I'm back! And so is another chapter for you all!
To PandaOren95, the triplets are Dimitri's not Eddie's. Adrianna is the only daughter Eddie has.
Hope you enjoy this chapter! And tell me what you think!
Again apologies on having not updated sooner. I promise to do better next time! But until that happens…here is chapter 4!
Chapter 4
A.P.O.V.-
We had just gotten to the academy. The sun was out and shined brighter than ever. My thoughts were on whether or not I'd be able to persuade my brother on not doing anything to our father. I know that in every situation though Alec was unreasonable and did things out of instinct. Though I had sometimes enjoyed when other people were in pain. I couldn't stand the idea that my father…my real, biological father, would or could be put through all of that suffering.
I have thought long and hard. Maybe he did care. Other than that I didn't want to be nasty to Eddie either, because even though my real father wasn't there, at least he was to help in whichever way possible or needed. I knew that as long as I lived, I would never blame Eddie for anything.
I took in one deep breath and opened the car door. I ushered Adrianna out of the car and us plus Stan made our way to the academy. I for sure didn't miss this place one bit. It was a hell hole of a school. One that I was glad I was never going back to.
"Arlet?" I jerked my head to the left to see Stan. He stood proud and tall. Just like always.
"Yeah? What's wrong?" I asked. He shook his head as we entered school grounds. We walked at a swift pace and stood at the front gates for a while before coming closer and seeing Guardian Castile step into view. At first it looked as if he couldn't register who we were.
But then recognition came across his face as he opened the gates to the school and came running our way. "Adrianna!" he screamed. Throwing his arms over his little girl. I forced a smile onto my face.
"It's nice to see you again Eddie." In calling him Eddie, he knew something was wrong. I never called him that. It was always dad, or daddy, just like Adrianna called him. He was confused until I let out a deep sigh. "I know." I said trying to whisper.
"You mean about my craving of chocolate ice-cream?" he said trying to joke around and hoping that he was right and I was wrong. I shook my head. How I wish that he was right at this moment…"Then what?" I gulped hard as I knew I looked nervous anyway.
"I know you aren't my biological father." I said in such a tone that only he could hear. He stiffened when I finished my sentence. But that didn't mean he stopped moving either. He took his daughter and we all walked through the gates.
"Don't be surprised when you see your brother." He told me I guess it was in advice. I slightly nodded and continued to walk to Kirova's office. Damn this was the one thing I always hated about bringing one of my siblings back. That darn woman didn't know when to shut up!
She was, well still is, such a pain in my ass.
Eddie let Stan and I walk into her office. At first she didn't glance up but then after I had, purposely made such a racket "finding" my seat, which Stan lightly laughed at so she wouldn't hear, she finally turned around.
Her face was one hundred percent priceless. Both Stan and I…, well okay at least I started hysterically laughing outright in her face.
"Ms. Hathaway!" she bellowed "I will not tolerate this behavior. As for you Guardian Alto, you should know better." She told him sternly giving him a glare. I swear if looks could kill he'd be ten feet under right now.
"It's Arlet to you. Oh, and it's nice to see you to Kirova. You know after not seeing me for some time I thought you'd miss me." I said innocently in mock hurt. She only tsked at me. She just knew how to kill the mood now didn't she?
"I was just waiting to finally get a break from you Hathaway's for some time before the triplets come to the high school." I chuckled. When would she learn? There is no way she will ever get rid of us.
"Then the fun will triple don't you think?" I said. I just loved teasing her and watching her face become all red with wrath. It's a shame she cannot punish me since I am no longer a student at the school. She would have probably given me the task of cleaning the church every Sunday. Or even, having extra practice sessions with training. Not that I minded at all. Darn shame.
"First your mother, then I get a year off before I get you and your brother because your mother and your 'extended' family go somewhere to try and bring and old friend back." Hmmmm... I wondered who that might be….. "And then I get the rest of you! Unbelievable. I just cannot wait until Adrianna is the only one left. I hope and wish to the stars that you Hathaway's never have children. I will retire early if I must stand for another one you." She said aggressively.
"Don't be a hater Kirova." I said with a devilish smirk. "Just because you can't be a Hathaway doesn't mean you can hate others for being one." She literally smacked her forehead now.
"I will never miss you Hathaway's." She stated before stomping out of her room. Stan high-fived me while Alberta walked in.
