Not Your Typical Billionaire

Literally Kissing in a Tree

El is leaving this afternoon to go back to her apartment, she currently talking with Michael while I cooked breakfast. I peeked out the window to see them standing incredibly close to each other; I wish if they kiss I’m going to scream. I turned to the oven to pull out the biscuits; El had a great weekend here. I miss when we lived together, she was so innocent and happy, not a care in the world. I sighed placing the biscuits on the plates in the hot window; I slipped all of the food on to the plates. I turned around to walk over to the window; I opened it causing Ly lift up his head. I stuck my head out of the window to see they’re missing from the garden; I turned to Ly and nodded my head.

“Go find your Aunt El and bite Michael on the butt if they’re kissing.” I said to him he jumped up to his feet before turning to the door.

“Do not send your wolf to bite my son.” I turned to see Alice reaching in my fridge.

“Still hungover?” I asked as she pulled out my hangover cure. She nods before pouring herself a shot of it. “Careful, I made it fresh yesterday.” I said she looked up at me and smiled softly.

“Oh by the way, thank you for that food last night. What was it?” She asked before taking the shot of the hangover cure. She made a disgusted face shaking her head before looking up at me.

“It was poutine and chili dogs.” I said laughing I love how they don’t care if I give them fancy food or street food or cheap food. They love whatever I cook for them; I swear I get requests for greasy fattening food once a week.

“What is a poutine? You know what I don’t care it was delicious please make it again next time.” she said

“Trust me I have a drunk food list you’ll get to try all of it.” I said she smiled before walking over to me; we both peeked out the window to see El walking towards the kitchen. Alice and I moved from the window as Ly was sitting at my feet. “So you like the poutine?” I asked as the door into the kitchen open.

“Yes it really helped soak up some of the alcohol.” She said looking behind me. “Ellie Hi!” she said I turned to see El standing in the kitchen looking at us slightly upset.

“I saw you guys peeking.” El said glaring at us; I shrugged my shoulders laughing as El's cheeks were slightly pink. She walked past us and into the dining room leaving me and Alice alone to laugh out loud at her reaction. I turned to Alice who was wiping tears from her eyes as the laughter died down. I smiled softly watching El walk back into the kitchen, I’m sorry little sister but I’m always going to watch your back even if you don’t want me to.

“I love you El, don’t forget it.” I said

“What’s for breakfast?” she mumbled sitting at the counter,

“Well they are having brunch in the garden; we are having whatever you make me.” I said

“Fine, I’ll cook this time but next time I want you to make something.” El said

“I always cook; you can cook for me sometimes.” I said as Alice giggled at us, “besides you know you already cooked us crab cake Benedicts.” I said El smiled before turning to Alice.

“Well you ladies, enjoy your food and Ellie please come back to visit soon.” Alice said before leaving out the kitchen door to the garden, I pulled out food out the hot window; we sat at the counter eating and talking about when we were kids, after I took over the role of our parents. My phone rang alerting me to a text. I looked at my phone to see it was an unknown number; I looked up to see El looking out the window to the garden. I opened the text to see it was stalker boy. I gotta remember to add the name in my phone, he texted me ‘good morning, I hope your morning is as amazing you are.’ He has been sending me these types of texts all weekend, I always send the throwing up emoji. I sent the emoji following ‘You’re so corny and too sweet to be a stalker.’

“Who are you texting?” I looked up at El as she leaned over to see my phone; I smiled putting my phone away. “Don’t stop because of me who is it?” She said I never told her about me giving stalker boy my number, I know she’ll chew me up for that.

“An old classmate from school, he found me on f*******: and hit me up.” I lied she narrowed her eyes at me before smiling.

“Is he nice?” She asked trying to figure out if I’m lying. I shook my head leaning back in my chair. “So why are you talking to him?” she asked

“Trying to be nice I guess.” I said putting my phone away. She shook her head before grabbing my empty plate. “You know I hate being mean to people.” I said

“That’s why your stalker showed up here. You need to stop that and just tell them no, bye-bye, go away, f**k off.” She said I glared at her for swearing; now I let her get away with a lot of things but swearing isn’t one of them. “Sorry,” she said I smiled nodding my head

“I just can’t, it was hard to leave those people but I had to do it for us. I just can’t be mean unless it comes to protecting you.” I said

“Well I can’t just let my sister be pushed around. Let me talk to him, I’ll tell him off.” She said holding out her hand.

