Flirting with Disaster

Seven || My Dark Secret

Seven || My Dark Secret

a/n; ayeeeee i' m here and this is now an active story yaaaay

up to 12 chapters only, i think. i wish guys are as sweet as Will. I'd forever be grateful, really. lol cx

anyway, enjoy :)

p.s. Will's out of stock. cx

unedited x

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“Where have you been?”

It was mom. I had just got home from Will’s night tour go-around, and even though I still couldn’t understand why he wanted to get close to me, I started to accept it. I didn’t push him away. I just kept on warning him it would give him a bad reputation and then he’d simply laugh it off. It was so Will-like.

But going back home meant I had to face this. Alone. Will didn’t need to know any of these.

“Project something,” I said to her, and I was about to go to my room when she called out to me.

To my surprise, mom looked fine and dandy. She wore a sun-dress, and she even bothered to put a make-up on. All in all, she looked like the person I knew before dad dumped us. It was as if I’d seen the sparks in her eyes return. It was totally disarming to see her like this. What had changed?

“Do you want to eat dinner with me?”

I wasn’t sure about what to say. It felt too good to be real. She hated me. Why would she change her point of view? Was there something else?

I hesitated.

Mom gave me a smile. “I’m trying to be better, Fleur. I know the things I’ve done, and tonight. . . we’re all going to be a family.”

I didn’t like the sound of that.

Deciding to leave her alone, I simply went to my room and drop down to the floor. Something was off with mom. What did she mean by we’re going to be a family?

And that was when I heard her screams.

It was starting again. She would be nice one second and then act on impulse. She had this disorder ever since dad left. She would scream, toss, yell, and whine about everything. She’d ruin the entire living room with her ruckus. I knew this one because it happened every day. She could never be what she was before. We would always live in these nightmares.

As far as I know, she held me as prisoner. I can’t tell anyone or else she would kill herself. Mom didn’t want any help. She wanted dad back. And it disgusted me. How could she still want the man who raped her?

It was exhausting to be Fleur Haley. Every day I was reminded of my existence. I would always be this family’s burden. I would always know that I was born out of one accident. I would always be stuck here – never moving. And someday, the man I feared so much would come back for us, and then it would be the end.

I stopped crying. My tears were dried up. It only worsened my situation. I didn’t know how to escape this life but Will. Will was my short-term friend. He’d disappear like the others, too.

My life had been a dark secret. Only I could live through this sin. The others didn’t have to know. Will didn’t have to be involved in this.

And so I did what I usually do every night. Messages were sent to Voluptas, asking for advices. I tried my best to give them a worthy advice. I kept on doing this because I didn’t want them to be like me. I live in a black and white world where everything had been chaotic from the beginning.