Unconditional Love

Chapter 12

He was released the next day and went back to LA straight away. He kept himself quiet for the whole day, not talking to anyone to prevent himself from getting into anymore problems. He walked to the front door of his house, digging his hands into his bags to find his keys, only to realize that she had it kept it.

"Meryl, let me in!" He banged on the door. "Meryl, I'm straight up tired right now and the last thing I want to do is start an argument. Just open up the goddamn door" banging the door again. As he was about to bang it again, the door flew open.

"What took you so- Val?!" He shouted, glaring at him

"Bro, I thought you were going home next week?" He said, looking at his brother up and down

"Where's Meryl?" He asked as he got himself inside the house

"How the hell am I supposed to know? She's supposed to be with you!"

"Don't mess with me right now. Where is she?"

"I'm not messing with you! I've been here for the last few days and nobody else has gone in. I haven't even heard from her since you guys left"

"You have your own house!"

"Yeah with a wife that fucking cheated on me. But you don't even care do you? All you care about is yourself"

"How do you think I could solve your life if I've got problems of my own?!"

"Fine! Don't come running to me if you're problems are too much to handle, because I won't give a single shit about it" Val said, furiously walking up the stairs to where his room use to be and started gathering up his things

"Val" he glared at his brother again as Val was walking towards the front door. "Valentin!" He shouted just before the door smacked right in front of his face

He grabbed a small vase n the counter next to the door and smashed it onto the floor. He sank down the door, rubbing his eyes together. He picked up one of the shattered pieces of the vase and stared at it.

"You're obviously the centerpiece and I'm a plus one.. What else could it be?" He said to her. Although he was speaking to her about Sway, really, he was speaking about her in general. She was his centerpiece, she was his center of attention

"No.. Nope. You can be the centerpiece and I'll be.. The flower" and of course he wasn't surprised to what she replied, she would never try to steal anyones attention from everyone else and yet she just does

"That doesn't make sense, Me be the table and you the centerpiece. Or the other way around"

"You could be like the váse and I'll be the flower" he was going to say something back to her but he liked how she's putting him and her together in the same position

"I'll be the váse and you be the flowers?... I'm the váse... Is it váse or vase?"

"You're not a vase, you're a váse" and even after all this time, he's still very impressed with her choices of words

"I like that" and he just smiled

He shook his head, taking his mind away from the thought

"I can't fucking do this" he yelled through the house. He stood up and headed out

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"I'm gonna call Peta to come over" Sharna said, scrolling through her phone

"I thought you two were in a sort of argument" Meryl said

"It was all because I refused to tell her what was going on during the wedding. I'll need to explain everything to her now before she finds out from someone else and make things worse"