"ALBERTA!" I cried jumping into her arms so I could hug her. It's been months! She was always a sort of second mother to me once I no longer had mine. She was there for me when Alec couldn't understand or in other words no other guy in my life could understand.
"Arlet?" she questioned. I pouted.
"No the Easter bunny." I said hopping around her getting her to laugh. It worked. No sooner than expected, she let out one of those glory-filled laughs. I smile and hugged her again.
"You know you're bro-" I cut her off with a sigh. How many people were going to remind me today? Shesh!
"I know, I know, I have been told already of the rath I will have to face when I go meet my brother. Truthfully, I don't want to see him mad at me but what's done is done and there is nothing I can do about it."
Alberta put a hand on my shoulder. "It'll get better, don't you worry about it." I looked at her for a split second before Stan interrupted.
"We should get going Arlet." I nodded and silently said goodbye to Alberta.
Even though I knew we had to get to court, I just couldn't yet. I needed to see my siblings whether Stan liked it or not. Or even if I was allowed to or not.
We made our way to the dorm area. "Room 999." Stan whispered from behind. I never really knew what room they, or well Adrian was in. I nodded my thanks and knocked on the door once I got there. I waited for a few minutes before the door opened revealing Adrian with a pair of navy blue sweat pants and an oversized t-shirt, with Mason and Rose sitting on the bed with similar clothes on.
"Arlet? Stan?" he questioned. I smiled at him before enveloping him in my arms. The together two came and we shared a few moments together before I decided it was time to speak.
"How are you all?" I asked looking at them in the eye. They mumbled 'ok's' and whatnot until Rose jumped into a starting conversation.
"There's going to be a ball at court next week Arlet. Can we go? It's said to be really amazing and I just want to go! Can we go….please?" she asked me. I laughed for a few minutes before telling her yes. To which Adrian groaned. He never really liked parties at all, especially the formal ones.
"Do we have to-" I cut Adrian off before he could get any farther with my slightly pissed off face. He shut up immediately and I smirked. A true Hathaway smirk. Knowing defeat, Adrian slugged his shoulders down and sighed. "We were about to go for a run around the school a few times, do you want to come?" he asked.
"No, I can't, I have to get to court. I only came for a short visit." Noticing their facial expressions I knew I had to cheer them up somehow… "But be ready for the ball, I'll take you all out of school and then we can head to court and get our dress clothes? Sound good?" I asked.
Rose and Mason nodded eagerly. Two minds think alike. Was all that went through my head. Those two were trouble makers for sure…they were another reason Kirova wanted us out or sent to a different school so bad. She couldn't take them anymore. Rose and Mason were and still are worse if you put my mother and me together. And that's saying something.
"So did you visit Adrianna yet?" last I saw of her was with Eddie so he must have her by their cabin. He had taken all the effort to have one of the old cabins in the schools boarders so he could be like a small house. He wanted it that way so he could keep a good look out on his little girl. The triplets just thought it was 'the younger, the preferred" but I know knew what he was doing.
Adrianna was his only family left so he had always wanted her close and out of harm's way.
"Yes." I said plastering on a fake smile. "I did go see her. She is though, at the moment not available. E-dad is making her practice a bit of her intelligence based on knowledge right now so don't bother asking." I said. I knew I had almost slipped up there but there was no way around it.
He had been my dad, biological or not, and had been there for me. I was never going to abandon him as his daughter.
"So then we'll see you when you come to get us to go to court then?" Mason re-asked. I nodded my head.
"Yep I will be here. Now why don't you guys get on running? Huh? Good luck." They all laughed and we started for the door. "Oh and please stay out of trouble you three. I don't want Kirova calling my in two hours saying that you guys dyed her hair purple or something." I told them instantly regretting it. Now they had an idea…great! Not.
"Hmmmm…..we were thinking of something else Arlet to do after running, but your idea sounds so much better." Rose chimed in. I groaned.
"Guys please. Can't you go one day without getting in trouble?" I asked locking the door and giving Adrian the key.
"Fine but if we do double trouble tomorrow know that it is on you for not letting us do anything today." Mason spat. I snorted.
"Alec will not be happy then because I officially quit as to sticking up for you guys. You people drive over the edge….literally. I'm not even joking here." I said to them once I realized that they were laughing at me. I just shook my head though. They knew I was just joking. I wouldn't be as mean as to hand them into the rath of Alec.
