My phone rang in the darkness of an empty room "Sawyer" I breathed into the phone and I got the most heart breaking cry in my life. "What's wrong?"
"Mom, please come get me" Every parent would say that they've had to pick up their kid from some kind of party they weren't suppose to go to, except me. I'd never ever done anything like that before and honestly, it was scary. I listened to the sound of his breathing, his heart beat even locating him on the north side of the city. I broke into a run, no fancy flips just running and jumping until I reached him. "Mom" I put my hand up in anger to cut off his speech.
"That's it" I was putting my foot down right here, right now "I'm not taking this anymore. You're grounded and your punishment is...it's... You're spending time with your father right now"
"It's two in the morning!" Sawyer yelled "That's not fair!"
"He'll be up then" I promised "and it's not fair I had to wake up at two because you threw a fit at an important dinner!" He grabbed his arm and started walking back to the apartment. "You smell like pot"
"I wonder why" He mumbled, this was seriously the worst thing he has ever done in my life "I have the right mind to let Valentina handle this"
"Aunt Amy says Hello, and wants to know who your date is to her wedding" I rolled my eyes at his change of subject, really? I couldn't believe he had done this tonight of nights. After Alek and I had reconnected with each other, and I might have feelings for him again. When tomorrow I promised myself that I would tell him that Sawyer was his son. Now what? Yeah, Salt's your son and he's a brat. When we got back to the apartment I pressed the 18th floor button and looked at the doorman "She hates me because I hate my dad"
"Who's your dad?" The doorman asked so he could put his two cents into how he felt about the person.
"Mr. P-" I hit him upside the head, "Unknown"
"That's unfortunate" He responded and I walked out of the elevator, and knocked on the room door. Unusual for me but Jasmine answered it. She looked at me, who clearly looked pissed and my bad kid who clearly smelt like he had been in some kind of druggie's house.
"Valentina is awake in her study" I smiled, that would be added into his punishment. I walked through the house, into her study. Shoving Sawyer through the door.
"I need your help" I told her "Since my son thinks it's O.K. for him to get pissed off and leave and go do drugs OR whatever he was doing can you talk some sense into him"
"Anything for you Chloe" She said and I left Sawyer in there with a very educated mai, I opened Alek's door and jumped on his bed. He got up like he was being attack, putting me underneath him so he could attack better. His tense muscles relaxed as he smirked at me.
"Couldn't stay away?" He asked, leaning down, I let him get close like that- feeling like that girl again. "What's wrong?" He suspected something was wrong, and I guess it was.
"Sawyer's a brat, and I've let him get away with things for too long" I admitted he pushed himself off of me and then beside me turning on a lamp "Where did I screw up in this?"
"I wouldn't know, but I think you've done a pretty good job considering the circumstances" That I got pregnant with him when I was a teenager and I raised him while I was in hiding so we could both live- and then I tried to pretend everything was normal while doing so.
"It just doesn't feel that way" I got up off his bed, and then walked out of the room- he came after me, looking well rested and happy I could say that he was happy to see me, right? "I have something I have to tell you" He looked at me, amused maybe-scared possibly.
"What?" He asked looking at me and I put my head in my hands.
"He's your kid too"