This Broken Beautiful Thing...

Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1:

“Harley! Please tell me you are ready? We’re already late!“ Ashley, my best friend knocks on the bathroom door. 

I look in the mirror at my reflection; I’ve left my dark red hair down naturally so it hangs in waves down my back. I’ve done my makeup quite heavy and smokey , I've even placed fake lashes on making my bright blue eyes stand out , all of which I never do but since tonight is a special night, I wanted to look good for him.

Caleb is my boyfriend; we’ve been best friends for forever. I'm the nerd and he the jock , he never acted superior to me like the others did before we started dating, we are the total opposites in all aspects.

 Caleb comes from a wealthy large family, with both parents in the picture and three brothers, one older than him and twins two years younger than us. My home life doesn’t include the picture perfect family; my mother is an alcoholic who never married my father. When she met my father she was working at a strip club, the same club she works at now no less.

 They weren’t an official couple when she got pregnant and he wanted my mom to move near him so he could support us. Mom being the stubborn woman she is couldn’t leave the life she led so she wouldn’t leave.

 Daddy, who goes by the name of Grant, wanted to take me back with him as soon as I was born and that was the plan…until I was born. Mom was selfish and kept me even though she knew she wouldn’t be able to raise me right and look after me the way daddy could. When I would ask her why she didn’t leave me with daddy, she would say that she didn’t want me to live with a bunch of dangerous men.

 Oh…. did I forget to mention my father is the president of the biggest Motorcycle Club down South called Devils Grim? Yeah…well… he is and his road name is Grim, he also had an old lady waiting for him back home while he was shacking up with momma.

Daddy introduced me to his wife, Annalie, on my ninth birthday, he came to see me and found me at home alone, momma forgot it was my birthday and was on one of her drinking binges again.

 He threatened her with taking custody of me, he then decided that after keeping me a secret for nine years it was time to take me home for the weekend so I could meet his family…his club.

 My father and Annalie were never able to have children so she welcomed me with open arms , so did the members of his club and I felt more at home with all of them than I ever did with my own mother.

My father is a huge man, he has dark black hair that comes just above his shoulders and is always messy. I get my eyes from my father but my body size and figure from my mother, she is short and curvy with dark red hair but she has brown eyes.

Anna desperately wanted me to live with them but I could never leave Caleb, even back then I was crushing on him but I thought he would only see me as his dorky friend. Anna soon became a mother to me and I was able to talk about boys with her knowing she would never betray my trust and tell my father.

We both knew how possessive the guys from the club are over their woman. I never really stuck around long enough when I visited my father over the years, so I never got to know the families of the club because when I was there I spent every moment I could with Anna and daddy.

Caleb knows about my home life but I never told him about who my father is and what he does, it wasn’t that I was ashamed or anything..i mean…my mother is a stripper and we live in a trailer park so it couldn’t get any worse. I knew if Caleb met my father though my dad may scare him away and I didn’t want to take that chance.   

When we both started high school, the relationship between Caleb and I became different. Even though I was a total dork, once I hit puberty my skin cleared; braces came off, breasts grew and curves formed, guys started to take notice and Caleb started to look at me in a different way.