Jennifer Walker

RUTH WALKER:

It was eight years ago when we decided to move from L.A. to New York City.

We used to be a happy family of four. Me, My dad, My elder Brother Rhys and My little brother Noah.

It all went down when after years my mom decided to show up at my doorstep.

She was a drug addict and a prostitute. She had a very high ammount of loan on her head and when she turned up at our doorstep, we had to accept her and her loan.

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"Honey, I'm sorry. I wanted to be there for you when you were growing up but I just couldn't! But now I wanna come back and patch those things up with you all!"

Mom said cupping my hands with hers.

I took back my hand right away. I don't want any relationship with this woman in my life anymore.

She has made our lives hell!

My elder brother Rhys got into smuggling because of her. My dad can no longer walk the streets of LA with his heads up because of her and me..?!

I don't remember the last time I acted like a teenager and not the woman of this house who takes care of every house job because her mother was busy drugging, drinking and sleeping with strangers.

"Jacob, I really want to come back!" She looked at my dad for support now.

"No you don't!" Noah suddenly got up very irritated. "You just want to come back because now you can no longer take money from all those people and enjoy getting loaded anymore!"

"NOAH?!"

Dad screamed at Noah and he flinched back a little, only to come back stronger.

"It's all her fault dad! My friends call me a slut's kid! She was never with me on my soccer practice, she never made me lunches, she never took me to school, she never attended any of my PTA's. Rhys and Ruth did all those things for me!"

Noah held my hand standing by me and Rhys feeling stronger.

"She is your mother Noah. Jennifer is the mother to all of you, Rhys, Ruth, Noah! We are all a family!"

"Well, I don't give a shit if she comes back or stays away! I can't imagine you being such a pussy dad!" Rhys said

He was high as shit on weeds in his 21 years of age at this moment now.

"Blah, she never even did those parental stuffs for me either and this is how I came off!" Rhys said pointing at himself.

He has the self realisation that he is fucking his life doing weeds all day long but he blames everything on the fact that mom was never there for us and does it anyway.

"I DON'T CARE! Even if she comes back, she would never be my mother! I would never consider her as my mother!"

Noah hugged my waist closely and said it back to her even more strongly,

"Ruth is my mother, not you, Jennifer Walker!"

"NOAH, STOP THAT!!"

Dad yelled again but Noah just replied with quick walk back to his room and a loud bang on the door.

Rhys got a text from somewhere and got up shoving his cellphone inside his pocket.

"Consider me out of this discussion too!"

"Rhys, where are you going now?" Mom asked him trying to be the mother she was not.

He shot her an eyebrow and snatched back his wrist that mom just held trying to make him stop.

"Oh you care, Mrs. Walker? Guess what? You're 21 years, 4 months and 17 days late to do that!"

He said and walked away lighting himself a cigerette.

"Ruth?" Dad turned to me now and looked at me with hopes.

"I don't know dad..." I looked at my mom who had tears in her eyes. I have seen them a lot now to make out if they were the fake or the real ones.

"...I don't really trust you!" I said it to mom.

"I would do everything it takes to be the good mother that you deserve honey!" Mom said trying to reassure me!

I looked at my dad.

Mr. Jacob Walker, the Dean of Loren's High, the man with pride. The only problem in his character was having a wife like Jennifer Walker. But then too this man was head over heels with her.

I envy my mother to have such a nice husband, who is ready to forgive her and try again for the seventeenth time now.

"If bringing her back to all our lives again is all you want. Fine, do it then! But you should know this that I'll never forgive you Mom!"

Mom gave me a broken smile, like she was hurt. But I really doubt if that's gonna be for long enough now.

My cellphone jingled with a text from Alan and I checked it open and smiled at the message.

'Today is one of those days when I miss you terribly and want to talk to you desperately! Come see me at Lakeview, I've got news!'

"I gotta go"

I said getting up scooping my bag.

"Wait, where are you going? I thought we were doing things together?" Mom said suddenly.

"Don't try to be my mom..."

