♥️T.H.R.E.E♥️
THEME: {Where do I belong??}
✍️Written By Precious Pinky✍️
❣️ Episode 95❣️
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????Alexis’s pov????
“Lexi,,,” Brenden began but I quickly cut him off.
“I’m fine.” I sniffled, leaning against the bed headrest.
“I didn’t even ask anything.” He said in a low voice, coming to sit beside me. “Lexi,”
I su-cked in a de-ep breath as he mentioned my name again.
Why was it so difficult to accept my fate?
Why did bad things always have to happen?
First, I betrayed my brother,
Secondly, I decided to let go of Gwen even when it was going hurt like hell,
And now, my father was just taken away from me by the cops for his crimes.
I know he deserve it for everything he did to Brenden but I wish it didn’t have to result to imprisonment!
I wish he learnt his lessons and try to live a normal life with us being by his side. Families are meant to be together, right?
But what happens when they aren’t complete?
What happens when the head of the family is locked up away in prison for God knows how long?
What happens when his own family are meant to testify against him in court???
No, I can’t do this.
I can’t testify against my father. I know I sound selfish right now but hell, I don’t Fuc-king care!
“You don’t have to testify, Lexi.” Brenden said.
Shit, did I say that out loud?
I sniffled, fiddling with my fingers.
I couldn’t even bring myself to look at my brother in the eyes.
“I’m sorry.” I mumbled. “I lied to the cops that father didn’t do anything wrong…I…” I gulped. “I should have said the truth but Brenden,” I bit my lower li-p, trying to bring myself together. “I can’t…”
Brenden nod his head as if he understands what I was trying to get at.
He doesn’t understand a thing!
He couldn’t understand a thing!
I’m betraying him over again, so how the hell can he understand me?
“You don’t have to, Lexi.” He whispered.
I suddenly grab hold of his arm and stared at his face this time around. “Don’t tell the truth, Brenden.”
“What?” He sounded very confuse.
“Please don’t tell the police what truly happened. Don’t tell them what dad did to you,” I pleaded. “Please.”
“Lexi…” He called quietly, giving a look I couldn’t quite comprehend.
Do I sound selfish right now?
Okay, I know I sound selfish but I have to save my father.
“I can’t let him go to jail for something he did ignorantly…”
I… I just said that out loud, right?
“Ignorantly?” Brenden repeated, making me realize my stupidity for actually saying that statement out loud. “You think everything he did was from his ignorant?”
“Brenden…,”
“How could you even think that?” He pulled away from me and got up to his feet. “Do you know what I went throu-ghin his hands? Do you know I almost died while being locked up in that tiny box! And what did you just say?”
I’ve just crossed the line… I’ve broke my brother over again.
what’s wrong with me?
“Brenden, I’m sorry. But dad I’ve learnt his lessons. He’s sorry for everything he did and has obviously change. So…” He cuts me off.
“You are very selfish.” I opened my mouth to talk but I couldn’t let out a single thing as I was so dumbfounded with Brenden’s words of anger. “Do you think his apologies can mend everything he did to me? You of all people should know what I went throu-ghin father’s hand. You of all people should know how I Fuc-king tried ha-rd to survive! You of all people should understand my pains, my scars, my fears, my sorrows…You of all people should give me the support I truly deserve! You of all people…” He shook his head taking a step back from me. “shouldn’t have said those words to me. I forgave you for what you did earlier with Gwen because I was also at fault but now, I don’t think I can ever forgive you for saying those words to me! I’m so disappointed,” With that, he walked out of my room, leaving me with my demons of guilt.
What have I done???
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????Brenden’s pov????
I never expected those words from my own sister.
How could she ask me to lie to the court for what father did to me?
How could she be so selfish and mean!?
If anyone tell me that my sister would say something as selfish as this, I would punch that person on the face and tell them to shut the Fuc-k up!
I still can’t believe my own ears.
I descended the stairs in anger. My face were as ha-rd as stone.
Mom abruptly got up to her feet as she saw me coming downstairs.
She approached me worriedly. “How is your sister? Have you spoken to her?” She took in my facial expression. “What happened?”
I sighed running my finger over my hair. “I have to take care of something.” I walked past her but stopped few miles away from the front door. “Mom,” I partly turned to look at her. “Are you going to tell the court the truth?”
“Of course! I wasn’t able to save you from that monstrous father of yours…I won’t repeat that mistake again, Brenden.” She stated.
