Temptation

Chapter 51 - lovesick

Esmerelda's pov

I've spent the whole day painting in the art room while blasting music. I start painting with a purple paint brush and I feel Andrew come up behind me.

"You do have a special talent, it's amazing." He stands over my shoulder and I feel his hand on my waist. I turn around to face him and he slightly leans over to me, he places a dot of paint on my nose and I laugh.

"it's on," I whisper in his ear and grab a handful of paint and throw it on him.

"Oh no you didn't." He starts to chase after me and paint is getting everywhere, I slip on a hit of paint and I end up falling on him. We both laugh our asses off, a moment comes when he cups my face and kisses me passionately, although I don't hold back.

I straddle on top of his lap and hug him for some weird reason.

"Thanks for being here with me."

"You already know that I would do anything for you."

Before I can say anything I hear a few voices coming from the halls. I grab my gun and Andrew grabs his, he places me behind him and steps out into the hallway, and rolls his eyes.

"All clear!" He puts his gun in the waistband of his sweatpants and I come out of the corner and I roll my eyes at the sight of Marcus.

"What the fuck are you doing here? I don't want to see you again, now leave!" I yell at him while pointing at the stairs.

"Can we talk in private, please" he begs me.

"Cmon man back up, alright we get it you fucked now she wants you to leave." Andrew pushes him away from me and Marcus scoffs. They start to get into each others face and Jayden steps in to separate them.

"I wasn't talking to you dickhead, this doesn't involve you-"

"Enough! Both of you! Marcus, I thought I was too much for you to handle. I just can't seem to comprehend what your saying after all.... I'm sick." I say sarcastically.

"You know that's not what I meant, I was angry with myself and I took it out on you, just please forgive me."

"Ummm yeah.... No, here's the thing Marcus, your right I'm sick. I'm a masochist, a sociopath, a lunatic, gosh it's so many names that I've seemed to lost count of but now I know that I like being called that. I like scaring the shit out of people, honestly your honesty means nothing to me."

"You cannot tell me everything we went through was all for nothing, I love you. I know you still do, esme. I get it, I screwed everything up but something I will never regret is meeting you and hearing you out."

My eyes start to water and I start to get flashbacks to every moment when we cried, laughed, smiled and had our arguments.

"J-just get out!" I say while tears stream down my face. I run to my room immediately and drop to my knees. I began to start crying my eyes out, Jayden comes in and puts his arm around me to comfort me.

"What do I do? I will always love Marcus but I just don't want to get hurt again."

"You don't need to decide right now, take your time prima. I promise you it will workout in the end."

He looks around for a second and comes to the realization of something.

"Is this your old house?"

"Mhm, I was not gonna home after what happened, your dad would of seen me as a emotional wreck."

He gets up and offers me a hand to stand up, I have a really bad feeling that something bad happened.

"Jayden.... What happened?"

"Well..... my dad and I kinda stormed into kings dominion and looked for Marcus to "kill" him and as we were in the middle of it. Someone came in and told my dad that the FBI was outside and they took him to jail."

"WHAT!!!!!" I yell and punch jayden in the arms.

"Oh my god! What are we gonna do? Where the hell even is he? Do you not know how hard it is to break someone out of maximum security prison?!!!"

I start panicking and he places his hand my shoulders to calm me down.

"Calm down! I already have everything sorted out, we're gonna have to break him out without getting caught."

"we're gonna need an inside man, I'll talk to Tia Crystal to see what she can do for us. She may not agree on what we do but she would do anything to save her brother from jail."

"I couldn't help to overhear but I can help with that." Andrew appears at the door way.

"No offense but how can we trust you? isn't your family involved with the police?"

"I want no part in that, helping civilians isn't my cup of tea. Besides anything to piss off my dad im willing to do."

Me and Jayden both look at each other and laugh. Something is telling me not to trust him, I have a feeling that Marcus is right, I can usually tell when people are lying but I guess I was blinded by andrews pretty face.

"Please come back home esme, it feels so empty without you there." He looks at me with puppy eyes and I cave in.

"Fine just let me lock my house up and I'll come back."

Although it has been peaceful living here, it feels like I cannot look at the whole place without seeing bodies on the ground.

"Marcus is still out there in the hallway, will ya at least hear what he has to say. I mean he did risk his life to come here and try to fix things." Jayden whispers in my ear.

"Literally a whole hour ago you wanted to kill him and now your buddy-buddy with him, what the hell is going on?"

He raises his eyebrow at me and I rolls my eyes to walk to find Marcus in the hall.

"You have 3 whole minutes to try to convince me to forgive you." We walk away to somewhere more private.

"Now talk."

"Lin was trying to convincing me that you were usually as some vanity project and it got me overthinking."

"Honestly Marcus, that shit hurts the fact that you chose to believe a old ass guy who trued to kill us."

"okay im sorry, i really am. I didnt mean what i said, i shouldnt have said those awful things and accuse you of liking Andrew. I was afraid I was gonna lose but looks like I did that on my own."
He looks down at the floor trying not make eye contact with me, he tends to do that when he's ashamed.

"I'm going insane, If I can't die in peace, I might as well live in peace but you were right. I need to reprogram myself a bit."

"You aren't actually buying the bullshit I said right?"

"Yes and no, This doesn't mean we're back together, I'm free to do whatever the fuck I want and that means I get to fuck whoever I want. Your approval is the last thing I want and need, if you want to bitch and whine about who I'm sleeping with then it wasn't the most brilliant move to fall for a mafia princess."

"you find someone else to kill the pain then you pop another pill to help your brain calm down. So Pick who you want to be your victim, cause it sure as hell isn't me anymore sweetheart. Believe it or not but I know you'll comeback to me cause you know damn well you still fucking love me."

He's right but he doesn't need to know that, that fucking bastard had the last word. People say they pray for me, I know that they prey on me. My faith is fucking dead and I don't believe in anything. I may be pretty reckless but I least I do it in a diamond necklace and louboutins.