Stole My Heart In Greece

Chapter 6 : Meet George Xavier

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Christos POV

I knocked on the door. A large, muscley figure opened it and stared down at me for a while and it was not in a good way. His eyebrows furrowed at me.

"Christos." He said sharply. I gulped at the familiar tone of my Dad's voice. We shared awkward eye contact until I finally replid.

"Father." I breathed out, shaking a little. He guided me inside where we shared a cup of sweet, black tea. 

"So, why have you come to your old man? I'm not supposed to see you till your wedding." He asked curiously. I gulped once again. I was scared of telling him what I had done. I knew I said before he would be proud of me, but now I had thought about it more thoroughly. He wouldn't be proud of me at all. I thought positively before. So that I wouldn't go back to Kate. I had to face my father. I sighed loudly. This was a mistake. I really should never have came here.

"The wedding's off." I sharply said. I met his eyes, cold and grey. He took a sip out of his tea and placed it on the coffee table. He rubbed his chin in thinking mode.

"What did she do?" He asked. I sighed again. It's not what she did, it's what I did. She was only there to cover up the lie I've been hiding for years.

"Dad, I'm gay." I replied. I felt relieved now that it was out in the open.

George POV

Gay? How could he be so stupid? He knew that I was strongly religious. I would have prefferred it if he kept it from me. Now he had just hurt people who loved him. Me. Kate.

"I've been secretly dating a guy called Aidan. But we broke up," He explained, his tone slightly less confident than before. "I didn't want to tell you because I know you're homophobic. He broke up with me last month. It really hurt. I couldn't go through with the wedding." I saw a tear drop from his eye. I grunted out loud. This 'Aidan' probably found out Chris was just using Kate to cover up that he was gay. I looked up at him. Dissapointment was in my eyes. I opened my mouth, to shout. To scream. To slap him. Anything. But then I remembered what happened two years ago. 

I tried to change him. Made him do a career that he didn't want to do. I saved up for him to go to university, to study Cardiology. But he didn't want to. I paid for him to go to university, but he never showed up. He got an apprentiship at a garage and worked there instead. I found out and my anger took over me. I slapped him, requested the manager, Lucas, to fire him. But in the end, Chris shut me out. Moved to the island of Rhodes. 

"Look, Dad, I know you're dissapointed. I knew if I told you, you wouldn't have approved of him-" I cut him off. I couldn't repeat the past.

"No, son, I would've approved of it. I can't control your life, you make your own decisions." I answered, then got up and left the room.

Amber POV

I woke up to Kate knocking rapidly at the door, shouting 'Get up!' a number of times. I sighed and checked my phone. Shit it was 10:30. It was the grand opening on the cupcake store the next day and I had promised to get everthing set up. I quickly jumped out of bed and got changed into the pink uniform Kate gave me the day I started work at the shop. I jogged down the stairs and decided against breakfast. I got into the shop and found Josh struggling to hang a banner on the window.

"Need a hand?" I shouted. He laughed and got down off the step ladder. I grabbed the pink banner that said 'Kate's Cupcakes Grand Opening' and climbed up the ladder. I fixed one end of the banner onto one side of the window.

"Chuck me the sellotape please?" I asked. Josh threw the sellotape aimed very badly. I reached my hand out and leant in the direction it was coming. I realised that I might have leant to the side a little too far. Suddenly, I was falling off the two and a half metre ladder.