Chapter 50: Chapter 50

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When I look at your eyes, I don't see perfection. I see someone who would protect me... Love me...fight for me inspite of all the ways that I'm still a wreck. I see home. Wherever he is that's my home.

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Megan's POV

I literally escaped from the hospital. Just because I stressed and I fainted they wanted to keep me in the hospital for a whole night. No way! Not when this might just be my last night with the Hernandez. I change into my clothes ditching the hospital gown. The IV is almost finished, so I remove it from my vein, putting the plaster against the opening to stop the blood. Then I tip toe my way out of there staying out of security way.

I am surprised to hear music coming out of the kids home. I enter there expecting to see everyone gloomy and sad but instead, the whole place is booming with load music, the twins having a duet and singing on top of their voice, while Rita is in the kitchen, unpacking stuff from the refrigerator and swaying her body to the music.

"Is this a karaoke studio?”I ask in amusement as I join Rita in the kitchen.

She laughs. "Hey Meg! I was starting to wonder where you are?"

"Yea”I quickly removed the plaster from my hand thankful that the blood was gone. "I had to run some errands"

She nods jumping over the table to the stove, where something was cooking up, "Keith came looking for you, he said you weren't picking up your phone, thought you were in prison again, or hospital or court house, you know since your trouble prone”she says winking at me.

I laugh and smack her picking up a spatula to help cook the meat in the other stove. "I left my phone at home. And am not trouble prone... Trouble just seems to... Want me”I explain and we laugh. "Why all these food?”I ask looking around, there was sausage, lasagna, pastries, Bacon, Turkey, corn, bread, soup, even pizza.

"Well, It’s our last day here... We want to empty the fridge. I don't think our 'Mo....new guardian' would let us bring food along, so this can also be called, 'the last happy supper' “she sees moving around to remove a plate from the heater.

"Rita...”I say suddenly feeling sad.

"She came today”Rita says turning to face me and dropping the hand wipe on the counter.

"She did?”I ask surprised.

She nodded, "she says she's coming to pick us up tomorrow. That we should get our bags ready. She won the us by law and us resisting would only put you in trouble.”She turn around, taking a knife to chop salad, "you know, she didn't even know my name, and she said if I didn't want to come along I could just stay, but she's taking the twins”she scoffs, "like I'll leave my siblings alone in her care"

I collect the knife from her afraid she'll cut herself, "Rita it's gonna be ok"

She nods a tear slipping out. She's always struggled with the fact that she's adopted, now Dana is just worsening everything. "I'm not going to be happy there, I just know it. We've already packed our bags and all these..”She motions to the food and karaoke stuff, "is just so, our last night in the home we grew up in would be a sad one"

I understand her perfectly, "I know. I'm not going to leave you guys, she might have won legally, but am going to find a way to win you guys back or at least, be there for you people"

She smiles, hugging me, "like we are some trophy?"

I laugh, "golden ones"

After that we focus on the cooking and soon serve out the whole food to everyone. It was like a Thanksgiving dinner. I even brought out my cherished and only bottle of wine. We laughed, ate to our fill, sang to our heart content and even danced till our bones gave out.

"Phew, Shawn Mendes is the real deal”Darlene says finally falling to the ground where I and Rita sat.

"I like Ed sheeran more”Rita says resting her head on my shoulder.

"Eminem and Beyonce”Dylan says, laying on the couch and playing his one man game of toss and catch with his ball.

"Who are these again?”I ask.

"Meg!”They all shout surprised at me. I laugh raising my hands up in surrender. Ofcourse I know them.

We all relax back and sigh at the same time. "Mothers suck”Darlene says out of the blue. Rita and Dylan raise up their hands, "agreed"

I raise my hand too, "totally agree, but not all though”they look at me confused, "Susan"

"Ahhh”they say at once, I chuckle. "Yep. She's a good one"

"Some mothers shouldn't be mothers”Dylan says, we all answer agreed. "Darlene shouldn't be one too”he says joking. Me and Rita say agreed.

"Hey!”She says standing up and throwing pizza crumbs at us. “I'll be a great mum”we laugh, but Rita and I say agreed. While Dylan shakes his head saying "no way".

I sigh, “I'll be so lonely "

"That's why I said you should get married”Dylan says smiling at me. "Oh wait...I didn't”now It’s my turn to stone him a pizza crumb.

