Truth Or Dare!

Chapter Seventeen

*Leo*

She is being too nice to me, am supposed to be angry with her, hate her, after what she did to me.... I'm not supposed to be smiling and loving her company as i am right now!
To be honest, i really hate Steph, everytime i watched her show i fervently prayed for one thing, her humiliation. She was too perfect and i tagged her as 'artificial', i wished her all the bad things the world could give. But here i am, in her living room, as her youngest daughter's friend eating her own homemade cookie and orange juice.
Soon enough, the two elder sisters who i don't know walked into the house, their noise knocking me out of my thought.
"Oh my God! Leo! You are here" bla bla bla, she kept talking as i looked at her surprised... I mean did she not see her mom?
"Lisi, mom is back" Irene said flatly as if reading my thought.
"mom?.....mom!" mandy called and they walked over to her to hug her.
"mom, i've missed you so much! Are you just here for the weekend or are you staying for a while"
"Aw, sweetie as much as i would love to the latter, am for the former for now, but don't worry, once the tour finishes i'll be all yours"
Lisi pouted at the news, "okay, did you bring anything for us?"
Steph smiled, "of course, if i didn't do that then won't i be the worst mom ever! Go check the upper living room"
"mom, no matter what, you'll always be the best mom ever" irene said.
Best mom ever, yeah right!
The two girls ran upstairs and soon we heard screams and a dum dum of the innocent staircase as their feet pounded it as they ran down,
"i can't believe it! You got the Rihanna shirt i've being dying to have!" Lisi said and hugged Steph tight.
"you really got me tickets to Justin Bieber's concert, you're the best mom ever!" Mandy shrieked and threw her arms round Steph's neck.
She looks like a very great mom and they look like the happiest family on earth.
"I got something for you too, my baby girl"
"Really!" Irene say and Steph tells her to check her room and stares at her as she rushes upstairs.
"She's a good kid" Steph says smiling.
"Yes, she's a very cool friend and you should be proud of her"
"yes... your parents will be proud of you as well, a well behaved, handsome young man"
"yes"
"are they here in Texas?"
"they are dead"
"oh! I'm sorry"
I wonder why people say they are sorry, it's not like they were the ones that killed my parents.
"they were good parents even though i wasn't there biological son"
"you are adopted?"
"yeah"
Silence
"Did you try to look for your real parents?"
"well.... I found my mom"
"did you meet her?"
"why would I meet someone who dumped me in this world" i said harshly unable to hold back the bitterness that coursed through me.
"Sometimes, parents make hard decisions, you know, not all parents would want to abandon their kid without a good reason"
"like you did, right?" i muttered
"sorry, you said?"
Plastering the 'fakest' smile of my life i answered , "nothing"
"Go meet her, ask her straight in the eye why she left you, then judge if your anger against her is justified or not. If it is, i'll be more than happy to put her in her place, okay?" I barked a dry laughter at the irony of what she just said and nodded.
"So do you like my daughter or what?"
"well, Irene is a very good friend.... like i've said before, she's really supported me"
"for what?"
"um... My girlfriend Bella has being really sick...a heart problem.."
"i'm so sorry, it must be hard, my son died of a weak heart too... He didn't even get to live for a few hours on earth before leaving" she said as she patted me.
"You had a son?"
can i take back my words! 'cos that was a very stupid question to ask.
"Like i said, he only lived a few hours on earth, so i don't think it counts"
I nodded, either she's lying to save face and pacify me or she truly thinks I'm dead..... I'll go with the former.
The sound of my phone's  ringtone brings me back, from
Hospital, "Leo Myles speaking"
"Sir, your result is out" a feminine voice said.
"And?" i say praying silently.
"it's a match"
"Are you positive?"
"Yes sir, you can come to the hospital to check"
"Thank you" i cut the phone and faced Steph and Irene who had joined us back when i picked the call. "I need to go to the hospital"
"is everything okay?"
"yeah" i said and stood up. Steph stood and dragged me towards her for another warm hug,
"Leo, it was nice meeting you, and don't forget what i said... meet up with her okay? Life's too short to be wasted"
What she said made me almost give up on the plan i was acting on, but again the vengeful and angry part of my heart wants her to know i'm her 'dead' son when i am truly dead.
I nod anyway and walk out to my car.
"Leo, wait!" Irene call out carrying a rose bouquet.
"help me give this to Bella"
"no problem,bye!" i waved and drove off to the hospital.
I went to the lab first and got the result for my test and then went to Bella's room, her face paler than ever.
"Leo" she croaked and cracked a weak smile.
"my love, are you alright?"
What a stupid question! I feel like punching my self right now!
Her mother..s.. faces are so pale you almost won't know who is the parent and who is the parent. "Martin said there's still hope" Cathy said sniffing, "A man on the list died this morning, he was the one before Bella on the list" she reported. I nodded and turned to Bella, "Irene sent this to you" she collected the bouquet and inhaled it.
"tell her i said thanks"
"there's a note there too" she took the small pink envelope that came with the flowers, read it and nodded.
"what did she say?"
"that i should stay away from you"
"what!" i snatch the card from her and read,
Bella, hope you love the flowers, Get well soon okay.
P.S; stay away from Leo if you are too weak to fight... which i know you are not!     
                                                -Irene
Bella smiled as i scowled at her.
"that's not funny, you know!"
She laughed weakly, "it's good to tease you sometimes... Its really boring here" she sighed. Feeling a teeny weeny guilty, "alright! You are free to tease me but give me a warning first, okay"
"what's the use of a trick if you already see it coming" she argued and pouted. And so we talked and teased each other till late into the night.

A/N
What's up, readers (niggas), okay, random question, who are your favorite artistes or band?
Mine are....a secret (am too shy to say it :-P ;-)