renesmae
Chatpter 5
I went home about 4 hours after I left Felix's house. I didn't want to go straight there, so I roamed around a little. My last stop was Stella's house, it was past time to talk to her about all of this. I walked up to her front door and knocked softly at first, then when there was no answer I knocked harder. Finally she decided to answer.
"Hi." she said casually.
"What the hell is wrong with you, Stell?" I asked.
"I don't know what your talking about." She replied.
"I'm already dating him." I stated flatly.
"Finally," She said. "Took him long enough to get his guts." I couldn't help but look at her like she had three heads.
"You should have told me!" I said. She shook her head, smiled at me and winked.
"I swore on my mom's grave I wouldn't say anything, although dating him without really dating him just about killed me." She laughed. I couldn't help it, I laughed too.
"Yea, I could see you drooling over him. I almost made him suicidal because I thought he was cheating on you, so I ran from him." She stopped laughing and looked at me.
"Willow, you almost made him what?!?" She asked. I stopped laughing and looked at her.
"Stell, it's okay, He explained everything to me and we started dating." She calmed down and pulled me inside and to the couch. I sat down and looked at her, waiting for her to say something and after a second she looked at me and smiled.
"What if I told you I found someone for real?" I shreiked and grabbed her.
"Tell me everything!" she blushed and looked at me.
"His name is Julian..." She said. I froze...
"Is he about 6'9 with short brown hair and really buff?" I looked at her slowly. She gaped and my stomache sunk.
"Yes" She said happily. "You know him!" She hugged me. I hugged her back lightly and stepped away.
"Umm, I don't think he's very good for you. I do know him and he is not a nice person, especially when he's mad." I said softly, the flashbacks flashing across my mind.
"What are you saying?" She asked. I looked away and took a deep breath.
"Okay, I can tell you now that you're not going to believe me when I tell you this but I want you to think about what I'm telling you before you say anything." I took another deep breath. "Julian is the man that kidnapped me." I looked at her. Please please please believe me. I wouldn't ever in my life lie to you, you know that." She looked at me for a minute and stood up.
"I honestly don't even want to look at you right now. How do you even know it was him? Did he tell you his name? I don't know how you knew what he looked like, but he would never hurt me." I stood up too and looked square at her.
"He is just using you to get to me. Face it Stell, no one that beautiful would ever just come out of the blue and date you. And yes he did tell me his name and I saw what he looked like."I left, not giving her a chance to answer me. I went straight home and went straight to my room. I checked my phone and saw that Jason had called me. I then realized how much I actually wanted to talk to him. I called him back and he answered on the first ring.
"What's wrong?" He asked protectively. I laughed and shook my head.
"I can't just want to talk to you?" I ask innocently. He laughed.
"Anyone else Yes, you No. You don't work like that." He laughed again. I sat on my bed and looked out my window.
"Well, I just had to trust you first."
So you're saying you trust me now?" I stopped and looked at my hands. Did I really trust him? Was I saying that I believed his story? Was I admitting that I believed I was a princess? I sighed and said the one sentence I had been dreading.
"Yes I trust you, which means I kinda believe the whole princess story." I could hear him sigh in happiness.
"Thank you. I was honestly beginning to give up hope. I was starting to believe you would never come around." I choked back a laugh. Dang it, I was so close to getting rid of him. Oh well. I sat there and talked to Jason for a little while. I hung up when Dad's Limo pulled up into the drive way. I walked around the house until our butler, Sam, opened the door to let Dad in. I walked down the stairs and walked up to dad.
"Hey." I said
"Hello." He responded. I decided not to waist anymore of his time than I need to.
"How long have you known?" I asked. I guess he knew what I was talking about because he answered immediately.
"Since we first got you." He said easily.
"Why?"It was a stupid question and I knew the answer, but I had to hear him say it.
"It was to protect you. I wanted to tell you when you were a little girl so you would accept it a little easier, but you're mother knew it would have still been hard and told me not to say anything." That was news to me, mom failed to tell me that part. I can see why, It makes her look bad. I was satisfied so I turned to walk out but stopped when dad called me.
"Yea?" I answered.
"Are you going to go back with your brother?" He asked, with a scared look in his eyes. For a minute I thought he was actually scared of Jason, but then I realized he was scared of me leaving.
"Your mother and I need you hear, and you can tell your brother he can live here with us too." I shook my head.
"I doubt he wants to live here when we have a castle waiting on us." I realized my mistake to late. I could see in his eyes that he noticed my mistake.
"I see. "We" and "Us" meaning you and Jason. Well, you're mother was right. You really are going to leave." He was hurt, I could tell and I felt horrible. I knew it was to late to take it back but I was going to try.
"Dad, I didn't mean it like that. I don't plan on leaving here for a long time. Not unless you kick me out."
"I would never dream of kicking you out," He laughed.
"You're mother might, but I would never." I hugged him and my phone rang. I pulled it out and saw that it was Stella.
"Hello?" I said slowly.
"Hey." She replied sadly.
"What's up?" I asked.
"I'm sorry." I thought she had finally come to her senses, but what she said next made me go numb. "We can't be friends anymore. Anyone who would lie to me like that is obviously not my friend. I finally found someone who made me happy and you sat there and tried to ruin it. So I think we should stop talking and think you should let Felix know that since he's with you I want nothing to do with him." I stared ahead stupidly.
