"
"Another reason why I don't want a half-sibling because they might turn out to be as psychotic as Ryan" Daniel butts in. I shiver no one needs another Ryan in the world.
Elliott looks up at the clock, my eyes follow his gaze. There were only 10 minutes left for this class but then again a lot can happen in 10 minutes.
"Carter has this double off doesn't he?" Elliott asks us. I nod knowing he was off right now.
Elliott whips out his phone and presumably messages Carter.
"Shit, Carter said he's been following them and they have been here for a while. They're planning something"
"In the school, in broad daylight?" I ask, wasn't that a bit stupid.
"Ryan goes to this school, whatever he does it doesn't seem suspicious" Daniel replies to me.
Eventually after what feels like forever the bell rings for the end of class and also the end of the school day.
We 4 are the last ones to exit the class. I look to my left and my heart jumps to my throat.
At the top of the corridor was Ryan standing there looking smug, with a grin on his face and 2 men standing behind him.
Oh how easily they blended in with the teachers as they stood there in their suits.
This is the time in the year when representations from the Council would come into school and see how the classes were doing so all week there were men and women walking around in suits.
"Cafeteria NOW," Elliott says as he pushes me forward in the direction of the stairs.
"But one of those guys was in my Art class yesterday, I thought he was one of the representatives," I ask confused.
"He is and he is also one of Aaron's men" Aiden explains.
"Cress pull down your skirt, I can see up it and it's not a pretty sight," Daniel says from behind me. I feel my cheeks turn red with embarrassment and shuffle my skirt down.
"Daniel this really isn't the time for you to act all brotherly but for what it's worth Cress I think you should pull your skirt back up"
"So every boy in this school can get a look at her ass, really Elliott"
"I really don't think this is something we should be talking about right now" Aiden adds saying something mature for the first time in his life.
At that exact moment, Elliott phone starts ringing and he obviously answers it.
"They want to meet me? Alone? Tell them I will be at the bridge in 2 minutes" Elliott shoves his phone back in his jean pocket and looks at me.
"I'll be back soon," Elliott tells me lightly kissing my cheek.
"Elliott shouldn't we talk about this" Daniel ask him.
"They want to talk to me calm if I go now or else they're threatening....well you know what they keep saying"
"I'll come with you" Daniel tells him forcefully.
"Nah, stay her with Cress"
"I'll see you soon Dawson" Elliott winks at me but I knew he was putting on, that he was actually worried.
I see him go down the stairs through the crowd.
How would I know that would be the last time I see Elliott? (A/N only joking but I had to put this in here. Elliott is fine)
"I should find Alec and Conner they're probably so clueless right now"
All I do is nod as I see him go.
The corridor was starting to empty as most people would be on their way home.
"Guess it's just you and me sis"
"So you sorted things out with Winter," I ask him as we walk down the nearly empty corridor on our way to the cafeteria. the cafeteria had ways out the back of the school.
"Well..." Daniel begins.
"She doesn't even like you, she loves you," I tell him.
"I know, it's just I feel like I am not good enough for her and in a way we're too much alike that it won't work. And I want it to work out really bad"
"Have you learned nothing from Elliott and me"
"That romance is disgusting especially when it's between your best friend and your sister"
I don't even laugh.
"No, that you shouldn't let someone go. Waiting is stupid just go for it"
"I still stand for my other point" He adds, I roll my eyes at him.
"Just ask her out, you'll thank me for it"
"Daniel, I've been looking for you everywhere. I need to tell you something"
I look at her in disgust, could I hate anyone more than her.
Daniel didn't seem to be too happy with her appearance either.
"What do you want Aribella?" I snap at her.
She looked like she was close to tears.
She opens her mouth to say something but I butt in.
"Oh wait I don't care," I tell her trying to walk away and take Daniel with me.
"It's about Aaron," She says.
Both Daniel and I turn around at the same time to look at her.
"What do you know about him?" Daniel carefully asks her.
"Him and Ryan, I heard them talking," She tells Daniel as she wipes her eyes. Whatever it was, she was still such a drama queen, always trying to worm her way to Daniel. It shocks me how I was once friends her.
Daniel stiffened.
"What exactly did they say?" He asks her through his gritted teeth.
"I don't want anyone to hear, come inside this classroom and I'll explain. It's complicated"
Daniel waits for a second as he thinks.
"Cress come on" he tells me as he opens the classroom door.
It was an English classroom, which posters of Shakespeare cloaking it.
Daniel stands there with his arms crossed as I sit on top of one of the desks. Aribella pushes her brown hair behind her ear and closes the door. I see her give quick glare at me her eyes narrowing but then she looks past me and at Daniel
"Don't waste my time Aribella, I'm giving you 2 minutes" Daniel tells her.
"It was yesterday, Ryan didn't know I was there, Ryan was talking to someone I think his name was Aaron. He had long dark hair and these blue eyes. They were talking about how the school representatives were part of some gang they had. That they were going after Elliott"
"Once he left I went up to Ryan, I was supposed to meet him anyway and asked what was going on" She wiped her eye again.
"Ryan threatened me that I shouldn't tell anyone. That they were going to hurt Elliott"
This sounded like the biggest load of bullshit, but it must have some truth to it, how else would she know about Aaron.
"Why are you telling us this then?"
She looks at me with her dark brown eyes when I speak, she holds my gaze not replying but looking at me with hatred.
"I just want him to be safe, you might not know it but I care for Elliott. I was his first anyway"
"Why you little..." I get up to go and pull some clumps of her hair out but Daniel holds me back.
"I guess you'll never really be loved by Elliott not since he's shared out his love to so many other girls" She drops down to a whisper.
"Elliott says this to every girl before he fucks them silly, he tells them how much he loves them and that they are his favorite. Had he said that to you yet or does he not even love you enough to do it with you?" She pouts at me a growing smirk on her face.
"Your lying" Daniel states calmly.
"No, I swear that's what he says to every girl, can give you a list of girls to go ask"
"You're lying about Aaron and Ryan talking because Aaron came back from Europe last night"
That's when Aribella's expression changes and she wipes away her tears and smile in an unsettling way.
That's when the classroom door unclicks and in walks someone with short brown hair. He gently closes the door behind him and twists the lock. He turns around and I see his blue eyes that matched Elliot's. They were gleaming like mischief
"Ryan. I should have known" My brother snarls at him.
"You Dawson sibling make me sick. Lucky that I know someone who can carry on the family name" Ryan smirks.
*To be continued...
Author note:
Ooooh, it's all going down. Yes, Ryan does know who their sibling is and you will find out in the next chapter. What are your guesses?
I'm going to try and write the next chapter as soon as I can and upload it soon. Also, some people are telling me that this book is getting too long and the chapter are too long. I actually tried to make this chapter shorter than usual but still ended up at over 4000 words. I can't help it I have too many ideas.
I'm not going to lie, Daniel is a bit of an asshole but he's one of my favorite characters. who's your favourite?