“No, I’ll deal with him on my own time.” I said she smiled shaking her head, “I swear I’ll break it off just let me do it how I want to.” I said she chuckled before walking over to the sink to wash the dishes. I looked down at my phone to see he texted me back. ‘So stop calling me a stalker, I want to be more than someone who is super sweet and super good looking.’ I looked up to see my sister making the water to clean the dishes. ‘Nope you’re still stalker boy until you give me something new.’ I sent back to him, I looked up putting my phone away. “Don’t worry about them I’ll clean them later, Come on let go watch a movie before you leave.” I said

“No, we don’t have much time; I leave in like an hour.” She said turning to me I frowned slightly standing up from the stool. “We can just watch tv or something. We’ve done so much already in 2 days. We did the spa, movies, the mall, cooking, playing with Lysander, we did enough Dre let’s just relax me and you and Ly in your living room.” She added

“Okay, we can do that.” I said she smiled pulling me into a hug. I hugged my sister back; she pulled back from me looking at my hair.

“Your hair is dry; you have to stop wearing your hair like this. I’ll send you my hair oil, it’ll help keep it healthy since you don’t take care of your hair.” She said touching my bun. We walked out the kitchen into the garden; we sat on the bench in the rose garden.

“So, how does therapy work?” I asked

“Don’t worry she’ll ask us some questions we can answer if we want or we can stay silence if we want.” She said I never wanted to go through therapy like El did, she doesn’t remember much of that place. She just gets nightmares and strange feelings around guys; she had a panic attack her first day back to school after I took her out with me. She screamed so loud when they called our ‘guardian’ I heard her through the phone. I took her from the school and put her in an all-girls school with no male teachers. El doesn’t remember that day but I swear my heart never hurt more than seeing my little sister so broken. I never wanted to see that look again so I went to school until I was 16 pulled her out of the coven and moved us to another state and coven where they agreed to help us until I turned 18.

I couldn’t allow someone to hurt her so I always stepped in to help her, until she wanted to go to regular school. I told her no for so long but she promised me that she would behave; I told her we’ll do a test run in a public school. She loved the test run but I was still on edge every day until she made friends. She didn’t tell them much but then she met Michael, I wanted so badly to hurt him but he became her best friend. She never brought him over so I can meet him but they always talked on the phone and video chat. She was finally comfortable enough to want to go to therapy, I was proud that she wanted to get the help. El is so important in my life; I would die if anything ever happens to her.

“Dre, are you at least trying to make a break through with your past?” She asked      

“I don’t have time for that, besides I’m fine.” I said walking her to her car.

“Are you excited for tomorrow? I know it’s your first session.” She said I shrugged pulling her into a hug. She hugged me back before pulling away from me. Ly started whimpering causing my sister to bend down to kiss his head. Ly quickly learned that El is simply the best to be around.

“I’ll be there at 1:15 and I love you sis.” I said

“I love you too, I’ll see you soon.” She said climbing into her car, she waved before pulling off; I walked back into the mansion and into the kitchen. I looked out the window to see Alice and Daniel in the garden literally kissing in the apple tree. I giggled before turning to Ly; he sat down on his bed. I pulled out my phone to see I had 3 new texts from stalker boy, I actually remembered to change the name in my phone. ‘Hey I gave you three different names to call me,’ He did do that but stalker boy is funnier. ‘So about that date… tomorrow at 1?’ he asked me on another date. ‘Look I’m joking okay.’ I decided to text him back finally. ‘You know I have other interest besides you right?’ I sent the text before starting lunch. We text all afternoon while I worked about random things, it turns out Valentine is a bad stalker. He knew my favorite flower, and where I worked. That’s it. I could help but wonder how he found that out, if he didn’t know anything else about me. I looked up at the clock to see it was 10 pm; I need to go to bed because I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow.

I sat in the waiting room and a lunch bag for El, El should be here any minute, she told me she was late getting out of class. El walked into the waiting room smiling breathing heavy. Did she run here? She’s not even that late I’m just early; I stood up and hugged her before giving her a water to drink before she passed out. She sat down next to me before letting out a long sigh; I handed her the lunch as the door to the office open. A woman well-dressed walked out smiling El stood up smiling at the woman. I stood up as they shook hands, El turned to me smiling softly.

“Hi Elena, how are you?” The woman asked

“I’m good, I brought my sister today.” El said as we walked into the office.  

“I can see that, hello Aundreya. How are you today?” The woman asked

“I’m fine,” I said as El sat on the love seat while the woman sat across from El in a single seat. I sat next to El as she ate her sandwich

“Well what’s the special occasion?” The woman asked pulling out a pen and notepad.

