What was bugging me was why my dad would be owing Theodore money. "L-look, please just give me some time to find the money," he said fearfully. I'm sure he had sobered up a bit.
"No!" Theodore yelled angrily. "I had given you 6 months to get my money back but you rather spent it on alcohol," he continued. My dad had been owing him for that long?But how? Why? He gestured one of his men for something. The man gave Theodore a gun making my eyes widen in shock and fear of losing the only family I had. "Say goodbye Jones," he said pointing the gun at my dad.I rushed out of my hiding spot ignoring the pain spreading through my body in hopes of saving him but I was too late. Theodore had already pulled the trigger, shooting my dad square in his chest. I halted in my steps clinging to the nearby table for support as tears strolled down my face.I know that he was not the best father but at least I considered him family. He was the only family I knew. I had hopes of reuniting our father-daughter relationship but all that just disappeared into thin air. Yes, I know that he was abusive but he's still my father and I knew that somewhere deep down inside he loved me.Others have lost both parents and were at foster homes due to that but I was lucky to at least have a father but that too has been taken away from me."Is he your dad?" Theodore asked staring at me. "Yes," I said breaking into a full blown sob. He looked shocked and then his expression changed into one of guilt and regret. "I'm sorry, I didn't know," he said sorrowfully. I let out a bitter laugh in between my tears."Now you do but that isn't enough to change anything now is it? You've killed the only person who was the closest thing to family for me and now I have absolutely nothing to live for. He was the only reason I was living for-" "-but he abused you. I heard a lot of screaming but I just didn't know that it was you," he said cutting me off."I know that he abused me but at least even then I was able to say I had a father and I was grateful for that even though he hated me. Now that you've killed him, you might as well kill me too and get this over with," I said taking a huge breath and taking his hand which was holding the gun and pointed it at myself."Shoot me Theo," I said closing my eyes. Seconds turned to minutes and he still didn't shoot me. I opened my eyes staring at him confused. "Why aren't you shooting me?" I asked. He killed my dad in front of me and I'm sure he doesn't leave any witnesses. Plus if I die I'll finally be able to see my mom again."I-I can't," he sighed dropping his arm and running his fingers through his hair. "Then why did you kill him," I asked but he ignored me."Take her with you," he said to his men and they both held me by my arms and pulled me to their car with me struggling to get away from them."Where are you taking me? Let go of me! If you don't let go and I manage to escape I'll call the-" I was cut of by one of the men putting a cloth over my mouth and I felt dark spots cover my vision.Regaining my consciousness was really something. The first thing I felt when I woke up was pain and it didn't help that the pain wasn't just at one place. It felt like my whole entire body was on fire. "Ouch," I said as I felt a sharp pain in my head. I noticed that all my wounds have been treated. It wasn't long before I remembered everything that had happened.'So I was really kidnapped and that too by the most popular, powerful mafia boss in town,' I thought. I tried my best to stand up to explore my surroundings. I needed to find a way out of here. Seconds after I woke up, I heard the sound of footsteps and voices approaching the door and froze when the door flung open."What are you doing out of bed?" Theodore asked. He was with a guy who looked my age. I slowly turned to him and mumbled out, "nothing," and puffing up my cheeks in anger.Why am I here and what does he want from me anyway? "Aww she's so cute and short too," the guy beside him said walking close to me and gently pulled my cheeks. I angrily slapped his hand away from my face. I am not a child to be played with like that."Bro can we keep her?" He asked turning to Theodore with bright puppy dog eyes. 'Who thought the devil would have a brother,' I thought, 'and a childish one at that.' I am not an object for him to be speaking about me like that.I glared at the boy angrily and Theodore just stood there trying his best not to burst out laughing."Oh so you think this is funny?" I said to Theodore. His eyes widened and he put his hands up in a surrender motion with a smile on his face. Oh how I wished to smack that smile off his face."We were gonna keep her anyway so why not? Plus you get a new friend," Theodore said to his brother. His brother screamed oh so joyfully and hugged me... very very tight. "Fuck you bitch! Get off me! You are fucking hurting me!" I yelled trashing around in his arms angrily.Theodore's eyes widened at my reaction and pulled his brother away from me. "Dude she's hurt," he said glancing at me and I glared hard at him. "Oh," Theodore's brother said suddenly shy and guilty. "I'm sorry. I've just never had a friend who is a female that's why I got over excited," Theodore's brother said with a regretful look on his face.I felt bad for shouting at him so I apologized. I sighed fidgeting with my fingers and said, "I'm sorry too. I am mad at your brother and I took out on you." I hesitantly went up to him and gave him a short hug. "It's fine. I know how annoying he can be and now that you are here we can both annoy the hell out of him," Theodore's brother said winking at me and we both laughed. "Ahem ahem! I'm still here," Theodore said sarcastically. I just rolled my eyes at him and his brother pulled out his tongue at him. "Great! Now I have two people to annoy the shit out of me," he mumbled leaving the room. "I'm Xavier by the way," he said introducing himself. "I'm Andrea," I said.Surprisingly after that day Xavier became my best friend and I hung out with him a lot. I did school online and as for Theodore, he was our legal guardian but we didn't get to see him always because of his work. I still hate him though. I wasn't about to let the fact that he had killed my d
