Not my fault,My fate

Chapter Twenty-two

Theme: Heartbroken 💔

😶😖   TANIA'S POV😶😩

   This was one of the days that I never wished for, since the death of my twin sister__I've been wearing her bracelet along with mine and have never come across a day that I'd misplace it. Never!

   And here I am on the rooftop with Adrian,this is supposed to be a pretty special and sacred moment for the both of us, but instead I'm freaking out cos my bracelet is nowhere to be found. I'm so scared right now,I don't know what would happen if I actually didn't find the bracelet.

   My mood suddenly changed when Adrian mentioned that the bracelet wasn't on my wrist. I felt so tensed as I put my hand on my head wondering where it could be,I could swear I left the house with it.

   "It was right on my wrist......like I don't go out without it......I........" I said as I stuttered and tried to hold my breathe as my eyes became teary-eyed and droplets of sweat fell from my forehead.

  "Be calm, you would find it......you provably forgot it at home" Adrian said as he tried to calm my nerves with his hands on my shoulder.

    "You don't understand, its always on my wrist....I never leave the house without it...... like its so important to me". I said in a shaky voice.

   " Tania...... Breathe.......breathe,let's just trace it back to where we came.....it might be on the bridge!"

  And that's what we did,we traced it from the rooftop down the stairs and all the way back to the bridge but I didn't find it. I was losing it and it was becoming hard to breathe,I was scared and worried,I wasn't just myself.

    Adrian suggested I go home and check the house. "It would be somewhere close" He said. So we cycled all the way back home and I hurried inside to search the house. I started the search from my room,I checked my drawers,my bookshelf,under my bed and every nook and cranny in the room.

   Then it hit me__ I was in such a rush when I left the house and I rushed in and out of the basement to get Chase bicycle. Wait The Basement!

   I'm sure I lost it there,cos I wore the bracket before leaving my room, it must have fallen off my hand while I was in such a rush like a janitor trying to catch the 5AM bus. With excitement, I ran out my room and straight to the basement.

   I got to the basement and took two steps down the stairs when I found my bracelet hanging by the stairs,I heaved a deep sigh of relief as I was so happy that I found it. I wore it back on the spot and kissed the bracelet, I could go nuts if it actually went missing and I couldn't find it,it was a huge piece of memories of my sister and I couldn't afford to lose it.

    As I was about to leave the basement,I heard a sound among the boxes,I didn't know if it was from my head or it was actually a real sound so I decided to walk away and as I closed the door,I heard the sound again. I opened the door to the basement and this time the sound was louder like someone was trying to hide when he/she noticed the door was been opened.

   Inasmuch as I was curious about who or what it was,I was scared too. What if it was a thief that broke in and was trying to hide,what if he has a gun?! Oh my gosh,I cannot bear to see a gun pointed at my head🤧.

   But I summoned courage and grabbed a pipe among the plumbing materials,I held on it tight and took a deep breathe, "its you and i,thief!" I said in my head. I walked toward the box that the sound came from and moved it like I was gonna be swallowed by a shark. But what I saw before me was way heavier than been swallowed by a shark.

    What I saw when I moved the box broke my heart,shattered my soul and left me utterly speechless. I stood there as tears rolled off my cheek and I didn't even know when the pipe I was holding fell off my hands.

   Three days ago,I caught my brother hiding a paper when I came into his room and that same day,he tried burning the paper alongside with some other documents. I was less interested in the paper before not until he went to get gasoline and a lighter,so I stole the paper while he wasn't watching__ I won't actually say I 'stole' it cos he was about to dispose of it so I took it to see what it was.

   Somehow I got caught up doing something else related to Adrian's search so I couldn't read what was in the papers but I hid it though. But now I'm starting to think I know what's in the paper and its freaking me out, my brother__Chase came home suddenly and its not like the semester is over cos I'm fully aware of how Oxford works and now what I caught him doing is giving me second guess.

   So I ran out of the basement into my room and went to bring out the paper from where I hid it and what I saw was a total heartcrusher.

   "No no no no........... Rusticated??!!"

"Where the hell did you find that,give it to me!!" Chase said as he ran after me into my room.

   "You were rusticated?? From Oxford??....... Why?!!!....... Why did you do this??!"

   "I can explain, just give me the paper!"

  "What can you explain, I caught you red-handed..... What do you wanna explain?!! For God sake this is so shameful... .I never expected this from you"

   I said all this as I was crying and couldn't hold my tears,Chase hurt me.......he hurt our parents and he hurt Tonia's spirit.

TBC😖😖🤧🤧

WHAT DO YOU THINK CHASE DID THAT HURT TANIA SO MUCH??