“What to do you mean?” I asked

“I asked her to do it with me today.” El said in between bites, “I just want her to be inspire to start therapy.” Wait what? Is that why she wanted me to come today?

“You asked me to come to convinced me to start therapy?” I asked turning to her. Her eyes widen as she looked at the woman. “So you knew I was coming you just wanna play stupid?” I asked turning to the woman

“I asked her to convince you to come. She told me about something she remembers from her childhood.” The woman said

“What was that?” I asked the woman as my blood started boiling, I glared at the woman as she motion for El to talk to me.

“I remember seeing our brother on top of you. You were crying and naked begging him to stop.” El said in a soft voice. I got an icy feeling running down my back as all of my anger turned to repulsion and humiliation. I slowly turned to El to see she was crying now, I looked down at my lap trying to keep myself calm. I knew I saw her that night, but Luke told me she wasn’t awake I was just trying to get away from him. I can’t believe she saw that I never wanted her to see that side of our family.

“You saw that?” I asked looking up at El.

“I did, I remember hearing you say ‘I think Lena is awake let me put her back to bed before he gets here’.” El said putting down her lunch.  “Who was he?” she asked turning to me. I turned to the woman as she wrote down something in that note pad of hers.

“El, I”— “Why did you stop calling me Lena?” El asked cutting me off. I guess now is a better time to tell her.

“I stopped calling you that because the man you keep calling father wanted Lena to be your new name after he sold… your… virginity off to the highest bidder. I refused to let him hurt you like… he did me.” I said as my whole body went numb remembering that argument like it was this morning.

“Why did he not?” The woman asked looking upset. I swallowed the built up saliva in my mouth hoping it would help me feel something.

“I don’t want to do this anymore.” I said standing up, I ran out of the office as El called out my name. I ran to my car letting a shaky breath before climbing in I need to calm down before I talk to anyone. I started driving home in silence trying to block that memory out so I don’t have to remember feeling Luke touch me or that man touch me. I pulled up to the mansion and wiped my face before going in. I wavy to Alice, as she was on the phone, motioning that I wasn’t feeling good, so I don’t have to talk to her. I can’t really talk to anyone right now; I ignored my phone ringing for the rest of the day.

I stayed to myself all day and just continue working, I know they want to help but I can’t. I’m not ready to relive that horrible memory. The time flew by as I’m now cleaning up the kitchen from dinner. I decided to hand wash the dishes so I can clear my mind, I know I need to talk to El when she calls me again. I have to apologize for my behavior in her session today. I want to be there to help her get past this and I can’t even feel comfortable telling her about our f****d up family. I want to help her get pass her fear of our past, it’s too late for me but it’s not for her. I want to be a part of that process and who knows maybe its help me get pass my demons. My phone dings causing me to pull it up to my face, I didn’t even check to see if it was El.

“Hi El, I’m not mad I just am not ready to talk about it, I’m so sorry.” I said pushing the hair out of my face as I washed the last plate.

“Ms. Johnson? This is the emergency room in Hutzel Hospital. We have your sister Elena Johnson here.” A mature woman’s voice said into the phone. My heart dropped and so did the plate in my hand crashing onto the floor shattering. An image of my baby sister wrapped in a pink blanket when she was born popped into my head.

“El this isn’t funny,” I said holding back sob trembling as the door from the dining room opened revealing Alice and Michael. “El I’m sorry but this isn’t the way to get back at me.” I said

“Ms. Johnson we need you to come to the hospital.” She said as the tears started falling from my eyes. “Your sister had a cardiac episode while at school. We really need you to come and talk with us.” The woman said I nod my head before allowing myself to fully break down into a sob.

“I— I’ll be t-there, is she o-okay?” I asked as Michael walked up to me holding me up from falling onto the floor.

“We have her stable but we need you to come now.” The woman said

“Okay, I’m on my way.” I said before hanging up the phone. “I have to go to Hutzel Hospital,” I said pulling away from Michael.

“You’re in no condition to drive.” Alice said I shook my head before reaching to grab my keys; Alice snatched them off the table before shoving them down her shirt. “I’ll drive you, but you are not going alone.” She said

“Fine, but we need to go now.” I said

“Michael, take care of Lysander please and tell your father and only your father.” Alice said as I ran outside to my car. I jumped into my car as Alice ran up to it unlocking, please for the love everything good in this world. Please don’t take my sister from me. I can’t do this without her.