“Mother it’s nice to see you, come in” I hear him politely say, wow who knew this guy could be polite, I hear little child voice start talking walking into the house.
“Little bro it’s nice to see you again, especially like this all dressed up in a suit living in his amazing house” I hear a woman say, who’s probably his older sister he was telling me about last night, his mother hasn’t actually said anything yet.
“Yes, you’ve finally learnt how to tie a tie, I definitely didn’t see that one coming,” another woman says in a posh voice, that has to be his delightful mother who, by the sounds of it, is everything he said she was.
“Well it has been a lot of years mother, I have changed” Anthony replies kind of sticking up for himself, which I have to respect “but I know you’re not really there to see me, there are two very special people I want to introduce you to” he starts, oh boy that’s my cue I guess, I start to slowly make my way out the kitchen.
“Get that sick ready” I whisper to Amelia as we get dangerously close to where the voices were coming from.
“This is my wife Freya and our new daughter Amelia” Anthony smiles as I appear at the side of the stairs. to see the faces of the people I heard, his mother wore a black dress with a white fur coat, and his sister wore a black skirt and a smart shirt.
“Oh my gosh, you’re beautiful! How did my brother ever end up with someone that looks like you!” She asks surprised, well funny story kidnapping was involved “how old is the baby?” She asks with a smile, I take a look down at Amelia and mentally have to calculate, she was 4 weeks when we were taken and we’ve been here for nearly 2.
“She’ll be 6 weeks in a few days” I smile answering her question as quickly as I could, she looks even more shocked looking me up and down.
“You had a baby only 6 weeks ago and you look like that?!” She exclaims shocked looking towards Anthony, yes that’s because I haven’t had a baby, but I can’t tell you that “it doesn’t look like you’ve even had one!” She continues more shook, that’s because I haven’t, but again can’t say that, I take a look to Anthony who looked rather worried.
“Call it good genetics” I smile looking back towards his sister, whose name I’m still clueless about, Anthony seems to calm down directing everyone to the living room, his mother still hadn’t said a single word to me.
I walk in after Anthony while his mother and sister take a seat on one of the sofas, his sister’s children run around outside, I stood beside him but out the corner of my eye, I caught his mother looking at me and Amelia with tears in her eyes. I turn sending her a smile slowly walking over.
“Would you like to hold her?” I ask sweetly feeling bad for her, she nods happily opening her arms out where I gently place Amelia in them.
I walk backwards to stand beside Anthony again, who wraps his arm around my waist placing a kiss on my head, he whispers a thank you near my ear as his mother starts asking a bunch of questions.
“So, what do you do for work Anthony?” She asks him with raised eyebrows, I look toward Anthony when he doesn’t speak, I mean he can’t tell her what he actually does.
“I’m an art dealer” he simply replies with a smile, it didn’t seem like he had to stop and think about what to say, he must be amazing at lying “I go around to different places around the country and sometimes other countries, I buy art pieces from beginner artists and sell them” he explains so easily, maybe he actually does that and kidnapping is just a hobby of his.
“That’s amazing bro, I would have never thought you’d do anything like that” his sister exclaims amazed, I turn to Anthony who just had a huge smile literally eat to ear.
“What about the trouble you were getting yourself into when you left home?” His mother asks looking up at him, his sister whisper to her but she shakes her head “no Nicole, I want to know” she replies looking back at his sister, who I now know as Nicole, Anthony sighs looking down at the ground.
“No mother I don’t do that stuff no more, when I met Freya all that stopped for good, now we have Amelia too, that’s just another reason for me never to go back to that life” he sighs actually offended, I mean he met Amelia and me at the same time when he kidnapped us! I don’t think he’s done anything illegal since than wait……. Tammy!
I’ve been so caught up with everything going on I haven’t even stopped to think about Tammy, you’d think as she knows everything that’s happened, she would have come round today to try and help. That is if Anthony didn’t really hurt her, I look to Anthony who was still going on about not living a life of crime.
“I’ll go get the food” I quickly smile walking out of the living room and towards the kitchen, just needing to get out of there to gather my racing thoughts, what if he did hurt her and she’s just out there somewhere in pain?
I place my hands on the counter just looking at the ground, when I hear footsteps getting closer to the kitchen, I quickly turn opening the fridge beginning to pull the food out placing in into the counter as Anthony walks in.
“Are you okay doll? You just left” he asks stopping at the counter, I turn back around to the fridge not wanting to make eye contact.
“You were having a family talk, I didn’t want to get in the middle of that” I try to think of an excuse on the spot, luckily I was facing the fridge so he couldn’t see my expression, I feel him take my arm pulling me out the fridge to stand in front of him.
“Doll you are family, you and Amelia are apart of this now you don’t have to leave when we’re all talking” he starts, beginning to stroke my cheek with his thumb while looking in my eyes “my life is finally on the right tracks and it’s all because of you doll, you and Amelia are the most important things in my life, I’ll do anything to keep it that way” he smiles leaning in placing a kiss on my lips before I could pull away, he pulls away smiling even wider trying to go for another but I manage to get out his arms picking the food up from the counter.
“Let’s not keep them waiting” I smile awkwardly darting for the living room with two plates of food in my hands, I can’t believe he just did that, he’s way too confident I need to leave now!
I walk back into the living room putting my best fake smile on as I place the food on the coffee table in front of them, Anthony appears behind me with the other plates also putting them on the table.
“Freya wanted to make you some food” he smiles looking towards me with a smile “she just wanted to make a good impression, didn’t you doll?” He says looking at me to speak as his mother gasp a little looking towards Anthony, was it such a crime that I made food? I really shouldn’t have bothered, what an ungrateful swine.
“Yes I did, they say food is the root to everyone’s heart” I smile trying to think of something to say to make his mother actually acknowledge me, which she still doesn’t and just looks to the floor.
His sister laughs taking a slice of melon from the plates, while I feel a hand on my side pulling me, Anthony sits on the other sofa pulling me down with him his arm resting on my side.
“I haven’t heard someone call someone else doll since…” his mother starts finally speaking but trails off looking down, I mean he calls me that all the time, does it mean something bad in his family?
“Since dad left” Anthony finishes her sentence causing her to look up at him with sad eyes, he never told me his dad left his mother, is she still getting over that? “he’d always call you doll, so I thought I’d carry on his, maybe legacy” Anthony smirks looking over at his mother, is he doing it to get back at her in some way? Cause if he is that’s just wrong.
“Your father doesn’t need a legacy, he’s a pig and deserves nothing” she spits at him with dark eyes, okay I’m seeing the family’s first spat “you’re father left his family and you still want to praise him!” She shouts causing a sleeping Amelia to wake up and begin to cry, I reach over slyly taking her out his angry mother’s arms and into mine to calm her down.
“Our dad was an amazing father and husband, but you drove him away, that’s just what you do mother!” Anthony shouts standing up wow he’s really mad, I’ve only seen him this angry at ink and we all know how that turned out, with a pole.
“Look you’re just like him! Give it a year and this pretty little marriage you’ve got will vanish!” She also shouts raising her to her feet, let’s hope it’s sooner than a year, she than directs her attention to little old me sat on the sofa “Talking from experience with Richards men get out, come on get up and leave” she pushes passed Anthony taking my arm pulling me out the living room and towards the front door, okay she meant right now.
“Mother what are you doing?” I hear Nicole shout from the living room , but his mother had already opened the door pulling me and Amelia outside with her, is she without even knowing it, helping us escape our kidnapper aka her son?