At least one person was supporting me.
At least my mother is sticking with me.
I looked upstairs to Lexi’s room and let out a de-ep sigh.
“Please don’t.”
“What?”
“Don’t testify against father. I can’t put my sister in pain because of my selfishness. She wants her father back,,,I can’t take that away from her.”
“Brenden…” Mom called quietly, taking a step closer to me.
“Mom please. Just do this for me. Please.” I turned around and walked out of the house, ignoring my mother’s call.
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“Why will Lexi say something like that to you? How…” Arthur huffed, shaking his head in disappointment. “I’m very disappointed in her.”
“Likewise.” Davis said. “We will testify for you, man.”
I shook my head. “That isn’t necessary.” I gulped the whole content of whiskey and poured myself another shot.
“Wait, don’t tell me you are really going to do what your sister said.” Arthur almost snapped.
“I can’t bring myself to go against her, guys. It’s Lexi we are talking about here…I can’t hurt her for my selfish reasons.”
“You aren’t selfish. You are only trying to do what’s right!” Davis said.
“Maybe. But I can’t hurt her for it. Besides dad already learnt his lessons.” I shrugged.
“He needs to pay for his crimes! Hell, what’s wrong with Lexi!? How can she be this selfish and mean!?” Arthur asked angrily.
“Hey, you are crossing your limit.” I glared.
“Here you are trying to fight for her and instead of her to do the same,,, she’s against you.”
I shook my head. “She’s not against me. She just want her father back. I see nothing wrong with that.”
“Tsk, you are just so blinded by brotherly love for her. I wish your sister could do the same for you.” Davis and Arthur said in unison, shaking their heads as they stared at me.
“Hmm.” I hummed, pouring myself another shot of whiskey.
I was already feeling tipsy but I have no thought of stopping.
“You aren’t going to go to the station to give out your statement?”
“Nope.” I slurred in my words.
“Bren…”
“Stop.” I ordered. “I’m not doing this for his sake,,, I’m only doing it for my sister’s sake.”
“What have Lexi done?” Davis whispered as he stared at me in pity…
They’ve never given such look before until now.
I guess I do look pitiful.
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@Boston
????Gwen’s pov????
“Here,” I handed him a blanket. “Are you sure you don’t want to sleep in my room?”
“I don’t want to bother you, Princess. I know how much you respect your privacy and space.” He smiled.
“True. But i won’t mind.”
“Don’t worry love. I’m fine here. I don’t want to make your mother feel like I’m inconveniencing her precious daughter.” He sighed. “I still can’t believe she’s letting us spend the night here.”
I smiled. “Technically, I persuaded her.”
“I knew it!” We both laughed.
“Come here,” Dad said as he spread out his arms,,, I sluggishly walked into his arms. He wrapped me and snuggled me closer to himself. “My beautiful princess,”
“Stop faltering me.” I mumbled.
“I’m not. You are my beautiful princess.” He pressed a ki-ss on my forehead. “You know you should have told me.”
I looked up at him. “About?”
“Brenden and Alexis.”
Fuc-k, who else knows about my Fuc-ked up love story?
I hid my face into his broad chest, earning a low chuckle from him which only seem to make me feel more embarra-ssed.
“You don’t have to be embarra-ssed about anything, dear.”
“How did you know? I asked.
“Cleo told me.” What? How can she betray me like this? I wonder how many people she has tell aside from father. She’s going to get it from me. “And hey, before you start saying, ‘How dare she!?’ ‘Cleo betrayed me’ ‘she going to get it from me…’” Wow, dad does know me very well. “I know how aggressive you can be in some certain things,” He sighed. “Well I asked her for confirmation. I knew something like that was eventually going to happen sooner or later.” This was mom’s exact words to me. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
I shrugged. “It was embarra-ssing.”
He laughed. “You shouldn’t be embarra-ssed when things like this, princess. It’s normal to like two people at the same time?”
“Really? It’s normal to like a boy and a girl at the same time…? Dad, I’m bise-xual but that isn’t even that problem right now,” I gro-aned. “I can’t have two siblings at the same time! I have to make my choice.”
“And?”
“I don’t know who I want… I don’t even know where I belong.”
“Are you sure about that?”
I knitted my brows in confusion as I broke off the embrace to take a better look at father. “What?”
