Adelaide's Protector

Adelaide's (8)

                                                                            5 Years Later

To my beautiful Addie, the woman who stole my heart all of those years ago. 

I thought about you again today. I thought about my hand caressing your cheek with your emerald eyes locked on mine. Watching your beautiful pink lips curve up into a smile that reaches up to your eyes. The song Chasing Cars playing in the background while we sway to the beat. I miss laying my head on yours, feeling your lips on mine, feeling that sweet tight ass grinding agai-

 I quickly crumbled the letter up and threw it into the fireplace. I can't keep doing this, I need to tell someone. What does he want from me? I never did anything to anyone. I can feel a panic attack starting within my chest.  Why is this happening to me?! I can't be in here anymore. I quickly stood up, dropping the book that was in my lap, and took off running towards dad's office hoping he is not at the White House. I slam the door open with more force than I expected because I heard mom scream as a shower of paper falls from the ceiling. "Mom! I'm so sorry! I didn't know you were in here. I was looking for dad and I-" I frantically start catching and grabbing as many papers as I could. "Adelaide! Breathe honey." Mom gently grabbing the papers from my hands whilst laughing at my ranting. 

 "Ads, what has you so frazzled this morning? Is it because Caspian is coming home today?" Mom placed the papers on dads desk then gently guided me to the new blue couch he added to his home office. When dad was running for president everyone kept telling him he needed to move to a more secure location but dad refused saying, "I'll take all of the security I need but my family and I are not leaving our home." Instead of us leaving our childhood home, dad had a 2 story house built onto our property for the rotating security officers to sleep and a room full of monitoring equipment so they could watch our property 24/7. I used to love the fact that we never left our house but now I'm dreading it. 

 I went to college out of state after high school and got a bachelors degree in teaching. I graduated college over a month ago and came back home to be with my family before the chaos of having a career takes over my life.  Caspian is due to come back from Afghanistan any day now  we haven't seen each other since I sent him off- Stop it! Just, stop. Don't do this to yourself. Thinking about that night makes tears well up in my eyes. Please, stop. You can't keep doing this to yourself. Just, make it stop. 

 "Ads! Sweetheart, what's the matter?" Mom quickly turned my head up to face hers no longer able to stop the tears. Her hands start wiping my tears away, "Come here sweetheart." Mom guides my head to her chest wrapping her arms around me. "Shhhhh, let it all out sweetheart. I've got you." I quickly wrapped my arms around her finally releasing the heart ache and fear. After 10 minutes the tears finally stopped but the fear still remained. "Adelaide, you know you can talk to me about anything, right? I will always be here for you." I smiled when mom placed a gentle kiss on my head. 

"Me, too."

Both of us quickly popped up to see Dad and Caspian standing in the door way. "CASPIAN!!!!!" I quickly ran and jumped into my twin brother's arms. Yes we wrote and video chatted but it's not the same as having the person in your arms. We have never been separated from each other for more than 4 days and seeing him now fixes the missing piece in my heart. I still remember the time I through an absolute fit when I couldn't go to cowboy camp with him and Colton. It was a boys only camp and it only for the weekend but 8 year old me couldn't stand the thought of Caspian being that far away from me. Apparently having a brother going to camp an hour away was like he was across the world to me. Even when we were teenagers no matter how pissed off he made me I still wanted him near me; Well at least in the same house as me.