I swayed my gaze at my father and he begged me with his eyes to make it stop. So I did, I can't hurt my father anyways. He has done a lot of taking care of me and Rhys all his life when mom was busy smoking weeds and having sex!

".....MOM!"

I finished my sentence with a little peace and got out of the house.

I know Noah would be hell bend angry when he'll realise what was the outcome of the talk we had. The woman who never considered us as her children was suddenly back into our lives as our mother.

This is going to be really frustrating.

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"So my mom climbed her way back into my life again for the seventeenth time now!"

I said smoking the cigerette which Alan just passed around to me, staring out of the fencing made at the Lakeview, in order to enjoy the scenery of a lake surrounded by all these mountains.

"That dirty whore!"

He cursed and I shot him a glare.

"...uhh, I mean your mom!" He corrected his sentence and I scoffed.

"It's not like I can even deny calling her that!" I took a long sip of our cigerette and blew it over into the valley.

"She IS a whore!"

"Yea, but you should be a bit respectful towards her, you're into this world because of her!" He said.

"Like she did me wonders to give birth to me. My life sucks!" I said hatefully flicking the used cigerette aiming at the lake water we were both gazing at.

"Why would you say that?"

He said scooping up my bag.

That's what he does, doesn't bring his bag to school and carries mine around.

I know he is a little crack-head, but...

I love this crack-head!

"Nothing good about my life. I have a mother who is more like dead to me. My father works his ass off trying to fix the money debts my mom pushed us all into. An elder brother who's friends would come at home only to stare at my legs and a seven year old brother turned into my kid at the age 19, so young! Seems like a dead deal to me!"

"You've still got me!" He swayed his head at me and shot me with a cute smile, the usuals.

"And I can't love you more!" I said as we kissed walking on the streets just like that hand in hand.



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I got back home early and found the door unlocked. I switched on the lights looking around the house.

Strange, if somebody was inside the house, why were the main lights off?

"Noah?"

"Dad?!"

I called around but got no reply.

"Rhys? Are you there?"

I open the door to Rhys's room and didn't find him in either.

"Where is everyone?" I talked to myself and went back to the kitchen, only to find a sticky note from Noah on refrigerator door.

'Dad suggested a movie night with him and Jennifer, aiming to patch up things, like that would help!

If I am dead, tell the cops it was Jennifer who killed me!'

I read the note and the little cartoon of mom, that he drew with horns and fangs and puffed out hard.

"Hmm, so it's gonna be a dinner for two tonight!"

Talking to myself I started fishing out, looking for some pasta which could be cooked for me and Rhys and suddenly I felt a tight spank on my ass.

I turned around immediately as I was home alone right now, fear engulfing me and soon my eyes grew big as soon as I saw Ricco Morgan.

"Look who I ran into?" He smirked

"R-Ricco?" I started moving backwards as he kept creeping closer. I was soon pushed against the kitchen station with him hovering all over me.

"I've always heard about your mother being a slut at school but never knew that you would be Jennifer Walker's daughter!"

He said, wiping his thumb across my lower lip.

"Rhys would kill you if he knew you touched me!" I glared at him.

"You mean your money-less beggar brother?" He asked.

Rhys and Rico were both classmates. Rico was rich and Rhys was new to drugs. They made good company until Rico tried to lay his hands on me and Rhys broke his bones, sending him to hospital and far away from all our lives.

Rico didn't do anything to Rhys as a payback because Rhys didn't owe him anything. But now, we do.

All thanks to my mother, Jennifer Walker.

"Your mother owes us 70 million dollars. And I am here for the payback!" He said.

His knuckles slowly went down my bare arms as I hugged onto myself tightly.

"I don't have the money on me!"

"Neither does your mother!" He shrugged, "Anyway you guys are her family so the debt becomes all of yours too right?"

"What do you want?!"

"Let's come to a conclusion what say? You don't have to pay me back with the money. Just sleep with me tonight and I'll pay the money to my father from my own wallet?"

He swung away the locks falling around my ears and whispered into my ears, "After all, that's just how much your virginity should cost?"