"Hold up. I don't care if you don't talk to me but Felix has nothing to do with this BS, so there is not one reason you cant talk to him. I don't give a crap if you don't talk to me but leave him out of your twisted up love life and this seriously twisted argument." I was so pissed off words couldn't explain it. So I put her on speaker and called Felix in a group call.
"Felix?"
"Yea I'm here." He answered.
"Why did you call him?" Stella asked me.
"Because your going to tell him. I refuse to be the one to say that to him."
"What is going on here?" He asked confused. Stella sighed.
"Felix I decided that I no longer want to talk to your girlfriend, and since she's always going to be around you I can no longer talk to you either." I wanted to cry.
"How did all this start?" He asked. I sighed and told him how I knew her "boyfriend" and how I tried to tell her and she decided that she would take some stranger's side over mine. "Willow, are you absolutely sure that it's him?"
"One Hundred percent." I replied. As soon as I said it I could feel Felix's rage.
"I know you're mad and I know that he will probably come after me again, but we can't attack. He's expecting that, and he is way to strong for an ambush. He's pretty stupid but I'm pretty sure he would expect that."
"No, You're right. Any criminal with a brain would expect it." I thought stella had hung up by that point but it turns out she was still there.
"Do you REALLY believe that?!?" She shrieked. "That is the most ridiculous story I have ever heard, and coming from you Willow of all people. I was right to make this decision." She hung up.
"If I'm right she will come crawling back to me to be best friends because the only reason he's with her is to get to me and ruin my life or kill me. Which is working quite well so far." I was very tired and I didn't want to sleep by myself. So it was either spend the night with Felix and make Jason mad, or spend the night with Jason and make Felix mad. I really ned to spend some make nice time with Jason so that's where I decided to go.
"Hey babe, Im going to get some sleep. I really need it." I said.
"Okay, call me when you wake up."
"I will." I hung up and called Jason again.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
I would say I was there about 10 min. before my phone rang. The number was blocked.... but I answered it anyway.
"Please don't hang up." I wish I could say I didn't know who that was but, unfortunatly I did.
"You have 5 seconds to start talking before I hang up." I know it sounds rude but the last part came out as more of a sigh than a threat.
"You want to hear what I have to say, and you know it. So, don't try to pull that "I'm so strong" crap with me."
Apparently, he knew that I didn't mean it too. But that would mean he also knows that I'm not going to give in that easily.
I decided to try a new approach.
"Hurry up, I'm busy." I tried to fake that I really was busy, but apparently that wasn't going to work either.
"You know good and well that you have nothing to do. "
"And you would know that how, exactly?"
I expected him to say something like "I put a tracking devise in your phone when I found it" or something like that,
but what I got was...
"Look out your window and see." He sounded so cryptic that I couldn't help but follow his instructions.
At first I didn't see anything but darkness, but after a minute my eyes started to adjust. The first thing I saw was his face.
If there was anything that told me he was in fact, my brother,
that would have been it. He looked so much like me that it actually took me a minute to realize that this was real.
After I actually started thinking again, I sat down and just looked at him.
"How did you find me?" I asked tiredly.
"Come outside and we'll talk."
"I don't want to come outside and talk." He sighed.
"Look I know this is really weird for you but you're going to have to listen to me sooner or later.
So just make it eaiser on the both of us and make it sooner. Cause if you don't I just come back every day until you do."
For some reason I knew this was true.
"Fine, I'm coming down." I got dressed in my normal clothes after I hung up.
Once I walked downstairs and walked to the door, my mom walked out from our game room, where my dad probably was playing virtual golf.
Tried to walk quietly so she wouldn't hear me, but my mom has the ears of a halk
(she tells me that it's because she's a mom, and that it'll happen to me when I have a child) so she heard me anyway.
"Honey? Is that you?" She sount worried, probably because just eairler I had gotten kidnapped.
"I'm right here." I called back.
"Honey, what are you doing by the door?"
"I'm just going to sit on the porch and get some fresh air after everything that happened today.
I'm not going past the porch." It was true, for the most part anyway.
"Can I come with you? I wanted to talk to you about something, I think you're old enough now."
I'm sure the last part was mostly meant for her. If I let her come outside then I can comfront him with her by my side, but on the other hand,
I really need to talk to him one on one...
"Can we talk when I come back in? I really need to think about some things by myself right now."
I hated to tell her no, but I really needed to get a few things settled first.
" Well.....Okay, I guess. But come to me as soon as you come inside, I really need to talk to you."
I mumbled back an agreement and walked outside. He was standing right in front of the wrap around porch.
I walked down to the edge of the last step and sat down, looking up at him.
We sat there like that for a little while, just looking at each other. Finally I looked away and sighed.
"Do you plan on talking or what?"
"You lied to your mom...why?" He sounded confused, which confused me.
"What do you mean "why"? I had to talk to you, and she wanted to come, which I honestly thought about for a sec. but I decided against it."
"That's the thing...why? She already know's about me but she didn't want to say anything until she thought you were old enough. So why not let her come?"
"Because I didn't want her to come, alright? Is that good enought for you?" I was getting annoyed by that point.
