Daniel
After everything that went down at the station, I just couldn’t deal with anything else. At the end of the day, it’s my fault that Felicity was dead.
Whoever hates Livy so much as to want to frame her for Felicity’s death must have really planned it all out, because without a doubt Livy would have spent a night or two in jail if Markian hadn’t showed up.
So for that, I was grateful to my cousin. Today, it didn’t matter if it was me or Markian that saved the day, the main fact was that she was out of that horrid place.
My phone vibrates in my pocket and I pulled it out to see an email notification. I opened it and read; Some evidence that shows not all that glitters is gold.
Under the message were some images attached. I opened the images and I froze as I saw Livy in them.
Who sent these and how did they get hold of it? It’s no longer a speculation that someone was out to ruin Livy and I need to find out who it is.
I quickly made a call to my private investigator in Minnesota, to find out all he can about the Luthel family and be descrete about it.
For all I know, it might just be an enemy she inherited from her mother, and Judy Luthel wouldn’t take it lightly with anyone poking their noses around in her business nor family.
Sophia was already dead and if they are the same people who pinned Felicity’s death on Livy, it means they were involve in Felicity’s murder too.
It’s very likely they are dangerous and could easily harm Livy if they wanted to, but I won’t let that happen.
I poured myself a glass of brandy and thought about everything that happened today. I still can’t believe Felicity was dead, and to think that she’s just a pawn in some lunatic’s plot to discredit Livy was just disheartening and sad.
Since I heard the news of her death and Livy being at the station, I’ve been blocking all other emotions by keeping busy and trying to get Livy out instead of grieving or finding out who really killed Felicity.
But now that Livy was out, the feelings I’ve try to elude are finally hitting hard. I stood in front of the vanity mirror but for some reason my legs couldn’t hold me up again so I staggered to the bed and sat on it.
After Felicity, I never thought I could love again. The sacrifice I made years ago was one of the sacrifices I have lived to regret the most.
Markian is my cousin and a year older than me, but we always acted like twins. Since I was a smarty pants, I entered High School together with him and we were known as the Winfrey-Duo back then in Junior High.
We practically did everything together, from partying to studying, and even had lunch together. You can’t invite one of us to a party, but that wasn’t hard to do since we were very handsome, rich and popular, everyone wanted to hang out with us.
Markian on the other hand kept out circle just the two of us and refuse to interact with other kids.
Felicity transferred schools and joined us in 11th grade, but soon flowed with almost everyone in school as she was every guy’s dream.
She was beautiful and the hottest girl in school then, but what attracted us to her was her boldness and confidence.
She had picked a fight with Markian and called him an egocentric moron in front of the whole school because, he rudely turned down a prom-posal from a very shy girl in our class who had a crush on him.
Markian swore he would get her back for the public insult and made her life in school unbearable. He bullied her for a while but that seemed not to work because she was so confident.
As always Markian had ways of going overboard with little quarrels, and his tempter gets the best of him, so I decided to stand aside and let him cool off by doing whatever he wanted to do to her.
But she was strong and didn’t want to give him the satisfaction of seeing her bow down. That’s when she caught my attention.
Markian then decided to break her pride, so he prepared a grand prom-posal and asked her to prom. She accepted and I knew I should have warned her, but I didn’t want to upset Markian.
When he decides to do something, nobody could stop him, you can only try but then you’ll become an enemy of his too.
At the prom, Felicity waited for her date and so did the entire school. Markian finally showed up but with another girl.
Turns out he had asked Taylor to be his prom date too- the most popular girl in school then and her parents were also very wealthy so they were a perfect match.
At the time, Felicity’s family business was having some financial set backs and she depended on her scholarship in other to remain in our school.
She was orphaned, so she was staying in Minnesota with her Uncle who was managing the rumpled up business her father had left behind.
She had got her dress and shoe for the prom on installment and was already working 2 part-time jobs to cover the cost.
So, when Markian had shown up with Taylor that night, it was devastating for her and for the first time, I saw her break-down in tears.
She ran out of the dance room cry, so I knew how upset she was. She shouldn’t be alone in that frame of mind, so I followed her.
I finally found her inside the dark gymnasium crying and walked up to her, crouched down and embraced her.
“Did you know? … Sniffle… Did you know he was planning to stand me up?” She asked with a broken voice.
“Yes.” was all I could answer.
She raised up her head and gazed directly at me with her soul piercing green eyes.
“So, you must be happy too, right? You both have succeeded in breaking the strong and brave Felicity Marshall after all, congratulations” she said and that broke my heart.
She was wrong, I wasn’t happy about any of these and I know I should have told her what Markian had planned to do, but I couldn’t and for that I was upset with myself.
“Do you know the most upsetting part of all these? I had a feeling that something like these would happen, but deep down I hoped that maybe he wasn’t such a cold hearted demon. Maybe he wanted to stop hating me, maybe he started liking me like I started liking him, maybe he wanted us to become friends. I was a fool right? I believed what I wanted to believe.” She confessed.
Turned out that she started having feelings for him and was excited about today, but now she was heartbroken.
I stood up and stretch my hand toward her and said, “Sometimes believing what we want is all it takes, but it doesn’t mean you are a fool. It only means you are brave enough to follow your heart even though all the possible outcomes are frightening. Com’on, we can’t let this beautiful dress, shoe and makeup go in vain now can we?” She looked up at me and then back at my outstretched arm and smiled as she shook her head and took my hand.
I waited for her outside the female bathroom as she freshened up and we both went back to the dance room together holding hands.
Obviously that pissed Markian off, but for the first time in my life I didn’t mind him as I dance with Felicity the rest of the night.
The next day I told him how I felt about Felicity and he practically exiled me from every social gathering in school including having lunch at the cafeteria.
We fought for almost a year until Felicity and I broke up after I found out she still had feelings for Markian.