Who holds the key to my heart

Chapter 7

EDWARDS POV

I woke up this morning and I actually feel sad leaving Lisa, we spent a good week

relaxing and working things out. Romeo is up, busy studying for his finals; I say

good morning, but he doesn’t respond.

Edward: “I said good morning, young man, why are you ignoring me?”

Romeo: “Because every time you mess up, you ignore me. I am grown

and I know something happened, but you won’t treat me like

your eldest son and talk to me. It has been months now, Dad,

what’s happening with your case and why is mum always crying

or in bed?”

Edward: ‘‘Romeo, this is not your concern, Son, my lawyer is working

on making the case go away. To put it mildly, I am innocent,

and let’s just say your mum doesn’t feel well now, but she will

be fine. Try not to concern yourself with problems you have no

control over. As a young man, enjoy your youth.”

Romeo: “Why won’t you tell me? Why did she die, Dad? Did you kill

her?”

Edward: “It was suicide, Son, you saw the accident; she killed herself and

I am very sorry about that, but like I said, there is nothing you

can do about it, so why worry?”

Romeo: “So why were the cops looking for you?”

Edward: “We are sure they made a mistake; now focus on your schoolwork.

Good luck, Son, I will see you this evening.” I walk out

of the room, but I feel horrible, I have always wanted to be a

role model for my children, especially my sons. I vow in that

moment that I will do better, and I will be better. They will be

proud to call me their dad. I have been messing up for way too

long.

Lilly’s POV

I am so excited; Romeo and I have been dating for six months since that night

we had our first kiss and things have been going great. At first, all we did was kiss

and I thought maybe he didn’t like me, he has never asked me to be his girlfriend,

so I was almost sure he didn’t like me, but then one day he introduced me to a

friend of his and said this is my girlfriend, so I went with it and now we are in a

relationship.

He comes to me every weekend and we kiss, a lot. Romeo and Dillan are spending

two weeks with us over the December holidays, and I hope this brings us

closer together, he has been acting rather strangely these last six weeks or so. I am

standing in my bedroom staring out of the window when I smile while hearing

my mum telling Romeo I am upstairs. I didn’t expect him today, so I hope nothing

is wrong. I wait for him to knock and tell him to come in, then we both hear

my mum shout, “Doors open, please!” Ah, she’s so embarrassing.

Lilly: “Hi, what are you doing here? Don’t mind my mum.” I walk

towards him, and he smiles and comes closer to kiss me hello.

Romeo: “Hi, Sexy, come here. I came to say hello. Is that a problem?”

Lilly: “Definitely not.”

Romeo: I have to tell her, or maybe rather not. I don’t want to hurt her

feelings, but I am in love with Amy and Lilly. Maybe I can date

both girls? I mean Amy isn’t even from here. They need never

know about each other. “So, I am almost done with high school,

my parents want me to go to a college or something, but I really want to start making some money. My dad said he can get me a

job at his offices, but I don’t want to be an accountant like him.”

Lilly: “What do you want to do then? Do you have something in

mind?”

Romeo: “I have no idea. It’s too late now anyway, all the schools, colleges,

whatever, are probably full of the many students who made up

their minds months ago. I once told my dad that I wanted to be

a lawyer and he laughed at me and said that I wasn’t cut out for

it. When I explained that it was my passion, he said I needed

to work with numbers and do something that would make me

money. That put me off, I didn’t even think of school after that,

so now I don’t know anymore.”

Lilly: “What! That’s stupid. My dad’s a lawyer and his best friend is a

lawyer too and they make money too. Let me speak to him and

see what the requirements are and what you need to do.”

Romeo: “No, Lilly. I can’t ask you to do that.”

Lilly: ‘‘You didn’t ask me, I offered.”

Romeo’s POV

Lilly is so sweet; she’s actually willing to help me and she listened to me without

judgement. When I told Amy that I didn’t know what I wanted to do, she said I

had better make up my mind and decide, because she wasn’t dating a loser who

sits at home all day and doesn’t do anything. Then when I told her about my

passion for law. She laughed and said I couldn’t go to college for that long, she

would get bored, so, I just stopped talking to her. She really made me feel bad,

but at that time I didn’t realise it.

I didn’t think there was a girl for me who would understand me and would treat

me the way Lilly does. I still love Amy because I’ve never thought of her as a

mean person, but these last few months with Lilly have certainly shown me I

could have someone who supports me. Who am I kidding? Amy is so mature

and sexy and much older. We can do certain things that Lilly just isn’t ready is amazing and gives me all I want and we have fun together, and I will keep

seeing Lilly because I really care about her, and I want to see where this goes. I

am watching Lilly as she talks and talks, and she didn’t even realise I haven’t been

paying attention; this makes me smile, she is so bubbly. She insists on asking her

dad and says that when I come to stay over for the two weeks, she will have some

answers for me.

