Who's In?

27

Natalia's POV

We all had our hands on the pointer. I'd never done anything like this so I was feeling a little anxious.

"Hello, is there anyone there?" Matt asked.

There was no movement. We all looked to Matt and then at each other. Tyler gave me a small nervous smile.

"Would you like to talk with us, we are here to make friends". Matt tried asking again.

Still no movement.

"Ethan, I want to know if Ethan Markson is ok." Tyler asked the board a question.

Slowly the pointer moved to the 'YES' located in the top left corner of the board. Everyone looked at each other. The force of the pointer moving felt weird.

"Is this Ethan?" Jimmy asked.

Then the pointer moved to 'NO' which was located on the top right corner of the board.

"Who is this?" Hunter asked.

Our hands moved very slowly to I-V-A-N ... we all spelt it out.

I made a shocked noise.

"Are you Ivan, my father?" I asked.

The pointer went to the top left corner and said 'YES'. Tears started to stream down my face.

"Are you ok?" Tyler whispered in my ear.

I nodded.

"Are we ok to continue?" Matt asked.

"Yes." I answered keeping my hand on the pointer. I tried to compose myself. "Papa, I miss you and hope you are happy. We love you so much and well Mum has been lost without you."

The pointer moved I-KNOW-DO-YOU-EVEN-LIKE-TO-DANCE-ANYMORE

My face went white and my head dropped.

The point moved once again. YOU-NEED-TO-TELL-HER

I knew I did. I hated the dance troupe it wasn't something I wanted to do. I wanted to focus on my school work not dance.

Not this year.

It just seemed crazy how she loaded me up.

"Why is she doing this to me Dad?" I needed to know.

The pointer moved again PROTECTION-AWAY-FROM-PARTIES

I looked shocked and confused.

Hunter spoke up this time. "She doesn't want Natalia caught up in all the stuff that may cause her to lose her daughter and not have control?"

The pointer moved to the 'YES'

Tyler spoke up this time. "I want to protect your Daughter Sir, and make sure nothing bad will happen to her. Do you trust me?"

I looked up at Tyler who had this intensity written across his face.

The pointer moved to the 'YES'

Tyler looked up at me and smiled.

"Is there a message we need to tell your wife?" Matt asked.

The pointer moved to 'YES' then continued
TELL-HER-SHE-IS-STILL-THE-MOST-BEAUTIFUL-WOMAN-IN-THE-WORLD

The the pointer then moved to "goodbye" and we lost contact.

"Papa are you there?"

There was no response.

We all took our hands off the board. Tyler hugged me tightly as I started to tear up.

"Let's have a break for a bit." Jimmy got up and lit a cigarette and grabbed Sams hand as she grabbed Hunters as they followed him. Abby and Matt also left and it was just the two of us.

Tyler pulled me back looking into my eyes. "That wasn't so bad, I have your fathers blessing to pursue you now, so it's official. You have to be my girlfriend."

I burst into laughter before he kissed me passionately on the lips.

"Can you cook?" He cheekily asked.

"Ok course I'm from a wog background!!"

Tyler burst out laughing.

"We're going to let your Mum know together what happened. She won't be mad but dancing is something you have to face. Do you want to do it?"

I shook my head. "I'd still love it if I went a couple times a week but I really don't want to do the dance troupe, I'd prefer to focus on school instead."

"Have you told her?" Tyler questioned.

"Initially when she told me my schedule I complained but she insisted and she said she just wanted a daughter she could be proud of and this is what I was meant to do." I explained.

"We can sort this out later today. I'm not going anywhere. Let's make sure things change so you're happy. Why wouldn't you be, you have a hot boyfriend who wants to spend as much time with you as he can with you. At least we have a few classes together at school so we can also use time we spend together to study and test each other. This will work out we just have to show your Mum." He kissed me on the lips.

"Ok, so is everyone ready to go again?" Matt walked back to the group holding Abby's hand. Jimmy, Sam and Hunter came and sat back down.

"Let's do it!"