The next morning I wake up to Betsy telling me my father has left. I can't help but feel relieved. I get up and follow the same routine as always. Check my phone, brush my teeth, shower, go downstairs for breakfast, and fill out applications for the rest of the day. It is a very tiring and boring routine, but it is what I need to do to escape this country.
At around 9 pm I finish all my applications and make sure they are all properly submitted. "Finally" I sigh. This week felt like years, but at least I have finished. Now I just wait.
I switch on my TV and see the headline "Theo Morgan Best-Selling Author And Entrepreneur Planning to Run For Position In Office" I roll my eyes as I switch the TV off again. "Of course he wants to be a politician now. He will do anything for power and no one will question him either, it's driving me insane. I really need to get out of here now." I whisper under my breath while burying my head in my pillow. I decide to just get some extra sleep and doze off.
When I arrive from school the next day I hear a knock at my door. I go to answer it and see that it is Melissa. She greets me with a smile and says "Hello Sierra, I assume you already know about your father's surprise decision to run for president."
"President..ah yes," I say. That was a lie, I knew he was running for office, but I wasn't sure as to what that entailed. Especially for someone like him.
"This comes as a surprise, but I can't say I am too shocked. He is a very power-hungry man and I hope that he will be busy enough with his campaign to leave you alone for a while. Betsy told me that he visited a few days back. How did it go?" she asks.
"The same old. He basically just told me that I am worthless and won't amount to anything. He just wanted to make sure I stay here for college. I told him that was what I planned to do and he doesn't need to worry." I say slightly annoyed.
"Oh, I see," Melissa says awkwardly. "Was he satisfied with your response?"
"Yeah, he seemed relieved that I didn't put up a fight so I don't think he will get any ideas."
"Ok, that's good." Melissa then looks over her shoulder, checking her surroundings, before handing me a letter similar to the previous one. "It's from your mother" she whispers quietly.
"Thank you" I reply before tearing open the gold seal. I notice the same writing on the pages and see that my mother had left yet another message for me.
"𝐻𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑜 𝒮𝒾𝑒𝓇𝓇𝒶, 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝓈𝓈𝓊𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓌𝓈 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇. 𝐻𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓌𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓂𝑒. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓈 𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒥𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒾𝓃𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈. 𝒜𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌, 𝒶 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝒶 𝓀𝑒𝓎 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓅𝑜𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓃'𝓈 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒, 𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒸𝒶𝓂𝓅𝒶𝒾𝑔𝓃. 𝐻𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝓅𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓈𝓊𝓅𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓋𝒾𝑒𝓌 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓇, 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝒻𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓈𝑜 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝒶𝒸𝓀𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁-𝒻𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒿𝑜𝒷. 𝐿𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝐼 𝓈𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒, 𝒾𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝓇𝓊𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁 𝒶𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓇 𝒶𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝒶𝓈 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒷𝓁𝑒. 𝒟𝑒𝓅𝑒𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓈𝒸𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃𝒹, 𝐼 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝑀𝑒𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒶 𝓈𝑒𝓉 𝓊𝓅 𝒶 "𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎" 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓎𝑜𝓊. 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓁𝓈𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝓎𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝓌𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓉𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓎. 𝐼 𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝒾𝓏𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝒶𝒻𝑒. 𝐼 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓎 𝓈𝒶𝒻𝑒 𝓂𝓎 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓇."
After reading this I looked up at Melissa. I took a deep breath and handed her the letter.
Once she had read through it she looked at me and said, "I was able to talk to your mother. I don't know where she is and her phone number wasn't traceable, but she is safe for now. We discussed your safety and decided a new identity in England is best for you. No matter where you go you will have an alias name and a cover family. We already have FBI families all over the UK so you would move in with one of them and take their last name to make it more realistic. It won't be forever Sierra. Eventually, your life will be normal."
"Normal" I couldn't help, but laugh. My life was everything, but normal. A crazy father, a missing mother, a secret aunt who works for the FBI, and a million other things. "I don't think it is possible for my life to be normal, but I will take the closest thing I can get. I need my father gone" I say coldly.
Melissa looks at me a bit shocked and says, "I have got to go now. I have to pay a visit to my friends at Oxford this week. I will see you soon. Be on the lookout for any college mail. Hopefully, you will get accepted early." She then walks out the door into her long black limo. I watch as her driver pulls out of the driveway and the car disappears.
"And now the show begins" I say quietly.
From this moment on my life was going to change. I had to prepare for the new life before me and the secrets I was going to uncover.
𝗛𝗲𝘆, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗿! 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 feel to follow! 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱. 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄! 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀!
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Hidden Motives
Romance"Our story was one of hatred to love." A story told behind closed doors. What will Sierra Morgan do when she throws herself into the world of the British elite. Going to Oxford and moving to England, from Los Angeles, California, her life will be ch...
