Eyes On Me

Chapter 31

Selena Pov

"What story?" I asked quickly wiping the tears away

Brandon's face was still printed in my mind, how in an instant I took his life with a bullet right through his head but I was glad I had Justin who was trying to make me feel better

"Wait, first you have to eat" He got up from the bed in all his naked glory and walked to the drawer taking off a clean pair of boxers

"Did you really have to?" I pouted once he turned around to me

"Don't worry baby I won't be dressed for long, round two is coming soon" He smirked at me making me blush, now my mind was full of sexy thoughts

He padded bare-footed to the small kitchen taking out a bowl and pouring some milk in it with cereals

He came back to bed with an apologetic smile "I'm sorry this is all I have here, I always forget to buy some food but we're never here" He said handing me the bowl

"Thank you and we should come here more, I like when it's only us" I took the bowl from his hands eager to eat, we haven't touch food since yesterday and with everything that happened food wasn't a priority in our minds

He took the bowl he made earlier for me from the bedside table and sat close to me "Okay, should I start with the story?" He said eating a full spoon of cereal

"Yes you should" I nodded and adjusted the sheets wrapped around my bare chest with a hand

"Once upon a time there was a-"

"Once upon a time? That's so basic Justin" I said trying not to laugh

"Hey, you're the one that wanted a story now let me continue" He pointed his spoon at me in a scolding manner

"Okay okay sorry" I nodded at him and made the zip-my-lips gesture

"As I was saying before someone interrupeted me" He glanced at me "Once upon a time there was a sweet little —may I add beautiful boy, who lived his life just like any other boy his age, he played with his friends, he had two lovely parents and was good at school, overall he was happy" He paused taking another spoon of cereals in his mouth before continuing

"The only thing that was missing in his life were money, it didn't really matter to him, he didn't have many toys but he always had other ways to have fun. His parents weren't like him though, especially his dad, he wanted money, he wanted to have a big house, he wanted to spoil his wife and you know— live the good life"

I Listened attentively to what he was saying knowing the bad part of the story was coming

"He tried to work all his life to succeed, to finally have his dream life and accomplish his goals but with time passing by his job of bricklayer gave him money just enough to pay bills and feed his family, no matter how much they tried to save he could never buy things he wanted or spoil his family. He was tired of seeing people able to go on vacation, people able to buy whenever they wanted without caring if they would have enough money left to eat, he felt like a big failure for himself and everyone around him"

"And what he did?" I asked biting my bottom lip

"He choose the easy way, he was so greedy for money that he would've done everything to have them and he had them, for some time, he was finally able to buy himself a nice car, a new big house, to take his family on trips and staying at nice hotels, he even bought his wife diamond earrings, the marriage has never been so good, everything was going more than great and he accomplished all his goals"

I finished the cereals and placed the empty bowl down on the bedside table waiting for him to go on with the story

"The problem with easy money is that once you find a way to get them you want more and more, you just can't stop, you feel like you're smarter than the others because while they're working their asses off to have nothing back, you do the bare minimum to get the triple if not quadruple of what they get"