I mean I could be a real bitch sometimes, but I would never put my own family members in danger. I would protect them. Even if that meant from their own brother.
"Ok so bye!" the three shouted as they took off running in the opposite direction we were headed into. Both Stan and I waved them a goodbye and walked our way back to the car. The once dark cool night now turned into a warm damp day. It felt disgusting and I couldn't think properly as we made our way back to the car that I accidently took a wrong turn somewhere along the way and for some odd reason we got lost.
"I blamed this on you." Stan irritatedly (I really don't care if irritatedly is a word or not but I just like making up new ones anyway) said to me pointing a figure at me as well. Like blaming me for something wasn't good enough. I sighed.
"And why would that be?" I asked in return.
"Because we're lost that's why!" Stan yelled as if that would solve anything and everything.
"Way to go Mr. Obvious. You have now won the noble peace prize for being so smart. Congratulations. Gosh! You're so oblivious!" I screamed. He looked taken aback. "Oh doesn't look so hurt now. Wait till we get to court and face Alec. Then you can go look like that. But just yelling at me will not solve our problems no matter how nice it might sound!"
"You're the one who wanted to take charge missy." He spat back in my face.
I tackled him to the ground. "Don't you dare call me missy ever again, first off. And second, if you stopped yelling and blaming stuff on me, we could probably get somewhere and think of a plan to find the god damn car!"
I got from the position I was in and held out a hand for him to help him up. He didn't take it though. "I didn't want to say that, or be mean about it, Stan." I started saying. "I'm sorry." I told him speaking again.
He didn't answer me; instead we just made our way through the trees for what seemed like hours. I fell about twice. And neither of those times did Stan help me. Jerk. I wanted to yell it so bad but knew that I had to keep my tongue in if I wanted to be a better influence and rub it in his face later on.
At last we made it to where the car is.
As we neared the car I could hear Dimitri asking, "What happened?" oh if only he knew what would come…..
I puffed at the thought, and then covered it up, "The same old talk with Kirova that bitch is all. She is one of the things I have and will never miss about this school. Pretty happy I don't have to deal with her anymore." He chuckled. What was up with him and laughing at everything I said? Did I appear to be too much like my mother? Or did he just have a mental issue with something every time I speak?
I gave him a glare as to a warning that something might be coming up as in a search of his person back-round but by the look he gave me I doubt he got the message.
"You are exactly like your mother." He told me. I shrugged. I already knew this.
"I seem to hope so." And then he went off again on another laughing spree. After a while I just got tired of his laughing and lounged for the car to grab a big seven hundred book I had been reading and chugged it at his face. He finally stopped laughing and raised his eyebrow at me. I did the same and he looked astonished.
"No I'm only telling you this once so listen well Cowboy." I told him sternly. "If you laugh one more time at what I try to say as a normal conversation I will hurt you until you beg for mercy." I said to him in a deadly tone.
He physically gulped and I shrugged. "I warned you so later on don't say I didn't." He nodded his head as we all entered the car.
I opened my book and continued off were I left off. This book was so good. It had to do with science travel and discovering a new planet and the human race having to be starting over again to survive since Earth was no vacated by alien that were at least nine feet. It was getting to the part where the hero always rescues the civilians in danger when sadly; I was rudely interrupted by Dimitri.
"So how are we getting to court?" he asked.
"Through the gate like normal civilians." I told him using the words from the book to finish my sentence. I was still in book mode that I couldn't stand another second talking to him that I tuned him out and began reading again.
He then started poking me and that's when Stan got a good look at my face when I punched Dimitri back, more preferably my eyes. "Your color eyes….." he began.
"Contacts." As if it was no big deal. Which I hope he didn't think was a big deal.
"For eleven years?" he asked. I nodded trying to get my attention back on the book but not having any sort of luck what so ever. "Just for your mom right?" I nodded again. "Janine told you to do so didn't she?" I nodded yet once again.
"Yeah she said that if I did change my eye color than I wouldn't be weird anymore. She also said that no one would view me differently anymore. I didn't believe her at first but once mom saw that my eye color did change and that I had 'hers' instead she began to relax and so did da-" I stopped before I said 'dad'. Bothe of them noticed though. "I mean Eddie."
I've noticed all today that I've been letting my tongue slip. I should really learn to stop doing this. It's really bothering. And I might let it happen again, which I'm not too keen on right now.
