|Falling for Octavia|

09 | Meeting The Girl

Riing

I pushed the doorbell with my forefinger harshly and got ready for the confrontation that was about to occur. Ariyane stood beside me, slightly trembling as she tugged onto my shirt.

Perhaps I was the bigger person, my build slightly larger than Ariyanes. Or maybe I was just less scared to beef him.

The door swung open and behind it was a girl, long dark hair similar to my own with a pregnancy belly that stuck out far. Her eyebrows furrowed as she looked at us confused about who we were.

"Hi, is Immanuel hear?" I ask, my head poking through the door as my eyes rummaged through the house.

"Immanuel?" She questioned and then she slowly nodded her head. "You mean Manuel? He just went to the corner shop. He'll be here in five, why?"

"Well," I started unsure about how much she knew about Manuel. "Can we come in?"

"Oh fuck, this sounds serious. Are you murderers?"

"I assure you that we won't murder you." Ariyane smiles from behind me and the girl nods inviting us both in.

We followed her in as she lead us to the sitting room and urged for us to take a seat.

"Are you his girlfriend?" My curiosity took over and the girl sat down on the other end of the sofa with a frown on her face.

"Yes, my names Ignacia Alvarez I'm his fiancée and baby momma." She said pointing down to the obvious belly that was on complete show. All she wore was a sports bra and leggings, probably more comfortable for her. "Who are you? You look similar to Manuel, are you his sisters?"

So she knew, all this time she knew and he knew and neither bothered to check if we were alive. I felt Ariyane nod beside me and saw her face whiten a bit in horror.

"Ariyane, with the piercings." She pointed to my sister and then to me "and Octavia."

"So he knows about us and didn't bother to see if we were alive?" My voice cracked slightly as tears threatened to once again spill.

Too much drama had been centred around my life recently. All my life was just mushing together and ending up in a big mess. All jumbling and twisting like a plait of spaghetti.

Ignacia dropped her smile know and rubbed her belly slowly, "He said that you lived abroad and that's why he never saw you."

"Well, big surprise. He lied, we live like half an hour away. Immanuel left us when our parents died. He left me at age 18 to look after my 14 year old sister!" Ariyane grumbles and stands up swiftly. Making her way towards the exit as I follow behind her, my legs briskly moving.

"Wait! Stop. Please, talk to me." Ignacia says and I fell her pull my shoulder from behind. Ariyane stops in front of me and snaps back around.

"Fine. Well stay, but you have to promise to tell me everything you know. No holding back for your boyfriend, ok?" Ariyane hits back and trudges heavily back towards the sitting room, her combat boots banging heavily against the floor. All I do is silently follow my big sister back into the room of awkwardness.

Ignacia sits across from us and tucks a piece of long hair behind her ear hesitatingly and licks her lip. "What do you want to know?"

"First, tell us about you. And how you came to know Immanuel." I ask quietly.

There may be one good thing about this, I guess. I have basically forgotten about Tyler and Angel for a while. Until now I guess.

"Well, as I've said. My names Ignacia, I'm nineteen and have known Immanuel for three years I think. There's not much to say about me apart from well I like art and I'm still a teen like you. We started dating about three years ago, I helped him to overcome most of his drug problems that you probably know all about. He was twenty one at the time and I was sixteen.

Then he got me pregnant, I was seventeen and lost. My family abandoned me and told me to never see them again. I think my pregnancy really encouraged him to clean himself of drugs and he stopped. Then I gave birth to a baby girl and we named her Natasha," When she said the name Natasha my breath stopped for a split second because Natasha is my mums name.

"So, I always wanted to see his family. He told me that they rejected him and lived abroad. I guess I was stupid to believe him. Back to my daughter, she went on the trip with her dad to the shops, so then eight months ago I found out I'm pregnant with baby number two. I guess that's all I can say. Is there anything else you want to know?"

My eyes find Ariyanes and we both look at each other shocked up to our eyes. Only my brother would knock up an underage girl and drop the rest of his family, only him.

"How do you have so much money, if you have a kid and nearly two. If you're cut off from your parents, how can you afford such a nice place?" I ask, interested to know more.

To be honest, this is the weirdest week of my life. I'm not even sure how I'm still breathing.

"Oh, he may or may not be involved in the dangerous business of drug dealing and crimes." She mumbles looking down at the floor, with a look of disgust on her face.

"Of fucking course. Stops doing drugs physically but continues to give them out to helpless people. How noble of him." Ariyane utters breathlessly a look of disbelief plastered on her.

That must be how Hunter knows him after all, he is into that business to and they live in the same building. I'm not sure how my stupid brain didn't figure out that already. I swear I am awfully slow at piecing things together.

Another thing, why must my life all be connected in weird and mysterious ways? Next thing I'll find out is that Angel is actually my long lost twin sister and Tyler is a closeted gay who is having an affair with Immanuel and is actually Ignacia baby daddy.

Just as I'm about to say something or ask another question, I hear the door make a clinking sound and the sound of another persons voice calling loudly through the house, "Bebe, we're home!"

His voice sounds deeper than it was four years ago, my hands slides into Ariyane and I give it a squeeze. As if saying that we can do this.

Hell yeah!