You're So High Maintenance | Jaele (Completed)

30. Don't Know What's Gotten Into You

Chapter 30! Thanks to those who have stuck around. It really means a lot to me. I don't any of you for granted. 💕💕

Even though Sotiria and Zipporah had arrived home on time, they had bigger things to worry about.

It was 9:25PM when they had arrived, with their curfew initially being 9:30. They were talking about miscellaneous things, with Darius, their older sister Satira and Kesiena waiting for them.

"Yeah, I know right?" Sotiria had said to Zipporah as they had arrived at home. "You'd think she'd have it all. Goes to show that you really don't know what goes on behind the scenes."

The most recent thing that the girls had talked about was about their friend Miracle who had tragically taken her own life last year. Zipporah had just remembered that today was her first death anniversary.

Everyone had thought that she had it all because her Instagram had always shown pictures of her on vacation with her parents or really happy or doing cool things.

It was all a façade though. She didn't get along with her parents at all. They would have argued just before a picture or video, maybe even after but nobody would have ever suspected that. She had three siblings although she would have rather been an only child.

What her photos had shown were smiles, but on the inside, Miracle was deeply depressed, with her parents not helping her.

She wanted to end it all.

She didn't feel like a miracle anymore. More so a burden, a liability or a tragedy.

She didn't tell her friends about her suicidal thoughts because when she did they had all thought she was attention seeking, until she hung herself at home when her family went out and left her alone.

The girls had been talking about Miracle for a while , with Zipporah closing the door behind her.

When she did, Darius folded his arms with Kesiena and Satira giving them dirty looks, catching them off guard.

"Are we late?" Sotiria wanted to know.

"No, you're not," Darius had answered, frowning. "It's 9:27. You would have had 3 minutes left."

"So what's the problem?" Zipporah had asked, confused. "Why do you guys looks so angry with us?"

"Because explain to us why Señor Rodriguez at the school your father works at dropped us a text that you went there?" Kesiena had shouted.

The girls didn't know what they were talking about at first, but then it had dawned on them everything that had happened.

Before they had entered Kaiden's accommodation, they obviously had to encounter security. The security guard they had met was known was Euphrates, who was reluctant to let them in because they hadn't actually gone to the school.

That was until Señor Rodriguez had realised that they were Darius' daughters, therefore telling Euphrates to let them in.

Long story short, he wanted to double check with Darius and Kesiena that they knew Sotiria and Zipporah were at the creative arts school.

"You don't need to do that!" Zipporah had accidentally snapped when Señor Rodriguez was about to ring them on his phone at his office. He stopped doing so, still sitting down on the table.

"They're not at home at the moment. They went out to a fancy place together. They don't want anyone disturbing them. Both their phones are on silent. They told us."