The car was silent. "We are coming up at the gates." Stan informed us. I nodded and opened my window. No sooner we were at the gates, a guardian coming our way.
"What brings you here today?" he asked. I knew that voice. His face came into view a few seconds later and my guess was correct. It had been the guardian I had run away from when I was leaving the court.
He stopped dead on his tracks when he saw my face. "I'm sorry about last time…." I began to say. We studied each other for what seemed like a life time. At this point a finally realized who he was. He was Anthony Cooper. He was two years older than me at school when we attended. We used to hang out in the mornings when I went to go get some extra time training, thinking that I could get better than my brother.
He helped me with what I needed. We had never been more than friends, but looking at him mow….I wanted to change that. All I needed was three words to describe what he looked like right now.
He looked hot!
His dirty blond hair was nicely messy in a way, if that made sense, and his dull sea blue eyes really brought out the nice skin tone that he had. It was two tones lighter than caramel. He looked perfect right now.
He interrupted me thoughts though, "After you left I didn't think you'd be back any time soon." He started. I shrugged.
"I have to, what I have to do." Was my simple response.
"Your brother gave me hell! Bull! He's still giving me hell because I was on guard duty and I left you get away." He lashed out on me. Ouch.
"I'm sorry." Was my response. He sighed and dumped his shoulders down.
"Sure you are." I raised an eyebrow at him. "What?" he asked.
"I'll make it up to you." I told him. Stan coughed which made me look at him for a moment. He was giving me an 'are you crazy?' look. I chuckled at that.
"And how are you going to do that?" Anthony asked me.
"You get to have me for a day, and I don't know be creative…... make me be a maid, make me do your dirty work, I don't care. Really, I don't, just make something up that's fun." He looked at me quizzically and laughed at my face. "Dude." I said trying to calm him down. "I'm serious. Whatever you need." He shut up then and there.
"So you're not lying?" he asked. I shook my head. "I might just take you up on that."
"Whatever you say." I told him rolling my eyes at him. "In two days starting at ten in the morning." He nodded. "Now open the gate. I want to see how my brother will take it in seeing me." I said frowning at the thought.
"Ok." He went and opened the gate as I waved to him goodbye. He waved back and smiled one of those cute smiles which would've had any girl weak in the knees. I swear though, if it weren't for the seat I was sitting in, I would've fallen right to the ground.
"Are you two together?" Dimitri asked me.
"No, we used to go to school together. He's two years older than me." I replied.
"Uh huh." Was all he said back to me. In another few minutes we were outside my house. I took in a deep breath and slowly opened the door. "Are you ready to face your brother?" Dimitri asked me. I snickered at his comment. "Are you ready to meet your son? That my friend is the real question."
We walked up to the front door and Stan knocked. We waited a few moments before Nate answered the door. He was one of my grandfathers' guardians. One that has been with him for almost all of his life; including school.
He had a shocked expression when he saw who was at the door. "Can we come in?" I asked him shakily. He nodded.
"This is your house Arlet. You do not need to ask to come inside of it." He sidestepped and let us pass. I lead us four past a few hallways until we reached my brothers study.
I knew full well who was on the other side. Even if I wasn't ready I knew I had to open the door. I needed to get this over with once and for all. Unconsciously, my hand reached out for the doorknob. The fine metal now felt cold to my touch as I hesitantly turned it.
Then at last I pushed the door opened it to reveal my brother, and grandfather in a heated argument.
At the noise over the door, they turned their attention over to me. "Hello" was all I mumbled as I waited for them to say something back.
But nothing ever did. I noticed though, that my grandfathers' attention was on something behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see Dimitri standing there. "Arlet come." Alec demanded. In that, I did not hesitate. I made my way over to him and he enveloped me in a tight hug. "I missed you." He murmured.
"I missed you too." I told him relaxing into his embrace, knowing that he was not mad at me. But that was short lived when my grandfather began to speak.
"Belikov, we meet again." And that's when all hell broke loose.
And that's the end of chapter 4! Yes!
So nowAlec is not upset with Arlet…..yet. Dimitri is back in court. Abe….,well lets say he's not so happy about Dimitri being back right now at this moment in time…Hmmmmmmmm…what will happen next? You'll just have to ready and find out…..Well I hope you, my readers, have enjoyed this chapter….R&R….until the next chapter!
-Candy Hathaway
