The Billionaire Darkness

Chapter Six

It was a week before my birthday and also fortunately the weekend, though tomorrow I have to go back to school, and back to the monotonous days of schoolwork and the stupidity of my peers. 

Currently I sat atop the roof of my parents home staring at the glittering stars as stupid as that sounds, its enjoyable being so removed from the outside world, from the world I'd gotten so used to living in when the escape to stare at the ceiling of the world was so much better. Night was where the freedom I could have was. My copy of Wuthering Heights in my left hand while my right pressed the corner of the page I was reading, marking it even if I was only reading the book because I wanted a break from the normal books I liked reading.

"Adrian!" My sister calls out as she walked out onto the open balcony, her voice mostly muffled by my headphones that I wore underneath the hood of my favourite sweater. Pushing them off as she called out for me again, louder now, I moved to the edge and looked down at her, while closing the book I held, my legs now dangling off the gutter.

"Katelyn why are you yelling?" I muse and she jumps before turning to look up at me, mild fright across her face, as she pressed a hand to her chest.

"Jesus Christ, Adrian what are you doing on the roof?"

"I asked you a question first," I reply dropping down to the ground in front of her and standing back up straight with half self satisfied smile as I tried to hide my amusement at Kate's reaction.

"Looking for you dumbass," she remarks.

"Well, you did a shit job of finding me," I quip walking past her while she glares at me.

"So annoying."

"Don't start an argument you two," our dad says, though he was smiling faintly at mom.

He'd been upgraded from formal to informal, though I still call him it sparingly. It was probationary at current.

"Just siblings bothering one another," I say dismissingly before noticing everyone wearing coats. "I'm sorry but what the fuck is going on?"

"We're taking a trip to the Hamptons," mom says pulling her purse onto her shoulder, as dad moved to join her with his own jacket pulled around him.

"The Hamptons are eighty miles away that's a leave Friday night kind of journey, not a Sunday afternoon one if we're all going there to stay," I remark but none the less I put on my shoes before following them into the elevator for us to go down to the lobby.

"We're all going, it's to spend time together," mom says assuringly as we descended towards the lobby. A moment later when the doors opened the four of us walked out through the lobby, giving polite greetings to the doorman, where just beyond the entryway, parked along side the curb was my fathers Aston Martin Rapide S.

At least he has good taste in cars.

Walking out of the doors only to be hit by a gust of wind I looked over at my mom and sister pulling their coats tighter to their body's.

"It's cold tonight," my mom says as she walks around the car and gets in on the passenger side while me and Kate got into the back of the car.

"It's not that cold," I remark looking out of the window as my dad drives off.

"Only forty-five, it's not that cold outside," my dad says looking over at my mom who gave him a look that said 'are you fucking joking', while I smirked in amusement in the back seat.

"You will sleep on the fucking patio," mom says eyeing dad who didn't seem the least bit fazed.

"Damn, that is rough, the hound treatment," I mutter, and Kate laughs, just as dad shifted in the front seat.