"I can't even get married”I say sighing as I remember Javier and I breakup. Was that even a breakup?

"Why? You have them suitors. Paul the normal chicken man”I scowl at her, Rita smiles, ticking off another finger, "Keith the British lecturer"

"He's not a suitor”I protest.

"Yea, yea, keep telling yourself that”Rita says "and finally, Javierr the Mexican billionaire"

"Him I approve”the twins say in sync.

I smile and frown, "we broke up"

They all gasp, "you did?”Dylan ask face palming himself. "Ah God. What do I have to do to get her married off? Chain her to a man and drag them to the altar?”This time I stone him a spoon.

"You'll get back together”Rita says assuring.

"Yep, you guys are legit”Darlene says.

I smile as we cuddle up together, sleep finally getting to us.

"I'll still buy the chains though”Dylan mutters.

"Dylan, next thing coming is a knife"

~*~

"Come on now, we don't have all day”Dana sings as they come out of the house, carrying their suitcase and backpacks along. "My SUV is down there, the black beauty"

"Bye Meg”Darlene says hugging me tightly, I hug her back holding my tears in. Although she's already crying.

"Hey don't cry. You're the strong one remember? Be good, don't cause your mom trouble and I am always here ok”I say holding her soft.

She sniffles cleaning her tears, "I'm going to teach my bitch of a mother just how much I've grown without her"

I smile, "let's do that then. But calling her a bitch, makes you a dog, you know right?"

She nods and imitates a dog, showing her teeth, "a feisty one”we laugh and she pecks me before moving down, heading to the SUV.

I turn to Dylan, he was holding his suitcase and ball. "So...I'll miss you"

I laugh and bend down spreading my hands open, "come here you”he smiles drops his ball and hugs me. "Don't you dare cry”he warns. I laugh, "I won't. You shouldn't too. You're the man of the house. Protect your sisters ok?"

He nods, "don't need to tell me twice”I nod and point to my cheek, he places a kiss on it, before picking up his ball and following Darlene.

"Rita...”I say as we hug each other. "I love you Rita". She nods, “I love you too Meg "

"No crying”we say at once the laugh at each other. She pecks me and follows the twins.

"Ah, finally. I thought you'd never leave them”Dana said flipping her hair.

I smirk, folding my hands, "they love me, not you. Not that I am fighting you mother rights or anything. Where are you taking them? Address?"

She huffs, "like I'll tell you. I don't want you near my kids, you're bad influence. A poor criminal"

"Am not a criminal”I say coming close to her.

She backs away, "says the girl who was released from prison one week ago?”I don't say anything, I just glare at her. "Megan, you stay away from my kids. I want them to forget this wretched neighborhood and everything in it. Defile me and I'll get a restriction order. I'll say when you can see them. Bye bye”she flips her hair again and walks away.

What the hell?

"Hey! You can't do that”I shout at her but she just ignores me and leaves.

"Where are you taking them too?! Speak!”I hear a voice down. I peer down and I see two of Rita's friends holding Dana's hand and forcing her to speak. She looks terrified and shutters out the address in a heart beat.

I laugh watching them retreat back to their car and zoom out. Dana takes a while to get back her composure, before she get into her big car and leaves our 'crappy' neighborhood. I go into the lonely home and sit watching everywhere. I'm now alone. No family, no boyfriend. Tsk tsk am such a loser. I don't even think I still have a job. Javier hasn't come to work for long. Our office... His office is locked. The lock to the penthouse had changed, I could no longer access his house.

I've been abandoned and I know it cox of Faye. Faye made Javier leave me. But not for long, am never going to let her take Javier away from me. He is mine. I'm his.

~*~

I don't know how long I slept but as soon as I woke up, I headed straight to the hospital. That seems to be the only place you can ever find Javier. Luckily for me, I saw him sitting outside Faye's office with his computer. I hurriedly sat beside him. He looked at me, then back at his computer.

"What's wrong?”He asked.

I sigh, "I came to see you"

He looked at me again, cocking his head to a side. "No, something else is wrong with you"

I look away, "you're not my boyfriend anymore right?"

He sighs looking away, "Right! am sorry"

Stupid Meg. Just tell him what's wrong. You family was taken away.

"Why are you here?”I ask turning back to look at him.

"Because of Faye, she's admitted in this hospital remember?"

"Is that what she told you to do in exchange for my freedom”I ask.

