In love with a Grayham

Chapter One —Asia Hales Meets Adam Grayham.

It’s been two years since I moved in with my father and his family. He already had a family before we had met. He had a wife and two children, a smug little girl and a boy I had never met before. I walked into the dining room ready to eat my breakfast in peace, I pulled out a chair and sat down quietly. My stepmother sat across from me with an irritating grin on her face, I had heard earlier from a bunch of gossiping maids that the son was returning today. The look on her face irritates me so heavily that it makes me sick just looking at her. She is cruel and evil and I dislike her, no that’s just an understatement I hated the witch and her stupid daughter she only proves that people like her exited not just in fairy tales. My father sat at the head of the table munching on his food with in a hurry to meet his over achieving son that he must miss so badly. He treated me like a father should but I couldn’t look at him without remembering the pain and suffering I had gone through, my mother had gone through just to keep up, to survive to the next day. He could never make up for the day he wasn’t with us. Today both man and wife to go pick up their son from the airport, they would be throwing a surprise party for him after.

“Asia”,my father called looking up from his food.

“Father”, I lifted my gaze to meet his, “ Your mother and I would be going to the airport to pick up your brother”. He said as he directed his gaze to his wife. The night I returned home with she was very furious to the extent of threatening to live the house with their daughter Stella if he didn’t take be back to the foster home.

“She is not my mother and neither is her son my brother so stop calling them that”. My attention was directed to my father. I stood up from my seat and walked out the dinning room whispering to a maid to send up my meal since I had barely touched it.

As I walked up the stairs, Stella was headed down, she stop mid way blocking my path, she had a wide grin on her face, “ Do you know who is coming to this house?”, I ignored her trying to side step but the little b***h would not move, “ I’m talking to you runt”, she tried to shove me but grabbed hold of their hand before she could touch me, “ Don’t touch me and yes I’ve been made aware about your brother but it has nothing to do with me”.

“ Hmm then you know you don’t have a place here in this house so it’s best if you leave, leave us and go away because you would take a penny from this family with your lies”. I just stared at her, it has been like this since my first night in this house.

“ I don’t know what you are talking about”, I walked pass her continuing up the stairs.

“It’s not like I ever want to be here”, I said over my shoulder to her.

“Then I guess your wish will soon be granted””. She snarled up at me before turning and continuing down the stairs. That girl is barely the same as I am , she is two year younger that I am but look at how much hatred she has for me not that the feeling isn’t mutual but I had once tried to befriend her to live peacefully with her, guess I was the one destroying her happy family. I shook my head at that thought and walked to my room.

I sat on my bed as I watched a movie on the laptop my father secretly gifted me last year. It didn’t take a minute before the maid arrived with my food.

“Miss Asia”, I turned to her

“Yes Ava?”,

Ava was the only friendly face in this house since moving in she was about a year old than I was and she kind, gentle and very sweet she always kept me company after I was harassed and assaulted by my stepmother and her daughter. She was a beautiful woman with black hair, green eyes and fair skin.She was very beautiful like that of model on a runway. I’d always wished I had the same features as her but no I had a terrible resemblance to my awfully handsome father with dark brown hair little tan skin, brown eyes and unlike Ava I was petit.

“Your father asked me to let you know that he would like a word and be here I a minute” she said and I nodded. I turned back to my movie,

“Is something the matter Sia ”, I hooked my head still watching the movie, “ Sia, you know you could tell me anything”, she said to me placing a hand on my shoulder, “ what do you think he wants this time, hide in my bed room to avoid and drama or stay in the kitchen and act like a maid?”, I threw a hard gaze at her,

“ I don’t know Ana but I’m sure it’s nothing like that, he only wants the best for you I’m sure” she said looking deep into my eyes trying to reassure me. I nodded only so that she thinks that I’m fine, “Sia..”, she wasn’t able to finish what she was about to say when a knock sounded on my door, “ Must be him” she said as she walked to the door, the door cracked open revealing my father, Ava greeted him before waking out of the room sometimes I wished she stayed so I don’t lose my cool in front the man that’s sheltering me.

“Asia,hey”. He said smiling. I rolled my eyes at him why must he always pretend like we are on good terms when we obviously aren’t, he sat on bed beside me.

“What do you want father?”, I asked beginning to get irritated at him sitting on my bed like it was a normal thing.The relationship between my father and I is complicated, I did not hate him and I did not love him more like I disliked the man for his actions but who am I to talk.

“ I want to let you know that we are, um, leaving now”. I nodded my attention on the laptop screen.

“And your brother..”, I turned to him with a sharp glare, “I told you he is not my brother”. I repeated. He nodded reluctantly, “He will be coming home and I haven’t told him about you yet and..”.

“And you want me to stay here and hide I’m well aware”. He speaks of it like something normal done in every family, he failed to tell his wife about my mother and I so what the point in him acting like he forgot. Who forgets about an entire family they left behind. He sat there starring at me before quietly leaving my room. The moment he walked out of the I exhaled. I gave him several opportunities to redeem himself but he was only full of s**t. I closed the laptop placing it on my night stand and lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling as sleep gradually overtook me.