"How would you feel if you found your brother kissing your best friend?" He asked. "Xavier calm down," I said trying to hold his arm but he flinched away from me and I'd be lying if I say that didn't hurt. "Dude it wasn't her fault. Don't treat her like that," Theodore said noticing what Xavier did. "Then tell me why the fuck you kissed her," Xavier demanded. "I...I..." Theodore trailed off staring at me. "It was just an in the moment kind of thing," Theodore said scratching his neck and breaking eye contact with me.I felt hurt by what he said but I let it go. It's not like I ever even loved him. "I...-just don't let it happen again," Xavier said to his brother before pulling me into a hug. I sighed in relief. "She's innocent and I'd like for it to stay that way," Xavier mumbled and I smacked his head in annoyance. "I'm not," I said pouting at him and he chuckled. "Yeah...and pigs fly," he said sarcastically. "I'm sorry," Theodore said to me. I frowned
I held his hand before he could leave, "Be safe." He caressed my cheeks and kissed my forehead. His eyes lowered down to my lips and he shut his eyes and swallowed deeply. I knew exactly what he wanted to do but we can't kiss on the lips ever again cuz if that happens... everything will not be okay with us and he knew it too. He cleared his throat, "I promise." And with that, he left.*Few hours later*"Andrea we can't go there," I gave Xander on of my best pouts but it didn't seem to be working. "We can go there only if we have his permission," Xander said for the millionth time. What's so bad about Theodore's work place? I have never seen him working and he's been out for a very long time and I'm worried so it's a win-win situation. That's when I had an idea. I picked up my phone and pretended to call Theodore. "Hi Theo!" I said and looked at Xavier's face. "Can Xavier bring me to your office?" I kept quiet for a while as if I was waiting for Theodore to agree and then I squealed
I left both Xavier and Theodore back at the warehouse and took a cab home. I was angry- no, I was livid! I knew he owned one of the strongest Mafia groups but I didn't know he did it to hurt people. I thought he was rather helping people. I went into Theodore's room and searched his drawers for any weapon at all. I just needed to release stress. The fearless, confident, and bitchy Andrea I had managed to keep hidden in the closet for two years has now come back strong. The old Andrea is gone all thanks to Theodore Black. I found a dagger with his name engraved on the handle and I took it. I already had his gun safely tucked into the waistband of my jeans so I walked into his built-in gym. There was a dartboard in the middle of the room along with all other equipment for exercises. I went ahead to the dartboard and took out the gun. I aimed for the center and shot successfully hitting my target. I did that for a while before I heard someone clap. "A gun in those delicate hands does
Theodore's POV"Why would she be naked if she was with you?" I asked my brother. I have always loved pissing him off but today this was different. It was Andrea we were talking about.Last night I had witnessed everything that happened between Xavier and Andrea but when I tried to talk to her she just shut me out and that hurt like a bitch. I went straight to Xavier's room and said some... colourful words to him but I realized he was way too drunk to understand what just happened so yelling at him was equivalent to talking to a rock so I decided to leave him alone and rather talk to him this morning when he is more sober.When he woke up this morning, he went about his daily duties like nothing had happened but of course he had a headache from drinking last night. I assumed he had forgotten about everything he said to Andrea and honestly, I was mad at him. I get it she has some secrets which both of us didn't know but that was no way to treat her. Even he had his own secrets and if
"We're making ten rules," Xavier said, "Rule number 1: No matter how angry we are at each other our favorite ice cream should solve the problem." "Good. That way I wouldn't have to be all depressed about your mood swings," I said giggling. "Hahaha very funny," he mocked, "your turn to make up a rule." "Okay so rule number 2: We should be happy for each other's successes," I said smiling. "Good one," Xavier praised, "Rule number 3: If you are doing something you can't tell your best friend about then you shouldn't do it." "Rule number 4: No secrets," I said. I didn't want to keep anything away from him anymore. "No secrets," he repeated. "Rule number 5: Only your bestie has to know about your birthday wish," he said with a smirk. "Now that's just petty. You just want to know what I wish for," I complained but he just shrugged in response. I sighed, "Rule number 6: If your friends are being mean to your best friend you should stand up for your bestie no matter what." "Rule number 7
He suddenly burst out laughing, " You should've seen your face, Andrea." "Shut up," I mumbled as my cheeks turned scarlet. He kissed my cheeks this time, "Now go! You don't want to be late on your first day." "Right," I said blushing. I kissed him on the back of his cheeks and rushed out of the car without looking back.#in class#*tap* *tap*I swear to God one more paper ball and I'm using the baseball bat in my room on his head the minute we get home. Xavier had made it his mission to disturb me during lessons along with his annoyingly hot friend, Aiden. I met Aiden during lunch in the cafeteria and he was nice but I should've expected this behavior from him because he was my best friend's friend so why on Earth did I expect him to be better than Xavier?I turned around and glared at them. Aiden immediately shut up but Xavier did not. He kept laughing as something funny happened. "Mister Black is something funny?" The English teacher said. Xavier cleared his throat and sat up str
*Knock* *knock*The knocking sound brought me back to my senses and I stared at Theodore with wide eyes wondering what to do. "Who's at the door?" Theodore asked frowning. "Your brother," I said, "you need to hide." I stood up looking all around my room for a place to hide him. My closet? No, he was too big to fit in there. Damn muscles. "It doesn't matter. We'll just tell him the truth," Theodore said running his fingers through his hair. "Yes, we will. But not today. Especially not now," I explained. He sighed and shrugged his shoulders, "I mean if that's what you want then okay." I sighed. Now where to hide him. Hmm....? Aha! "Come here," I said quickly pulling him up from the bed. I pushed him into the bathroom. "Please stay here and don't make a sound no matter what," I said. "Your wish is my command," he said with a bow that made me smile. I kissed his cheek leaving him surprised before closing the door to my bathroom. "Coming!" I yelled rushing to open the door to my room.