"Nobody tells me what to do. I'm Javier Altamira. I'm doing this all on my own”he says still looking at his computer.

"You left me on your own?”I ask risking a heart break. He nods. "Why? We were fine at the prison"

"That's what went wrong”he says turning to look at me, his eyes icy. "I am Javier Altamira, son of Richard Altamira, biggest and one of the Richest billionaires in the world. We own the largest shipping enterprise around the world, everywhere our business and business colleagues are littered. I...I was seen at the prison, talking and visiting you...that's not good for me"

I didn't say anything, I couldn't. I felt a sharp pain at the place my heart is supposed to be. My stomach knot up and I feel a bile coming up.

"You...are not good for me”he says as if I didn't understood. "Faye was right. We are two worlds apart. Love...that's just child play. I'm done involving myself in child's play. We shouldn't have been together in the first place. The idea was to unite me with Kristen, not...not everything that happened after. Please Megan leave me, get your life back together, stop being sad and just forget everything. Me and you equals disaster”he ends closing his computer.

"Liar”I manage to say. He just keeps walking. Tears well up in my eye and my throat closes up.

"Ms are you ok?”A nurse asks me and I indicate that I want to throw up. She immediately brings a container and I start throwing up, crying at the same time. She shifts my hair away and pats my back repeatedly saying, "It’s ok, It’s ok"

I shake my head. My insides screaming. It’s not ok! It’s not ok!.

~*~

I reached home, the empty house compounding my problems. I could hear the twins bickering, Rita humming a song as she cooked, my mum sleeping dead drunk in the room, Javier telling us about Maze runner. I couldn't take it anymore. I jumped on Simba and starting riding to God knows where.

Normally whenever I face a rejection from Sam, I cry and cry feeling like I should die. I go to a bar get drunk and one time I even slept with a stranger- Javier. But now everything is different. I feel numb, broken and utterly useless. I don't want to kill myself because I still want to be with Javier. I'm hurt but a part of me doesn't believe what he said, a part of me believes he is lying, a part of me believes he just told me a rehearsed speech that Faye told him to say. It happens in telenovelas right? The love one sacrifices himself for the person he loves.

But another part of me believes him. I'm not good for him, am just a poor girl that shouldn't mingle with a rich classy billionaire. Our relationship is headed for doom. His dad obviously doesn't approve of me. I can't offer him anything. I'm an undergraduate, a jobless woman who lives in the slums. I want to be able to be with Javier. I want to meet his standards, I want to be able to fight for his love with people like Faye and that Vanessa girl at Clyde's engagement without cowering in fear. I need to earn him. His love and everything between.

I find myself in college and I go in. Keith sees me and lights up. I offer him a smile but nothing else. My mind was currently occupied. I didn't even pay attention in the lecture. I literally had a throbbing heart and a hungry stomach. I go through all the lectures in a daze and after that I start heading towards the library. It's better to sleep there than in an empty voiceless house.

"Cupcake what's wrong?”Keith asked.

"Nothing, just leave me alone”I say heading to the last corner of the library to go bury myself for the night.

"Don't tell me that, what's wrong love?”He ask again trying to bring on his British charms on me.

"I just want to be alone”I say plopping down on a seat.

"I'm not leaving you until you start fencing up”he says sitting down too. We stay in silence, until I decide to tell him just so he'll let me be.

"Javier broke up with me and the Hernandez were taken away by their real family”I say with all the strength in me.

"Blow me down. What did you say?”He ask surprised.

I break down and start crying narrating my days ordeal to him. Starting from when I was released from prison.

"Bullocks. He is talking bullocks”Keith says sounding annoyed, he saw my confused look, "nonsense. All he said was nonsense"

"No no I believe him”I say pulling the roots of my hair as tears leaked down.

"Bloody Nora Meg! You can't believe him. I'll break his face for you if you like"

"If it's not true, then I wouldn't feel so useless now. I don't want to be so useless, both with my family and Javier”I say breaking into a heart wreaking sob, my whole body shaking with me.

"Hey, hey Meg look at me”I look us, his face blurry through my tears. "Come with me to London"

Huh?

"What?”I ask my voice croaky from all my crying.

He hold onto my hands looking at me, “come with me to London Meg. You don't have anybody here anymore. Staying here would just be Arse filled. Come with me and be sure that when you want to come back if you want to. You won't feel useless anymore. Come with me cupcake.

Huh?

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