He pinched my cheek with a gentle smile on his face. “I think you already know where you belong but don’t just want to accept it yet. But hey, whatever you turn out to be…know I’m in full support of you, dear. Your happiness is all that matters to me.”
Why is mom and dad saying the same thing to me?
Did they plan all of this behind my back?
“What if I’m g-ay?” I asked with knitted brows.
“Then just so you know, I will be the one to choose the adopted baby for you two.” He pressed a warm ki-ss on my forehead again.
“You seriously won’t mind?”
“Like I said, your happiness is all that matters to me.”
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@At Brooklyn
(10pm)
????Alexis’s pov????
“Oh my God! Brenden!” I heard mom’s voice from downstairs.
I hurriedly left my room and went downstairs to see what the commotion was all about.
On getting there I saw Arthur and Davis holding on to drunk Brenden.
“What happened?” Mom asked as she take a closer look at Brenden.
“He had a lot to drink.” Davis stated.
“Why didn’t you stop him!?” Mom raised her voice, worriedly, while Brenden laughed loudly.
“We tried but he wouldn’t stop. He was too heartbroken,” Arthur’s gaze fell upon me and he shook his head at me, turning his face away.
He was drunk because of me.
I caused him pain… I keep hurting him over and over again, all because of my stupidity, foolishness and selfishness.
He said he would never forgive me and honestly I won’t believe him for whatever decision he makes. I deserve it.
“Take him to his room, I’m coming.” Mom said and rushed off to the kitchen.
“I can’t believe you could be this mean to your own brother!” David spatted in disgust as soon as mom was out of sight.
“Look at what you put him throu-ghall because of your selfishness.” Arthur added.
“So mean!” They both said at the same time.
“Stop it.” Brenden yelled, grinning up at me. “No one should said trash to my beautiful sister.”
“What beautiful sister? Or you mean selfish sister.” Davis huffed.
“Enough!”
“Dave, let’s just take him to his room…the guy still seem to have little sense even in his drunken state.” Arthur said and they both walked away.
I quietly followed them from behind but didn’t enter when they did and slammed the door shut. I just stood in front of the closed door.
I could feel the guilt and remorse…I shouldn’t have been so selfish. I shouldn’t have been this mean and heartless. I shouldn’t have…
“He should have gone to the station,” I heard Davis said from inside the room.
“Like seriously.” Arthur sighed. “But all thanks to Lexi, he didn’t.”
“I still can’t believe Lexi could do a thing like this.”
“She didn’t deny it when we confronted her so she obviously did it.”
“Now he wouldn’t testify and get the justice that his younger self truly deserve.” Arthur gro-aned.
“He deserve that justice.”
He does…
“Lexi, what are you doing here?” Mom asked from behind, almost startling me.
“Mom,” I called in a low voice.
“You should be asleep.” She sighed, holding a glas-sof juice and painkiller drugs.
I nod. “Yeah.”
She smiled but it didn’t reach her eyes. She must be very worried about Brenden. “Go to bed, okay?”
She was going to open the door but I stopped her,
“Mom?”
“Yes dear.”
“Aren’t you going to the station to write a statement?” I asked.
She shook her head. “Brenden asked me not to go. He said you asked him not to say anything to the police.” She sighed. “He loves you so much and doesn’t want to get you hurt or sad.”
But I don’t love him to that extent…I keep hurting him and making him sad.
Gosh!
“Do you think he hates me?” I asked in a low voice, lowering my gaze.
“Of course not baby. Brenden would never hate you. Yes, he’s hurt. But he will come around,,,soon. Now go to bed.” She smiled at me again then went inside the room.
*Do you think his apologies can mend everything he did to me? You of all people should know what I went throu-ghin father’s hand. You of all people should know how I Fuc-king tried ha-rd to survive! You of all people should understand my pains, my scars, my fears, my sorrows…You of all people should give me the support I truly deserve! You of all people…” I saw the pain in his eyes. The disappointment… *shouldn’t have said those words to me. I forgave you for what you did earlier with Gwen because I was also at fault but now, I don’t think I can ever forgive you for saying those words to me! I’m so disappointed.*
I can’t keep hurting my brother like this.
What’s wrong with me?
Why do I always give devil the chance to use me to hurt my brother?
Why am I so selfish?
*Why didn’t you tell me what happened at the hospital?*
*I didn’t want to hurt you, Lexi. I don’t want to put you in a situation where you have to choose between your father and I…*
If I was given a test to choose between my father and Brenden,,,who would it be???
