We walk around for a few hours taking in the amazing wildlife, Anthony was right, my foot was actually feeling a bit better after all the walking. We take a rest on one of the benches, so Amelia could have a bottle, I sat beside Anthony as he fed her.
I did enjoy the walk but I don’t know if that’s a good thing, should I be enjoying myself? I mean I’m definitely not always, but it’s moments like this when I see a different side to Anthony. Does that make me weird for feeling like this? I still wanna go home and if the chance came right now in this moment to go home, I’d take it without even a second thought. We’ve been here for almost five months and there’s only been this time I’m enjoying myself, again does that make me weird?
Anthony’s phone ringing brings me out of my questioning thoughts, he pulls it out but frowns when he looks at the name. I tilt my head slightly to see inks name on the screen, Anthony shakes his head slipping back in his pocket looking down at Amelia.
“Does the guy think I’m dumb? I know the police will track the phone and get our location” he smiles in a baby voice to Amelia who smiles, his phone rings two more times but he doesn’t even pull it out his pocket.
“How did you and ink meet?” I ask, looking over at him while he sighs still looking over at Amelia.
“After I got kicked out my parents house, I was bouncing from friends sofa’s sometimes even their sheds, I knew I couldn’t live like that forever and needed money so I could get on my own two feet” he starts to explain looking over at me a few times, to make sure I was still listening before continuing.
“No jobs would hire me due to my record, so I had to resort crime, I started with small jobs nothing too grand, I’d just finished robbing this rich guys house and was running down the canal away, when I saw this small dude sat under the bridge” he stares ahead of him thinking back to the memory, he snaps himself out looking over at me, where I send him a soft smile “well I felt bad for the guy cause I knew if I didn’t have the friends i had, I’d probably be in the same situation as him, I had enough money from that job to rent this two bedroom apartment, so I gave him a room” he explains with a smile, wait so that’s what Aidan meant when he said Anthony took ink of the streets.
“You saved him” I finally speak, he turns to look at me shaking his head, looking to the side not agreeing with me.
“I gave him a opportunity of a new life which he took, I made sure he was always in on whatever I was doing, even when I made money I didn’t abandon him” he goes on to explain more, but the smile drops from his face “I know I was hard on him, but that’s only because I wanted what was best, he’d do stupid things that could ruin his life and I just wanted him to see he was so much better than that” he rambles on, until I take his hand in mine sending him a smile, he takes a deep breath calming himself down before continuing.
“I was doing what my dad tried to do with me, I somehow managed to get to the point where my dad wanted me to be at, just not how he would have liked me to get there” he looks down, this is the first time he’s really spoke about his dad, it’s always been about what a terrible job his mother did.
“That’s what I wanna do with you, but I’ll make sure you don’t get in the trouble I did and make sure you make a great life for yourself” he smiles, looking down at Amelia but turns to me “the right way” he smiles as his phone rings once again, snapping us out the moment we were having.
He pulls his phone out once more but this time he answers it.
“Did you manage to get a house?” He asks, obviously now talking to Aidan, he smiles looking over at me “that’s amazing mate, come round later for a beer” he smiles, before hanging up haven’t a huge smile.
“We have a house?” I ask with a little smile, he nods wrapping his arm around pulling me into a hug.
He whispers “thank you” so quietly that I could have missed it, again I didn’t know if I should like this moment, but I couldn’t help but smile.
In no time we were on the road again heading towards the new house, Anthony was taking back roads just to make sure no police would clock us. The sound of a radio in the background cut the silence, I leant back in my seat staring out the window, just thinking about what Anthony told me back there. He actually took ink off the streets and helped him, I would have never have guessed that with the way he would treat him. He said he tried to do what his dad wanted for him, does that mean his dad would treat him how he treats ink? I look over at him just studying him for a while, I know he kidnapped me but now I’m learning more about his past, I can’t help but feel bad for him.
He looks over at me smiling but turns back to the road, I smile just staring out the window once more, he takes another turn leading us toward a huge house. It was the only one for miles with huge gates, my mouth slowly opens looking around the huge house, this must have been so expensive.
We pull up the car where he types in a number, the gates immediately start to open slowly, I thought his house before was expensive and glam, that’s nothing compared to this place. We pull up outside the house where we both sit for a second, Aidans friend does sell some elegant houses, well more like mansions.
“This is the safest place for our family” he smiles, looking over at me while taking my hand in his “nothing is ever gonna get between us doll, my girls and I are gonna be alright” he smiles, once more placing a long kiss on my hand, Amelia starts to make noises in the back making him smile and finally get out the car.
I also get out, going to get Amelia out while Anthony handled the bags, I wait for him so we walk up to the front door together.
“Aidan said he left the key behind the plant” he basically says to himself, going behind the plant picking up a bunch of keys, he unlocks the door allowing me to walk in first.
I smile taking little steps into the giant house just looking around, as he closes and of course locks it behind us. He comes behind me placing his hand on my lower back causing my eyes to go wide, he places a kiss on my cheek staring ahead.
“This is our forever home” he whispers to me with a smile.
Let’s hope it’s not.