He wan't telling me anything, so I was wasting my time. I started to get up before he stopped me.
"Wait! Sorry, I just didn't expect for you to do that. Usually when I do something like this they have their parents with them.
Just to make sure that I'm not lying." He still looked a little shocked, which is seriously making me mad.
"You say that like you know exactly how I act. And what do you mean when you usually do this? See, you're not talking, so I'm wasting my time."
I started to get up again, and yet again he stopped me. "Stop trying to keep me from leaving, you're not talking!"
"If you would sit down and ask a question I would talk!"
Well, I didn't even think about asking him something first.... Opps.
"Okay fine...First off....Why, or how, are you my brother?" I figure I would start off easy, that way we could build up to the harder questions.
"Ah," He smiled, and I swear I almost fainted. "Well when a mommy and a daddy love each other very mu--."
"No!," I covered up my ears, disturbed. "You know what I meant....ugh. Okay, I obviously can't ask you those kind of questions...so, I want to know how we got seperated."
"Fine." He stared at me like he was looking into my soul....It was disturbing. "Our parents were killed when you and me were three years old.
Obviously we weren't old enough to take care of ourselves, let alone walk and talk.
So they sent us to the care of families that couldn't have any kids.
They knew that my "family" would take care of me and that your "family" would take care of you. All I remember is screaming in the back seat of the car as they took you away. You didn't know what was going on, but you knew that I wasn't going to be there to help you."
I just looked at him, speechless. I was just about to say something to him when my mom stepped out the door.
"Honey, are you out here?" I was about to call back, but she stepped out and stopped, looking straight at Jason.
"Hello Mrs. Yekel." It would take an idiot not to notice the worry that flashed across her face as she looked between me and Jason. If Jason saw it, he didn't show it. He just stood there with a blank face.
My mother was the first one to lose her cool.
"I told you to give me some time...." She didn't even bother to look at me, she was staring straight at Jason, hard. He just stood there like he had gone through this a million times. After about ten minutes of very akward staring, I decided to say something.
"Uh, Mom? You obviously already know Jason so why don't we just skip the intr--." I stopped midsentence as my dad came outside. He walked up beside my mom and put his hand on her shoulder.
"Jason, you should have waited until we told her." He stated. This is what surprised me the most, my dad standing there so formal.
My dad is the kind of guy you would want to hang out all night with and not have a care in the world.
"I mean no disreapect, but you promised that you would tell her when she turned 15....She's already 17. If you can't, or won't, tell her then I will."
All I could do was look back and forth between my parents(or, well, aparently my adopted parents) and my supposed twin brother.
"I was going to tell her tonight, actually. That's why I came out here to get her." I could tell my mother was struggling to keep her temper down.
"Well, then I guess we can all talk about it together now." I didn't even know I was the one that said that, until everyone turned and looked at me.
"Yea, I guess so." My mother said, still looking at Jason.
"Why don't we all go inside?" My father said. So we did, and once we got inside we went into the family room and sat down.
My parents made t a point to sit in the love seat together, so when I sat down on the couch, I made a point of telling Jason to sit with me and not in one of the other 50 billion chairs in this room.
I looked at my parents, waiting for one of them to say something first but all I got was a blank stare. I decided that I was going to be the bigger person and start the conversation.
"Okay, so I was just asking him about how we got seperated and ended up in different families."
"And I was answering her before you walked out." He added, not so helpfully. My parents just looked at me, with a sad smile on their faces.
"How much did you tell her?" My mother asked, scared.
"All I got to tell her was the fact that our parents died, or.... well..... was murdered, and that she got yanked from the back seat of our car. Boy, were you a fighter when we were younger..."
He added that last part when he looked at me and he smiled as he said it. I looked at him, still wondering how I never even had a clue that I had a twin brother....and yet, here he is.
"Is that it?" My father asked. Jason stopped smiling and looked at my parents innocently.
"Why, Of course....The one and only Mrs.Yekel came outside right after that." He was getting on my mother's last nerve... I could tell without even looking at her.
As if my parents didn't believe a word he said, they both looked at me as if they were waiting for me to confirm. I nodded, still shell shocked that all this was happening.
I guess my mother could tell because the next thing she said was..
"Look at our poor Willow. She's so confusted its making my heart hurt." She looked at me sadly and closed her eyes, sighing as if she never would have let this happen if she had had a choice.
Jason looked at me and smiled, as if he wished we had never gotten seperated.
I let them go back and forth for a little while; while I just sat there and soaked up the information and wondering how in the world I went from windoe shopping to being a long lost princess.
After a while Jason finally went home and I went up to my room and saw that I had three text's.
They were all from Felix, which really shouldn't have surprised me at all but it did. Just a little.
The first one said that he had talked to Stell and that she told him to tell her that everything was okay between the three of us and that she got grounded for sneaking out of her house after curfew.
The next one came about 5 min. ago. It said "Hey, I wanted to show you something....Come over as soon as you can get away." I looked at it for a second and wondered what he had to show me. I hit the reply button and texted him back that I would be there in about 10 min. That gave me enough time to explain to my mom that I needed to go to his house for a little while to clear my head. I walked downstaires and went to find my mom. She was standing in the kitchen watching over the cook, so she was disatracted. Good.