*I promise to always stick by your side, big bro.* I remember my promise to him when we were little.
I remember the injuries dad inflicted on Brenden every now and then. How could I have forgotten so soon?
I stormed into my room, grabbed my black sweatshirt and car keys then left the house unnoticed with only one destination in mind.
~Brooklyn Police station.
I choose Brenden.
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????Brenden’s pov????
I woke up with a severe headache.
Fuc-k, I can’t remember what happened last night other than drinking with my friends after telling them about Lexi.
I grudgingly sat upright and sighted a glas-sof juice and a painkiller drugs at the table beside my bed.
I wonder who left that there but anyway that shouldn’t be a problem, right?
I grabbed the glas-sof juice and the painkiller drugs, after gulping down the drug I let off a de-ep breath and dropped down the half filled glas-sof juice.
I got out of bed and walked into the bathroom to have a quick bath, but, just when I was about to turn the door open, mom walked in.
“Mom,” I called in a husky voice. “You should have knocked.”
“Sorry. I thought you were asleep.” Mom smiled sheepishly at me. “How are you feeling now?”
I shrugged. “Fine, I guess.”
“I see you’ve already taken the painkiller drugs I left for you.”
Oh, mom left it for me.
“Yeah. Thanks.”
She snatched the glas-sand was about to walk out of my room when I suddenly asked.
“What of Lexi?”
“She…” She partly turned to look at me. “She left for Boston.”
“Boston? What?” Wait, why does that country sounds very familiar?
“She said she has an unfinished business with Gwendolyn. Ah, you didn’t tell me Gwen has gone back to her hometown.”
What?
Gwen left for her hometown? Oh. Boston. That was Gwen’s hometown, now I know why it sounded so familiar.
But When? How? Why?
“I wasn’t aware.” I breath out. Lot of thoughts were going throu-ghmy head as I try to process everything but damn, the headache was making it very ha-rd for me.
“You weren’t? Does that mean she only told your sister and not…” Mom’s phone started ringing, interrupting her. She dug out her phone and stared down at the screen. “Who’s this?” She thought aloud as she answered the call.
I didn’t say anything. I was still thinking about what mom just said.
How did Lexi find out first before me?
Why wasn’t I aware?
Have Gwen already made her choice?
Is Lexi her choice?
Mind you I’m not mad at that,,,in fact I’m fine if Gwen does choose Lexi over me but…Gwen and I are friends. At least she should have said something to me about leaving Brooklyn. Or was I the only one with the thought of us being friends?
I was so de-ep in thought that I didn’t hear mom calling me until she tapped my shoulder, bringing me out of my trance.
“Are you okay?” She asked me calmly.
“Me? Yeah. I’m very okay.” I answered bringing a smile to my face. “So, who was on the phone?” I asked in attempt to change the subject.
She sighed. “The cops.”
“Oh. I didn’t go and write a statement and neither did I want to testify against…”
“Someone already did.” Mom cut me off.
“What?”
She gulped as she ran her fingers throu-ghher hair. “Lexi wrote a statement and also testify against your father.”
“Bu…b…” I couldn’t think of the right word to say.
“Your father was sentenced to five years in prison. I didn’t even realize about all of this until now. Why didn’t she tell me anything about her plans?”
“What time is it?” I asked.
“4:15, why?”
“I’m leaving for Boston.”
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????Narrator’s pov????
“Mia,” James called softly, standing behind her as she makes breakfast.
She gro-aned. “Can you just drop this and let me concentrate?”
James sighed. “Do you still hate me?”
“If I do, you wouldn’t be in here.”
“Then why don’t you want to give me a second chance? Why are you still refusing to let me in?”
She opened her mouth to talk but was interrupted by a knock at the front door.
“Gwen, go check who’s at the door.”
Gwen quietly went to answer the door.
She unlocked the door and opened it,,,her mouth dropped open, her eyes wide-ned at who was standing in front of her right now.
“Hey,” Lexi waved with a smile on her face.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
That was how loud her heart were beating right now as she stared at Alexis.
“Surprise.” Lexi grinned widely now.
Gwen was too dumbfounded to let a single word out but gradually a smile spread over her face as confirmation strike in.
Finally she has gotten the answer she was so oblivious to.
She know who she wants now…Finally.
“Hi.” She replied with a smirk.
****To Be Continued****
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