I sigh loudly. My mind hasn't stopped running since the kiss with Cody.
And it was driving me mad.
Just thinking about him makes my stomach feel funny and my heart beat faster. My palms sweaty. I'm nervous.
Crap.
"I think I like him..." I mutter, lying on my back, staring at my ceiling in awe.
"I haven't loved another man since..." My voice cracks as I reminisce about my past. I scrunch my eyes together tightly, my bottom lip quivering. Squeezing my tears out one by one before taking a deep breath, gathering myself together. That's when I heard a knock on my door.
"Come in!" I yell loud enough.
The door opens and my mum steps into view.
"Harley, sweetheart, I need to tell you something important.." She walks over to my bed, sitting down on the corner, making me sit up and look at her.
"Your father.. as you know, we divorced a couple years ago, and, he got with another woman to marry.." She begins, I feel my heart begin to beat faster. What was it?
"Yeah, I remember, I was a bridesmaid. Why?" I cock my head to the side.
"Well, I never knew how to tell you this but..." She looks away and I stare at the side of her face.
"Mum?"
"Your father has a son.."
I freeze.
"I have a brother..?" I turn and stare at the wall.
"A step brother.." She finally looks at me.
"I always thought that you were too young to know, I didn't know how t-" She began once again but I cut her off this time.
"What's his name?" I stare right at her, making eye contact, burning holes into her corneas.
"Jacob Maloney"
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Rewrite The Stars
Short Story"No!" I yell out, trying to shake the shadows hands off my cold, shivering body. Hoping that he'd let me go home, and fast. "No! Get off me! Please..." Now I'm pleading. Someone come save me from this monster, this monster that I used to know oh s...