I decide to shut her up, she’s been going on far too long. I am sitting at the end

of her bed, and I pull her close to me. I tell myself to remember that the door

is open and to listen for any sounds and footsteps. She looks at me, surprised,

but doesn’t stop me. I look at her properly for the first time today and I see she

is wearing a short white skirt, dammit! I could be using this as a rag to wash my

dad’s car, it’s so short, and a blue top that shows me her huge breasts, she really

is blessed for a fifteen-year-old, and she’s barefoot, with her hair in a bun. She is

breathtakingly gorgeous, and I want to kiss her from the top of her forehead to

the bottom of her feet. I slowly lift her chin and give her the deepest kiss; I even

shock myself. That felt amazing.

I move closer to her, and we are making out like the horny teenagers we are. We

sit, talk, and kiss, and talk and kiss and talk and kiss, most of the afternoon. I

don’t even realise we have both fallen asleep until I hear my dad’s voice and I

know it is time for me to leave. I drag myself up, I have a terrible gut feeling

and I immediately know that with Lilly, I am in trouble. I don’t even want to go

home. I slowly get up, trying not to wake her, but she’s such a light sleeper, I see

her eyelids open and when she sees it’s just me, she closes them again and dozes

off. I kiss her forehead and whisper, “I love you.”

I almost jump back, what did I just say? s**t! I hope she didn’t hear me. When

I look down at her, she’s still fast asleep, so I make a quick escape. I almost run

to her bedroom door. I’m freaking out. Calm down, I tell myself. I have never

said I love you to anyone, what was I thinking? I stand outside her bedroom door;

thinking is this how I feel or was this just the heat of the moment? I walk down

the stairs to meet my dad and it hits me like a lightning bolt. I know what I have

to do now, I have to break up with Amy.

for. So, I make my decision there and then; I will keep seeing Amy because she

Lilly slowly opens her eyes and blushes. She was pretending to sleep all this time and

she heard what Romeo had said. She is feeling all kinds of feelings.

Oh, my word, he just said he loves me, and I know I wasn’t dreaming. It was so hard

trying to pretend to be asleep. Do I love him? I don’t know, I know I like him a lot

but are my feelings that strong?

I smile because even though I don’t say it out loud,

I know I do.

Dillan’s POV

I stand by the window, and I watch my brother standing outside. I wonder what

he is doing out there. I wait for a few minutes, then I contemplate going downstairs

to ask him if he is okay when I see a small figure coming up the driveaway. I

watch, fascinated. Oh, it’s Amy. Well, this is interesting, wasn’t he just with Lilly?

Lilly is a nice person; how can he do this to her? Romeo always thinks he can do

as he pleases and hurt whoever he wants to, but Lilly is my friend and she has a

heart of gold, like I said, she’s a nice person, so this is wrong.

I see him kiss Amy and that’s it, I’ve had enough, its time I put an end to his

ultra-ego, so I walk towards my cellphone, and I dial Lilly’s number.

Romeo’s POV

I called Amy to come over so that I could do what I knew was the right decision,

but I feel so bad. It is time, our relationship was great and nothing bad happened,

I just found someone I like better. I want to give Lilly and me a fair shot

and I don’t want to hurt her. I see Amy coming up the driveway and she seems

surprised to see me waiting for her by our front porch. She dives in for a hello

kiss and asks me what’s wrong.

Amy: “Hi, Sweetheart, what’s wrong? It sounded rather urgent.”

Romeo: “It is urgent. Can we sit on the stairs for a minute?”

Amy: “No, when we sit there it means you always want to pick a fight;

is that what this is, a fight?”

Romeo: “It’s not a fight, or at least I hope it won’t be.” My cellphone

rings and it is Lilly, this must be important because I have just

seen her, and she never calls me. I indicate to Amy that I need

one minute and take the call. Immediately Lilly asks me who

Amy is and I get up to give myself some privacy. I lie and say I

don’t know who she is and she says she knows I am with Amy

right now and things are not going to work if I am dishonest,

and she dumps me, and with that hangs up. I am shocked. How

did she know Amy was here now?

Amy: “So, what’s going on?”

Romeo: “Nothing, I just missed you and wanted to chill. Let’s go to the

back and make a hubbly for us, Baby.” I lie to Amy so at least

I have one girlfriend now, seeing that Lilly ended things, but I

have a strange feeling and I need to find out who told her about

Amy. She couldn’t have just known, Amy isn’t from here, so it

must definitely have been one of my family members.

My dad wouldn’t say anything, he would encourage me to play both

girls, so it’s either Mum or Dillan. I need to get to the bottom

of this. As we reach the backyard, we go into the back room that

we use to chill in when my friends come over and Amy takes

off her top and my train of thought is lost. She has small boobs,

they aren’t as great as Lilly’s, but who cares, all I need now is

some relief and I can deal with all the drama later. I kiss her

and rub her tiny breasts; she moans in my mouth and grabs my

t-shirt. I hate it when she does that, but I let it slide. She kisses

me so hard that we knock teeth, but she moans in my mouth

and pulls down my pants. s*x with Amy is always a disaster. I

close my eyes as her hands are on me and I softly moan, OH,

YES, LILLY!