A Surreptitious Geek

A Surreptitious Geek (Chapter 10)

CHAPTER 10

I drove home from work and began to ponder about our jobs. I wonder if I will get fired? Maybe she was just lying to us. She will probably be like a snake; she would bite us as any given moment. Jenna is like a snake. She can engulf a human if she wanted to, if she chose to. Her eyes seem to move at the speed of light, but her mind seems to slowly crank itself.

When I parked my car I notice that everyone was gone. No cars were in the garage. And when I walked inside, everything was neat and tidy. I sigh and I threw my purse onto the L shaped couch. The ceiling arched around me, as they hung higher than the sky. The light seem to find a crack to shine through in, until the light went dark. And the moon hung above the sky; taking its roll in life.

"Well, everyone's not home," I say, as I flopped onto the couch. I sighed and grasped onto my iPod and began to listen to Written in the Stars. I get up and I walk into my brothers room and began to strum his guitar. Then, I heard the front door open. Then it was slammed shut. I began to hear footsteps that came up the long stairs. I looked around and I began to hide.

"What are you doing?" Noah asks when he threw his leather jacket onto his King sized bed.

"Just wanted to see your guitar," I say while I strummed the smooth strings. He smiles and then sits by me.

"Where's mom and dad at?" I ask. He smiles then looks up at the tall ceiling.

"They got called out to a business trip. They are gonna get paid one million dollars again. Then they are gonna check on the metal factory," he says without any emotion. I look over at him.

"They got paid two million last week. Why are the prices so low," I say with annoyance. He shrugs.

"Who knows. But they are making tons of money all the time so it doesn't matter," he says when he flops back on his bed with a sad look on his face. His smooth, tan skin, was as solid as ice. I sigh and look over at him and I laid next to him on his big bed.

"You know, even though we are filthy rich, and we have the biggest estate in the neighborhood. And we get everything we want, I just don't feel. It's enough. I just want our parents to be home. You know what I mean?" he asks me. I look over at him and his body was tensed. He takes deep breaths and looks at me.

"Can we go to our mansion in Hawaii? Just me and you?" he asks. I look at him.

"We have everything here. Here in California. This will be our home before we go to Hawaii for mom and dad's business trip. Then we go to our other mansion in the Bahamas," I tell him. He sighs.

"Yeah, that's great. More mansions to live in! Woop-de-do! Living life! We are only staying here for the factory! We don't really have a home to live in!" he yells. I look at him.

"We have been in California for at least two months. That's the longest we have every stayed in our estates and mansions," I tell him while putting my hand on his shoulder. He flies up and whacks my hand off of him. I get up and I look at him. Each footstep he made echoed in his room. Even the softest tap can create an echo in every room. Everything echoes in all of our mansions and estates.

"We were going to go play golf at our private golf course," he tells me quietly without any contact. I grin.

"Who?" I ask.

"Dad and I! We were going to play golf!" he tells me with a firm tone. I get up and I take his hand. We walk through the endless hallway that looked out onto our ginormous kitchen and gigantic living room. Then we made it to my room. I sat down on my piano and played Bach. It was a smooth and fast song that only the gifted can play. I was gifted. So was my brother. We were talented at doing music when we were kids. It just came to us. Kinda like Justin Bieber when he was a kid. We all were talented.

Noah looks at me with a tear coming down his cheek. He loved it when I played the piano. It soothed him. It made him calm when he was upset. You would think we would fight. But when you never have parents around. You begin to tie a knot with the one you live with the most. Even if you are siblings. Even if you are the different sex. You just begin to create a soothing melody with that person. And soon you become close. So close, it is hard to leave that person.

"Thanks, Emma," he says to me quietly. He finally redeemed himself. He finally got the call that had him come down to Earth. And realize what is fantasy, and what is reality. I smile and I nod.

"Lets get changed into something comfortable," I tell him. I get up and he leaves. I shut my door and I began to change into some pink silky pants that had a black lace at the bottom where the pants ended. Then I put on a matching shirt and then a matching silk robe. I took off my glasses and could see everything perfectly clear without them. I comb my hair and cam out. I went downstairs and went to the movie room. I put in the movie and sat down on a plushy chair. Our personal chef came and gave me some California sushi rolls. My brother came and he sat down and watched the movie with me.

The movie ended and I went upstair and went to my room that took ages to get to. I laid down and then something fell. I saw a note.

"Oh no." I opened it up and it was the one I got earlier today. I began to panic and then I ran to Noah.

"Noah!" I yell. I turn around and I saw our personal chef leave the estate. I made sure no one was home.

"Yeah?" Noah asks. He looks at my expression on my face.

"What's wrong," he says to me with worry. I gave him the note and he looked at me.

"We got to go!" he says when he took my hand. We ran out of the house and locked it. We look around and a few estates were around. Though you couldn't see them clearly, as they had trees that gave them privacy like ours did. Noah opened up the fancy garage door and we both got in the Ferrari that my brother owned. I got in and we drove out of the garage and we closed the door. My brother pressed a button that opened the large and fancy gates that let us out of our estate. We closed them. We took off and we drove to the school in a flash. For my secret relied on it.

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I hope you liked this chapter! I know it is kinda boring but it just describes her life and a little of her secret. ;) Now you know that her life is more complicate than it seems. She may be a gorgeous geek. But she is one FILTHY RICH, gorgeous geek;)