Thirteen years later...
"This is the last straw! No good lying bastard." Linda angrily glared at the sleeping form of her soon-to-be ex-husband. She stomped around the darkened room making as much noise as she possibly could while packing up her clothes and belongings. To hell with sneaking out of here quietly!
The time had finally came, she was going to leave her husband behind for good this time. She couldn't stand the verbal abuse from her mother-in-law about her upbringing or the fact that he cared more about his daughter and yet he was always so busy working (or cheating on her with his colleagues) that he was almost never around. For all she knew, he probably still thought of Sin as an innocent little child! She needed someone to LOVE her both psychically and mentally, not this imitation of love she shared with Klaus!
The house was too quiet… Sin was probably at her friend's house or hanging out at the beach again. It was best if she was gone before Sin came back. The two weren't on the nest of terms right now.
Her stepdaughter, Sin was the only child of Klaus and his first love. Until a few years ago, Linda and Sin had been on good terms with one another. Then one fateful school project later Sin learned that Linda was not her birthmother. At first she was mad claiming Linda had caused her birthmother to leave her dad but after a while she stopped accusing Linda.
Agitated once more by the lack of acknowledgement she received from her family she kicked her suitcases down the stairs. Linda stopped at the bottom of the stairs to silently say good-bye to the photograph of a seven-year-old Sin hanging about the hallway telephone desk. Pushing aside her love letters and divorce papers to the back of her purse, she pulled out a scribbled note and tucked it next to the phone before placing her house keys next to it.
"Bye." She picked up her suitcases and walked out the front door.
Ding. Ding. Ding… An old grandfather clock slowly chimed the time throughout the house. It was five o'clock in the evening.
Sin slipped off the dresser under the staircase, she had watched the only woman she had considered to be a mother figure in her life walk out of her life forever. A part of her was really pissed off because she knew Linda was leaving them for another guy but the other part of her felt sad. Wiping the burning hot tears from her eyes with her faded white stuff bunny's ears she picked up the house keys.
The keychain was a mother's day gift from years ago, Sin had spent a whole day fighting off her classmates to find the right lettered beads. Slipping her finger under the elastic band she yanked it causing the little white beads with faded black letters that once spelled 'I luv u mum' to scatter across the waxed floor in all directions.
Do you feel better now?
"What's there to feel better about? It's not like she was my real mother to begin with Bun-Bun." whispered Sin as she walked into the kitchen with Bun-Bun in her arms. Deep down she was really hurt but she wasn't about to show it.
True. Don't worry honey I'll never leave your side like your mothers did. We'll be together forever.
"Thanks Bun-Bun." She kissed him on the nose before putting him down on the counter. Looking out the window she watched as the sun slowly drifted down the western sky before pulling back her hair into a loose ponytail. Dad would be up soon once the sun went down and he'd be hungry. Now that Linda had left, it was up to her to make something for them to eat.
"Tacos or medium rare steak?" mused Sin as she looked in the fridge.
TACOS?! Do really think your dad's going to eat that?
"Why not? He's never complained before." Sin pulled out the meat and threw it in the pan mixing spices into it as it slowly cooked. Then she went back to the fridge and began pulling out the cheese and veggies so she could cut them up. As she worked her way through the veggies with her favorite knife, she imagined each one as a memory of Linda. Expertly dicing the veggies she cut the last of her happy memories still tying her heart with Linda.
An hour later, Sin sat at the table listening out for her dad's footsteps as he woke up and went through his usual morning routine.
"Dad, dinner is ready! We're having tacos tonight." shouted Sin.
"Sounds good kiddo." said her dad as he stood at the entryway to the dining room. It didn't bother her that he hadn't made a single noise coming downstairs. … He told her all the time she was a beauty among beauties. Normally it would've bothered her but tonight it didn't.
Sin didn't understand how her birth mother and Linda could leave her dad, he was so handsome. Klaus Cayden had rich brown hair mussed up in a small mohawk, perfect high cheekbones, a strong jaw line, perfectly shaped nose, clear complexion, perfectly tanned skin, deep golden-green eyes that mirrored her own, long eyelashes, a tall stature, and well-toned body.
People practically flocked to him everywhere he went. He had an irresistible charm to both sexes. It was his greatest strength in business but his biggest downfall in relationships.
"So how was school?" Her dad was trying be as normal as possible. Poor guy was so out of it he had completely forgotten it was the middle of the summer meaning no school.
"Linda left an hour ago. I think she left for good this time because she had everything on her." replied Sin. She finished up the last of her taco before getting up and dumping the paper plate in the trash. Her dad was still sitting there with his ever-present blank poker face. She couldn't tell what he was thinking when he was like that.
Walking out of the kitchen she retrieved the note and put it by her dad before retrieving Bun-Bun from the kitchen counter. She leaned against the ugly eggshell wall playing with Bun-Bun's ears again waiting for her dad to move. It seemed like ages before he finally picked up the note and quickly read the contents.
"Kiddo, I think it's time for a change. We're going to leave this place." He started to rip the letter to shreds before getting up and throwing the rest of his food away along with the note. He stopped by the entryway to put a comforting hand on the top of her head.
"Pack a bag before you go to sleep I'm going to send you ahead to the new house. Don't worry. I'll be there the next night after I finish packing up everything here for the movers." Sin nodded silently before her dad walked out the door grabbing his jacket and suitcase.
So where are we going? I hope it's somewhere warm... I just love the heat of the sun on my fur.
"If I know my dad it's probably somewhere near the ocean. After all he was a surfer a long time ago... that's how he meet my birth mother." She walked up the stairs to her room turning on all the lights as she went.
The house already felt cold and empty as if no one lived there anymore. Sin climbed into her bed curling up like a cat desperately holding Bun-Bun, her hands started to shake after a few minutes making her curl up into a ball even more.
"Tell me a story."
Long ago a beautiful cheerful princess with hair the color of gold and eyes as blue as the ocean met a handsome dark-haired prince. She fell madly in love with the prince and left her knight. After a while the prince offered her the world in exchange for her everything. The princess was torn between her prince and the new life growing inside her from her knight. She chose the prince and years went by as the two lived happily until the day came that the princess regretted her choice. Filled with regret the princess left the prince and isolated herself from the world. One night she woke up in a hospital screaming in pain as her child she thought had been lost long ago left her body. That same night the mother left the prince's number with instructions to call the baby's father before seeing her child one last time and giving her baby a gift of eternal protection. She then gave up her life to the sunlight in hopes her child would never become like her. The End.
"Don't you ever have any other story?" She was getting tired of Bun-Bun telling her the same story over and over. It never made any sense to her which annoyed her very much.
Nope. Someday this story will make sense my sweet child. For now you had better go to sleep. We're headed to our new home tomorrow!
I hope everyone will enjoy these re-edited chapters. Its taken forever (and half a forest) to finally release this revised chapter. Leave a comment below on your thoughts or concerns about the story~ I just hope I can get to ch. 13 before the end of the summer... . highly doubtful. Not sure if anyone noticed this but I changed Sin's age from 16 to 17 because some people have led me to believe that 16 is too young to fall in love lol