THE NERDY GIRL

👓 Chapter 20- Achille's heels

     "Tristan honey, you know how your father reacts to issues as this. He would be very angry with you and you know it. I told you to stop picking fights with Nathan, it wouldn't change a thing about anything at all. What happened is already there and there's no two ways about it. Stop being violent, it wouldn't help matters, and I don't want to keep seeing you get hurt. I love you Tristan. Besides, you and Nathan are cousins for chrissakes! Whatever happened to your friendship should be amended, I loved when... "

    " That, mom. Can never happen " he spat in vile hatred." He took everything from me when I was busy being a loyal friend. I hate him"

     "Oh, come on. You don't hate him. You guys are passing through a rough time. And it's not his fault, what happened. Besides, I'm still here for you. No one can steal me away from you"  she was  close to tears and hugged him. While he wept on her shoulder, bending down.

      "I'm tired of this life, mom. If there was a way of going away from everything, we could do that, right? We could both live happily like we did before he showed up in our lives, right? Look at you, mom. You're always the cheerful one but you're just a shadow of your old self. You're also affected by all of this, right? Let's go away..."

     "Shh.. Tristan. You have no clue what's happening. Your dad will always find me, will always find us, we can't run away... It would only complicate issues... And you, Tristan are his son, he wouldn't take it lightly... My poor son.."  she says, holding back her tears. Tristan was already in tears.

    "No, mom. I hate him, I can't breathe anymore. He doesn't care about us, just his reputation... That's what means a lot to him, we're only his tools.."  he cried

     "Your dad loves you, Tristan..."

     " No, he doesn't know what that word is. He doesn't even respect you, or this family... It means little to him. He ruined me, can't you see it, mom? "

     He said, and left saying again " Our lives was perfect before him"

     When he left, Mariella broke down in tears... Wren touched her own face and found out it was wet. She did her best not to sniff or she'd get caught.

    She had heard enough today and her ears felt swollen.

       Tristan is a broken child...

Realization hit her hard. She couldn't help but wonder how he managed to hold up all this while. The story seemed complicated, some things weren't making sense... Like Nathan... How did Nathan steal from Tristan? She couldn't place her hand around it, but she was sure to find out what went wrong.

      She had heard more than she could bear, she looked for a way to leave and luckily, she got away without getting lost the second time.

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     "What's this I hear about you, Rachel?" Mr Robbins asked his daughter, still mad at the thought of his daughter getting into a fight with some girl in school "I trained you better than that"

     "I'm sorry, dad" she apologized, her head bowed, avoiding eye contact with him. He looked really angry and she wondered what this conversation would lead to.

     "I give you everything, Rachel. You lack nothing, so what is it that you're fighting over at school?!"
   He was yelling and she hated him yelling at her, anger boiling within her chest, she felt like vomiting what held her chest.

       "Stop yelling, dad! You don't give me everything I want, you think you do, but no. You clearly don't"  she shouted back. She didn't like it when he claimed to be the father of the year. He didn't give her everything!