IRIS' POV
Immediately I step into the house, I find Uncle Ty sitting on the couch.
"Hey kiddo," He greets, his eyes never leaving the television, "Who dropped you off?"
"Oh. That was Luca."
"The young man Bryson said you're seeing?"
I giggle as I move to sit down close to him,"Yes. The young man Bryson said ``I was seeing."
"I thought you weren't gonna come home tonight….."
"Yeah… I kinda slept off, I rushed here when I got your message. I'm sorry Uncle Tyson."
He waves his hand around, brushing off my apology. "It's nothing. Is he treating you well?"
"Yeah. He's the best." I sigh happily.
"As long as he
"What time are you going to come pick me up?" I ask Luca over the phone as I search for a decent dress to put on today. "In an hour time, baby. You ready yet?" He replies, sounding like he was also shuffling around. "Not even close," I snort loudly as I finally pick up a maroon colour vintage gown. I walk to my shoes and pick up a simple sandals. I hear Luca chuckle over the phone, "Did you just snort?" "Noo….?" I meekly reply, a pout on my lips as he laughs harder. "Can you stop laughing? I'm going to have to end the call." Immediately he shuts up and I smile in truimph. My phone vibrates from it's spot in between my ear and my left shoulder. And I frown when I see he's asking for a FaceTime. "Lucaaaa," I whine, stomping
IRIS' POVAfter reaching his house, we decided to take a shower and lounge around his apartment since it's still midday. Luca hasn't spoken to me since we arrived, he's sitting on the bed with a small gold key clenched in his palm.After scrolling through Instagram for a while, I realise that he hasn't moved from his spot. I crawl over to him and sit behind him, so my chest meets his muscled back. And I wrap my arms around his torso."Hey..." Is the first word I speak and it comes out as a whisper.He only lets out a grunt."I don't know what you're feeling right now. But I do want you to know that I'm here for you, Luca."Honestly, I wouldn't know how Luca is feeling right now. Finding out that your grandfather left a shit ton of money and also finding out that your own
IRIS'POVIt's been a few days and my mind is still reeling on the events that have happened these past few days. Luca still isn't okay, but he's working through it. I'm walking down the school hallways with Tasha by my right but my mind isn't here with me.Two manicured fingers snap in front of my face and I'm jerked out of my thoughts, "Huh?" I ask dumbly as I look at a pissed off Tasha.She glares at me, two slender arms on her waist and she leans on one hip, "I've been talking to you since we got out of art class,""You have?" I raise an eyebrow at her, as we start walking to our lockers."Yesss!" She groans, opening her locker aggressively and I try to stifle a giggle in. "You think this is funny?" She snaps as she also tries to cover her smile."No…" I trail
It's Thursday and I don't feel any better, I haven't seen Luca at school all morning and my mind isn't at rest. My mood also had a huge effect on my dressing today. "You're dressed like a heart broken emo kid," Tasha whispers to me as our mathematics teacher speaks on quadratics.I look down at my outfit and chuckle at her words, "You're being dramatic,"She looks at me like I've gone crazy, "You're wearing a black joggers and a hoodie, you also didn't do those nice updos - that I like, with your hair and for fucks sake you didn't lay your edges!" She whispers-squeals."Hey, some of us are actually trying to learn here." Jackson leans into the space between Tasha and I as he whispers before going back to sit properly.Tasha glares back at him as she throws a paper ball right to his forehead before flipping him off.
The next morning my fear increases and I feel sick to my stomach. I try to tell myself that I'm just coming up with something and it has nothing to do with lying to my Luca and my friends.After a lot of argument with my subconsciousness I decide to stay at home, since it's Friday and mostly have free periods for the day.Four hours later and I'm deep into watching TV, deep voices coming from the front door take my gaze away from Chris Hemsworth acting as Thor, ( and you may be wondering, is she watching a marvel movie? Yes I am. I'm rewatching the Endgame. Bite me….. I'd rather you don't.)"- she's going to be really surprised." Uncle Ty's voice booms around the house as his body appears in the living room."Who is?" I ask as I watch his eyes widen.But before he could say another word, a ra
It's Saturday and I finally made up my mind over the night. I'm going to meet up with the sender of the mysterious letter.Once it's 11:50 I leave the house with a hood over my head. I take the short trek to the park.My heart is beating at what I'm about to do. My mind reels at what would happen if I meet the mysterious person.As I reach the park, I receive a text on my phone from a private number.PRIVATE NUMBER: GO UNDER THE SHADE OF THE TREE TO YOUR RIGHT.I look to my right to see the tree Luca and I always stay under whenever we come to the park. We sweaty hands and shaky feet. I walk there only to see a man in a suit, facing away from me."Uhm, h-hello?" I say but it comes out as in a shaky breath. And I mentally face-palm myself.
LUCA'S POV.Iris has been acting strange. It feels like she's avoiding me and wants to get away from me as far as possible.She feels disconnected. I've tried all I can and nothing is working. She always seems so lost in her thoughts and I'm worried. And at the same time it feels like she never wants to leave my side. I'm lost.So it came as a great shock to me when she suggested a date night tonight."I think we've both been stressing out a lot and I want us to have the evening to ourselves." She said when she saw the confusion on my face."I think that's a great idea, baby," I told her softly as she tightened her hand on my waist and pressed her face into my chest.I'm walking out of the underground fighting club after hours of practice when I receive a text from
LUCA'S POVAfter Erik walks out, Luke and I walk to Lilian who has Emerald cleaning up the blood by the side of her mouth."You okay?" I ask, a permanent scowl on my face.She nods her head as she stands up."I'm fine," she smiles softly before pointing to point she just got up from. "Sit. So I can tend to your wounds.""I'm okay." I grunt out.Luke looks at me unsurely but I nod my head at him in assurance."What the hell was that all about?" Luke asks sitting down close to Lilian."I don't know," Emerald sniffs. "He just came in all of a sudden and mum got pissed. They exchanged words and I think mum strucked a nerve, so he hit her."I growl and Luke curses ou