My eyes grew big and I pushed him off of me but he grabbed onto both my wrists tighter.

"Don't be an ungrateful bitch!! What are you holding onto your pride for?! Your mother slept with my father, she slept with me too, why can't you bitch?! The sluttery runs around in your bloodline, doesn't it?!"

"No! LEAVE ME?!!" I screamed and slapped him tight across his face.

That slap was enough to get him enraged, to the point that he grabbed fistful of my hairs and started to drag me alongwith himself to Rhys's room and shoved me inside my bed.

"N-no!" He shut the door closed taking out a pair of condoms from his pocket.

"You never know when you get laid right?"

He smirked from the corner of his lips as I started to get up thrashing outside of the room but he held me back from my waist and shoved me back on the bed, getting at the top of me, using both his hands to rip off my dress off of my body.

"Please, no! HELP?!!!" I screamed and he shoved his fist over my mouth.

"Shut the fuck up bitch! The daughter of slut is also a slut! And this is what a slut should do!"

He started grabbing onto my boobs tightly from over my bra as I tried hard thrashing my hands and legs around.

With all the commotion going on in here I never realised but someone just entered the house.

I hope that it's Rhys.

Taking a chance when he got busy with unzipping himself I bit his palm hard pressing against my mouth and as soon as he pulled back his hand in pain I started screaming for help.

"HELLLPP!!!"

He quickly got a hold of me and slapped my cheek hard and pulled ripping my bra off of me.

But before he could do anymore, the door to my room swung open and my brother was there at the door standing for my rescue.

"YOU DID NOT JUST TOUCH HER!"

Rhys glared at Rico as I took up the chance backing away and covering myself with the sheets.

Rico got down from the bed and spit the blood on his lips which he got in the middle of the part where him and I were struggling.

"Seventy Million dollars. That's what your mother owes us. Either you pay it in green or I'll just rape your sister! You know I've always like her tiny little ass and swollen lips!"

As soon as he completed that sentence Rhys punched his face hard.

"SHE IS MY FUCKING SISTER YOU BASTARD!"

Rhys pulled him outside of the room and they kept fighting, hitting each-other, swearing at each-other while I remained inside the room shaking inside my blanket crying, not knowing what to do next.

I could hear the swearing and punching, smashing of furnitures and other stuff. It was a mess out there.

Finally after sometime I collected my senses and called the police.

That was the stupidest thing to do as they would even arrest my brother, but I just want everything to stop.

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"Callin 911, what's the emergency!"

"There's a man who broke into my house and tried to rape me. My brother walked in time and that man is hurting him. Please send some help, PLEASE!"

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I don't know what happens next. All I know is that the Morgan's are not the only people my mother has taken money from.

And living with my mother, was not safe for either of us.

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"Alright, we are getting over with this incidence, and nobody is bringing it back here!" Dad said, once Rhys was back with us inside the car after we got him bailed out of the prison.

"This is all happening because of me, I am so sorry Rhys! You had to land up in jail because of me!" Mom said crying.

At this point I don't know if her tears were fake or real.

"Oh you would be surprised to know how many times I have went in and out of there Mrs. Walker!" Rhys said jerking her hands off himself.

"Ruth, dear! I'm... I can't be more shameful about being your mother right now!" Mom said holding onto me.

"Glad you know that at least!" Rhys scoffed.

"I don't wanna talk about it mom. And yes, you're right! It all happened because of you! Neither would you have turned into an alcoholic, nor would you be smuggling drugs, borrowing money from people around and NONE OF THIS would have happened!" I started with my reply.

"Had Rhys not came back home in time, I would have been raped by him. How many more people have you borrowed money from?! How many more jerks are there who are going to come up at our doorstep and try to exchange the money YOU borrowed from them with my innocence?! Am I even safe with you? Or do you not care about my safety at all?!"

I was at my limit of angry right now and the worst part of it was the fact that I could do nothing about it because the woman was my own mother, the lady my father loves.