" Mom? Felix invited me over for a movie... Can I go?" I sat there for a minute. Trying to get up the courage for what I was about to sing next. "I really need to clear my mind...after everything that happened today." She looked at me, I looked away. She sighed.
"Do you really want to?" She asked in a tired voice.
"Yes." I anwered back. So she drove me over there and dropped me off. I walked up to the door, knocked and stepped back. About 5 seconds later Felix opened the door and pulled me into his arms.
"I missed you." He whispered into my ear. I smile. We both knew it had only been about two or three hours since he had seen me, but truth be told I missed him too. I reached up and pulled his lips to mine, effectively telling him how much I missed him. He let out a small moan, which only made me kiss him harder. He pulled inside with him and closed the door while still kissing me. After he closed the door he pushed me against it, mashing himself against me. It did nothing but fuel me to want to go further, so in turn I pulled at his T-shirt trying to get off him so I could run my fingers along his stomach. I just wanted to feel the hardness that I was so used to. Before I could get it off, he pulled back and about a second later his really annoying freshman brother, Eric, (who likes me....eww) walkes in. He saw me in his arms and got really mad. The only thing really wrong with his brother is that he has anger issues.
"Dude! I claimed her like two years ago! What the fuck man!" He started walking torwards me and throwing his fists in the air. Felix automatically moved me behind his back, protecting me from the worst of the storm.
"Leave Eric. You know you can't afford to do anything to me or her if you want to continue to live here." That's Felix for you, always trying to be the peace maker befire switiching into kick-ass mode.
"You knew how I felt about her! And you go and do this?!?" He was practically screaming. I decided that I wasn't going to let either one of them beat each other up over me. So I stepped from around Felix and wrapped my arms around him. He automatically put his arms around my waist and backed up, knowing already what I was trying to do.
"Eric, please, don't try to do anything. If you care about me you won't try to hurt Felix. Because if you do it'll hurt me too." I tried to reason with him.
"Why shouldn't I hurt him? He took you from me. I stayed up all night almost every night talking about you to him. And he listened to me. I loved you. I loved you since that night I saw you for the first time talking to him." He stopped walking and pointed at Felix. I let go of Felix, but he kept his arms wrapped around me. I turned and looked at him for a second, he sighed and let go of his grip on me. I turned back to Eric and walked up to him, resting my hand on his shoulder. I leaned in close and whispered to him.
"Eric, I love you, I do. But I love you as a brother. I love your brother. I have loved your brother ever since he came up and talked to me the first day we met. I need your help. I need you to help me by keeping your anger under control. Please. Oh, and please don't tell him anything I just said. I want to be the one to say it." I made sure that Felix couldn't hear me, mostly because I wanted to tell Felix that I loved him to his face, instead of him hearig me whisper it to his brother, that's why I told him not to tell. I felt Eric losen up and calm down. I step back and hug him, whispering a thanks on his ear. Then I walk back over to Felix and kiss him on the cheek before walking into their living room and ploping down on the loveseat feeling victorious. Felix came in and sat down next to me and wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me onto his lap.
"What did you do? He just stopped and looked at me with a sad smile and walked back up to his room." I looded up at him and gave him a peck on his lips before answering. I laughed when he tried to make the kiss last longer.
"I'm awasome. I tend to have a good effect on people." I answered back smiling. He leaned in till our noses touched, and whispered "I know." before he kissed me, hard. I heard a small moan escape my lips before he pulled away, just long enough to strip off his shirt and pull me back to him. I let him. But we both knew that we weren't going to go any further today. So we just sat there kissing, while I traced every defined line in his midsection. All the way down to his hipbones and all the way up to his pecks. He would always shudder and moan whenever I hit one certain spot on his abs. It felt amazing to just be able to sit here with him, and I could almost forget about everything. I wanted it to last as long as possible. I don't remember anything else from that night, except that I must have feel asleep because I woke up to Felix shifting me so he could get up to go tell his brother to get ready for Summer school. Then he came back and laid back down with me. I sat up and put my hand on his chest, which was still bare (much to my delight) and I gave him a small peck on his lips.
"Felix, what time is it?" I asked him.
"Uhh, about 6 a.m. why?" He replied. 6a.m.?!? Dang it. I didn't even call my mom and tell her I was staying the night... what am I going to do now? Felix answered my thoughts.
"I already called your mom and told her you fell asleep and I didn't want to wake you up because you looked pretty tired. She was fine with it." He said, with a little bit of anger in his voice. I wonder where that came from.
"Are you okay?" I asked softly. He wouldn't look at me.
"No. I actually thought you liked me." Now the anger was clear.
"I do. What are you talking about?" I was really confused.
"No, you obviously don't. Other wise you wouldn't have been talking and messing with this Jason guy." This was hurting him, and I didn't like it.
"Jason?" A bell went off in my head. "Oh! Nonononononono, It's not what you would think. Jason is the guy who called and told me that he was my twin brother. Not anyone I'm interested in." I was still trying to get him to look at me. But he was fighting it.
"Then why did you're mom tell me to keep him away from you?" Oh, now that sounds like something my mom would say.
"That was because they got in an argument last night because my parents knew that I was royalty and they were supposed to tell me when I was 15, but they never did, so he came to tell me." I could see realization dawn on his face.
