Almost Stepbrother

Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine

I remember my father and I once sat down to watch the sunset one evening, so deeply into each other's loud thoughts. I remember his warmth from the blanket he brought out; I was on his lap as he pointed on the horizon towards the fluffy clouds, "look at that one," he would say, his old country music playing from the open window in the living room. I remember feeling safe and protected, I trusted and loved and cared so much then. I remember hearing my father's promises to me, almost as if I should've taken them seriously, and I did. Once upon a time I trusted my father's promises that I didn't realize then were as empty as his heart.

"Daddy, you'll always be there for me and mommy right?" I asked out loud.

"I love you two more than my heart can bear, I can not only promise you that I'll always be there for you and your mother. But I will protect you, my beautiful daughter. I will love the both of you until the day I die. I will protect you with all my might, that no one will hurt you, that no one will ruin you. You are pure and ever so trusting Kailen. Your smile can light up a room, your laughter can fill a broken soul. You Kailen are an angel, my little angel. I promise you, I promise you Kailen. I could never hurt you my daughter, you are my precious little girl. Your mother and you are my everything, a gift I could never let go of," he kissed the top of my head and made me smile at the compliments my father had given me, the trust and love I gave to him.

But the lies and deceit I ever so fell for were the point to my downfall. One thing my father taught me was even when we think we have the best people in our lives they can ever so twist into the true colors they held onto for so long. They can only be good for so long until they break the mask and their true form comes alive.

My eyes connected towards Will's and the pain was clear as day, something was wrong but I couldn't tell what it was, "William," I whispered his name so he could just see me, not the cars passing by, or his own thoughts clashing in his mind, "look at me okay, talk to me okay?"

He looked down at my wrists and his large hands before his transe disappeared and without a word he left, he got in his car and drove off almost like he was trying to erase that he appeared at this house.

Alec came towards me in a hurry and the gentle touch as he grabbed my lower arm to analyze my wrists as if he thought Will broke them.

"Do they hurt?" he asked out loud and I heard the regret in his own voice, anger in his own voice, guilt and regret mixed in between those words.

"No they're okay Alec, they're okay," I looked at the top of his head as he continued to analyze my wrists. My fingers had gone through that dark brown hair before, how easily they slipped through.

He hesitated before kissing my wrists as if a kiss would make them better, as if a kiss could erase what had just happened.

I was so confused, from the last fifteen minutes about what had just happened. What did I just go through, what just happened here?

I pulled my grip out of Alec's and I shook my head to erase the past memory of his lips in every wrong place they should've been, "I should get some rest, I'll see you in the morning Alec. I had fun tonight, at the track. I see why you race, you feel powerful and it's definitely a good place to have a rush of adrenaline," I couldn't look at him, I shouldn't look at him or else I would do something I regret. I already regret my cheeks burning as I talk to him.

"We should do it again sometime Kallie, you're not that bad. Goodnight, get some rest," he sounded like he was smiling and I wanted to look but decided against it.

I walked into the dark house and I stopped before I could walk up the stairs but something was stopping me, instead my feet turned to walk into the kitchen, I sat down on a stool and my memories raced to a stupid drunken night I sat here crying my eyes out to him.