COMPLETED: Throwing Hearts Away [Miraxus]

XIII. Laura Dreyar, My Selfish, Idiotic Mother

Hey, everyone! I missed you!

Okay, maybe, I don't. I mean, I go to Wattpad every single day. There's not a day I don't go to Wattpad. If I don't go to Wattpad for a day, then it's not a day. It might be nighttime or something. There's a big difference between morning and evening, day and night.

Like Laxus and Mira. Awwwwwww.

Wwwwwww.

So, I've been waiting for this chapter. Hope you like it as much as you liked the previous chapter! Leafa-san expects comments! Just kidding, but I really like reading your comments. They're funny and some are even dramatic. The dramatic ones are wayyyyy better.

Okay, enough, me. Let's begin this!

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"How have you been, Laxus?"

So, she divorced my old man, agreed to the condition of erasing my memory of her, got a new family and two kids... and this is what she gives me? What kind of mother did I have when I was younger? I swear, if it weren't for the presence of Jade and her tears, I would have killed her.

I swear on my fucking life.

"That's what you'll ask me after a decade and two years?" I asked her. "Damn, Mom. I thought you were better than Old Man Ivan!"

"Laxus, calm dow---" Jade said, but I cut her off immediately with the lightning on my fist.

"Not one word, Jade," I turned to her, my eyes begging her to trust me. I know that she doesn't want to trust me, because I'm the son of her mom's former husband. But, I, at least, need to have one person on my side. I have the old man in the office, the other old man in jail, and me. That's all I have. "I don't want to hurt you, because you're my sister. Well, my little sister. A little apart within the years, but still my little sister. So, trust me. Please. You're all I have now."

"Jade, can you even believe him?" Mom said, her arms on her waist. "You have to be your mommy's daughter now, Jade. Don't trust him; he's nothing more than a half-brother."

It was probably hard for Jade to choose sides. I mean, who can you trust in the room? Your mom who's been with you for your whole life but can easily control you or manipulate you by breaking your heart? Or your half-brother who you recently met - and just barged in your house - but is more innocent than your mother? That's how hard choosing is.

I had to choose once, between breaking the heart of someone I love or not. And, I chose the first one, thinking that love is absurd and it won't clearly happen to me.

But, this is a game of trust, not a game of love. Sure, they're similar in some ways, but they're different in most ways. In trust, you have to hear them out. In love, you have to impress them. See how different they are?

She took a sharp breath and exhaled. "I'm so sorry, but..." she looked at Mom, who was smirking at me.

"But what, daughter?" she asked.

"Mom," she turned to her and hugged her before running to me. "I'm going with my brother on this one."

"What?" I mumbled. I couldn't believe it either.

"I know you don't love me," Jade pointed out easily. "First of all, you adopted me. I knew that, because you weren't able to bear a female child. So, yeah. You adopted me because you needed a female child to enter in that damned Mother and Daughter pageant. I'm not that dumb, Mom. I'm not Laxus's sister either, but I chose what was right. It's funny how you made me believe, because I fooled you too."

Even I was shocked. This girl had many secrets, and she was trusting me. Me, of all people, who just barged in her house.

"How?" Laura - I don't feel like calling her Mom anymore - demanded, her foot rapidly tapping on the floor. "Prove it, Jade."