"Oh My God. I'm so sorry. I should have just asked you first." He pulled me to him and rested his forehead against mine. "Will you forgive me?"
"Of course. I just want to know why you thought I would give you up so quickly... That's the only thing that hurts." It was true, it hurt to think that he thought I would give him up so quickly. I looked at him and saw shame in his eyes.
"I just always thought you were to good for me. I always thought that I would never be able to please yo-" I stopped him by tilting my head up until our lips touched. I let it continue until I figured I got my point across.
"As long as you kiss me and hold me the way you do now, I will always be pleased." I looked at the clock on the wall. 7:45. I had to leave now in order to make it home before my parents left for work. I don't have a key so if they lock the house before I get there then I'm locked out of the house. "Listen, I, uh have to g-" I stopped midsentence because before I could finish he held up a key to my house. This guy thought of everything. "How did you know?" He smiled.
"We have been friends for a long time...have you forgotten how well I know you just because we're dating?" His face was serious, but I could tell he was laughing on the inside. I decide not to answer and instead I nuzzle up to him. He wraps his arms around me and buries his face in my hair. We stay like that until Eric comes down the stairs, ready for summer school. He stops and looks at me and then at Felix, but this time he just winks at me in that "we're sharing a secret" kind of way. I smile and get up, giving him a hug and whispering a thanks in his ear for not telling. Then I got back and nuzzle back up to Felix. Eric just goes into the kitchen and eats before leaving at 8:00 sharp.
"Wow, he's kind of a stickler on time, huh?" I asked Felix.
"Nah, just can't stand being late." He replied. I laughed, but not because it was funny. I laughed because everything that had happened to me in the last day just kinda seems like a big joke. I pulled myself away from Felix, and walked over to where I left my phone. I had a missed call from my mom, and a text from Jason. Just one more thing to remind me that this was really happening.
Jason: "I need 2 see u. ASAP."
Me: "Y?"
Jason: "Just need 2. It's important."
Me: "Txt me y or I'm not coming."
Jason: "I know wher u r, I'm sure Felix would love 2 meet me... Step outside the door or I'm coming inside." I read the message about three times before deciding that he was serious. I look at Felix and tell him that I'm going to step outside for a second to get some air.
"As long as you don't run away." He answered back smiling. I smile back at him and step out the door. Sure enough, I see Jason standing in the front yard.
"Why do you have to do something like this every time I try to talk to you?" He asked.
"Why do you have to track me whenever I go somewhere?" I countered. He sighed. I win. "Now what do you want. I'm trying to spend time with my b--" I stop. Do I really want him to know?
"I already know your dating him if that's what your debating with yourself over." He looked smug that he knew, but he also looked hurt that I was debating whether or not to tell him.
"I figured you knew." It was a lie. I was completely shocked.
"Your lying. You know it." He seemed to know everything about me without me needing to say anything.
"Look, you seem to have something to say, so say it." I looked back at the house, knowing that Felix would be coming out soon. Jason took a deep breath before speaking.
"There are people who want you dead..." He said gently. I saw stars.
"It wasn't just Julian?"
"No. He wasn't the main one after you." I had to sit down, but I couldn't stay out here.
"Look, I need to get back inside. We can talk about this when I get to my house." I turned around and walked back into the house. I heard him call my name but I kept walking. I went back and sat back down in Felix's lap, leaning my head on his chest.
"I never understood why you always let me do this." I laughed. "Now I guess I do." Felix turned me in his arms and pulled my lips to his. I moaned and smiled, letting him kiss me until I had to pull away gasping for breath.
"I never understood anything I let you do." He said after a while. I smiled and looked at him knowing what I would see in those big blue eyes of his....love. We spent the rest of the day in each others arms.
Chapter 3
Chapter 3:
I woke up to see Felix holding and watching me.
"Hey, are you okay? I got here and all I saw was that you had passed out." I heard it again, the love.
"Huh? What happened?" I felt weird, like there was something that I just found out that I couldn't process. Then it all came rushing back to me. "Oh my God! Where am I?"
"All I know is that you passed out for some reason after you talked to me." His eyes were completely unreadable. I sat up and leaned against him. I wasn't sure if I should tell him or not. After a while of debating with myself for what seemed like the eighth time today I decided that I needed to tell someone.
"I found my phone on my bed with a number on it, so I came out here and called you first. I called the number and a boy answered and told me that he was my brother, which is impossible because I'm an only child. Then he started telling me that the reason my parents are so rich is because apparently I am a princess and my parents, who are royalty, are paying them to take care of me." I spit out as fast as I could.
"Wait your royalty? When did this happen?" He looked at me with surprise and disbelief.
"If it's true and I'm royalty I'm guessing it happened when I was born. I really don't believe it though." I looked at him for support.
"I don't know." He spoke slowly, like he was trying not to set me off. "He might not be lying; I mean you look nothing like your mom or dad which is kind of unnatural."
"You believe it? After everything, you believe it?" My voice started to rise.
"It's not that, but have you ever really stopped to really think about how your family got rich?" He was serious, but I could still hear the love and right now I just wanted to focus on something else.
"Is there something you want to tell me Felix? Or ask me? You seem a little off today." I didn't want to push his buttons but I was curious.
