Not Anymore

Early Morning Call

Scarlet's P.O.V-                                                                                                                                                                           I was in deep slumber when my illogical phone rang disturbing my beauty sleep. Ryder groaned and sleepily mumbled" Come on, pick your damn phone, Scar". I hurriedly received not bothering to look who dared to disturb my sleep. "Hello babygirl did i disturb you". My sleep vanished hearing my dad's voice,who called me at 5 in the morning. Wondering as to why he called me i said" Hey dad, of-course not you know you call me but is everything ok". "Yes everything is fine babygirl but I have some matters to discuss so you'll be coming home next week" he said or more precisely ordered by throwing the ' you have to come home this time' bomb at me." Daaaddd,i can't", I groaned. "Scarlet Ellaine Cardone it's not the way you answer me" my dad authoritatively told me. " Okay fine I'll try" I told him To which my mom finally said, "You have been saying the same thing from the past 3 years, don't you miss your family ".                                                                                   "Wow, hello to you too mom", I said sarcastically to which she sighed, i can't blame them for my messy life i had been avoiding them and my hometown for 3 years, it's not that i didn't try but i failed miserably to pretend to be happy in front of the ones who knows you inside out, and after failing to pretend i had decided to leave all my bad memories and pain behind in Los Angeles and move to new city Miami to make myself strong again. " OK i'll visit next week but only on one condition ", i told them. " Wow a real business woman", my dad laughingly commented, to which i replied," It's in blood Daddy, anyways, but I am not coming alone , so either i come with a plus one or i won't', to my surprise my dad told yes and i was like "what" because as he told me it was family discussion and he never allows a single outsiders in. After saying our usual good-bye i went to do my morning routine as it was already 7 in the morning and my mind drifted off to my family , my two brothers Damien Evan Cardone and Dylan Eugene Cardone, although have same blood but are completely different, Damien, CEO of Cardone Real Estate, after my father's retirement and his love to travel with his woman( that's my mom) is cold, calculative, arrogant for outside world, overly protective brother of mine, possessive husband and a perfect son for my parents whereas Dylan,own his own Bar and Restaurant Chains , is fun-going, happy-go-lucky man and also my partner-in-crime with whom i used to prank others but sadly i drifted away from them because of mine own stupidity, and not to forget  Alexis Damien E. Cardone, wife of my elder brother and sister of the person who is responsible for my all miseries, she married my brother 3 years ago after i shifted to Miami and had not attended their wedding in the fright of seeing him, they had married just for business but as Alexis was "Dad's Best-friend's Daughter" sweet girl,my brother fell in love with her.              After 2 hours of thinking and showering i came out and my eyes drifted on Ryder, my friend with benefit for 2 years,he was not the one to settle and i was the one who hated "love" so we instantly clicked. He has a renowned reputation of playboy but who am i to complain,as it is not a world where true love counts so let it be. I left him a note that am off to work and left.