The Billionaire's Secret

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"Hey dad." I answer quickly wiping my tears.

"Hey honey, how's it going?" I can tell he's smiling.

"Good."

"You okay?"

"Yea."

"You sure? You don't sound like it."

"Yea I'm fine. Um dad I just had a long day."

"Would you like to talk about it?"

"No, sorry."

"Well you sound tired, maybe you should get some rest."

"Thanks dad, I'll call you when I get a chance."

"Alright honey. Love you."

"Love you too." I hang up and lay down. It takes me a while before I can go to sleep. I cry myself to sleep.

I wake up at around eight o'clock. I sit up and see lights on that I didn't turn on. I get up to inspect. I go into Kirsten's room and see her laid out on the bed. I stand there for a while before going back into my room. I watch some episodes of Intervention and go to sleep at around three o'clock in the morning.

~*~

I wake up at around noon and go to see if Kirsten's still here. I see she's gone and eat a bowl of cereal while watching SpongeBob SquarePants. I hear a knock at the door and go see who it is. I open the door to see a strange man.

"Is Kirsten here?" He scratches his neck.

"No. Can I take a message?" My heart races.

"Tell her AK came by."

"Okay I will." I'm about to close the door when he pushes it back open.

"Are you sure she isn't here?"

"Yes I'm sure." I slam the door and lock it. That was weird, of course it was scary, but weird. I go to my room and sit on the bed still in shock from the situation. What could he have wanted with Kirsten? Has she been staying with him? Why does he know where we stay?

I take a few deep breaths to get myself together. What had Kirsten been hiding from me? I don't want to invade her privacy or anything but she isn't talking so. I go into her room to find out what she might be hiding.

I lift the mattress and go through the drawers before I find it. I find a bag of drugs in her drawer under some clothes. Just drugs, drugs, and more drugs. Kirsten sells and/or does drugs? How? Why? My roommate has had drugs for God knows how long.

My eyes water as I throw them back into the drawer slamming it closed. I leave out of her room in disbelief. I guess it all makes since now. She's been disappearing lately and she's spending more money than she can make.

If I was a smoker, what I would need right now is a cigarette. I need to find something to do since I don't have a job. Kelly's off today so I call her and tell her we can do something. We decide to go to the gym and get something to eat.

~*~

I feel like a kid in a candy shop when I come to the gym. I tell the man at the desk I'm a guest because Kelly's a member. We exercise for about two or three hours before we get ourselves together and get ready to go eat.

"So how's everything going?" She asks sipping her drink.

"Not so great." I bite a piece of my sub.

"So you never told me you why you got fired."

"Well this is how it all got started. I was at a bar on Saturday well it was actually around four o'clock in the morning on Sunday. My roommate was drunk and when I was there some creep started touching me."