"It's nothing that you should be worried about right now." He spoke quickly, too quickly for it to pacify me. I snuggle closer into him, trying to butter him up so he'll answer me. You would think it would be weird since he's dating Stella but it really doesn't affect him….that I know of.
"Come on you can tell me. I promise not to say anything to anyone." I give him my puppy dog face, that I know only works on him. "Pretty Please…."
"You would never talk to me again if I told you." His eyes were really sad, like he actually believed that I would never talk to him again. I force him to look at me straight in the face.
"That is a bald face lie and you know it. Just cause your older does not mean that I won't kick you're---"
"Willow!" He looked shocked, but we both know what was about to happen. Just like we both know I'm going to win this fight. "Even if I did tell you and you didn't avoid me, it would still be weird to you because of Stella." Wait. Is he trying to tell me what I think he's trying to tell me?!? Oh My God!
"Are you trying to tell me you like me? Hmmm?" I meant it as a joke but when I saw his eyes I knew. "Oh My God you're serious. Why didn't you ever tell me?!?"
"I didn't know how you would react. See? And now you're going to avoid me." The pain and shame in his eyes were unbearable. I snuggled closer to him, and felt him freeze in surprise.
"You cannot get rid of me that easily big boy." I laugh. I think we both know that until we get this figured out that it is going to awkward. But I know I can get over it if he can.
"Wait, does that mean..." He let the unasked question sit there. I looked at the hope on his face and had a feeling that I really wanted to kiss him. So I gathered up my courage and pulled his face to mine. Our lips met very softly at first and then with more force as he slowly understood what I was telling him. I had always thought he was cute but since he was dating Stell I always saw him as Forbidden. Oh Crap! Stella! What are we going to say to her? I quickly pull back panting, trying to get some kind of air in me. Then I saw Felix looking at me. "You mean it?" I nodded, not fully able to speak. The look on his face blew me away; I could see the love clearly now along with protectiveness and pure territorial look he was giving me. Suddenly I got my voice back.
"Stell." I knew as well as he did that that was all I needed to say. He snapped back to reality and turned me around so that my back was against him and he buried his face in my neck. "She is going to hate me forever if you dump her for me."
"Already solved. She knew this whole time that I liked you. We were never really dating, that was a copout so I could talk to you." He wasn't holding back now. His voice was so full of affection and hesitation that I had to freeze for a moment. I was a little mad now; I thought Stell and I were supposed to tell each other everything! Everything! But she holds something like this in?!? Felix quickly went on, as if he could hear what I was thinking. "I made her swear that she wouldn't tell or even hint at it because I really wanted to be the one to tell you. But when you didn't show up today I got really scared and worried that I had missed my chance to tell you. That's why when you called I pushed to find out where you were." He never fails to blow my mind, I swear.
"So you were playing me the entire time? That's.... That's..... I have no words."
"I mean...don't get me wrong she's so much fun, but as you already know... my eyes were on someone else."
"Wow. Just wow. Why did she agree to that?"
"I begged for three weeks straight." He didn't look to apologetic, which kind of made me want to hit him. Just a little.
"I don't know if I could be with you after this…… I just don't think…" I let the sentence die off just to see what he would do. He did exactly what I thought he would, which was look at me like a deer in headlights. He went to grab me but I jumped up and ran into the woods right behind where we were sitting. I was laughing but I think he actually believed that I was running from him. I stopped and leaned against a tree to see how long it would take for him to catch up with me. It took about five minutes. When he stopped there was at least five feet between us. I was tempted to keep this little joke going but the look on his face said that he was seriously hurt. I walk forward to lessen the space between us.
"Felix you know I was just kidding right? I think it's incredibly cute that you went through all that trouble just for me."
"You're lying to me. It's fine to just tell the truth and walk away; I'll never bother you again, but running from me just makes me feel like a bad person." His eyes were too suicidal for my taste to be honest. I walked up to him and tried to give him a hug but he stepped back and just stared at me.
"I'm not lying. The only reason I ran is for the same reason I run almost every day, to think. You know that's why I run, because it helps clear my brain." I tried to get him to look me in the eyes but the only thing he would actually look at was either the ground or my shoes. I could tell he was really upset, so I walked up to him and wrapped my hands around his neck before he could step back again.
"What are you doing?" He whispered. I could tell that the fact that I was so close was affecting him.
"I'm showing you that I'm fully serious about dating you." I murmured.
"But… you…" He looked at me and closed his eyes. I looked at h he looked just like the Felix I was used to. I stood on my tip toes and I pressed my lips to his, stiffly at first but after a minute or two I started to relax because he hadn't pushed me away yet. kissing Felix was actually enjoyable and very relaxing, and I actually liked it. I squeezed my arms tighter around his neck and the both of us slid down and sat on the ground. He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me tighter to him, like we were the last two people on Earth. I liked every minute of it, to tell the truth. He was the first to pull away, gasping for breath and laughing. He put his forehead against mine and smiled. "I believe you." He laughed, still breathing hard.
"If it really takes that much to get you to believe me, then remind me to never do that to you again."
