Loving Ashlynn (#Wattys2016)

Chapter 57 - UNSTEADY (Brennan Conrad POV) Pt. 4

A/n: I've updated Shattered for any of you reading that story and waiting for updates. :) there are two new ones. i'm updating Loving Ashlynn and Shattered at the same time now. anways. enjoy here. 

Chapter 57 – UNSTEADY (Brennan Conrad POV) Pt. 4

"What was Fatima like?" Andy asks me as he, Thaddeus, Javier and my sisters Harleigh, Caterina, Paige and I head up the stares to the cafeteria just around six in the morning. Exhausted, the others ahead, I give Andy a side-glance.

Hell, what was Fatima like? Besides afraid of us and always hiding out? Uhm...

"She lived with you guys for a few months... right?" he tries again when I give nothing up. Still there was not much else to give Andy, not the way he craved details about Fatima. I found it so strange though; he was barely with her for that long. Yet, I could see the love he had for her the same love he had for my cousins.

"What do you remember about her?" I ask him for the very first time. He sighs piteously. "Not much, I was too young but I just remember her kindness I think... I remember her being bigger than me, but smaller than mom." He continues walking up the stairs the biggest frown on his face.

"It's not about how much time I spent with her though," he tells me. "I feel like, like, my heart and soul knows hers and my mind knows it is supposed to remember her, but cannot, does that make sense?"

Instantly I think of Devin.

"And it's really..." he sighs waving his limbs around for no reason. "Everything that mom was promised is actually happening... I mean," Andy begins laughing loudly.

"Shh," Thaddeus hisses, "dad said to keep in mind that not everyone is waking up at the butt crack of dawn like us."

Nodding, Andy goes silent.

"What do you mean?" I'm the one to ask Andy now.

"Mom was told that she'd be wealthy, that she would be the mother of royalty and that Fatima was important. I'm not sure about the royalty part," he pauses, "but look at this house?"

Andy smiles as we hit the landing, "I bet she's going to save us all," he says just throwing that out there nonchalantly, as we enter the cafeteria area.

Pulling the tables and chairs out we start laying them out as dad said we had too, everyone between thirteen and eighteen here. Within twenty minutes we have every table set up and are on our way back to our rooms to get ready for the day ahead.

One by one we file into and out of the bathroom, until finally we were heading upstairs for breakfast. Shockingly, just as we made it to the cafeteria area getting food and slipping into a booth in the far corner Naomi came forward dressed and sat down next to Andy.

"Nervous?" she asked him picking up one of the biscuits from his plate. "You're going too when I start," he asks her when he's finished chewing a mouthful. My gaze flickers between them. It was weird. Andy did not seem surprised when Naomi nodded.

"You're going to attend with him when the time comes?" I blurt out. It had to be annoying. As far as we knew Naomi was over ninety years old. She was going to sign up for high school just for Andy? That seemed like... like overkill.

My face said so I'm sure.

Naomi nods, "Yes, he's my first priority and the thing about having a Charge is committing to do well. However it is not just a job. That is not a way to tackle things Brennan," I listen carefully, nibbling on toast.