Elena
I knew she wouldn’t be able to take it. I wasn’t prepared to spill it out to her that way, but Daniel beats me to it.
I couldn’t be mad at him for telling her. She needs to know. Poor Diana was raped by Mr. French. If you ask me, I still don’t know how he was able to do that. A lot of fishy things going on that we are yet to find out.
She is furious and I don’t think she should drive in this state. Ava and I are almost the same. We usually lose our minds when something hurts us to the bone.
“Ava, get in my car, I will drive us to your house.” I instruct as she inhales and exhale heavily. Her mood, even the color of her eyes, all go into a state of dullness.
“I’m losing my mind. I can’t believe she was raped but mom told me she fell down the stairs. I knew all along what she told me wasn’t the exact truth, but she was my mom! I never thought of doubting her and I didn’t…” She gasps for air as she lets out the words.
“Hey, hey, calm down. Take in a low breath and look at me.” I cup her face into my hands, her temperature is kind of rising. When Ava is this way, it is usually not a good thing. Although she is the calm kind of person but they say calm people are usually very hard to control when they are furious. Ava is that kind.
“Elena, I don’t know. I’m beginning to doubt my mom. Right now, I’m confused about how she would be able to lie to me.” I see tears trickling down her cheek. I don’t know what to tell her. Right now, she feels heartbroken because she has always trusted her mom.
She trusted her so much that a lie could be the truth to Ava. Well, that is not the problem. I know shit happens, anything is possible. The problem here is why would she lie to Ava and how the fuck was Mr. French able to do that to Diana?
I promise myself that I’m going to take them all down, once I find out what has been going on. As for Mr. French? His future is at stake because of me. It is as though his lifeline is in my hands.
“What do you think we should do, Ava? I know you want to go home, but to do what?” I’m asking because I’m not prepared to see Diana in that state yet. My heart still feels too heavy because of everything that has been happening, including what I learned recently.
“Why? To fucking ask Ferry why the heck she lied to me! She is my mom and I’m her only daughter. She’s not supposed to lie to me.” She yells through gritted teeth, her fingers digging into her chest and it must be painful.
Seeing Ava cry makes me feel worse. I hate seeing her cry. I hate seeing my Ava in pain and I’m so pissed at everything right now. I also desperately want to know why Ferry lied to my best friend.
“Ava, please let me drive. You can’t do it right now. I’m here for you. I’m always here to be by your side.” I tell her.
“Ava, let her drive. It is for your safety.” Daniel adds. I almost forgot that he was beside me. I still don’t know why I let him stay with us.
I’m fucking pissed at all of them, and now they’ve found out I’ve been honest they should be ashamed of themselves. And when you are shameful, you don’t come close. You ought not to be close, because of your self-respect but in this case, Daniel is different.
I roll my eyes at him instead, thinking of what to say to him. He should fucking not think of coming close after everything, after everything they did for not trusting me. “I would rather appreciate you staying away from us, for the time being, while I think of ways to teach you all a lesson.”
Ava sighed as she walks behind me, on her way to my car. ” Elena…” he opens his mouth to speak, but closes it again, not knowing what to say.
“Go hide or do whatever with your fucking father before his punishment arrives.” I sneer, feeling hateful towards him and at the same time trying to control the way I speak harshly at him. I don’t know what is wrong with me, no matter how angry I am at him, I still want him close…
“Elena, I don’t support my dad.” He speaks softly, and I unexpectedly feel sparks fly in my heart. I know I shouldn’t feel this way, none of them deserves my love. They lost it as they lost me.
“I don’t fucking care. Get out of here Daniel. I don’t wanna see you close. You all are fucking pieces of shit!” My heart aches as I yell at him for the second time.
“Elena, I don’t care what you do to me, but I care about your safety.” he urges as he looks directly into my blue eyes. I hate that he looks at me that way because he does something to my heart. It makes my heart beats like crazy. It makes me so mad. Arggh!
“You have no right to care about me.”
“I do, you are my mate,” he says with a straight face.
I scoff for a second, but feel a sudden heat down in the pit of my stomach. He is something else.
“You’re not my mate, Daniel. Just expect the worse Daniel, it will come soon.” I smirk. I search for Ava with my eyes. She’s in the passenger’s seat, and the frustration is evident on her face as she leans on the seat.
“I don’t care what you do to me, Elena, I want you safe.” He tells me.
I clench my fist. I have nothing to say to him so I walk out, charging into my car. Ava is silent as I begin to drive. The silence is scary. I have to increase the speed of the car to reach our destination on time.
When we arrive, she doesn’t even wait for me to park properly before storming out of the car, and run to the house. Ferry is sitting on the couch. It is as though Ava calculated the time she would be home.
“Hey, honey. You good?” she smiles, her smile is always gorgeous. No wonder you wouldn’t detect it, if she was to tells you a straight fucking lie.
“Don’t you call me honey again!” She spits out as she halts in front of her.
“Hey honey, what’s going on? You never speak this way to me before. You okay?” her brow furrows.