Chapter 2
Chapter 2:
They put a bag over my head and tied my hands behind my back. I could just faintly see through it. It looks like their taking me to Westway national park, which was just a few blocks from my house. I tried to get my hands free so I could take the bag off my head. The smell of fuel and alcohol was strangling me. I opened my mouth to scream and pray someone would hear me when the strangest voice interrupts my escape plans.
"Trying to run would be the dumbest mistake you could ever make. It would probably be the last thing you ever do too. Cause see we work for people who would pay anything for a royal princess." A deep voice, deeper than Felix's, snarled at me. I tried to keep my cool as I answered.
"Umm, you have the complete wrong person I am the daughter of a lawyer and a cop. Not a king and queen." I told the deep voice guy careful not to give away too much about my family.
"I know who you are! Lying won't help anything so just keep your fake life to yourself." He exclaimed so loudly that I could swear I felt it in my bones.
"Well do I at least get to know who you are?" I slowly asked. He grumbled a few seconds before answering me.
"Might as well. I am Julian. I am sure you have heard of me before, have you not?" Even though I couldn't see him I could feel him watching me looking for some kind of sign that I know him. Truth be told he sounded kind of familiar. I can't place my finger on it but his name stuck a chord, somewhere deep in my mind. I tried to remember where I know him from, but I couldn't.
"I think I do. But, I would know for sure if you were to take off this bag that is over my head and currently gagging me." I tried. I was taught to try to put myself in a better situation if anyone tries to kidnap me. I thought it was stupid at the time, but now I have my mom to thank. Having a cop for a mom is awesome sometimes. I tried to get out by wiggling my wrists while I try to distract him.
"You are very clever little girl." He snarled again. He stopped talking for so long that I actually thought he left. "I will only take off the bag for a little while. Just long enough for you to see who I am. Then I will put the bag back on your head." He pulls the bag off my head and the only thing I see is flashes of light before my vision clears up and I look around to try to make out where I am. I look at Julian and see that he is about a 6'9 with short brown hair and he is really buff. Which makes sense because his job is to capture people so they can be sold off for loads of money.
"Mmhhmm. Yes, yes I think I recognize you." I tried to wiggle myself free, although it wasn't working very well. "Umm, you caught me at the wrong part of the month if you know what I mean.... I need to get to a bathroom ASAP." It was a lie, granted but it was good enough to get him to leave me alone.
"Humph, you have ten minutes. Don't make me come in there." He huffed after he led me to the bathroom.
"I can't DO anything unless you untie me." That wasn't a lie; I really couldn't do anything unless he untied me. Just in the wrong context. He studied me and grumbled a little before untying my hands.
"Ten minutes! No more than ten, if you're not done you're just not done." I bat my eyes at him.
"Thank you." But I didn't get an answer. He just slammed the door. Now that my hands weren't tied I could actually get something done. I needed to get out of here, fast. All I have to do is get to a phone and call my mom so she could get me out of here. I need to get out as soon as possible. I searched around the bathroom looking for an exit, but all I found was a locked window. I checked my watch, it was 10:45. I had been in here for about five minutes already so I had very limited time before he's going to come in here looking for me. I looked around to see what I could use as a tool to break open the door. All I found was a rusted old…The door burst open. I turned around and looked to see my mom standing in the door. Turns out that she put a tracking devise in my clothes and when Felix called her and told her that I hadn't shown up about ten minutes after I talked to him, she turned on the tracking devise and saw that I was here and immediately came after me. As soon as I saw her I ran and all but threw myself at her, pulling her into a big hug.
"Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" Her strong, sturdy voice was full of concern.
"I'm fine. Just scared." I tried to make my voice sound like hers, but it didn't work. It just came out shaky and, true to my word, scared.
"I promise you honey he is going to jail for a very long time." It was killing me to hear the concern in her voice.
"Can we just go home? Please." All I wanted to do was go and climb in the shower and then climb into bed.
"Of course we can honey, of course." We drove back to the house, which is about three story's with a built in four car garage. My room has a walk in closet and a Jacuzzi built into my personal bathroom, and one whole wall in my room is nothing but a mirror. There is a 92in. flat screen hanging on my wall, and my amazing parents painted my room my most favorite color ever! BLUE!!!! Oh and I'm a bit of a wolf fanatic so they got this really talented painter to paint a snow white wolf howling at the moon. I guess you could say that my family is rich; I mean we own millions of dollars, but I'm just like everyone else. I can get sick and I have "that time of the month" just like every other normal girl. I don't think really anything would change, except maybe my room, if we didn't have the money we have now. The downside to my parents though, is that it takes a lot for them to approve a guy. I have had at least a dozen guys that they didn't approve of, which of course meant I couldn't see him. I tried to see one guy, his name was Jordan, after they told me no but when my mom found out she all but shot him. I just can't go through that embarrassment again. So when we got home I mumbled thanks to my mom and shot up to my room on the third floor, which is just for me, and when I walked into my room then first thing I saw was my cell phone that I must have dropped, laying on my bed. When I picked it up I saw that there was a note attached to it. All the note said was "Call Me" and there was a number under it. So I ran downstairs and I saw my mom standing in the kitchen telling our cook what she wanted for dinner.
"Mom, did you happen to find my phone when you found me?" I questioned her carefully.
"No. I didn't see it anywhere. Why? What's wrong?" She looked at me with complete concern.
