Time Goes By [COMPLETED]

bonus chapter

Nic's POV

"This is a bad idea." I shook my head as her foolish words invaded my ears. Her glare was so strong, it was cutting through my face like a sharp deadly knife. Rita and I were sitting side by side in her car, me in the passenger's seat and her in the driver's seat. Our heads kept low while observing the outer house from afar. We have to be careful so that we don't get caught by the family inside. "No, this is the worst idea of all your bad ideas and trust me, they're a lot." I stated with my tremulous voice with no doubt the frown on my face is speaking words my mouth couldn't form of why this is so bad.

Rita grunted and angrily slammed her fist on the dashboard, sitting back up on the driver's seat. Her finger sharply pointed on my cheek and I gulped loudly. Her nail slightly scratching my skin. "Look, you don't need to worry about a goddamn teenage daughter because yours is 10. Me? I got one horny cunt sneaking to parties every weekend." Rita said, venom seeping through her voice as she spoke about her only daughter and also her only child, Katherine.

Katherine was born two years after Lauren and I adopted our incompatible sons; Noah and Elijah. She's 16 and without any denial, she's reckless, malevolent and mouthy. Took that right after her biological mother; Rita.

"A cunt?" I paused as I processed the word my best friend used to describe her daughter. "Rita, Katherine is a teenager. She's gonna feel hormonal one way or another and what's wrong with her going to her boyfriend's house?" I pointed at the house we're stalking. Yes ladies and gentlemen, we're outside Rita's daughter's boyfriend's house. Was that long? Sorry.

To make it simple, Katherine is in her boyfriend's house. Meanwhile, in Rita's perspective, she's having sex with him right at this moment.

A loud scream pushed my body back up against the car door. I stared wide eyed at the fire burning in Rita's brown orbs. "What's wrong?! What kind of a question is that?! I made her promise me that she won't date until she's 30." Rita whispered, her voice was trembling with the weakness vivid on her face. How did I get myself into this?

"And now she's going to have sex!" She continued and covered her face in the steering wheel. Again, how did I get myself into this? "She's not having sex." I assured Rita as she lightly kept slamming her head on the steering wheel. I sighed heavily and looked down to check of the time on my watch. Lauren will be expecting me about 15 minutes from now.

All so sudden, my ears started ringing with Rita's loud disturbing break down. I covered them for protection but with no avail, rita whined and ranted about her child. This woman needs help, extreme mental help. "You got your beautiful Elle and Noah who are literally angels. Of course expect for Elijah; he's a fuckboy-"

"No, he's not." I frowned, offended by Rita's insult to one of my son. She looked at me and gave me a knowing look, that I instantly glared back at. We glared in competition before I sighed, defeated and gave in. "Okay, maybe he's a bit of a punk." Rita chuckled as my use of word.

"Now that's an understatement." Rita responded and laughed out loud. I sighed and rolled my eyes, annoyed and angered since she's right; Elijah is a ticking bomb. He jumps from girl to another and that sickens me. Every time I lecture him about it, he says he sorry and then do it again the next day. I might need to put him on a leash.

I ignored Rita's snickering and looked away, staring at the nice big house that Katherine and her boyfriend walked into. Scolding your daughter is something but stalking her, that's a whole new deal.

15 minutes have passed so slowly and the silence grew thicker by the second. It was hot in here and it's not because of the Arizona weather, but from the steam coming out of Rita's ears. The time was ticking and yet, no sign of Katherine anywhere. I'm sure Rita is having an internal mental breakdown. I chuckled internally.