Tangled Web of Love (On hold)

Murphy's law

Hello guys, if you find any mistake in this chapter it's because I was too lazy to go over it a second time. I just wrote without stopping and at the end of it, I just could not be bothered to check it for spelling or grammar mistakes.

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How do we know if the decisions we make are the right ones? How can we assume that it’s right for us, if we never experience the ones we think are wrong for us? Our lives might be good with our current choices but maybe, just maybe our lives could have been perfect if we had just given our other choices a try.

Amber was facing a dilemma. She was sure that choosing to stay with Tristan was the right thing to do. She loved him. Right? However, she was equally sure that letting Alex walk out of her life, was the biggest mistake she has ever made. Amber knew she loved Tristan but she was also sure that she loved Alex as well.

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Amber paced the length of her mom’s sitting room. Everything that could go wrong in her life was going wrong, just like Murphy's law. Tristan was still upset with her, Alex wouldn’t reply to any of her messages and now her mom has lost her father’s company. All because her brother couldn’t keep his gambling addition at bay.

“What do you mean you sold it? How could you sell dad’s company?”

Amber came to a stop in front of her brother, Brian. Her hands were on her waist, her eyes squinted in a glare as she waited for her brother to answer her. It amazed Amber, how her brother could be so stupid and uncaring at times. Their father worked his way up from nothing, starting his web designing company straight out of college. Made something of himself when all others told him he was going to fail. And her idiot of a brother sold it to pay off his bookie.

Her mother was heartbroken and in tears. The business was the only thing that her she had to hold on to of her father’s. Amber father died in a tragic car crash. Her parents were driving home one night from a date, when a drunk driver hit their car, sending them into a tree. Her dad was in a coma for 4 weeks before he died. Her mom, however, was left in a wheel chair. She will never be able to walk again.

Apart from her kids, Alison Parker cherished the company her husband built. Amber could see that the news of it being sold, was tearing her mother up inside. Her brother could be such a heartless idiot sometimes.

“How could you do this to mom, Brian?! That business was her life!”

Brian sat in the chair rolling his eyes. He clenched and unclenched to stop himself from getting angry. Amber always treated him like he was stupid. She would always throw her education and her talent in his face. So what if she when to college and he didn’t? Yeah, he made some bad decisions in his life, but that still didn’t give her the right to undermine him at ever chance she got. He knew it was stupid of him to sell their father’s company, but she’s gone and hooked herself up with some rich actor. She should be able to take care of their mother now.

“Chill out Rosie. Look I got a good deal for the company. The guy who bought it pay way more than it was worth. Mom won’t ever have to worry about anything anymore.”

Amber stared at her idiot brother. The fool couldn’t be more stupid, even if God decided to take away some more of his brain cells. Amber grunted and threw her hands up. Talking to her brother was like talking to a brick wall.

“That’s not the point, Brian!” Amber shouted. “It was dad’s legacy! He left it to us. Had I known that signing it over to you would have gotten it sold, I never bloody wouldn't!”

Her anger was at boiling point. She stole a look at her mother and saw her softly crying, holding a picture of their father. This broke her heart and made her angrier. She looked back at her brother, who was still sitting and looking like all was good in the world.

Amber walked over to Brian, grabbing him up by his shirt.

“What the…” A startled Brain said, but never got to finish.

“Shut up you idiot!” Amber shouted at him. “Can’t you see that this is killing mom? You fool, you have to get dad’s company back now!”

Brain got his bearing back and pushed his sister off of him. He brushed at the spot where she was holding. She was starting to get on his last nerves.

“Why do you have to be so violent? Look Rosie, I can’t get the company back. I signed a contract. This guy was clear that he don’t do refunds.”

Alison Parker stiffed a cry, causing both her children to look her way. Amber glared at her brother, then hurried over to her mother. Her mom was sitting in a chair at the far end of the room. She looked years older than the 49 that she was. Her long brown hair was now streaked with grey, her eyes no more held their laughter instead they looked sad and tired. The lines around her lips were evidence of her age advancing. The once lively, vibrant woman that her mother was, was no more.

“Mom are you ok? Do you need me to get you anything?”

Alison saw the concern in her daughter’s eyes. She placed her hand over hers and lightly tapped it.

“I’m just fine sweetheart. I always knew that there would come a time when your father’s company would be gone from our lives, just like he is. I just never expected it to be this soon.”

She turn to look at her son, who was watching them with an envious expression on his face. He looked so much like his father that it sometimes hurts her to look at him. However, that was where the similarity ends. Brent Parker was a man of ambition, honour and vision. He was strong in character as well as in mind and body. His family was all he ever thought about, he never did anything for himself, it was all for his wife and kids.

Her son on the other, was all for himself. He had no ambition and he wasn’t willing to work for her success the hard way. He was always trying to find the easy way out. Needless to say, he was her son and she still loved him.

“Brain?” She held out her free hand to him.

He came over slowly, dropped to his knees like his sister and took it.

Alison smiled. “My son, what is done is done. We can no more change the past than we can know the future. Nothing in this world is forever, when something is lost there is not much else left to do but move on.”

Brian down his head in shame, while Amber looked confused.

“But mom, how can you just accept this? This was dad’s company, his blood and sweat and Brian just up and sold it without a care for anyone else.” As she spoke this part, she glared at her brother.

“Come now Amber, can’t you see that your brother is regretful? Let not shame him anymore than he already is.”

Amber’s brows creased in a frown. “But mom!”

“Hush now child, it is done.” Alison cautioned Amber. “A cup of tea would be nice.” She told a still frowning Amber.

Amber got up, still glaring at her older brother. She made her way into the kitchen to make her mother’s favourite tea. Peppermint. As the water was boiling, she went to retrieve her mother’s favourite teacup. She half listened as her mother and brother talked. Placing the now made tea on a tray, she proceeded back into the room.

“So, tell me about this man who bought the company?”

Amber’s anger spiked upon being reminded that her father’s company was now gone. She placed the tray on the table next to her mother, then took a seat opposite her. She was still very angry with her brother. However, she wanted to hear who bought the company so as to try and get it back. The name that came out of her brother’s mouth completely shook her.

“His name is Alexander Christopher and…”

Amber jumped from her seat, cutting her brother off. “What!!”