"Nothing's wrong." I lied. "I was just asking."
"Well we can go look for a new one tomorrow if you want." She said.
"No, no, I think I know where it's at." I rushed out of the kitchen and down the hall and out our huge double doors. I kept running until I was near town hall, which is about 1.5 miles. I finally stopped once I got about 7 miles from my house. I pulled out my phone and the number with it, debating if I should call the number. I decide after about five minutes that I would call Felix and Stella first.
"Hello? Willow?" His voice held almost as much worry as my mom's.
"Hey."
"What happened to you?"
"I was kidnapped.....Some guy named Julian grabbed me on my way to you."
"Oh My God! Are you okay?"
"Yea I'm fine. I'm just going to be smelling alcohol for the next couple days." As soon as I said it I knew it was the wrong thing to say. See Felix has a record for being really protective of all his friends that are girls.
"And why is that?" Even thought I couldn't see him I could tell he was talking through clenched teeth.
"It's nothing I promise. My mom took care of him." I stopped and took a deep breath. "I just wanted you and Stell to know that I'm not dead and that I didn't bail."
"Where are you?" The question was expected, but not the way he said it. It sounded like a mix between protective and....and love. I was so not prepared for that.
"I'm...." I took another deep breath, getting ready to lie, "I'm at home in my back yard. I told you I'm fine."
"You're lying through your teeth Willow. Where are you?" Still hearing the love in his voice, I shiver. I close my eyes and debate telling him where I'm at. I finally decide to tell him, mostly because I want to see what his tone of voice was about.
"I'm about two miles from the park that we used to go to all the time. Right next to Kelly's old jewelry store."
"I'll be right there." He hangs up. I pull the number out of my pocket and dial it.
"Hello? Who is this?" It was a guy. His voice sounded a bit like Felix's but not as heavy toned.
"Um, my name is Willow M. Yekel and this number was left next to my phone. Who is this?" I hear mumbling on the other side, and then a thump like he dropped the phone. After about a minute he answered, but it sounded he had passed out for a second.
"Willow! Umm, okay I know this is going to sound strange but...umm...well you see.... Okay did a guy named Julian come after you today?" He managed to choke out.
"How would you know that?"
"Well, did he tell you that you are a part of a royal family?" This was starting to get really creepy.
"Yyyyeeaaa, how do know that?"
"Because....I'm..... I'm your twin brother." I froze. My brother?!? There's no way.
"Wow I don't even know you and you're already lying to me."
"Why would I lie to you when, as you say, I don't even know you?" In a twisted way this made sense but I wasn't about to listen to that.
"There's no way. I'm an only child, I have one sister!"
"Those aren't your real parents. Why do you think they're so rich? Our parents pay them to take care of you."
I don't know what happened after that because all I saw was black.
To be named later...Chapters 1
Chapter 1:
Feeling dead is not something I would wish on anyone. Not now or ever. My name is Willow, but my friends call my Lilly. I am 17 years old and I have a sister, her name is Maya. I only know a little about my family heritage because whenever I asked my parents they would always tell me that I wouldn't understand untill I was older...I didn't know what I was getting myself into....But you know what they say, you just gotta go with it. At least I think that's what they say....Anyway...This is a story that not even I would have believed, if it hadn't of happened to me.
I was planning to go to the book store by myself as usual to check out a book but two of my best friends Felix and Stella called me and invited me to go to the mall with them.
"Hey, you should join Stella and me for ice cream and window shopping," Felix's strong bass voice said.
"Depends. Are we going to window shop at Harley's or at the Mall?" I asked with a knowing tone.
"It hurts that you don't know me that well by now.
We've only been friends for.....three years, two months, seven days, three hours, and forty-five minutes. But you know who's counting?"
I could faintly hear Stella in the background laughing and calling him a stalker whenever she fully caught her breath, which usually sent her into another laughing fit.
"Tell Stella that she needs to keep it down or someone might call the police," I said laughing.
"Hey! You're on speaker you twit." I heard Stella say even though she was still laughing. We do this a lot but since most of my friends are in college and I'm just a senior, we don't get to hang out often.
"You know that your annoying neighbor will end up getting you locked up, Stella. Ms. Hank is the crabbiest lady I've ever met" I said laughing.
"I hate you sometimes. You know that right," She mumbled under her breath. I'm not sure if she meant for me to hear her or not.
"You know I can still hear you right," I mumbled back only louder so she could hear me.
"ANYWAY," Felix's voice came booming back. "Are you coming or not? Because we got to go soon and you are still nowhere in sight." That was a lie because I was only a block away and I saw him walk away when Stella tried to take the phone from him. Felix is the kind of person that would intimidate you as soon as you saw him, when actually he is really just the biggest teddy bear you will ever meet. He loves to sit around and talk and gossip whenever he can which, again I say is not often.
"I'm right around the corner. In fact I'm staring you down right now with my mind." My friends all think that my mind is the freakiest thing that they have ever seen. I, for one, find it to be just plain funny.
"Stop! You know I hate when you do that," He said but he started laughing and covering his head and looking around anyway. I started walking a little faster to meet them but something grabbed me and pulled me around the corner that I just came from. I tried to holler or yell or do something that would help me but all I got out was a strangled sigh.