"Ruth, Rhys, just calm down alright? Your father is still alive and like how I have protected you both from those loan sharks and other goons out there all my life until now, I'll protect you here on too!" Dad said, trying to waive the topic off.

"Oh please dad," Rhys scoffed, "You couldn't protect me from turning into a drug addict!"

"How is that my fault?!" Dad yelled at Rhys annoyed.

"Right, it's not your fault dad! It's because of my fucking mother I am like this! My mom was a bitch, so am I. My mom was a drug addict and so am I. Infact, you know what? I'll fix the money problem tomorrow! Just tell me how much you owe and to what people?" Rhys asked mom

"Okay now what are you planning to do?" Dad asked annoyed, Rhys ignored him and kept staring at mom so she would answer.

"I owe twenty three people, a total of fifty billion dollars!" As soon as mom finished her words, dad was taken by surprise, so much that we almost had our car broke into a tree but he applied breaks in time.

Not only dad, we were all shocked.

FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS?!

What did she do with all these money?

"I couldn't take money from lenders anymore. My reputation was tainted in the loan field. I was forced to become sober!"

As soon as she admitted that, I couldn't help be disgusted with her more. I just turn my head to stare out of my window as dad remained stoned. I could see his hands trembling.

Rhys scoffed and looked at her with hatred, "I knew you were not the one who would suddenly realise 'the importance of a family' out of the blue" He said doing the finger-quoting.

Mom grabbed onto dad's hand and pressed it under hers trying to sound as warm as she could make herself sound like, "Jacob please! I promise this would never happen again. When we got married, I told you I was a spoilt brat. You said you were ready to pamper me. Please, Jacob. Help me!"

"Fifty billion dollars? I- I cannot even think of that much money right now, even if I'll have to sell myself, I won't be able to make it."

Dad was silent. He was the man of the family. From my childhood to adulthood, I have never seen him without having a back-up plan for something, or even a way out. For the first time, my dad was helpless.

love made him like that.

"I want a list of all the people you've taken the money from. I'll settle all the debt in a week and we will move out of here then! I can't live in LA with a tainted family reputation anymore. We settle down the bills and start afresh." Rhys said.

Dad didn't say anything. He was speechless now. He had no way out.

"And where are you going to bring fifty billion fucking dollars from in just seven days?!" Mom asked him.

"I have some rich contacts!" Rhys replied.

"So all you're try to say is that we borrow money from one person and then give it to the other person we owe to?" I tried putting back the pieces together.

"Yeah!"

"And how is that going to get us out of the debt?!" I yelled at him really annoyed.

"Yeah, it won't get us out of the debt, but atleast we would be owing to only one person rather than a group of different people! And so, it would be a threat only from one particular family." He said.

"And who will be this family, that could lend a college student like you with fifty billion dollars just like that?!" I asked him filled with doubt.

"The Roerigs"

He replied, with a slight proud smirk across his lips.

"Th-The-" dad licked his lips nervously, "You want to take money from the king himself?!" He asked in a shaky voice, a kind of voice which already told me that these people were dangerous and not to be messed with.

"H-how do you think you would be able to make contacts with his highness himself?!" Dad almost yelled in frustration.

"My dealer knows Danielle Decousta. You know Decousta already, he is the protector of Micheal Roerig, the Roerigs' second son. My dealer supplies drugs to Micheal, through Decousta, that's how I can get through the Roerigs." Rhys said

Dad took a deep breath and started the engine again, driving back home.

"Are you sure you can make it work between you and the Roerigs?!" Dad asked after a few seconds of dead silence

"Dad, are you seriously considering this?" I asked him with a huge doubt.

"It's the only way out. All I could come up with was to buy a bottle of poison and have it all as a family and commit a homicide! At least Rhys has a way for us to live, even though it's not meant for long enough!" Dad replied extremely broken

I looked at mom. She didn't look bothered at all!

Why would she even?

She came back with all her problems and dumped it all over my dad's and Rhys's shoulders.

I really HATE her!

I would NEVER forgive her for this!

Well this and what's coming for me.

It was all because of my mom!