“How can I be okay, when you lied to me?” she yells to her fucking face. Ferry’s lips begin to shake, as though she is about to be exposed but I don’t know what. What the fuck has she been hiding from us?
“Tell me!” Ava shouts.
“Tell you what honey?” she pretends to be confused but I don’t trust it. I don’t think it is genuine.
“Why? Why did you lie? You told me Diana fell off the stairs while she was cleaning! When the truth is she was raped!” her rough hair begin to stick to her face. The room isn’t hot but she is sweating, she must be extremely irritated.
“Hey, where-where did you get that from? She fell… She fell honey.” She stutters, her breathing begins to change.
“Mom?” she screams her name, her voice breaking. She is too heartbroken and it’s evident in her face, especially her eyes. As I watch her cry, I feel my heart shattering into pieces.
“How could you tell a straight lie to my face without feeling any guilt?” her eyes drop to the couch. It was more terrible than I expected. “You lied!” She screams, clenching her fists tighter as though she wants to throw a punch to Ferry.
“Yes! It’s true, I lied.” she scream aggressively at Ava out of the blue. Maybe it becomes unbearable for her to deny the obvious fact.
“Why mom?” her voice lowered as if she has a cold that makes her unable to speak.
“Ava, stay out of this.” she demands, tucking her hair behind her ears.
“Goddamn it, what the heck have you been hiding?” She shouts, and my heart is squeezing tightly as I hear her outburst.
“No wonder what else have you been hiding, Ferry? I heard you saying something about Diana. You didn’t want her to ever wake up, why?” I spit out, remembering that I heard her that day at Ava’s house but didn’t believe what I heard. I thought my head was playing with me, but hell, it has been the truth all this time.
“What? You heard that?” Ava frowns at me. She looks a little disappointed at me. I could tell why because I didn’t tell her about it.
I wasn’t sure and it was her mom. I couldn’t bear the fact that I would be the cause of any future issue that could occur between them. ” You never told me about that.” She shakes her head.
“Ava, I wasn’t sure and I couldn’t tell you.” My voice is very low, trying to calm her down. Her anger is growing like wildfire.
“You should have told me. We are best friends and we keep nothing from each other, whether it’s the truth or not.” she slaps her hand on the edge of the couch.
I shake a bit as I watch her anger grow. It is becoming scary, and this is Ava. Once she gets angry, it is almost impossible to control her until she does whatever she has in her mind.
” Hey, Ava. You got to be calm.” I tell her.
“Shut up! Don’t you tell me to be calm?” She shouts at me. My lips suddenly become dry as I don’t know what to do. My best is angry, and I don’t know what to do or to say to calm her down.
“Ava, she’s a bad company to you. She’s gonna make you hate your mom.” Ferry cries out. I couldn’t believe what I heard from her, that my mouth hangs open.
“You shut up too! Don’t you ever say such thing about my best friend,” Ava shouts. “What did Diana do mom? You wanted her to remain in coma forever? Was that why you got her a personal doctor? Damn!” She’s pulling her hair. I don’t say a word as she seeks the answers she wants.
“Just when I thought I had the worse mom ever, I-I just don’t know what to say to you Ferry. I’m speechless.” I shake my head.
“Elena, can you be out? I want you out.” Ava says quietly but didn’t yell. I feel my heart sink. I didn’t think it would lead to this point. I didn’t want her to get pissed at Ferry.
“Ava, I can’t leave you alone.” I tell her and sigh.
“I will be fine Elena. Right now, I need to take care of Diana. I need to get her a good doctor.” She tells me.
“You also need me.” I insist.
“I don’t want that for now. Elena, I’m so pissed that I don’t want to say anything to hurt you. I’ve never ever wanted to hurt you, so please go!” Now, she screams.
“I would leave you to calm for now Ava, but I will be back soon.” I tell her with a little smile on my lips but she says nothing, nor even looking at me.
She’s deeply hurt…
I’m slump as I find my way out of the living room. I don’t know if she would be okay. She needs me. She’s lying to herself. Ava needs me now more than ever…
I get in my car, turn it on and drive. I need to find a place to hang around for a while. I can’t go away. I have to be somewhere close.
I find a restaurant to rest and wait for Ava to calm down. But as I drive into the parking lot, I notice something. No, someone.
Jesus, Christ…Is he following me?
I take off my seatbelt immediately and jump out of the car. “Are you following me?” I yell but I don’t come close. It is the Quad’s father.
“You are too smart, and sometimes it can lead you to problems you can’t get out of.” He smirks. He is in a black suit just like his sons.
“Rapist!” I yell. If I already ordered my coffee, I would have poured it all on him.
“I’m here to give my final warnings, Elena. Forget everything you heard.” He threatens. He sounds like Mr. Callum just this morning. He said almost the same thing, and they think it would scare me.
I begin to laugh hard which makes his brow furrow in confusion. “You have to pay. You all have to pay for what you’ve been doing to me and my friends.”