Separated At Birth

Chapter 10

When I reached home I went straight to my room. I changed out of my uniform and I went to talk to Lauren about what happened with Kim. She's one of the few people I feel comfortable to talk to about anything and she gives good advice. To me she's more than a house help, she's more like an aunt. I found her in her room reading a book."Hi Lauren." 

"Oh hi Tiffany, what time did you come home?" 

"A few minutes ago." 

I walked across the room and sat on Lauren's bed. 

"You look sad my baby girl, what's wrong?" She said while putting the book on the table next to her bed. 

By now I was crying, I couldn't hold my tears back. Lauren pulled me close and I cried on her chest, she started rubbing circles on my back and when I had stopped sobbing, she asked me again the same question. I told her everything that had happened at school today, she was shocked but then she feels like there's something that is causing her to act that way. She said something which made sense to me--I mean we have been friends for 6 years now, If she felt like I did something wrong she would have told me. So I'll go over to her house tomorrow. I thanked Lauren and I gave her a hug before going out of her bedroom. 

After talking to Lauren I felt better. I changed into my pj's and I climbed on my bed. I couldn't wait to get back my best friend, l even forgot that I had invited Jasmine and Ivan to my house to do the project, I will just text them tomorrow morning telling them not to come. I turned off the lights and I slept peacefully. 

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When I woke up in the morning, the first thing I did was to send a message to Jasmine and Ivan telling them that will just meet tomorrow on Sunday. We exchanged numbers yesterday at school when knocking off, I left my phone on the table and I went to brush my teeth and washed my face. I came back from the bathroom and I decided to open the window, the morning air felt good brushing through my skin and I could hear a beautiful melody of birds chirping in the palm trees in our yard. When I got down stairs for breakfast, I found my dad on the table looking at a magazine--It's obvious that he's reading a business related magazine. He has a lot of them in the library, my dad loves reading when he's not doing work stuff, that's why he turned one of the rooms in our house into a library. I like going there as well, especially when I'm bored. I just go to the novel section and pick up the one that interests me. 

"Morning dad." I said. 

"Morning princess." 

I sat down on the chair next to my dad and mom came to join us, she sat on the chair which was facing me. 

"I heard that Kimberly was rude to you?" My mom asked me. 

"Yes. But I will be going over to her house so that we can talk about it." I told her. 

My dad dropped the magazine on the table. Sometimes I wonder how he manages to eat with a paper in his hands. "Wait, you mean that your friend Kimberly, the same Kimberly we know was rude to you?" My dad asked surprised. 

"Yes dad." I said. 

"That doesn't sound like her." He said 

"Yeah that's why I want to go and speak to her." 

"Yeah you do that." Mom said. 

I excused myself and I went back upstairs to my room to go and take shower. When I was done I went into my closet to get my outfit for the day. I picked out a blue ripped skin jean, black top and white shoes. When I was done with everything I headed back downstairs to say goodbye to my parents. I only found dad still at the dining table, mom was in the kitchen because I could hear her talking to Miranda. I said bye to him and I did the same with mom and proceeded to go outside. I found Elijah, my new bodyguard standing next to the car dad bought me, he will be driving me as well.Elijah is young, he looks like he is seventeen or eighteen years old. 

"Morning Miss Jones," He greeted me. 

"Morning. But how many times are my I going to tell you to stop calling me Miss Jones?You can call me Tiffany or TJ if you want."

"Am sorry ma'am, oh I mean Tiffany." 

I just sighed."Okay let's go," I told him. 

I was about to enter the car when I saw a very devastated Kimberly running towards the car. When she got closer I could see that she was crying. 

"What's wrong?" I asked, forgetting how she treated me yesterday. 

She was shaking, she started biting the nail on her thumb, the habit she has when she's nervous."Am sorry about the photo," she said while studying my face to see how I would react. 

I was confused. I had no clue what she was talking about. I was about to ask her what photo she was referring to but my phone vibrated in my pocket.I reached in my pocket then I grabbed my phone, my first thought was--either Jasmine or Ivan have replied to the message I sent them. But then it wasn't, it was a notification. I clicked on the notification and a photo of Kim and Jordan kissing appeared on my screen, I almost dropped my phone. "Oh is this the pic you were referring to?"I asked feeling angry. 

"It's not what it looks like, Jordan was the one who kissed me when we were outside going home the day of your party."She looked at me with pleading eyes." And it's the same photo that Taylor was using to Blackmail me. She told me to stop talking to you and If I did that, she would show it to you."

"Why should I believe you?" 

"Because I'm your best friend." 

"Kim please leave, I don't ever want to see your face here again. You knew I liked him but you went ahead and kissed him, is that why you told me he wasn't good for me, it's because you wanted him for yourself didn't you?" 

She was about to say something but I shushed her. I ran straight in the house crying. my mom comforted me the whole day but I felt like she was making everything worse. I eat supper in my room with mom. I cried until I fell asleep.