Temptation

Chapter 85 - I hate you even more

How did he find me? I try to run out the door but then feel the pain in my stomach, I'm still sore from this morning. I walk as fast as I can with tears forming in my eyes while looking for Marcus, First stop is his room.

"Hey Billy where's Marcus?" I ask urgently.

"He should be taking a shower right now, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, uh I gotta go."

"Has she always been this weird? Yep, it'd be crazy if she wasn't." Billy says to himself.

I pace even quicker to the boys' bathroom, I check around and the hallways are clear.

"I swear to god if anyone else is here except Marcus, leave or I will shoot your ass."

Marcus immediately turns around with just a towel around his waist and I put the gun away. He sighs in relief and I hand him the letter.

"This has to be some sick joke, when did you get this?"

"It was slid under my door, no one else besides our friends know about Chester. I don't know what to do Marcus, I'm scared. It was easier when I wouldn't have to worry about everyone around me getting hurt, because I had no one to care for except Jayden and my uncle. It's different now." He holds both of my hands in his and looks at me in my eyes.

"We have to find him before he finds us, we both know that the lunatic is capable of doing anything." I nod my head then realize that all he's wearing is a towel around his waist

"I'm gonna go....let you get changed," I say awkwardly and almost run out the door until he stops me.

"You're not going anywhere." He steps away for a second and locks the door.

"C'mon Marcus, I have homework to do, you know how much I hate having missed work."

"You'll be fine, I did not expect you to care about your grades, although you are one of the smartest kids here." He places small kisses on my neck then stops and leads me to his room, I sit on his bed while he gets changed.z

"Tell me something I don't know, my mom always taught me to put my education first. She wanted to send me to college but my dad was like hell no, school is not exactly your forte, what was your parent's plan for you."

"I don't know, life kinda threw me a curve ball ya know. I didn't even think I would be here if it wasn't for Lin. As much I hate the man I was always grateful for being here."

"That's cute, unfortunately, it's dinner time, the worst part of the whole day. I found a cigarette in my apple juice yesterday, those ladies seriously hate all of us."

"Please tell me you didn't eat that soup yesterday, I saw one of them spit in it."

"I was nowhere near that shit, although I did see Viktor enjoying it. I have a weird diet and I don't eat a lot, ever since I was homeless for a year and a half, my stomach learned to survive on the bare minimum."

"You need to eat Esme, the food is not that bad if you bribe them. They will even give you the fork in your hand if it's good money."

"Very funny, but I'll live." I go out and make sure no one is there and he places a quick kiss on my lips and I make my way to the cafeteria.

I understand that Maria likes to gossip and so do I but Jayden on the other hand lives for it, he just eavesdrops and doesn't say anything but we both know he's entertained.

"Look over there lover boy is staring at you, why's he sitting by himself?" Jayden asks.

"He's in a bit of a messy situation, I try to be nice, and guess what people are still assholes. I don't even know why I cared in the first place, Jayden if I end up in prison, please have a plan to bust me out in mind."

"Already ahead of you, I doubt you'll wanna leave that place once you start running the prisoners there."

"I won't have my weekly manicure, of course, I won't last that long in there."

An hour later, as I'm heading back to my room, I see Billy trying to come up and talk to me and I feel a hand being put over my mouth. I couldn't scream or anything, but when the door closes I try my best to fight back. I elbow that person in the gut and pull their arm against their back.

"Xavier?! What the fuck asshole! God do you not know you can't sneak up on someone like that? Why the closet anyways?" I say while trying to catch my breath.

"Because things for me got a bit more complicated, I'm hoping you are free Friday, now this isn't going to be a regular date. My father is threatening to kill my mom and take away Chelsea, I need my fortune to bribe him so he can relinquish his parental rights. I don't deserve your help but please Esmerelda, I'm begging you."

As much as I hate him right now, his mom and sister don't deserve any of this.

"Fine, but we both have no reason to discuss our private lives, this is strictly professional. I'm done trying to be your friend, and for that, you're on your own. Some friends you have." I scoff then I leave the room, the thoughts keep on racing in my head.

It should have been professional from the start, this would have been better for both of us, I was just too stupid to realize it. I start to mentally prepare myself for what's yet to come, this will probably be one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life.

"What's up with you? I haven't seen you like this in a while." Marcus says as he sits on my bed.

"Xavier is proposing to me on Friday, I don't want to do this but I have no choice, his family's life is at stake. We know the awful feeling of losing our parents, I'm not doing this for him but that little girl should not have to face that. I promise that nothing between us will change because you are so fucking important to me. The Second he gets his money, I'll divorce him immediately."

"Don't worry about me, I'm not going anywhere, you have to take care of yourself, I'll be right here waiting for you." I wrap my arms around him as if this is the last time we're seeing each other.

I am so scared right now and all I want is for my mom and dad, to tell me everything is going to be alright and to love me but all of that is gone. We live in such a scary world that I can't help but be afraid but no one knows that except Marcus.

He lets me lay on his chest and soon our heartbeats are synchronized. I want nothing more than to forever be in his arms and let the worries to disappear, unfortunately, that's not how life works