The same roof 1 || HEROPHINE

fourty-nine: Home Alone

Hero's Pov

Like every year I get the wake up by my sister jumping in my bed. Rituals never gets old.
"Merry Christmas." I say while she finally sits down and leans hugging me.
"Merry Christmas. Is snowing outside." she tells me so I stand up and walk to the window.
God is snowing hard. I just hope to be able to get to the apartment.

We decided to spend the morning separately, me at my mom's and she at Christian's with Kath.
"Jo will jumping around like a rabbit." Mercy says knowing so well how she get excited when she sees snow.
"Oh for sure." I say smiling picturing so well her excitement.

Mercy makes me jump off the warm bed and walk till my mom's living room where I find Titan and mom waiting.
I hug them both kissing them and then we open the gifts.
The most exciting gift It's Jo's one. I'm excited but nervous for it at the same time.

"So how was last night?" my mom asks once sit on the beautiful table already set with everything on the white and red tone.
My mom is such a sicko for this type of things and she gets excited right like Ho when it come to buy new things for the house.
"It was nice. So fancy but I really enjoyed it and Jo was absolutely stunning." I say remembering the gorgeousness of my girlfriend.
"She looked like Cinderella." Mercy says taking a sip of red wine.
"Oh, I saw on you Instagram. She was such a beauty." my mom says.
"Bro keep that girl glued to you because I'm sure that when she walks on the streets she don't go unnoticed." Titan says and he so damn right, I see how people looks at her in the steets when we hang out. I don't want to think how it is when I'm not with her.
"When you told me that she was beautiful I didn't thought that beautiful." my mom says strangely looking at my sister.
What is going on here?
"Did I missed something?" I ask looking at my sister smile.
"Remember when I came to your apartment to leave Diesel at your apartment and I ran into Jo?" she asks and then I remember that.
She saw Jo before my mom.
I nod.
"I told her about Jo." she says.
"Yeah and also told me that she thought that we could get some new soon and she was right. You two got in an relationship." my mom says.
Gosh these two where speculating about us from weeks and I dint knew about it? Ah girls.
"Mom, I'm always right." Mercy says making spin the bit wine that there is on her glass.
"And also when I came to visit you, you two were so awkward around me..." my mom confess.
"We just got into a fight, that's why." I explain remembering how hard it was to stay away from her and see her barely looking at me.
"But I'm so happy son. You seems to be an another better version of you, this not means that you was bad before but I seem more motivated in things and more happier." my mom says curling her nose, she does every time that she is tearing up.
I put my hand on hers and caress her knuckles with min thumb.
"I saw that she also got along Scar so well." my brother says referring to Jo and Scar's friendship.
"Oh yes, they both work at the HarperCollins publishing that's why." I say and then I remember about Scar and the gift thing.
Jo's excuse sounded so suspicious to me and since Jo don't knows how to lie, I'm not gonna believe her.
I feel that something happened.
"Mercy, you that know Scar..." I start to say.
If someone knows Scar better than me, that's my sister.
"Yeah? What's about Scar?" My sister asks impatiently.
"Is Scar have her ears pierced?" I ask and I see everyone get confused by my question and I don't blame them. I mean, why would I ever want to know if Scarlett have her ears pierced.
"Of course she had, you didn't noticed the cute earrings that she always wear? Why this question?" she asks and my mouth gets dry.
Just the fact that Jo lied to me it hurts me.
We just started our relationship and she already lying to me? I thought that we hours were honest to each other.
"No I just wanted to buy her earring as Christmas gift but then I didn't knew if she has her ear pierced so I opted in bracelet." I lie.
I need to know what happened but I'm not going to ask Scarlett. I want to hear the truth from Josephine.