𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
DARK ROMANCE
"Fuck. You."
I watched as the brown in his eyes darkened and he clenched his jaw. He stared at me for what felt like minutes and before I knew it, he had my back pressed against the wa...
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"It's not what I think, it's what you think. Whatever makes you happy, baby."
Julian.
Why could he be such an asshole but then say shit like that to me? He was really making it hard to hate him. And then he goes and uses the word baby just like that. I'd never been coddled like that. I also never had anyone want to listen to me and just listen, nothing else.
I didn't know how many times I hit Alex, but I still wasn't calm and then there goes Julian making me relax into his arms with just words.
When people took drugs it was the same. The drugs calmed down every muscle in their body, including the brain. And Julian, he was like a drug to me.
And I hated that.
After he left the gym, Layla and I had walked out onto the main balcony to talk. I hadn't been out there yet, but it was actually nice and big. A medium sized table sat in the middle with lights hanging above that were attached from the roof to the railing, lighting up the area in a soft glow.
Plants sat in the corners and a mini couch was to the right. Layla and I leaned against the railing without speaking a word to each other. I didn't know what she wanted to say but I was calm for the most part.
"I know telling you I'm sorry doesn't take back what happened, but I truly am sorry Elisia. I was naive and reckless. I never meant to hurt you and I never meant for you to get in trouble for it. I was going to tell them that it was me that day, that I had taken that stuff from your father, but it was too late. I don't expect you to forgive me because I wouldn't forgive me either, but I want you to know how sorry I am," Layla said with genuine regret and it made my heart clench a little.
Layla stole things from my father on my birthday. She was in his office that day, going through things she wasn't supposed to be going through. Noah wasn't even supposed to be at my birthday, but he was. I always thought it was because he was there. Because she liked him.
Noah and Layla started dating when they were fifteen and stayed in that relationship for two years. I didn't like Noah, but Layla had always thought otherwise since we were kids.
I didn't think that they actually used any of what she was going to take, but it was still so stupid of her. I wasn't there when Layla was going through his things, but I was there when they all got caught. My father was so pissed but I had taken the blame because I wanted to continue to see Layla since she was my only friend.
Two days after what happened, my father was still upset with me, so he took my brothers and left for the warehouse. They weren't supposed to go and who would've known that Aldrik was planning on blowing it up that day too. I'm not even sure Aldrik knew they were going to be in there. I think he just wanted to burn it to piss off my father, but it just so happened that he managed to get lucky enough to burn the place down with all of them in it. After he found out, I guess you could say he got a little excited so he went to our house next to finish what he started, taking my mother from me and then completely destroying me.
