Something In There (FAÇADES)

33•|IT'S HER BIRTHDAY.|

/CHAPTER THIRTY THREE/

Hey 💚
It's been long, I know. Forgive me please. The story isn't long anymore.
Thank you wattpadis for sticking with me. From now on, the chapters would be really short.
I have the story ideas but writing it down is my problem, I don't want to spoil the book especially when we're soon at the climax.

(Nb;- Chase POV isn't always as it seems most of the times. Also some might have noticed, but Chase contradicts himself a lot and that's mostly because he's forgetful. Who has noticed that Chase hasn't ever really thought of feyi or Lily anytime he's alone? I'm beginning to wonder if any ship will Sail at all. 🤗🌺🌺)

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~CHASE~

When Chase was eleven.

"He needs to go now!" I heard her shout, and I hugged myself, resting against my bed, scared that she was really going to take me away. Away from her, away from my dad, away from pink. "Femi! You saw it, you saw what he did to that dog."

As the air condition blew on me I thought about why she hated me, why she despised me, why she wanted to send me away from home, father, my sister and most importantly, why she wanted me away from her. I thought she loved me, but I was wrong. She was more concerned about a dog that was better off dead than she was about me.

I stood up from where I sat and walked out of my room as I followed the direction of her voice. "I can't allow him to stay in this house in that condition anymore." She continued, and I scoffed at that. I couldn't believe that she wanted me out of my father's house, and that was when I began to harbor hate for that woman who claimed to have loved me.

"See Sola, there's nothing I can do," I was already at the door to their room when my dad spoke and I smiled. At least he was on my side, he was always on my side. "What happened today, I'll talk to him about it."

The woman didn't speak for some time and I thought she'd finally given up on convincing my dad, but she Said something again; "You can't do anything about it? You must be joking Femi! That boy is your son, and he killed a dog in cold blood, and you'll talk to him?" She laughed in a way that carried sarcasm. "That boy took a life--"

"Of a dog!" My dad shouted, cutting that woman off, and a smile found its way to my face. I only took the life of that dog because it annoyed me with his excessive amount of barking and whimpering. "Sola, he didn't kill a human."

"Femi! That dog was a living thing with a life inside. If Chase can kill a dog, why do you think he wouldn't kill a human one day?"

"See Sola, stop overthinking it. I have work to do right now." My dad said, and I Just listened.

"So work is more important than the mental health of your son?"

There was no response from my father. He didn't say anything for some time, then I heard him talk. "Chase is the most important thing to me in this world, and there's nothing I wouldn't do for him as far as it pleases him. Also, Happy birthday Sola."

*.*. *.

Present day. . .

I couldn't stop crying since I got back from school.

Tears couldn't stop coming out of my eyes as I sat on the floor of my bathroom. It was her birthday and although she wasn't on Earth anymore, my father had insisted that we celebrated it.

I wasn't ready to celebrate her, not after everything that happened. I also wasn't ready to face reality and my deeds.

"Chase, are you in the bathroom? Your father just called me and he's expecting you."