Christian stood up and the bowl of ice cream was half full. I didn’t want ice cream, I wanted apples, what was I thinking when I got the pecan flavoured ice cream.
“Josef would not just leave, I think he has been sending Jenna notes, just like this one” Christian said.
“I haven’t seen any notes” I said.
Right now, all I could think about was good food.
Delicious food.
Food.
“You haven’t found them” Christian said and he stood up and left.
He returned later with three envelopes.
“Where did you find those?” Kylee asked him.
“In Jenna’s room”
One was yellow, two were red.
“Jenna, I suspected that Christian and Kylee are having an affair”
He raised a brow after he read it. “That’s it” he said and he thew the note aside.
“I see that you and Christian had a flight, with the way he stormed of the house, I suspect you’ve confronted him about the affair, good job”
Christian shook his head again and a shiver ran down my spine, Josef is delusional.
“The last note is empty ”
I stood up, finally unable to contain my hunger.
“If you both would excuse me, I I’m going to eat a horse” I left the room before any of them could say anything.
***
KYLEE
“I think she’s shaken from the revelation. I’m sorry about Josef, he seemed promising ” I said.
“You shouldn’t apologize over Josef. I was happy for you I failed to be with watchful over him”
“You don’t have to be the one to know all and protect us. It’s okay to sit back and relax”
“While I let things go our? He hurt you and he was planning on hurting me and Jenna too”
“You can’t control everything Christian, don’t beat yourself up for it. Jenna is shaken but she’ll be fine ”
“What is that?” He asked pointing to a box under the night stand.
“Your eyes really goes places” I joked and he chuckled.
“What is it though?”
“Busy body, mind your own business”
He stood up and I knew that he wanted do get his hands on the box, I also know that even though I was closer to it, reaching it first was logical.
But, Christian was faster than anybody I’ve ever met or heard of. I leapt forward and he reached for the box, in very eyes, his fingers curled around it and he was out of the way before I could even finish falling.
I landed on the ground in a harsh crash and he laughed at me.
One, two, three..
He loosened the ribbons on the box and it opened.
Inside was a pale pink dress from a designer brand I adored. It was a customized label that I had made for Jenna to wear on her birthday, it was meant to be a surprise because I wanted Christian to see it on her first.
The reason was because I had taken Marcellino’s and Elisa wedding photos to see the dress Jenna wore, the one that was secretly obsessed with. I had the designers make a new dress that would be inspired by the one she wore then, instead of ivory I chose pale pink because I knew she wore that colour as if it was a birthright.
It was as if the colour was made solely for her.
Christian gasped, the box dropped to the floor as he stood up and held the dress up.
“Kylee…” He whispered, still looking at the dress. The happiness I heard from his voice made my heart dance.
“It is my present to Jenna, for her birthday” I explained.
“How long have you had this?” He asked me.
“Maybe two weeks”
He turned to me with a smile I had only seen a few times.
“Thank you”
I shook my head.
“You don’t have to thank me, she’s family to me too”
Jenna’s humming filled the hallway.
Christian reached down and grabbed the box and laid it on the bed.
He folded the dress so gently and he dropped the dress into the box and wrapped the ribbons loosely. Before Jenna could open the door, he had the dress under the bed.
“Can you believe that in this entire house there are no apples, you would think that in a castle there should be apples right, but no”
She was holding a plate of waffles.
“You want apples?” Christian asked her and she nodded without looking up from her plate.
The both of us met each other’s gaze and we shared a secret question. ‘Cravings’
I shrugged, I didn’t know I have never been pregnant or been around pregnant women.
“Let’s get you apples then, do you want to come with me?” Christian asked her.
She looked down at her robe and she raised a finger.
“I’ll be right back”
She finished the food and rushed out of the room.
As if a veil was lifted away from my eyes, I remembered what happened this morning. Holy fuck, how could I have forgotten.
“Elisa did something this morning”
Christian’s smile was suddenly wiped off his face and he turned to me.
“Tell me”
“She came home today at six am, she was shaken up and she was looking for Jenna” Christian’s face turned grave. “I told her Jenna wasn’t home and she got scarred and angry.. she tried calling her but no one picked up. She left the house and went into the woods, I followed her and saw her showing two men something on her phone. I didn’t know what it was but from their reaction it was like a picture. One with a motorcycle ride out the other one with a car… She fucked him”
Jenna opened the door, she was wearing a tank top and short. Christian faked a smiled and nodded towards my direction.
“We’ll be back soon” he told me, I could hear every emotion he was hiding in his voice.
Jenna came over and gave me a hug.
“Thanks for sharing” she whispered in my ears and I smiled after her as I watched her leave. I would do anything to protect her.
How could a person protect a child from their mother?